CM 2023

Swedish Film Institute

Region of Skane

Film i Skåne

Swedish Arts Grant

Redoubt

Värn

CineMart 2023 - Redoubt

Goals at CineMart We are presenting the film for the international market. We have Scandinavian partners attached and are looking for European co-producers, technical co-production partners, distributors, and to meet with European national funds, as well as pre-sales from broadcasters and pay TV.&nbsp;&nbsp;Synopsis Affected by the powerful images in the pamphlet Om Kriget Kommer (If the War Comes), farmhand Karl-Göran Persson begins fortifying his house. Through years of harvesting scrap-metal, he transforms it into a fortress meant to protect him and his neighbours when the enemy attacks. Despite the lack of understanding and sympathy from his neighbours and people from the surrounding villages, he continues building without pause until his death. The difference between his own sense of impending doom and the perceptions of the people around him gradually blur as the film progresses.&nbsp;Director&rsquo;s Biography John Skoog graduated from the Art Academy in Frankfurt. His films have been shown at numerous film festivals and art museums in Sweden and internationally, such as the Berlin International Film Festival, Moderna Museet and Index Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm, Museum of the Moving Image &amp; PS1 MOMA in New York, IDFA, London Film Festival, True/False, Modern Museum in Wien and the Modern Museum in Frankfurt am Main. His short films have won both Startsladden and 1km film awards, the two main prizes for short films in Sweden, as well as several prizes in the art world and at international film festivals. His first feature film Säsong (Ridge) won CPH:DOX in 2019. John has been a professor of film at the Art Academy in Mainz since 2016.

Plattform Produktion

Affected by the powerful images in the pamphlet If the war comes, farmhand Karl-Göran Persson begins fortifying his house. Through years of harvesting scrap-metal, he transforms it into a fortress meant to protect him and his neighbours when the enemy attacks.

John Skoog