We Have Many Names + Of Seals and Men

Two short works by Mai Zetterling, one a film about marriage break-up, the other a documentary about seal hunting.

We Have Many Names

Vi har många namn

  • Director

    Mai Zetterling

  • With

    Mai Zetterling, Ewa Fröling, Gunnar Furumo, Ernst Günther

  • Sweden 1975. 54min

  • Digital (restoration)

  • English subtitles

Zetterling directs and stars in this deeply personal study of a self-sacrificing woman reeling from her husband’s abandonment, told through flashbacks and fantasies. Zetterling, whose marriage was falling apart, drew on her own experiences: ‘I used all the pain and misery of the break-up of my marriage. It was a bitter medicine.’

+ Of Seals and Men

  • Director

    Mai Zetterling

  • Sweden 1981. 29min

  • Digital (restoration)

After a planned project documenting British explorer Wally Herbert’s circumnavigation of Greenland fell through, Zetterling approached the Royal Greenland Trade Department to fund this bare-bones, pro-seal hunting documentary.