2026 / World Premiere: The Tiger Competition, IFFR / Format: Documentary / 95 min
Winner of Tiger Special Jury Award, IFFR.
While emptying her childhood home after her estranged father’s death, Angelica recalls a fierce and solitary love she had for her history teacher, Miss S. As her list of duties never seems to diminish, an intense desire grows in Angelica: to meet her again.
Countries of production: Sweden, Norway
Languages: Swedish, French
Available lengths: 95 min
Writers and directors: Angelica Ruffier (Screenwriter and director)
Producer: Marta Dauliūtė, Brynhildur Þórarinsdóttir
Co-produced with: Turid Rogne, Elisabeth Kleppe / Aldeles, Rafael Souza, Ann-Marie Söhrman Fermelin / Film Stockholm, Katja Härkönen / Filmpool Nord
Executive producers: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall & Elin Lilleman Eriksson
Photographers: Simon Averin Markström (Director of Photography)
Additional photo: Gustav Ågerstrand, Boris Krommendijk, Liesbet de Loof, Angelica Ruffier, Anna-Lena Holmqvist
Editor: Anna Eborn
Composer: Leo Svensson Sander
Sound design: Thomas Angell Endresen (Sound designer and mix)
Sound technicians: Astrid Ahlbom Andersson, Anna Eborn, Olga Ruin
Colorist: Tormod Hauge
Graphics: Lukas Möllersten, Angelica Ruffier (Graphic design)
With support from: Swedish Film Institute / Anna Weitz, Norwegian Film Institute / Charlotte Røhder Tvedt, Vestnorsk Filmsenter / Klara Nilsson Grunning, Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Pitched at: Nordic Talent, Tempo Documentary Film Festival, Cannes Docs.
Sales/screening enquiries: Martina Droandi, Odd Slice Films
© Simon Averin Markström, Gustav Ågerstrand
2025 / World premiere: Locarno, Semaine de la critique / Format: Documentary / 90/52 min
Winner of Grand Prix, Locarno Critic’s Week
In cinemas 2026 in Ireland, UK, Japan, Sweden, Netherlands, Croatia and more.
Original title: Útóipe Cheilteach
After 100 years of independence, a bold new wave of young Irish artists redefine folk music and reflect over the impact of their colonial history.
Countries of production: Sweden, Ireland
Languages: Irish, English
Available formats: 90 min, 58 min
Writers and directors: Dennis Harvey, Lars Lovén
Producer: Elin Lilleman Eriksson
Photographers: Tuva Björk , Jamie Goldrick
Editor: Dominika Daubenbüchel
Sound design: Thomas Jansson
Colorist: Nanna Dalunde
Graphics: August Håkansson
FAD and narrator: Lilí Ní Dhomhnaill
Co-developed by Clare Stronge, Plainsong Films Ltd.
Co-produced with SVT.
With support from The Swedish Film Institute, Creative Europe, SVT, An Chomhairle Ealaíon, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
Sales/screening enquiries:
Worldwide: marcella@splitscreen.hr elin@mdemc.se
Ireland/UK: gillian@wildcard.film elin@mdemc.se
Sweden: oscar.eriksson@folketsbio.se elin@mdemc.se
Soundtrack from the film
Bandcamp
2026 / National release: Tempo Documentary Film Festival 2026, International release: TBA / Format: Documentary / Language: Swedish, English
Winner Best film @ Way Out West Festival 2026
Original title: Strejkarna
It begins at the margins of power: a few teenagers protest outside parliament, cardboard signs in hand and an unyielding determination in their eyes. From there, Helena Molin’s long-term portrait unfolds—of a generation forced early on to confront the ruthlessness of politics. Their fight for the climate and for justice runs parallel to a life that should be about friendship, play, and future dreams, but is repeatedly interrupted by the failures of the adult world. The result is an intimate and powerful depiction of what happens when moral responsibility is placed in the hands of those still searching for their place in the world.
