SEA-Nordic Film Festival: Daddy Issues (Short Film Program)

Start: Saturday, September 14, 2024 10:00AM
End: Saturday, September 14, 2024 11:30AM

From a pick-up artist dad to a daughter's recollection of her father's arrest, the stories in SEA-Nordic short program “Daddy Issues” blend humor and heart. About the Films: Project Dad | Camilla Jämting | Sweden | 2024 | 28 min Camilla's father is a pick-up artist who teaches other men how to succeed on Tinder. Camilla is an artist and a feminist, and the two do not agree on much. Can they manage to maintain a strong bond? Daddy’s Shoes | Amir Asgharnejad | Norway |2024 | 22 min The film centers on siblings Amir and Anahita's relationship with their father, who passed away a few years ago. Surrounded by Amir's paintings (which also address their father and Amir's relationship with him), the siblings discuss their father's character; while also pondering why he became the way he did in the aftermath of fleeing from Iran to Norway in the early 1990s. It unfolds as a kind of artist talk but gradually shifts into the absurd as Amir and Anahita get into an argument that reenacts a fight between their parents that they witnessed as children. The following three films are part of a larger project in which Lene Berg explores the life and destiny of her father, director and writer Arnljot Berg (1931-1982), and their relationship: The Day Rises | Lene Berg | Norway| 2022 | 8 min The Day Rises is a reconstruction of Lene Berg’s memory of her father’s arrest in Paris in the mid-1970s, shot in a model. The voice-over follows the process of memorizing: while her memories are detailed and concrete, as seen in a movie, how can they be remembered if she wasn’t present when it happened? Prison Letters | Lene Berg | Norway | 2022 | 19 min Prison Letters is based on the correspondence between Arnljot Berg and his two youngest children while he was imprisoned in the notorious La Santé prison in Paris in 1975-1976, accused of having killed his third wife, Evelyne Zammit Berg, Lene Berg's stepmother. The film is composed of a selection of the original letters combined with newspaper clippings and children’s drawings. Casting Arnljot | Lene Berg | Norway | 2023 | 10 min Four professional male actors discuss and interpret the character of Arnljot Berg, director Lene Berg’s late father, during a casting-session, based on a few texts and a monologue she has written. As they each interpret Berg's text, they deliver the same lines in their own varying style and thus attempt to give a voice and a body to a man who is long dead. The variations in their interpretations delivered to a casting agent gives us both comical and painful glimpses into a complicated man and his relationship with his daughter.