DETAINED

★WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY, GULDBAGGEN / SWEDISH FILM AWARDS 2015★OFFICIAL SELECTION ONE WORLD, PRAGUE, MARCH 2016 ★ OFFICIAL SELECTION GOTHENBURG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016★ NOMINATED TEMPO DOCUMENTARY AWARD ★ WINNER VICTOR AWARD / BEST FEATURE FILM SHOT IN STOCKHOLM-MÄLARDALEN 2015★ OFFICIAL SELECTION STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ★ OFFICIAL SELECTION NORDISK PANORAMA ★ FIPRESCI NOMINEE DOCUMENTARIST ISTANBUL 2016 ★ OFFICIAL SELECTION GUTH GAFA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016★OFFICIAL SELECTION SZCZRCIN EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL★OFFICIAL SELECTION DUHOK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016 ★OFFICIAL SELECTION SZCZECIN EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL DE L’IMAGE ALTERNATIVE INTERGALACTIQUE ★PRIX EUROPA NOMINEE BEST TV DOCUMENTARY★VERZIO DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016★

 

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Anna Weitz, anna.weitz@rafilm.se, +46 (0)70 408 31

SYNOPSIS

Detained is an absorbing observation from within a Swedish immigration detention centre for rejected asylum seekers. The film follows detainees and staff over the course of a summer. A mother separated from her children faces deportation, a young man waits for his life to begin, and staff members struggle with the impersonal bureaucracy required of their job.
With great sensibility to its characters and environment, Detained depicts the silent psychological horror faced by those held in modern detention centres and questions this crucial, global phenomenon.

 

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PRESS QUOTES

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“Documentary film at its best”
– Svenska Dagbladet

”Like a documentary version of The Wire”
– Dagens ETC

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“A heart-rending and intensely relevant film”
– Dagens Nyheter

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“Terrible and remarkable”
– Arbetarbladet

“Upsetting to see when empathy turns into a violation of rules”
– Dagens Nyheter

 

PRODUCTION FACTS

99/58 MIN, SWEDEN 2015
DIRECTORS: ANNA PERSSON, SHAON CHAKRABORTY
PRODUCER: ANNA WEITZ
PRODUCTION COMPANY: RÅFILM
ORIGINAL TITLE: FÖRVARET
LANGUAGE: SWEDISH, ENGLISH, ARABIC, CHECHEN, RUSSIAN
SCREENING FORMAT: DCP, BLU-RAY, other formats available on requst

 

DIRECTORS

ANNA PERSSON

Anna Persson, born in 1981 in Sweden, graduated from the Documentary Directing programme at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts in June 2011 following studies in Political Science, Gender studies, Photography and Feature Journalism. During her film studies she directed short and mid-length documentaries portraying people in different roles and situations in the European migration system. With her degree film, The Case Officer, she gained access to the Swedish Migration Board and told the story of a young case officer grappling with whether or not to send an asylum seeking family back to Bosnia. Detainedis Persson’s feature debut, which further establishes her as a director providing new perspectives on one of the most burning human issue of today. She has also co-directed the documentary I am Dublin for the Swedish production company Story AB which won Best Swedish Documentary at Tempo Documentary Festival 2015.

Filmography

Circulo Vicioso, doc, 28 min, with Brigitta Kontros (Best Short Documentary, Tempofestivalen),
2008
Buscarse la vida, doc, 28 min, 2010
The Case Officer, doc, 52 min, 2011
Detained, doc 99 min, 2015, Winner “Guldbagge” for Best Documentary at the Swedish Academy Awards 2015
I am Dublin, doc, with David Aronowitsch, Ahmed Abdullahi and Sharmarke Binyusuf, 90 min 2015

 

SHAON CHAKRABORTY

Shaon Chakraborty, is a filmmaker with her background in fine arts and photography.  Detained is her first documentary film, to which she also contributes as a still photographer. Chakraborty graduated from prestigious Nordic School of Photography in February 2010. Since then she has been working as a freelance photo journalist and photographer for newspapers and magazines. Her work has been published in the art book “This Must be the Place” 2010, and shown in several exhibitions in Sweden and abroad such as Trikåfabriken, Allmänna galleriet, Galleri Kontrast, Planket, The Photo Museum in Sundsvall and Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires. Parallel to the work with Detained, Chakraborty is working on a longer photography project in Bangladesh concerning the experience of rediscovering the past.

Filmography

Detained, doc 99 min, 2015, Winner “Guldbagge” for Best Documentary at the Swedish Academy Awards 2015

 

 

PRODUCER & PRODUCTION COMPANY

ANNA WEITZ

Anna Weitz is a documentary film producer and member of RåFILM Filmmakers collective. BeforeDetained she produced several mid-length documentaries including Can’t Do It in Europe which was selected to MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight and Once Upon a Hill that won Best Documentary at Taiwan International Children’s Film Festival. She is an EAVE graduate and has participated in Britdocs Impact Producers Lab. Besides her work for RåFILM Anna produces for Mantary Film and she was associate producer of the Cannes Awarded documentary Ingrid Bergman In her Own Words (Stig Björkman, Mantaray Film 2015). She is also a founding filmmaker of Noncitizen, a project that challenges the idea of borders and citizenship.

RåFILM is a Swedish-based collective of filmmakers that connect film and activism. www.rafilm.se

 

CREDITS

PRODUCED BY RÅFILM PRODUCER ANNA WEITZ DIRECTORS ANNA PERSSON SHAON CHAKRABORTY CINEMATOGRAPHER ERIK VALLSTEN FSF EDITOR KRISTIN GRUNDSTRÖM SFK SOUND DESIGNER CLAES LUNDBERG COMPOSER MATTI BYE COLOURIST JONAS HED SOUND MIX OWE SVENSSON GRAPHIC DESIGN MARTIN HULTMAN POSTPRODUCER MATTIAS VALENCA IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH SVERIGES TELEVISION AB/ULLA NILSSON MALIN BJÖRKMAN-WIDELL WITH SUPPORT FROM THE SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE/FILM CONSULTANT CECILIA LIDIN KULTURBRYGGAN STHLM DEBUT IN COLLABORATION WITH STOCKHOLMS LÄNS LANDSTING FILM STOCKHOLM FILMREGION STOCKHOLM-MÄLARDALEN

STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL THE SWEDISH ARTS GRANTS COMMITTEE THE CHURCH OF SWEDEN CULTURAL GRANT FILMBASEN STIFTELSEN LÄNGMANSKA KULTURFONDEN TRANSIT DAGSLJUS