Doggerland

A Swedish indie shot on black-and-white 16mm with lively music: fleet-footed, mercurial, zany, improvised, atmospheric and full of sidesteps. 40-year-old diabolo performer Alf still lives with his mum Monica and wanders flaneur-like through Norrköping, where the massive cultural cuts are happening to which director Kim Ekberg, inhabitant of the city and founder of anticapitalist production company Post Post, is stepping up with Doggerland. For him, culture is about daily life, reviving the social democratic “we’re all on board”, about real locations, spaces and people who – like John and Anita Holm here – can become Alf and Monica while also being mother and son in real life. They like talking at cross purposes too. She wants him to look for a real job and move out. When he finally goes on tour through Europe, she seems to regret it. Following XXL (2024, co-director Sawandi Groskind), Ekberg keeps building worlds of everyday wonder with familiar characters, where the creative and the social intermingle and one can learn what (documentary) film is capable of in evening classes from Jan Lindqvist. Like measuring time with light and production design, now and across the arc of life. (Laura Palys, Barbara Wurm)

Kim Ekberg is a director and film critic, born in Krokek in 1989, educated at HDK-Valand. His graduation film The Wind Blows Where It Wants premiered at the São Paulo Film Festival in 2017. He has directed several music videos. The short film 2gether was awarded the Dragon Award at the Gothenburg Film Festival 2022. In 2024, Kim Ekberg co-directed the feature XXL with Sawandi Groskind, which premiered internationally at FIDMarseille. Together with Groskind, Saarlotta Virri and Hannah Wiker Wikström, he has been running the independent anti-capitalist production company POST POST since 2022.

Director Kim Ekberg. Screenplay Kim Ekberg. Cinematography Kim Ekberg. Editing Kim Ekberg. Music Johannes Hagman, Michael Cedlind. Sound Design Thomas Jansson. Casting Maria Lundström. Producer Kim Ekberg. Production company POSTPOST (Skärholmen, Sweden). With John Holm, Anita Holm, Roger Carlsson, Kalle Thuleman, Astrid Drettner, Lotta Bäck-Vogel, Marcos Fuenzalida, Ilya Wikström, Hannah Wiker Wikström, Martin Grennberger, Stefan Ramstedt, Jan Lindqvist, Eva Eklund, Mam Häll.

Films: 2014: Den dansande kroppen / The dancing body (short film, co-directed by Gustav Ågerstrand), Kvarsebo (short film). 2017: Vinden blåser vart den vill / The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth, Sargassohavet / Wide Sargasso Sea (short film, co-directed by Anna Juhlin). 2018: Halla / Frost (short film, co-directed by Hannah Wiker Wikström). 2019: Skatepark (co-directed by Jonatan Lyrefelt). 2021: Vallfart till Hålltjärn / Pilgrimage to Hålltjärn (short film, co-directed by Johannes Hagman). 2022: 2gether (short film). 2024: XXL (co-directed by Sawandi Groskind). 2026: Doggerland.