Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

The film follows the tracks of a master fraudster, impersonator and Ponzi schemer who, among other exploits, coached the Hungarian ladies' swimming team to success at international championships without being able to swim himself and, a few years later, claimed to be an archbishop and buyer of antique paintings for the Vatican Museum. In both cases, he made many acquaintances, came across as engaging and helpful but finally vanished with millions in cash. Interviews with people who encountered the man and were duped by him, though despite this and despite losing money, many of them retain a humorous feeling about what happened.

Relationships between people in this small community are truly put to the test in the final part of the trilogy Småstadsliv (Small Town Life). Ingemar, an excavator operator with a back injury, needs a vacation, but what was supposed to be a peaceful caravan idyll in the Swedish summer soon turns into a camping inferno unprecedented in Swedish vacation history.Among the moose herds in the great forest, the county council's wolf policy and the authorities' persecution force the small hunting party to commit an outrage against the gray furry animals that no one could have dreamed of. When the smoke has cleared, nothing in the hunting party is the same.Both old acquaintances and new faces are featured in the plot as the small-town gang takes the viewer to the far reaches of the Hälsingland countryside for the third and final time. In a plot packed with love and betrayal, roses and moose rifles, the viewer encounters a world among people no one thought existed...

About The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Sweden and Denmark, charters, members, prospects and more.

The inland ice has advanced a bit in Sweden, and animals and people are migrating down from Europe. The Hedenhös family is among the first. There is father Ben, mother Knota, daughter Flisa, and son Sten. They have brought along their primitive dog Urax, their cow Mura, and their toys. The Hedenhös family settles in Sweden, lives in caves, founds Stockholm, and travels to Egypt. The Hedenhös family discovers America, visits Native Americans, flies through the air in the world's first atomic-powered aircraft, and returns to Sweden again.

Two men on a fishing trip realize that things are a bit out of the ordinary. A mystery is forming.

Footage of the field training exercises in and around Sigtuna, Uppland, during the fall of 1910

Ingvar is released from prison and returns to his old life with a steady job and the love ofhis life, Eva. But there is a rival, Claes, who has caused Ingvar big problems before, and even was the cause of why he was doing time.

A Swedish short documentary.

A textile factory is closed in Sweden, hundreds of seamstresses are laid off with few opportunities for new work. However, the employer continues to make profits. Now in Holland, in a newly built factory, with a young, underpaid, female workforce. The film, which was made in 1970, was then a statement against Sweden's accession to the EC. But the pattern is recognizable. Today, it is the women in Korea and India, among others, who sew our clothes.

Sarah works at a hardware store. One day she meets Salim and instantly connects with him. They both share roots that might divide or unite them.

Documentary about Freddie Wadling (1951-2016) From his career with band such as Cortex, Blue for Two, Fleshquartet and as a solo singer.

Atmospheric Lucia celebration from Sala in Västmanland, with a Lucia procession in Sätra Brunn church where singers from Sjöviks Folk High School and Sala Youth Choir participate. We also get solo singing down from the silver mine as well as music from the mining village and Brunnsgården. This year's Lucia is called Lova Fredling.

A cinematic portrait of a serious and physically strong middle-aged woman, deeply focused on throwing stones in a desert-like landscape. How did she get here? What do the stones symbolize – as alien in the landscape as the woman herself in her black dress? Here you can sense a story about both sadness, integrity and stubbornness, about intersecting paths and about continuing forward without bowing to others. Both the stones and the woman are filmed from a variety of angles, giving the viewer an opportunity to experience the event from different perspectives, and for a moment possibly drop the anthropocentric gaze.

A documentary about Swedish animator and director Victor Bergdahl.

Alla talar svenska.

A film about the former Swedish colony.

Performances and an interview with the musician Mikael Wiehe.

A Cannes film festival nominated short feature.

A short film about the importance of traffic safety.

The plot concerns two siblings, brother and sister, who live alone in an old wooden villa. A physical love relationship develops between them. The girl drowns and the boy slowly walks into the water, carrying a large horse skull. At the same time, the film shows the girl's face as flowers on the surface of the water.. (Filmform)

At her moving-away party Anna meets her ex-girlfriend Maja. While playing "Spin The Bottle" she has to kiss Maja, which triggers romantic memories from the past relationship that wasn’t as good as the memory makes her believe.

