On January 19th 2016, Carolina is on the other side of the world when she receives a phone call from home where she is informed that both of her sons have been shot, the killings witnessed by her 13-year-old daughter. She takes the first flight back home to Stockholm, but the worst has already happened: her youngest son has died and her eldest is in a coma.
fifteen zero three nineteenth of january two thousand sixteen refuses one-dimensional depictions of the violence currently taking place in the outskirts of Swedish cities. The film portrays how Carolina Sinisalo’s routines and gestures are transformed when her children are shot. How a home holds memories, but also the possibility of refusal and change. How the kitchen table becomes a place to mourn, share stories, and mobilize.
fifteen zero three nineteenth of january two thousand sixteen is the third installment of the four-part film project Looking for Jeanne, based on Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles from 1975 by Chantal Akerman.
With: Carolina Sinisalo, Esme Güler, Fadumo Igal, Hero Rashid, Nursen Okan, Rokeya Begum
Director, scriptwriter: Petra Bauer
Director, cinematographer and editor: Marius Dybwad Brandrud
Producer: Marta Dauliūtė / MDEMC
Researcher and creative consultant: Frances Stacey
Set design: Maria Safronova Wahlström
Sound designer, sound mix: David Gülich
Graphic designer: Maeve Redmond
Colorist: Martin Steinberg
Catering: Tülün Coskun, Ferial Agali, Muna Alyaqoobi
Sound recordist: Thomas Jansson
Production assistant: Stefan Johansson
Translator: Steven Kuzner
Transcriber: Måns Bauer Molin
62 min
While home office became an everyday option, Good Life is a gentle and critical look at a co-living startup, where the vision for 24/7 integration of work, networking, self-management and private life is being tested with even higher, limitless and global ambition. Guided by observations and questioning of the two female directors, the new world of innovation, insecure jobs, efficiency, flexibility and personal adaptation is put under test. What happens when corporate storytelling becomes part of one’s innermost self and community becomes a commodity?
Written and directed by: Marta Dauliūtė and Viktorija Šiaulytė
Produced by: Marta Dauliūtė and Viktorija Šiaulytė, MDEMC (Sweden)
Co-producers: Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė, Just a moment (Lithuania), Niklas Kullström, Hillstream Pictures (Finland)
Cinematography: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Editing: Niklas Kullström
Sound design: Vytis Puronas
Music: Rasmus Hedlund
International Sales: Syndicado Film Sales Swedish distribution: Draken Film
Screened at among others at:
- Göteborg Film Festival 2022, Best Nordic Documentary nominee
- Hot Docs 2022 - Festival international Jean Rouch - Comité du film ethnographique, Paris 2023 AWARD: Research Teams prize Immersion du regard - Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 2022 - IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht 2022 - Inconvenient Films - Nepatogus kinas, Vilnius 2022 - KÅKÅ/Nomics, Stavanger 2022 - Budapest Architecture FF 2022 - Film a architektura, Prague 2022 - Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival, São Paulo 2023 - Brooklyn Film Festival 2023
- Cinetekton Festival Int Cine y Arquitectura, Puebla, Mexico 2030
- Ameisen Urbanismus, Filmcasino, Wien 2023. With Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer.
- Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus, in collaboration with IASPIS, Tusen kulturhus/Kungl. Konsthögskolan, MDEMC, Draken film, Konstfrämjandet Stockholm and Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus. Panel talk with Miguel Robles-Durán, Tor Lindstrand and Majsa Allelin.
- nGbK, Berlin 2023. Discussion moderated by Janine Sack and Florian Wüst.
Jakob is a successful life coach providing people with what they want: simple answers in complicated times. But when he is invited to a job coaching company to inspire the unemployed, things start to crumble. Can everything really be solved by having the right attitude?
Director: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Producer: Cecilia Björk
Co-producer: Emilia Haukka & Jussi Rantamäki, Aamu Film Company
World premiere at Nordisk Panorama 2022, in the Best Nordic Short Competition.
Celtic Utopia tells the story of a new Ireland, following a resurgent wave of alternative folk and traditional musicians who are making music “to scare priests and politicians”. As they produce their strange new sounds, they are redefining and problematising the form and reshaping the culture in their own image. The bold, outspoken and humorous young musicians pass the narrative to each other as the film progresses, just as they would pass the melody to each other in a traditional music session.
Directors: Dennis Harvey & Lars Lovén
Producers: Elin Lilleman Eriksson, MDEMC & Clare Stronge, Plainsong Ltd
DOP: Tuva Björk & Jamie Goldrick
FAD: Lilí Ní Dhomhnaill
In development.