Countries of production:
Languages: Swedish, English
Available formats: 87 min, 58 min
Contributors: Greta Thunberg, Anton Örtell, Ell Jarl, Simon Lagerlöf, Isabelle Axelsson, Sophia Axelsson, Andreas Magnusson
Writers and directors: Helena Molin
Producer: Elin Lilleman Eriksson
Co-produced with: Katja Härkönen/Filmpool Nord, SVT
Photographers: Helena Molin, Olga Ruin, Angelica Ruffier (Photography & sound)
Editor: Kristin Grundström
Composers: Sophia Ersson, Matilda Bådagård
Sound design: Thomas Jansson, Olga Ruin, Angelica Ruffier, Helena Molin
Colorist: Adam Söderholm
Graphics: Angelica Ruffier
With support from: The Swedish Film Institute, SVT, Filmpool Nord, Konstnärsnämnden
Sales/screening enquiries:
International sales: Celluloid Dreams (yohan.e@celluloid-dreams.com, emmanuel@celluloid-dreams.com, pascale@pascaleramonda.com)
Completed / Expected release: Autumn 2026 / Format: Short / 19,5 min
A meeting between a Ukrainian man fleeing the war, a Swedish woman, and a mediator. All strangers to one another. Can we trust our instincts to lead us right when faced with radical urgency?
With: Stina Ekblad, Serhii Semenov, Oleg Semenyuk, Mariia Burlaka
Writer and director: Vladyslav Kamensky
Producer: Marta Dauliūtė, Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Photograph: Christine Leuhusen
Composer: Ganna Bryzhata
Sound design: Thomas Jansson
Editor: Vladyslav Kamensky
Languages: Ukrainian, Swedish, English
Completed / Expected release: Autumn 2026 / Format: Feature / ~70 min / Genre: drama
Angelica has fallen in love with John, a prisoner whose letters and photos have sparked fantasies of a dangerous, forbidden love. When John is granted a 24-hour release and they finally meet for the first time, her illusion shatters — John has catfished her. Despite the betrayal, Angelica decides to give him a chance, if only for those fleeting 24 hours.
With: Gizem Erdogan, Erik Enge
Writer and director: Lisa Forslund
Producer: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall, Marta Dauliūtė
Line producer: Elin Lilleman Eriksson
Co-produced with: SVT / Andra Lasmanis & Film Stockholm / Anne-Marie Söhrman Fermelin
Director of Photography: Milja Rossi
Editor: Neil Wigardt, Lia Hietala, Anton Hemgren
Composer: Dennis Egberth
Sound design: Thomas Jansson
Production Sound Mixer: Linda Ro Näsström
Colorist: Martin Steinberg
Production Designer: Julia Benon
Costume Designer: Angelica Ruffier
Graphic designer: Elina Birkehag
With support from: The Swedish Film Institute, Moving Sweden / Hanna Sohlberg, Norrköpings Filmfond / Johan Karlsson
In post-production / Expected release: Spring 2027 / Format: Feature documentary / ~86 min / Language: Swedish
A group of people make an attempt to shed civilisation and dream of living as hunter-gatherers in the forest. But what are we prepared to sacrifice to return to a natural state? And most importantly, are we welcome back?
Director: Martina Hoogland Ivanow
Producer: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Co-producer: Niklas Kullström, Hillstream Pictures
Executive producers: Marta Dauliūtė, Elin Lilleman Eriksson
With support from The Swedish Film Institute, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Konstsamfundet, Film på Gotland, Film i Sörmland
2025 / Format: Short documentary / 14 min
Dublin, June 2024: thousands of men seeking asylum in Ireland are homeless. Olivia and her group of volunteers are trying to find safe locations where the men can sleep each night, but the government is actively enforcing its new policy against homeless encampments, and the far-right are lurking.
The film is a follow-up to the multi award-winning The Building and Burning of a Refugee Camp (IDFA, 2024), which depicts the effects of a similar policy in 2023, when an encampment built by homeless asylum seekers in Dublin was burned down by a far-right mob.
Writer and director: Dennis Harvey
Producer: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Photograph: Dennis Harvey
Sound design: Thomas Jansson
Colorist: Martin Steinberg
Editor: Dennis Harvey
Key art: August Håkansson
Visual effects: Lova Gadd
Completed / Format: Documentary / 58 min
In piecing together fragments of glass negatives, along the traces of the medieval town of Visby, an image of a forgotten female artist’s life’s work emerges.
The film is directed by Florence Montmare and produced by MDEMC, Attaché, Anna J. Ljungmark, as a co-production with Swedish Television and Gotland Film Fund. Support from Film på Gotland and Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
In postproduction / Expected release: Spring 2027 / Format: Short fiction / 20 min / Language: English
A theatre group living inside an abandoned mall stages its own adaptation of The Little House on the Prairie.
