Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

Documentary about the role of women in rural northern Swedish society.

A lonely old man lives in the countryside. The only thing left for him is to wait for the end of his days in the company of his family - his bees.

A farewell gets prolonged for different reasons.

A man that no one knows is walking in the park without getting anywhere. When the winter arrives and he dies the local government arranges a big fair in the park. The people are happy and buy things.

Two youtubers try to gain fame by playing a cursed game - with fateful consequences.

The film is a visual sound poem, a political investigation into human-ocean relationship. Tjaetsie means water in South Sámi language. The film takes us to the inhabitants both in and around the sea, a journey through vulnerability and hybris. With human-affected time as our backdrop, the mythical figurine "Gorrijh gujne" (Spawning Lady), of the Froan sea represents the ancient forces of Ocean.

Emelie Kastberg has always wanted to be a filmmaker. On the set of a feature length film she got raped and she realizes the fact that she has to admit that she has been raped to help others who might find themselves in a similar situation.

In a park in the Stockholm suburb Midsommarkransen, Mats wanders and fantasizes about Gotland. He has not been outside his "Kransen" in 32 years. At a pizzeria in the neighborhood, Ahmed longs for his homeland Turkey. A short documentary about getting lost and dreaming away.

An animated holiday film from Sweden, based on a song composed by Anders F. Rönnblom.

A fake commercial in pseudo-German about a toy called Schlangemann, a Ken doll with an interchangeable penis in three sizes: normal, large, and gigantic.

Climate scenario where temperature rise causes hallucinogenic heat-stroke resulting in tropical mirages and double vision. The main focus in the videoworks ‘Level’, ‘Temperature Rising’ and ‘Bloomberg’ has been image and sound as equal units. This means that I’m trying not to put sound to image or image to sound but to work with the two in a parallel process where a motion can start in a picture and end up moving through sound. My interest in movements travelling through time in image and sound developed during my studies in visual art and electro-acoustic music.

Meet Kay Pollak, full of humor and insights, teaches how to achieve greater harmony and, ultimately, a better life!

She should have stayed in bed.

When the old fisherman Boman drowns on a storm night, his widow and daughter Gerd is left alone in their cabin. Lost.

Clay animation from the album "Sensational Resistance in the Ultra Discount" published by Bakhåll Publishing in March 2002.

The Argentines Omar, Mesmar and Diego love Sweden - but none of them have been there. Diego works with Swedish speaking customers at a call center in Buenos Aires, and actually sounds like he's from Sweden. No wonder people are surprised when they learn that he is Argentinian and working from a different part of the world.

Eric M Nilsson talks to his mother over the years when they lived during German occupation in Belgium. Over a box of things from those years his father left behind, they helped together to remember.

Tinne Zenner's 'Translations' (in Greenlandic: 'Nutsigassat') reflects on the power of language as a colonizer of foreign landscapes. A critical and graceful 16mm film in which the vistas of Greenland create a space for free thinking.

A short about the life of plants.

During Ylva's birthday dinner, the topic of the conversation turned to prostitution, which drastically changes the mood around the table. A film about to be blinded by own convictions and refuse to listen to others.

"Bläckfiskens bok" is made up of three short films ("Första resan", "Drömresan" and "Sista resan"). While making these movies, Nilsson tried to put himself in an artificial depression in order to see the world as an angry and sad man. "My mind functions like a spider's web: all the images, all the ideas, all the sentences, all the idiocies stick. Thus am I a prisoner."

TV movie about memories and thoughts about the Army Museum in Stockholm.

1972 short film by Håkan Dahlström.

Like everyone else Mathilda is born round. Unlike everyone else she can't/won't become quadratic. Once she grows up, she tries to adapt to the quadratic standards. But without success. One day at her boring work she finally meets Alex. He is just like she is... round.

An explosive action pastiche in which a small Finnish-Swedish town gets a makeover in true Hollywood spirit. The mundane meets the melodramatic, the dialect resonates alongside bombastic music, and the landscapes of Ostrobothnia are portrayed in the epic 2.40:1 aspect ratio.

A Stockholm newspaper is looking for new reporters, and announces that whoever gets an interview with ex-King Manuel of Portugal will be hired.

