Programme 2019
Friday 22 November
Annals of Crosscuts
09:00 – 15:00
Annals of Crosscuts is our new publication format to support and develop film-as-research through the notion of peer-review. All the films in the section have undergone a blind peer-review process and have been accepted for publication by the international editorial group. The section includes several world premieres and every screening will be followed by discussions between filmmakers, editors and reviewers. The list of accepted films and the screening schedule will be released shortly before the start of the festival.
Opening event with poetry reading
15:00 – 15.30
The festival is officially opened by the committee. Poetry reading with Jesse Peterson
Film: The Grit
15:30 – 17.30
Genre: Documentary Directors: Cynthia Wade & Sasha Friedlander Country: USA Length: 80 minutes Language: Indonesiska Subtitles: Engelska Year: 2018
When Dian was 6 years old, she heard a deep rumble and turned to see a tsunami of mud barreling towards her village. She remembers her mother scooping her up to save her from the boiling mud. Her neighbours ran for their lives. Sixteen villages, including Dian’s, were wiped away.
A decade later, nearly 60,000 people have been displaced from what was once a thriving industrial and residential area in East Java, located just 20 kilometres from Indonesia’s second-largest city. Dozens of factories, schools and mosques are submerged 60 feet under a moonscape of cracked mud. The film bears witness to Dian’s transformation into a politically active teenager as she questions the role of corporate power and money in the institution of democracy itself.
After the screening, a conversation follows with Gloria Samosir, doctoral student at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH, with research focus on environmental policy in Southeast Asia. The conversations is held in English.
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Film: The Push – introduced by guest of honour Saskia Sassen
20:00 – 22:30
Genre: Documentary Directors: Fredrik Gertten Country: Sweden/Canada Length: 92 minutes Language: English/Spanish/German/Italian Subtitles: Swedish Year: 2019
PUSH is a new documentary from award-winning director Fredrik Gertten, investigating why we can’t afford to live in our cities anymore. Housing is a fundamental human right, a precondition to a safe and healthy life. But in cities all around the world having a place to live is becoming more and more difficult. Who are the players and what are the factors that make housing one of today’s most pressing world issues?
The screening is followed by a panel discussion with Saskia Sassen, professor at Columbia University in New York, Erik Stenberg, architect and associate professor at KTH, and Marco Armiero, environmental historian and associate professor at KTH. The conversation is moderated by Miyase Christensen, a professor in media and communication, at SU. The panel is held in English.
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Saturday 23 November
Annals of Crosscuts!
10:00 – 15:30
Annals of Crosscuts is our new publication format to support and develop film-as-research through the notion of peer-review. All the films in the section have undergone a blind peer-review process and have been accepted for publication by the international editorial group. The section includes several world premieres and every screening will be followed by discussions between filmmakers, editors and reviewers. The list of accepted films and the screening schedule will be released shortly before the start of the festival.
Film: Badiou
16:00 – 17:50
Genre: Documentary Directors: Gorav Kalyan & Rohan Kalyan Country: USA/France Length: 84 minutes Language: English Subtitles: No Year: 2018
With intimate access, Gorav and Rohan Kalyan have produced the first feature-length documentary about Alain Badiou. By addressing the inherent contradictions in Badiou’s life and work through cinematic means, the filmmakers are confronted by the inherent contradictions of cinema itself: thought vs action, interiority vs exteriority, presence vs absence. In order to bring to their complex subject a sense of empathy, clarity, and critique, they must ask a question as old as the medium: can cinema think?
The screening is followed by a conversation between director Rohan Kalyan and philosopher Ashley Bohrer, active at the University of Notre Dame in the United States. The conversation is held in English.
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Sunday 24 November
Breakfast and Masterclass with Trinh T. Minh-ha
10:00 – 13:00
The breakfast starts at 10.00, and the masterclass follows at 10.30. Please make sure to be on time.
The filmmaker and writer Trinh T. Minh-ha will host Crosscuts to present a Masterclass in filmmaking. Trinh T. Minh-ha was born in Vietnam and is Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Trinh T. Minh-ha is a world-renowned, groundbreaking and distinct scholar whose subversive and boundary-crossing films create new ways to think and live in the world. Trinh T. Minh-ha is Honorary Guest of the Annals of Crosscuts section devoted to ”film-as-research”. The Masterclass begins with a breakfast and will be followed by a Q & A with the audience. The cost for this event is 100 SEK. The session is held in English.
Film: “Forgetting Vietnam” and conversation
14:00 – 16:30
After the film, we proudly present a unique conversation between Trinh T. Minh-ha and Jennifer Hayashida, poet, translator and visual artist.
Land: South Korea/Vietnam/USA Längd: 90 min Language: Vietnamese Subtitles: Engelska Year: 2016
Trinh T. Minh-ha’s essay film Forgetting Vietnam is approaching a place, its inhabitants and memories, with the help of film sequences filmed in Vietnam between 1995-2012. Through testimonies from locals, immigrants and war veterans, a picture is sketched of a place where history’s presence is constant, but still on the road to being lost.
After the film, we proudly present a unique conversation between Trinh T. Minh-ha and Jennifer Hayashida, poet, translator and visual artist.
Film: Look Away – Swedish premier + poetry reading
18:00 – 20:30
The session starts with a poetry reading by Athena Farrokhzad and Jennifer Hayashida.
After the screening; Roberta Biasillo, researcher at the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, will discuss the film and the migration crisis in the Mediterranean with Fabio Gianfrancesco, representative of the migrant rescue NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans and Shahram Khosravi, professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
Genre: Documentary Director: Arthur Levivier Land: France Length: 85 min Language: French Subtitles: English Year: 2019
We are proud to present a unique reading of Athena’s acclaimed poem, Letter to Europe, as an introduction to the Swedish premiere of Look Away. A film that documents the reality of many of the refugees in the world today.
Film: Look Away – Swedish Premiere
How welcoming is Europe for those who come there as exiles? In the violent October 2016 the Calais ”jungle” was demolished. Right after, the filmmakers behind Look Away spent one year with those who lived there. The film was partially made using covert and hidden camera methods and reveals harassment and a cynical media spectacle, both of which served to dehumanise the men and women in exile and persuade them to move elsewhere. By highlighting the difference between official statements and the actual treatment, the filmmakers wanted to better understand what living as an exile in Europe meant. Despite the hardship that the men and women who play the leading part in this film were forced to undergo, they exhibited towards the filmmakers a spirit of defiance and an unfaltering sense of humor.
Film: Look Away – Svensk Premiär
The film is followed by a conversation between Roberta Biasillo, a researcher at KTH and Fabio Gianfrancesco from the NGO Mediterraneo, which rescues refugees in the Mediterranean.
Guests of Honor
Masterclass by filmmaker and cultural critic Trinh T. Minh-ha
Annals of Crosscuts Section Guest of Honor
