Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

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

Fear of spiders, climate change, and death; fear of embarrassment, or of not being understood; the desire to avoid sleeping in order to stay in control. Young adults from six countries talk about what keeps them awake when the world goes quiet – and the things that provide them with comfort. Things such as this film, which connects us with them and shows that we’re not alone with our worries and longings.

A young man travels to Stockholm to sell ergonomic shoe insoles. Back in Thailand, his wife and child wait, as he hopes to one day bring them to Sweden. A heartfelt and captivating exploration of dreams and perseverance in a visually stunning depiction of Stockholm.

A short documentary about the man behind the famous online nickname Ufosxm. Together with a friend he runs DualD Gaming - one of Sweden's biggest Gaming channels on Youtube with over 50 000 subscribers.

Sound film with Karl Gerhard and music by Jules Sylvain.

Filmpoem about the demolition of the prison walls of Långholmen. Recorded in the central prison and in the chancellor.

The film oscillates between depicting the everyday life of workers in 1917 and 1982, where the common denominator is that they in both families have difficulty making ends meet financially.

A group of young people are hiking in the mountains. Among them are Gull Werner, who is a happy girl, and her father has asked the others to keep an eye on her. She walks in the wilderness, falls in the snow and becomes unconscious.

Interviews with Eva Dahlgren, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Anders Hillborg are shown inbetween performances from their concert from Stockholm Central Station in the summer of 1995.

At home, Rizwan 12, hugs and plays with his siblings. At work, he is forced to a claustrophobic job in an Industry that's key to our economy. Here at Pakistan's second largest oil depot, children crawl inside the dark interior of the diesel tanks - in spite of the extremely carcinogenic fumes. Out of This World follows Rizwan down through the hatch of the oil tank - like a kid astronaut from a forsaken universe.

Travelling across vast swathes of the Scandinavian hinterland, the life of the herdswoman is under threat from the ruthless global appetite for resource.

Time and place lose their meaning when a man searching a lost yoik in the highlands has a discussion with the The Father, The Sun. Of what nature is the face I will inherit if the dimples of tundra fail to provide the forgotten words.

This film is arguably Nestler's angriest documentary. It is a bitter personal statement about life in the Ruhr region: the fight against fascism, the reality of communism and his own struggle for acceptance in his native Germany. It confronts viewers with a sequence of rigid images that are accompanied by seemingly frozen voices, giving evidence of one big frustration. Nestler makes no compromise. There is only room for wrath in this impressively filmed rebellion

Set in 1880's, an aged woman sentimentally recalls a time of love and heartache from her own past in segments of flashbacks. Based on the novel by Danish writer Jenny Blicher-Clausen.

How does a boat work? When did you start building boats? When did the first trains come? Mulle Meck talks about all this and much more in the second film about Mulle Meck, for children who want to know a little more.

Tells the story of the earliest period in Swedish cinema.

A young woman uses an older married man for drinks, confirmation, and finally sex. Or is it he who uses her? When he gets dressed to leave after their bad one night stand, she tells him to go to hell. Then he wants to stay. But what does she want?

On the dreary St. Lucy's Night, an unexpected visitor arrives.

Emma Lingonkvist, 10, runs with her friend around the apartment buildings and sells charity badges. The doors are opened by friendly and funny customers who make the girls laugh. The encounter in one of the doors, however, is an unexpected and emotionally charged experience for Emma.

Among the highlights of this video are their only music video recorded in Lanzarote, Birger in top form talking about football hooligans and their visit to Stockholm. Sven-August & Kristian have problems with the tax authorities and a health check, etc. I guarantee that your laugh muscles will be working overtime when these two treat you to their rural humor and antics...

Reverend Samuell Parris, a failed businessman, does his best to condemn Tituba, the enslaved Native American housemaid accused of witchcraft by Parris' own household, daughter and niece.

Three stories about youth issues, where different actions lead to fatal consequences for the characters.

The orphan Alfred lives with two ladies in an idyllic cottage near a private golf course.

