PRODUCTION INFO
Title: Flocking (Flocken)
Original Title: Flocken
Format: Feature
Language: Swedish, Norwegian
Duration: 110 minutes
Release: 2015
CREW
Director: Beata Gårdeler
Screenwriter: Emma Broström
DOP: Gösta Reiland
Editor: Linda Jildman
Producers: Annika Hellström, Agneta Fagerström Olsson / 2afilm
CAST
Fatime Azemi
John Risto
Eva Melander
Malin Levanon
INTERNATIONAL SALES
Media Luna New Films
NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION
TriArt Film
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2016 ALE Kino (winner of the “Golden Goat”), Poland
2016 Guldbaggen (winner of “Best Music”, “Best Supporting Actress”, “Best Cinematography”), Sweden
2016 Gothenburg International Film Festival (winner of the “Doris-Award”), Sweden
2015 Los Angeles Film Festival (winner of the” World Fiction Award”), USA
2015 Zimbabwe International Film Festival (winner “Best Script” and “Best Depiction of a Woman”), Zimbabwe
2015 Berlinale (winner of the Crystal Bear – Generation 14plus), Germany
2015 Aubagne Film Festiva (winner “Best Original Music”), France
2015 Los Angeles Film Festival (winner “Best Word Fiction Award”), USA
2015 Olympia International Film Festival for children and young people (winner “Best Director”, “Best Screenplay” and “Best Young Actress”), Greece
2015 Festival for Women of Zimbabwe (winner “Best Script” and “Best female portrait”), Zimbabwe
2015 Zlin Film Festival, Czech Republic
2015 Brussels Film Festival, Belgium
2015 Galway Film Festival, Ireland
2015 Helsinki TT Film Festival, Finland
2015 Buster Film Festival, Sweden
2015 Milano Film Festival, Italy
2015 Busan International Film Festival, South Korea
2015 BFI London Film Festival, England
LINKS
DN: Filmen handlar mer om rädslor… –>
Read more at Berlinale here –>
DN: Flocken vann i Berlin –>
Flocken vinner Kristallbjörnen –>
SYNOPSIS
A small Swedish community which seems idyllic on the surface . But when fifteen year old Jennifer claims to have been raped by schoolmate Alexander, everything changes. The rumor rapidly spreads throughout the community. And more and more people are convinced that Jennifer is lying. This is the beginning of a stirred up lynch chase in which an entire community turns against a young girl and her family. A brutal collective where evidence and decisions of court mean nothing and where grown up people lay down their own rules and laws. Nothing is going too far. The only thing that matters is sticking with the flock.