Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

Västergötland, Sweden. Two people are building a miniature train model complete with houses, forests and detailed settings, attempting to evoke the 1940s.

Late one night Simon picks up his drunken father. As they drive through the dark, their familiar bickering stirs up old wounds and long-buried guilt. Before the night is over, Simon will face a truth he can no longer escape.

Jan Hugo Stenbeck died in August 2002 as one of Sweden's most controversial businessmen. During his whole life he constantly broke new ground and challenged old truths. He founded and ran corporations in a new and different way. In the first documentary after his death childhood friends, classmates, colleagues talk about what it was like to live with Jan Stenbeck - the corporate leader who became mythic during his lifetime.

SVT Sport has met some of Sweden's biggest sports stars to see how they handled the invisible opponent - covid-19.

An introductory poem read by Erik Asklund, and a series of images from the Old Town of Stockholm, which tells a story of a young woman and an unemployed husband.

A collage of voices and film clips with Olof Palme that illuminates a number of central themes in his ideological thinking. In the film, close friends and colleagues talk about Olof Palme and comment on his political vision.

The Rosenqvist family needs domestic help.

When the old widower Andreas Jarl starts planning to marry his neighbour Gustava Hägg it starts a scandal in their small village.

Richard Hobert, the director behind the Seven Deadly Sins series, was long silent about the sins described in these films. One summer evening in Österlen in 2000, he revealed the answers. Richard Hobert himself and the protagonist Göran Stangertz also reveal new breathtaking depths in the films when they openly and bravely tell why it was a vital necessity for them to carry out the project.

What a wonderful summer evening by the sea. A delicious dinner, a drink on the terrace and the weather gets warmer and warmer.

In Gothenburg. Louise is out walking at night - and witness an assault. She knows the attackers well. It is her sister Berit with boyfriend Ernie. Louise is told to be quiet of what she has seen. She moves to Stockholm.

Dawn in the Swedish woods. A small group of people work in an otherwise quiet forest. A piano is placed in the moss and sinks down. An organ and amplifier is placed just next to it. The choir finds its position in between the pine trees.

A road movie about the aspiring film director Mårten and his friends.

Documentary about the eccentric Swedish vagabond Carl G. Johansson.

A 26-year-old taxi driver drives towards the Hjälstaviken nature reserve and never comes home. A week later, the police make a macabre discovery: he is found dead, hanging from a tree. Suspicions are directed at five young people who were in the area. A 15-year-old girl had previously reported him for rape. Leif GW Persson examines the case and the legal proceedings.

On the dreary St. Lucy's Night, an unexpected visitor arrives.

"Marianne Ahrne: The film is based on a true story about my father and a now very famous artist. But it is completely fictional in its design. I imagine it as a poem with a touch of magical realism."

Ingvar lives a normal life until one day an old friend needs a ride home.

Seven climate scientists meet in a godforsaken meeting room to engage in circle therapy about their shared climate anxiety. Can emotional honesty be part of the solution?

An experimental film about a lost young man among stagnant people.

Every day after school, Charlie works at the town's outdoor pool. When he doesn't sell hot dogs or cleans, he dreams about Evelina. They go to the same school, but she doesn't know who he is. Meanwhile, somewhere far away in she sky, a comet is moving closer and closer. But Charlie seems to be the only one who can actually see it. It is almost as if it is trying to tell him something.

If you constantly flee from your problems then you are never really free. About the encounter between a guy and a girl, four years later.

A charged power struggle between spouses. A tug of war to the death of an only child as ends and means. From an August Strindberg play.

Anna is a primary school girl who goes her own way, against her mother's and her teachers' will.

First bite gives you focus, third bite gives you pleasure, fifth bite - Cannibal Fog.

Jens is driving a car in the middle of the night. He doesn't know why he's driving, or where he's going. As the dark woods are closing in on him, paranoia comes creeping. Is there someone in the trunk..?

After his mother's death, Oscar attends a Burning Man-inspired festival in the Swedish woods to reconnect with his emotions. Lost, naked, and injured, he embarks on a transformative journey back with the help of a Thai berry picker.

Centres on a couple, from their first meeting, through to becoming parents until their separation

Revue legend Ernst Rolf sings a duet with himself in this early "music video".

Caroline wants to travel the world. Her best friend Nina wants that too. Together they apply to a photography school in Berlin. But not everything goes according to plan.