XXL
Release: 2024 / Format: hybrid film / 77 min / Filming location: Stockholm & Norrköping, Sweden. Helsinki, Finland
The siblings, Enzo and Magda, have drifted apart, and in an attempt to reconnect, Magda invites her brother on a trip to Helsinki. Over the course of a weekend, the sibling pair encounters a series of peculiar characters and faces situations that call for discussions about life, art, and existence. Memories blend with the present, and dreams and reality merge for the two travellers adrift in the atmospheric city of Helsinki.
Director: Kim Ekberg & Sawandi Groskind
Producer: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall, MDEMC & Kim Ekberg, POST POST
Co-producer: Kim Ekberg, POST POST & Danai Anagnostou, Kenno Filmi
Cinematographer: Annika Miettinen
With: Astrid Drettner, Georgios Giokotos, Marianne Carlsson, Enkete Mungbaba, Ken Mai, John Holm, Farah Muse, Teri-Anne Brink, Dupain Cissokho, Marianne Lehtimäki, Katja Kiuru, Hilperi, Leila Aissat-Isung
I ”Utflykt i det gröna” får vi möta de samtida konstnärerna Ella Tillema, Ann Böttcher och Annika von Hausswolff i personliga dialoger med konstnären Gerhard Nordströms verk. Filmaren och konstnären Henrik L Jørgensen utmanar betraktarens förståelse av konstens funktion och relation till skandinavisk identitet genom en intim och poetisk resa genom grönskande idyll och minerad mylla till krig, klimatkris och kön.
Regissör: Henrik Lund Jørgensen
Producent: Marta Dauliūtė
72 min
The Average is a film about the pursuit of mediocrity. Led by a woman dressed in Dalí's melting clocks, we meet a centipede that breaks in two, a tv anchor and a writer fighting about the separation of the collective, and an Ikaros who no longer wants to burn.
Writer & Director: Iris Smeds
Producer: Elisabeth Marjanovic Cronvall
DOP: Lisabi Fridell
Sound design: Thomas Jansson
Editing: Elisabeth Marjanovic Cronvall, Iris Smeds
Color grading: Martin Steinberg
Set design: Iris Smeds
Graphic design: Sara Kaaman
Original music: Erik Haal / Fantasy Face
Premiere at Gothenburg Film Festival January 2019.
Produced with support by The Swedish Film Institute / Erika Wasserman, and The Swedish Arts Grant Committee.
In development / Expected release: Spring 2025 / Format: Feature documentary ~90 min / Genre: Coming-of-age / Director: Helena Molin / Producer: Elin Lilleman Eriksson
A group of teenagers tries to understand their contemporary times in what has been called the 'decade of crises'. The Strikes is a coming-of-age story about autism and anxiety, coping and burnout, and the importance of finding a meaningful context, colored by heartfelt friendship - the untold story of the collective that started the world's largest youth climate movement.
In development / Expected release: Spring 2024 / Format: short documentary / 20 min / Filming location: Dublin, Ireland/ Language: English & Swedish
Three men seeking sanctuary in Ireland find themselves caught on the streets between a hostile asylum policy and an increasingly militant far-right.
With: Simon, Sami & Hasiballah
Director: Dennis Harvey
Producer: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall, Elin Lilleman Eriksson, Marta Dauliute
DOP & sound: Dennis Harvey
Editor: Dennis Harvey
Graphics: August Håkansson
Sound design & mix: Thomas Jansson
Colour grading: Peter Magnusson
Modern time, Berlin.
A group of professional dancers are working on a collective performance on the theme of climate crisis. During a physically and psychologically intense artistic process one of the dancers, Tamae, becomes increasingly overwhelmed with information, and her personal crisis keep interfering with the understanding of the awaitaning human catastrophy.
Directors: Tuva Björk, Natacha April Souyris
DOP: Lisabi Fridell
Producer: Elin Lilleman Eriksson
HUMAN RESOURCES (Jag AB) is a poignant and humoristic docufiction film, about the people at a job coaching company. The film is a study of what happens in a society where market value trumps human worth.
Writer/Director: Elisabeth Marjanovic Cronvall
Producer: Cecilia Björk
In development
Kollektivet är det enda egentliga maktverktyget
Magnus är busschaufför och facklig företrädare för Kommunal. Hans politiska engagemang blir starkare i samma takt som antalet fackliga ärenden ökar när sveriges arbetsmarknad avregleras. Vad händer om facket förlorar sin möjlighet att säkra trygga arbetsförhållanden och förutsättningar för att leva ett värdigt liv. Vad gör det med ett samhälle?
