A documentary road movie from the northern-most part of Norway: Finnmark.
Driving around at the end of the world, this far-away place above the arctic circle unfolds itself little by little through the images and all the stories shared by the people along the way. A cultural mosaic covering topics like periphery-center questions, environment, indigenous people, acceptance, everyday life, history and a changing society. A patchwork made up of all the personal stories and facts that people shared with me, told with their own words.
Everything was filmed in October, a quiet period between the tourist seasons, between autumn and winter. Distant or difficult to get places have always allured me and although Finnmark is not that extremely far away from where I live, it still has that strong feeling of "end of the world". It is the northern-most area of mainland Europe and there are not many places on earth where people live more north.
I knew almost nothing about the area prior to my trip and I choose not to do any research. Like an old-time explorer I just arrived to the first town, bought a map and started to travel to see what I would find.
At previous screenings in Finnmark people from the audience came and shook my hand and thanked me for making this documentary. People living in this region can feel left out and forgotten, and both the audience and organizers at festivals have told me that this is an important film. "At last somebody made a film like this about Finnmark".
I worked with the documentary alone for seven years and did everything by myself. Biggest part of the budget went to gasoline. While exploring the end of the world, I mostly slept in the car and ate canned beans on a camping stove.
Ever wondered how a life in Japan might be? 19 foreigners share their personal experiences, likes and dislikes. See the country through the eyes of, mostly western, foreign residents, who have lived in Japan between a few months and several decades.
Without subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIkQAPA2BXY
With Japanese subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trYqpYHtFPo
With Swedish subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJeEE2TJ5VE
With Spanish subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SRBiMkoNYY
A special edit of the final music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTiWd7X_cew
Here you can choose your favorite music app and listen to a remix of the final song, and a whole album with the band: https://linkk.la/mimizukuzu
Sweden like to think of itself as the conscience of the world, but how is it treating its own indiginous population?
In this documentary, Henrik Andersson from Gällivare forest Sami community in Swedish Lapland, share his thoughts and experiences during one year, while he is trying to live like in the old times.
- How is life as a reindeer-herding forest-Sami in Sweden today?
- What are the daily problems and future threats?
- How far is it possible to live like in the old times?
Filmed 2012 – 2013
Expectations, hope, despair, and brotherhood! Yes, it's a fishing film but there's more to it than only pulling in fish. Even if it's not your usual cup of tea, you might like this one! Get to know the Swedish team of the Big Game Fishing Tournament in the Azores in 2013 and experience the competition from their perspective on board the fishing boat Alabote with the skippers José and Miguel Furtado and Pauline Narvaez.
A Swedish team from Stockholm takes part in a big game fishing tournament in the Azores. Morgan Chapuis, Kenneth Fredriksson, Lennart Larsson, and Seppo Similä compete aboard the Alabote, alongside Captain José Furtado and deckhands Miguel Furtado and Pauline Narvaez. Three days of thrilling competitive fishing, with unexpected twists right up to the very end. A film about teamwork and camaraderie. Well worth watching—even if fishing is not your main interest.
Visit Azores: http://www.visitazores.com/en
Would you like to charter Alabote? http://sportfishingazores.com
What is music? What is poetry? A Swedish artist explores the hinterlands of sound-art and words, and translates into various poetic expression the many sensations and impulses that come to him. Like his friend of many years, Karlheinz Stockhausen, he is a charismatic person with works of passion not always readily appreciated by the conventionalized crowd. An interesting eye- and ear-opening journey into the world of sound and words, expertly commentated by the artist himself together with vivid observations about life and art.
Tourism and large scale industries seldom agree on how to use natural resources.Guide businesses face difficulty running small scale, ecological tourism, while the mining industry and logging companies can easily obtain permits to conduct their line of work, which leaves behind a shattered natural environment.
How should we consider the future and the commercial use of nature? What place does tourism have in this context and how can we defend luxury trips using helicopters to fly into the mountains?
Tomas Jönsson and Fredrik Broman discuss some heavy subjects, but there is also time for small talk between friends. A lot of the talk is of course circling around fishing in general, and around trout in particular. The joy and comradeship by the streams is genuine and blossoms into many memorable thoughts.
All the material was filmed in the Arjeplog mountains and Ritsem (right by the Laponia World Heritage region), in the summer of 2012. That year some parts of the mountains didn't experience any summer at all, and at many times fly-fishing was done in gusty winds and rain, a couple of times it even snowed! But everybody stayed in a good mood!
Besides Tomas and Fredrik, we also meet some of their friends that came along on the different trips. Seriousness and humor in a delicious mix. A great film to watch even if you aren't crazy about fishing.