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
90 Miles
Released on: 2001-01-01
Documentary
Having grown up within the Cuban Revolution, in 1980, Juan Carlos Zaldívar was a 13-year-old "pionee...
Of Another Place
Released on:
Documentary, Drama
On a Summer afternoon, Pedro packs the last few boxes before having to leave his apartment in New Yo...
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.
From the Black You Make Color
Released on: 2012-11-12
Documentary
Eight women on the margins of Israeli society are thrown together during the course of a school year...
The Lebanese Burger Mafia
Released on: 2023-05-03
Documentary
The heir to a Burger Baron franchise, the filmmaker chases clues through rural Alberta, capturing th...
USA V SCOTT
Released on: 2020-01-04
Documentary
When an Arizona resident is charged with three felony counts and faces a 20-year prison sentence for...
Roots In The Wind
Released on:
Documentary
In 1979, after the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan, millions of Afghans were forced to leave their...
Strangers for the Day
Released on: 1962-01-01
Documentary
This short documentary shows the reactions of European immigrants as they land in Halifax at the beg...
Jews of the Wild West
Released on: 2022-02-16
Documentary, Western
“Jews of the Wild West” is a feature-length documentary completed in December 2021. The independent ...
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 ...
My Life Inside
Released on: 2007-01-16
Documentary
Rosa is a Mexican woman who, at the age of 17, migrated illegally to Austin, Texas. Some years later...
The Sephardic Jews and the Pike Place Market
Released on: 2001-01-01
Documentary
At the turn of the century, Sephardic Jews fled the turmoil of their homeland to start a new life in...
When Paul Came Over The Sea
Released on: 2017-01-28
Documentary
An unusual friendship in an agitated political context.
Football And Immigration, 100 Years Of Common History
Released on: 2014-01-01
Documentary
Football is both the place, the crystallization of sporting passion and the witness of identity imag...
Prince of Paris
Released on: 2019-05-08
Documentary
A film about Princesse, a 9-year-old Cameroonian, and her father, who leaves Africa to make their dr...
The Chinese Are Coming to Town
Released on: 2011-02-07
Documentary
The Chinese global machine has been invited to revitalise the ailing Swedish town of Kalmar. The tow...
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? ...