Rebekka Nystabakk turns her camera on her own family in this warm-hearted film that comes as a reminder that dramatic turns of events aren’t necessarily needed to create an engaging documentary. Her family run what is now the last farm in their home village and the time has come for her father to pass on the shears to Nystabakk’s sister Rakel, who is relocating north with her wife Ida to take up the job.
Nystabakk indicates that this will be a film that doesn’t take itself too seriously from the off as we are thrown into tupping time at the farm, as the ram gets his annual fun. There’s also an attractive honesty to these early interactions, as their dad notes, with some humour, that “Forty years in the same job is probably enough” and her sister admits, “We don’t know how to run a farm”. That last,...
Nystabakk indicates that this will be a film that doesn’t take itself too seriously from the off as we are thrown into tupping time at the farm, as the ram gets his annual fun. There’s also an attractive honesty to these early interactions, as their dad notes, with some humour, that “Forty years in the same job is probably enough” and her sister admits, “We don’t know how to run a farm”. That last,...
- 4/26/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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Exclusive: Picture Tree International (Pti) has boarded sales on religious cult drama Raptures (Rörelser) about the notorious real-life Korpela Movement which took hold in the remote Torne Valley on the border of Sweden and Finland in the 1930s.
Written and directed by Swedish filmmaker Jon Blåhed, the film is inspired by true events captured in the novel Dagning; röd! by award-winning minority Meänkieli language author Bengt Pohjanen.
The drama, which is currently in the second half of its shoot in northern Finland and Sweden, will be the first feature shot in Meänkieli, which is spoken by some 70,000 people in the Torne Valley but was suppressed by the Swedish state for decades.
Blåhed took further inspiration from his own family history connected to the strict Læstadian movement in the Torne Valley region where he grew up.
The drama revolves around Rakel, a devout Christian believer whose husband Teodor forms a liberal...
Written and directed by Swedish filmmaker Jon Blåhed, the film is inspired by true events captured in the novel Dagning; röd! by award-winning minority Meänkieli language author Bengt Pohjanen.
The drama, which is currently in the second half of its shoot in northern Finland and Sweden, will be the first feature shot in Meänkieli, which is spoken by some 70,000 people in the Torne Valley but was suppressed by the Swedish state for decades.
Blåhed took further inspiration from his own family history connected to the strict Læstadian movement in the Torne Valley region where he grew up.
The drama revolves around Rakel, a devout Christian believer whose husband Teodor forms a liberal...
- 2/7/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
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