As We’re Told
In this creative documentary, case workers, receptionists and psychologists reveal how the Swedish employment system is failing.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS FILM IS IN SWEDISH, WITH DUTCH SUBTITLES.
They complain about inadequate software and mystifying error messages, excessive caseloads and demoralizing results – on average, each case worker helps just 10 people find work each year. To assure the anonymity of the interviewees, they're all represented by cardboard puppets. The result is a fascinating, comical and artistic study of human strategies to get along in an irrational bureaucracy. Winner of the IDFA Special Jury Award for Short Documentary.
Erik Holmström & Fredrik Wenzel, Sweden, 2017, 28 min. Swedish spoken, Dutch subtitles.