Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

Two reindeer herders meet on a small hill in the highland area. A story about the need for company without necessarily saying much, about friction between two herding units, and about an embarrassing silence.

Maria is mentally challenged and lives with her overprotective sister Helen. Maria falls in love with a man, Janne. A marvelous and odd story about forbidden love by award winning Director Anders Rune, shot in the suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden.

A documentary about Swedish indie rock outfit Bob Hund. Following the band from stages so small the band could barely fit, to huge festival stages the film mixes home-movie footage with interviews, tour movies and music videos.

A satirical mockumentary in the form of an instruction video for stock brokers.

The potato farmer couple's fresh relationship is based on openness and honesty. Petri, a fifty-something man who has come to terms with his bisexuality, is learning to be true to himself and honest with his partner. Petri's desire to fulfill his own passions raises new questions for Anu about her own desires and demands in their relationship. Beneath the empty landscapes of the north lies a world of men that they have tried to keep secret from their spouses, the surrounding community, and, to some extent, even themselves.

For 30 years Leyla Assaf-Tengroth have known Chadia and her daughters and followed the family's colorful personalities. She have seen the children grow up.She have seen some of them develop into rebels, others more resigned. There are major contradictions within the family that mainly concern tradition or renewal. By telling about Chadia and her daughters and the rest of the family, she mean's that she is simultaneously reflecting the great religious, ideological and political conflicts going on in the Middle East.

Soldier Fabian Bom moves around 1940s Helsingborg with his usual antics.

When a woman is looking for a yellow coat in her closet, she finds a hidden door that leads out into the woods.

He has devoted 20 years to the Sweden Democrats and has been called the party's chief ideologist. Filmmaker Kalle Segerbäck follows the controversial and combative politician Mattias Karlsson for just over a year - until the 2018 election.

Olivia is dating Novalie, who has a special gift - she can predict when and how people are going to die.

A short film from the inside of an eating disorder.

Based on the poems by finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the movie centers on the Finnish War between Russia and Sweden in 1808.

Fernando, a guy from Värmland, fears that his best friend is in danger. He chooses to travel to Stockholm in order to save him.

94-year old Esther, a pensioner with bad sight, is in search of her artist daugther’s public decoration. Endless phone conversations takes her through municipal bureaucracy and lost culture secretaries. Will she ever get an answer to the eternal question: Where does the art really go?

The animated film is a series of tales about animal life, friendship and being close. A declaration of love; the relationship between young and old, and about the desire to go on wonderful, fantastic adventures. It is produced for the youngest audience and their parents. Based from Lena Sjöbergs highly acclaimed book with the same name.

Mini-space epic starring two headstrong young heroines, taking on the mechanical scum of the galaxy.

The wild swans and their nest, eggs, kids.

The story of instant volunteers - ordinary people, who in the middle of the chaos, destruction and confusions after the tsunami hit Sri Lanka, decided to act and help victims along the coastline.

Father and daughter are at home when they are forced to seek shelter while they don't really know what is happening.

Since both parents have passed on, only Hedvig and her older siblings live in the once-splendid, now-derelict family mansion. Hedvig, at 17 the family’s youngest member, spends her days mainly taking care of a wild duck injured by a neighbour. The other two run a photographic studio in a nearby town that doesn’t seem to feel any need for a business like this. Enter the oldest of the siblings, Karin, who left the house years ago and returns solely to sell the estate. Whatever thinnest of threads held the four children together now snaps.

Based on a series of interviews documentary film maker Anders Wahlgren made with architect Sven Markelius in 1969. Sven Markelius was one of the most radical architects in Sweden for many years. Since these interviews were the only recorded interviews made with Markelius we can get some insight into his philosophy 50 years later.

A Holocaust survivor explores how events from the past shaped the outcome of the present not only for herself but by also examining how people in Israel and their actions in Palestine are formed by history.

Two friends practicing shot-put and the younger man suddenly do his best throw ever. A real world record. But did anyone notice?

Sam is transferring between two airports during his stopover in London, carrying a big suitcase with a broken handle. While waiting for his bus in the city center, he wanders away from the bus terminal in search for a toilet. During this night odyssey it soon becomes apparent that that trust is hard to find, and that things seldom are what they appear to be.

Follows Magnus Uggla behind the scenes as he works on and prepares his 2004 stage show "Best in Show"

When the first snow turns the area around the highrises white, a new world opens up. Two boys, Sören and Anders, explore the snow and have different adventures. A celebration of the winter climate and of the unformed and newfound sexuality of the boys.

A collage film and a journey through the Swedish landscape, traversing stellar distances in units of 5878 trillion miles. It is a film acutely in the present reflecting our temporal existence ... continuous and imperfect.