With: Eva Johansson, Michelle Hammenfeldt, Eli Levén, Simon Rodriguez
Writer & Director: Iris Smeds
Producer: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Photographers: Milja Rossi
Sound design: Thomas Jansson
Graphics: Sara Kaaman
With support from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
In development / Format: Feature Hybrid Documentary / Language: English, Japanese / Expected release: 2028
A dance company in Berlin is working on a process based performance relating to climate crisis. They want to break out of their automated, chrononormative patterns of movement in a busy metropolis in the capitalist West, and reimagine the way they interact with their surroundings. At the dance-studio, they are encouraged to reflect on their feelings related to the lost of the natural world. In their every-day life, they are preoccupied with dealing with other forms of personal crisis. The film depicts the inherent confusion between science and inner emotional life, between society and nature. How can we continue to live our everyday lives in an era of global mass destruction?
Directors: Tuva Björk, Natacha April Souyris
Producer: Elin Lilleman Eriksson
Co-producers: Ingrid Liavaag, Siri Bråtveit, Peggy Høy
Funded by Swedish Film Instiute, The Arts Council Norway
In development / Expected release: Autumn 2026 / Format: Feature documentary / ~90 min / Languages: Filipino, English
In the Philippines – the world’s only country that does not have divorce – Wage and Ren’s love becomes a struggle against religion, bureaucracy, and a system that refuses to let go.
Director: Samir Arabzadeh
Producer: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Co-producer: Samir Arabzadeh
Executive producer: Marta Dauliūtė, Elin Lilleman Eriksson
In development / Format: Feature Documentary
Pitched Nordic Forum 2026 (Swedish Wildcard)
A tragicomic journey across the EU and its borderlands unravels the bureaucratic conundrum at the centre of European migration policy. With readings from the acclaimed 1996 Sudanese novel Season of Migration to the North.
Director: Dennis Harvey, producer: Elin Lilleman Eriksson
In development / Format: Feature Documentary
In Utflykt i det gröna (Excursion into the Green), we encounter contemporary artists Ella Tillema, Ann Böttcher, and Annika von Hausswolff in personal dialogues with the work of artist Gerhard Nordström. Filmmaker and artist Henrik L. Jørgensen challenges the viewer’s understanding of art’s function and its relationship to Scandinavian identity through an intimate, poetic journey—moving from lush idylls and mine-laden soil to themes of war, the climate crisis, and gender.
Director: Henrik Lund Jørgensen
Producer: Marta Dauliūtė
In development / Format: Hybrid / Language: Swedish
HUMAN RESOURCES (Jag AB) is a poignant and humoristic docufiction film, about the people at a job coaching company. The film is a study of what happens in a society where market value trumps human worth.
Writer/Director: Elisabeth Marjanovic Cronvall
Producer: Cecilia Björk
In development / Format: Documentary / Languages: Swedish, English
"The Incurable" is a wild road movie through the director's years in psychiatric care.
The film simultaneously presents the seldom told stories of involuntarily committed women, the history of emotions, and a search for the soul's place in contemporary times. And it also becomes a story of what can truly heal a lacerated soul.
Surprisingly, this is not a film about psychiatry in crisis, but rather it is a film about an entire society in an emotional free fall.
A film by Moa Junström.
In development.
2024 / Hybrid film / 77 min
The siblings, Enzo and Magda, have drifted apart, and in an attempt to reconnect, Magda invites her brother on a trip to Helsinki. Over the course of a weekend, the sibling pair encounters a series of peculiar characters and faces situations that call for discussions about life, art, and existence. Memories blend with the present, and dreams and reality merge for the two travellers adrift in the atmospheric city of Helsinki.
With: Astrid Drettner, Georgios Giokotos, Marianne Carlsson, Enkete Mungbaba, Ken Mai, John Holm, Farah Muse, Teri-Anne Brink, Dupain Cissokho, Marianne Lehtimäki, Katja Kiuru, Hilperi, Leila Aissat-Isung
Director: Kim Ekberg, Sawandi Groskind
Producer: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall, MDEMC and Kim Ekberg, POST POST
Co-producer: Kim Ekberg, POST POST and Danai Anagnostou, Kenno Filmi
Cinematographer: Annika Miettinen
Filming location: Stockholm & Norrköping, Sweden. Helsinki, Finland
2024 / Format: Short documentary / 20 min / Filming location: Dublin, Ireland/ Language: English & Swedish
Winner of Guldbagge (Swedish Academy award) for Best Short Film, 2024.
Three men seeking sanctuary in Ireland find themselves caught on the streets between a hostile asylum policy and an increasingly militant far-right.
