Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood’s headlining concerts at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas 1973.

A lonely kidnapper has you locked in his garage and when his attempts at befriending you fail he becomes more and more desperate.

The wedding approaches. The party location is decorated, photographic opportunities are planned, the sister reads her speech to the bridegroom, and a small Audi is missing in a fragmentary and visually beautiful portrayal of the characteristics, symbols, and actions of love.

About an Iranian tradition of standing outside the king with a message on the clothes.

They want to overthrow democracy and kick out people who they believe do not belong to the Nordic race. The Nazi organization The Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) has in recent years become known for its extreme attitudes. Focus has been on the inside of the organization and followed key players for two years.

On a night train in the midst of the Second World War, a German SS officer secretly passes on the very first testimony of the Holocaust to a Swedish diplomat. In present time an old woman tries to find the truth to this event which gave her father a sense of guilt for the rest of his life. The film begins in the Holocaust to evolve into a modern story about personal and collective guilt.

Miracles, in Sweden? A village curate with paltry attendance at his services gets a call one Sunday in December to meet an emissary from the Vatican who has come to test a child for special powers (he's the young son of a farming couple in the curate's parish; he's come to the Vatican's attention via a roundabout chain of odd events). The curate takes the visitor to the farm, convinced that nothing is out of the ordinary. Then, event by event, the curate comes to think otherwise and must figure out a way to save the child from a life in Rome. Are miracles afoot? The very fact the curate's car starts in mid-winter may be a sign of things to come.

"Lejonjakten" is one of five films (three of which are now lost) that were made by students at the University of Lund, Sweden, as a part of their 1908 carnival. The film is a cruel parody on Danish producer Ole Olsen's "Løvejagten" (1907) which was at the time banned in Denmark (due to the fact that a lion and other animals were actually killed in the film) but shown in Sweden. In the student version two actors dressed up as a lion and a kangaroo get shot by hunters, but the hunters themselves soon get arrested by the police, an allusion to a recent conflict between the students and the local police.

Animated short where humanity is represented by letters of the alphabet.

The film was made with the aim of putting an end to the romanticization of the lives of model girls that has been prevalent in some popular press in recent times. The film portrays in a detailed way the unsafe and degrading environment in which the girls live.

An actor fights to get into character as her coach pushes her harder and harder until something clicks.

The story of Ronnie Gardiner, the jazz musician who turned a personal tragedy into a new treatment method for stroke victims.

An animated short film based on the sequence of events that led to the fatal shooting of the escaped chimpanzees at Furuvik Zoo on December 14, 2022.

Documentary looking at naturism in Skåne län, Sweden.

Actuality film showing Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland, and Princess Maria Pavlovna arriving in Stockholm in 1908. Scenes may include arrival at the train station, greetings by officials, ceremonial procession through city streets, crowds.

A bride is apparently on the run from an assassin, when she stumbles into a world she hasn`t considered.

On the island of Sommarland, which is located in a fairly large sea, there are many children. They are clearly enjoying their summer life. On the island there is also Mrs. Lonely who lives in a lonely cabin with her cat Bolle....

20 years ago, a budding filmmaker met a Hollywood extra on a film set. Together they created a fantasy world in the shadow of the glitzy parts of Los Angeles. A sanctuary away from the bustle of modern life. Neither fiction nor reality, but both at the same time.

A close mother-daughter relationship is put to test by the extreme right-wing rise in Brazil. As the distance between them grows into an abyss, the mother decides to try to bring them together, but not by using words... using a camera.

Aliens. Punk Rock. Corn Cakes. In space, only grandma's latin cooking will save you.

A short film about seeds and hypnotic transformations around them.

A trendy city girl receives an old necklace in the mail. Putting it on, she slowly transforms into a free-spirited woman who moved to Stockholm in 1924 but ends up abused and falsely accused of murder. 100 years later she seeks revenge.

"It is not only the school but also the prison that is a mirror of society," says a board member at Hällbyanstalten outside Eskilstuna. Here are the strong and the weak, the stupid - who eventually perish - and the smart who always manage at the expense of the stupid. Here are all the prejudices and all the humiliation, hatred and anger, indifference and wild dreams. Caregiver and cared for but where the words have lost their meaning. A film by Tom Alandh about plates and thieves and Folkhemsmoral.