Regi: Saga Gärde
Producerad av MDEMC och Dela Kakan
Se filmen hos TriArt.
Recipe for fascism: Half a generation unemployed, doctors forced to choose whom to treat, social security disappearing, the public on discount.
We ask our friends in Greece to make a list of their images of the euro crisis. It becomes a warning list for the North.
DIRECTORS’ STATEMENT
We went to Athens to see what a European crisis looked like, and what the IMF and EU austerity measures had done to the country. For three years the European media had created an image of a population who do not pay taxes, live on loans and work too little. An image still reproduced by northern Europeans.
Once in Greece, we met solidarity and an organisational resourcefulness to be envied. Political discussions that made the public discourse in Northern Europe look like a joke. Among others, we met many Greeks our own age, a generation whose parents have fought for democracy, education, welfare. Now they stand educated but there are no jobs.
We saw the tourism industry of Greece, where profits hit records. The same faces behind the bar, morning and night, seven days a week.
Often when we met people in cafés for an interview they refused to let us pay- the constant joke being; they did not want to owe us, the next time we meet the coffee might be twice as expensive. Debt!
Our choice as filmmakers was to provide a space for “the missing media image” of Greece. And what about Sweden, are we having a crisis? If not, why is the unemployment growing? Why are fascist ideas taking hold? What if “the lazy Greek” is a myth established in order to maintain our own sense of security.
Director: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall & Marta Dauliūtė
Producer: Marta Dauliūtė & Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
With excerpts from “Stolen Spring” by Kajsa Ekis Ekman
DOP: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Sound recording: Marta Dauliūtė
Editing: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Sound design: Thomas Jansson
Graphic design: Aron Kullander-Östling
Colorist: Martin Steinberg
On-line: Rickard Petersen
PRODUCTION NOTES:
Country of production: Sweden, Lithuania.
Production company: MDEMC
Language: Swedish, English, Greek
Genre: documentary
Cinema length/TV-length: 14,5 min
Filming location: Greece, Sweden.
Co-produced by: Swedish Television, SVT, Andrea Östlund / Helena Ingelsten
PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT BY:
The Swedish Film Institute, Andreas Fock
Filmbasen, Film Stockholm, Anne-Marie Söhrman Fermelin
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
"Do you feel cheaper?" We are filming Lithuanian migrant working men in Sweden. They do not want to be on camera, they do not want to participate in creating one more media image for guilt and pity. They film us. We empty a bottle of moonshine, we dance on their porch. They might let us film them tomorrow.
Through sincere and frustrating negotiation to get access to film the migrant workers, Second Class becomes a discussion about class, the value of work and human. While showing the filming process film raises questions about power relations in film industry itself.
For VOD: www.secondclass.se
Motivation for Hets Award, 2013:
“Marta and Elisabeth bring up a major dilemma regarding European class and nationality in a personal way. They do it in a questioning, discussing and courageous way - in both words and pictures - depicting the situation of a group of Lithuanian men – migrant workers and second class men in Sweden – reflecting their desires, gazes and positions in the film.”
Director and producer: Marta Dauliūtė, Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Production company: MDEMC
Featuring among others: Artras Andriukaitis, Edvardas Jurgilas
DOP: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Sound recording: Marta Dauliūtė
Editing: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Sound design: Thomas Jansson
Graphic design: Jurgis Griškevičius
Colorist: Martin Steinberg
On-line: Rickard Petersen
Publisher: Johan Nyberg
PRODUCTION NOTES
Country of production: Sweden, Lithuania
Produced by: MDEMC
Language: Lithuanian, Swedish, English
Genre: documentary
Length: 60/58 min
Filming locations: Norrfors, Nordmaling, Västerbotten; Roasjö, Svenljunga, Västra Götaland; Uppsala; ferry Stockholm-Riga and Karlshamn-Klaipėda.
PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT BY
Swedish Film Institute, Tove Torbiörnsson
Film Stockholm/Filmbasen, Joakim Blendulf
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Park benches, lawns, subways, backpacks, spray cans, barbed wire, asphalt and beer.
We owned the parks and alleyways of Stockholm . Graffiti unified a great bunch of windswept existences.
But then came the children, the prison, the career, the overdose, the psychiatric clinic and death, and we dispersed.
Jussi's mother tells about her son.
I talk about Jussi, me and my son.
