Presented in cooperation with the Swedish Information Service, S.F. Reidar Jönsson-the popular Swedish novelist, poet, playwright, stage and film director-adapted his semi-autobiographical novel My Life as a Dog for the screen. It is the story of a mischievous, high-spirited boy, Ingemar Johansson (Anton Glanzelius), who is sent to live with relatives in a rather eccentric village community while his mother lies dying. In its best moments My Life as a Dog recognizes something few films about children do: that kids themselves are not sentimental in the least. Rather, they are introspective, serious, insatiably curious, a little weird and very resourceful. So there is much genuine comedy in the gravity with which Ingemar sets about trying to overcome the loss of his mother while negotiating his way through a world of benign idiocy and baffling unfairness. Born in Sweden in 1944, Jönsson's early life resembles that of his screen hero; at the age of 13, following the death of his mother, he escaped school and became a merchant marine. My Life as a Dog at Sea, based on his second novel, is currently in pre-production. His new book is My Father, His Son, due in October from Arcade Publishing.