{"id":51486,"date":"2023-02-13T20:13:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/?p=51486"},"modified":"2023-02-13T20:13:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:13:52","slug":"guest-book-buff-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/en\/buff-2023-2\/guest-book-buff-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest book BUFF 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How it all started<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>One spring evening in 1984, standing in front of an audience at the Malm\u00f6 cinema, Victoria\u2014unique in its beautiful classic turn-of-the-century design\u2014is Renata \u00c5hlander and G\u00f6ran Bjelkendal. The latter, one of the two people who founded Gothenburg Film Festival in 1979, is introduced by Renata as the big brother of BUFF, the brand new children&#8217;s and youth film festival. This is start of the festival and yet the audience does not yet fully understand what it will become. Big brother Gothenburg Film Festival and younger sister BUFF look both proud and slightly nervous about this moment which would become a defining moment for the Swedish film festival for children and young people.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ingela Brovik, journalist<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/arrow-down-single-event-mobile-layout.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49553\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:51px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"710\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Troell-gor-film-om-morden-i-Amsele-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Troell-gor-film-om-morden-i-Amsele-1-2.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Troell-gor-film-om-morden-i-Amsele-1-2-276x350.jpg 276w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Troell-gor-film-om-morden-i-Amsele-1-2-300x380.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The controversy around Troell and the \u00c5msele murders<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1988, BUFF invited the director Jan Troell to hold a seminar and talk about his filmmaking. At the press conference afterwards he was asked what he was working on. The friendly and quiet Troell said that he was thinking about making a film about the brutal double murder in \u00c5msele in the north of Sweden, highly publicised at the time. He added that his intentions had been misunderstood but that he wasn\u2019t keen to elaborate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reporter from TT, a newswire, picked up on Troell\u2019s cautious statement and after a few hours the news that Troell was making a film about the bloody murder was published across the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naturally, the evening press got onto the story. The next morning I walked to central station to meet up with Stefan Jarl, who was moderating seminars that day. He gave me a telling off right there and then! Jarl had seen the evening papers\u2019 news and threatened to withdraw from the seminars in a protest against BUFF inviting a director who speculated in murder and violence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We got a lot of press clippings that year. Many of them from the numerous local newspapers in Norrland, which had of course reported a lot about the dreadful double murder in \u00c5msele&#8217;s cemetery a few years earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was BUFF\u2019s breakthrough in national media \u2013 and the papers in the north kept writing articles about that film festival in Malm\u00f6 for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few years later, I was there to see Jan Troell receive the Golden Bear for the feature film <em>Il Capitano<\/em> at the Berlin Film Festival.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ola Tedin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former chairperson and active in BUFF 1986-2000<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:49px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">700 litres of fermented milk \u2013 no sour faces<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a Friday evening, 27th January, during the 12th edition of BUFF. We were, as usual, driving really heavy boxes of film reels between different cinemas in Malm\u00f6.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ulf, Hans and I had delivered most of the reels to the corresponding cinemas when at around 19:00, we got an emergency call from the festival management: the artists in the old school gymnasium at Pildammskolan by R\u00e5dmansgatan needed about 100 litres of Swedish \u201cfil\u201d, fermented milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three artists in the gymnasium, Johan Hagelb\u00e4ck, Ann-Christin Reybekiel and Leif H\u00f6gstr\u00f6m were creating fil-art for the festival.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sk\u00e5nemejerier Dairies had sponsored the art with 600 litres of fil but the artists run out. The exhibition was due to open the next day. This was going to be expensive. We went to the Konsum grocery store in Triangeln in central Malm\u00f6 and asked if we could buy all their fil. Easier said than done. The shop manager wanted to know why we needed all this fil and once he understood the situation, he explained to us that he needed some for his early customers the next morning. He could only spare 30 litres. We went to \u00c5hl\u00e9ns, a department store, where we explained that \u201cto perfect Thomas Ravelli\u2019s penalty save in 1994 we need another 70 litres of fil\u201d. They were more understanding and we left the store with another 60 litres. We were received with open arms by the happy artists as we rolled in these litres of their art material into a sour-smelling room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018The things you do for art,\u2019 we thought as we went off into the night.