Festivals

2002

2002.03.05-10
Tampere International Short Film Festival, Finland

2002.04.18-22
BIG Torino 2002 - International Biennal of Young Art
Torino, Italy

2002.04.18-05.02
San Francisco International Film Festival, USA

2002.04.27-05.04
Munich International Documentary Film Festival, Germany

2002.05.16-25
International Critics' Week, Cannes, France

2002.06.08-15
International ShortFilmFestival Hamburg, Germany

2002.07.02-07
Marseille International Documentary Film Festival, France

2002.09.24-29
Nordisk Panorama Oulu, Finland

2002.09.30-10.06
BUSTER Copenhagen International Children's Film Festival, Denmark

2002.10.10-20
Montreal International Festival of new Cinema and new Media, Canada

2002.10.15-20
International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Films, Germany

2002.10.31-11.03
Nordic Filmdays Lübeck, Germany

2002.11.13-20
Regensburg Short Film Week, Germany

2002.11.20-24
Brief Encounters Film Festival, Bristol, U.K.

2002.11.21-24
Festival of Festivals, Århus, Denmark

2002.11.29-12.06
Images en Région - Vendôme Film Festival, France

2003

2003.03.05-09
Tampere Film Festival, Finland (Swedish focus)

2003.03.12-16
International Short Film Festival Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2003.04.03-13
It's All True International Documentary Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil

2003.04.05-12
Infinity Festival, Alba, Italy

2003.04.25-05.04
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto, Canada

2003.04.30-05.04
Norwegian Documentary Film Festival, Volda, Norway

2003.05.28-06.01
Cracow Film Festival, Poland

2003.06.05-10
inCURT - Short Film Festival of Europe and the Mediterranean, Tarragona, Spain

2003.06.19-22
Reel Madness Film Festival, London, U.K.

2003.08.06-16
Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland

2003.09.10-15
Filmfest Ludwigsburg/Stuttgart, Germany

2003.10.07-10
Zagreb Film Festival, Croatia

2004

2004.01.30-02.07
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France (special programme)

Awards

2002

 - Golden Gate Award Winner, San Fransisco International Film Festival, USA
 - Le Prix Planete, Marseille Documentary Film Festival, France
 - Golden Dove och Young Jury prize in International Leipzig Film Festival for Documentary        and Animated Films, Germany
 - Bayrischen Rundfunks filmpris (2500 euro), Regensburg Short Film Week, Germnay
 - Filmblicken, Umeå Filmfestival
 - Nominated for "Guldbagge" Best documentary

20th of November 2002
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."

20th of October 2002
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 with the motivation:

"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."

18th of September 2002
Boogie Woogie Daddy wins the award Filmblivken at the Umeå film Festival. The jury´s motivation:

”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.”

29th of June 2002
Boogie Woogie Daddy wins Le Prix de Planète at the Film Festival in Marseille.

Ist of May 2002
Boogie Woogie Daddy wins the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco Film Festival

25th of April 2002
Boogie Woogie Daddy gets the Stipendium of Culture by Sparbankstiftelsen, the 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.”

2003

- The Kodak Award, International Short Film Festival Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Honorary Mention, Norwegian Documentary Film Festival, Volda, Norway

Pressvoices

Some voices about the film:

"The film is an impressively strong try to understand what went on in the head of this long, thin and contradictory man who drank more and more, behind the curtains of the beautiful house."
Belinda Olsson, Aftonbladet

"Boogie Woogie Daddy is a very visual film were the context some how reaches further than the time it actually lasts. The film about a little boys regret ang longing for his constantly absent father has a double perspective. The childs and the grown filmmakers. It could be a minor classic."
Ingela Brovik, Skånska Dagbladet

"Erik Bäfving´s Boogie Woogie Daddy, about a sons insistent attempt to understand a father who failed, is still present in my mind."
Lennart Persson, Kvällsposten

"A personal and touching film"
Anna Lundevall, Svenska Dagbladet

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