Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

Zacharias is a recovering drug addict. The departure of his older sister finds him losing his one point of anchorage. Destabilized, recently sober; he’s lost his footing, and something is liable to happen. There’s nothing between him and the rest of the world—oversensitive—he’s naked to the air. He can’t want what he wants. He must be on his guard. He changes trajectory. The only remaining point of reference; what other people want. Zacharias hurtles through the world and hopes to be done.

At the dawn of time, explorers set out to examine the world. And even if the geographical limits of our small planet have long since been determined, there are still people who discover the world afresh.

"The Elephants" is a film about masculinity and the impossible equation in having feelings without being able to express them.

A woman talks about meeting an old classmate on the train.

Victor Neff moves into a new apartment and discovers a strange machine in the basement. Made of scrap metal, wires, and old television sets, it allows him to enter other people's dreams. But dreams are not empty, they are crowded with secrets, fears, and the dreamers themselves. - Based on the critically acclaimed point-and-click adventure game by Cockroach Inc.

"It was a day in May that you left, one day in May as we lost you. But when I now return to your grave, we are no longer lost."

Diverse questions and expanded perspectives in a film that lands right among the most burning political issues of recent years.

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.

In her room 15 year old "Hannah" decides to start selling sex. She puts up an ad and offers her services as an escort. In her diary Hanna describes how she, over the course of an autumn sells sex in Stockholm. Hanna's first sex buyers ask no questions about her age, which is often enough to avoid being convicted of buying sex from children, claiming that it was thought that the girl was older. As the majority of sex buyers can get away with fines, police prioritize other crimes. The documentary "En eskortflickas dagbok" gives insight into a chaotic world.

At Uncle Blue's house, Petter and Lotta get to go to their very own school. Their teacher teaches the children everything under the sun. They play cowboys and Indians and learn how to build an igloo. When Aunt Brown's birthday comes around, they prepare a surprise, with a treasure hunt and ghost games. Of course, it turns out to be a very successful birthday!

Shows the picking and preservation of Swedish wild berries

Tova is alone, until she finds herself in a young woman named Agnes through some old home videos. When the videos doesn't end the way Tova anticipated, she tries to fix it by digitally rearranging the events from Agnes' life.

Childhood friends Captain Weiden and Squire Born were both in love with the same girl, Lucille, but Weiden was the one to marry her. When Weiden is forced leave for military service, Born promises to look after Lucille.

Two dance numbers are performed.

Documentary film, featuring newsreel segments from the life of Swedish king Gustaf V, put together due to his death on 29 October 1950.

In the near future, Mariam and her family must navigate a financial crisis. At the same time, the Swedish government launches an integration tool called Language-maximization, offering immigrants a generous grant to erase all memory of their mother tongue.

On Boxing Day 2004, the Indian Ocean was hit by a powerful earthquake. The tsunami that followed the earthquake killed over 200,000 people, of which 543 were Swedes. In a program led by Camilla Kvartoft, we meet, among others, Lottie Knutson, former communications director for Fritidsresor, Stefan Åsberg, foreign correspondent and Lisa Borg, who survived the disaster. A conversation about memories, grief and how to move on.

Join us on a breathtaking journey below the surface along the Swedish west coast. Here you get to know the inhabitants of the North Sea during the changing seasons. You will witness behaviors that have never been filmed before and you will be amazed at the wealth of life forms, colors and patterns that our West Sea displays. But you will also get to experience the challenges that the ocean faces, which we humans have created ourselves. What happens below the surface is often unknown. But here it is revealed - the secrets of the western sea.

Pastor Elias is preparing a sermon for when the bishop is coming by his church.

Documentary about the Swedish musicians Maritza Horn and Jan Hammarlund including performances.

A documentary film about Pop Art's entry into Stockholm's art life.