Jussi tells about the longing for freedom and a world possible to live in.
"The Traffic lights turn blue tomorrow" is based on my friend Jussi's suicide.
An essay dealing with the struggle to become adults.
The film also portrays the generation that lived on the edge of society during the early 2000s, the time that was a springboard to adulthood for me and led to the death of Jussi.
"This world is not for me." Jussi wrote in his last sms. Who is this world for?
Director: Ragnhild Ekner
Producer: Tobias Janson
Co-producers: Elisabeth Marjanovic Cronvall & Marta Dauliute
Cinematography: Ragnhild Ekner, Jussi Hirvilammi, Annika Busch & Karl Lööf
Editing: Ragnhild Ekner & Neil Wigardt
Sound Design & Mix: Thomas Jansson
Animation: Jussi Hirvilammi & Neil Wigardt
Grading: Neil Wigardt
Graphic Design: Aron Kullander Östling
Year of production: 2017
Format: HD/16:9
Running time: 72 minutes
Language: Swedish, Finnish
Produced by Story AB
In Co-Production with SVT & MDEMC
PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT FROM
The Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin & Antonio Russo Merenda
The Swedish Arts Grant Committee
STHLM Debut, a collaboration between Stockholms läns landsting,
Film Stockholm, Filmregion Stockholm- Mälardalen och Stockholms Internationella Filmfestival
Film Stockholm/Filmbasen
Kalle Boman
"The Incurable" is a wild road movie through the director's years in psychiatric care.
The film simultaneously presents the seldom told stories of involuntarily committed women, the history of emotions, and a search for the soul's place in contemporary times. And it also becomes a story of what can truly heal a lacerated soul.
Surprisingly, this is not a film about psychiatry in crisis, but rather it is a film about an entire society in an emotional free fall.
A film by Moa Junström.
In development.
Not panic is a portrayal of a group of young people trying to set words to their existence. Tuva rides a sledge tied to a car. Richard and Gustav work around the clock. Erik, 50 year old, is depressed: the ice sheet around Greenland is melting. Lars: "What do you think I should do with my life?"
Director: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Producer: Marta Dauliūtė
Writers: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall, Marta Dauliūtė
Featuring: Lars Söderdahl, Rickard Larsson, Madeleine Larsson, Tuva Serck, Gustav Broman, Erik Ullman, Johanna Broman, Marie Larsson, Johannes Serck, Sven Carlsson
DOP: Martin Steinberg
Editing: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Sound recording: Marta Dauliūtė
Sound Design: Thomas Jansson
Graphic design: Jurgis Griškevičius
Colorist: Martin Steinberg
PRODUCTION NOTES
Country of production: Sweden
Produced by: MDEMC
Language: Swedish
Genre: fiction
Length: 12.40 min
Filming location: Fårö, Gotland, Sweden
PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT BY
Film Stockholm, Filmbasen
Film på Gotland
Having run away from home in her native Lithuania, Ira travels to Sweden to visit her seasonal working brother. The final reaping, boredom and fragile meetings in the night.
Director: Marta Dauliūtė
Producer: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Manuscript: Marta Dauliūtė
Featuring: Michelle Alexanian, Vladimir Antochvili, Vladimir Janickin, Alisher Makhkamov, Maciej Radzki, Ruslan Tarachan, Yury Viktorovitj Podlevskikh
DOP: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Editing: Marta Dauliūtė, Alice Ilmenska
Sound recording: Thomas Frank, Andreas Andersson
Sound Design: Thomas Jansson
Costume: Pernilla Ekstrand
Original soundtrack: Tommy Spaanheden, Yury Yukinsson
PRODUCTION NOTES
Country of production: Sweden
Language: Russian, Polish
Genre: fiction
Length: 26 min
Filming location: Torslanda, Göteborg and Simrishamn, Sweden
PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT BY
University of Gothenburg
Film i Väst
The 60th birthday party of Leif. Roland can't stomach getting divorced, Monika doesn't want the guests to leave, sixteen year old Siri helps herself to the hard liquor, Henrik loses his grip. The ever-present longing for something more to happen.
