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Behzad Khosravi Noori & Magnus Bärtås, 2024
On Hospitality is a necromantic documentary where the Iraqi artist Layla Al-Attar returns from the dead to tell the story of how a Swedish company built a luxurious hotel in Baghdad, ordered by Saddam Hussein for the 1983 summit of the Non-Alignment Movement. War changed the plans. Layla made a...
Shauheen Daneshfar, 2023
In 1979, during and after the Islamic Revolution of Iran, a vast number of cinema and theatre halls were set on fire by extremist revolutionaries or closed forever. Consequently, many artists and workers were forced to give up their professions. The phenomenon in question can be considered an...
Johan Thurfjell, 2022
Japanese mythology is full of spirits. They could come in many guises, both good and evil. The time of day when they were most prominent was at dusk. In the dim blue light, after the sun had set but before the darkness of night had fallen, it was thought that the line between our world and the...
Jonelle Twum, 2021
A Mother’s Body is an intimate portrayal of two women hotel cleaners from a daughter’s perspective. While the women perform their daily work, the daughter reflects on how their profession affects their bodies and relationship to time. Meanwhile, the women navigate and negotiate the...
Saskia Holmkvist & Corina Oprea & Ellen Nyman, 2017
Per capita Sweden is one of the world’s largest weapon exporters in parallel with the self-promotion of a peace-making nation worldwide. Intertwined in the narrative presented in the film, the authors are building a replica of one of Sweden´s most sold hand held weapons. The film...
