Kiruna - A Brand New World
Czech Republic2019documentary87'Docs+Science (2020)
A feature-length debut of an artist with Swedish and Czech roots. Thanks to the former she went to eponymous Kiruna, a small town of a little under 20 thousand residents located behind the Arctic Circle. The iron ore mine expansion forced the local authorities to transfer a part of the town to a new location. Employing her Czech sensitivity, the film director captured the lives of dislocated residents of Kiruna with exceptional fondness. The community shot by Greta Stocklassa became a metaphor of all humanity deprived of reference points and remaining in constant transit and suspension.
- directed by
- Greta Stocklassa
Film director born Czechia, but comes from Czech-Swedish family. In 2013 she started studying at the Documentary department of FAMU in Prague. Her film "The Still Life of Vera" was premiered at Short Joy at IDFF Jihlava and screened at Vision du Réel, Neisse Film Fest or DOK. fest München and was shortlisted to the Czech student film prize Magnesia Award (Czech Lions). The main theme of her films is identity. She works with stylization and fine formal visualization, her films are balancing on the edge of documentary, fiction and experiment.
- cinematography
- Stanislav Adam
- script
- Greta Stocklassa
- music
- Pavel Jan
- editing
- Hana Dvořáčková
- production
- Veronika Kührová, Michal Kráčmer (Analog Vision)
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