Movies: Fredrik Gertten

  • 2015
    Becoming Zlatan

    Becoming Zlatan (2015)

    Becoming Zlatan

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    The decisive years of Swedish soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimović, told through rare archive footage in which a young Zlatan speaks openly about his life and challenges. The film closely follows him, from his debut with the Malmö FF team in 1999 through...

    Becoming Zlatan
  • 2006
    The death of a working man's newspaper

    The death of a working man's newspaper (2006)

    The death of a working man's newspaper

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    Fredrik Gertten's documentary follows the editoral on the newspaper "Arbetet" during the weeks before it is about to be closed....

    The death of a working man's newspaper
  • 2009
    Bananas!*

    Bananas!* (2009)

    Bananas!*

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    Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Ca...

    Bananas!*
  • 2019
    Push

    Push (2019)

    Push

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    Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. PUSH sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, our increasingly unliveable cities and an escalating crisis that has an effect on us all. This is not gentrification, it...

    Push
  • 2015
    Bikes vs Cars

    Bikes vs Cars (2015)

    Bikes vs Cars

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    Bikes vs Cars depicts a global crisis that we all deep down know we need to talk about: Climate, earth's resources, cities where the entire surface is consumed by the car. An ever-growing, dirty, noisy traffic chaos. The bike is a great tool for chan...

    Bikes vs Cars
  • 2011
    Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

    Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (2011)

    Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

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    The conflict between Dole Food Company and Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten unfolds dramatically in the documentary "BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!" as the corporation attempts to suppress Gertten's earlier film, "BANANAS!"—chronicling Nicaraguan workers' l...

    Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
  • 2002
    True Blue 2

    True Blue 2 (2002)

    True Blue 2

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    Malmö FF's golden dreams from the mid-1990s have turned into despair and foreboding. In 1999, something happened that had never happened before; the club leaves the Allsvenskan on its own initiative, after having underperformed sportingly for a long ...

    True Blue 2
  • 2023
    Breaking Social

    Breaking Social (2023)

    Breaking Social

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    The social contract: the rules we follow - and some don’t. Breaking Social uncovers the pattern of corruption and kleptocracy erasing the social tissue, followed by social uprisings. In Chile a new turn is taken, with young women in the lead....

    Breaking Social
  • 2006
    Thin Ice

    Thin Ice (2006)

    Thin Ice

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    Dolkar is the only one in her family who has been given a chance to study. She studies at the Secmol School. The director of the boarding school supports the girls wish to play ice hockey. When the next year's tournament is approaching the girls make...

    Thin Ice
  • 2007
    The Socialist, the Architect and the Twisted Tower

    The Socialist, the Architect and the Twisted Tower (2007)

    The Socialist, the Architect and the Twisted Tower

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    A dramatic, behind-the-scene-story about the building of Santiago Calatravas Turning Torso in Malmö. A 190 meter high, twisted residential building which was appointed "worlds best residential building project" at Mipim in Cannes, 2005....

    The Socialist, the Architect and the Twisted Tower
  • 2000
    Walk on water

    Walk on water (2000)

    Walk on water

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    An often humorous documentary about the building of the Öresund bridge, connecting Copenhagen in Denmark to Malmö in Sweden. We meet the people who work on production of the bridge, as well as opponents to the idea of such a bridge....

    Walk on water
  • 1998
    True Blue

    True Blue (1998)

    True Blue

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    "The blue colour of Malmö FF was dropped into my eyes by an angel when I was born" These are the words used by writer Björn Ranelid to explain the feelings a devoted fan has for his team. This documentary presents the supporters of Malmö FF, who will...

    True Blue
  • 2005
    An Ordinary Family

    An Ordinary Family (2005)

    An Ordinary Family

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    Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten followed a nice middle class family during three years, 2000-2005. From the crisis that punished the middle class to the heartbreaking moment of emigration and a new beginning in Spain....

    An Ordinary Family
  • 2011
    Love Always, Carolyn

    Love Always, Carolyn (2011)

    Love Always, Carolyn

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    Documentary about Carolyn Cassady, her life and marriage to Neal Cassady, her relationship with Jack Kerouac and how she takes care of the literary legacy from both....

    Love Always, Carolyn
  • 2003
    Bye Bye Malmö

    Bye Bye Malmö (2003)

    Bye Bye Malmö

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    George Wilson came to Malmö to dismantle the worlds largest crane. No big deal: "just a piece of steel" he says confidently. Five months and five accidents later George admits it was his worst project ever. The crane driver Paul Mezga came to Malmö a...

    Bye Bye Malmö