If we could build a new society from scratch, what would it look like?
Awards&Nominations:
>>Arctic Open 2019, Arkhangelsk, Russia - Best Script Documentary Film
>>Doc Alliance Selection 2019 - Best European Film
>>Sheffield Doc/Fest Award @ East Doc Platform 2019, Prague, Czech Republic
>>Musou Award for Best Documentary in Progress @ Agora Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2017, Greece
Festivals 2019:
>> Visions du réel, Nyon, Switzerland - International Feature Film Competition
>> Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic - Opus Bonum (main competition), Czech Joy (national competition)
>> Barents Ecology Film Festival, Petrozavodsk, Russia - Documentary Competition
>> Arctic Open, Arkhangelsk, Russia - Documentary Competition
Located way above the polar circle, the Swedish mining town Kiruna was built on a great iron ore deposit, and created a significant income for the Swedish government. However, due to the mining the city has started to collapse and in order to save the industry, the city council together with the mining company LKAB have decided to move the town and its citizens 3 kilometers to the east. In this way, the town has turned a potential disaster into a great opportunity. The new Kiruna will be an even more progressive, even better society for the future. But is it even possible to plan an ideal world?
On the backdrop of a moving city, the citizens of the New Kiruna are fighting their own battles. We follow the teacher Timo, a local activist against the moving, the teenage Sami girl Maja who is discovering her family roots and cultural heritage as well as Abdalrahman, a teenage boy from Yemen, who came to the town as a refugee and slowly realizes that it takes more than just a paper to become a Swede.
The seemingly very different characters are facing the same questions as the city is looking for its place. They are starting their personal search for identity, values and a greater future. The film “Kiruna - a brand new world” is a portrait of a utopian and dystopian town as well as a hard-hitting reflection of today’s society.
