Category: News
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ARICA to premiere at IDFA
Our film ARICA will have it’s WORLD PREMIERE at IDFA. Film makers William Johansson Kalén and Lars Edman went to Arica in Chile in 2005. For 15 years we have followed the case where a Swedish mining giant, Boliden, is accused of having dumped 20000 tonnes of toxic waste in a poor neighborhood in a…
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The award winning short Brotherhood in competition Stockholm International Film Festival
Following prestigious awards at TIFF, Carthage and Wintherthur, director Meryam Joobeur’s short film Brotherhood is now selected for the shorts competition in Stockholm. The film is screened in a package of Social Issues Shorts on Sunday at 11.30. Venue Cinema “Klara”. “Mohamed is a hardened shepherd living in rural Tunisia with his wife and two…
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Laika presents new film project at HotDocs Forum
This week Laika will attend HotDocs Forum in Toronto. The project that will be pitched is Hana Mire´s film Rajada Dalka – Nations Hope about the Somali national womens team in basketball. Laika is the main producer. Somalia has been fractured by a civil war in 27 years. Terror attacks strikes on a regular basis…
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Beauty And The Dogs selected for Cannes
Beauty and the Dogs has been selected for ”Un Certain Regard” at the 2017 Cannes Festival. Kaouther Ben Hania’s debute fiction film about a girl fighting for her restitution in a corrupt Tunisia is the first major fiction film with Laika as a co-producer. The film is about Myriam, a young Tunisian student who, after…
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Democracy road: Burma’s road to democracy – SVT Dokument Utifrån 4 Dec 10 pm
Norwegian documentary from 2016. After many years of military dictatorship Burma has completed their first free election. But how is it really with the democracy in the country? When Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) tries to build an independent tv-station, the difficulty is greater than they first imagined. On December 4 SVT is showing the…
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Letter to Obama in Palestinian competition
Laika’s and Mohanad Salahat’s short film “Letter to Obama” has been selected to participate in Palestine Days of Cinema, which will take place from 15 – 21th of October 2016 – The film has entered into competition for the Sun Bird Awards for “Best Short Narrative “. The film will be shown on: Ramallah, Khalil…
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Burma – a new-born democracy. Laika co-produces Democracy Road.
Laika Film & Television enters as co-producer in a film about the Burmese transmission to democracy. The Norweigian filmmaker Turid Rogne has for more than ten years followed the exiled tv-channel Democratic Voice of Burma, (DVB). The station, based in Oslo, was an important channel of information during the 2007 prostest, the Saffron Revolution, when…
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Laika to co-produce Tunisian feature
Laika Film has entered a Tunisian film: Beauty and the Dogs, as the Swedish delegate producer. The film, written and directed by Kaother Ben Hania deals with a young woman in Tunis who is abused by two police officers and her struggle for justice. The film won a grant at Malmö Arab Film Festival in…
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New interview with Abdulahi Hussein
Abdulahi Hussein, main character in Laika’s film The Essence of Terror and in an upcoming film on Al Jazeera; ”The Dictator’s Friend” has given a long, interesting interview in the web-magazine Untold Stories. http://www.untoldstoriesonline.com/abdullahi-hussein-whistleblower-ethiopia/
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Fortress Europe available at SVT
The award winning series ”Fortress Europe”, broadcast in more than 15 countries is now available on SVT web. The series gives a coherent background to current European policies in refugee and migration matters. Fortress Europe was produced by Laika’s Andreas Rocksén in 2001 and has now been made available through SVT ”Open Archive”. See all…
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Laikas report about the waste war in SVTs Uppdrag Granskning
There is a war going on over the waste from the fancy restaurants in Stockholm. The monopoly of the municipality is under attack by companies bending the rules. See the report in SVT1 and SVT Play Wednesday 9 March 20.00 Read more at: http://www.svt.se/ug/sopkriget.
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The Witness selected for competition in Festival International du Grand Reportage d’Actualité et de Documentaire de Société (FIGRA).
Laika’s film “The Witness”, broadcast at Al Jazeera Arabic in March 2015, has been selected for competition in Festival International du Grand Reportage d’Actualité et de Documentaire de Société (FIGRA). The film is about Abn El Baset Bani Auda, a witness in the UN-investigation into the murder of former prime minister of Lebanon Rafik Hariri.…
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Award winning director makes film with Laika
The director Khaled Suliman al Nassiry won the Al Jazeera Golden Award at the channel’s annual film festival. Now, Laika will produce a film together with Khaled Suliman al Nassiry. The film has its beginning in Tunisia where two male Palestinian guerrilla veterans are tired of their situation in Tunis. They decide to go to…
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Laika hosts a seminar in the parliament
Laika has been invited to host a seminar about Ethiopia in the parliament. During the seminar on the 9th of December parts of the film material from the region of Ogaden was shown, material that Abdulahi Hussein, with his life at stake, managed to smuggle out of Ethiopia. More than 50 people, parliamentarians and representatives…
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Laika meets the journalist and editor Bheki Makhubu
During William Johanssons travel to Swaziland in south of Africa, he interview Bheki Makhubu, the editor for the news paper The Nation. Earlier this year Bheki Makhubu was released from jail after being imprisoned for 14 months. He has put in jail in March 2014 and was sentenced in July the same year to two…
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Nadas Revolution to Tribeca Film Center
On december 6th 2015 Nadas Revolution that Laika has co-produced will be shown at the Tribeca Film Center in New York. The film screening will be followed by a debate by a panel of outstanding women. Topics the panel will discuss are violence against women, women’s movements that engage men and the film’s role in making…
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The newspaper Al-Hayat recognizes Laikas report
The arabic newspaper Al-Hayat has written about Laikas Uppdrag Granskning-reportage about The Swedes in Gaza. In Laikas reportage we get to follow two families who has been stuck in Gaza since the war in the summer of 2014.
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Swedish Radio Uppsala makes a follow-up on Laika’s reportage
Swedish Radio Uppsala makes a follow-up on Laika’s reportage about The Swedes in Gaza which was broadcasted in Uppdrag Granskning November the 11th. It’s about the family Aljaish from Uppsala who haven’t been able to leave Gaza since the war during the summer 2014. Listen to the reportage: //www.svt.se/nyheter/regionalt/uppsala/uppsalafamilj-fast-i-gaza
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The Swedes in Gaza in Uppdrag Granskning
A bloody war breaks out the summer of 2014 between Israel and Palestine. In Gaza, where the conflict is at its worst, around 300 Swedes are at this time. Many of these Swedes get help and being evacuated by the FN, but many are being left behind. After the war, also other Swedes have chosen…
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Letter to Obama to Y OIC Youth Capital Film Awards
Laikas short film Letter to Obama is one out of 20 films that have been selected to participate in the OIC Youth Capital Film Awards on the short-list. During two months, more than 800 were submitted. The short films will be judged by the JOINT international jury in Istanbul in the coming weeks. The winner…