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Filmfestivalen 2016

Film, film, film....

Another epic journey is coming up! I plan to go to such varied and diverse places as Colombia, Parallell Paris, India and Iran, and even travel through time, space and dreams. It's a cineastic journey, though. My flights will be the lobby, my accommodation will be the comfy chairs and my tour guides will be movie directors. It's time, again, for Göteborg Film Festival!

….the year’s

Shorts Posted by MartinPosted on 2016-03-11 19:48

Best director:

Jaco Van Dormael

Le tout nouveau testament

Martin Zandvliet

Under sandet

Leticia Dolera

Requisitos para ser una persona normal

Lenny Abrahamson

Room

Kasper Barfoed

Sommeren 92

Best lead:

Vimala Pons

Je suis à vous tout de suite

Brie Larson

Room

Jacob Trembley

Room

Sophie Marceau

Une histoire d’âme

Jason Segel

The End of the tour

Best supporting:

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Anomalisa

Benoît Poelvoorde

Le tout nouveau testament

Stacy Martin

The Childhood of a Leader

Mehdi Djaadi

Je suis à vous
tout de suite

Björn Kjellman

Tordenskjold & Kold

Best ensemble:

Le
tout nouveau testament

Avril et le monde truqué

Requisitos
para ser una persona normal

Je
suis à vous tout de suite

Room

Best film:

Le tout nouveau
testament

Requisitos para ser una persona normal

Room

Avril et le monde truqué

Sommeren 92

The winners will
be presented further down.

As per tradition,
or an old charter, or something, I thought it’s worth mentioning this year’s….

….animated:

Avril et le monde truqué

….cinema:

Draken (thanks
to the staff, the screen, the theatre, the sound system, the chairs….)

….low-point:

The production
values of Kothanodi

….shortage:

Documentaries

….short subject

Hopptornet, by Axel Danielson,
Maximilien Van Aertryck

….best seat:

In the middle of
the row by the second lamp, Draken

….should be
caught at the cinema:

Spotlight

….documentary:

The American epic sessions

….cinematography:

Woo-hyung Kim,
Amsal

….future promise:

Jacob Tremblay

….I met Lassie

Fairly certain I
sat next to Lena Endre

….reading:

The Program and
A Dance with Dragons by George RR Martin

….most GFF 1992-2004:

Amsal

….most uneven

El abrazo de la serpiente

….set/production design

Pascalle Willame/
Sylvie Olivé, Le tout nouveau testament

….theme:

Dickish kids who
grow up to be dickishier

….vignette film:

Light… guides us
through the night, and awakens us in the morning

….weather:

Cold and damp,
then cold and snowy and then cold and damp again.

….screenplay:

Donald Margulies,
The End of the tour

….villain

The evil stepmom
in Kothanodi

….Bechdel spread

33% pass

….most frequent actor

I don’t think
any one actor appeared in more than one film, but Sophie Marceau certainly
played a lot of parts

….transport

Bike, walking
boots

….Skarsgård:

No Skarsgård to
be found. Not in the films, not at the galas, not in the audience.

OK, so who won?
Well:

Best director:

Jaco Van Dormael

Le tout nouveau
testament

Best lead:

Jacob Trembley

Room

Best supporting:

Benoît Poelvoorde

Le tout nouveau testament

Best ensemble:

Room

Best film:

Room

And that’s all
folks.

Film.
Filmfilmfilm.



Maximum animation – Animarathon by Miscy McVariouspants

Shorts Posted by MartinPosted on 2016-02-07 22:32

A
collection of animated shorts, each with more cultural
subsidies than the last.

BLOOD MANIFESTO by
Theodore Usher: 3 transformations of 6

IF I WAS GOD by
Cordell Barker: 4 heresies of 6

LIFE WITH HERMAN H.
ROTT by Chintis Lundgren: 4 stereotypes of 6

SULEIMA by Jalal
Maghout: 3 pieces of coal of 6

NUGGETS by Andreas
Hykade: 3 kiwis of 6

AWA’S DREAM by Zéna
Zeidan, Yancouba Diémé 3 villages of 6

CARFACE by Claude
Cloutier: 4 Heathers of 6

WIENER BLUT by Pavao
Stalter, Zlatko Bourek: 2 throats of 6

THE MASTER by Riho
Unt: 3 syndromes of 6

None passed the Bechdel test

On average of: 3.22 cells of 6



Startsladden – Celluloidrelay by Miscy McVariouspants

Shorts Posted by MartinPosted on 2016-02-02 23:19

A collection of
shortfilms, eligible for the short film award ‘Startsladden’ (roughly
translated The jump cable) in a feature length package. As usual, some films
are better than others.

HOPPTORNET
– Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck: 5 meters of 6
FRAGMENT AV ETT LIV I
FYRA SCENER – David Aronowitsch: 4 cookies of 6
MAMMA VET BÄST – Mikael Bundsen: 4 closets of 6
CIRKLAR – Frida Kempff: 2 situations of 6
JAG VAR EN VINNARE – Jonas Odell: 4 levels of 6
INFANTILE – Vera Sjunnesson: 2 noseclamps of 6
TAXI TBILISI – Johanna Bernhardson: 2 mobiles of 6
MOMS ON FIRE – Joanna Rytel: 3 cats of 6

5 failed, 3 passed the Bechdel test

On average: 3.125 sockets of 6