Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

Inger lives at home with his parents. She suspects that she is pregnant. A doctor notes her pregnancy and urge her to seek the child's father. The doctor offers her an abortion, but she refuses.

The day begins for an avant-garde artist. We see him waking up amid empty bottles, easels, and silk stockings.

Composer Edvard Björkman suffers amnesia during an accident at sea, but finds a new identity and career in Paris. Meanwhile, back in Sweden, his family suffers.

Love is everything! A documentary about love in Sweden, a journey through everyday life from Karesuando in the north to Ystad in the south over ages, genders and nationalities.

A camera crew follows the cryptozoologist Roger and his search of a giant sea monster.

Ahead of Sweden's perhaps most important election ever, Filip & Fredrik meet Prime Minister Stefan Löfven during the final sprint of his election tour.

A one-woman cabaret show about famous female singers and featuring their songs.

Crime-drama about a drifting drug dealer on the run in the Swedish countryside, who ends up with a baby on his hands.

The moon landing and the Vietnam War were not the big events for Torbjörn Carlén as a young boy in Mariestad in the late 1960s. What changed Torbjörn's life was the pop group Hep Star's breakthrough and a life-threatening brain tumor. Torbjörn has now passed 50 years, but his burning interest in pop music is still there. A film about friendship, music and never giving up on your dreams.

Philip gets a temporary job as a gofer for Mr Staaff. The job is simple. He's supposed to deliver goods to a light keeper. But Mr Staaff didn't tell him why the light keeper never leaves the lighthouse after sunset.

A music ensemble performs "One Night in Moscow" while a monkey man and a cat lady go on a date in the winter night.

They go sledging behind a car. They earn extra by fixing the roof of a neighbor's house. They are young and want to fulfill their dreams, but before them an uncertain future prevails. We are there as one of them, equally present, equally absent.

Lukas Moodysson struggles to film a scene.

The soldier Bengt has problems with the drill, so the lieutenant orders punishment drill. Bengt beheves so badly he ends up in the brig but manages to escape.

The prophetic jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who today is seen as one of the most important innovators in jazz, was obsessed with his radical music and by the thought that people one day would understand it. In 1962 he recorded his first album in Sweden. Eight years later he was found dead in New York's East River, aged 34. (TCM)

Tomas suddenly collapses and lies motionless on the floor. When he wakes up, life has changed, and he is no longer able to care for himself or his child. With great sensitivity and inventive visual storytelling, the film portrays his demanding struggle to reclaim his life.

Stephan Wilson embarks on an extraordinary journey to conquer Nordenskiöldsloppet, the world’s longest and most grueling ski race. Covering 220 kilometers through the Arctic wilderness, this historic challenge pushes even the toughest endurance athletes to their absolute limits. But for Stephan, the challenge is even greater. Years ago, he could barely stand on skis—he even wore a helmet when he first started learning. Yet, despite his struggles, he fell in love with the sport. Now, driven by sheer curiosity and an unbreakable will, he sets out to test himself against one of the most demanding endurance races on the planet.

"What matters is that all children have the same opportunity to a meaningful spare time, that's my focus and that's what we're doing." Helga Valdimarsdottir, Board president of Angered Boxing Club. "Angered Boxing Club: So Much More than boxing" is a movie about boxing, commitment and everything that involves being active in a non-profit organization which creates safety and meaning for hundreds of children and adolescents and about how they together arrange Europe's biggest boxing tournament.

Lina finds love in an alternative way.

This is exactly what happened at Järntorget between 00:36 and 00:41 on September 13th, 2024.

A story between accordion and dynamite. Filmmaker Olle Häger returns to his childhood villages in Hälsingland.

Deniece disappears during her surprise birthday party. Her friends decide to find her; but everyone expect everyone and the tracks lead to a certain ghost.

The Swedish people, nature and culture, the welfare, social and health care. Swedish inventions, industry international projects. Swedish beauty and design.

Bishara began his singing career as a fifteen-year-old by singing covers on Instagram. Just months later, he was on stage at the largest music competition in Sweden.

While a man in present-day Berlin smokes by his window, two barkeepers in 19th century Gothenburg wait for their last customer to leave. He is an old suicidal man. One of the barkeepers feels for the man, the other is anxious to close up.

Munir comes from the war in former Yugoslavia and falls in love with Jessica from Örebro. The love story develops into a struggle between two separate worlds.

A nature documentary about the predators in the Swedish winter mountains: the owl, the bear and man.

Camilo, from the projects outside of Stockholm, sees city girl Amina on her way to a party. He borrows his friends expensive jacket and approaches her, offering to show her the way. The two connect, and Amina invites Camilo to the party. When one of the guys mistakes Camilos jacket for his own, it becomes clear Camilo will never be anything but a project kid to Amina and the other people at the party.

