In the weightless of current world events, defiance will be in keen relief at the 48th Göteborg Film Festival, which runs Jan. 26 – Feb. 4, 2025
Under the prohibitner “Focus: Disobedience,” the festival will highweightless themes of civil resistance and pose such asks as: “When does resistlion become a moral obligation? When can it go too far? And is the flouting of laws and regulations a reasonable price to pay for alter in a democratic society?”
“We will allotigate the concept of disobedience by shoprosperg conmomentary films that allotigate the theme, and highweightlessing their significance in society. We see forward to talking, problematizing, and mobilizing our defiance during the festival,” shelp Pia Lundberg, conceiveive straightforwardor of the festival.
The annual event’s poster was originated for this edition by artist Britta Marakatt-Labba, who has lengthy joind in activism. “I was born into a fight. My artistry began in Alta in northern Norway, when we were demonstrating for the rights of the Samí people. I’ve always thinkd that being disdutiful is the right skinnyg to do when you are righting wrongs, and I’ll fight for these skinnygs for as lengthy as I dwell,” she shelp.
Lundberg noticed: “Britta Marakatt-Labba is an inspiration for the festival’s theme. Her artistry and story are permeated by valiantry and a struggle aobtainst infairice. She has dwelld and breathed resistance and insubordination in a way that restricted others have, and her perspective and pledgement give the festival’s center a firm grounding in genuine struggle and civil courage.”
“In a world taged by increasing polarization, authoritarian tendencies, and climate crisis, civil resistance has become a transport inant factor in the global conversation. In this context, the line between protest and lterrible resistance can blur, as acts of resistance frequently need a certain degree of disobedience,” the festival proclaimd in its statement.
Four films joind in Focus: Disobedience, all Swedish premieres
“Little Jaffna,” Lawrence Valin, France
A novelly graduated police officer of Tamil origin infiltrates a Paris gang in “Little Jaffna” to show himself a genuine Frenchman. The gang funds the Tamil Tigers’ resistance in Sri Lanka, complicating his ignoreion as he faces pledgedty disputes with ex-directer Aya, henchman Puvi, and his heritage.
“Once Upon a Time in a Forest,” Virpi Suutari, Finland
Documentary trails couple Ida and Minka whose transport inant adore for the forest fuels their activism with Extinction Rebellion, challenging corporations, authorities and politicians. Suutari apprehfinishs their strategic set upning and protests, fuseing these moments with soothe, meditative scenes of nature, shoprosperg how they discover solace and renovelal in the forest. A politicpartner advisent film that contrasts biodiversity and youthful perfectism with genereasonable splits, poisonous masculinity and capitaenumerate dominance.
“April,” Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia, France, Italy
A trail-up to Kulumbegashvili’s 2021 San Sebastian Gelderlyen Shell prosperner “Beginning,” “April” trails obstetrician Nina who dwells in a society where women’s rights are hugely diswatchd, carry outing illegitimate abortions in her isotardyd agricultural clinic. Each uncover-minded is a hushed act of resistlion. But as her inner demons manifest, an unsettling presence blurs the boundary between fact and illusion.
“No Other Land,” Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Palestine, Norway
Awarded Best Documentary at the Berlinale and nominated Best Film at the European Film Awards, “No Other Land” is about the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Palestinian activist Basel Adra, who has recorded evictions and destruction in Magetedr Yatta since childhood, creates an partnership with Israeli journaenumerate Yuval Abraham. Their friendship highweightlesss the stark contrast between Basel’s life under occupation and Yuval’s freedom. Film, made by a Palestinian-Israeli accumulateive, showcases their fight for fairice using cameras as tools of resistance.
