Yoko Bono - The Art of Being Swedish-Finnish (2018)
• December 31st, 2018 • 0h 15min
Documentary
Overview
Because of the poor employment situation in Finland, many families and single people decided to move to Sweden to seek employment in the 1960s and 70s. The move was considered temporary and it affected people’s ways of making themselves at home in the new country; they did not even try to adapt or learn the language of the country. At that time, the nicknames “Finnjävel” and “Hurri” were well-known to Swedish-Finnish youngsters: In Sweden, they were regarded as Finns; and the other way around. As neither nation’s citizens approved them as their own, the Sweden Finns had to create their own identity. But what kind of lives do these immigrants’ children and grandchildren live today? Jonas Karén was born in a Finnish family in Husby’s suburb 1980.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Babylon
Released on: 2012-07-01
Documentary
After the insurrection erupted in Libya in the spring of 2012, more than a million people flocked to...
New Home in the West
Released on: 1943-01-01
Documentary
This short film traces the journey of the first Ukrainian settlers in Canada. Seeking freedom and op...
Kindergarten
Released on: 2020-09-27
Documentary
A childhood story is narrated while home movie footage is displayed. The narrator recounts her assim...
Mosques - Behind the Veil
Released on: 2016-03-02
Documentary
With the help of hidden camera, Danish TV 2 documents how a known Danish imam teaches Muslim women a...
Aan ons den arbeid
Released on: 2007-11-28
Documentary
Documentary that shows the changing attitude towards immigrant labor in The Netherlands. The documen...
Visions of Europe
Released on: 2004-05-01
Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
Look Away
Released on: 2019-02-13
Documentary
Europe, the rule of law and host countries? Look elsewhere denounces what is happening in many Europ...
Five Years North
Released on: 2020-06-15
Documentary
Five Years North is the coming-of-age story of Luis, an undocumented Guatemalan boy who just arrived...
Chez Jolie Coiffure
Released on: 2019-02-28
Documentary
Rosine Mbakam is invited to step in Sabine’s small hairdresser’s because it is dangerous in the stre...
Beyond The Visible - Hilma af Klint
Released on: 2019-10-04
Documentary
How can an artist discover abstraction by the beginning of the 20th century and nobody is noticing? ...
Terra Firma
Released on: 2016-12-08
Documentary
In a small commercial harbour in the south of France, two Moroccan sailors are watching over ferries...
Ricochet
Released on: 2021-05-22
Documentary, Crime
When a young woman is shot by an undocumented immigrant on Pier 14 in San Francisco, the incident ig...
America First: Legacy Of An Immigration Raid
Released on: 2018-07-14
Documentary
It’s been a decade since Postville, a small town in Iowa, suffered the largest immigration raid at a...
The Last Chinese Laundry
Released on:
Documentary
A documentary from 1987 featuring the life of early Chinese immigrants to the island of Newfoundland...
Sunflower Seeds
Released on: 2013-03-20
Documentary
A group of children living on the streets of Athens. Among them is Sayid, a twelve-year-old boy, who...
100 Per Cent White
Released on: 2000-07-17
Documentary, TV Movie
A decade after taking a series of photographs of skinhead members of a far-right group for his book ...
Sky and Ground
Released on: 2017-11-12
Documentary
Three generations of the Nabi family flee their home in Aleppo and try to make it to safety in Germa...
Balakrishna
Released on: 2019-10-20
Animation, Documentary
When an extraordinary new resident – Balakrishna, an Indian elephant – arrived in the town of East R...
Roots In The Wind
Released on:
Documentary
In 1979, after the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan, millions of Afghans were forced to leave their...