Karin och kuratorn (2014)

28 min Director Monika Andreae

After the death of Karin’s husband, she searches for a counselor to not only receive help with practical matters but also to find herself again. As Karin has been a housewife over the years, she now faces an identity crisis. Her husband was a priest and very admired in the village. Perhaps it is Karin’s turn to take over in his place? Through her journey, Karin explores sides of herself previously kept hidden behind the exterior of a priest’s wife.

Embryo (2014)

14 min Director Emma Thorsander

Embryo is an animated documentary film based on intimate interviews with five women with one thing in common – they have all had an abortion. With stories about choosing to have an abortion, whether by choice or force, the film explores each women’s life situations, asking how it could have been and why abortion is so taboo.

Grandpa and Me and a Helicopter to Heaven (2013)

15 min Director: Åsa Blanck and Johan Palmgren

This film explores the world of humor, warmth and love through the developing relationship between a boy and his bedridden grandfather. The aging man has a secret he wants to share with his grandson and together they make for the woods on a final adventure.

Me Seal, Baby (2013)

14.30 min Director: Joanna Rytel

This film is about the process of trying to have a baby with a man who is infertile. The film mixes immoral sentiments with obsessive statements about having children. The language is strong and touches on sensitive issues regarding age, sex, and pregnancy. It is like a walk in an underworld of thoughts which go beyond political correctness.

Johanna Prack

Johanna Prack has a master’s degree in social anthropology and has been working with documentary film since 2012. She serves as project manager for Doc Lounge Stockholm and the Tempo Documentary Festival and works for Nonstop Entertainment, one of the main distribution companies in Sweden.

Johanna’s main interest is films which lie on the border of art film/documentary and believes that the only way to really grasp the reality of someone else is through artful constructions of the self.