Who Talks

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Elin Övergaard directs. Josua Enblom behind the camera. Elin Övergaard cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Sweden. Dialogue in Swedish.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Tight 14-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
• 2Released 7 years ago.
• 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
• 4Directed by Elin Övergaard, shot by Josua Enblom. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
• 5Editor Elin Övergaard shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
• 6Cecilia Milocco and Kristoffer Appelquist carry the top of the cast.
• 7IMDB entry: tt9381920 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 8Only 8 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography

Josua Enblom

Editing

Elin Övergaard

Runtime

14 min · 0h 14m

Status

Released

Original language

SV

IMDB

Who Talks (2019) ↗

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• 
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• 
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• 
  Patient och undertecknad

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• 
  Picture World

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• 
  Les Inshortables, Vol. 1

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Trailers & featurettes

Watch the pieces

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  WHO TALKS Trailer | TIFF 2019

  Trailer

Community reviews

What people are saying

• CinemaSerf2026-01-23
  ★ 6/10

  At it’s heart, this has points to make about local democracy, consultation and perhaps even some culturally motivated tensions too. Sadly though, the execution is all too messy to really work. We start with a scenario that’s obviously meant to introduce us to teacher “Niklas” (Kristoffer Appelquist) but that is undercooked, then we meet “Karin” (Cecilia Milocco) who is having some sort of difficulty with her teenage son but again, we know no more before being taken to a town meeting where she must address the disgruntled local residents who are concerned about plans to place immigrant children, mostly boys, into their community. Are they a threat? Are they deserters? Will it be safe for the women? How much will it cost? Why was nobody consulted? After all they’re just kids? Oddly enough, all questions that you might expect to be asked, if not answered. Some suggest they might have an open mind, others anything but, but as the noise levels rise and “Niklas” struggles to get his question in about school resources it becomes clear that “Karin” has other things on her mind and then, well a chair is accidentally knocked over and there we sort of fizzle out leaving us none the wiser about just about everything on the smorgasbord of questions we arrived with. No characterisation, lots of argumentative dialogue and me wondering what I missed. Maybe nobody was listening rather than talking?

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Production companies

Who made it

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  Svenska Filminstitutet

  SE

Key crew

• ProducerManne Indahl
• MusicJakob Lindhagen
• EditorElin Övergaard
• EditorManne Indahl
• ProducerElin Övergaard

Themes & keywords

What it's about, really

• short film

Release history · US

When it landed

• Digital2020-06-02· We Are One

Also known as

International titles

• Who TalksUS