Shoemaker Andersson has earned himself a minor fortune and is determined to give his children Fritz and Anna anything they want. But they don’t know to appreciate their dad, and begin to feel ashamed of his simple work while taking his money for granted.

A Swedish animated family film based on Gunilla Bergström's beloved children's book character.

An anthology of four 1980's short films from Sweden, Denmark and the former Soviet Union.

Four people have drifted away on an ice floe. Based on a true story on the Gulf of Bothnia in 1976.

The lighthouse keeper Lang has become a loner since his little daughter drowned in the sea.

Freddy and Stickan is working at a weapons factory, one day Freddy comes across a key to some secret weapons blueprints. But Freddy and Stickan gets drafted as the crooks trying to get a hold on the keys tries to follow them.

Ahmed lives in hiding in Sweden after fleeing from Somalia. He has been in Europe for six years. When Ahmed arrived in the Italian island of Lampedusa he was forced to leave fingerprints. In that moment, he became a so-called "Dublin case".

The usually calm and rational Ester Nilsson is surprised at how her relationship with the artist Hugo Rask is affecting her.

A couple that seems happy on the surface considers a divorce.

A girl in the Swedish archipelago finds herself in trouble with her fiance, when rumors about her engaging with other boys starts to emerge.

Jonas Lundqvist is something of an icon in the Swedish indie rock scene, with many critically acclaimed albums under his belt. However, the life behind the stage isn't always as shimmering; Lundqvist has separated from his daughter's mother, struggled with addiction, lost his father and watched his mother lost to Alzheimer's. But he also has a daughter who he wants to hold close and follow throughout the life and the documentary follows Lundqvist as he takes on the loneliness of losing parents and the dissolution of the nuclear family.

Resa med en vän [Travel With A Friend] is a poetic documentary where singer-songwriter Olle Adolphson and filmmaker Eric M. Nilsson travels to Southern France and Northern Spain, where the mountains meets the Atlantic Ocean in the West and the Mediterranean Sea in the East.

Chase and stress in the big city of Stockholm. Lines of cars, buses and trams, exhaust fumes, parking problems, and the long journey home to the high-rise in the suburbs.

Holger lives alone in his apartment. When 60 years younger Anna moves into the same stairwell, he invites her to a Sunday dinner. What first appears to be a nice dinner is gradually changing into something else. Sunday Roast is about mental disorders and revolves around the conflict between curiosity, obligation and danger.

The first Swedish animated short film with sound.

Also known as Reindeer Time and Inheritance, this 9-minute short by Arne Sucksdorff documents the Sámi people’s autumn migration as they guide their reindeer herds back to the forest lands. Blending ethnographic observation with lyrical nature imagery, the film follows the reindeer through mountain landscapes, calving, herding, and branding, underscoring the deep interdependence of humans, animals, and the northern environment.

Anders and Harri are best friends. They share an interest in music. Anders is also very fond of trains. They decide to go to Getå, where the biggest train-accident in Sweden took place in 1918. Suddenly there is music in the air. A film about friendship, fears and trains.

Margit Norell - the woman behind the serial killer that was not there. She was a psychotherapist at Säters psychiatric clinic and supervised the psychologists and therapists in the 1990s treatment of Thomas Quick. The treatment method, based on object relations theory, focused on the development of repressed childhood memories with psychotherapy. In the case Thomas Quick argued that abuse in childhood meant that he started murdering people in adulthood. Whereupon Quick admitted one murder after another, and finally was convicted of eight murders.

Documentary about the thermal springs in Le Mont Dore, France and the people who believe in the healing power of the water.

In the harsh midwinter. A frozen marriage in a remote cabin. A man from the past returns to seek revenge, and long lost feelings come alive. A wordless battle begins and the eternal triangle finally comes to an end.

Concert film documenting The Knife, taken from the April 12, 2006 concert at the Trädgår'n, Gothenburg, Sweden, in their Silent Shout tour.

The film is about the seemingly small, but extremely important steps children take in kindergarten to become big, empathetic people.

Sweden is set to host the 1992 European Football Championship when a timed bomb detonates during a top Swedish league match. It has been a mystery - until now.

We follow Ulla-Carin through a few months at the end of her life. It depicts the disease ALS, with all its consequences and how a person deals with a condition that little by little breaks down his body.

Documentary about children whose parents ended up in prison after the 1980 military coup in Turkey. What does imprisonment, captivity and torture mean for children? Do they understand? How do they describe the events and the longing they carry?

A few days during the summer of 1987 all eyes turned to the small coastal town of Skellefteå. Of the city's population of 30 000 people, 20 000 had gathered in the square for a unique visit from the actor Larry Hagman.