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BLOWFLY PARK (FLUGPARKEN)
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Completed - SWEDISH - Drama, First film, Thriller

Log Line

When his bully-like friend Alex goes missing, Kristian, a has-been hockey talent, starts to unravel. Lying about events surrounding the disappearance and acting increasingly irrational, Kristian seems more interested in staying close to his friend’s girlfriend, and their child, than finding Alex.

Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : Jens ÖSTBERG
Writer(s) : Jens ÖSTBERG
Cast : Sverrir GUDNASON, Peter ANDERSSON, Malin BUSKA, Leonard TERFELT

Producer(s) : Rebecka LAFRENZ (GARAGEFILM INTERNATIONAL AB), Mimmi SPÅNG (GARAGEFILM INTERNATIONAL AB)

Synopsis

Kristian is a failure as an alpha male and marked by the oppressive techniques of locker rooms. He is apparently nice and gentle, but when his best friend Alex disappears after
a night together, everything changes. Defences are torn down and some increasingly strange choices tear Kristian’s existence apart.
Sverrir Gudnason, Malin Buska and Peter Andersson are starring in Jens Östberg´s psychological drama feature debut where the boundaries between victim and
perpetrator are blurred.

Director’s Comment
Set in and around Swedish inland hockey culture, BLOWFLY PARK is a character study of a person with little value to society. We watch Kristian, mild-mannered and kind at
first, as he makes increasingly unsound choices. But what exactly is wrong with him? There’s a line of logic between men, violence and the male locker room, where boys are
groomed in the art of master suppression techniques - however, some will never learn. Kristian can be viewed as a failed alpha male, who finally starts to adopt aggressive
behaviour when facing crisis and opportunity. But: is he a prowler, a dangerous outcast that should be put down like a mongrel dog - or is he a victim, the result of a heartless
environment that awards systematic bullying? The film wants to blur the lines between victim and aggressor, between crime and punishment, ultimately pointing towards a
grim proposition: man’s loneliness. Cut off and trapped in our own subjectivity, we will always be the victim, our actions will always be justified.

Production

Country(ies) : SWEDEN

ICELAND Mar 02, 2015 HEIMILI KVIKMYN
SWEDEN Nov 28, 2014 TRIART FILM

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Festivals and Awards

Thessaloniki IFF 2014 - Int'l Competition (Best Actor - Sverrir Gudnason)
Stockholm IFF 2014 (Competition)


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