Nyårsfesten
The turn of a year in a snowy village in Sweden documents the need for change and continuance. A collective film about rites and times. Dala-Floda, Sweden, has 680 inhabitants. In the depths of the blue light of winter, six filmmakers ask themselves what it means to start a new year. Emerging locals formulate their views on time and our need for rituals and reoccurring events. Their answers parade poetically through the snowy and cold village landscape. A sort of time travel takes place and recalls ordinary as well as extraordinary memories and identities. The commonplace is our need for measuring time, our need for a beginning and an end. A ninety-year-old woman shows a way out of the never-ending dream phase of the evoked Phantom Carriage (Selma Lagerlöf) and exclaims: "Really, you ought to reset yourself. You have to feel completely at zero again".
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Cast
16 people
Gossas Karin Runo
Lars-Olov Tillman
Peera Nakgron
Carl-Johan Åkerstedt
Alf Tangnäs
Joel Grip
Also in
Det Snöar om Börken
Dream Baby Dream
Franziska Hoffmann
Also in
Det Snöar om Börken
Primula Veris
Lisa Grip
Also in
Det Snöar om Börken
Erik Viklund
Also in
Primula Veris
Leïla Colin-Navaï
Also in
4 à 4 Métro-Barbès-Rochechou-Art
Cinématon
Mauricio Hernández
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Cinématon
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Niklas Barnö
Franziska Hoffmann Director · Leïla Colin-Navaï Director Mauricio Hernández Director
First release January 1, 2018 · Produced in Sweden · Languages French, German, Swedish
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Sweden
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Original language
Swedish
Spoken on screen
French · German · Swedish
Release dates
Sweden · January 1, 2018
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