Upcoming screenings with English subtitles:

Monday 24 February 17:30 (5:30 PM)
Labor
Tove Pils, Sweden 2023

Welcome to this semester's first film night with the Queer Seminar!
The film is the 2023 documentary Labor. After the screening, there will be a discussion with the film's director, Tove Pils. The moderator is Jules Han Amm, a PhD candidate in Gender Studies at Uppsala University. The discussion will be held in English.

About the Queer Seminar:
Founded in 2008, the Queer Seminar at Uppsala University is an open interdisciplinary seminar based at the Centre for Gender Research, and organized by PhD students and researchers. The seminar aims to be a meeting point for everyone who is actively working with and/or are interested in the queer concept; in practice, theory and/or activism. 

About the film:
Hanna leaves her family and girlfriend behind to go to the city of her dreams, San Francisco, where she hopes to explore her sexuality. Soon she meets the professional dominatrix Chloe and Cyd, who works as an escort for gay men. A door into a new world opens up for Hanna, and together with Chloe and Cyd, she begins a journey which takes her further and further away from her life and family in Sweden.

The director Tove Pils has been documenting the lives of Hanna, Chloe and Cyd for over a decade. Through an intimately present camera, a queer community that challenges the view of sex and work is explored. Hanna's striking emotional journey is intertwined with her friends' stories and creates a patchwork of a group of people who have found their home in each other.

In English and Swedish with English subtitles.

Saturday 8 March 15:00 (3:00 PM)
Sanna from Nablus
Maj Wechselmann, Sweden 2025

Documentary by Maj Wechselmann following Sanna Löfgren/Sanna Abu Hamde's everyday life and family in Sweden for almost a year, during the war in Gaza. 
Free admission! Tickets are required, and can be booked via the link above. If you are unable to attend, please cancel your ticket as soon as possible by calling the box office, so that someone else can take your place.

Sanna is a dedicated special needs teacher who helps children with learning difficulties in a Stockholm suburb to read and write. Sanna was born in Nablus, Palestine in 1985 during the first intifada, and her early childhood was hard and insecure. Sanna's father's family was displaced from their village near Jaffa in 1948 (Nakba) along with 750,000 other Palestinians. Sanna's mother and father lived in a tent camp near ancient Tel Balata until 1956. Sanna's family left Nablus and Palestine in 1989 when she was four years old and ended up in Visby on the island of Gotland, where her father became the ‘sausage man of Visby’ with two barbecue kiosks in central locations in the city.

Every other summer the family travelled to their relatives in the seaside paradise of Gaza, where one uncle owned the candy factory ‘The Candy Kingdom’. During the year of filming, most of the relatives in Gaza die. The film follows the destruction of Gaza from 2023-2024, the cultural monuments, schools, universities, hospitals. How is Sanna doing in the meantime?

In Swedish with English subtitles.

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We will update this list when we have more film screenings with English subtitles planned.