In 1991 three teen girls called Midi, Maxiand Efti became celebrities over night and the suburb Akalla was suddenly known all over Sweden. Fifteen years later two old friends try to make a film about the phenomenon. But Midi, Maxi and Efti no longer have contact, and they are not at all interested in talking about the past. A melancholically journey to the past by two friends who have a hard time letting go. "I like it like it is and I like it like it was but I'm not so sure any more any any more..." From the song "Bad Bad Boys" by Midi, Maxi & Efti.

Two men on a fishing trip realize that things are a bit out of the ordinary. A mystery is forming.

Scandalous scenes with pyrotechnics, loud shots and games in front of empty stands. The Allsvenskan year was once again dominated by a stand culture that crossed borders, a new strategy from the police and an interrupted red-hot Stockholm derby. TV4 Nyheterna story depicts how supporters, police and fire service view the disturbance in the stands and how to deal with it.

A psychic medium has his grand psychic seance interrupted as an audience member refuses to let him end the show without getting to speak to her deceased ex-husband.

The fisherman Lars Persson on Vinga and his wife Anna has one child, Karin. In the lighthouse lives Anders Bergström with his son Arne.

Joakim Lundell talks about a difficult upbringing, the scandals and the change to a life as a family man and entrepreneur. He takes us to Östergötland where, as a six-year-old, he was placed in a foster home - but also to the villa where he lives today with his family.

ionnalee performs live from her home in isolation. The live-in session was originally aired as part of Sweden's online National Day Celebration, commissioned by the Swedish Institute, where 4 songs were performed live from ionnalee's garden. Featuring Claes Björklund, John Strandh, Ghost and Luna

Sweden's largest independent dance institution Skånes Dansteater and the acclaimed Swedish band Gaby and the Guns stand behind this eight poetic minutes with eight dancers, four band members and a whole bunch of Malmo milieus, known and unknown. The film is about shaking life into things that has become fixed in patterns. About a feeling of being trapped in a place that feels smaller every day. It is calling on the city to give something back, to challenge and be my drug in the sentence of overwhelming us with its full potential and persuade us to stay when we threaten to leave or even burn it to the ground.

A thriller documentary where the director seek answers on why her brother was shot by the Swedish serial killer Peter Mangs.

Owning your own horse is a way of life! Your pony waits for you in the stable, every day, all year round. It's a responsibility – and it's wonderful! But getting a horse is a big step for the whole family. Have you thought everything through? In Egen Häst, you get good advice from Sweden's best riders. What type of horse is right for you? What equipment do you and your pony need, and how do you arrange stable space? How do you look for a horse, and how do you test ride and inspect it? How do you plan your training and how can you and your pony develop together? Meet Malin Baryard and Peder Fredricson, Jan Brink and Tinne Vilhelmson, Rolf-Göran Bengtsson and Maria Gretzer, Helena Lundbäck, Kyra Kyrklund, Magnus Gällerdal, and many more! Learn from your idols and hear how they got their first pony!

Liv is tired of working in the film industry and is looking for something else. She meets a woman who works as a funeral director. Liv gets curious when the woman says it's the most fun job she's ever had. A film about the fact that life doesn't always turn out as you imagined and about dreaming of becoming a funeral director in a small town called Borås.

A short and personal documentary attempts to understand broader meanings of life, attitude, emotions, and the environment by raising questions and exploring the notion of movement inside cars, inviting audiences to view their surroundings with a different point of view and an interesting angle.

As the members of the Stockholm Boys' Choir's voices begin to crack, they are placed in a quarantine choir. As they inhabit this liminal space between boyhood and manhood, these young men share with us their most intimate hopes, fears, desires—and, of course, the music that is so central to their lives.

She has been called the Martin Luther King of Sweden. This documentary about Katarina Taikon depicts one of our most beloved children's literature writers and human rights champions, as well as the Sweden she fought against, with, and for.

Lisa Larson is one of Sweden’s most beloved ceramicists, known for her round, playful animal and child figures. But when director Emilia Ekman Larson digs up her grandmother’s 30-year-old discarded sculptures, she can’t help but wonder why they look so sorrowful.

Two girls anticipate their first kiss

The prince of a small state amuses himself by temporarily switching roles with a cobbler, partly to avoid a visit from a princess, to whom his minister wants to marry him off. In his new role as prince, the cobbler causes one scandal after another.

Spoiled upper class girl must join a home defense unit to learn military drill and fall in love with a lieutenant.

The film starts just when WWII is over. A German ship, m / s Homberg, arrived at Malmö Nyhamn on May 11, 1945. On board there were over 1300 former concentration camp prisoners to be taken care of. We then follow one of the Red Cross Sergeant who was in Germany and received prisoners from concentration camps for further transport by boat to Sweden. 10000 prisoners would be decontaminated and made ready for departure. This happened in Lübeck. He was later moved to Poland to transport medical equipment to Otwock outside Warsaw where Sweden would build a hospital. Through his amateur photos we get an insight into the difficult circumstances that prevailed.