Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

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.

Mari is finally out of her relationship, or is she? As soon as she finds her freedom, She immediately start to second guess her choices.

Glenn dislikes people who do not use their turn signals when driving. Glenn takes the law into his own hands and, by chance, ends up fighting against even greater crime alongside young Annika.

In 1628 was one of Europe's largest ship, the Vasa, completed. The summer gathered thousands of curious along Stockholm's quays to see her slip out on her maiden voyage.

Presented to the oddest of movie watchers comes 2014's grand superhero tale 'Dr. Fightenstein - Warlock Vigilante'. Amaturishly recorded in about a weekend on a household supply budget, Fightenstein delivers the cheese, blood and gore in a harmlessly campy way for kids of all ages over 15.

Join Agneta and Johanna to Spain, see how Stånk Tommy celebrates his Christmas in his own special way, plus all the other dear small-town characters who appear in this fourth film.

Harrow Creek is a silent, calm town where nothing bad has happened in over thirty years. But the citizens' lives get turned upside down when a child is murdered, and the FBI agent James Morgan gets sent there to solve the case.

A documentary portrayal of Duisburg, a poisoned, slowly dying city of 700,000 inhabitants. Children in Duisburg grow more slowly than other children, ten times as many people die of lung cancer. The population and local politicians protest against further industry, but it is big finance and EU politicians who decide and now the city's industry is to be expanded with petrochemical plants.

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

A young man in a small Swedish town has a secret affair with the town bootlegger while the man fixes his motorcycle.

Documentary film about Storks in Scania, the southernmost province of Sweden.

'The Drunk Trio': Ivar Wallin, guitar, Erik Wiberg, accordion and Bror Wiberg, mandolin, play songs by Harry Rydell. The farm trader Sixten Landby talks about how to become a peddler, while cycling on a path to his own story about the profession. Kuno Persson, poet and ore prospector, stands on the beach and reads his own poem about the river.

Joshua is in seventh grade and struggles to regulate his emotions in the classroom. Special education teacher Diana grapples with her own issues but still puts all her effort into guiding Joshua on the right path. After a violent incident during school hours, the tensions within the stressed teaching staff at a school on the west coast are laid bare.

Images of Scania, Sweden: Ystad, Trelleborg, Malmö, Lund, Helsingborg, Mölle. Churches, castles and lordly seats. The preserved English-language version is shortened and partly edited differently in relation to how the film looked in its original Swedish-language version.

Stina and her daughter Karin lives in a small cabin on Baron Silverlods land.

Images of Bohuslan.

As an adult, Henrik discovers that he recognizes himself in the symptoms of ADHD. Together with his mother and the imaginary friend Uncle Väster, he seeks answers to questions about his inner world in a reflective and sensitive documentary.

Swedish documentary concerning people afflicted by hoarding disorder.

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.

Centrum is a depiction of democracy, dreams and the youth's search for a context.

A documentary about the girls at Marabou and their work situation.

A 1938 short film about Motala as both a radio broadcasting and radio production city.

Five music videos from the album Musik für alle and some sketches.

A clay animation about the life of a mother. It starts with the conception of the child, we follow her and her kid through childhood until her child is grown up, leaves home and has a child of his own.

Emma and Vigert are in their 70s, have no children or other social contacts, and live alone on a farm far into the forest. This documentary follows them during one winter day.

Brothers Rolly and Ricky hunt boat thieves and smugglers in the Stockholm archipelago.

Sweden's only war film during World War I.

The Swedish throwback band The Boppers play a farewell gig in Piteå, Sweden.

A one-minute film split in two—one side heartbreak, the other heartwarming.

The young Anders is in love with Marit, whose father, the farmer Bjur-Erik opposes their relation. He watches jealously his daughter and becomes furious when he hears that she sneaks off to see Anders.

A bunch of teenage boys in Mora, Sweden, who are torn between their great interest in cars and their girlfriends. The film especially follows Jan Broberg and his rebuilding of a Volvo Amazon, year model 1966.

The Happy Cow ”is a documentary about the love and concern of a human being for animals. At the same time, it is a story about a person's great sacrifices and the stubborn struggle to maintain a lifestyle and culture that are irrevocably about to disappear. Rune has chosen to stay out of EU regulations. He refuses to fill out forms and refuses to mark his cows with yellow plastic markings in their ears. Therefore, he cannot even deliver his milk to the dairy. Some of the milk is given to the calves, but most of it ends up in the manure pile. Thousands of litres of milk are thrown away every year.

A father tells his son a story from his past, where he ventures through various African countries, with unexpected encounters, to the heart of the Congo jungle in a Mercedes Benz.

A week before a wedding the grooms father suddenly dies. The family can't afford booth a funeral and a wedding so they decide to do the only logical thing; mix the two ceremonies.

Mai Zetterling is interviewed in the summer of 1984 in her house in southern France. Seventeen years have passed since the Girls were made in Sweden and were adversely affected by the criticism. Zetterling discusses why she left Sweden and resides at crucial times in her life; The drama period, to be celebrated actress and then to move to pave his way in the male-dominated director's profession. A guiding star in Zetterling's life has been to constantly expand its boundaries.

Documentary about the eccentric Swedish vagabond Carl G. Johansson.

A report from Spångens Snickeri in Norrköping, where disabled and odd people work. Each one works to their own ability. The film is about the essentials of life – about community and love, and about what and who really is different. A film about everyday occurrences in a new light.

Cavalry captain von Stahl is in love with dancer Marianne Rizetskis, but when he suddenly finds himself completely destitute he takes off to South America, leaving Marianne heartbroken. Arriving im America, von Stahl finds work at the estate of a man wanted by the local government, and gets romantically involved with his daughter Soledad. When Marianne arrives as well, von Stahl finds himself torn between the two women.

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.

Leif GW Persson has become one of our most beloved TV personalities. In a candid interview with Malou von Sivers, the criminology professor talks about why he often feels alone and left out. We also learn why his friendship with Jan Guillou ended and how Leif looks back on the revenge that made him rich.

The Exterminator takes on his biggest contract yet: The United States of America.

An old man repairs a chair with great care. However, his goal may differ from that of other people.

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

Baron von Werner and Gunnar Jansson are in a dispute over property rights. Inga, the baron's daughter, arrives home from France and is soon interested in Jansson, her father's archival, and tempers flare. Based on the play by Sigurd Wallén.

In this documentary we meet five children in Sweden and see what happened in their lives. Robin was nine years old, but he already knew what a prison looked like and the bad a punishment can do. Frida was not yet born when we filmed her mother Angela in 1983. Her sister Malin lived for several years in a foster family. Bosse was 14 years old and in 9th grade when we met him in 1978. He was the only guy in the class who had glasses. Marie received many postcards and letters from her father, but very rarely met him while she was growing up.

About the first three months of a pregnancy and a miscarriage. A story about the fragile balance between life and death where ambivalent feelings are intertwined with strange facts about fetal development. In the film, Magdalena Dziurlikowska play both the role of the pregnant woman who listens inward and the role of the fetus living in her own world. Pregnancy was for her a supernatural, fantastic story about the most mundane and natural. Suddenly the fetus died. It was the greatest grief she had experienced in her life.

'All We Own' follows the friendship between the filmmaker Emily, Curtis and Johan, who are both heroin addicts and homeless in Stockholm. It is a film about finding people who can relate to how dangerously low the anxiety can take you.

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