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A journey through Swedish queer film history.
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
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Harriet Andersson Liv Ullmann Bruce LaBruce Marie-Louise Ekman Jonas Gardell Saga Becker Stina Ekblad Levan Akın Daniel Humphrey Laura Horak Nils Warnecke Andrea Weiss Lars-Åke Wilhelmsson Jan Göransson Kjell Bergqvist Roger Wilson Barbro Westerholm Jan Hammarlund Louise Wallenberg Jana Bringlöv Ekspong Lena Einhorn Björn Elgerd Josefine Tengblad Mian Lodalen Samuel Girma Magnus Rosborn Ella Lemhagen Björn Kjellman Mauritz Stiller Show All…
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Alternative Titles
Fördom och stolthet – i den svenska filmgarderoben, Fördom och stolthet – Sveriges queera filmhistoria, Fördom och stolthet – den svenska filmgarderoben, Queer – den svenska filmgarderoben, Vorurteil und Stolz, 편견과 오만: 스웨덴 퀴어 영화사, Prejuicio y orgullo, 偏见与骄傲：瑞典酷儿电影史
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Sweden
Gothenburg Film Festival
24 Jul 2023
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Atlàntida Film Fest
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25 Feb 2022
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Sweden15
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24 Jul 2023
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Spain
TV
03 Aug 2022
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Sweden15
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Spain
24 Jul 2023
- Premiere Atlàntida Film Fest
24 Jul 2023
- Digital Filmin
Sweden
30 Jan 2022
- Premiere Gothenburg Film Festival
25 Feb 2022
- Theatrical15
03 Aug 2022
- TV15 SVT2 (58 min.)
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I wish there was a documentary like this for every country/region. I think a lot about how my perspective of queer film is inevitably limited by what is recognized internationally. There's so much else to discover.
For reference, here is every film shown in this doc:
The Wings (1916)
The Nortull Gang (1923)
Peter the Tramp (1922)
The Head Gardener (1912)
The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924)
Puss in Boots (1918)
Faust (1926)
Gyurkovics Girls (1926)
The Girl in Tails (1926)
A Boarding House Named Paradise (1937)
Dances from Different Times (1909)
Tabu (1977)
Unfriendly Relations (1936)
Lasse-Maja (1941)
The Atlantic Adventure (1934)
Cockpit (2012)
Black Rudolf (1928)
Here’s to Little Marta (1945)
Powder (2001)
The Secret Friend (1990)
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Big recommendation if you're someone like me who thought The Celluloid Closet (1995) and Disclosure (2020) played things way too safe, American-centric and surface level when discussing LGBT representation in cinema.
Here they made an effort to not only highlight lesser known Swedish films like Ömheten (1989), but to also recontextualize classics from a queer angle, giving a voice to people who desperately searched for representation at a young age, in turn mirroring the country's social changes.
Just considering Bruce LaBruce was one of the interviewees should give you an idea of the directions they were willing to go in.
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Outfest LA 2022
Oh sure, my watchlist has over 8,000 titles, what's another 70 more.
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The history of lgbtq-representation in Swedish cinema has been covered before, but there’s something extensive to Fördom & stolthet - En queer filmhistoria (Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer) that makes Eva Beling’s ambition admirable. Going relatively chronologically, the documentary doesn’t just focus on the major milestones of lgbtq-cinema in Sweden (Fucking Åmål probably being the prime example) but instead start out with tons of fascinating discussions regarding queer subtexts in the silent era and then proceeding to try and cover even the more underground or subtle examples of gay- or trans-representation on screen.
Visually, it’s not too shabby either. Some talking head-segments look a bit flat but Beling leans heavily against solid archive-footage to exemplify her points and makes sure…
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BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Such a fantastic and thoroughly interesting documentary that has provided me with plenty of new films to add to my watchlist. Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer is very informative and does everything it needs to do within its runtime, providing plenty of great interviews and excellent clips from many films that have me fully intrigued. When I think of Swedish queer cinema, I immediately think of Persona and Hour of the Wolf, so I was surprised by how far back this documentary went. There is a great section that discusses Ingmar Bergman but there’s so much more Swedish queer cinema to explore and this film does a great job of both exploring them and discussing what it meant for the time that it was released in. I highly recommend checking this out, it’d make for a great double bill with The Celluloid Closet!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ & 1/2 / ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Eine unterhaltsame, schöne, lustige aber auch ernste und traurige Doku über die Geschichte queerer schwedischer filme und darüber hinaus. Danach hatte ich lust mir die Hälfte der gezeigten filme reinzuziehen.
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Jag är lite besviken på den om jag ska vara helt ärlig. Men jag tycker definitivt att den är värd att kolla på om man vill ha tips om svenska queer filmer att se.
Men med den korta tiden som den har på sig så skrapar den bara på ytan och och en sådan grej som att spekulationer om en avliden människas sexualitet får vara en del av den känns olustigt, framförallt eftersom den ena personen är bergsäker på att Greta Garbo var lesbisk och den andra tror att hon var bisexuell. Att ge utrymme för personer att sätta etiketter på personer som inte kan göra sin egen talan känns onödigt när man kan använda ordet queer istället. För att…
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This film was impressively thorough, dealing not only with the obvious examples, but with many films I had never heard of before. There were interviews with actors, directors, producers, film historians - everyone giving their own perspective and sometimes challenging each other's perspectives. (And one of the experts was an old university classmate of mine, which was fun too!) They also put the films in context of what was going on in society at the time, such as law changes. Towards the end, we also get a view of recent developments with trans characters and filmmakers.
The format is pretty standard, but it's so informative that I do think it's a must-see for anyone interested in the topic! -
Kind of weird being a Swede and being so badly informed about the Swedish movie history. I know a lot more about early German or American cinema. So this documentary was very informative for me.
It's a pretty straight forward documentary with lots of interviews interspersed with clips from movies, so not the most inventive documentary made. One thing I really liked were that many different views and interpretations got space.
Now I'd like to find and watch many of these movies talked about in this documentary which I guess means it fulfilled its purpose.
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Saw this at McCarren park as part of a queer celebration with the Swedish Consulate.
Fascinating. SO beautiful.
Dominic if you’re seeing this, you should watch:)
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A nifty effective chronological journey through the more queer side of swedish cinema and it's apparent rich tradition and history, tons of films that needs to be added to the evergrowing watchlist and it's interviews are insightful and charmingly sweet, Harriet Andersson is a snapper and a half and made me smile wide like a joker
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