Återträffen (2013)
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Sandra Andreis, Kamila Benhamza, Anders Berg, Erik Ehn, Niklas Engdahl
A woman excluded by her former classmates turns a reunion into an artistic project about the dynamics of bullying.
The story
Twenty years after her class finished compulsory school, a reunion is planned, but Anna Odell is the only former pupil not invited. She had been ostracized and bullied by her classmates for nine years. Rather than seek revenge, she creates an artistic project: a short film recreating the reunion and imagining what might have happened had she been included. She then invites former classmates, individually or in pairs, to watch the film and discuss it with her. Through these conversations, she wants to make visible the ways people participate in bullying, including those who remain silent.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Twenty years have passed since Anna Odell’s class finished compulsory school, and the time has come for a class reunion. However, not everyone is invited. Anna Odell is the only one in the class who has not been invited. She was the one who was ostracized and bullied by her classmates for nine years. As a project, she makes a short film recreating the reunion and what might have happened if she had been invited. She then wants to show the film to her former classmates, inviting them one at a time or in pairs to watch it and discuss its contents with her. She is not a bullying victim seeking revenge, but an artist who wants to shed light on and make concrete the dynamics that arise between people where bullying occurs. She identifies the active bullies and the passive ones who participate through their silence and do nothing about what is going on.
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