Hemse Filmstudio – Gotlandjustnu

Spring 23

Buy class tickets at the Hemse or Burgsvik bookstores, or on site in Hemsegården half an hour before the examination. The term card costs SEK 300 for movies. We show films every Tuesday at the Hemsegården cinema in Hemse. Hey, you!

Jan 31

Parallel mothers

(Director Pedro Almodóvar, Spain 2 hours)

Penelope Cruz has been nominated for an Academy Award for her role as sassy, ​​childless advertising photographer Janice who becomes unexpectedly pregnant after a casual affair. Her carefree life takes a whole new turn at the meeting with the much younger Anna (Milena Smit) she meets at BB. This is a prequel to an amazing, elegantly packaged maternity thriller in which the horrific mass murders and mass graves of the Franco era are revealed.

February 14th

delight

(Darren J Salam, Jordan, 1 hour 32 minutes)

In 1948, in a small village in Palestine, Farha (Karm Taher) dreams of studying to become a teacher. In the small village, daily life goes on quietly, but everything changes drastically when Israeli soldiers storm in and force the residents to flee. In desperation, Farha’s father (Ashraf Barhoum) locks her in the food cellar, but promises to come and get her as soon as possible. But the father is imprisoned and no one comes. Trapped in the small dark space, Farha watches what happens outside through a small hole that is her only source of light and air, and her only connection to the outside world.

Feb 28th

Image of a burning woman

(Celine Sciamma, France, 1 hour 59 minutes)

Brittany, France, 1760. The artist Marianne (Valeria Giulina) is commissioned to make a portrait of Heloise (Adélie Haenel), a young woman who has just left a convent. Héloïse is getting married and the prospective groom wants to see what she looks like. But she does not want to marry and Marianne must secretly paint her. She watches Héloïse during the day and secretly paints her at night. Intimacy and attraction develop between the two women. They share Héloïse’s first and last moment of freedom, all while Marianne paints the picture that will end it all.

March 14th

classic

Summer nights smile

(Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1955, 1 hour 48 minutes)

In Komedin Sommarnattens leende, we follow lawyer Frederick Egermann, his innocent young wife, his mistress, actress Desirée Armfeldt, and her lover, Count Malcolm, among others. It’s summer, theater comes to town and everyone finally gets together for dinner. Bergmann’s first foreign success.

March 28th

missing daughter

(Maggie Gyllenhaal, USA and Greece, 2 hours)

Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal’s debut based on Elena Ferrante’s “Shadow of a Daughter” (2008), which came before “My Amazing Girlfriend”. Olivia Colman is brilliant as a middle-aged British literature professor and guilt-stricken mother who goes on vacation alone to Greece to unwind. A meeting with a young mother (Dakota Johnson) and her daughter on the beach opens an inner hole where she confronts her own demons. It all develops into a gripping psychological drama about a mother forced to come to terms with herself and the choices she made as a young woman in order to deal with the demand for motherhood.

April 11th

Eddy

(Simon Hunter, UK, 1 hour 42 minutes)

When 83-year-old housewife Edie (Sheila Hancock) becomes a widow, she no longer tries to pretend she loves her stroke-stricken husband. Or even his bossy daughter. An old postcard, once sent by Eddie’s father, is found, triggering an old dream of climbing the great Suilven Mountain in the Scottish Highlands.

April 25th

seconds of happiness

(Zhang Yimou, China, 1 hour 44 minutes)

Set during the Cultural Revolution in China, the film follows the chain of an escaped prisoner (Chang Yi) who painstakingly makes his way through sandy fields, but arrives too late to attend the evening’s cinema showing. He is forced to continue to the next movie stop, but also has to chase after an orphan girl (Liu Haocun) who has stolen one of the reels. This results in a comedy of disarray, as sweeping landscape shots reinforce their vulnerability