Stockholm Independent Film Festival

The theme of the Stockholm Independent Film Festival 2024 is ‘Metamorphosis’. Personal and social transformations that shape our minds and affect our lives. Changes we go through over the years. The alterations in the societies and the environment. The world as it changes. Metamorphosis is sometimes difficult. Other times it is necessary. Always inevitable.

Can cinema reshape us? We definitely think so.

Through a diverse selection of independent short and feature-length films from around the world, we bring impactful stories to the big screen. We hope that each one of them will inspire, motivate and stimulate change. This edition’s programme brings bits and pieces of the world and invites you to discover them.

We leave it up to you to decide what you’ll take with you at the end of the screenings.

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞
📌Day 1 | 25 May
𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 | (𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦): 𝟏𝟖.𝟎𝟎 – 𝟐𝟎.𝟎𝟎
Metamorphosis is often about the dualities and contradictions inherent in life, such as the tension between stability and change, order and chaos, or the conscious and unconscious mind. In the case of ‘Family, this duality focuses on appearances versus true self, the externally constructed image contradicting one’s internal thoughts and hidden motives.

▶Family, Don Palathara, 111′ • India • 2022

** Break: 20.00 – 20.10**

𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐬 | 𝟐𝟎.𝟏𝟎 – 𝟐𝟏:𝟓𝟎
Nightmarish rat infestations, surprising ghost arrivals, uncanny clones, absurd talents and unpredictable friendships all disrupt the main characters’ lives and knit this programme’s stories. Metamorphosis occurs through odd or purely magical circumstances and is analyzed through survival, transhumanism, self-acceptance, liberation, ambiguity, ethics and the complexity of human relationships. How do we react when life as we know it gets disrupted and transformed into something that requires our adaptation? How open are we to such vast changes?

▶Raticide, João Niza, 23′ • Portugal • 2022
▶Inés Unfortunately, Anna Salinas, 13′ • United States • 2022
▶Hesa Fredrik Eriksson, Karl Bergholtz, 2′ • Sweden • 2023
▶The Stranger, Tin Pak Lau, 18′ • Canada • 2023
▶Clone, Ryan M. Kennedy, 20′ • United States • 2023
▶Tennis, Oranges, Sean Pecknold. 11′ • United States • 2024
▶Reflexes, Noah Lederman Greis, 15′ • Sweden • 2023

📌Day 2 | May 26
𝐓𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 | 𝟏𝟖:𝟎𝟎 – 𝟏𝟗:𝟒𝟎
Metamorphosis often involves a temporal element, highlighting the theme of the passage of time, ageing, mortality, and the transient nature of existence. In ‘Rosa’s House’, we explore the transient power of time that reshapes, creates memories and bonds, and soothes and sculpts one’s identity. The documentary serves as a connotational point for the meaning of home, the emotional effects of space, and the changes that time inevitably brings.

▶Rosa’s House, Rosa Coutinho Cabral, 91′ • Portugal • 2022

*** Break: 19.40 – 19. 50***

𝐎𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐈𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 | 𝟏𝟗.𝟓𝟎 – 𝟐𝟏.𝟑𝟎
How do societal norms and human interventions change our world? Metamorphosis is explored through social alienation, colonialism and environmental change, technology’s effect, trauma and loneliness, the contradiction between staying stagnant and transitioning to a new phase, and the notions of desire and need for self-expression.

▶The Principle of Intimacy Magnus Sternegård, Andreas Eklöf, Maria Larsson, Daniel Broman, 14′ • Sweden • 2023
▶Island, Michael Faust, 8′ • Israel • 2022
▶For Your Eyes Only, Sergio Angot, 12′ • United Kingdom • 2023
▶Vanja is Vacuum Packed with Kurt, Andreas Nordblom, 11′ • Sweden • 2023.
▶Rock, Nakesa Ndou, 12′ • South Africa • 2023
▶The Shift, Amalie Maria Nielsen, 19′ • Denmark • 2022
▶Flightless Birds, Hélène Dereppe, 20′ • Belgium • 2022

Admission Fee: 110 SEK per screening
All films are in English or with English subtitles

Place: Zita Folkets Bio, Birger Jarlsgatan, Stockholm
Price: 110 SEK
Date: 25.05.2024
Time: 18:00

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