Short film package: Rebels With A Cause

Strong characters with bold and unflinchingly brazen attitudes take centre stage in this programme. Featuring Mika Gustafson’s Mephobia, which blurs the lines between fiction and non-fiction with her hard-hitting short following a group of young women causing havoc in a Swedish neighbourhood, while Brúsi Ólason’s Viktoría dramatises a farmer’s battle to keep her dairy farm afloat after her only colleague leaves her stranded, and the brilliant experimental dance film Juck, pushes boundaries in female representation. Filmmaking that packs a punch – unapologetically so.

Mephobia

Mika Gustafson / 2017 / Sweden / 24 min

The Elephant

Kerren Lumer-Klabbers / 2017 / Denmark / 13 min

Water Bears

Yenni Lee / 2017 / Norway / 10 min

JUCK

Olivia Kastebring & Julia Gumpert & Ulrika Bandeira / 2018 / Sweden / 18 min

Viktoría

Brúsi Ólason / 2018 / Iceland / 13 min

The films are nominated for Best Nordic Short 2018

More info about the films further down:

Rebels With A Cause

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JUCK

JUCK

Olivia Kastebring, Julia Gumpert , Ulrika Bandeira

A video made by the Swedish all-female dance group, JUCK, went viral globally in 2013. ‘Juck’ is Swedish for ‘hump’ and their performances push the limits for how we are used to seeing the >

Olivia Kastebring, Julia Gumpert , Ulrika Bandeira

A video made by the Swedish all-female dance group, JUCK, went viral globally in 2013. ‘Juck’ is Swedish for ‘hump’ and their performances push the limits for how we are used to seeing the >

Documentary, Children/Youth

Sweden

2018

18'

The Elephant

Elefanten

Kerren Lumer-Klabbers

Magnus is celebrating his birthday. Like so often, he entertains his guests with far-fetched stories. Everybody knows he’s lying but no one says anything. Magnus had planned to give his girlfriend >

Kerren Lumer-Klabbers

Magnus is celebrating his birthday. Like so often, he entertains his guests with far-fetched stories. Everybody knows he’s lying but no one says anything. Magnus had planned to give his girlfriend >

Fiction

Denmark

2017

13'

Water Bears

Bjørnedyr

Yenni Lee

A discussion in a 6th grade class about bullying and power structures evolves into a power struggle within the group of 11-year-olds, with the bystanders as passive-aggressive participants. The film >

Yenni Lee

A discussion in a 6th grade class about bullying and power structures evolves into a power struggle within the group of 11-year-olds, with the bystanders as passive-aggressive participants. The film >

Fiction, Children/Youth

Norway

2017

10'

Viktoría

Viktoría

Brúsi Ólason

Viktoría, a strong-willed woman in her 60s, is left to manage her dairy farm on her own when her only employee leaves for a better job. The farm has been in Viktoría’s family for generations. >

Brúsi Ólason

Viktoría, a strong-willed woman in her 60s, is left to manage her dairy farm on her own when her only employee leaves for a better job. The farm has been in Viktoría’s family for generations. >

Fiction, Children/Youth

Iceland

2018

13'

Mephobia

Mephobia

Mika Gustafson

A group of girls aged 6–8 wander around the neighbourhood making trouble. A group of older girls is just as frustrated, but their restlessness expresses itself differently. One of the scenes is >

Mika Gustafson

A group of girls aged 6–8 wander around the neighbourhood making trouble. A group of older girls is just as frustrated, but their restlessness expresses itself differently. One of the scenes is >

Fiction, Experimental

Sweden

2017

24'

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