"Gambämark" is a musical produced and performed by the Finnish-Swedish humor group KAJ in co-operation with Wasa Teater. Originally premiering on stage at the Ritz Hotel in Vaasa in the autumn of 2018, it premiered on TV for the wide public on 1.3.2019. "Gambämark" is about a small town in Finnish Ostrobothnia, which decides to isolate itself from the outer world and builds a large wall around its borders. The people of the town enjoy life as it used to be - but is everyone truly happy?

"Our Daily Bread" - Revolves around a group of women who start working at a pizza bakery.

This documentary provides an astonishing journey through innovative, futuristic, utopian and sometimes bizarre architecture projects—including concrete illusions of grandeur and Lego-like modular apartments to an Instant City Airship and round, grass-covered subterranean dwellings—from the beginning of the 20th century to today.

Two people are searching for an injured deer at Gysinge bruk when they find a suitcase and plastic bags with dismembered body parts frozen in the ice. The victim is identified as a 23-year-old rock musician. Suspicion falls on the band's manager, who gives contradictory information. Leif GW Persson examines the murder, the investigation and the legal process.

Albert falls in love with Sara, but she doesn't want a conventional marriage.

Oscar Zia has had dream job after dream job for years – but despite that, self-hatred grows. Music became a competition early on and the constant pursuit of votes and likes has destroyed him. Can he find – and accept – himself?

When the pandemic strikes, the Thai berry pickers are prevented from traveling to Sweden. Who will pick the berries then?

The male genius disappears into another world of creativity and inspiration, apart from the world for days and anguishes to make consummate Art. But what happens to the artist when her body suddenly works for someone else, someone that is so much greater than Art? - Annie Karlsson

A documentary about the Swedish band Vulkano.

A report from Spångens Snickeri in Norrköping, where disabled and odd people work. Each one works to their own ability. The film is about the essentials of life – about community and love, and about what and who really is different. A film about everyday occurrences in a new light.

A portrait of the musician and composer Ralph Lundsten in a film about art, music and philosophy - a cosmic journey in Sweden in music and images.

Two middle-aged women on a tennis court. One experienced, the other one not so much. One hour match. The psychological game starts. Match is a film about in direct and direct aggression and how to finally express suppressed feelings.

A spy from a foreign country charms upper-class girl Ebba to infiltrate circle of powerful people.

The children of the three houses that forms the Bullerby village are afraid of the shoemaker and his dog, but still have to go there to have their shoes mended.

You probably recognize the name Hampus Hedström, the comedian who for over ten years has been, and is, one of Sweden's most well-known profiles from TV, YouTube and Instagram. Now he will be doing his first solo show live at Scalateatern in Stockholm.

A non-hosted anthology movie of weird, terrifying, funny and bloody horror tales made in a retrospective VHS (Video Home System) mix.

Sound film with Karl Gerhard and music by Jules Sylvain.

A group of young people are hiking in the mountains. Among them are Gull Werner, who is a happy girl, and her father has asked the others to keep an eye on her. She walks in the wilderness, falls in the snow and becomes unconscious.

On the comic tragedy of loneliness, based on the short story "Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor" by Franz Kafka.

A young woman in Rwanda is about to give birth. The baby is turned the wrong way and her life is in danger. At the same time the water breaks for a woman in Sweden. She decides that she will cope with it herself; she refuses to accept any help. These two stories of women giving birth are woven into each other and appear to go on simultaneously in two completely different parts of the world.

At Vallarna, 15 years were celebrated with a real bush detective story by Krister Classon. The performance, with our biggest audience favorites, broke all previous audience records. On stage, in addition to the immensely popular postman, Jojje Jönsson's "Dag-Otto Flinck", we also see Siw Carlsson, Ewa Roos, Mikael Riesebeck, Jan Holmquist, Anna Hallgren, Gösta Janson and Maria Mälson Nystedt. Don't miss the funniest experience of the year and a rare laugh-filled detective story at "Pensionat Solrosen".

Marcos has never had a girlfriend. Mattias has been with the same girl for way too long. That's the upbeat of Swedish-Chilean director Manuel Conchas first feature, where two child hood best friends are about to meet the reality of adulthood. Or as Marcos father likes to put it: Grow some hair on their balls!