A documentary film about a group of Somali supermums who patrol the streets of Stockholm’s infamous suburb of Rinkeby to prevent crime and inspire a generation of youth. The film is a relevant and timely documentary that challenges disparaging narratives of communities shunned in Sweden, such as the ones in Rinkeby.

Awards:
New York Festivals FILM & TV
– Gold World Medal in the category Community Portraits
– Silver World Medal in the category Social Issues
– Finalist Certificate in the category Heroes
– Finalist Certificate in the category Politics

Production: Fatma Naib / Al Jazeera Media Network

Co-production: Camera X

Director: Ahmed Abdullahi

Producer: Fatma Naib

Duration: 25 min

Formats: TV-Documentary

Platforms:  Broadcast / Online

State: World Premiere Al Jazeera Media Network

A documentary film about Ibrahim El-Hassan and his fight against Denmark’s Ghetto Laws.

“It affects me that Denmark, which I love and care about, punishes me because of the family I was born into,” says 19-year-old Ibrahim el-Hassan. El-Hassan was born in Denmark, but is considered a “non-Western descendant”.

He grew up in Vollsmose, a suburb classified by authorities as a “hard ghetto”. When the Danish government introduces its “ghetto package” of laws, El-Hassan decides to defend his neighbourhood. Armed with social media and a petition, he begins a summer of protests which eventually take him to the halls of Denmark’s Parliament.

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Featuring Ibrahim El-Hassan, Alaa Abdol-Hamid, Emma Talbro, Laust Svaneklink, Waed Riyhad. Additional cinematography: Karima Mahdaoui, Thomas Dyrholm, Rosa Lucca.

Commissioned by: Al Jazeera Media Network

Commissioner: Fiona Lawson Baker

Production: Camera X

Director: Daniel Bezares

Producer: Filson Ali

Duration: 25 min

Format: TV-Documentary

Platform: TV and WEB

State: World Premiere Al Jazeera English – Witness Documentary Series

A feature documentary about a damned short film:

Jorge Rivera says: “Twenty years ago we wanted to make a movie. We recorded at Cortijo Jurado, a house that has a reputation for being damned, and from then on everything went wrong for us. In the end, the film did not come out and years later, it reached my ears in Denmark, where I lived, that a whole (urban) legend had arisen around the short.

I thought about telling my vision, and seeing if all these stories could have some truth, exploring the borders between science and belief with experts in Anthropology, Psychology, Heterodoxy, cinema, and Lovecraft. Because the short was a Lovecraft story, and because the story that happened to us had Lovecraftian overtones … What if there was something asleep in the house and we had woken it up.”

Director: Jorge Rivera

Producer: Jorge Rivera / Kike Mesa / Daniel Bezares

Production: Kandale Films and Carpe Diem Events

Co-production: Camera X

Duration: 80 min

Formats: Feature Documentary

State: Spain / Film festivals

A documentary about Sweden’s only true glam rock bands during the glam rock breaker – Tears. The band that came from the working-class city of Katrineholm had great ambitions. A unique band in the Sweden of that time not only for how they looked but also for how they sounded. Ola Salo, who is one of Tear’s biggest fans, tells an initial story about the band’s history and glam rock in general.

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Also participating are Susanne Ljung, Ronny Svensson, Janne Bark, and others. 

A film by Jovan Radomir, Daniel S. Bezares, and Gerhard Malmberg. 

Production: Tulpa Creatives / Camera X

Director: Jovan Radomir

Producer: Simon Kölle

Duration: 43 min

Formats: TV-Documentary

Platforms:  Broadcast / Streaming

State: Sweden / SVT Play

URL: SVT Play