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“The Murderer’s Son”
Director: Sebastian Peña Rojas, Jesper Klemedsson Sotomayor
He was a small child when his father was arrested and sentenced to life in prison for a heinous, brutal double murder in Malmö in the 1990s. The mother was also convicted of aiding and abetting. Tabaré Cortés Severino and his sister were sent on a multi-year journey between various unsuitable foster homes with elements of violence and abuse. Understanding, forgiveness and reconciliation are some of the underlying themes in this powerful film, in which the now-adult protagonist tries to balance a career as a boxer and rapper while recovering mentally.
“How Deep Is Your Love”
Directed by: Eleanor Mortimer
The seabed in the deepest depths of the Pacific Ocean is still alien territory for humanity. There in the darkness, many thousands of meters deep, live completely unknown creatures. Behind the slightly perfumed title “How deep is your love” lies a dizzying but contradictory story of marine biologists wanting to document the creatures of the deep sea, mining companies wanting to drill to the bottom in search of rare earth metals, and activists wanting to prevent exploitation.
“A song for love”
Director: Hogir Hirori
Six years ago, Hogir Hirori was nominated for the Guldbag for the explosive “The Deminer,” about a deminer in Iraq. In 2022, he won a Guldbagge for “Sabaya,” which depicts a group trying to save Yazidi sex slaves from ISIS. This time he is back with a quieter depiction of adolescence at the heart of Sufism. “A Song for Love” is about a young man who lives as a dervish in Iraqi Kurdistan and tries to live out his dreams, his feelings of guilt and his longing for love in the whirlpools of religious dance.
“One day you will be one of those who lived long ago”
Director: Alexander Rynéus, Per Bifrost
The duo behind films such as “Handelser i Ydre” (2018) have followed the transformation of the mining town of Malmberget from an active community builder into a soon-to-be-abandoned place. Your new film is a patiently told story with the most beautiful title of the festival. It moves exploratively between the people who remain in the area and their threads of memory that reach far back into the past. The stylish images capture different seasons – the crackling warm colors of autumn as well as the gray-blue tones in the middle of winter. A portion of melancholy under a high sky.
“It’s better to go crazy in the wild”
Director: Miro Remo
Two fast-talking, bearded brothers and their equally talkative bull (!) form an eccentric trio in this documentary set on the slopes of the Czech mountain village of Bohemian Forest. The absurd production fits well with the controversial lifestyle of the aging twins, which includes plenty of rum, a whole series of crazy projects and political outbursts of anger – not least about Putin. An entertaining, anarchic, natural and lively portrait of two strange individuals.
Tempo Documentary Film Festival
This year’s festival will take place from March 2nd to 8th in Stockholm and digitally across the country
The opening film “La belle année is directed by Angelica Ruffier
Eight Feature film documentaries produced in Sweden compete for the SEK 100,000 prize, which is awarded in collaboration with the Swedish Film Institute. The jury includes director Milad Alami (“The Opponent”), film critic Sanjin Pejković and artist and photographer Aida Chehrehgosha.
The entire program can be found at: www.tempofestival.se