Director: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Producer: Marta Dauliūtė
Manuscript: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Featuring: Cassandra Jenner, Simon J Berger, Anna Bjelkerud, Mats Blomgren, Per Johansson, Lars Väringer, Victor Gadderus, Ewa Syrén, Elisabeth Eng, Göran Omnéus, Tone Helly-Hansen, Johnny Lyrstrand, Monika Täng-Ekfeldt, Peter Melin, Felicia Löverdahl, Rosanna Heinander, Daniel Brandt, Fanny Nordlund, Dani Hodović
DOP: Martin Eng Pålsheden
Editing: Charlotte Berglin, Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Sound Design: Andreas Andersson
Graphic design and colourist: Marcus Nordgren
Music: Surreal Lovers and Thomas Jansson
PRODUCTION NOTES
Country of production: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Genre: fiction
Length: 29 min
Filming location: Gothenburg, Sweden
PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT BY
University of Gothenburg
Film i Väst
"You're white, I'm black. I come from Africa, a country that is nothing. Africa has great resources, but we have given everything to Europe. Did you know that?" Kader and actor Emelie Jonsson, standing on the street outside bar Modern in Marseille. He is drunk and upset, and full of truths that are difficult to hear. L'Europe Moderne is based on the access and freedom of movement one possesses as white Scandinavian middle class.
DIRECTOR’S COMMENT
L'Europe Modern is a film about post-colonial decay, questioning the European self-image of being a little better and with the right to exploit others.
The film's protagonist is a woman, the place is Marseille. Woman because it is me and because she clarifies the patriarchal power structures that the European idea of democracy is based on. Marseille because it is a place where Europe meets Africa.
I tried to create a "we" with actor Emelie Jonsson and directors Marta Dauliūtė and Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall. We have been in Marseille twice in the spring of 2012. I wanted to expose ourselves to the place. After the first trip it became clear how we exposed the site by our presence. Four white academics girls around their 30s with an intrusive gaze at their surroundings.
Director and producer: Maja Kekonius
In Collaboration with: Marta Dauliūtė, Emelie Jonsson, Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Creative producer: Marta Dauliūtė
Featuring: Emelie Jonsson
DOP: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall and Maja Kekonius
Editing: Maja Kekonius
Sound Design: Erik Löderstedt and Jan Alvermark
Graphic design: Lucas Facchin
Grading: Jonas Eskilsson
PRODUCTION NOTES
Country of production: Sweden
Produced by: Maja Kekonius
Co-produced by: MDEMC
Language: French, Spanish
Genre: documentary
Length: 13 min
Filming location: Marseille, France
PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT BY
The Swedish Film Institute
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Co-produced by Filmpool Nord, and Film i Väst
En film om arbetsmarknaden i dagens samhälle – ett samhälle där kropparna alltid är redo att hoppa in för ett jobb, samtidigt som jobben blir allt mer tillfälliga och känslan av ensamhet bultar under huden.
Tills vidare" (Until Further Notice) is a film about the current labour market, in which our bodies are always ready to take a job, at the same time as those jobs are getting more and more temporary and the feeling of loneliness bolts under the skin.
Fiktion, 10 min.
Regissör: Christian Rossipal
Producent: Christian Rossipal, Marta Dauliute, Elisabeth Marjanovic Cronvall
Manusförfattare: Christian Rossipal
Fotograf: Christian Rossipal
Klippare: Christian Rossipal
Ljud: Thomas Jansson
Kompositör originalmusik: Michel Wenzer
Skådespelare: James Daffeh, Malin Franzen, Lars Stahlin
Kaj Tonny Holmgren has been waiting for a miracle for nearly 30 years. He has a progressive muscular disease, preacher ambitions and an intimate dialogue with God. His caretaking wife and fellow believers are all waiting for the impossible to happen.
Director Ann Holmgren has filmed her father for six years. The result is both a highly original family portrait and a bold investigation of the boundaries of faith in a life stuck between visions and bodily decay.
Director: Ann Holmgren
Producer: Silja Espolin Johnson
Featuring among others: Kaj Tonny Holmgren, Noomin Holmgren, Hildeborg Holmgren, Anna-Kajsa Lampa
Co-producers: Marta Dauliūtė, Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
DOP: Ann Holmgren
Editing: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall, Astrid Skumsrud Johansen
Sound design: Erik Ljunggren
Colorist & on-line: Sement&Betong v/ Christian Berg-Nielsen
DCP mastering: Knut Erik Evensen
PRODUCTION NOTES
Country of production: Norway, Sweden
Production company: Ape&Bjørn
Co-production: MDEMC
Language: Swedish
Genre: documentary
Length: 72/58 min
PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT BY
Norwegian Film Institute
Lycksele Kommun
Region Västerbotten
Swedish Television, SVT
Fritt Ord
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Co-produced by: Film i Västerbotten
Developed through: ME Produktion v/ Marina Eliasson, Medieoperatørerne AS