Newsletter: WG Autumn!

Summer is coming to a close but the excitement is still alive.

Winning the Creative Europe Slate

With our new Creative Europe Media slate funding we are rolling four projects forward. Development funding gives new energy. This year in fierce competition to win the slate funding. 

Nordisk Panorama Around the Corner

Welcome to our hometown Malmö for a new round of Nordisk Panorama. WG film is pitching at the Forum a new very strong project: 'RETHINK', directed by Johanna Ställberg and Sophie Robinson.

Flana - TIFF Premiere

Flana

A warm congratulation to Zahraa Ghandour and her team on the premiere of her debut film ‘FLANA’ at the Toronto International Film Festival. WG Film are happy to have contributed to the development of this powerful and meaningful film.

Pushback Talks - Podcast

Fredrik Gertten and Leilani Farha's podcast is celebrating 5 years. Now with an audience in 173 territories.

The Pushback Talks Summer Series “WORD FOOD” has come to an end. Fredrik Gertten and Leilani Farha challenge each other with a single word to unpack and discuss. The last two episodes, “LANGUAGE MATTERS”, merges all episodes into one.

On all streaming platforms. Now also on YouTube.

Upcoming Screenings

BANANAS!* and Big Boys Gone Bananas!* will be presented by Fredrik Gertten at the PRESS PLAY PRAGUE FILM FESTIVAL, exploring journalism under pressure. If you’re in Prague, don’t miss the chance to meet him at the festival from October 7–11.

Discover more in our film library and join us in keeping these conversations alive.

Watch Our Films Online

Watch Breaking Social, Push, Daughters, Bikes vs Cars and all other WG Films on our Vimeo. 

Enjoy!

With Love, WG Team

Newsletter: WG Summer 😎

Suns outs, Docs out

25 Years of the Öresund Bridge

To mark the anniversary of the bridge between Sweden and Denmark, SVT will broadcast Gå på Vatten (Walking on Water, 2000) by Fredrik Gertten and Lars Westman, edited by Niels Pagh Andersen. A symbol of connection and collaboration - a timeless reflection on borders, progress, and human bond. You can also watch it on SVT Play or on our Vimeo On Demand page.. 

Breaking Social at Gothenburg Filmfrossa

Breaking Social will be back at Hagabion, on July 18 and 23, as part of Gothenburg’s Filmfrossa series. A powerful exploration of solidarity and systemic change — more relevant than ever.

The film is on the platforms of public broadcasters around Europe. Arte.tv (Germany, France, Italy & more), RTS (Suisse), NPO (NL), NRK, YLE, and SVT.

Distribution: Good Docs (US, Canada, TriArt, Cine Delicatessen, Mindjazz, Docs Barcelona, Five Stars. Request screening through film@wgfilm.com

Follow us on social media, talk to your friends and watch the film together.
Vimeo on demand.

Bikes vs Cars - 10 years anniversary!

A decade of pedal-powered impact — and still rolling! With more than 3,000 screenings in 100+ countries, Bikes vs Cars continues to inspire action. Advocates around the globe are sharing how the film sparked real change in their cities.

PUSHBACK Talks: Summer Word Food

Summer Series has returned! ☀️ In a NEW FORMAT!

Fredrik Gertten and Leilani Farha serve up weekly bites of thoughtful wordplay in PUSHBACK Talks: Summer Word Food. Short, sharp, and nourishing — new 10-minute episodes every week, all summer long.

Pushback Talks is our resistance podcast. Co-host Leilani Fahra and Fredrik Gertten. With inspiring guests as: Rutger Bregman, Chris Smalls, Sarah Chayes, Anand Ghiridharadas. Leading politicans as the Danish housing minister, deputy mayors of London, Paris and Bologna, FransTimmersmans. Stories from Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Singapore, China, Finland, Spain, France, Kenya and much more. All great pushback inspiration.Pushback Talks have now an audience in 164 countries.
On all platforms.

Click here to listen.

Watch Our Films Online

Watch Breaking Social, Push, Daughters, Bikes vs Cars and all other WG Films on our Vimeo. 

Enjoy!

With Love, WG Team

Newsletter: WG Film March 2025

Breaking social is still being talked about

Resistance and hope!

A film that helps us to understand what we are up against and who we really are.

  Breaking Social is more relevant now than ever. The film is on the platforms of public broadcasters around Europe. Arte.tv (Germany, France, Italy & more), RTS (Suisse), NPO (NL), NRK, YLE, and SVT. 

