Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

SHOWCASE SCREENING 

Director Göran Hugo Olsson in person

Dir. Göran Hugo Olsson. 2024, 206 mins. Sweden/Finland. DCP. In Swedish, English, Hebrew, and Arabic with English subtitles. Working from thousands of hours of footage catalogued in the vaults of Sweden’s national television service SVT, archival chronicler Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975, Concerning Violence) unspools a rigorously cool and steely account of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, as witnessed and represented by Swedish journalists over the course of the Cold War era. A record of escalating colonial folly, whose political dimensions and catastrophic toll multiply and compound over the years, from the tenth anniversary of Israel’s founding to the crest of the First Intifada, this painstakingly assembled opus unearths perspectives and encounters—with statesmen, civilians, revolutionaries, and intellectuals—that recast and revivify a history still too little understood. North American premiere 

Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. 

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About the filmmaker:

Göran Hugo Olsson was born in 1965 in Lund, Sweden. He pursued his education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, following initial film studies at Stockholm University. A documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and inventor, he created the A-cam, the world’s smallest Super-16 film camera, and the D2, the only uncompressed digital camera. Olsson founded and edited the short documentary TV programme Ikon on SVT, and before that, he worked on SVT’s Elbyl series. He cofounded Story AB and served on the editorial board of Ikon South Africa, a platform dedicated to the creative documentary scene in South Africa for the SABC. From 1999 to 2002, Olsson was a Film Commissioner at the Swedish Film Institute. His career has taken him around the globe, creating films, commercials, informational films, and music videos. Olsson’s work has been celebrated at major film festivals, with a win at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011, a Berlin Panorama win in 2014, and multiple Guldbagge Awards in 2012 and 2015. His contributions to the field have earned him a place as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.