If you look at the piles of billions
that are directly corona-related and look at what is underneath, then you will find a fairly strong, welfare state cultural budget of traditional Swedish model.
Real level investments in regional cultural institutions, libraries, museums and in the strong society's stick horse culture school.
An originally social democratic cultural policy - tax money as basic funding and overall goal to reach the whole people - which has become a consensus policy.
Only in recent years has the norm from the right been questioned with cultural freedom and freedom of choice arguments.
Of this, however, not a glimpse into the budget formulations;
in the field of culture, the January collaboration meant that C and L became center parties in the old-fashioned sense, not system changers.
Once again, the film industry must be without its production discounts
- a targeted support that would make film productions in the country 25 percent cheaper.
It exists in most comparable countries and the Swedish film industry has been calling for production discounts for several years.
Everyone agrees that it would be good, but no red-green government has given it such a high priority that it has managed to find the 300 million it would cost annually.
In general, the government / January cooperation does not seem to have really had time to think through the fact that we have had a state-wide film policy since 2017 (when the old industry-financed model fell apart due to changing reality).
The section in the budget on film does not have the same type of goal formulations and expressions of will as other areas.
They report a little on what the Film Institute does
, rejoice in international success for Swedish film.
And then there is a fairly detailed account of gender equality in Swedish film production, which the Film Institute has made a profile issue.
Thus: there is an overall gender equality goal for all Swedish politics, but the cultural budget does not contain similar formulations or reports in theater, art, museum, orchestra or other areas.
Why is it like that?
And is it reasonable?
Good topic for political debate.
But it is quite clear that the film has not had time to grow into the cultural-political whole.