By Katarina Nikolić and Željko Hubač

PETAR is a young man with a troubled past. He tells the story about his family, his difficult years and about his dream for the future.

According to data of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, within a period of four years and average of 11 050 minors were convicted for crimes (annually), while the number of criminal charges was around 15 000. Within this population some 3,1% were girls.

PETAR COLLABORATIVE PROJECT
PRODUCER & PROJECT MANAGER Milorad Jovanovic
WRITTEN BY Katarina Nikolić
DIRECTOR & SET DESIGNER Ana Grigorović
RESEARCHER/PSYCHOLOGIST Snežana Vojčić

PETAR THEATRE PERFORMANCE
CAST Mladen Sovilj
DIRECTOR & SET DESIGNER Ana Grigorović
PHOTOGRAPHY Jelena Janković
GRAPHIC DESIGN Jovan Tarbuk
PRODUCER & PROJECT MANAGER Milorad Jovanovic
RESEARCHER/PSYCHOLOGIST Snežana Vojčić
PREMIERE 1st and 2nd of November, Bitef Theatre, Belgrade

PETAR GUEST TOUR
CAST Mladen Sovilj
DIRECTOR & SET DESIGNER Ana Grigorović
PHOTOGRAPHY Jelena Janković
GRAPHIC DESIGN Jovan Tarbuk
PRODUCER & PROJECT MANAGER Milorad Jovanovic
RESEARCHER /PSYCHOLOGIST Snežana Vojčić
TRANSLATION FROM SERBIAN TO SWEDISH Vesna Stanisic

One passion, two countries and hundreds of stories. About partnership of Sharikompaniet (Sweden) and Society for Animation and Children’s Drama Creativity (Serbia).

Several years ago we got to know each other when working in another project. As we kept in touch we gradually discovered our common passion; how to encourage and strengthen youth through arts and theatre, making these artistic instruments accessible for a young audience.

However, our tasks seldom touch upon the sole process of just producing or writing a play or film. Merely we occupy our creative processes with constant challenges of ethical responsibility. How to treat documentary material? What is essential when it comes to the portrayal of young people coming from troubled backgrounds tell us in film, theatre and television? How do we avoid prejudices and doing it the mainstream way? Curious and eager to listen to these young, brave and talented people that participate in our productions, we approach an anthropological perspective. We hope that this among other factors, helps us to reject to paint in black/white and challenges us with something dynamic and complex.

No social injustices or problems in the world could be resolved with a theatre performance. However, we hope our work might motivate new thoughts, reflections and perhaps alter the dimension of our personal looking glasses.

More than a year ago, ideas were discussed and elaborated in two countries and now PETAR is to follow from FELICIA, introducing us to two widely different social contexts and lives. Both of them, though, move us towards art as the essential space for fighting stigma and let emerging social issues be spoken out about.

Shari Sabel Strandmark, director Sharikompaniet (Sweden) director, producer and creator of story for FELICIA.
Milorad Jovanovic, director Society for Animation and Children’s Drama Creativity (Serbien) and producer for PETAR.

Theatre performance, 40 min. Created by Shari Sabel Strandmark and Moa Silen. Inspired by interviews with women aged 17-25, who grew up with abusive parents.

”So many times I’ve been at home wonder where my dad is. Thinking; he should have been home a long time ago. I wonder where he is, what he’s doing, if he’s alive. There’ve been so many times where I thought; No, he’s dead, because he’s fallen on the track or he’s jumped from the bridge. I do not know…why doesn’t he answer his phone?”

We meet Felicia, 21, who tells us her life story. In a conversation with the audience Felicia talks about loneliness, responsibility and concern, but also about laughter and love. She desperately hopes that her father will one day stop drinking and become well. How is it possible to miss someone you see every day?

CREATED BY Moa Silén and Shari Sabel Strandmark
CAST Moa Silén
DIRECTOR Shari Sabel Strandmark
ROOM & COSTUME Anja Ruehle
PHOTO Philoméne Grandin and Minna Wallin
GRAPHIC DESIGN Anja Ruehle
TRANSCRIPTION Maria Ljuslin
PRODUCTION ASSISTENT Sofia Ryblad

The FELICIA group responsible for this project is an independent part of Sharikompaniet. The FELICIA group was formed in 2012 by six people aged 18-30 on the basis of a common desire to break the stigma and taboo that thousands of young people experience through living with one or two parents who abuse drugs or alcohol. The group’s work is based on four of its members’ own lives and experiences.

The production is cooperating with ESS-gymnasiet, Ersta Vändpunkten, Maskrosbarn, Gertrude & Ivar Philipsons Stiftelse, Svenska Institutet, Society for animation and development of children’s drama creativity in Serbia as well as Skandia Idéer för livet-stiftelsen.

A WARM THANKS to all of the young women who shared their experiences with us. Without your participation this performance would not have been possible.

Translation from Swedish to English: Sofie Kinnefors

Theatre performance, 60 min.
Based on Liliom by Ferenc Molnar

Summer in the small town of Falmåla. Liliom and Juliet meet. Life turns out okay. One day everything changes. If you got a second chance – would you take it?