With: Simon, Sami and Hasiballah
Director: Dennis Harvey
Producer: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall, Elin Lilleman Eriksson, Marta Dauliute
DOP and sound: Dennis Harvey
Editor: Dennis Harvey
Key art: August Håkansson
Sound design: Thomas Jansson
Colour grading: Peter Magnusson
2024 / Serbia, Sweden / Documentary / 75 min / World premiere: Venice Days, Venice Film Festival
Schoolkids living on the top of the paradise island wait for the rain to stop. A former advertising executive is closing a land deal for her new villa. An entrepreneur battles nature while building a resort in the jungle. A veterinarian works cleaning snakes from the gardens of the foreigners. An influencer, disillusioned with love, recovers from losing everything overnight. A father and son prepare to leave for good, not knowing where. A dancer adopts a new identity, distancing herself from everything she's ever known. Divers venture into uncharted waters, risking their lives for the challenge of conquest. The tensions between life's possibilities revolve around the question of what life one should be living, with every decision leading to a different version of oneself. And while the earthly paradise might be nothing more than an ideal of imagination, humanity's relentless pursuit for happiness persists.
Original title: Mogućnost raja
Director & screenplay: Mladen Kovačević
Cast: Ivana Sahami, Dino Magnatta, Ling Lai, Shinta Sukmawati, Mcintosh Cooey, Kieran Cooey, Anna Kadek, Branko Milovanović
Cinematography by: Marko Milovanovic
Film editing: Jelena Maksimović
Music: Rebekka Karijord
Producer: Iva Plemic Divjak, Mladen Kovačević
Co-producer:Elin Lilleman Eriksson
Production: Horopter Film Production, MDEMC
With funding from: Film Center Serbia - Filmski Centar Srbije, Swedish Film Institute/Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI)
2024 / Format: Dokumentär / 62 min / Språk: Svenska / Produktionsland: Sverige
Hedersomnämnande Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary, Göteborg Film Festival, 2024
“Det här är en film om de som tar ett ansvar för sitt område och sitt sammanhang, som står kvar när samhället lämnat.”
- Petra Bauer och Marius Dybwad Brandrud, regissörer
Det är den 19 januari 2016, Carolina Sinisalo är på bröllopsresa när hon får ett telefonsamtal. Det har skett en skjutning i hemmets trappupggång i Akalla. Hennes yngsta son är död och den äldre ligger i koma.
Det är den 6 januari 2019, konstnären Petra Bauer och regissören Marius Dybwad Brandrud träffar Sinisalo när hon håller ett tal på manifestationen “Säg deras namn”, organiserat av ungdomar som sörjer sina vänner som mördats.
Filmen femton noll tre nittonde januari två tusen sexton är ett samarbete mellan Bauer, Dybwad Brandrud och Sinisalo. Tillsammans vill de synliggöra hur skapandet av minnen kan vara ett sätt att sörja och samtidigt mobilisera. Carolina gör motstånd mot våldet som drabbat hennes familj och mot majoritetssamhällets förenklade berättelser om det våld som präglat Sveriges förorter sedan början av 2000-talet.
I filmen återvänder Carolina gång på gång till klockslaget då skjutningen inträffade för att förstå vad som hände hennes barn när hon inte var där. Genom hennes vittnesmål omvandlas den individuella förlusten till en kollektiv erfarenhet med kraft att forma nya allianser. Lägenheten blir en mötesplats för politisk organisering som går bortom mediala offermotiv.
Filmen skildrar hur hemmet blir en plats för mobilisering och att minnas.
Medverkande:
Carolina Sinisalo, mamma, initiativtagare till organisationen Fuck Våldet, aktivist.
Hero Rashid, ordförande för Kvinnocenter i Tensta-Hjulsta.
Esme Güler, folkrörelseutveckare i Hyresgästföreningen, ledamot i Kommunfullmäktige och sitter i kulturnämnden för socialdemokraterna.
Fadumo Dahir Igal, driver föreningen Women&Youth Empowerment, initiativtagare till Järva S-kvinnor, sitter i Stadsdelsnämnden i Järva för Socialdemokraterna.
Nursen Sürücü Okan, styrelseledamot och kassör i Kvinnocenter i Tensta-Hjulsta.
Rokeya Begum, aktiv i föreningarna Rädda Barnen, Mamma United och Gessgud.
