PREJUDICE & PRIDE — SWEDISH FILM QUEER

100 min | 2022 | Sweden | Swedish | Documentary Feature | Indian Premiere

A dizzying journey through Swedish film history seen from a queer perspective! The filmmakers have thawed films from the Film Archive’s freezer and marveled at the depictions of flats, gays and transgender people for more than 100 years. From Mauritz Stiller’s silent movie, The Wings (1916), the first major film about male love; via Ingmar Bergman and Mai Zetterling to the exciting new wave of Scandinavian transgender films, Beling’s fascinating documentary takes us from 1916 to today, exploring the confidence, secrecy and rebirth of queer storytelling in Swedish cinema.

Crammed with clips, interviews and historical analysis, this is one documentary every film lover should put at the top of their must-see list.

Festivals & Honors:

• Umeå European Film Festival, Sweden 2022

• Seattle Queer Film Festival, USA 2022

• 15th Beijing Queer Film Festival, China 2022

• IndieLisboa – International Film Festival, Portugal 2023

• Roze Filmdagen Amsterdam, Netherlands 2023

• BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2023

Eva Beling is a Swedish/American Director and Producer with a BA from San Francisco State University. Among her major productions are The Women and Bergman (2007) and The Men and Bergman (2008) where several prominent Swedish actors discuss their work with Bergman in film and theater. A two-part tv-series, A Life With Cinema (2011) about Sweden’s legendary film critic Mr. Nils Petter Sundgren who has followed the world cinema since 1963. Prejudice & Pride -Swedish Film Queer is her first feature length documentary.