SEAT 26D

Early morning, December 27th 1991, Flight 751 is taking off from Stockholm-Arlanda. 13 year old Sandro is looking forward to spending his Christmas holiday in Japan. At 1000 meters altitude, violent explosions are heard from both sides of the plane. The engines go quiet and they are silently gliding through the air. The pilots are forced to make an emergency landing and the plane crashes on a snow-capped field near the small village of Gottröra. The flight lasted 4 minutes, but the memory lasts a lifetime. Sandro gives us his view of the day he was about to die.

SEAT 26D is a documentary that explores the inexpressible. With scale models built of paper, digital animation and live action, it reconstructs a passenger’s memory of a plane crash.

CREDIT

TITLE Seat 26D. ORIGINAL TITLE Seat 26D. LENGTH 14 min. GENRE Documentary. YEAR 2014. DIRECTOR Karolina Brobäck. PRODUCER Kristina Åberg. NARRATOR Sandro. STARRING Nadja Weiss, Michel Jern, Lefteris Ballatsas, Julia Bengtsson, Mats Adler, Andrea Storbjörk Molin. VOICES Thomas Brisson Jørgensen, Agnes Lundin. PRODUCTION DESIGNER Anton Thorsson. PHOTOGRAPHER Jonas Esteban Isfält. EDITOR Erika Gonzales SFK. SOUND DESIGNER Anna My Bertmark. COMPOSER John Ola Håkansson. COSTUME DESIGNER Åsa Boström. MAKEUP ARTIST Sari Nuttunen. GRAPHIC DESIGNER Andreas Jacobsson / Mollbyrån. ANIMATOR & COMPOSITOR Karolina Brobäck. ON SET TECHNICIAN Karin Jacobsson. FOLEY & MIX Gustaf Berger & Lars Wignell. SOUND PITCH Ljudligan / Mattias Eklund. GRADING & ONLINE Fasad Postproduktion / Erik Fhölenhag. PRODUCER ASSISTANT Abdi Abukar. INTERNS Mats Adler, Maikel Gonzalez, Fredrik Björkman. CONSULTING LINE PRODUCER Jon Wigfield. ARCHIVE SVT Archive. CAMERA EQUIPMENT Ljud & Bildmedia. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Tarik Saleh, Lars Rodvaldr.

PRODUCED BY

Atmo Rights AB. CO-PRODUCERS Sveriges Television AB / Helena Ingelsten, Andrea Östlund, Film i Väst AB / Sofie Björklund WITH SUPPORT FROM The Swedish Film Institute / Film kommissioner Cecilia Lidin, Film Stockholm / Filmbasen, Region Halland, Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

SCREENINGS

2018, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montreal, Canada

2016, Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham, UK

2016, SVT Play, Sweden

2015, Festival De Popoli, Flores, Italy

2015, Animfilm, Prague, Czech Republic

2014, SVT, Sweden

2014, IDFA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2014, Melbourne International Film Festival (in competition), Australia

2014, 37th Göteborg Film Festival (nominee Startsladden)

2014, Nordisk Panorama, Malmö, (nominee New Nordic Voices)

2014, Indie Lisboa (in competition), Lissabon, Portugal

2014, Tempo Documentary Festival (Nominee New Doc Award), Stockholm, Sweden 

2014, Uppsala International Short Film Festival (In competition), Sweden

2014, Bergman Week, Fårö, Gotland