Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

The minute hand and the hours meet all the TIME and you never know what can happen.

Lina's grandmother is in a severe state of Alzheimer's disease. In order to make her remember again, Lina abducts her from the hospital and takes her to her abandoned childhood home.

A short drama documentary about the life of a Sami family in the northernmost part of Sweden, Lappland.

After a row out on the yard the neighbors, 10 years old Billie and Amina, become friends. They discover that they have more in common than they suspected and create an equally as playful as self-evident co-existence. But the conditions are about to change.

At 4:00 PM on September 10, 2003, the then Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was shopping for clothes at the Nordiska Kompaniet department store in Stockholm when she was stabbed so badly in the chest that she died. And Sweden had suffered its second murder, similar to the shooting of Olof Palme. And in this documentary, we get to follow the police investigation.

In the fall of 1944, four ships sailed out of Finnish ports and headed west. On board were not only the core group of Finnish intelligence, but also hundreds of boxes of top-secret material on the Soviet military, as well as technical equipment for advanced signals intelligence. The intention was to seek sanctuary in Sweden for continued intelligence service. Several of the people involved in Operation Stella Polaris are still alive. One of them is Stig Axelsson, Swedish liaison specialist, occasionally active in Finland, in Finnish uniform. Now he and others tell about the strange turns of the operation, which ended with the secret boxes being burned at the Löfsta waste station in December 1960.

This is the night is a film-poetic encounter; a homeless language, a forgotten place, a prophetic poem. The language is Yiddish, the site the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw with its 200,000 dilapidated graves and the poem published by Anna Margolin in New York in 1929.

Rocky is 15 years old and has stopped going to school. His social life is on the internet and he sits up every night to play computer games. One day he gets a friend request on Skype from Jackson. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona and doesn't go to school either. They fall in love, and Rocky starts a journey that will change his life.

Nicke and Koffe go out on the streets of Malmö in the middle of the night, on the last day of their summer holiday.

Images reflecting on a solitary life in a Swedish apartment. In old age, a woman confronts her feelings towards the man she used to live with, but whom is no longer around.

A surrealistic montage of pop culture that attacks the followers of the genre.

On November 18, 1947, a cargo plane crashes in fog above Scala on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. 20 young pilots from the Swedish Air Force die and 3 crewmen. It is the Swedish Air Force's biggest accident ever, but few know about it in Sweden. What had the pilots done in Ethiopia? Why did they fly straight into the Monte Carro mountain?

Tomten och Bocken - rider igen is a Christmas show with the radar couple Måns Zelmerlöw and Per Andersson. Here we get to experience a magnificent show with Christmas brilliance.

What remains of a person after his death? How long does the memory of her live on? This is a film that tries to make a portrait of the soldier and homesteader Olof Knutsson Ros, called Rosgubben, who lived in Äppelbo parish in Västerdalarna and died there in 1918 at the age of 89.

Chile after the bloody coup d'état by the military junta in September 1973. Interviews at the Santiago stadium with relatives of people who were murdered or suspected of being supporters of the Popular Unity coalition, and with a comrade who managed to escape, demonstrate the brutal terror unleashed by the new rulers against all progressive forces. Shocking images and interviews taken during and in the days following the coup. Excellent in terms of the (visual) information it provides.

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.

Does Shangri-La really exist? Mirka Duijn goes in search of the answer in this travelogue-cum-investigation. She travels to the mountains of Tibetan China and digs into the archives to unravel the history of this mythical place. At first sight, the answer is obvious: British author James Hilton invented Shangri-La for his 1933 novel Lost Horizon, in which four characters crash land in the Kunlun Mountains and later find a magnificent monastery—a paradise on earth.

The truth about the true humanists. Evil wins as usual.

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.

"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.

The ninth film with the dogme label. Not much is known about Vladan Zdravkovics film, it was supposedly never finished.

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.

Young Miss Fob is blackmailed into marriage by evil banker Harry Fellips.

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

At a summer-evening dance a young girl meets a man who tells her he is a doctor. They go off together, and after that she never sees him again. She learns that she is pregnant and inquires about him at various hospitals, with no success. She reads of his engagement and becomes acquainted with another girl with a situation like her own.

Carl meets Inger through a personal ad. They fall in love, move together, but realize that they are very different. Nevertheless, they decide to marry. On their way home from the wedding, they fall through a hole in the street and into the sewer system, where they are forced to spend their honeymoon.

This DVD features killer Cactus performance footage recorded in various cities throughout the band's 2006 / 07 tour. Features Carmine Appice, Tim Bogert and Jim McCarty reunited with Jimmy Kunes on vocals. The group had just released a new album, Cactus V. Bonus interviews with the band, an music video for "The Groover", and testimonials; more. This musical release from the hardrock supergroup Cactus captures footage from a number of live performances by the band, recorded during various concerts during the group's '06/'07 tour. Tracks featured in the release include "One Way Or Another", " Muscle and Soul", and more.

Interviews with the band Ainbusk Singers interspersed with clips from their show "Greatest Tits"

A short film about doing things your own more creative way.

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

Newsreel reporting from the Nordic Games in skiing in Östersund 1913

The final concert of the legendary Swedish rock band Imperiet, filmed by friend of the band Peter Stormare

A performance by the Sofia girls in Valadalen

Firefighter Wester's happy life with wife, son and two dogs, is threatened when he injures his leg.

The matriarch of the family is worried. One of her grandchildren doesn’t come to visit and she doesn’t understand why. Time passes and everyday life continues, but soon a phone call comes that changes everything.

"Those" - a film about those who should be dispersed in groups of two and two.

A street musician singing in the subway.

From rehearsal to premiere of the play Viet Rock at the City Theater in Stockholm.

Anders Wahlgren has visited some new residential areas with different apartment buildings. Årsta center, Sätra center, Kista, Viksjö and Fältöversten in Stockholm.

Manoj, a 35-year-old aspiring playwright, struggles to find his place in life. Tormented by the nocturnal activities of his neighbors and his own loneliness, he sinks deeper into his frustration and paranoia. When his cat goes missing and threatening notes appear on his door, he is forced to confront both his neighbors and his own demons.

Short propaganda film encouraging swedish aid in the Winter War.

A Viking village is living peacefully until they are attacked amid st an Old Norse marriage ceremony celebrating the main characters Vyktorya and Loke. There seems to be only one survivor.

An easy trip a bit criss-cross that goes to Hjo and Gambia, Vimmerby and Ecuador, Greenland and Solvalla and Sarajevo. And on the trip you get to meet Ingemar Johansson and Ingmar Bergman and Gösta Bohman and Olof Palme and General Franco. And then the ruffler and the municipal councilor. And you can enter Livets Ord and ride the Inlandsbanan and listen to Internationalen and Cielito Lindo and O Great Gud and Grindslanten and Viva Espana.

Fritte Söderström's latest Jante video, focusing on various cities throughout Sweden. Featuring Gustav Tønnesen, Nisse Ingemarsson, Martin Sandberg, Vincent Huhta, Josef Scott Jatta, Filip Almqvist, Simon Hallberg, Eric Hedberg, Axel Berggren, Kinser Cathey, Hannes Edvinsson, Koffe Hallgren, Alex Elfving, Oscar Säfström & Ville Rockäng.