Regi: Petra Bauer och Marius Dybwad Brandrud
Producent: Marta Dauliūtė / MDEMC Produktion AB
Manus: Petra Bauer
Foto och klipp: Marius Dybwad Brandrud
Scenografi: Maria Safronova Wahlström
Ljuddesign: David Gülich
Grafisk design: Maeve Redmond
Researcher och konstnärlig rådgivare: Frances Stacey
Med stöd från Svenska Filminstitutet, Konstnärsnämnden, Kungl. Konsthögskolan och Vetenskapsrådet.
Presskontakt: marta@mdemc.se
Urval av tidigare visningar:
Folkets Husby
Bio Aspen
Nordisk Panorama
Hallunda Folkets Hus
Rinkeby Folkets Hus
Bio Kaskad
Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus
Biograf Zita
Tensta Träff
Birkagårdens Folkets Hus, Jönköping
Skärisbiografen
Royal, Eskilstuna
Folkets Hus, Lidköping
ABF, Stockholm
Klarabiografen
Stockholms universitet, antropologi
Stockholms universitet, filmvetenskap
Folkets Hus, Fisksätra
Bio Bristol, Sundbyberg
Motettens Folkets Hus, Malmö
Hagabion, Göteborg
Migramovies, Cnema
Onsdagsseminarium, Uniarts
Folkets Hus, Hammarkullen
Kulturhuset Blå Stället
Meeting Plays
Röda Korsets folkhögskola
2022 / Format: Fiction / 28 min / Language: Swedish
World premiere at Nordisk Panorama 2022, in the Best Nordic Short Competition.
Jakob is a successful life coach providing people with what they want: simple answers in complicated times. But when he is invited to a job coaching company to inspire the unemployed, things start to crumble. Can everything really be solved by having the right attitude?
Director: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Producer: Cecilia Björk
Co-producer: Emilia Haukka and Jussi Rantamäki, Aamu Film Company
2022 / Format: Documentary / 72 min
While home office became an everyday option, Good Life is a gentle and critical look at a co-living startup, where the vision for 24/7 integration of work, networking, self-management and private life is being tested with even higher, limitless and global ambition. Guided by observations and questioning of the two female directors, the new world of innovation, insecure jobs, efficiency, flexibility and personal adaptation is put under test. What happens when corporate storytelling becomes part of one’s innermost self and community becomes a commodity?
Written and directed by: Marta Dauliūtė and Viktorija Šiaulytė
Produced by: Marta Dauliūtė and Viktorija Šiaulytė, MDEMC (Sweden)
Co-producers: Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė, Just a moment (Lithuania), Niklas Kullström, Hillstream Pictures (Finland)
Cinematography: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Editing: Niklas Kullström
Sound design: Vytis Puronas
Music: Rasmus Hedlund
International Sales: Syndicado Film Sales Swedish distribution: Draken Film
Screened at among others:
- Göteborg Film Festival 2022, Best Nordic Documentary nominee
- Hot Docs 2022 - Festival international Jean Rouch - Comité du film ethnographique, Paris 2023 AWARD: Research Teams prize Immersion du regard - Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 2022 - IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht 2022 - Inconvenient Films - Nepatogus kinas, Vilnius 2022 - KÅKÅ/Nomics, Stavanger 2022 - Budapest Architecture FF 2022 - Film a architektura, Prague 2022 - Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival, São Paulo 2023 - Brooklyn Film Festival 2023
- Cinetekton Festival Int Cine y Arquitectura, Puebla, Mexico 2030
- Ameisen Urbanismus, Filmcasino, Wien 2023. With Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer.
- Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus, in collaboration with IASPIS, Tusen kulturhus/Kungl. Konsthögskolan, MDEMC, Draken film, Konstfrämjandet Stockholm and Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus. Panel talk with Miguel Robles-Durán, Tor Lindstrand and Majsa Allelin.
- nGbK, Berlin, 2023. Discussion moderated by Janine Sack and Florian Wüst.
- CITY 46 / Kommunalkino Bremen, 2024. An event organized by the Department of Moving Image in the Integrated Design program at HFK Bremen in cooperation with CITY 46, Filmbüro Bremen and Mariann Steegmann Institute for Art & Gender, University of Bremen. Discussion moderated by Beat Brogle und Florian Wüst.
2019 / Format: Fiction / 14 min / Language: English / Premiere: Gothenburg Film Festival
The Average is a film about the pursuit of mediocrity. Led by a woman dressed in Dalí's melting clocks, we meet a centipede that breaks in two, a tv anchor and a writer fighting about the separation of the collective, and an Ikaros who no longer wants to burn.
