Nyårsfesten (2018)
The turn of a year in a snowy village in Sweden documents the need for change and continuance. A collective film about rites and times. Dala-Floda, Sweden, has 680 inhabitants. In the depths of the blue light of winter, six filmmakers ask themselves what it means to start a new year. Emerging locals formulate their views on time and our need for rituals and reoccurring events. Their answers parade poetically through the snowy and cold village landscape. A sort of time travel takes place and recalls ordinary as well as extraordinary memories and identities. The commonplace is our need for measuring time, our need for a beginning and an end. A ninety-year-old woman shows a way out of the never-ending dream phase of the evoked Phantom Carriage (Selma Lagerlöf) and exclaims: "Really, you ought to reset yourself. You have to feel completely at zero again".
Directors: Franziska Hoffmann, Erik Viklund, Mauricio Hernández, Joel Grip, Leïla Colin-Navaï, Lisa Grip.
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Gossas Karin Runo as |
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Lars-Olov Tillman as |
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Peera Nakgron as |
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Carl-Johan Åkerstedt as |
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Alf Tangnäs as |
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Joel Grip as |
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Franziska Hoffmann as |
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Lisa Grip as |
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Erik Viklund as |
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Leïla Colin-Navaï as |
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Mauricio Hernández as |
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Niklas Barnö as |
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Katt Hernandez as |
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Sonia Bush as |
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Greta Lou as |
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Mischa as |
| Directing | Franziska Hoffmann | Director |
| Directing | Erik Viklund | Director |
| Directing | Mauricio Hernández | Director |
| Directing | Joel Grip | Director |
| Directing | Leïla Colin-Navaï | Director |
| Directing | Lisa Grip | Director |
| Editing | Joel Grip | Editor |
| Editing | Leïla Colin-Navaï | Editor |
| Editing | Mauricio Hernández | Editor |