"It's simple! We do as we're told." This disconcerting reply comes from a Swedish employment office employee when asked how the country’s most unpopular government agency works. And that’s not all: in this creative documentary, case workers, receptionists and psychologists reveal how the Swedish employment system is failing. They complain about inadequate software and mystifying error messages, excessive caseloads and demoralizing results—on average, each case worker helps just 10 people find work each year, and only one in 10 clients will find a new job. To assure the anonymity of the interviewees, they're all represented by cardboard puppets. Thanks to visible puppeteers, expressive eyes and recognizable gestures, these puppets quickly take on the appearance of real people. The result is a fascinating, comical and artistic study of human strategies to get along in an irrational bureaucracy.
Cuando en España aún estábamos a vueltas con esa droga misteriosa llamada píldora anticonceptiva y el divorcio era cosa innombrable, los progresistas y enrollados suecos ya iban por la liberación de la mujer y la revolución sexual. La sociedad modelo de la Suecia de los 70, sin embargo, escondía una buena montaña de mugre bajo la alfombra. Call Girl cuenta una trama policíaca -basada en un caso real- en la que altos cargos políticos se ven envueltos en un escándalo de prostitución que seguimos a través de Iris, adolescente rebelde que termina enredada en el “negocio” mientras la policía hace la vista gorda.
"Dificult People" - About the production process when Suzanne Osten directs the theater play ”Difficult people”, written by Nils Gredeby. It is a play about people who fail in their professional careers by ”being difficult”. It all starts with the author attending a course about how to spot the difficult people and how to fire people who sabotage or create problems at the working place. In the process the ensemble has to face questions about how we view our fellow human beings and who is considered expendable.
