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EURO KIDS - SCREENINGS 2003/2004
 
 
 
 
 
 
Elina: as if I wasn't there

Original Title

Elina – Som om jag inte fanns

 

Director

Klaus Härö

Genre

Drama / Family

Country of origin

Sweden / Finland

Language spoken

Swedish / Finnish

Year of production

2002

Admissions

51,158 (in Sweden, as at March 2003)

Box Office

SEK 990,913 (in Sweden, as at March 2003)

Production

FILMLANCE INTERNATIONAL AB
Box 27156
SE-102 52 Stockholm
Phone +46 84597380
Fax +46 84597389
E-mail: hq@filmlance.se
Website: www.filmlance.se

KINOPRODUCTION OY (co-production)
Katajanokankatu 6,
FIN-00160 Helsinki
Phone +358-9-663217
Fax +358-9-662048
E-mail: kino@kinoproduction.fi
Website : www.kinoproduction.fi

Filmpool Nord AB (S)

Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI) (S)

Domestic distribution/World Sales

FINNKINO OY (Finland)
Phone: +358 9131191

Nordisk Film Biografdistribution (DK) (world sales)

Sonet Film (S)

Domestic release

31 January 2003 (Sweden)
7 March 2003 (Finland)

Official website

 

Awards

Berlin International Film Festival 2003 (Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk - Special Mention  Best Feature Film and Glass Bear - Best Feature Film)
Buster Intenrational Children’s Film Festival 2003 (Special Mention)
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival 2003 (Adult’s Jury Award – Certificate of Merit – Live-Action Feature Film or Video)
Cinekid 2003 (Cinekid Film Award – Honorable Mention)
Guldbagge Awards 2004 (Guldbagge – Best Supporting Acctress)
Isfahan International Festival of Films for Children & Young Adults (C.I.F.E.J. Award and Golden Butterfly)
Montréal International Children’s Film Festival 2003 (Grand Prix de Montréal – Feature Film)

Suggested by

Giancarlo Zappoli, Artistic Director of the Castellinaria Festival (Bellinzona – CH)
Tonje Hardersen, Children’s Film Adviser with FILM&KINO
Selected for Zlín Film Festival – 2004 edition in the section Panorama

List of Distributors

Release date

Country

28 November 2003

Denmark

SYNOPSIS

In rural northern Sweden of the early 1950s, little Elina goes to school again after recovering from tuberculosis, the same illness that has killed her father a few years earlier. Elina's family belongs to a Finnish-speaking minority frowned upon by a staunch schoolmistress who starts hounding Elina for speaking Finnish in class and questioning her authority. Elina's mother, sister, and a liberal young male teacher all try to mediate the ensuing battle of wills between Elina and Miss Holm. Elina finds consolation in wandering out on the dangerous marshlands to have imaginary conversations with her dead father.