Specials - Category - SF International

The Troll Hunter

The Troll Hunter is a sensational documentary which exposes the Norwegian Government's monumental efforts to hide the sensational news that trolls actually exists in Norway - and has done so over millenniums. Within the corridors of the Government there is a secret department - The Troll Security Service - who's job is to mo...

Genre: Specials/Thriller/Drama
Director: Andre Øvredal
Cast: Otto Jespersen, Johanna Mørck, Glenn Erland Toste...
First Release: October 29, 2010
Language: Norwegian
Format: Widescreen 1.85:1
Duration: 99 min

Tears of Gaza

In a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal consequences of modern wars are exposed. The film also depicts the ability of women and children to handle their everyday life after a dramatic war experience. Many of them live in tents or in ruins without walls or roofs. They are all in need of money, food, water and e...

Genre: Specials
Director: Vibeke Løkkeberg
Cast: Amira Fat-hi Dawood El Eren, Rasmia Al-Sultan, Ya...
First Release: September 15, 2010
Language: English, Arabic
Format: 1:1,85 35 mm
Duration: 82 min

Submission

Submission is a documentary about the ‘chemical society’ – the society we have been building since the Second World War. Back then, humans used 1 million tonnes of chemicals per year; the figure today is 500 million tonnes. The chemical industry is the fastest-growing industry in the world and this film is about the 100,000 ...

Genre: Specials
Director: Stefan Jarl
Cast: Eva Röse, Professor Åke Bergman, Stellan Skarsgård
First Release: April 23, 2010
Language: English
Format: 16:9, 35 mm
Duration: 87 min

...but Film is My Mistress

"But Film is My Mistress" is the second of two films - written and directed by Stig Björkman. The Film is an attempt to capture Ingmar Bergman’s extraordinary filmmaker persona based on behind-the scenes footage from eight movies, from Persona in 1965 to Saraband in 2003. Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a...

Genre: Specials
Director: Stig Björkman
First Release: Fall 2010
Language: Swedish, English, french
Format: 4:3
Duration: 66 min

Images From The Playground

"Images from the Playground" is the first of two films - written and directed by Stig Björkman - that combine Ingmar Bergman's behind-the-scenes footage with voice recordings of Bergman, newly recorded interviews with actors Harriet Andersson and Bibi Andersson, and a special introduction by Martin Scorsese. In the early ...

Genre: Specials
Director: Stig Björkman
Cast: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Ingmar Bergman...
First Release: 2009
Language: Swedish
Format: Digimaster
Duration: 29 min

The Plan

Whether we like it or not we are heading towards a profound change. The climate, population growth, species extinction, resource consumption etc are just running wild. We can deal with it and produce the change we want or we can let that change force itself upon us. More and more people are becoming aware about these cha...

Genre: Specials
Director: David Österberg, Michael Stenberg
First Release: 2010
Language: English
Format: 1:1,85
Duration: feature 70 min / TV format 58 & 52 min

Young Man Falling

Official Selection - International Critics’ Week ’08 - Cannes Film Festival Robert Award winner for best Danish short film ’07 - The Danish Film Academy Young Man Falling tells a simple story of the complex emotional world of a troubled teenager. The film dives deeply into the psyche of 17 year old Hue, that uncomfor...

Genre: Specials
Director: Martin De Thurah
Cast: Anders Sund, Malou Reymann, Morten Suurballe, Ida...
Language: Danish, English subtitles
Format: 35 MM
Duration: 43 min

The Last Dog in Rwanda

The awards-winning short film by Jens Assur about human fascination by war. David is like so many ten-year-old boys captivated by war. He spends hours playing with models of tanks and airplanes and plays war games with his friends. In 1994, at the age of 24, he makes a living by working as a photojournalist and we meet him in...

Genre: Specials
Director: Jens Assur
Cast: Jonas Karlsson, Reine Brynolfsson
Language: Swedish
Format: 35 MM
Duration: 29,40 min

Breath (aka. The Heathrow Towel)

This is a film about how infection spreads, seen from as close to it as possible. The legions of experts on infection, around the world, can elaborate until they are blue in the face about virus and bacteria and whether these can or cannot, or ought to or ought not to – be found in the air we breathe. But there is only one p...

Genre: Specials
First Release: 2008
Language: Swedish
Format: 16:9 (HD)
Duration: 52 minutes

The Planet

There is only one Planet and it has its limits... The Planet is a hot from the oven attempt to find answers about the truths and untruths of the alarming global changes that many claim are already in motion. It is the most extensive documentary project ever being produced in Scandinavia. The film crews have been working ...

Genre: Specials
Director: Michael Stenberg ...
First Release: 2006
Language: English
Format: 1:1,85
Duration: 82 min or 4x53 min