Sweden-UK 2016
Directed by Mark Cousins
Produced by Anita Oxburgh, Mary Bell, Adam Dawtrey
Screenplay by Mark Cousins, Anita Oxburgh
With Neneh Cherry
88 min
Mark Cousins and Neneh Cherry team up for this superb ‘is it a doc, or is it fiction’ film. Cherry’s Alva struggles under steely skies of Stockholm with debilitating depression from a trauma a year earlier. Bunking off work, she takes us through the city, exploring buildings, bridges, a cinema, each place revealing more about her state of mind. Taking in the immigrant experience, her relationship with her father, Stockholm’s history, we slowly work towards the tragedy, which is devastatingly revealed. Exquisitely photographed by Christopher Doyle (In the Mood for Love) this is a visceral, music and poetry-filled exploration of grief, but one that also examines the glorious moments when Alva emerges from that state.
In cinemas from 16 June 2017
On BFI Player from 16 June 2017
On BFI DVD/Blu-ray from 26 June 2017
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Special Q&A screenings
15 June
Watershed, Bristol Q&A with Mark Cousins / Neneh Cherry
16 June
BFI Southbank, London Q&A with Mark Cousins / Neneh Cherry
17 June
HOME, Manchester Q&A with Mark Cousins
18 June
Tyneside, Newcastle Q&A with Mark Cousins
19 June
Filmhouse, Edinburgh Q&A with Mark Cousins / Neneh Cherry
23 June
Curzon Soho, London Q&A with Neneh Cherry / Cameron McVey
Other screenings
16 June
BFI Southbank
HOME, Manchester
Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast
Tyneside, Newcastle
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Glasgow Film Theatre
17, 18 & 21 June
Barbican, London
17, 18 & 22 June
FACT, Liverpool
25 June
Tramshed, Cardiff
11 July
Hyde Park, Leeds