Writer and Director: Iris Smeds
Producer: Elisabeth Marjanovic Cronvall
DOP: Lisabi Fridell
Sound design: Thomas Jansson
Editing: Elisabeth Marjanovic Cronvall, Iris Smeds
Color grading: Martin Steinberg
Set design: Iris Smeds
Graphic design: Sara Kaaman
Original music: Erik Haal / Fantasy Face
Produced with support by The Swedish Film Institute / Erika Wasserman, and The Swedish Arts Grant Committee.
2017 / Format: Documentary / 72 min / Language: Swedish, Finnish
Park benches, lawns, subways, backpacks, spray cans, barbed wire, asphalt and beer. We owned the parks and alleyways of Stockholm . Graffiti unified a great bunch of windswept existences.
But then came the children, the prison, the career, the overdose, the psychiatric clinic and death, and we dispersed. Jussi's mother tells about her son. I talk about Jussi, me and my son. Jussi tells about the longing for freedom and a world possible to live in.
"The Traffic lights turn blue tomorrow" is based on my friend Jussi's suicide. An essay dealing with the struggle to become adults.
The film also portrays the generation that lived on the edge of society during the early 2000s, the time that was a springboard to adulthood for me and led to the death of Jussi. "This world is not for me." Jussi wrote in his last sms. Who is this world for?
Director: Ragnhild Ekner
Producer: Tobias Janson
Co-producers: Elisabeth Marjanovic Cronvall and Marta Dauliute
Cinematography: Ragnhild Ekner, Jussi Hirvilammi, Annika Busch & Karl Lööf
Editing: Ragnhild Ekner & Neil Wigardt
Sound Design and Mix: Thomas Jansson
Animation: Jussi Hirvilammi & Neil Wigardt
Grading: Neil Wigardt
Graphic Design: Aron Kullander Östling
Produced by Story AB
In Co-Production with SVT & MDEMC
PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT FROM
The Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin & Antonio Russo Merenda
The Swedish Arts Grant Committee
STHLM Debut, a collaboration between Stockholms läns landsting,
Film Stockholm, Filmregion Stockholm- Mälardalen och Stockholms Internationella Filmfestival
Film Stockholm/Filmbasen
Kalle Boman
2017 / Format: Fiction / 10 min / Language: Swedish
A film about the labor market in today’s society—a society where bodies are always ready to step in for a job, even as jobs become increasingly temporary and a sense of loneliness pulses beneath the skin.
Director: Christian Rossipal
Producers: Christian Rossipal, Marta Dauliute, Elisabeth Marjanovic Cronvall
Screenwriter: Christian Rossipal
Cinematographer: Christian Rossipal
Editor: Christian Rossipal
Sound: Thomas Jansson
Original Score: Michel Wenzer
Cast: James Daffeh, Malin Franzen, Lars Stahlin
2016 / Format: Documentary / 47 min / Language: Swedish
English title: You Shall See That I Am Right
The collective is the only real tool of power.
Magnus is a bus driver and a union representative of Kommunal. His political dedication is growing stronger as the number of union cases increases as Sweden's labor market is deregulated. What happens if the union loses its ability to secure safe working conditions and the conditions for living a dignified life? What does that do to a society?
Director: Saga Gärde
Produced by MDEMC and Dela Kakan
Available to rent on Vimeo.
2015 / Format: Short documentary / 14,5 min
Recipe for fascism: Half a generation unemployed, doctors forced to choose whom to treat, social security disappearing, the public on discount.
We ask our friends in Greece to make a list of their images of the euro crisis. It becomes a warning list for the North.
DIRECTORS’ STATEMENT
We went to Athens to see what a European crisis looked like, and what the IMF and EU austerity measures had done to the country. For three years the European media had created an image of a population who do not pay taxes, live on loans and work too little. An image still reproduced by northern Europeans.
Once in Greece, we met solidarity and an organisational resourcefulness to be envied. Political discussions that made the public discourse in Northern Europe look like a joke. Among others, we met many Greeks our own age, a generation whose parents have fought for democracy, education, welfare. Now they stand educated but there are no jobs.
We saw the tourism industry of Greece, where profits hit records. The same faces behind the bar, morning and night, seven days a week.
Often when we met people in cafés for an interview they refused to let us pay- the constant joke being; they did not want to owe us, the next time we meet the coffee might be twice as expensive. Debt!
Our choice as filmmakers was to provide a space for “the missing media image” of Greece. And what about Sweden, are we having a crisis? If not, why is the unemployment growing? Why are fascist ideas taking hold? What if “the lazy Greek” is a myth established in order to maintain our own sense of security.
