G – 21 scenes from Gottsunda
Loran Batti / Sweden & Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 80 min
The Swedish gang conflict seen from the inside over five years by a filmmaker who is at home portraying one of Sweden's most dangerous areas, which he is now moving out of. A poetic and existential film about life, death and brotherhood.
Gottsunda, Sweden. A suburb of Uppsala and one of Sweden’s most dangerous places. Drugs, crime, gangs and violence are commonplace. But Gottsunda is also the childhood home of the film’s director and protagonist, Loran Batti. While he is on his way out and has found a different path, his childhood friends have spiralled further and further into the underworld. With confidential access to the tough criminal underworld, he takes us behind the media’s portrayal of gang violence in Sweden. But it’s not without a certain ambivalence for Loran. A friend turns himself in at the police station, a car is set on fire, drugs are in the glove compartment, elephant hats and weapons are always within reach. Not everyone can be Zlatan Ibrahimović, so what are the rest to do? ‘G – 21 scenes from Gottsunda’ is an unfiltered look into the ghetto and gang problems of the Swedish suburbs. Told from the inside with familiarity and love for his childhood friends. A brotherhood that runs so deep that the fear of the news that a friend is dead is always just a phone call away.