Love and murder - Swedish Film Institute

Prisoners in Hell (working title)
Protests of the latest presidential elections in Iran prompts Nahid Persson
Sarvestani to search for her activist friends who were imprisoned and tortured
soon after the revolution by the Islamic regime while she avoided persecution
by going into hiding. Nahid embarks on a journey looking for unanswered
questions that have haunted her for 30 years.
oRIGINAL TITLE Prisoners in Hell (working title) dIREcToR Nahid Persson Sarvestani
PRodUcER Setareh Persson PRodUcEd by RealReel Doc AB in collaboration with
SVT, with support from NRK, MEDIA and Swedish Film Institute/Suzanne Glansborg
scREENING dETAILs HDCAM, 58/90 min To bE RELEAsEd 2012 sALEs TBA
Born in Shiraz, Iran, in 1960, Nahid Persson sarvestani took political asylum in
Sweden after the 1979 revolution in Iran. Nahid’s social-political films have won her over
30 awards. In 2006 Nahid was arrested in Iran for her critical depiction of women under the
Islamic Republic regime. Her last feature was The Queen and I (2009).
Milton Private
There are tens of thousands of films and photos of what made these two men
billionaires. But we will not show you a single one of these pictures. They are
repulsive. This is a story of a very poor orphan boy who decided to get rich. He
would be more successful than anyone had ever dreamt of and yet it didn’t
turn out at all the way he had expected it.
oRIGINAL TITLE Milton Privat dIREcToR Fredrik von Krusenstjerna PRodUcERs Monica
Sohlman, Fredrik von Krusenstjerna PRodUcEd by Strix Television, SVT and Swedish
Film Institute/Suzanne Glansborg scREENING dETAILs HDCAM, 48/60/80 min To bE
RELEAsEd 2012 sALEs TBA
Fredrik Von Krusenstjerna makes films about unusual life stories with a human
focus, amongst others Lost Sons (2001) where a German neo-nazi leader tries to reconcile
with his communist father who years ago disowned him and Necrobusiness (2008) about a
Polish undertaker who kills people off to get his business going.
She’s Blonde Like Me
Artist Fia-Stina Sandlund and actor Alexandra Dahlström are to give a
performance at the Venice Biennale. Dahlström, in character as Julie, will
answer questions about Sandlund’s up-coming feature – a feminist reinterpretation
of the famous August Strindberg play Miss Julie. This is Dahlström’s
audition.
oRIGINAL TITLE She’s Blonde Like Me dIREcToR Fia-Stina Sandlund scREENWRITER
Fia-Stina Sandlund PRodUcER Marius Dybwad Brandrud PRodUcEd by Skogen Produktion
with support from Swedish Film Institute and IASPIS scREENING dETAILs HDCAM,
89 min RELEAsEd January, 2011 sALEs Skogen Produktion HB
Fia-stina sandlund is an artist and director based in Stockholm and New York,
working at the intersection of journalism, social activism and “re-enaction” as a form of
history writing. She’s currently working on a full-length trilogy based on August Strindberg’s
famous play Miss Julie.
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