Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

Filip and Fredrik turn their backs on Labero during a day in the nest of sin - which comes to a dramatic end.

After doing the jump from comic-artist to standup comedian, Simon finds himself forced to return to the world of comics, after a line of surprising disasters.

After a row out on the yard the neighbors, 10 years old Billie and Amina, become friends. They discover that they have more in common than they suspected and create an equally as playful as self-evident co-existence. But the conditions are about to change.

A young woman carries a dark secret and is in desperate need of help. A Bosnian taxi driver thinks he can help her and at the same time deal with his past. A film about loss, grief and inexorable disaster.

They came to Sweden together with 70,000 other Finnish children during the Second World War. They would be rescued from the war. But they came to strange people with an incomprehensible language. And they never understood why they must be separated from their families. They became adoptive children and foster children and only now can they remember what they have been through. After sixty years in Sweden, a group of war children from Hälsingland make a trip back to childhood.

Celie has already booked a time for abortion when she tells her boyfriend that she is pregnant.

The film was inspired by the Nordic version of the Sandman, known as John Blund. This short film is one of the five winning short films which were made for “My Annabelle Creation" competition as a promotion for the film Annabelle: Creation.

A hundred of Sweden's most radical leftists formed secret Maoist cells in Uppsala and Stockholm in 1968. They called themselves the Rebels. They began to retrain/reform individuals and families to lead Sweden into the Culture revolution. No revolution ever happened, still the rebels managed to shake up both themselves and the entire left movement to a degree that history repressed their existence for almost forty years.

The Blueberry War is an underdog story about some underprivileged berry pickers getting cheated off their money, taking justice into their own hands. Two young Polish guys take the initiative to take the berries back and under their run away trough the rural Sweden they meet a country that is much different from the official picture. This is a story on two levels. On the upper level there is illegal hunting, intrigues and political dribbling with stocks, fake deal and plans how to get the fingers on a 5 million Euro subsidy. On the lower level in the story, we have the berry pickers who, allied with some of the locals, start the quest of finding both the treasure, the kingdom and getting a delightful revenge. And all that's available is a ton of rotten blueberries.

Renée Nyberg meets the man behind the terrorist act in Bali in 2002 and the Swedes who were there and fought for their survival.

Documentary about life and struggle of the people on the lonely island of Stora Dimun in the Faroe Islands.

A little boy is standing on a platform at the railway station in Malmö, looking at a steam locomotive that is going to leave for Simrishamn. The machinery starts moving, passengers board the train. Before the boy enters the car, his mother gives him his bag, hoping he will manage this trip on his own. The boy sits down and starts looking at the other passengers. He picks up his ticket and gives it to the conductor. The stoker shovels more coal into the firebox, while the train passes across the plain outside Lund. Peasants working in the fields look up, and so do various animals along the track. The train makes a short stop to be refilled with water. When it continues, the train driver suddenly sees a cat between the rails. He blows the hooter, but the cat doesn't move. When the train has passed, the cat is still between the rails, but unharmed.

A collage about gender roles. Collective film by Janne Brodin, Arne Hedlund, Per Lundkvist and Maj Wechselmann.

A young man from Sweden comes to a small town in Portugal in search of his father who he never knew.

A bourgeois dinner, a warm summer night, looks to be really nice. But soon the cracks start to appear. In modern society, death is a scandal.

A partly fictional drama about Elsa Eschelsson, Sweden's first female lawyer.

Birgitta Trotzig's "A Landscape" depicted from the mythology of the sore human deaths from which the drug has been collected.

Students John Ek, Sten Klang and Georg Hult enjoy life at Lund University, while trying to win the heart of the beautiful Maggie Frisch. Parody film made by students at Lund University.