Director: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall, Marta Dauliūtė
Producer: Marta Dauliūtė, Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
With excerpts from “Stolen Spring” by Kajsa Ekis Ekman
DOP: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Sound recording: Marta Dauliūtė
Editing: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Sound design: Thomas Jansson
Graphic design: Aron Kullander-Östling
Colorist: Martin Steinberg
On-line: Rickard Petersen
PRODUCTION NOTES:
Country of production: Sweden, Lithuania.
Production company: MDEMC
Language: Swedish, English, Greek
Filming location: Greece, Sweden.
Co-produced by: Swedish Television, SVT, Andrea Östlund / Helena Ingelsten
PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT BY:
The Swedish Film Institute, Andreas Fock
Filmbasen, Film Stockholm, Anne-Marie Söhrman Fermelin
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2013 / Format: Documentary / 60 min / Language: Lithuanian, Swedish, English
"Do you feel cheaper?" We are filming Lithuanian migrant working men in Sweden. They do not want to be on camera, they do not want to participate in creating one more media image for guilt and pity. They film us. We empty a bottle of moonshine, we dance on their porch. They might let us film them tomorrow.
Through sincere and frustrating negotiation to get access to film the migrant workers, Second Class becomes a discussion about class, the value of work and human. While showing the filming process film raises questions about power relations in film industry itself.
Motivation for Hets Award, 2013:
“Marta and Elisabeth bring up a major dilemma regarding European class and nationality in a personal way. They do it in a questioning, discussing and courageous way - in both words and pictures - depicting the situation of a group of Lithuanian men – migrant workers and second class men in Sweden – reflecting their desires, gazes and positions in the film.”
Director and producer: Marta Dauliūtė, Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Production company: MDEMC
Featuring among others: Artras Andriukaitis, Edvardas Jurgilas
DOP: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Sound recording: Marta Dauliūtė
Editing: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Sound design: Thomas Jansson
Graphic design: Jurgis Griškevičius
Colorist: Martin Steinberg
On-line: Rickard Petersen
Publisher: Johan Nyberg
PRODUCTION NOTES
Country of production: Sweden, Lithuania
Produced by: MDEMC
Filming locations: Norrfors, Nordmaling, Västerbotten; Roasjö, Svenljunga, Västra Götaland; Uppsala; ferry Stockholm-Riga and Karlshamn-Klaipėda.
PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT BY
Swedish Film Institute, Tove Torbiörnsson
Film Stockholm/Filmbasen, Joakim Blendulf
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
International Premiere: Hot Docs IFF
2013 / Format: Short documentary / 13 min / Language: French, Spanish
"You're white, I'm black. I come from Africa, a country that is nothing. Africa has great resources, but we have given everything to Europe. Did you know that?" Kader and actor Emelie Jonsson, standing on the street outside bar Modern in Marseille. He is drunk and upset, and full of truths that are difficult to hear. L'Europe Moderne is based on the access and freedom of movement one possesses as white Scandinavian middle class.
DIRECTOR’S COMMENT
L'Europe Modern is a film about post-colonial decay, questioning the European self-image of being a little better and with the right to exploit others.
The film's protagonist is a woman, the place is Marseille. Woman because it is me and because she clarifies the patriarchal power structures that the European idea of democracy is based on. Marseille because it is a place where Europe meets Africa.
I tried to create a "we" with actor Emelie Jonsson and directors Marta Dauliūtė and Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall. We have been in Marseille twice in the spring of 2012. I wanted to expose ourselves to the place. After the first trip it became clear how we exposed the site by our presence. Four white academics girls around their 30s with an intrusive gaze at their surroundings.
Director and producer: Maja Kekonius
In Collaboration with: Marta Dauliūtė, Emelie Jonsson, Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Creative producer: Marta Dauliūtė
Featuring: Emelie Jonsson
DOP: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall and Maja Kekonius
Editing: Maja Kekonius
Sound Design: Erik Löderstedt and Jan Alvermark
Graphic design: Lucas Facchin
Grading: Jonas Eskilsson
PRODUCTION NOTES
Country of production: Sweden
Produced by: Maja Kekonius
Co-produced by: MDEMC
Filming location: Marseille, France
PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT BY
The Swedish Film Institute
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Co-produced by Filmpool Nord, and Film i Väst
2013 / Format: Documentary / 72/58 min / Language: Swedish
Kaj Tonny Holmgren has been waiting for a miracle for nearly 30 years. He has a progressive muscular disease, preacher ambitions and an intimate dialogue with God. His caretaking wife and fellow believers are all waiting for the impossible to happen.
