Filmklubben Sandgatan 8

Filmklubben Sandgatan 8 ser vi och diskuterar film. Våra filmer är underlag för fördjupning av livet, de är inte film med “budskap” eller ren underhållning, men film som närmar sig världen med nyfikenhet och öppen blick. Filmer med det oförklarliga förklara, människans och världens mysterium, alla lager av verklighet, också evangeliets. En sanning, gömd i den vanliga världen, kan framträda i de diskussioner som följer på varje film.

Medlemskap

Höst och vår har vi under en följd av år anordnat Filmveckor med ett valt tema, ett bra tillfälle att se flera filmer av en regissör och gå in och undersöka hans värld.
Vänskap och lyssnande är två betydelsefulla ord på Filmklubben. Medlemsskap i Filmklubben 100 SEK för hösten 2026 tecknas på plats. Alltid introduktion före och diskussion efter filmen på engelska.

Programansvariga för Filmklubben 2025-26 är Magnus Ingvarsson, Viggo Johnsson, Mina Nesic och br Björn Engdahl OP. Filmerna visas i samarbete med Dominikanerna och Bilda

At the FilmClub we meet to look at and discuss film. We are not looking for films with a ”message” or films that is pure entertainment, but films that come close to the worldwith curiosity and an open gaze.Good films can deepen the perspectives on life. There you can finswhat is not to explain, the mystery of man and the world, all layers of the reality. A truth, hiodden in ordinary life, can appear, not least in the discussions following the films.

Autumn and Spring our Film Weeks present films by a choosen director, an opportunity to dicover and explore his and our worldview.
Friendship and listening ar two important words at the FilmClub. Membership Autumn 2026: 100 SEK for all films , registration at the entrance
Introduction before the film and discussion afterwards in English
English subtitles to all films.

Program hösten 2026

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11TH, 19.15
Elvira Madigan
Bo Widerberg, Sweden 1967, 90min, starring Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren
Al love story out of the ordinary, an escape, a
beautiful summer, a dark background contrasting the intensly romantic images.

Film Week September 25th-27th

IMPROVISING EVERYDAY- The great tragicomedy of the ordinary in the films of Mike Leigh

And her over there with that fat baby. Cold, cold, cold, and she’s walking up and down the street with nothing but a big pink bow on its bald head so everybody can tell it’s a girl, like I care. Parading it around in the little outfit. Not dressed for the weather. Nah. With pockets. What’s a baby got pockets for?” (Patsy at family dinner, Hard Truths). Few films have as well crafted dialogue as those of Mike Leigh. This is despite, or perhaps rather due to, the fact that it is improvised. In the film’s conception, there is only a vague idea, actors and hopefully, a bag of cash from a trusting producer. The rest is worked out through a meticulous process of experimentation and improvisation where the story grows out organically through the actors’ interactions. Mike Leigh’s films are thus fundamentally about character. Set in modern or historical England, the characters are sometimes happy, sometimes very unhappy, almost always funny. Viewing every life as a tragicomedy, Leigh, through a career stretching over fifty years, delves into the foundation of both joy and despair.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH, 19.15
Secrets & Lies
UK 1996, 136min, starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall
After the death of the parents who adopted her, optometrist Hortense seeks out her biological mother, in the process bringing to light the secrets and lies of another family.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH, 19.15
Hard Truths
UK 2024, 97min, starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber
Some are content and happy, others are sad and angry. Sometimes the two types of people are sisters. Meet Pansy and Chantelle as they come together for a visit on mother’s day.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH, 19.15
Happy-go-lucky
UK 2008, 118min, starring Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman
Your bike gets stolen, your students are fighting and your driving school teacher is a conspiracy theorist. Could you still be happy? Could you still go lucky?

FRIDAY OCTOBER 16TH 19.15
Here is your life
Jan Troell, Sweden 1966, 162min, starring Eddie Axberg, Gudrun Brost, Ulla Sjöblom
Where should I go? A 14-year- old boy born in poverty in a remote place i, Norrland, leaves home to get…somewhere. Based on an autobiographic book by Nobel Prize Laurate Eyvind Johnson.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 30TH 19.15
The hour of the wolf
Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 1968, 99min, starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullman, Gertrud Fridh
The live of a painter and his wife slowly turns into a nightmare as he spirals into madness.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14TH, 10.00
Sátántangó
Béla Tarr, Hungary 1994, 419min, starring Peter Berling, János Derszi, Miklós B. Székeley, Erzsébet Gaál, Mihály Vig
The arrival of a charismatic stranger changes a bleak, rural society. Who is he? – As a continuation of our Béla Tarr festival this February, we now offer his magnum opus. With its seven hours, it’s rarely screened in one shot – take the opportunity to see this film as it’s intended to be seen. We will however offer lunch.

FRIDAY DECEMBER 4th 19.15
The Apple
Samira Makhmalbaf, Iran 1997, 84min, starring Massoumeh Naderi, Zahra Naderi, Ghorban Ali Naderi
Two 12-year-old sisters have all their lives been kept inside by their parents, who are afraid sunlight will make them fade away. This bizzare yet charming story was filmed when the director was only 17.