Experiencing Interruptions?

We should have a movie

As a teenager, Mikael travels to his father's hometown of northern Greece to see the man he met once in his life.
After a few tentative years and even several years of interruption, father and son agree on a joint project: a film about the past and the lost.

  • Mikael K Nilsson
    Director
  • Mikael K Nilsson
    Writer
  • Mikael K Nilsson
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Vi ska ha en film
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes 45 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 19, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Sweden
  • Country of Filming:
    Greece
  • Language:
    Modern Greek (1453-), Swedish
  • Shooting Format:
    Various formats
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Uppsala Film Festival
    Uppsala
    Sweden
    October 19, 2020
    Swedish premiere
    National Competition
  • Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market
  • Documentary Salon, Arbetets museum
    Norrköping
    Sweden
    September 4, 2021
    Documentary Salon (until jan 2022)
  • Oslo Film Festival
    Oslo
    Norway
    March 18, 2022
    Nordic Premiere
    Best Short Documentary
Distribution Information
  • Mikael K Nilsson
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Mikael K Nilsson

Mikael K Nilsson is a Swedish filmmaker with Greek heritage. He trained on the Polish Film School in Lódz 1992-93 and made a number of short films, including the award-winning “A Moment on earth ”(1994), before he became active as a journalist and editor.
In 2020 and 2021, Mikael completed two documentaries, "We should have a movie" (2020) and "Fragments from a childhood" (2021), in a trilogy about migration and his Greek roots. Right now, he's developing and test filming the third part, "My lost homeland", a project that was selected for the Drama Pitching Lab in Greece in September 2021.
Mikael is now developing his first feature, an extension of his documentary trilogy. He is also the writer of the photo book "Lights on glass – moments in Stockholm with Axel and Vicke Malmström". And he is a still photographer with exhibitions.

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Director Statement

”But, what is a father?”, I asked myself when I was four years old. That's 52 years ago.
Today and in the past and future, lots of kids – and grownups as well – try to figure out about a lost parent. To be able to make a closure in your life, whatever age you are in, it is necessary to give some kind of a answer to that particular question.