Jonas Selberg Augustsén
Jonas SELBERG AUGUSTSÉN (1974, Sweden) studied Film and Video Studies at the Kalix Folk High School and followed a three year programme in Film Directing at the Valand Academy in Gothenburg. After graduating, he released the short film Freedom Calf in 2005. The short film Autumn Man (2010) won multiple awards. In 2015 he made his first feature, The Garbage Helicopter, which would be the first of a suite of five films, each featuring one of Sweden’s official minority languages. The Longest Day is the fifth in this five-panel suite.
Filmography
(selection) Kalven och friheten/Freedom Calf (2005, short), Processen/The Process (2006, short), Trädälskaren/The Tree Lover (2008, doc), Höstmannen/Autumn Man (2010, short), Myrlandet/Bogland (2011, short), The Desert (2012, short), Jakten/The Hunt (2014), Sophelikoptern/The Garbage Helicopter (2015), Sommarnatt/Midsummer Night (2016, short), P.O.V (2017, short), Den längsta dagen/The Longest Day (2020)
Jonas Selberg Augustsén op IFFR
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The Longest Day
Jonas Selberg Augustsén | 119' | Finland | World premiere
On the longest day of the year, a small community in northern Sweden struggles with life’s quotidian struggles. -
The Garbage Helicopter
Absurd road movie about three idle twenty-somethings who have to return an antique clock (is it broken or not?) to their grandmother. Highlights of Sw