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"Beautifully shot, with startling access to the family, this is documentary craft of the first order. Observational rigor mixes with creative treatment of the nonfiction format to produce the sort of film that I believe to be the future of the form. Sound editing is also exceptional. This is powerful stuff. Really beautifully shot and intimate. Like the best of the "small" docs, this film brings you so close to these peoples lives it is as if you're hugging them, feeling the knots of stress in their bodies and inhaling the scents of their bodies as if a catalogue of their successes and failures. This is the poetry of real life and the sort of film that eschews simple lecturing (about globalization, third world economies, spousal abuse) in favor of the far stronger delivery of a story well told."
David Wilson, Director of True/False Film Festival, USA
Please get in touch with the directors Mikael Wiström or Alberto Herskovits if you have any comments or questions.
So far FAMILIA received the highest ratings of all swedish films released during 2010.
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BEST DOCUMENTARY
February 2010
FAMILIA won the Dragon Award 2010 for best documentary at Göteborg International
Film Festival. Read an interview with the directors and the protagonist.
March 2010
Sneak preview at the True/False Film Fest in Missouri.
March 2010
Official selection for best documentary at the TEMPO festival in Stockholm.
March 2010
The 19th of march FAMILIA opens at the cinemas of Folkets Bio in major cities in Sweden.
”FAMILIA is both art and reality... Moving like a fairy tail and touching like a greek drama. With all it’s realism it constitutes what real art is all about: aftre watching this film you are a different person.
”…one of the strongest family portraits ever made on film.”
”Real good documentaries have the capacity to transport the viewer to new places in a way fiction seldom achieves.
Familia won the prestigous documentary award at the Gothenborg International Film Festival 2010. Well deserved!
".. a really touching family story told with a directness and authenticity that gets under your skin...
April 2010
DVD release.
June 2010
Silverdocs, Official Selection
”… a masterpiece….”
This astonishing doc...is highly affecting.
"This is about as smart and air-tight as narrative verite filmmaking gets... It's a
compact epic that speaks for itself. I will say that for its craft and verisimilitude,
it could be pre-sold as a narrative film and I don't think anyone would blink.
That's a compliment."
A poignant, universally accessible documentary.
July 2010
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Familia wins the feature documentary competition!