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During spring 2006 Shan Atci went on a nation wide tour, visiting 50 schools and 60,000 students. With the show Svenska 2 he mixes humor and gravity around the theme of prejudice doing what he does best: making people laugh. With perfect timing he delivers jokes about cultural differences and he is not afraid to stick his neck out and talk about what he thinks is important.
Retelling of the Greek myth. Grada Kilomba's 'Oedipus' tells a story about violence, exploring the role that fate can play for those who live in a system that reproduces cyclical oppression.
Peter Gärdehag has documented the work on a small farm in Småland for decades which he has now compiled into a thoughtful meditative documentary about the type of knowledge that has been passed from generation to generation.
The story of a young girl's struggle to find a peace of mind.
Shows what happens on a completely ordinary day in the year 2000 in Kronoberg. We enter the plot in the middle of a local news broadcast about a flood disaster. There is practically an emergency situation in the area.
The story of the swedish volunteer air force F19 during the winter war.
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.
The life of Aboriginal Australians is presented.
Documentary about the business of Åhlén & Holms, in Insjön.
Highlights from the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm is shown
Student Lumbla, hungover, out of money, and in debt, attempts to commit suicide, but is stopped by a friend. Together they decide to find a way to get money.
A shadow smokes a cigarette.
Carefully composed images and distinctive portraits invite us into homes and workplaces across the country. By weaving together the simple and the mundane with the existential, the film creates a visual register of our time. It reflects a multifaceted nation and opens up a conversation about who we are as a society—and where we are heading.
Eager for new adventures, best friends Siri and Lee explore the sensual world of BDSM.
Calle does everything he can in order to be hired by the local theater.
A Swedish short drama.
The film is about a telephone conversation and a man´s chaotic search for Cookie Puss, on the run in Berlin. The mood shifts and the disjointed impressions of the two protagonists are shown in the coarse-grained texture and exaggerated contrasts of a documentary. The sound track, with its heaving panting, links the fragmented flow of images. Cookie Puss is conceived as a filmed live performance, shot in German sub cultural environment. In form, it closely resembles the anarchically charged British punk at the same time as it is reminiscent of American underground movies.
Amanda Bergman is passionate about the land she stands on. So when she is not fronting the band Amason, she runs a farm with her partner Petter. And we are following them for a year on their farm in Dalarna.
A person is recycling a lot of rubbish, on the way home they are surprised that they are no longer alone in the car and a threatening situation starts that escalates into an unexpected dispute.
“Sights on scene” is a story about seeing the unseen through the lens of a skateboarder. In this narrative we explore the everlasting search for spots to skate, a journey that ultimately shapes the way you perceive the world.
Captures the point-of-view of a trackrunner experiencing a cerebral hemorrage, we see flashes of his final hours alive as his nervous system breaks down in front of our eyes.
A man adjusts his tie, humming softly, until the radio stutters and the light flickers. In the mirror, something shifts.
Animated film about a man interested in holes.
The unconditional love and possessive affection a mother harbors for her offspring will make her stop at nothing to protect her child. Not even death.
The cast from "Catwalk" is reunited and reflects on their transforming journey. Story on how they navigate life of fame after their film and the preparations for a big event in Stockholm.
A documentary film about Norrbottensteatern's tour life in a smoking snowstorm and in warm People's House the year the Berlin Wall was torn down.
Views of Ornö and Huvudskär in the Stockholm archipelago. Everyday life is depicted on the islands with work in mining, fishing and a school for children
Two criminals, seeking to manipulate a school teacher into changing a final grade, find themselves embroiled in unexpected complications when they visit his home.
The joyful story of an amateur theater group in Stockholm who take on August Strindberg's A Dream Play in Yiddish. It's an odd assignment, not least because it's the first time the troupe performs A Dream Play, a play that originally had no humor in it. It is also the first time they are on a professional stage.
Two Swedish guys driving around Spain searching for the historical verdict over Hitler's and Mussolini's old companion Franco. A road-movie in rental cars featuring Olof Palme, the world's biggest cross and a woman determined to put her family history in order. MARI CARMEN ESPAÑA - THE END OF SILENCE is the story of what happens when a country tries to amputate its past.
A grumpy woman tries to keep her new flowers in mint condition, but a pigeon keeps screwing them up by shitting on them. This leads to madness and a duel between life and death.
Director Yaser Kassab followed in his father’s footsteps by emigrating as a young man from Syria to Europe, and like his father he also had the ambition to become a filmmaker. Now they are working together on this film remotely. From Syria, the father gives his son direction on the phone or in video calls, along with advice about future film projects or how to organize his life—loving conversations interspersed with well-intentioned parental advice.
Short documentary focused on Ostersunds Football Club, in the north of Sweden, and their training programme based on a mixture of community work, football and dance.
Peter Nestler, an important German filmmaker with an extensive filmography, agrees with Chilean filmmaker Rodrigo Gonçalves, exiled in Sweden, to make a documentary on PIDEE (Protection of Children Harmed by the State of Emergency) and on FASIC, a Catholic organisation for the defence of human rights. It is one of the first clandestine films to be made during the period of the dictatorship, and provides an insight into the state of repression in which the population was living. The filmmakers entered the country in 1982 and clandestinely shot several films in the country. Among the testimonies is an interview with the widow of Hugo Araya, "El Salvaje", filmmaker and photographer assassinated on 11 September 1973. The film's credits list "Sergio Bustamante" as co-director, a fictitious name invented by Gonçalves because he was still in exile. "How oppression strikes " won the FIPRECI prize at the Oberhausen Festival, Germany, in 1983.
Life can be a fart sometimes, but thankfully you can laugh at both.