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and film professor/director Jyoti Mistry. This interdisciplinary collaboration within an artistic research project is also a documentary film that explores through real stories from four continents, captured by innovative film methods, a new work ethic compatibile with the future. The research
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Gandini's social critique on the ideology of individual independence in Swedish society. The film suggests that the Swedes are suffering from an epidemic of loneliness. Gandini was inspired by his own 'split-life' as an Italian Swede. The title of the movie is derived from the book
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wife since 40 years
Sennait Erichseen. With no tools nor resources he discovers purpose in a remote hospital in the village of Aira, where stoicism and acceptance of faith among local population reminds him of the fallibility of the west. Selected in the Master section of IDFA 2017,
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Guantanamo detainee Mehdi Ghezali was named in Bulgarian and Israeli media as the main suspect. The Swedish Secret services denied soon after categorically his involvement but his name picture had already been widely exposed in the world press.
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in the main competition of 2023 CPH:DOX, where it became the most watched film on the festival's on-demand platform. The film, a Swedish/Italian/Norwegian co-production is selected at Hot Docs, Vision Du Reel, One World and sold worldwide by Cat&Docs.
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from 2003 is a film odyssey about the destructive sides of consumer culture, shot in Sweden, USA, China, India, Cuba, Hungary and Italy over a three-year period. Surplus marked the start of a strong co-operation with composer-editor
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project has been granted funding by The Swedish Research Council, VetenskapsrĂĄdet and After Work is the title of a feature length documentary connected to it, directed by Gandini and produced by Jesper Kurlandsky for FASAD.
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and international artist Nebojsa Seric Soba, who at the time was a part-time art student and part-time soldier in the Bosnian army. In 1996, Erik Gandini shot a second documentary about the Balkan War,
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