The seventh edition of Ume\u00e5 European Filmfestival is lighting up the dark autumn gloom from the 25 to the 29th of November 2020.<\/p>\n
This year is, as you all know, an unusual year and, because of the new restrictions on public gatherings, the festival has cancelled all physical screenings and events. But, a part of the festival has from early on been planned to take place online – at Draken Film!<\/p>\n
In the digital selection we find this year’s seven films that compete for the Storspoven award – the festival’s stipend for the best film produced in northern Sweden – as well as four other cinema gems.<\/p>\n
Stream the films directly at Draken Film between the 25-29th of November – a digital film pass costs 69 SEK and gives access to the entire digital programme.<\/p>\n
Register your account and buy a digital festival pass right away at drakenfilm.se<\/a><\/p>\n If you already subscribe to Draken Film, the films will be available to you during the whole festival.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Every year Ume\u00e5 European Film Festival together with Film i V\u00e4sterbotten hand out the scholarship Storspoven. It\u2019s awarded to the best film in the festival section Northern perspectives. The competing films are nominated by the festival and the winner is then selected by a jury – this year consisting of Hugo Lilja, Clara Bod\u00e9n and John-Kristian Dalseth.<\/p>\n Inside the Diamond<\/a> Graze<\/a> Sunny Girl<\/a> Friendsies<\/a> Clench<\/a> To Discharge<\/a> Want More<\/a> <\/p>\n Jiyan<\/a> The Other Lamb<\/a>\nDigital programme Ume\u00e5 European Film Festival 2020:<\/h3>\n
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\nPerspektiv fr\u00e5n norr – Storspoven 2020<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nDirector: Viktor Johansson Year: 2020 Length: 1 h 15 min Country: Sweden<\/strong>
\nInside the Diamond is a kaleidoscopic journal from an ice society. The hollow and obsolete diamond factory refuses to die. Its howling soul continues to haunt the locals of Robertsfors, Sweden. We follow bodybuilding refugees, urban explorers and hypersomniacs in their search for hope and meaning. A psychogeographic exploration. A transcendental trip. Come with. Come with. Inside the diamond.<\/p>\n
\nDirector: Inga Kempe Year: 2019 Length: 28 min Country: Sweden<\/strong>
\nIn the early 1900s, the farmer wife Mia struggles to raise her unruly foster daughter, but the village,the church and her family oppose her. If Mia doesn\u2019t succeed in having the girl confirmed by the church, the girl will be sent away.<\/p>\n
\nDirector: Jana Bringl\u00f6v Ekspong Year: 2020 Lenght: 17 min Country: Sweden<\/strong>
\nBritt, who has dementia and lives at a caring home, wakes up not knowing that her daughter is dead. Somehow she has to face the fact, but nobody is telling her.<\/p>\n
\nDirector: \u00c5sa Lekberg Steinsvik Year: 2020 Length: 22 min Country: Sweden<\/strong>
\nA feel good movie about aging? This is a story about Monica and Jack. When they both lost the love of their lives \u2013 this is what they decided to do. Their story will put a smile on your face, maybe make you cry. But one thing is for sure \u2013 it will make you think about what you are going to do when it\u2019s your turn.<\/p>\n
\nDirector: Emelie Boman Year: 2020 Length: 9 min Country: Sweden <\/strong>
\nIn this dark thriller a new genre is emerging where horror meets dance film, interlaced and exciting, in a way that you probably have never seen before. When Lova doesn\u2019t come back from her bicycle ride her mother goes out looking for her. What she finds in the dark forest is far from what she could ever imagine. The search for her daughter quickly turns into a nightmare.<\/p>\n
\nDirector: Amanda Adele Bj\u00f6rk Year: 2019 Length: 30 min Country: Sweden<\/strong>e
\nTo Discharge is a dark comedy about a couple, Ingrid and August. They are in their thirties and can\u2019t communicate with each other any longer. Therefore they decide to go to an alternative therapy camp to save their relationship. While there they devote themselves to primal play, laughter therapy and sessions with a self-appointed therapist. But everything doesn\u2019t go as they expected.<\/p>\n
\nDirector: Bo Johan S\u00f6rensen Year: 2019 Length: 15 min Country: Sweden<\/strong>
\nDaniel and Adam decide to rob the kiosk in the area where they live. They find to their surprise that there is hardly any money in the cash register. But instead of giving up, they make a vital decision \u2013 they decide to kidnap the clerk in a try to run the store themselves.<\/p>\n\nInternational features<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nSummerwar<\/a>
\nDirector: Moritz Schultz Year: 2019 Length: 1 h 19 min Country: Germany \/ Ukraine<\/strong>
\nThe twelve-year-olds Jasmine and Jastrip are looking forward to the summer camp organised every year by the ultranationalist Azov Regiment for hundreds of Ukrainian children. During two weeks they will learn how to make the bed perfectly, the benefits of group identity and how to shoot with Kalashnikov. At the same time, the real war is raging in the eastern part of Ukraine. The summer also consists of playing and hanging out with newfound friends, but the goal is to make them proud Ukrainians who are ready to fight and die for their country. Summerwar shows up close how a radicalization process works and leaves no one indifferent.<\/p>\n
\nDirector: S\u00fcheyla Schwenk Year: 2019 Length: 1 h 11 min Country: Germany<\/strong>
\nA young couple has moved to Berlin and is trying to create a decent living in S\u00fcheyla Schwenks\u2019 compact yet grand feature debut. Hiyat and Harun are young, obviously in love and Hiyat is pregnant with their first child. They live with Haruns\u2019 uncle waiting for a residence permit and better conditions to find something of their own. They live with Haruns\u2019 uncle waiting for a residence permit and better conditions to find something of their own. Jiyan contains scenes of both love and despair that really grabs hold of you. It\u2019s a film that relentlessly takes ordinary people\u2019s party in an unforgiving game against inhumane social structures.<\/p>\n
\nDirector: Malgorzata Szumowska Year: 2019 Duration: 1 h 35 min Country: Ireland \/ Poland \/ USA<\/strong>
\nSelah has lived all her life in a sect consisting of religious female members subservient to its lone male leader called The Shepherd. The women, that Shepherd himself calls the Flock, are divided into his wives and daughters and their position within the sect is defined by the number of children born \u2013 of the desired, female, gender. Young Selah is enchanted by The Shepherd\u2019s charisma until she discovers the darkness that has settled within him. She begins to question the leader\u2019s teachings and even her own reality. A basic notion that blind submission to a patriarch is bad news for women, children and probably men as well.<\/p>\n