The festival, organised by Budapest Film and the Swedish Embassy, will show the films in their original language, with English subtitles and simultaneous translation in Hungarian.
On the festival?s first evening, Maria Blom?s directorial debut ?Masjävlar? (2004) tells a story similar to Danish director Thomas Vinterberg?s film ?Festen? (1998). Mia returns from Stockholm to the small village of Dalarna to celebrate her father?s 70th birthday together with her brothers. The meeting inevitably produces conflict, opens old wounds and brings problems long hidden to the surface.
On May 5, Thomas Alfredson?s comedy ?Fyra nyanser av brunt? (Four shades of Brown) will be screened. The film, which has met with great popular acclaim, shows images of contemporary Sweden in four sketches.
May 6 will feature ?Zozo?, directed by Lebanese-born Josef Fares, who made his name with the films ?Jalla! Jalla!? (2000) and ?Kopps? (2003), a comedy about Swedish police officers. His latest film is a drama about a young boy from Beirut trying to escape his troubled homeland to Sweden.
The last day of the festival will feature Iranian-born Reza Bagher?s film ?Populärmusik fr?n Vittula? (Pop Music from Vittula) (2004), based on the novel by Mikael Niemi. In the story, which takes place in the 1960s, Matti and his quiet friend Niila live in a tiny village beyond the Arctic Circle, where the men drink much and speak little, and the women are tough as nails. When music teacher Greger arrives in the village from the south of Sweden on a racing bike, he introduces the boys to rock and roll and shows them a way out of their isolation.
Before the screening, translator Judit Kertész, who works for Polár Books, Jenny Bergström of the Swedish Embassy and Kirsi Rantala of the Finnish Embassy will present Niemi?s novel.
Source: port.hu
