Se trailerLINDA THORGREN, SWEDEN, 2010, 93 MIN, DIGIBETA. ENGLISH SUBTITLES. WORLD PREMIERE! THE DIRECTOR WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
During a stay in Havanna Linda Thorgren meets what she then believes to be the love of her life. Some months later they get married and he moves back to Stockholm with her. Things don’t turn ou... Read more
During a stay in Havanna Linda Thorgren meets what she then believes to be the love of her life. Some months later they get married and he moves back to Stockholm with her. Things don’t turn out the way Linda thought they would. When their daughter is born, matters are brought to a head and their existence collapses, overshadowed by her husband’s control obsession. Abuse, violated restraining orders and a deportation order follows. Linda Thorgren returns to Cuba to persuade the Cuban state to accept the Swedish deportation order and let her ex-husband re-enter the country. This is the first of many journeys to come. The film brings us to Costa Rica, Södermalm-Stockholm, New York, The Canary Islands and back to Havanna in the sixties. Linda Thorgren meets her mother and sister both of whom share her experiences of abuse. She talks to her father, her stepfather, her ex-husband’s former wife and she goes to see her one and only best friend Yurika. Through these meetings Linda Thorgren tries to understand how things became the way they are and set herself and her daughter free.
http://www.tempofestival.se/english/archive/#blood-calls-you
Se trailerKARIN AF KLINTBERG OCH JANE MAGNUSSON SWEDEN, 2009, 81 MIN, DIGIBETA. ENGLISH SUBTITLES. THE DIRECTORS WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
This is the story about Ebbe Carlsson, a mediocre book publisher who became one of Sweden’s most famous persons in the late 80s. This film presents Sweden’s most unscrupulous social climber ever and ... Read more
This is the story about Ebbe Carlsson, a mediocre book publisher who became one of Sweden’s most famous persons in the late 80s. This film presents Sweden’s most unscrupulous social climber ever and consequently reveals a fragile and corrupt political system. Through this one person we get a great insight into an extraordinary era in Swedish history - a virtual cavalcade of narrow-mindedness, dirty business, ideological stupidity and abuse of power. Ebbe was incredibly good at self-promoting and able to create a myth around himself. He used to hold court in front of the escalator outside the parliament building, and soon enough he was gossiping with the prime minister in his chambers. When Prime Minister Olof Palme was murdered, Ebbe took charge of the investigation, with no experience or relevant training. How was it possible that no one questioned who he was, or how he ended up in that position? Then at the hight of his career Ebbe’s life took an unexpected turn that changed everything. He got sick with AIDS. With only a few years left to live, Ebbe had nothing to lose. He just kept on going, eventually he crashed and became the nation’s most exposed subject. He’s private life was put under a magnifying glass. He became the most hated man in the country but Ebbe managed to turn it around, and when he died he was celebrated like a national hero. Ebbe Carlsson lived his life like a bestselling novel, but this is a story where reality surpasses fiction.
http://www.tempofestival.se/english/archive/#ebbe-the-movie
Se trailerMIKAEL WISTRÖM OCH ALBERTO HERSKOVITS SVERIGE, 2010, 82 MIN, DIGIBETA. ENGLISH SUBTITLES. WORLD PREMIERE! THE DIRECTOR WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
FAMILIA is the love story of the Peruvian couple Daniel and Naty Barrientos. It takes us through decades of struggle against poverty, for love and family. . They have not been able to afford educatio... Read more
FAMILIA is the love story of the Peruvian couple Daniel and Naty Barrientos. It takes us through decades of struggle against poverty, for love and family. . They have not been able to afford education for any on their first three children, now all grown up. And they want something better for their last son Nata, six years old. 50 tear old Naty decides to look for work in Spain, among thousands of other migrant workers from the shanty towns of the developing world. Her husband Daniel stays at home to take care of little Nata and earn a meagre living with his run down motor cycle taxi. Love and family cohesion that so far has survived all the challenges of poverty is put to it’s hardest test ever. FAMILIA is the story and also the third part of the Peruvian family trilogy that started with The Other Shore and COMPADRE .