CAST Zardasht Rad, Moa Silén, Kerstin Steinbach, Alexander Öhrstrand, Emma Mehonic, Michael Strix, Julia Lichtenstein/Agnes Sabel
DIRECTED BY Shari Sabel Strandmark
MOVEMENT Philoméne Grandin
LIGHT DESIGN Lina Benneth
COSTUME DESIGN Elin Hallberg
MAKE-UP Hanna Holm
DRAMATURG Magnus Lindman
PROMOTIONAL DESIGN Britta Tegby Frisk
PERFORMANCE PHOTO Fredrik Olsson
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Maja Pernefeldt, Alexandra Malmberg, Stefan Stanisic, Py Huss-Wallin, Lena Öberg
TECHNICAL PRODUCER Palle Lindqvist

Translation from Swedish to English: Sofie Kinnefors

Short film. 20 min.

Ana and her family live in a suburb outside of Guatemala City. Ana has dreams of becoming a doctor but only her brother is allowed to study. The day Ana turns 14 she realizes the difference between the life she wants to live and the one she is expected to live.

Ana turns 14 is a co-production with Imagitlán, Unicef, Fundación Sobrevivientes, Moralejas, Visualiza, TV USAC and CCUU in Guatemala with aid from SIDA Internationella programkontoret, Gertrude & Ivar Philipsons Stiftelse, ABF and Filmbasen in Sweden.

CAST Annie Rodriguez, Mercedes Fuentes, Angelo Medina, Hugo Linares, Miguel Salay, Wally Ana Lucia Cabreras
SCRIPT Nahuel Vazquez
DIRECTED BY Shari Sabel Strandmark
BASED UPON AN IDEA BY Shari Sabel Strandmark and Nahuel Vazquez
PRODUCER Shari Sabel Strandmark
CINEMATOGRAPHY Sara Murillo Cortés
EDITED BY Sara Murillo Cortés
SOUND DESIGN Luis Contreras
ORIGINAL MUSIC Rikard Borggård
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Nahuel Vazquez
SOUND ASSISTANT/BOOM Gustavo Contreras, Gisela Batz
PHOTO ASSISTANTS Antonio Barreras, Antonio Torres
PROJECT GUIDE Hans-Jörgen Riis Jensen and Herberth Meneses
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS José Flores, Yasmin Rodriguez
COPRODUCER IN GUATEMALA Nahuel Vazquez
PRODUCTION Sharikompaniet

SHARIKOMPANIET COLLABORATES WITH THE SWEDISH UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION

The Swedish United Nations Association promotes human rights, war prevention and the Millennium Development Goals. We comply with the UN’s work and pass the knowledge on to local UN associations, schools as well as to the Swedish public. The United Nations Association is a nonprofit organization with thousands of members and over 100 local organizations in Sweden.

Through the campaign Flicka, the Swedish United Nations Association is working for girls’ rights and against child marriages both internationally with the UN Population Fund and in Sweden by influencing the Swedish legislation. For information see www.fn.se

Sharikompaniet welcomes the Swedish United Nations Association cooperation regarding the fight against child marriages. Through a joint distribution of the film ANA TURNS 14 we hope to contribute to an active debate about this problem.

Translation from Swedish to English: Sofie Kinnefors.

A young woman lives her life balancing on a knife’s edge. On one hand, she is an illusory in the luxurious Stockholm nightlife around Stureplan and Kungsträdgården. On the other hand, she faces a poorer reality with a bad economy and obsessive training. Her plan seems successful, but simultaneously becomes increasingly tangled.

ON ALL FOURS is a raw and vibrant performance bordering between concert, poetry slam and theatre.

SCRIPT Dimen Abdulla
CAST Bahar Pars
MUSIC Foad Arbabi
PROMOTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY Christian Göran
PERFORMANCE PHOTOGRAPHY Foad Arbabi
STYLING Josef Forselius
PRODUCER Tove Birgersson Fallgren
PREMIERE October 24th, 2014 Fria scenen/Stockholm Stadsteater

Translation from Swedish to English: Sofie Kinnefors

Based upon Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen.

Documentary, 30 min.

Jakeline can’t stay at home, because she doesn’t get along with her mother. Jenny doesn’t have a family. She dreams of studying medicine but lacks the confidence. Lesli was 13 when she became pregnant. After running away from home, she tries hard to be a good daughter as well as a mother.

NOSOTRAS is a film about hope and having the strength to carry on despite of a tough and violent background. The documentary was shot in 2009 in Guatemala City and opened in December 2010 at the Swedish Embassy in Guatemala City.

NOMINATIONS
2011 KCD Film Festival Bilbao, Kultura, Communicación y Desarollo
Best female director
Best short film
Best film for gender equality

CAST Jenny Chuba, Jakeline López, Leslie Sequen and family, as well as girls and staff of Refugio de la Niñez, Guatemala City
SCRIPT Shari Sabel Strandmark with Nahuel Vazquez
PRODUCTION Shari Sabel Strandmark
PRODUCTION SUPPORT Nahuel Vazquez
CINEMATOGRAPHY Nahuel Vazquez
PRODUCER IN GUATEMALA Siddhartha Meneses
PRODUCER IN SWEDEN Jai Morales
MUSIC PRODUCER David García
ORIGINAL MUSIC Raul ”Zapo” Portillo and David García
FILM CUTTING Palle Lindqvist, Valentina Chamorro, Sara Murillo Cortés, Manolo Gallardo Rubio
POSTER PHOTO Jessica Ocampo
POSTER DESIGN Makode Linde
SOUND Olle Sjöström
COLORING Alexander Westergårdh
ASSISTANT EDITORS Edgar Dávila, Javier Corleto
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Angélica Velásquez, Maja Pernefeldt
PRODUCTION Sharikompaniet.