Located more than 200 km above the polar circle, the Swedish mining town Kiruna is built on the world’s largest and most modern iron ore mining tunnel, which created a significant income for the Swedish government. However, due to the mining the city has started to collapse and in order to save the industry, the city council together with the mining company LKAB have decided to move the town and its citizens 3 kilometres to the east. In doing so, the town has turned a potential disaster into a great opportunity. The new Kiruna will be an even more progressive, even better society for the future. But is it even possible to plan an ideal world?
On the backdrop of a moving city, the citizens of the New Kiruna are fighting their own battles. We follow the teacher Timo, a local activist against the moving, the teenage Sami girl Maja who is discovering her family roots and cultural heritage as well as Abdalrahman, a teenage boy from Yemen, who came to the town as a refugee and slowly realizes that it takes more than just a paper to become a Swede.
The seemingly very different characters are facing the same questions as the city is looking for its place. They are starting their personal search for identity, values and a greater future. KIRUNA – A BRAND NEW WORLD is a portrait of a utopian and dystopian town as well as a hard-hitting reflection of today’s society.
SUPERJHEMP RETURNS
To save his small country from cosmic annihilation, a superhero in midlife crisis must face his greatest fear: his family!
“Superjhemp Retörns” became with 10 prints and more than 60.000 admissions in 3 months the most successful Luxembourgish film of all time and the film of the year 2018, box office No 1 beating “The Avengers”.
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Jake De Long is one of the top computer programmers in the world. Hiding in an abandoned warehouse in Luxembourg, he is working on a secret website to be launched soon. As he does, he is warned that the police have discovered his whereabouts and are about to storm in. He manages to escape and fly back to Canada, where his colleague Valérie is waiting for him to get on with their life mission: the kidnapping of four very influential personalities. An oil tycoon, a renowned businessman, a minister of the environment and a very secretive foreign woman. The goal is to make them admit to their environmental sins, while being broadcasted live through a major website created by Jake and called: JUSTICE.NET.
Read MoreTOY GUN
A fun and gritty dark comedy about a meek young man (Ruggero) who impulsively robs a bank to prove to his ex-wife that he is courageous and masculine.
A police investigation engulfs everyone except our unassuming hero who is completely ignored.
Through a set of hilarious coincidences, he gets away with the robbery, while corrupt bank officials take the fall for what looks like an inside job.
Ruggero discovers the crime world of loan sharks and thugs he’s gotten into.
WHERE THE WIND BLEW
Where The Wind Blew tells the story of how the Cold War super powers, in their race to develop more and more deadly bombs, spent forty years developing weapons capable of wiping out entire nations, while sacrificing their own vulnerable populations in the name of national security. We may have become complacent about nuclear testing – but the Doomsday Clock which warns us about the threat of how nuclear global destruction takes us closer to Armageddon, is ticking steadily towards midnight.
Read MoreACTA NON VERBA
On October 6th, 2012, at approximately midnight, a Swiss banker, Michel Yagchi, committed suicide in the basement of his house in Geneva. That evening, Michel’s entire family was out of the country, travelling to Brussels to attend the graduation of Michel’s eldest son Yvann. Three years later, Yvann decided to start investigating his father’s mysterious suicide, concurrently confronting his family and his father’s friends and colleagues.
Read MoreThe Ulysses Of The XXI Century
Morocco has one of the highest migration rates in the world. It is estimated that 3 million Moroccans live abroad. Since the first rural exodus movements in the 1950s, Moroccan cinema has witnessed all major migratory milestones: the phenomenon of the “patera” or dinghies, the life in Europe, homecoming… This documentary, The Ulysses of the 21st century takes a migratory tour through Moroccan cinema.
Read MoreTARINOIDEN SUOMI / FINNS – STORIES FROM FINNLAND
This documentary offers a very intimate and hence mostly profound look into the different lifes of Finland’s people… A “StoryTent” was settled up in market places around Finland to collect stories from random passers-by without thematic limitations imposed by the film crew. Thus something unexpected happened: The tent became an intimate confession room and a magic stage where stories of communal memory, love and life became a Story within a story.
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