Argue against, argue again

ARGUE AGAINST, ARGUE AGAIN
Thematic Screening

13th of February 2026 – 8 p.m. Hackesche Höfe Kino

Film: ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958–1989

Guest: Göran Hugo Olsson

ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958–1989 (Israel Palestina på Svensk TV 1958-1989)

D: Göran Hugo Olsson, SWE 2024, 206 Min., Swedish Original with English Subtitles

“Archive material doesn’t necessarily tell us what really happened. But says a lot about how it was told.” Göran Hugo Olsson and his team assembled this monumental and deeply thoughtful compilation of reportage on the Middle East conflict over the course of five years, working with 1,000 hours of material spanning 30 years of Swedish public television. The resulting film condenses political issues and sharpens one’s eye for complexity and contradiction, with analyses and interviews unfolded over the course of the film as if under a magnifying glass. A found footage film in which history and the present flow into one another, as much a contribution to today’s discourse as a historical record.

Göran Hugo Olsson 

Born in 1965 in Lund, he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm after completing film studies at Stockholm University. He is a documentary filmmaker, director of photography, and inventor of the A-cam, the world’s smallest Super-16 camera, and the D2, the only uncompressed digital camera. He is also editor-in-chief and founder of the short documentary television program IKON (SVT). Previously, he worked on SVT’s ELBYL series. Co-founder of Story AB. Member of the editorial board of Ikon South Africa—a platform for creative documentaries in South Africa—for the SABC. Film commissioner at the Swedish Film Institute from 1999 to 2002, he has traveled the world making films, commercials, newsreels, and music videos.