Swedish short documentaries

At the Odense Film Festival one of the special programmes is very much welcomed. It is a selection of short documentaries, a genre that is very rarely seen. Read what Cecilia Lidin, festival director of Odense Film Festival writes on the site:

”We’re making 14 films depicting current trends in Sweden” wrote Tove Torbiörnson, Documentary Film Consultant at The Swedish Film Institute, when we were corresponding about which films to show in Odense. The fourteen films were scheduled for completion in June 2008 – and we have the great pleasure, to screen them all for the first time here in Odense. The title is “People depicted 2008”, and several of the films are made by well-established, famous directors. The short format is not only for developing new talents, but is also a format that allows experienced directors to try something new, letting them experiment with the medium once again. And we see examples of this here, but this is not where it started. Short creative documentaries have been coming out Sweden for many years so we also have a retrospective programme of short documentaries from previous years.

Heja Sverige!

http://www.filmfestival.dk/Webnodes/Special+Programmes/69#svedox

Tue Steen Müller

Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.

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