Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

30 days and 30 nights of a Swedish man's life in 60 seconds.

Herman works as a tutor for the spoiled 16-year-old Judit.

Gustav invites Bella to his birthday party. But it's a whole week left and the impatient Bella will not wait.

You probably recognize the name Hampus Hedström, the comedian who for over ten years has been, and is, one of Sweden's most well-known profiles from TV, YouTube and Instagram. Now he will be doing his first solo show live at Scalateatern in Stockholm.

Three parallel events during the same night. The main characters lose control and their loyalty is jeopardized.

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.

Nahid meets Anders who is dating 24 women at the same time. Anders, Me and His 23 Other Women is a film about love, loneliness and dating in the 21st century.

Lydia, Lorenzo and Augustine work at Minerva, a space station in Earth orbit. The station is the most important part of a defense system that helps to maintain world peace. One day, the three get a new directive: World War. Disagreements arise and the key question becomes: what is our individual responsibility?

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.

Marie accidentally breaks a vase. Because of this she runs away from home. On the run she meets a boy called Fredrik, a donkey and a kangaroo.

When Sten, at a mature age, is to study for his preliminary degree at the University of Lund, he is given a place to stay with Mrs. Lindgren on Adelgatan. His entrance into the city of learning is somewhat embarrassing,

Dublin, June 2024: thousands of men seeking asylum in Ireland are homeless. Olivia and her group of volunteers are trying to find safe locations where the men can sleep each night, but the government is actively enforcing its new policy against homeless encampments, and the far-right are lurking.

When the Soviet Union attacked Finland in the fall of 1939, Swedish fighter pilots brought Swedish planes to defend the north of Finland for over 60 days in freezing conditions. For some this led to spy missions for Stalin and Sweden.

Young Albert Ström struggles the ensure the money needed to keep after his sister and aging mother. But his mechanical skills serves him well.

A film about the work going on at a modern school

Gustav is practicing free diving. On land he keeps his breath. All the time. When driving a car. When he works. When he is asleep. He keeps his girlfriend awake at night.

A dance film by Maja Lindström in collaboration with choreographer Anna Vnuk. Awarded Best Musical Composition, Georgetown Indy Short Film Festival, Washington DC.

An assassin drags his victim into the middle of the snowy woods, digs a pit, positions him next to it and prepares to finish the job. His victim seems to want to go out singing though.

High school students from two different schools are interviewed about future plans and hopes.

Several Swedish teens, ages 13-17 years old, share thoughts on life, love, entering into the adult world, future dreams, self-esteem, relationship with parents, loneliness and the need for belonging.

Ahead of Sweden's perhaps most important election ever, Filip & Fredrik meet Prime Minister Stefan Löfven during the final sprint of his election tour.

Market in Jonkoping

A boy and his dad visit the modern art museum.

The tragicomic orderly Ove on stage portrayed by Johan Rheborg in a acclaimed one-man show. Ove is getting quite tired of life. When one day his newly moved neighbors happen to back off his letterbox, an upsetting series of events begins for Ove and soon nothing is the same. In the stage version of Fredrik Backman's book.

Saran and Soleil are competing for a spot at the ballet school. But there's only room for one of them.

Filmed in Spain, London, and Sweden with an old Bolex silent camera, this film was originally part of a longer film – that was split into a diptych, the other one being 'Hommage à Meliérs.' They work as independent films. (Håkan Dahlström)

A documentary about Anita Lindblom, the big star of the 60s and 70s who left Sweden behind and settled in France. When a moving company destroyed her furniture she stopped singing and devoted her life to fighting them in various courts.

Older church art and biblical texts describe the life of Jesus from birth to death and resurrection.

Deniece disappears during her surprise birthday party. Her friends decide to find her; but everyone expect everyone and the tracks lead to a certain ghost.

The Swedish people, nature and culture, the welfare, social and health care. Swedish inventions, industry international projects. Swedish beauty and design.

A highly controversial documentary about the murder of Sweden's Prime minister Olof Palme, for DR, DFI and SVT.

A film filled with music and a dense web of personal thoughts. From the machine sludge of the large washing facility, music emerges and women emerge with their simple but strong stories. In contrast to the working women, a concert pianist sits in the evening dress and plays Chopin's nocturner.

"The Cuban colonel, the Russian general ... and the (near) downfall of the earth" : The Cuba crisis in 1962. Never before has the world been so close to a devastating nuclear war. For the first time, the story in place in Cuba is told by two people in the middle of the event. A road movie about the worst year of the Cold War.

"Suggestive Short Stories" - The three episodes are, Dancing Couples, The Riding School in Paris and Male Deficiency. The lack of men are increasingly noticeable, why surrogates are becoming high fashion. Introducing the strap-on in 1917. Two men and four women are having a good time.

"Extraneous" - It has been funeral. The elderly couple, Emma and David, pamper their deceased friend. After the funeral, they invite the guests for a drink and a little nostalgic conversation about what has been. When the guest are getting ready to leave, two men remain.

Teenage outsiders take refuge into an underground world of strange subcultures. A father is training his daughter to manage without him. The kids from Palestine are crafting slingshots. Two boys reject their parents in a rite of passage.

"Lejonjakten" is one of five films (three of which are now lost) that were made by students at the University of Lund, Sweden, as a part of their 1908 carnival. The film is a cruel parody on Danish producer Ole Olsen's "Løvejagten" (1907) which was at the time banned in Denmark (due to the fact that a lion and other animals were actually killed in the film) but shown in Sweden. In the student version two actors dressed up as a lion and a kangaroo get shot by hunters, but the hunters themselves soon get arrested by the police, an allusion to a recent conflict between the students and the local police.

Friday is disco-day. But everything will not go as planned. The girl you just met disappears when your friends are about to move on. And too much booze adds to regrets and angst in the abandoned suburb.

About the Maranatha Movement and the Plymouth Brothers activity in Sweden. The visit by James Taylor Jr. of the Exclusive Brethren. And the perception that the evil in the world is growing so strong that it is time for Anti-Christ to arrive.

Calle is an inventive caterpillar who wants to learn how to fly.

Lisa, who is cleaning hotels, is a person with high work ethics that doesn't always take advantage of her own rights. She dreams about the ocean. 'Soon, I will leave', has been her most frequently used phrase since she started working at the hotel three years ago. Kalle is practicing the work and a different kind of person.

It's summer. A group of teenagers decide to go on a camping trip. They drive far up in the country until they find a small place were they rent canoe's for a cheap price. The group paddle for a long time before they find the perfect island to set up camp on. They have sex, do drugs and drink alcohol. But the next morning they notice that one of them has disappeared. They split up to go looking for her, but that proves to have horrifying consequences...

A feature length movie made by Allmänna valmansförbundet (today known as Moderaterna) for the Swedish elections. Illustrates how a young peasant whose father and forefathers strived hard for their farm.

A man buys a pair of galoshes at an auction and discovers they are magic, and can take the wearer wherever he wishes. He travels with a friend on an adventurous trip around the world.

Gunvor Nelson plays freely and naturally in a garden confronting the camera with nature, and nature with the camera to reveal a new life force and cycle. The camera climbs up a dark red stem, across the spiny frost hat outlines the walls of a budding flower. It rummages and rustles among the garden floor. The penetrating lens is heavy on the delicate leaves and on the viewer retina.

Campaign film for the Swedish Högern party in 1936.

About the importance of personal responsibility and the advantages of sobriety.

Maja feels her boyfriend, Farad, has tired of her. Perhaps he just needs a less infected comprehension of who she is? How much can you twist the truth to give the relationship a new start?