Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

An old lady lives alone with her cat. She misses her son. When she leaves home the cat follows her, with a lighter and a sinister plan.

A program with and about Annalisa Ericson, the woman who during her lifetime became a legend, a piece of Swedish entertainment history. Her own life, rich in years, rich in experiences, contains both laughter and despair. Together with Gun Allroth, Annalisa tells us about her life and comments on the films we remember, revues we've seen, epochs gone by.

A young girl tries to capture her mothers attention by defying natural laws, can she succeed?

Ville Andeson is a young and naughty kid.

Kamilla has a long sports career behind her as a handball player on the elite level. But it was in a life as a man, and today she lives as a woman.

An animated story that briefly describes a number of different fictional characters with recognition humor.

Fifteen-year-old Máigon and her best friend Ánne-Sire are living in a small village in the Arctic tundra. It is summertime and the nights are nightless. The naive Máigon is challenged by the more experienced Ánne-Sire to make her sexual debut. Máigon feels the pressure, but she has her own plan, one that takes them on a fateful trip.

A poor tailor and his wife buys a lottery ticket and dream of what to do if they win.

More than 100 years have passed. A mischievous letter lures the White Moon Drake to the secretive canals of Venice, where he finds himself on the trail of his beloved Hope. There, a malicious hide and seek play takes place through the Venetian squares and bridges until he is invited to a mysterious ball at last, only to be subjected to a dangerous psychological game with her very life and his existence at stake. The sequel and final part of this trilogy promises to unveil and reveal all previous mysteries. But will he dare to find out the truth?

In the Swedish small town Kungshamn the journalist Fridolf Svensson writes for the local newspaper Allehanda.

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

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.

Historiska brott - depicts 16 major Swedish cases 1963-1988, including the Caterine da Costa-case, the attack of the West -German embassy , the Girls murders and the hijacking at Bulltofta airport.

Flirtman uses his dog to gain the interest of the beautiful Lizzie.

Newsreel reporting from the Nordic Games in skiing in Östersund 1913

A musical report from a not so great dating life.

Collected scenes, voices and conversations from an editorial staff who tries to keep track of what is happening with princes and princesses, other royals and celebrities in general.

Two people and the brief 'shatters' of the moments they spent together in happiness and sadness.

Kördelux has been given the opportunity to perform in concert with some of the finest musicians in Sweden, Svenska Kammarorkestern (Swedish Chamber Orchestra). It's a musical feast, where the choir's unique energy and the professionalism of the orchestra is joined together. The journey towards Kördelux is framed by a pandemic with harsh effects and a political investigation that threatens the professional future of the choir. Has two years of quarantine changed too much or can the choir find their way back to what made them succesful? Have Svenska Kammerorkerstern even understood what they are getting themselves into or is the gap between the two worlds too big?

Musical variety special with Povel Ramel and friends.

During a night out, Josef and his friends meet Kaja, a young woman from Serbia who claims to visit Sweden to work as a model. At first, the group is intrigued, but her story soon raises concerns and suspicions of other forces at play.

Depicts the Teko issue, the oil resources, trade agreements with Mexico, and visits to textile factories.

Maria, a former law student, finds herself entangled in a web of suspicion, betrayal, and murder after trying to help her boyfriend Lukas investigate a local serial killer. Her life spirals into chaos when she discovers Lukas brutally murdered in their apartment

Swedish filmmaker Vilgot Sjöman takes his old father Wiktor on a drive to his childhood environment.

In the modern history of Latin America, a direct line runs from the anti-Communist repression of the 1970s to the fight against land defenders and human rights activists today.

An artistic representation of Halland, Sweden. Four girls dressed in four different colors represent the four regions and rivers (Viskan, Ätran, Nissan and Lagan).

A jaded crime boss, looking to cash in his chips before his luck runs out, orders one final hit from his best killers - each other.

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?

Joakim Lundell's first film in English

Partway through the building of the Öresund Bridge this documentary looks at the process for what has been built so far and looks into the future at what opportunities the bridge might bring.

