The Committee (14min.)

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This comedy deals with the absurdity of democratic decision-making processes. It makes a humorous portrait of an international collaboration. The film investigates the nature of compromises, and mirrors political processes that often have great ambitions, but end up little to show.

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War, What If (6min.)

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Following the Trump era, Brexit and border control: Europe is in dissolve. Denmark, ruled by an extreme right wing government, declares war against the rest of Scandinavia. As the war advances a family of five dissolves grounded in their different believes. As refugees, they struggle to unite as a family whilst creating a new home in an alienate country. Based on the award-winning book by Janne Teller.

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Get Ready With Me (28min.)

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Aspiring YouTuber Vendela decides to get up in front of her high school class and show a disturbing video that disrupts the lesson and causes her teacher Lukas to fear for her life. This impressive Swedish graduation film is a refreshingly unpredictable thriller about generational power struggles. that combines grim satire with the current urgencies of teen angst, social media and fame.

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A Target (8min.)

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Arto is waiting for his wife and child in his car.  As they return from the store they tell him that an unknown man harassed them. Arto immediately decides to take the law into his own hands and plans to make a video to shame the man on social media.

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To Plant a Flag (15min.)

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In preparation for the moon landing in 1969, NASA sent a team of astronauts to the lunar landscape of Iceland. Their hi-tech training mission soon discovers what obstacles one can meet when facing an Icelandic sheep farmer.

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Train Robbers (20min.)

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A retrospective coming-of-age documentary about a group of young friends aged 11-15 that stole an enormous amount of beer and soda from freight trains in Trondheim, Norway, in the mid-90s. A nostalgic, funny, serious, warm, sad and poetic documentary about kids that didn’t fit in at school or the football team. A story about children that had the future ahead of themselves, but society let them down.

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The Committee (14min.)

Language: Swedish, Norwegian, English, Finnish

Ondertiteling: English

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  • Director: Jenni Toivoniemi,
    Gunhild Enger
  • Ondertiteling: English
  • Language: Swedish,
    Norwegian,
    English,
    Finnish
  • Original title: Kommittén
  • Production countries: Sweden,
    Finland,
    Norway
  • Year: 2016

The Committee

This comedy deals with the absurdity of democratic decision-making processes. It makes a humorous portrait of an international collaboration. The film investigates the nature of compromises, and mirrors political processes that often have great ambitions, but end up little to show.

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War, What If

Get Ready With Me

A Target

To Plant a Flag

Train Robbers