Zoltán Török, the creator of the highly successful Wild Horses - A Tale from the Puszta and Wild Hungary - A Water Wonderland, has been living in Sweden for years with his wife, two daughters and dog. On regular tours they explore the colourful wildlife of the changing wilderness, and now they invite the audience to join them on their most exciting excursions. Along the way we roam stunning landscapes, from sea to glaciers, in the company of the wild animals of the far north. Zoltán Török spent three years making his most spectacular, heart-warming film to date. In addition to showing the wildlife of the Nordic countries, from seals to moose, his newest film raises awareness among children and parents about the love and protection of nature.

Ingmar Bergman tells Olle Häger about "The Seventh Seal" and "Wild Strawberries". 1957 was one of Ingmar Bergman's great years. Then both "The Seventh Seal" and "Wild Strawberries" had their theatrical premieres. In an interview, which was conducted at Fårö the summer of 2006, the then 87-year-old director talks about what he considers the happiest years of his professional life.

The night before Christmas, an Icelandic family is struck by an evil that lurks in the dark.

Filmmaker Samir Arabzadeh, a Swedish expat living in the Philippines, struggles to understand the culture of napping. It appears to him that sleeping on the job is a legitimate way to spend one's day. As he delves deeper into the question, his eyes are opened to new perspectives.

Lake on Fire is a short sci fi film telling the story from a distant future of how two former lovers are reunited in a virtual forest created by an artificial intelligence. Flowers are talking, the forest is shifting colors while fighting virtual wars and the former couple realise they can't change the past.

Oona is looking for a bed in a Stockholm where the housing shortage is maximal and the sun never seems to go up. One night she gets to sleep at Agneta's place. But what does Agneta really want in exchange?

A mix of crime and comedy in the forest.

About the mining strike at LKAB in Norrbotten 1969/70. Snapshots, moods, meetings, strikes, corporate staff and the local community.

A very lo-fi and raw claymation about a nervous clay figure named Puppetboy. The style is very hands on, DIY, but with a precise touch of facial expressions and tense atmosphere. A combination of slap stick and romantic, erotic drama.

During a naive break-in, somewhere in a dystopian world, a woman discovers a hidden piece of art and develops a manic fascination for the forbidden.

"Wanna Come To a Party?" - Four young people, two men, two women, make a party in an empty floor at Karlaplan in Stockholm.

The brothers Ingmar and Gustav Nilsson are running a motel and a shop where everything from car tires to fish nets can be bought. They're very unsuccessful, and Ingmar wants to sell the place, but Gustav doesn't. One day the municipality wants to buy their business buildings, but they refuse to tell why until they've bought it. Meanwhile, Ingmar wants to hire a woman that he can fall in love with and Lufsen, a dizzy craftsman, is trying to fix some sewage pipes in the kitchen. Written by J. Rieper

A young woman's hometown is flooded and she starts to remember her childhood

An animated short film based on the sequence of events that led to the fatal shooting of the escaped chimpanzees at Furuvik Zoo on December 14, 2022.

Ensam Tillsammans (Alone Together) is a coming of age movie, about the time when all the boundaries are tested and everything is at stake. We follow a group of friends on their journey to a music festival. Dreams and hopes of how it will be and how the journey develops puts their friendship at stake and their roles change. Ensam Tillsammans is a film about the breaking point between being a child and a grown up. The film is made from the target groups perspective, using their language, tone and humour. A true coming of age movie!

About a boy who wants to bring a Christmas tree into his house for the first time.

The consultant at a mental hospital receives a visit from one of the hospital's female doctors after a vacation trip. A client, Valdemar, has made improper advances and she's confused.

A aging governess attempts to snare her master, forester Lunde of the Munkbo estate, into marriage. But Lunde's daughter, Gudrun, will do anything to stop her.

In the setting of a course at the Art University of Stockholm a lesson about work conditions of artists turns into a challenge of running the gauntlet for the two course instructors. As the students ask critic questions, the the whole situation escalates quickly.

