Nyårsfesten

The turn of a year in a snowy village in Sweden documents the need for change and continuance A collective film about rites and times DalaFloda Sweden has 680 inhabitants In the depths of the blue light of winter six filmmakers ask themselves what it means to start a new year Emerging locals formulate their views on time and our need for rituals and reoccurring events Their answers parade poetically through the snowy and cold village landscape A sort of time travel takes place and recalls ordinary as well as extraordinary memories and identities The commonplace is our need for measuring time our need for a beginning and an end A ninetyyearold woman shows a way out of the neverending dream phase of the evoked Phantom Carriage Selma Lagerlöf and exclaims Really you ought to reset yourself You have to feel completely at zero again