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lennart Bylund &#8211; former Chair, active in BUFF 1985 \u2013 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"902\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DALL\u00b7E-2023-01-19-12.08.50-two-men-buying-many-cartons-of-milk-line-drawing-in-the-style-of-Al-Hirschfield.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DALL\u00b7E-2023-01-19-12.08.50-two-men-buying-many-cartons-of-milk-line-drawing-in-the-style-of-Al-Hirschfield.jpg 902w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DALL\u00b7E-2023-01-19-12.08.50-two-men-buying-many-cartons-of-milk-line-drawing-in-the-style-of-Al-Hirschfield-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DALL\u00b7E-2023-01-19-12.08.50-two-men-buying-many-cartons-of-milk-line-drawing-in-the-style-of-Al-Hirschfield-768x766.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DALL\u00b7E-2023-01-19-12.08.50-two-men-buying-many-cartons-of-milk-line-drawing-in-the-style-of-Al-Hirschfield-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DALL\u00b7E-2023-01-19-12.08.50-two-men-buying-many-cartons-of-milk-line-drawing-in-the-style-of-Al-Hirschfield-300x299.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DALL\u00b7E-2023-01-19-12.08.50-two-men-buying-many-cartons-of-milk-line-drawing-in-the-style-of-Al-Hirschfield-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:49px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DALL\u00b7E-2023-01-19-14.21.54-drawing-a-group-of-kids-watching-a-movie-at-the-cinema-in-the-style-of-Al-Hirschfield-1024x878.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DALL\u00b7E-2023-01-19-14.21.54-drawing-a-group-of-kids-watching-a-movie-at-the-cinema-in-the-style-of-Al-Hirschfield-1024x878.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DALL\u00b7E-2023-01-19-14.21.54-drawing-a-group-of-kids-watching-a-movie-at-the-cinema-in-the-style-of-Al-Hirschfield-350x300.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DALL\u00b7E-2023-01-19-14.21.54-drawing-a-group-of-kids-watching-a-movie-at-the-cinema-in-the-style-of-Al-Hirschfield-768x658.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DALL\u00b7E-2023-01-19-14.21.54-drawing-a-group-of-kids-watching-a-movie-at-the-cinema-in-the-style-of-Al-Hirschfield-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DALL\u00b7E-2023-01-19-14.21.54-drawing-a-group-of-kids-watching-a-movie-at-the-cinema-in-the-style-of-Al-Hirschfield.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Censorship and smuggled children in the theatre<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>My film <em>Flickan, mamman och demonerna<\/em> (\u201c<em>The girl, the mother and the demons\u201d<\/em>) got off to an absurd start, to say the least. Ready to premiere with an 11 rating, it received a 15 rating&nbsp; just before BUFF. It had been censored for the children that were my target audience! And no school classes! I smuggled a few children into the BUFF premiere, with their parents\u2019 permission of course. No harm was done! Instead, they were both gripped and touched by the film &#8211; in the right way. BUFF stands for quality and commitment to the art of film! Adults\u2019 reactions to my film were ridiculous \u2013 in a world where commercial cruelty is approved and is allowed through.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suzanne Osten, director and scriptwriter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:51px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd at BUFF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Actor Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd had not yet conquered the international film world, but was well on his way after receiving an acting award for his role in \u201d<em>The Simple-Minded Murderer<\/em>\u201d at the 1982 Berlin Film Festival. A couple of years later he opened BUFF in a convivial Sk\u00e5ne accent at the Royal cinema. That was a big moment. I was given an in-depth interview with him before the opening. There have been more interviews over the years, but we\u2019ve always said \u201cthe first one was at BUFF\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Annika Gustafsson, journalist<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"578\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Skarmavbild-2023-02-10-kl.-13.25.39.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Skarmavbild-2023-02-10-kl.-13.25.39.png 578w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Skarmavbild-2023-02-10-kl.-13.25.39-350x299.png 350w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Skarmavbild-2023-02-10-kl.-13.25.39-300x256.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd i <em>Den enfaldige m\u00f6rdaren<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"343\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/stars.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/stars.jpg 343w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/stars-271x350.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/stars-300x387.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00c5hlin &amp; Norsjtejn \u2013 a non-conversation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It must have been around 1990. A large audience of children had marvelled at Russian animator Jurij Norsjtejn\u2019s <em>Hedgehog in the fog<\/em> at the magnificent Palladium cinema. Norsjtejn was in Malm\u00f6 and the idea was to get him and Per \u00c5hlin, our own doyen of animation, together to exchange ideas. Much in the same way you get children together at a grown-up\u2019s party and say: Go play!