One day at a holiday home for the disabled in Hammerdal, Jämtland, depicted in clay animation and with authentic sound from the home that the film tells about. Various episodes show everyday events and relationships between the old ones who have lent their voices and characters to the movie figures. The film shows how an ordinary day looks like meals, mail delivery, card games and visits to the Salvation Army. In the end, the real people compare and comment on their characters.

The legendary intra company football team Icelanders IK are practicing over the weekend. This year Kurt from the selling department have joined the team and for him this is all a game of life or death.

"Scenes from everyday life" is about a few weeks in the life of actor Erland Josephson. Once constantly out around the world, now 86 years old, the world comes to visit his home. A film about art and aging, life, love and death.

A journey deep down the throat to the origin of the voice. About how people in different professions and privately use their voice. How research in speech, music and hearing is conducted. And about the very first scream.

Filip and Fredrik turn their backs on Labero during a day in the nest of sin - which comes to a dramatic end.

This film is a take down of pompous old men with power.

Two guys find a dead body in the forest.

Humorous performance where the dynamic comedy duo Özz Nûjen and Måns Möller offer a crazy fun lesson with an impact on human history.

The Camera Obscura (latin for Dark Chamber) is an optical device that led to the photographic camera. It consists of a box or a room with a hole on one side. This film is a reconstruction of an event that took place near the border of Austria and Hungary in the Summer of 2015.

The artist, in his youth subject to sexual molestation, confronts a pedophilic sex offender and policeman, still in duty. Half-way through the process of subtle exploration of the policeman’s reflections on his pedophilic behaviors, the artist sets a trap. The policeman finds himself trapped on film in a sexual interaction with the artist, resulting in a change of the set social construction between the both. The artist transforms into the offender and the policeman now becomes the victim – of the film. After this event the policeman starts “spilling the beans” in his more and more desperate attempts to find a way out of the project. But the policeman had given his consent to the film and all of its content.

“A retrospect of European events during the past forty years, composed from early documentary material, and including one of the earliest extant specimens of news-reel film dating from 1897.” - The [London] Film Society, 1936.

Documentary about the Swedish band Noice and their rise to fame in the early 80's.

Gösta is a trainee for the brutal Algren. He runs away and get to know a friendly drifter.

A story about Vincent Moro, an almost invisible man that works at a refridgerator factory when USA wasn't the A-nation it is today and therefor was called USB. Vincent has been working at the factory for 20 years when he suddenly finds out that he is fired.

A sentient robot searches for his new purpose in a world where humanity is long extinct.

The moon landing and the Vietnam War were not the big events for Torbjörn Carlén as a young boy in Mariestad in the late 1960s. What changed Torbjörn's life was the pop group Hep Star's breakthrough and a life-threatening brain tumor. Torbjörn has now passed 50 years, but his burning interest in pop music is still there. A film about friendship, music and never giving up on your dreams.

A feature length documentary film that explores the journey, hardship and eternal fight for the American dream.

Sören Hellgren comes home drunk one night and his wife Tyra is furious because he is boozed up and has spent a lot of money. Sören doesn't understand why she is mad, he thinks she should be happy that he came home at all.

In a small town in Sweden, twenty-something Nicolas meets up with some friends for some bowling after work. In the bowing alley he sees someone whom he has not seen for a long time. A film about courage and coming to terms with the past, about chances one once had and never took, chances that, deep inside, one wishes one could have again.

Lukas Moodysson struggles to film a scene.

The soldier Bengt has problems with the drill, so the lieutenant orders punishment drill. Bengt beheves so badly he ends up in the brig but manages to escape.

Professor Sahlén and his assistant go to the now infamous cabin in the woods to do research and prove that the creature said to live there really does exist. The hours pass and the cabin, against the professor's will, seems to be just an ordinary cabin in the woods. What they don't know is that the next few hours will be a terrifying trip to hell!

Documentary covering the heavywight championship match between Ingemar Johansson and Floyd Patterson on June 20, 1960.

Mårten believes in the unknown, but his fellow residents do not. Could this lack of respect for the dead lead to something sinister?

Documentary about Swedish singer/songwriter Kenta.