Category: 2024

Come and celebrate of the art of movement on screen. In this festival, you will have the opportunity to watch around 20 short films divided into three sets, featuring both new works from the recent year and favourites from previous years. These films showcase the diversity and creativity of dance film as a genre, as well as the talent and vision of our filmmakers and dancers.

Skånes Dansteater’s dance film production started in earnest during the COVID-19 pandemic, as a way to adapt to the challenges and limitations of the situation. Since then, it has become a flourishing part of the organisation, producing more films every year that are being sent out and taking part in festivals around the world. Skånes Dansteater proudly share the results of their passion and commitment, and hope they can bring inspiration to your Malmö Scenfest experience.

Malmö, the city of unrest – a performance: What is Malmö? A place, a special look, a mysterious background light? No one knows why Malmö is not like other cities, why no one ever manages to leave the city again. Theater ONT explores the alleys, listens for the whispers of history, the sighs from sewers and canals. Are you there, Malmö?

This is a performance that is an extension, that is a preparation, that is a play for all urban romantics and utopians – living, dying and gone. This urban frenzy can be a collective act of accusation, liberation and a happening: the audience can be citizens, artists, renegades or dreamers lying on the divan. It’s time to become a world citizen in the city that never is what it is.

Hussein has moved in to live with a family. He comes from a warzone and is now battling to get a residence permit to stay in Sweden. The daughter of the family, Disa, is not particularly keen, she thinks they were doing well just as they were; besides the room Hussein gets to live in has both rats and mould. And her mother seems to mostly want to chat to Max, the man who runs the organisation helping children from the war. However Disa’s boyfriend Zacke, is delighted. He has been longing to make a difference in the world and sets about renovating the room. But the room is really in a dreadful state and Hussein feels he cannot sleep there. But where will he sleep then? Should he really share a room with Disa, is that such a good idea?

Hussein is a romantic comedy about arriving in a new country, being grateful for what one gets and finding love where you least expect it. A play about an open heart that perhaps was never really closed in the first place.

The playwright Keren Klimovsky acts in her own play telling the story of her family with the help of music and pupets/objects. The result is an intimate, honest and funny musical dramatic show. “I’m not scared” is a dreamplay of sorts, interweaving reality, fantasy and everything that comes in between. The narrator is described as a “36-year-old woman who still wears her hair in pigtails but can’t get rid of some extra weight”. On her journey towards the truth about the biggest secret in her family (her aunt’s mysterious suicide), the narrator blends facts (which are also questioned) with fantasies about what could have happened, adding philosophical musings about identity, love, history and Jewishnes, as well as some emotional confessions about her fears and feelings…

A teaser-taster:
Billies is the bar that in nineteen-thirties’ Malmö, is a refuge for those on the edge of society’s norms of the day. Billie herself is the matriarch in an unruly family of loyal regular customers. These range from the outspoken Wilhelmine Luchhaus and Lord Chamberlain Ludwig, to the dystopian Möllerström, amateur philosopher Kockum and the regal-looking Miss Stevelius.
When Billies’ bar in Malmö starts hearing reports of how bars in Berlin’s bohemian quarter are being burned down by the masses, how German morality police are persecuting people who deviate from the State’s ideals, anxiety grows that this menacing darkness will spread. As events unfold, a resistance movement begins to form. A resistance that is put to the test when a suit clad man walks into the bar, carrying a missive that turns out to be just as feared, as it was expected.