Film
Elkland
Cert:(adv 15)
Dir. Per Hanefjord
Sweden , 60 mins, 2009
Cast: Jimmy Lindström, Anna Azcárate, Örjan Landström, Sara Arnia
Thomas Alfredsson's vampire classic Let the Right One In (BIFF 2009) was one of the most sensational breakout arthouse hits in the UK last year, reminding us that Swedish cinema certainly didn't expire with its great maestro Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007). BIFF is therefore particularly proud to present, by special arrangement with the Swedish Film Institute, a unique triple-bill showcasing two of the nation's most promising younger filmmakers: Andreas Tibblin (Good Advice) and Per Hanefjord (Elkland and A Good Day). Darkly humorous with an undertone of properly Nordic gloom, Elkland won the Honorary Foreign Film prize at the 36th Annual Student Academy Awards in Los Angeles. It follows the misadventures of a pair of estranged brothers, Henrik (Lindström) and Ronnie (Landström) who are brought together in a remote locale following the death of their father. Sibling rivalries rapidly escalate in a film – scored by cult pianist Mattie Bye, that skilfully juggles elements of thriller and farce – (did Hanefjord see the Fawlty Towers episode The Kipper and the Corpse by any chance?) with distinctive and atmospheric results.
Print source: Swedish Film Institute
NB: Elkland is showing between Good Advice (2009; Andreas Tibblin; 14 mins) and A Good Day (2005; Per Hanefjord; 17m).
Other films showing as part of Moviedrome are:
- Donkey
- Fish Eyes
- New Muslim Cool
- Perpetuum Mobile
- And Then Came Lola
- Around a Small Mountain
- Crying with Laughter
- Vincere
- Perpetuum Mobile
- Crying with Laughter
- The Man Who Would Be Polka King
- Constantin and Elena
- Modern Love is Automatic
- Home from Home
- White on Rice
- Modern Love is Automatic
- Three Hams in a Can
- Animal Heart
- Presumed Guilty
- Splinters
- Donkey
- Presumed Guilty
- The Woman with the 5 Elephants
- Dogtooth
- Highly Strung
- Donkey
- New York, I Love You
- The Unworthy
- The Unworthy
- Dogtooth
- No One Knows About Persian Cats
- Red Poet
- The Mosque in Morgantown
- The Search
- Terrorism Considered as One of the
- The Calling
- New York, I Love You
- The Calling
- The Last Action
- No One Knows About Persian Cats
- Prima Primavera
- L'Affaire Farewell
- Toto
- Fluke
- L'Affaire Farewell
- Four Lions
- One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Jack Ker
- Park Shanghai
- Four Lions
- Vortex
- Vortex
- Deep in the Valley
- Paradise
- Elkland
- The Blacks
- Life During Wartime
- Valhalla Rising
- Valhalla Rising
- 1
- Fish Eyes
- Chip on My Shoulder: The Cautionary
- Whip It
- Green Waters
- Repo Chick
- Bad Lieutenant
- The Woman with the 5 Elephants
- Red Poet
- Greenberg
- Whip It
