Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

The Ingersro estate is in trouble, as owner Hilmer is flat out of money. But when the estate burns down, the insurance seems to save the family. Until the insurance company starts to suspect arson.

The Exterminator takes on his biggest contract yet: The United States of America.

An old man repairs a chair with great care. However, his goal may differ from that of other people.

Rafael and his friends reign supreme in a world dominated by masculinity and casual sex. One of these hookups leads to a passionate but brief encounter with Alex and a moment of intimacy arises between them. However, when Alex shares an intimate moment with another man, Rafael grapples with his own desires and fears, torn between two worlds.

A wordless, silent interview with Samuel Beckett for Swedish Television after Beckett won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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

Short film reportage from the Swedish city with camera visits to famous businesses and entrepreneurs in various industries

A comedian is preparing, rehearsing to tell the story of what life is like in his line of work.

Two friends on a muddy field by a railroad track. A farewell, many emotions.

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...

The wealthy hat maker Cederström has two daughters, Marianne and Lotte. He has decided that Marianne should marry Melander even though she loves the poet Malm. Lotte on the other hand loves Melander.

After a long evening of taking photos, the photographer returns to his darkroom, where he discovers mysterious things in the images.

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

While a man in present-day Berlin smokes by his window, two barkeepers in 19th century Gothenburg wait for their last customer to leave. He is an old suicidal man. One of the barkeepers feels for the man, the other is anxious to close up.

Twenty toilets, a urinal and four ladies who work in the public toilet at Sergels Torg in Stockholm. They are the ones who make sure that the facilities are clean and that there's toilet paper. They also watch over drug users.

The young widow Marianne Renfelt, ruler of Svaleholm estate, is celebrating her 25th birthday with a big party. At the party three of her suitors appear: landowner Wadenhjelm, Major Crusenschöld, and priest Neander. One person that the hostess is missing at the party is the person she likes most, her childhood friend, the disgraced lieutenant Bernt Boo.

I cut myself to stuff myself with cotton just like the stuffed animals.

Axel Ringvall is on a hike, but to his imagination everything seems more exciting.

The local newspaper celebrates 50 years and are now looking for a citizen who has lived as long in the neighborhood. Our hero Åsa-Nisse seems to fit the profile.

Mikael is a lonely farmer who lives alone in a small cottage on the country side. One day a woman falls from the sky and down on his meadow.

Horror short.

Follows Magnus Uggla behind the scenes as he works on and prepares his 2004 stage show "Best in Show"

Two men head out to go fishing. One of them thinks himself the obvious expert in the area and tensions rise beneath the surface. When a woman joins up from the beach, the course of events takes an unexpected turn in a visually appealing film with supernatural features.

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.

Axel wants to marry his childhood friend Anna, but her father does not approve and kicks her out and sends Axel abroad on business.

First year film 2018

A documentary about the people who gather at the restaurant Sandgrund in Karlstad. They are looking for love, friendship or just a dance or two to Swedish "dansband"-music.

Two gays talk about when they came out and about their first love.

In this third documentary in the Jordbro suite, six years have passed since the end of ninth grade for the children. They're on their way into adult life, most of them have started working, and some of the girls have kids of their own now.

The story of the colorful fox boy, in a world devoid of color.

A documentary about the rise and fall of the December Agreement (DÖ).

They came to Sweden together with 70,000 other Finnish children during the Second World War. They would be rescued from the war. But they came to strange people with an incomprehensible language. And they never understood why they must be separated from their families. They became adoptive children and foster children and only now can they remember what they have been through. After sixty years in Sweden, a group of war children from Hälsingland make a trip back to childhood.

A young machinist loses his lottery ticket in the wind. A washing girl finds it.

Alone in her bedroom, Dalia traverses the dirty hands of those around her.

August, who lives in the small town of Blomstermåla, cannot do military service. But as Sweden rearms and Preparedness Week reaches the his small community, he is given the chance to explore both his own and others’ willingness to defend, in a disarming and humorous portrait of one of the defining questions of our time.

Plagued by loneliness, a young man searches for a place to belong and finds community in a gang. The price of loyalty becomes heavier and he is soon faced with a choice that could change everything.

A bad director and his cameraman stumble through a failing film project.

Eight-year-old Roger struggles to find a balance between being a good playmate for his best friend, and living out his obsession for birds - an interest he shares with his mentally unstable dad.

Children's film from Sweden.

Lennart and Karin are dedicated observers at their manual weather station in Sweden. They reflect on their life’s work as the station faces automation.

A uniquely styled nature doc about the life of the Baltic Sea, where National Geographic photographer Mattias A. Klum follows the cycle of seasons around one of the most beautiful inland seas in the world today. By capturing the hidden life and beauty of the amazing species that live in the Baltic Sea, Klum delivers a timely reminder of our role in the survival of these fragile ecosystems, as the Baltic Sea comes under increasing threat from human activity.

A short horror story about a young woman who wakes up to discover that her husband hasn't come home from his night shift. Now she needs to find out why.

On a cold winter night, the siblings Bräjhta and Aanta have to go out and look after the family's reindeer herd. They light a fire to keep the wolves away, but then the Northern Lights get upset.

About the housewife Elin Karlsson

During the Second World War, Stockholm was the Casablanca of the Nordics. A place where information was everything. Swedish intelligence's most important spy was a 22-year-old German secretary and art student called Erika Wendt. A girl whose dream was of a life in Sweden with her boyfriend after the war. Then in 1943, Erika was invited to dinner by her German boss and suddenly ordered back to Berlin. Did the Gestapo know about her double life? This film is based on an actual event.

Swedish horror film directed by Erik Hansson.

Jon is a gay friend, but he's not gay.

In The Worthless Smile, Karlung constructs a complex world of ideas out of images of chiselled and painted foil, double-exposed sequences and montage of sounds and wise sayings. The film and sound poem The Worthless Smile traces roots to Oriental apocryphal teachings. Zen and Eastern meditation form the departure point of this philosophical quest for ‘the worthless smile’.

Agnes and Ellen fell in love and spent the following 50 years together. One day Ellen dies and their dreams of moving on together shatters, this is where the story of determined Agnes starts.

Documentary about the swedish band "The Magnettes".

An after party, three people and three different experiences of the evening.

A documentary about Áillohaš (Nils-Aslak Valkeapää), a musician, painter, and poet of the Sámi people in Finland.

Sunday roast. Citizens. Bills. A Priest. A restaurant visit. Swedes. Visa. Coffee break…. But do you really believe that these olives are Italian? Svea and I is an experimental documentary wondering about Sweden today and what privileges, norms and jargon that the citizenship causes.

A documentary telling the stories of various people who claim of having Swedish royal descent. But, do they?