Director: Jens Jonsson (SW)
Genre: Fiction
Sweden, 2003 / 15 min (35 mm), colour & sound

The Film
A manager visits his anorectic daughter at the hospital and holds a talk with a problematic employee at his office. A film about two conversations and about a man trying to make headway in life.

Jens Jonsson
Jens Jonsson (b. 1974 in Umeå, SE) studied graphic design 1994-1998 and film directing 1998-2001 at the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm. He also drew comic strips that appeared in Swedish magazines, which motivated him to make storyboards. In a relatively short time, he has written and directed many short films (including Brother of Mine, for which he received the Silver Bear in Berlin). They are striking thanks to original narrative techniques, sharp psychological insight in the characters and an emotional wisdom that is certainly surprising in view of his young age. In addition, the acting in his films is exceptionally good and the camerawork incomparable, almost always in the hands of Jonsson's regular cameraman Askild Vik Edvardsen. No one will be surprised that Jonsson is also a very popular maker of commercials, for instance for Absolut Vodka. In the last year, Jonsson has been exceptionally productive, including the masterpieces Utvecklingssamtal and A Changed Man, which was made in England. At the moment, Jonsson is working on his first feature.