Distribution: Good Docs (US, Canada, TriArt, Cine Delicatessen, Mindjazz, Docs Barcelona, Five Stars. Request screening through film@wgfilm.com

Follow us on social media, talk to your friends and watch the film together. 


Vimeo on demand.

Meet WGFILM @ CPH:DOX

Attending the Forum is Fredrik Gertten, Margarete Jangård, Cecilie Bolvinkel and Karina Bernauer. 

10 years since Bikes vs Cars premiered at SXSW

Since then it reached an audience in over 100 countries. 

3000 special screenings

Outdoor screening South by Southwest Austin, Texas 2015.

Corporate Lawyers go bananas against Greenpeace

Greenpeace is battling a multimillion dollar lawsuit over protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline

Gibson & Dunn, the same lawyers that sued WG film for Bananas!* is again trying to silence resistance. Big Boys Gone Bananas!* tells the story on how corporations use legal actions to intimidate and silence critics. 

Listen to our interesting podcast: PUSHBACK Talks

Pushback Talks is our resistance podcast. Co-host Leilani Farha and Fredrik Gertten. With inspiring guests as: Rutger Bregman, Chris Smalls, Sarah Chayes, Anand Ghiridharadas. Leading politicans as the Danish housing minister, deputy mayors of London, Paris and Bologna, FransTimmersmans. Stories from Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Singapore, China, Finland, Spain, France, Kenya and much more. All great pushback inspiration. 

Pushback Talks have now an audience in 164 countries. On all platforms.

Click here to listen.

Watch our films online

Breaking social, Bikes vs Cars, Big Boys Gone Bananas!*, Daughters and many many more on our Vimeo.

Want to organize a screening of Breaking Social? Write to us at film@wgfilm.com and we will make sure it happens!

With love, WG-Team

Newsletter: WG Film December 2024

What a year it has been! With Breaking Social traveling the world, new projects coming up and of course our 30th Anniversary as a highlight! 

 

Best Editing Award

We are proud to announce that Benjamin Binderup wins the best editing award at Sveriges Filmklippare (Swedish Film Editors) for his editing on Breaking Social. Also a big thank you to the second editor Anders Bewarp for his important contribution.

 
 

Retrospective in Mexico

DOCS MX, a leading Latin American doc-festival, awarded Fredrik Gertten an honorable award for his work over the years. Fredrik had a retrospective of five films at the 2024 edition of the festival. 

WG Film 30 Years 

Earlier this year, we celebrated our 30 years anniversary with a party at our office. We were blessed to see so many people we met over the years who could make it there!

Over a 100 episodes! 

Our podcast finishes its 8th season this month. In year four of the podcast we had listeners in 162 countries. We also reached our 100th episode this year. There was a lot to learn from our very global and interesting guests. 

This season we had Christophe Najdovski on the show, the deputy major of Paris, who spoke about the transformation of Paris when it comes to bikes vs cars. We also welcomed Peter S Goodman, New York Times correspondent who talked about his new book ‘How The World Ran Out Of Everything.’ And this season there was a very special four-part series in which Pushback Talks Producer Kirsten sits down with Leilani Farha and Sam Freeman to introduce listeners to The Shift Directives: a revolutionary approach to the global housing crisis. 

Go listen to season 8 and all our other episodes here. 

FIPADOC

At the end of January, 28th - 31th, Fredrik Gertten and Margarete Jangård will be at FIPADOC  in Biarritz, France. Meet them there.

Breaking Social distribution USA and Canada

Good Docs picked up the educational rights for Breaking Social in the USA and in Canada. The same distributor already handles PUSH in the US. 

OXFAM 🖤 Breaking Social 

January 30th 2025, Breaking Social will be presented at OXFAM in Ottawa, Canada.

Watch Our Films Online

Watch Breaking Social, Push, Daughters, Bikes vs Cars and all other WG Films on our Vimeo. 

Enjoy!

With Love, WG Team

Fredriks Retrospective in Mexico City

The most important documentary film festival in Latin America, DocsMX invited Fredrik Gertten as the guest of honor for a special retrospective!
Five of his films will be screened and Fredrik will lead several masterclasses and talks across multiple seminars!

Join him for a Special Retrospective of his work from October 11 to 17 across four venues in Mexico City.

Not in Mexico? You can watch Breaking Social, Bikes vs Cars, Big Boys Gone Banana’s, Push, An Ordinary Family and all the other films by Fredrik on our Vimeo.

