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Kalaf by the Swedish director Isabella Eklöf is based on an autobiographical book by Kim Leine, who wrote the script for the film which both of them presented yesterday in the Official Selection, accompanied by the actors Emil Johnson and Berda Larsen. Being a Kalak can be a good thing or a bad thing. That’s what they tell the main character in the film. It can mean “filthy Greenlander”, or simply, “huge moron”, although strictly speaking it means a “real Greenlander”. This is what the Dane, Jan, yearns to be: a Kalak, and to be part of a small community in Greenland, where we get the feeling that he has fled with his wife and two children to escape from a past in Denmark where his father, who is now suffering from cancer, and who sexually abused him as a child, still lives. Johnson’s character asks, “Can I be loved if I’ve been abused” and there are no simple answers. This is how the director wanted things to be. She says that she loves to work against the audience’s expectations, as she thinks that we are too used to the dramatic framework in Hollywood, where things happen in a really predictable way.
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