Category: News
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Limestone company appeals government’s decision
The limestone company Nordkalk appeals the government’s decision to protect Bungetäkten in Ojnareskogen in northern Gotland and make it into a so-called Natura-2000 site. The decision was taken by the government in late August. Laika has previously, in 2011, examined the Finnish company Nordkalk after the company received permission to mine limestone in the area…
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Abdullahi Hussein tells his story on stage
Laika’s employee Abdullahi Hussein gives his story at Storydox which is a documentary stage where self-perceived stories are told and where voices that rarely gets to speak is heard. Previously Abdullahi Hussein has been involved in Laika’s documentary Essence of Terror and is also a part in Laika’s upcoming documentary for Al Jazeera called The…
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The toxic drinking water – The affected are sueing the state
Now it is clear that the residents of Rönneby sues those responsible for the toxic emissions of the substance PFOS in drinking water. It was in October 2014 after Laikas reportage in the Kalla Fakta that PFAS association, consisting of a group of people living in Rönneby contacted the law firm to initiate legal…
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Letter to Obama to Toronto Palestine Film Festival
Suspended Time is a collection of ten Palestinian short films that have been selected to participate in the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) 10th October- 22th November, 2014. Letter to Obama, as Laika Film and Television has produced with director Mohanad Salahat is one of the short films. Suspended Time will also participate in the…
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Letter to Obama to Dubai Film Festival
Laikas “Letter to Obama” directed by Mohanad Salahat has been selected to participate in the Dubai Film Festival 2014, December 10-17th 2014. After the short film has been selected among nine other films to become part of the project “Suspended Time” it has been shown at several festivals. In September it appeared on The Toronto…
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Toxic Playground goes east
Laika’s award-winning documentary Toxic Playground is now visible in Hong Kong and Taiwan. It’s the company CNEX Studio Corporation that has bought the right to broadcast the film in these countries. The film tells the story of the hundreds of children in the village Arica in Chile who has been seriously ill from the toxic…
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Abdullahi Hussein held a lecture for teenagers in Linköping
Under the theme ”Society and politics”, “Human rights” and “Values” gymnasium students and students in year 9 was invited to “Filmstaden” in Linköping in Sweden. First out was the film The Essence of Terror and then came an appreciated lecture held by Abdullahi Hussein regarding human rights and freedom of speech in the region of…
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Abdulahi Hussein lecturing in Karlshamn
Abdulahi Hussein held a much appreciated lecture at Vägga Gymnasium in Karlshamn. Abdulahi told how he with his live at stake, collected a lot of material that was used in the movie “dictatorship Prisoners”. Furthermore, he talked about the situation in the Ogaden region and the situation in Ethiopia in general.
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American chemical giant charts Laika
For a month ago I did a job for TV4 news about the American chemical giant 3M who has sold a lot of the poisonous fire foam that has leaked out to the Swedish drinking water. I had some contacts with the company that ensured me that their product had not caused any damage. And…
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Laikas reportage ”Toxic water” in tonight’s Kalla Fakta
High levels of the toxic substance PFOS has been detected in Swedish drinking water. Worst affected are the residents of Kallinge outside Ronneby in southern Sweden. 11 year olds in Kallinge were measured between 20 to 50 times higher values than those of the children who lives close to one of the factories that manufacture…
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Abdullahi Hussein awarded with the freedom of speech and freedom of press prize
“With his life at stake he smuggled out files that reveals the soul of the dictatorship. He showed the world that the courage of one man could make a change.” This is the motivation to why Abdullahi Hussein was awarded the Swedish Publicistklubben’s prize of freedom of speech and freedom of press to the memory…
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Günter Wallraff with Laika in Stockholm
Laika Film has as an local partner contributed to the filming of a movie in the French-German channel Arte series Durch die Nacht. In every episode two cultural personalities meet during an evening in a city in the world. When the program came to Stockholm it was the legendary investigating journalist Günter Wallraff and former…
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Prosecutor to investigate war crimes in Ogaden
The International Public Prosecutors Office has decided to start an investigation of suspected war crimes against a number of identified politicians and military personel in the Ethiopian region of Ogaden. Pointed out are the regional president Abdi Muhamud Omar and the vice president Abdulahi Werer who was interrogator when two Swedish journalists were mock executed…
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Lecture with Abdulahi Hussein
Thanks to Abdulahi Hussein the story “Essence of Terror” was able to become a film. With his live at stake, he chose to collect material to show the truth about Ogaden. His input has been crucial for our understanding of what really happened when Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye got arrested. Abdulahi Hussein has a…
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Big media interest for Boliden Lawsuit
A group of Swedish, Chilean and American lawyers have filed a lawsuit against Boliden for the toxic wastes that were dumped in northern Chile for about thirty years ago. What made the process up and running was the Laika movie Blybarnen (Lars Edman and William Johansson) as shown on SVT in 2009 and then in…
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Laikaproduction behind Boliden lawsuit
Boliden is sued for 90 million kronor for the damage that their waste has caused in Chile. An important factor behind the lawsuit is Laikas documentary “Blybarnen” from 2009 according to the renowned American environmental lawyer Lewis Gordon, who took the initiative to the recordlawsuit. – The film has been invaluable to us. It gives…
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The essence of terror in SVT in october
When Johan and Martin was shot and arrested in Ogaden Abdulahi followed the process from the other side. He was one of the regions president’s closest advisers, and participated in discussions on how the arrest was documented with fake filming. Hussein was also responsible for the president’s mediawork and therefore had access to all the…
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Letter to Obama to Suspended Time
The short film “Letter to Obama” has along with nine other Palestinian short films been selected for the collection program “Suspended Time”. The idea behind “Suspended Time” is a way to understand the status of image production twenty years after the signing the Oslo Accords in Washington, D.C. in 1993. The producer behind Suspended time…
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Lönesänkarna “best” in SVT.
Laika and Erik Sandberg’s film “lönesänkarna” is SVT Play’s most shared prgoram. The newly created qualityguide bestofsvt aims to make it “easier to find the best programs on SVT Play.” It makes it easy to show the programs with the most shares on Facebook. Or as it declares on the site: “Great program is simply…
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Premiere: Lönesänkarna
Less and less by the growing wealth benefits the ordinary people. For thirty years has the income in Sweden shifted from workers to business owners in a way that is historically exceptional. Erik Sandberg examines the role of economic policy has played for the rapidly growing income disparities. Dokument inifrån: Lönesänkarna SVT2 torsdag 14 februari…