Karin Boye (1900-1941) is one of Sweden's most beloved poets and writers. She constantly finds new readers and gives hearts comfort and strength. But who was she? Like no one else, she described the unhappy heart in love and she dared to live and long and break norms. One April evening, she went out into nature alone with sleeping pills, never to return. A film about Boye's life, works and times, from the debut until the all-too-early end, in the middle of a burning world war.

Butch Jane lives alone with her memories of a long-lost life until Dilo moves in after their application for asylum is refused.

The world's most famous Swede in 1929 is undoubtedly Greta Garbo. Here the photographer has taken her on a boat departing Gothenburg as she returns to Hollywood.

There are 19 monarchies, 1 grand duchy, 3 principalities, 1 church state, 3 emirates, 1 sheikhdom and 2 sultanates in the world. 139 states are republics, people's republics, or democratic republics.

An artistic representation of Halland, Sweden. Four girls dressed in four different colors represent the four regions and rivers (Viskan, Ätran, Nissan and Lagan).

The title Killing Time refers to the act of waiting – a common state for people in occupied areas or surrounded by blockades. It also points to the imminent death of the individuals portrayed in the mobile phone images and videos, which were taken by people living in Gaza and given to Kent Klich by surviving family members. One of them was the lawyer Gareeb Abed, who filmed himself with his mobile phone, waiting. He was killed while working at police headquarters in Rafah on 27 December 2008, the first day of the Israeli offensive Operation Cast Lead.

A short animation

The road holds a promise of freedom. In this 16 mm short it acts a form, metaphor and a cinematic mythology as a phantasmagorical mixtape about being and becoming a truck driver unfolds.

Images of Gotland

"U-barn was based on a few simple things: combining some forms of societal imprinting through education and advertisement, some educational situations and an old commercial. And then genetic imprinting, i.e., handicaps of some kind, and show how children behave in a class situation in that case. But some facts about LSD are included and some voices that happen to be me and another person talking about the effects of it and they are combined with images of that kind, from therapeutic experiments at a mental hospital. For a long time it remains on a kind of immobile, introverted plane with different levels of consciousness, and then there is the breakout, that is the outwardly activating insight, the story of the crown prince and the draft." (Fahlström)

A short film by Evert Fremlén and Hugo Lindström

Lars is an elderly Swedish man, who has chosen to spend his winters in solitude as a care taker of the few hiking huts next to Sweden's highest mountain Kebnekaise. The film explores the inner and outer world of his stay at the hut and questions wether or not happiness can ensue, when life is not shared with friends and loved ones.

The water levels are reaching new levels and while the rain floods down into the cellar, a couple is planning to renovate their kitchen and loses themselves in choice of colors and the dilemmas of late deliveries. Jessica Laurén satirically animates a middle-class couple who stick their heads in the sand as they are confronted with global warming.

"The Gang of Four" is the name of a group of women now in their 80s who pioneered the role of women in politics in different ways, for the first time ever they let an outsider take part in one of their meetings to film this documentary.

A documentary on two young men applying for the job of models

Sophie is a little girl who wants a pet. If she does not get one, she intends to continue terrorizing her mother.

Per Berg (Peter Wahlbeck) runs a cultural magazine about life and death in this meta-story and existential exposé of humanity’s relationship to animals, where laughs quickly get stuck in your throat.

11-year old Max's greatest wish is to make films. He writes his own screenplay and works at home on a sci-fi film. At school, Max is an outsider, teased by his classmates.

A documentary about abuse and mental illness among young people in Sapmí.

After the murder of Rufus, Henrik Möller meets Rufus' father. He is both angry and insidious.

What You Do – A practical guide. This book shows you how to use your model A1. Using one hundred and twenty three illustrations, it shows how even the hopeless can make a film.

How can you talk about the Holocaust with your children? A mother is clearly affected by her trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau and talks with her three children about it. What questions does it awaken in them? The frankness of the children’s thoughts about war and oppression are hard to deflect.