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the journalist there and then, I was supposed to get the talk going. Norsjtejn, internationally celebrated and sponsored by the French culture minister Jack Lang, only spoke Russian via an interpreter. And I literally had to drag out of him anything more substantial than some umming and the odd \u2018sure\u2019. Per \u00c5hlin, understandably, looked quite grumpy. Silence settled on the room. I don\u2019t think any further contact was ever made. On the other hand, both Per \u00c5hlin and Jurij Norsjtejn manage absolutely fine on their own.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andreas Hoffsten, The Swedish Film Institute, journalist<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:51px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sports car with Ann Petr\u00e9n<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>My best memory is when I got to pick up Ann Petr\u00e9n at Malm\u00f6 Airport in Media Evolution\u2019s&nbsp; red sports car. I\u2019m not sure it was actually a sports car, but it\u2019s a nice memory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel Lundquist, Head of programming, BUFF<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/daniel-sportbil.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/daniel-sportbil.jpg 876w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/daniel-sportbil-350x313.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/daniel-sportbil-768x687.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/daniel-sportbil-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:16px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Skarmavbild-2023-02-10-kl.-13.37.03-edited.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51504\" width=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Skarmavbild-2023-02-10-kl.-13.37.03-edited.png 594w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Skarmavbild-2023-02-10-kl.-13.37.03-edited-310x350.png 310w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Skarmavbild-2023-02-10-kl.-13.37.03-edited-300x338.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cMichael Laudrup\u201d at BUFF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>At some point in the 90s, probably 1995, we screened <em>Michael Laudrup-en fodbolspiller <\/em>(\u201c<em>Michael Laudrup: A Football Player<\/em>\u201d) as the closing film at Victoria. The closing film was always screened at Victoria at 15:00 and was usually an audience-friendly affair.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laudrup was a big player; he was with FC Barcelona at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theatre was filled to the brim with youths as I walked onto stage, wearing a football kit and with a ball under my arm. I exclaimed in Danish: \u201cHi, I\u2019m Michael Laudrup\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some thought we had managed to get the real deal to visit while others sank back into their chairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Krister Kjellstr\u00f6m, former programme director and chairperson. Active in BUFF 1986-2011.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:49px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Battle animation!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>One of all my memories of BUFF is from the gallery Malm\u00f6 Konsthall in 1995. There\u2019s a large screen made of sheet metal. Two school classes, one on either side of it, are using papermach\u00e9 figures that could be moved directly across the screen. In front of the audience, the figures become animated and knock each other out, one by one, in a fierce battle. When the dust settled, a lone opera singer remains on the screen.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erling Ericsson, animator, author and educator.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Skarmavbild-2023-02-10-kl.-13.41.10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51506\" width=\"335\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Skarmavbild-2023-02-10-kl.-13.41.10.png 550w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Skarmavbild-2023-02-10-kl.-13.41.10-253x350.png 253w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Skarmavbild-2023-02-10-kl.-13.41.10-300x415.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"397\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/blomster.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/blomster.jpg 397w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/blomster-350x342.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.buff.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/blomster-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who takes over 1986?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the autumn of 1985, I visited Elisabet Edlund and Sten-\u00c5ke Hedstr\u00f6m at the Film &amp; Audience department at the Swedish Film Institute. I was not part of BUFF but of course I knew about the festival through working at Malm\u00f6 Leisure Administration where the municipal culture secretary, Renata \u00c5hlander, had instigated it all once upon a time. Renata had now taken a step back and BUFF had no leadership \u2013 the future was uncertain. I told this to the Swedish Film Institute and all of a sudden there was a lot of noise. Elisabeth and Sten-\u00c5ke pointed at me: \u201cwhy don\u2019t you get involved in BUFF?\u201d. I had no idea how to arrange a film festival. Back in Malm\u00f6, I got hold of my friend, Lennart Bylund. Lennart and other friends at Fritidsf\u00f6rvaltningen (\u201cleisure administration\u201d) joined in to help, on a voluntary basis. Back then BUFF happened in January, so we didn\u2019t have much time. On January 24, Lennart, myself and some other people inaugurated BUFF 1986 in the foyer at Royal. 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