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<\/a>Per Pixel Petersson\/imagebank.sweden.se<\/p><\/div>\n
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Gothenburg is the second biggest city in Sweden after Stockholm.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>G\u00f6teborg Film Festival<\/p><\/div>\n
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In Gothenburg, the festival is held from the end of January to the beginning of February every year. It is one of the biggest film festivals in the Nordic countries, and it showcases the latest Nordic films along with International ones. The festival would be very exciting for those who are interested in Nordic films.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Lola Akinmade \u00c5kerstr\u00f6m\/imagebank.sweden.se<\/p><\/div>\n
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One of the focuses of this year\u2019s festival was S\u00e1pmi (in English, it is known as Lapland). S\u00e1pmi is the region which stretches over northern part of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, and most inhabitants are S\u00e1mi people. Over the centuries, S\u00e1mi people have suffered from discrimination and prejudice.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>G\u00f6teborg Film Festival<\/p><\/div>\n
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Amanda Kernell is a Swedish film director whose father is a S\u00e1mi. Her first feature film, \u201cSami Blood (original title: Sameblod),\u201d has screened at the festival this year. The film has also screened at Tokyo International Film Festival in 2016. It is about a 14-year-old S\u00e1mi girl, Elle Marja, who lived in north part of Sweden in the 1930s. She leaves her family and hometown behind to go to a Swedish school and to live like them. (The film explains that S\u00e1mi people were not allowed to go to the same school as the Swedish people at that time.) It is a very striking and shocking film, especially for us (Japanese people) who know very little about them. There are a lot to learn from it.<\/p>\n
Most of the films screened at the festival were feature films, but short films were also present there. This year, there were 9 short film programmes featuring the latest Swedish short films, and there were also short film programmes on Nordic shorts and S\u00e1mi shorts.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Petrus Sj\u00f6vik<\/p><\/div>\n
I will always love you, Kingen \/ Amanda Kernell \/ 30 minutes \/ Sweden and Denmark<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI will always love you, Conny (original title: I will always love you, Kingen),\u201d a short film directed by Amanda Kernell is one of the highlights from short films screened at the festival. Unlike \u201cSami Blood,\u201d the film doesn\u2019t deal with the issue of S\u00e1mi people – the film is a human drama illustrated against the beautiful landscape of Sweden in winter.<\/p>\n Petrus Sj\u00f6vik<\/p><\/div>\n Conny\u2019s girlfriend is pregnant, and she is about to deliver the baby. He drives her to the hospital in the snow, however he runs away when he drops her at the hospital. Not only his girlfriend\u2019s family, everyone in town knows what he did \u2013 will he be forgiven?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Aurora Al\u00e4nge<\/p><\/div>\n Syskon \/ Aurora Al\u00e4nge \/ 39 minutes \/Sweden and America<\/span><\/p>\n Contrary to \u201cI will always love you, Connie\u201d, \u201cSiblings (original title: Syskon)\u201d directed by Aurora Al\u00e4nge, captures beautiful landscape in Sweden in summer. With the beautiful landscape in the back, the film depicts the difficult relationship between brother and sister, Emilia and Adrian.<\/p>\n Emilia is an introverted girl and Adrian is a very social boy \u2013 you could say that their personalities are completely the opposite. Their parents left them alone one summer so that they can improve their relationship, however they keep fighting and things don\u2019t seem to be going well between them.<\/p>\n Quite often, people take their siblings for granted and they tend to forget to respect them \u2013 they think whatever they do, their siblings would forgive them because it\u2019s their brother or sister. However it doesn\u2019t seem to be the best way to treat your siblings, as can also be seen from Emilia and Adrian. Will they be able to fix their relationship?<\/p>\n In the film, Emilia and Adrian goes to a Midsummer Party. Midsummer is a day in June when people celebrate summer. The party in the film is a very colourful and cute \u2013 it makes you feel that you want to join such party!<\/p>\n Both short films are relatively long for short films (\u201cI will always love you, Conny\u201d is 30 minutes long and \u201cSiblings\u201d is 39 minutes long). There is no universal rule how long a short film should be, and each film festival makes its own guideline. Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia only screens short films less than 25 minutes long and these two films don\u2019t meet their requirements unfortunately. However, this year there were so many short films nominated for the Academy Awards which is longer than 30 minutes. This could be said as the trend of short films produced recently.<\/p>\n When Gothenburg Film Festival was about to end, another short film festival has started in Clermont-Ferrand, a little town in France surrounded by volcanos.<\/p>\n In Europe, there are always film festivals all year round. It\u2019s quite cheap to travel around Europe, and it\u2019s possible to go to another country and \/ or city for film festivals. Europe is a wonderful place for film lovers!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2014\u2013This report is written by a volunteer writer supporting SSFF & ASIA\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n \u30e9\u30a4\u30bf\u30fc\u60c5\u5831<\/strong>\u3000\u5ca1\u6751\u53cb\u68a8\u5b50 Yuriko Okamura<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u30a4\u30ae\u30ea\u30b9\u306e\u30ed\u30f3\u30c9\u30f3\u5927\u5b66\u30ad\u30f3\u30b0\u30b9\u30fb\u30ab\u30ec\u30c3\u30b8\u3067\u6620\u753b\u5b66\u306e\u4fee\u58eb\u53f7\u3092\u53d6\u5f97\u5f8c\u3001\u62e0\u70b9\u3092\u30c9\u30a4\u30c4\u30fb\u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3\u3078\u79fb\u3057\u3001\u6620\u753b\u306e\u30d7\u30ed\u30c0\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u3068\u30ad\u30e5\u30fc\u30ec\u30fc\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u306b\u643a\u308f\u308b\u3002<\/a><\/a>
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