Filmform (est. 1950) is dedicated to preservation, promotion and worldwide distribution of experimental film and video art. Constantly expanding, the distribution catalogue spans from 1924 to the present, including works by Sweden’s most prominent artists and filmmakers, available to rent for public screenings and exhibitions as well as for educational purposes.
A point of pride of Swedish democracy since 1968, the political festival Almedalen keeps getting bigger every summer. Shot here over the course of three years, A Good Week for Democracy follows politicians, lobbyists and journalists at different stages in their careers, with different degrees of power, as they navigate the game rules of democracy. The film is a study of how politics is performed in a society where media attention is hard currency.
Cecilia Björk is a director, scriptwriter and producer. Her film A Good Week for Democracy (2018) raised a lot of attention and sparked a national debate about politics, the media and the prerequisites of democracy. Her short doc Blessed (2014) looks at how faith is manifested, through a Christian summer meeting on the west coast of Sweden. In 2022 she made the film For now I feel like we shouldn’t join NATO, documenting resistance towards the Swedish application for Nato membership. She has also worked with documentary casting and line producing, e.g. for the short film Ten Meter Tower. She is the producer for amongst others Lizard Brain, a fiction film by director Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall. She also works with the screening and distribution of films, as producer for the non-profit art film organisation Film i Samtidskonsten, and with Tempo Documentary Festival, where she serves as programmer for the international section.