POLAR SKATE CO. PRESENTS A FILM CALLED SOUNDS LIKE YOU GUYS ARE CRUSHING IT

Documentary about early 20th century revue artist and satirist Karl Gerhard

The director gathers her activist friends from the revolutionary youth years in Uppsala to get answers to questions.

Ozan Kiliç is a player according to all the girls on the red line metro in Stockholm. He longs to fall in love, but it is not easy to become a Romeo.

During a blizzard on the tundra, a Sámi woman is herding her reindeer when she is raped by a man. Her sister who is far away senses that something is wrong and starts looking for her. Wrapped in fear and confusion, both women will unite in their fight for revenge.

It is more than forty years ago and the story is almost forgotten, the one about Inger Svensson, a young woman from Öland who wanted to be a priest when the resistance against female priests was the hardest. When the woman would be silent in the congregation and only the man could proclaim the word of God. A film about faith and doubt, about hope and despair and deepest sorrow. And whether to forgive our debtors.

Danilo invites Hanna Glawari and the two dance a pair of rollers from the operetta's second act. The photographer has waved quite quickly, so the movements are remarkably slow. At one point, both outside picture ends.

Noni is 10, and during the week she lives with her mother in Vasastan and at weekends with her father in Skärholmen. One weekend with her stepsister Elizabeth, Noni sees the world for what it is - upside down.

Peter Gärdehag has documented the work on a small farm in Småland for decades which he has now compiled into a thoughtful meditative documentary about the type of knowledge that has been passed from generation to generation.

As a member of Swedish Parliament, Johannes will visit Stockholm for the first time and meets with acquaintances. However, he does not realize what his "friends" have planned for him during his stay.

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.

A film about the community in sports between mainly parents and children.

A little girl doesn't want to eat and her nagging mother tries to persuade her by claiming that "you've got your mouth to eat with". The girl doesn't believe her and heads out into the world to find out for herself how things are with mouths.

In his third solo performance "Akta huet", stand-up comedian Carl Stanley continues to develop the warm, sharp and smart humor that has become his signature. The show, which premiered in 2022, has been praised by both audiences and critics and played to sold-out houses across the country.

At the home of the famous scientist Count Knut Lagercrona the wedding preparations has begun. The Counts daughter Heléne Von Bohren is about to marry the young lawyer Sebastian Lavenius.

When 68-year old Karin clears out her late husband’s wardrobe, she happens to find his pyjama. She decides to sleep in it, but the pyjama itches against her body, making her night sleepless. Karin’s daughter insists that she should move on, but together with her home care, Karin instead starts to look for a solution.

After a phone call Milo faces an overwhelming change. A new medicine has been approved that may cure his partner Adrian, who has been kept frozen in a container for 43 years. Sensitive and precise depiction of unexpected consequences of future technological innovations.

Olga Hallman is waiting outside Långholmens prison. Out comes Adolf Johansson. Released after eight years for manslaughter. Olga takes him to a cafe.

A former security operative turned entrepreneur finds a hopeful business venture in the West.

About The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Sweden and Denmark, charters, members, prospects and more.

Docudrama that attemps to reconstruct life in Scandinavia during the stoneage.

Gitte, who feels alone for not having a sibling, encounters three moose brothers and lets them play with her at her home. But not everything goes as she wants.

Women's football in Gävle in 1917. Girls in puffy shorts and long socks play on grass.

Harriet Rosenberg has traveled with her mother to the mountains to find a suitable victim to marry.

Juvva Pittja's poem gives us a unique landscape. It highlights land, nature's values and their importance to the Sámi minority in the Arctic region of Sweden. Climate change and commercial interests increase negative effects on the area and on the Sámi people.

Sitcom for 1920s cinemas about the Winter family.

Nestler highlights visits by several German entrepreneurs to oil facilities. In the 1970s, Peter and his wife, Zsóka Nestler, collaborated on a series of educational films for television that focused on craft-making. These “biographies of objects” are rigorous investigations into the history of working techniques, production processes, and materials.

Leif is male dog, but his senile owner thinks he is a girl.