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She Monkeys

Variety's Ten Euro Directors to Watch 2011 / Apflickorna / Sweden 2011

Delivering one of the most intense and complex feature debuts to come from Sweden since Lukas Moodysson’s Show Me Love, director Lisa Aschan thrillingly subverts the coming-of-age genre, political correctness, gender roles and just about everything to do with the depiction of developing sexuality.

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Synopsis

Delivering one of the most intense and complex feature debuts to come from Sweden since Lukas Moodysson’s Show Me Love, director Lisa Aschan thrillingly subverts the coming-of-age genre, political correctness, gender roles and just about everything to do with the depiction of developing sexuality in the taboo-breaking She Monkeys. Winner of the Gothenburg fest’s Nordic film prize and critics’ award, and Tribeca’s Best Narrative, the film plays with traditional expectations in an unsettling manner that feels tantamount to dangerous…Monkeys centers on sisters Emma, a talented teen gymnast, and Sara, a precocious 7-year-old. When Emma joins a riding stable where girls train to perform acrobatics on horseback, she meets the slightly older Cassandra and the two begin a relationship fraught with physical and psychological challenges.

About the film

84 min / Color, 35 mm

Director Lisa Aschan / Screenplay Josefine Adolfsson, Lisa Aschan / Dir. of Photography Linda Wassberg / Music Sami Sänpäkkilä / Editor Kristofer Nordin / Producer Helene Lindholm / Production Atmo Produktion AB / Cast Mathilda Paradeiser, Linda Molin, Isabella Lindquist / Contact Swedish Film Institute, The Yellow Affair

About the director

Lisa Aschan

Lisa Aschan (b. 1979, Vejbystrand, Sweden), a graduate of the National Film School of Denmark, received attention for "Fuck the Rapist!”, a collection of fictional ads for spiked tampons. She also created a drama series for Danish TV channel DR1, attended Sweden’s Royal University College of Fine Arts and worked at Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theater. Her short films In Transit (2005) and Goodbye Bluebird (2007) screened at festivals around the world and established her reputation for suggestive visual language and naturalistic direction. She Monkeys (2011), her debut feature, nabbed top prize in the World Narrative Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival.

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Swedish Film Institute
Box 27126, S-102 52, Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46 866 511 00
Fax: +46 866 118 20
E-mail: [email protected]

The Yellow Affair
Korkeavuorenkatu 25 A 1, 00130, Helsinki
Finland
Phone: +1 718 290 5914
E-mail: [email protected]

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