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The Schoolmaster Games

Ylva FORNER

Sweden202282min Asian Premiere

Synopsis

A school of beautiful boys, St. Sebastian’s academy, overflows with interesting events as they are full of love. Among them, Charles, who stands out the most, secretly meets with a schoolmaster and does not hesitate to have a daring relationship. The schoolmaster is obsessed with Charles and coerces him. To him, he rules as a ‘love-master’ rather than a ‘school-master’. Frank, who shared childhood scars with the schoolmaster, is also a teacher at this school. Frank presses hard about the subtle past between them, and the schoolmaster tries to turn Charles away because he thinks their relationship will be poison for him. While preparing for an important school event, the building catches fire and everyone barely escapes. As the school burns down, the principal, finally free from his wounds and oppression, runs to his savior, Charles. The Schoolmaster Games is a melodrama with sensuous images and a bold story of a love-powered structure and relationships for all times and places regardless of gender. (Kani KIM)

Diretor

Ylva FORNER

Ylva Forner is a director and screenwriter. Forner has written and directed five short films during 2001 and 2012. She went to Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts and has a bachelor's degree in directing from Centre D’estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya in Barcelona. In 2009 she got the SWEA Los Angeles Film Scholarship and the same year she was a part of Berlinale Talent Campus. The Schoolmaster Games is her first feature film.

Credit

Producer
Sofia FERGUSON
Screenplay
Ylva FORNER
Cinematographer
Kristofer FOLKHAMMAR
Editor
Anton SKOTT
Sound
Andreas ANDERSSON
Music
Mathias BLOMDAHL
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