I remember him as two dads. One was with us and played the piano, drew, sang, made people laugh. But there was another dad as well. Who found it hard to look people in the eye. Who was scared of something. -Erik Bäfving
About a son who, in his father’s folder of negatives, finds love, despair and reconciliation with a painful memory. The father’s suicide and the great emptiness that followed.
A journey among the 3000 negatives that the father left behind him. He was a very good photographer. Among the negatives Eric finds a self portrait, a pictire of the other dad. A man that looks afraid. A man that barely dares to look into the camera. What was it he was was afraid of?
Boogie Woogie Daddy had its premiere on Göteborg International Film Festival.
The jury for Regensburg Short Film Festival has awarded Boogie Woogie Daddy the big prize for the festival. The prize is called Kurzfilmpreis des Bayerischen Rundfunks – Film und Teleclub.
The jury´s motivation follows:
The dramatic documentary "Boogie Woogie Daddy by Erik Bäfving from Sweden about a father slowly drifting away from his family masterly combines form and content, the hidden photographic negatives symbolizing the flip-side of the positive father-figure. Unpathetic, universal stroytelling within a cleverly built dramatic structure and a sensitive sound-scape make this subtle experimental documentary film, the first the filmmaker ever did - a deeply moving cinematic experience. The Jury´s verdict on this film were unanimous.
The jury for Leipzig Documentary Film Festival has awarded Boogie Woogie Daddy the festivals main prize Der Goldene Taube.
The jury´s motivation follows:
Based on family photos, Erik Bäfving paints a lively picture of his father's tragic fate. A brief and forceful declaration of love.
The youth jury for Leipzig Documentary Film Festival awards Boogie Woogie Daddy with their prize Leipzig Jugen Preiz.
The jury's motivation follows:
What happens when photography meets with film? The encounter produces an astounding document of a childhood full of questions. In his first film, Erik Bafving tells us the story of his father in a convincing way, a father who changed from a loving daddy who danced the Boogie Woogie into an alcoholic, a stranger. Dramaturgy, editing and music combine into a brief, but moving father-son portray.
Boogie Woogie Daddy wins the award Filmblicken at Umeå film Festival.
The jury´s motivation follows:
The Filmblicken award goes to a filmmaker that in twelve minutes of love, stills and intensity tells the tender story about his happy, sad father. About his playful games with the children to live music and his disappearance into nothingness – all this without being sentimental.
The jury's motivation follows:
Erik Bäfving is a young filmmaker, who after two documentaries created together with other young collegues, now has shown with his ”Boogie Woogie Daddy”, that he is a hope for new young swedish film in the world. This documentary is the first film he has made on his own, a painful but beautiful film about his absent father. It´s about a wounded relationship between father and son, where the director and writer Erik Bäfving searches for visual traces of his father in the fathers folder of negatives.
The film about a little boys longing and regret for his constantly absent father is a very visual story, where the context seem to last longer than the films duration. Boogie Woogie Daddy has a double perspective – the childs and the grown up filmmaker – and should be a minor classic.
It takes the shape of a roadmovie through the approximately 3000 photo negatives that the father has left behind – which the son handles with loving dialectic.
2004.01.30-02.07
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France (special programme)
2003.10.07-10
Zagreb Film Festival, Croatia
2003.09.10-15
Filmfest Ludwigsburg/Stuttgart, Germany
2003.08.06-16
Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
2003.06.19-22
Reel Madness Film Festival, London, U.K.
2003.06.05-10
inCURT - Short Film Festival of Europe and the Mediterranean, Tarragona, Spain
2003.05.28-06.01
Cracow Film Festival, Poland
2003.04.30-05.04
Norwegian Documentary Film Festival, Volda, Norway
2003.04.25-05.04
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto, Canada
2003.04.05-12
Infinity Festival, Alba, Italy
2003.04.03-13
It's All True International Documentary Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
2003.03.12-16
International Short Film Festival Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003.03.05-09
Tampere Film Festival, Finland (Swedish focus)
2002.11.29-12.06
Images en Région - Vendôme Film Festival, France
2002.11.21-24
Festival of Festivals, Århus, Denmark
2002.11.20-24
Brief Encounters Film Festival, Bristol, U.K.
2002.11.13-20
Regensburg Short Film Week, Germany
2002.10.31-11.03
Nordic Filmdays Lübeck, Germany
2002.10.15-20
International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Films, Germany
2002.10.10-20
Montreal International Festival of new Cinema and new Media, Canada
2002.09.30-10.06
BUSTER Copenhagen International Children's Film Festival, Denmark
2002.09.24-29
Nordisk Panorama Oulu, Finland
2002.07.02-07
Marseille International Documentary Film Festival, France
2002.06.08-15
International ShortFilmFestival Hamburg, Germany
2002.05.16-25
International Critics' Week, Cannes, France
2002.04.27-05.04
Munich International Documentary Film Festival, Germany
2002.04.18-05.02
San Francisco International Film Festival, USA
2002.04.18-22
BIG Torino 2002 - International Biennal of Young Art
Torino, Italy
2002.03.05-10
Tampere International Short Film Festival, Finland