Light Year (2008)

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Read more about this film in our article "I närkontakt med naturen" (in Swedish)

Read more about this film in our article "Änglamark, folktro och det förgiftade samhället – svenska miljöfilmer" (in Swedish)

Original title	Ljusår
Swedish release title	Ljusår
International title	Light Year

Director	Mikael Kristersson
Screenplay	Mikael Kristersson
Producer	Lisbet Gabrielsson
Director of Photography	Mikael Kristersson
Film Editor	Mikael Kristersson
Production Mixer	Mikael Kristersson
Technical Advisor	Hans Hansson (filmteknisk rådgivare)
Legally responsible	Lisbet Gabrielsson
Film Commissioner	Jakob Høgel (Det Danske Filminstitut) Kerstin Allroth (Svenska Filminstitutet)
Steadicam Operator	Dick Ying
Color Timer	Sten Lindberg
Negative Cutter	Pia Svedlund
Lab Coordinator	Lars Arvidsson (projektledare)
Scanner	Christer Eidhagen (Telecinescanning)
On-line Editing	Per Legelius
Digital Grading	Jan Lundkvist
Supervising Sound Editor	Mikael Kristersson Olle Tannergård
Re-recording Mixer	Carl Aage Hansen (as Nalle Hansen)
Graphics	Christer Jonson
Thanks to	Kerstin Allroth Jan Danielson Josefina Bentz Gunnar Bergdahl Kerstin Bonnier Patrick Bergmark Hannes Boman Charlotta Denward Tove Ekdahl Ingrid Edström Ylva Floreman Katarina Flygare Bengt Forslund Olivia Hagbrand Peter Hald Lena Hansson Varhegyi Jean Hermanson Ralf Ivarsson Tore Karlsson Ingemar Lind Sten Lindberg Bengt Linné Hansi Mandoki Mattias Nohrborg Kirsten Bonnén Rask (as Kirsten Rask) Gerd Roos Karl-Henrik Råssmo (as Henke Råssmo) Helena Sandblad Anna Strand Carl Henrik Svenstedt Lars Säfström Elke Theil Kjeld Veirup Patrik Waernbaum

Production Company	Lisbet Gabrielsson Film AB
	Picafilm
Copyright	Lisbet Gabrielsson Film AB	2009
	Picafilm	2009
Co-Production Company	Film i Skåne AB
	Sveriges Television AB. SVT Syd
Supported by	Danmarks Radio TV
	Gertrude och Ivar Philipsons stiftelse
	Konstnärsnämnden
	Sparbanksstiftelsen Skåne
	Stiftelsen Framtidens Kultur
Advance allocations	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	1999
	Det Danske Filminstitut	2003
	Nordisk Film & TV Fond
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm)	Folkets Bio AB
Distributor in Sweden (DVD)	PAN Vision AB	2009
Distributor in Sweden	Folkets Bio AB		(digital kopia)
Laboratory	Nordisk Film Post Production AB
Re-recording Studio	Nordisk Film Audio
Sales	Level K	2010

The heart of the film is the sundrenched kitchen garden. Towards the street in the west are dense lilac bushes; on the northern side a half-timbered house; a raspberry thicket serves as a border to the southern neighbour and a lush honeysuckle grows on the fence to the parkland in the east. There are out-houses, a chicken run, a bricked –in corner for compost and a herb garden. The giant hawthorn lives side by side with the gnarled old apple tree. And then there is a throng of birds at all times of the year – the residents, the casuals and the migrants.
In a dazzlingly beautiful sequence of shots and meticulously authentic sound  Mikael Kristersson explores the greatness of the small objects in his own garden in Falsterbo, a old village in the south of Sweden. We see the real world from the perspective of the great tit, the wasp and the cabbage butterfly, and we human beings as one species among many.
"There’s nothing we’re more ignorant about than our immediate surroundings.”

Censorship number	146145
Date	2008-12-01
Classification	Suitable for all audiences

Aspect ratio	16:9
Sound type	Sound
Sound system	Dolby Digital
Colour type	Colour
Length in minutes	101 min

Falsterbo

Sweden

Release in Sweden	2008-12-12			Sweden	101 min
Festival showing	2009-03-05	Victoria 1	Stockholm	Sweden	101 min	Tempo dokumentärfilmfestival.
	2009-03-06	Victoria 4	Stockholm	Sweden	101 min	Tempo dokumentärfilmfestival.
DVD release	2009-06-24			Sweden
TV showing	2012-12-24	SVT2		Sweden

Festival Award	Coruna	2009			(första pris/first prize at the Mostra de Ciencia e Cinemai Coruna, Spanien)

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Element type	Print
Item base	Polyester
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Print
Item base	Polyester
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Digital intermediate
Item base	Acetate
Carrier type	35 mm
Length	2989

Element type	Sound negative
Item base	Polyester
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Video tape digital
Carrier type	Digital Betacam (PAL)

Element type	Digitalt arkivmaterial
Carrier type	MAP

Element type	Digitalt visningsmaterial
Carrier type	DCP

Element type	Digitalt visningsmaterial
Carrier type	DCP

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2

Script type	Synopsis
Script title	Ljusår
Extent	1 s. + 1 s. för- och eftertext.
Language	Swedish

Type	Misc.prints
Language	Swedish

Type	Misc.prints
Language	Swedish

Type	Program/Reklamtryck

Type	Program/Reklamtryck