Lars is an elderly Swedish man, who has chosen to spend his winters in solitude as a care taker of the few hiking huts next to Sweden's highest mountain Kebnekaise. The film explores the inner and outer world of his stay at the hut and questions wether or not happiness can ensue, when life is not shared with friends and loved ones.

Railrun brings some fresh blood to the existing collection of Swedish graffiti movies. Filmed during 2004 and 2005, it will show you what the graffiti scene in Stockholm is about. And unlike other movies, you will see the most active and best newcomers. Representing 18 crews and 32 different writers, most of them for the first time in front of the camera, Railrun is the only movie of it’s kind. It’s filled with 19 actions on subways, commuters and stations, also containing the very first surf-panel seen in Swedish graffiti movies. Watch the AM/24-7 crew destroy a subway car during rush hour, keepings other people out of their way.

Everyday wintertime life of Sámi reindeer herder Inka Länta and her family, mingling authentic and fictionalized takes.

15-year-old Räkan (‘Shrimp’) is sitting at home gaming when he is reluctantly dragged along to a party. Once there, he feels uncomfortable and it is clear that he doesn’t fit in. At last, he has had enough and does something drastic. Spot-on youth drama about friendship, norms, and big feelings.

Swedish comic Olof Wretling talks about the failures in his life.

Using film clips recorded when the director suffered from paranoid delusions and severe compulsive thoughts, we are given insight into a terrifying existence.

A movie about getting a big buck on top of the salary. Åke Persson, director of the company, gives his employees the full gain-on the condition that they vote for each other based on how much each of them is worth to the company. Åke believes that it is possible to get more out of us Swedes.

The story of Dagny Juel (1867-1901) who was considered the muse of several artists and writers around the turn of the last century. Dagny married Polish writer Stanisław Przybyszewski. Dagny Juel spent time in the circles of August Strindberg and Edvard Munch.

10-year-old Henrik's parents finds the same morbid pleasure in visiting accident sites. But the threat is not only coming from the outside in Henrik's world. His father is absent and his alcoholic mother is becoming increasingly pessimistic and depressed. A touching and skillfully told animation about growing up in a family in crisis.

A film about dreams and opportunities, not about problems.

A different toreador storms around the capital. Maybe you've seen him before. Maybe you don't wanna see? Music from Carmen, arranged and performed by pianist Anders Widmark.

A mammoth who has been frozen for thousands of years has to keep away from scientists and Zoo managers.

Documentary about the fight for LGBTQ-rights in Sweden during the 1970s.

Light Years Expanding is a further elaboration of Light Years, Nelson’s journey into the Swedish landscape in which she is blending animation with live-action. Whereas movement was one of the prime characteristics of Light Years, Light Years Expanding revolves more around the image-work, thus foreshadowing her last and most complicated collage film Natural Features.

Glenn Killing with guests. One of the most successful and popular stageshows in Sweden.

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.

Portrait of the Swedish folk rock group Nordman.

Thore Skogman sings a medley of his songs at home.

Actor Daniel Abreu goes through a crisis in life. He wanders off into the woods after he almost looses his wife and child. In a drug-fueled tantrum he starts questioning his choices, and eventually comes face to face with his inner demons.

A Swedish family movie about Allan, a 12 year old boy with a great imagination.

Bergmanesque ghosts appear at the bedside of Edward Weki, a 75-year-old Sudanese man suffering from the final stage of Parkinson’s: Alma, the nurse of Ingmar Bergman’s film Persona, and a female version of Death from his The Seventh Seal help the old man recover lost memories of his life on the island of Farö.

About the problems and questions that arise when a young person becomes an adult, what occupies his thoughts, what is important in meetings with other people, how he searches for his own place in life, how he handles the meeting with love and the person who becomes the most important there. When the film is shot, the rock singer Hasse is 24 years old; he lives in Stockholm. The camera follows him through his days, to the rock club, to the stage, to meetings with friends, parents and girls. He meets Johanna, who is 16, and what is called infatuation, eventually love, arises. How does Hasse now create a place for himself in life, how do they build up their community? Both are big-city children, raised in welfare Sweden, which perhaps no longer provides welfare but has created an emptiness, a meaninglessness.