Director Ann Holmgren has filmed her father for six years. The result is both a highly original family portrait and a bold investigation of the boundaries of faith in a life stuck between visions and bodily decay.
Director: Ann Holmgren
Producer: Silja Espolin Johnson
Featuring among others: Kaj Tonny Holmgren, Noomin Holmgren, Hildeborg Holmgren, Anna-Kajsa Lampa
Co-producers: Marta Dauliūtė, Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
DOP: Ann Holmgren
Editing: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall, Astrid Skumsrud Johansen
Sound design: Erik Ljunggren
Colorist and on-line: Sement&Betong v/ Christian Berg-Nielsen
DCP mastering: Knut Erik Evensen
Country of production: Norway, Sweden
Production company: Ape&Bjørn
Co-production: MDEMC
Lengths: 72/58 min
PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT BY
Norwegian Film Institute
Lycksele Kommun
Region Västerbotten
Swedish Television, SVT
Fritt Ord
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Co-produced by: Film i Västerbotten
Developed through: ME Produktion v/ Marina Eliasson, Medieoperatørerne AS
2010 / Format: Fiction / 12.40 min
Not panic is a portrayal of a group of young people trying to set words to their existence. Tuva rides a sledge tied to a car. Richard and Gustav work around the clock. Erik, 50 year old, is depressed: the ice sheet around Greenland is melting. Lars: "What do you think I should do with my life?"
Director: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Producer: Marta Dauliūtė
Writers: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall, Marta Dauliūtė
Featuring: Lars Söderdahl, Rickard Larsson, Madeleine Larsson, Tuva Serck, Gustav Broman, Erik Ullman, Johanna Broman, Marie Larsson, Johannes Serck, Sven Carlsson
DOP: Martin Steinberg
Editing: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Sound recording: Marta Dauliūtė
Sound Design: Thomas Jansson
Graphic design: Jurgis Griškevičius
Colorist: Martin Steinberg
PRODUCTION NOTES
Country of production: Sweden
Produced by: MDEMC
Language: Swedish
Filming location: Fårö, Gotland, Sweden
PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT BY
Film Stockholm, Filmbasen
Film på Gotland
2008 / Format: Fiction / 26 min
Having run away from home in her native Lithuania, Ira travels to Sweden to visit her seasonal working brother. The final reaping, boredom and fragile meetings in the night.
Director: Marta Dauliūtė
Producer: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Manuscript: Marta Dauliūtė
Featuring: Michelle Alexanian, Vladimir Antochvili, Vladimir Janickin, Alisher Makhkamov, Maciej Radzki, Ruslan Tarachan, Yury Viktorovitj Podlevskikh
DOP: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Editing: Marta Dauliūtė, Alice Ilmenska
Sound recording: Thomas Frank, Andreas Andersson
Sound Design: Thomas Jansson
Costume: Pernilla Ekstrand
Original soundtrack: Tommy Spaanheden, Yury Yukinsson
PRODUCTION NOTES
Country of production: Sweden
Language: Russian, Polish
Filming location: Torslanda, Göteborg and Simrishamn, Sweden
PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT BY
University of Gothenburg
Film i Väst
2008 / Format: Fiction / 29 min / Language: Swedish
The 60th birthday party of Leif. Roland can't stomach getting divorced, Monika doesn't want the guests to leave, sixteen year old Siri helps herself to the hard liquor, Henrik loses his grip. The ever-present longing for something more to happen.
Director: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Producer: Marta Dauliūtė
Manuscript: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Featuring: Cassandra Jenner, Simon J Berger, Anna Bjelkerud, Mats Blomgren, Per Johansson, Lars Väringer, Victor Gadderus, Ewa Syrén, Elisabeth Eng, Göran Omnéus, Tone Helly-Hansen, Johnny Lyrstrand, Monika Täng-Ekfeldt, Peter Melin, Felicia Löverdahl, Rosanna Heinander, Daniel Brandt, Fanny Nordlund, Dani Hodović
DOP: Martin Eng Pålsheden
Editing: Charlotte Berglin, Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Sound Design: Andreas Andersson
Graphic design and colourist: Marcus Nordgren
Music: Surreal Lovers and Thomas Jansson
PRODUCTION NOTES
Country of production: Sweden
Filming location: Gothenburg, Sweden
PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT BY
University of Gothenburg
Film i Väst
