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Kidflix Special Malmö 2005

 

How do you say “cinema” in Sweden?
Like neighbouring Danish or Flemish, Swedish, too, is one of those languages that uses a word of Greek origin, yet not the word “cinema”, to indicate the film theatre: it is “bio”, or “life”.
Those languages that chose words containing “bio” (for example, bioskoop o biograaf) have thus emphasised the power of images, seen for the first time in movement, to represent life itself.