Can glitz and celebrity save the world? Thirty years ago, rock stars Bob Geldof and Bono set out on a journey to fight poverty in Africa. They tried to convince some of the wiliest and mightiest politicians on earth to change the world. Give us the Money tracks their journey through famines and palaces, and world-wide TV-audiences. But how successful have they really been? Did they manage to make the world a better place? Bosse Lindquist's film tracks the history of this idea. "A band of musicians set out to change the world" he says "and now the time has come to ask: What did they achieve, and is celebrity politics is the right way of combating world poverty?"'

Boel decides to train her horse Tolof for a circus show, which turns out to be a more challenging process than anticipated.

In 1797, 14-year-old William Gibson sails from Dundee in Scotland to Gothenburg. This will be the start of a young man's journey on a road that led to the construction of a factory and a society, which is largely unique in our country's history. Jonsered's factories, which came to own a whole community and took care of everyone, from the cradle to the grave. The factory owned a nursing home with a maternity ward, a nursery for the youngest, a school that fostered the prospective workers, a girls' home for young workers, housing, a trade booth, a church with a factory-employed priest and, finally, an old age home for those who rested after a long working life.

In 2009, two family fathers in Budapest who had lost their jobs and all their money decided that the solution to their problems would be to rob a post office, with a Wartburg. Lacking any previous experience, they studied movies to learn the trade. The robbery did not go as planned and ended with the escape vehicle breaking down in front of a prison. Who where they and why would anybody chose such a solution? The film explores the real events of an absurd and tragic story from 2009 through the eyes of a Swedish filmmaker.

Whoever lies next to Karl-Johan is apparently not his girlfriend, Sofie. Although she has similar boots. But Sofie is on her way up the stairs - and maybe mother-in-law with a dog.

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.

Presented by Prince Wilhelm of Sweden, a film about the Västergötland province.

Three teenagers, with completely different lives, meet at a party.

When the first album by the Latin Kings' was released in 1994, it created a sensation in the Swedish music world. Culture journalists claimed that The Latin Kings were the most important thing happening on the Swedish popular music scene since the birth of punk rockers of Ebba Grön.

A cinematic journey with singer Freddie Wadling, which in this bare but soulful portrait shows how he constantly breaking boundaries, there is always something new to discover. If the music as a way to survive.

Swedish crime-drama directed by Kevin Bernal. It's the story of Diego, who hoped to never lose his friends after he ended school. However, five years go by and he finds himself alone, poor and living in a basement. Desperate for some money he agrees to run an errand for a dangerous criminal — which leads him to confront people he cared for in the past.

Images appropriated from different TV shows.

Connected and updated since birth, the longing for secluded alone time begins to approach a critical point. Olive goes to a clinic for help, but in this black comedy with a cosmic outlook, the breakdown is inexorably approaching.

Short film by Kent Vilhelmsson, Joaquim Lindvall, Muhammed Ferhatovic, Oliver Reuter, Johan Larsson.

The film is mainly based on slides from the horticulturist and life philosopher Anders Björnsson's garden along the northern Klarälven River in Sweden. The film is an early attempt to portray our threatened relationship with ecology. The tableau-like still images underline the shifts of light and the biological cycle.

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.

A film about the limits of the aging body and the boundless mind. Rauno's story takes us on a boat trip with his father. A journey of misadventures and his father's new Finnish record in cursing.

July 17th 1969, three days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon. In an attempt to get there first, two Soviet cosmonauts crash on the lunar surface.

Tobias returns to Sundsvall after his move to Stockholm.

A series of jumbled, abrasive, abstract images of a less than glamorous Sweden.

Anders Petersen is one of Europe's leading still photographers. A unique performer on the international photographic arena. He has published books like Café Lemitz, Boundary to Love, Prison, Nobody has seen anything and Close / Distance. The books and images have influenced and inspired a generation of Scandinavian photographers.