If you want to be the first one to know all about our new projects, older films, screenings all over the world and other WG News: Follow our Instagram for the latest information!

Newsletter: WG Film 30 years!

We are still around, telling local stories with a global impact. Films shown in 100+ countries. A small celebration will take place at our studio Västergatan 22 in Malmö. Friends are welcome.  Monday 23th 19.30 – 22.00

Watch our films online 

In addition to our anniversary, we offer a discount code on our Vimeo channel. Watch all our films using the following code to get 50% off! wg30years

WG Film presents at Nordisk Forum

A new film is in the making! Director Jonathan Lomar is trying to find out what happened to his friends. 

THE ART OF NOT KNOWING is a film by Jonathan Lomar. A filmmaker and skateboarder embarks on a journey to the past, hoping to uncover and understand what he did not see back then, things that defined his and his friends' youth and left lasting imprints on all their lives. The Art Of Not Knowing will be pitched at Nordisk Forum in Malmö.

Breaking Social on cinemas in Serbia

Five Stars Distribution presents the film on six venues in Belgrade and Abazija. More info 
Breaking Social has been selected for DocuBaku International Documentary Film Festival 1-7 October in Baku, Azerbaijan. 

PUNKDREAMS

Borgerlig Begravning was the youngest punk band in Sweden.

Our short documentary Punkdreams is making waves across the globe! After being screened in Sweden and India upcoming screenings include Reykjavík International Film Festival, KUKI Young Short Film Festival Berlin, doxs! Dokumentarfilme für Kinder und Jugendliche, Duisburg and the Cinemagic Belfast Festival. During Nordisk Panorama in Malmö Punkdreams has been handpicked for a cool new initiative where film students curate films for their peers.

Our podcast pushes back!

PUSHBACK Talks. A podcast by Fredrik Gertten & Leilani Farha. Season 8. 


Since 2020 Fredrik & Leilani invite inspirational guests, trying to understand what we are up against and how to pushback. So far audience in 161 countries.  This truly global podcast is available on all plattforms.

Don't miss this enlightening episode. Listen to it here.

Want to organize a screening of Breaking Social? Write to us at film@wgfilm.com and we will make sure that can happen!

WG FILM HAS A YOUTUBE CHANNEL!

WG Film is thrilled to unveil our latest venture: our very own YouTube channel LINK

It's an exciting addition to our platform, designed to bring engaging content directly to your screens. Our Youtube channel has been around for a long time, but now we are putting a lot of love into it in order to deliver new content to our community. 

So, friends, documentary enthusiasts, web astronauts, podcasters, curious minds, subscribe to our channel!

This is what you can expect:
If you want to learn more about the visionaries shaping the documentary landscape and the passion driving their work. Check out the interviews with the directors sharing insights of their creative process and stories behind their films.

If you want to be aware and updated of the world debates, listen to our podcast PUSHBACK TALKS hosted by filmmaker Fredrik Gertten and housing rights advocate Leilani Farha. Through candid conversations with special guests, they delve into the pressing issues explored in our documentaries, offering fresh perspectives and meaningful dialogue.

And to get a glimpse on the compelling narratives and thought-provoking themes like; environmental issues and human rights struggles, we are also showcasing the trailers for WG Films latest documentaries. 

Subscribe to WG Film's YouTube channel today and be part of a community dedicated to meaningful storytelling and thought-provoking content. Join us and change the conversation! We can't wait to share our stories with you.

We are looking for interns!

Are you passionate about documentary films? Interested to learn more about producing and releasing films? We at Malmö-based production company WG Film are looking for an intern to join our team in Autumn 2024! 

Our interns work with a wide variety of tasks to do with communications, editing, research, social media, outreach and impact work, podcast production, graphics, administrative work, development, and release of films. We are open for candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds (such as film, media and communications, journalism, politics, human rights or marketing, for example), but interest and skills in any of the above are appreciated. A passion for documentary films is a must! We also appreciate different language skills.

Please note that an internship at WG Film is office-based and most likely does not include filming (except promotional videos) or work on film sets. This is an unpaid internship, so we prioritise applications from candidates who are doing the internship as part of their degree or a programme that provides financial assistance. Internship period from August or September until Christmas.

Remote internships not possible.

To apply, send your CV and a short application letter to hanna@wgfilm.com by Sunday 14th April.

Thank you!

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