School under Siege

• Nils Petter Löfstedt
• 74 min
• Sweden
• 2023

Fifteen rolls of black-and-white film hidden in a pot frame an emotional documentary about Hvitfeldtska and the events that changed Göteborg forever.

In 2001, Nils Petter Löfstedt traveled to Göteborg. It was the EU summit, he was going to sleep at Hvitfeldtska and had his camera with him – to work on realizing his dream of becoming a photographer. It didn’t turn out the way he had planned. Police cordoned off the school, sent in mounted police, and arrested 459 people, without anything to charge them for. After the excessive violence, the events in the city escalated into what would become known as the Göteborg Riots. Twenty years later, Löfstedt (Heaven’s Dark Room) seeks out the people in his – now found and developed – atmospheric photos (yes, he became a photographer) and talks about what happened and what was lost forever. It is emotional, it makes the heart beat hard in your chest, and the anger and the will to fight awaken in your body.

* The screening on January 29 is included in DocBar at Bar Kino: Right after the film, moderator Soraya Hashim talks about activism, film, and police violence now and then with director Nils Petter Löfstedt, Victoria Rixer (on the photos and in the film) in the film) and Roda Hassan (organizer of BLM demonstrations). In Swedish.

- Camilla Larsson

• Motstånd
• Stad
• Dokumentär
• Kapitalism
• Världspremiär