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hello welcomes arts and culture sweden has just announced the film is putting forward to be nominated for best international feature at the oscars its star rector acking is my guest in just a minute also coming up. on a grand scale cities made out of cardboard a speciality of french artist of bolivia gross touch. and a visit to burdens on the world in our alternative tourist guide planet. but we begin with the film and then we danced written and directed by swedish filmmaker 11. let's have a quick look at

a scene from the movie. or do you know. i'm a doctor or it's a sudden. through a whole round so there aren't city itself. the film is a long story that takes place in the world of traditional georgian which is a big. culture. and i'm joined by the writer director of the film. first of all welcome and you must be very excited about the oscar. thank you for having me and. i believe if we can go back to the oscars the next february we might get there but let's go back a few years because i believe this particular incident that inspired you to make

this film tell us about it. 201315 young kids in georgia decided to hold georgia's 1st pride parade. in tbilisi the capital and there were there was a counterattack organize a counter demonstration organized and they were attacked and images you know are cable out on all the news channels and i saw it in sweden and i thought. i didn't like what i saw and i thought you know i should do something about that now about that topic so that was sort of like the inspiration for the film and then sort of give us a brief synopsis of what the film's about well basically i would say it's a coming of age story about a young downstair at the georgia national ensemble which is a very strict conservative. place. and they he you know falls in love with another guy and it sort of becomes like a catalyst for him to i think in the end discover his own artistry i think you know

it's a film about breaking the norm sort of yeah ok and i mean this seems to be george or seems seems real students either to gay rights is this why you made the film in the georgian language yeah i mean i think the setting of the story certainly you know it if it had been set in sweden it would have been the same story so you know there was something there that i wanted to. discover and sort of delve into. georgia you know it's sort of complicated i think it's a very polarized country at the moment and it's very divided on one and you know you have the younger generation who's very you know. liberal and they really you know one something else and then on the other hand you have sort of a you know there's e-list or whatever you call them let's see another clip and this is where the head of the daunce academy appears to men sort of question the main

actor their. god. the one if that's a. particular gentle shift. parody cartoon. you know. so he's trained. you can feel the tension. i believe you when you went to film in georgia you had to sort of give the authorities or another script to will give them another impression of what the film was about i mean we didn't you know actually

give them a script but we you know we had to film in some places you know were a little tricky to get into had they known exactly what the film was about so you know we had another official plot for the film that we were some sort of you know. in some places and in some places you know we could be totally open again it's about the division i was talking about and did you actually have problems if you have problems when you were that we did that we did fortunately we know. some locations where we're supposed to film would you know just suddenly disappear and you know we kind of feel like as they were renovating and things like that so you know we never nobody officially told us you can't be here as you're making an l.c.d. t.v. film but. just quickly want to mention i see benny andersson of abba was one of the produces but is he interested in georgian traditional. i think

he probably is his you know his a patron of the arts. i know that he actually 20 years ago did a george cd with polyphonic choir singing so he has a little it is but actually it's son who is the producer from from. well he's a good producer. a lot say living with a film you cross your fingers for the. thank you very much about great filming. the main role material used by french artist olivier it is called boxes he makes what can only be described as. just cardboard bits of tape and he needs a lot of help so did the people of la in france to construct buildings they know from their own city to create a temporary town down at the city's hall. cardboard

boxes tape and lots of helping hands are all that only means for his monumental art this is urban art. 14 cardboard buildings up to 27 meters tall and weighing one and a half tons each he's having a city built within a city on the waterfront in the friends his largest cardboard creation to date does that make him nervous. we could build a lot more here without. the conditions actually make me more nervous than the construction. that was almost completely destroyed in the 2nd world war. french architect. designed housing for around 60000 people a masterpiece urban planning. drew inspiration from the heretics

for his cardboard installation. fascinating work and a bit like being in a.