The boxing gala at Nya Ullevi in Göteborg, Sunday, September 14, 1958. The main attraction is the heavyweight boxing match between Ingemar Johansson from Sweden and Eddie Machen from the US.

In a dystopian Sweden, a young factory worker must confront a rogue cyber-entity unleashed from his illegally purchased TV.

For over twenty-five years, Magnus Betnér has heckled, cursed and sparred with the Swedish celebrity elite. Sometimes with a light pat on the cheek, sometimes with razor-sharp satire. In 2024, Magnus Betnér turns 50 and now the roles are reversed. Together with some of his "best" friends in the industry, you are welcomed to Varberg's theater for an evening where Magnus Betnér is the one who gets to receive both verbal caresses and punches in MAGNUS BETNÉRS FIFTY-YEAR ROAST! To give back, Magnus has invited some of the sharpest (and meanest) humor pens in Sweden. Well-known comedians mixed with faces more unknown to the audience, all with one thing in common: they know Magnus better than almost anyone else. Corpses must be dug up, weaknesses must be exposed and the fine qualities that Magnus possesses must be highlighted. To a minimum.

Mats Öberg, born 1971 in Umeå, Sweden, has been living in Stockholm for many years, where he moved when he entered the Royal Academy of Music, where for two and a half years he studied individual music and, among other things, studied with the pianist Stefan Nilsson. Frank Zappa is one of Mats Öberg's idols. Together with drummer Morgan Ågren, Mats formed the group Zappatetoot early on, which only played Zappa covers. Then when Frank Zappa played in Stockholm in 1988, Mats and Morgon had the opportunity to meet him and also sit in the band. It was the beginning of a continued collaboration which meant that they both got to participate in the projects Zappa's Universe and Zappa at Lincoln Center in 1993.

Podcast stars Edvin and Johanna pay tribute to the superstars of the 2000s in the colorful show Ursäkta Live!

Daniel has invited Alex home for dinner. It's an evening about friendship, masculinity and boundaries. SCENE 3: DANIEL AND ALEX is a tone-deaf and hilarious portrayal of how two friends' sexuality, under the influence of alcohol, gradually changes from a playground to a minefield.

One of Sweden's foremost artists celebrates twenty years in the spotlight. Through exclusive interviews and never before shown concert material, we get a unique insight into Håkan Hellström's life on and behind the stage. Håkan tells about his musical journey, from the student room to the basement band and sold out Ullevi. We also hear about the pressure of constantly being alert and famous and going our own way.

A young man wants to buy his first car, but when his father insists on accompanying him, the story changes and shifts focus.

Focusing on the infamous Swedish news article about five teens trying to buy a CD, this documentary tries to track down the persons featured in the article to get their version of the story about basically nothing that turned into a viral classic.

Known for his sharp tongue and controversial statements, Jörn Donner has been an important cultural personality in Sweden and Finland since the fifties. Author, film director, film producer, journalist, critic and politician. Jörn Donner is known for producing Fanny and Alexander and received an Oscar for it. But he has also been known for being bellicose and naturally he fights with the filmmakers Alberto Herskovits and Olavi Linna as they try to film him. He is especially cantankerous when they ask him to do something in front of the camera that he finds inane. He doesn’t want to prostitute himself anymore, he wants to talk! This desire provides a key to this quick-witted man’s incessant restlessness and his quarrels stand as a backdrop that facilitate the dialog Donner wants to have.

Zahra, Masoumeh and Mina are three asylum seeking teenage girls who moved to Sweden alone. Together they fight for other youths right to stay in Sweden.

A man dreams of climbing society and begins to manipulate his business companions to get a sale to benefit him. - My companions are probably good and mean well, but they do not understand business. And yes, they have principles. I have that too. But mine are better.

The student campus Flogsta was built in Uppsala in the 1970s. Since then, the Flogsta roar has happened every evening at 22:00. This is the moment when hundreds of students unleash their anxiety at the same time and scream out of the windows. Probably a tradition unique in the world.