http://www.tempofestival.se/english/archive/#familia
Se trailerMARCUS LINDEEN, SWEDEN, 2009, 58 MIN, DIGIBETA. ENGLISH SUBTITLES. THE DIRECTOR WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
Though born as men, Mikael and Orlando both change their sex to become women. Now well into their 60s, the two meet for the first time to talk about their lives and, the one defining regret they both... Read more
Though born as men, Mikael and Orlando both change their sex to become women. Now well into their 60s, the two meet for the first time to talk about their lives and, the one defining regret they both share, their sexual reassignment. Mikael underwent surgery in the mid-90s as a 50 year old, while Orlando was one of the very first sex change patients in Sweden in 1967. Mikael now dresses as a man again and desperately attempts to convince his doctors to change him back. He wears over sized clothing to hide his breasts. Now he finds himself trapped inside a strange body that isn’t his. He feels lost between gender, he tells Orlando. Orlando is an androgynous dandy, dressed in a red velvet suit, donning a single diamond earring. Mikael finds his outfit peculiar. If Orlando regrets his sex-change, why does he continue to dress so feminine? He enjoys living as both: sometimes man, sometimes woman. But there was a time when he did not live life as split-gender. Orlando tells the story of his 11 year marriage to a man who presumed him to be a biological woman, until one afternoon when his secret was revealed.
http://www.tempofestival.se/english/archive/#regretters
Se trailerPETER MAGNUSSON, SWEDEN, 2010, 72 MIN, DIGIBETA. ENGLISH SUBTITLES. THE DIRECTOR WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
A film about the new Sweden. Today, the days are basically never-ending, and everthing seems to be within reach. The pace of life is going faster and faster and we have the ”freedom” to m... Read more
A film about the new Sweden. Today, the days are basically never-ending, and everthing seems to be within reach. The pace of life is going faster and faster and we have the ”freedom” to make life-altering decisions every day. But is it really better today than 25 years ago?
http://www.tempofestival.se/english/archive/#sweden-today
Se trailerBOSSE LINDQUIST, SWEDEN, 2009, 89 MIN, DIGIBETA. ENGLISH SUBTITLES. THE DIRECTOR WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
A Nobel Prize winner and a pedophile. Carleton Gajdusek was one of the world´s greatest genius, and also a man who has been convicted for having sex with a foster-son. Carleton Gajdusek discovered a ... Read more
A Nobel Prize winner and a pedophile. Carleton Gajdusek was one of the world´s greatest genius, and also a man who has been convicted for having sex with a foster-son. Carleton Gajdusek discovered a completely new form of infection - the human mad cow disease among cannibal Papua New Guineans. He is a scientist and a hero of other scientists. He is also someone whose friends and family are from a variety of cultures, different social classes, and from all over the world - subsistence farmers on Papua New Guinea, billionaires in New York, top thinkers in the Ukraine, Nobel-prize winners all around the globe, the young intelligentsia of China. Carleton Gajdusek claims himself to be a pedophile on the same lines ”as Jesus Christ”. According to the FBI, he has adopted 57 children from Papua New Guinea, Micronesia and elsewhere, and brought them up at his home close to the National Institutes of Health, close to Washington DC. This documentary film explores an extraordinary 20th century life, full of contradiction. How is it that humans can switch within milliseconds, between total intelligence, and total self-delusion? What is the nature of true exploration?
http://www.tempofestival.se/english/archive/#the-genius-and-the-boys
Se trailerERIK GANDINI, SWEDEN, 2009, 85 MIN, 35 MM. ENGLISH SUBTITLES. THE DIRECTOR WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
In a videocracy the key to power is the image. In Italy one man only has kept the domination of the image over three entire decades. As a TV-magnate and then as Presidente, Silvio Berlusconi has crea... Read more
In a videocracy the key to power is the image. In Italy one man only has kept the domination of the image over three entire decades. As a TV-magnate and then as Presidente, Silvio Berlusconi has created a perfect system of TV-entertainment and politics. Like no one else he has influenced the content of commercial television in Italy. His TV-channels, known for their over-exposure of almost naked girls, are seen by many as a mirror of his own taste and personality. Director Erik Gandini lives in Sweden but was born and brought up in Italy. In Videocracy he returns to his country of birth portraying from the inside the consequences of a TV-experiment that Italians have been subjected to for 30 years. He gets a unique access to the most powerful spheres, even in the President’s summer resort in Sardinia. Unveiling a remarkable story, born out of the scary reality of TV-republic Italy, a country where the step from TV-showgirl to Minister for Gender Equality is only natural.
http://www.tempofestival.se/english/archive/#videocracyDesign and solution by Oktavilla