Evangelist Målle Lindberg drew much attention in the 60's. Headlines told of ecstatic tent shows with a rock'n'roll spirit, alcohol, gambling and sin. He is the gypsy who was born on a trip between two horse markets in Sävsjö and Nässjö. He who grew up as a delinquent, found god after a longer prison stay, found God and became one of Sweden's most debated free church preachers as well as rock singer in the 60's. His tent meetings drew hundreds, he performed on Nalen and had Cliff Richard as an opening act. A women's favorite, he made big money for a few years, that disappeared as soon as they came and left a big debt at the tax office. Målle cracked under the media attention about him being a charlatan. Today he is again an accepted preacher, and according to himself, a prophet in the Pentecostal church. With diligent touring in his motor home, preaching in churches and selling tapes and records, he has become the revivalist movements own little pet and outsider.

Harrow Creek is a silent, calm town where nothing bad has happened in over thirty years. But the citizens' lives get turned upside down when a child is murdered, and the FBI agent James Morgan gets sent there to solve the case.

A documentary portrayal of Duisburg, a poisoned, slowly dying city of 700,000 inhabitants. Children in Duisburg grow more slowly than other children, ten times as many people die of lung cancer. The population and local politicians protest against further industry, but it is big finance and EU politicians who decide and now the city's industry is to be expanded with petrochemical plants.

The film delves into deeply human and existential themes that resonate across different stages of life. What is compelling is the way it portrays the inner crisis of Adam, the protagonist, as he grapples with the monotony of his life and a sudden, shocking event. It is a reflective and layered film that encourages introspection on what it means to live fully and authentically, even in the face of life’s challenges and changes.

Actuality film documenting the state visit of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra to Stockholm on 26–27 April 1908. The footage shows the English royal couple’s arrival and reception in Stockholm, crowds lining the streets, and ceremonial events. Originally released as part of the compilation newsreel Stockholm i festskrud.

Images from Children's Day 1905.

A short drama film.

Documentary film about Storks in Scania, the southernmost province of Sweden.

A film about goodness in five chapters over five years. About falling and getting up again and again. Goodness - does it exist? From December 1993 to December 1998, the filmmaker Ulf von Strauss followed Ola, a person who strives for goodness, for peace, some kind of grace even.

Two women try to steal a boat. Hilarity ensues.

A lyrical, impressionistic tribute to Stockholm where images from today's Stockholm are interspersed with short scenes from Arne Sucksdorff's film People in the City from 1947.

Using footage from slaughterhouses and farms as well as presenting interviews with eminent people from the swedish animal rights community, Någon inte något (Someone not something) displays the impact of animal exploitation.

A portrait of the idyllic town of Karlsborg, Sweden, home to 4000 inhabitants, whose economy is dependent on the prominent local manufacturer of the latest technology in ammunition.

Documentary which follows Kenneth Lantz, who is addicted to heroin.

Abstract experimental film.

What is folk culture and what is nationality? Are they set in stone or can they be changed and developed? At a community center furnished with pinewood, cultures and generations meet. Folk is a dance film that heats up what is frozen in time.

A Roma silversmith talks about her experiences.

A documentary about Freia who lives with her mother in a hippie collective. She has thoughts on everything from the things her parents are doing to life in New York and the world.

A rich girl is not allowed to get married with commoner, Per, by her mother.

Summer is the highlight of the year for Lina, Nisse and Frasse. Sun, games and swimming. But they have to watch out for the Wolf Man. Syskonsommar is a pastisch at The Children of Bullerbyn Village/The Children of Noisy Village .

A choreography of sorts, involving a camera and a couple who are in the midst of their existential errands. Filmed at Heingeborgen in Skåne, Sweden, in the year 2000. The couple are author Sture Dahlström (voice and text) and his wife, painter Anna-Stina Ehrenfeldt. (Filmform)

Emilio and Mikas are two men in their 30s who have never known true love or embrace from their parents as children. One night in a park, when Mikas is on the verge of taking his life, Emilio sees him and intervenes in an impulsive act. This becomes the starting point of their first meeting. During that night, as they share their wounded memories, an unlikely and deep connection develops between them. They explore their feelings and desires, leading to an unexpectedly intimate experience. When they wake up the next day, they face questions about their feelings and how this night will affect their lives going forward

Young Michael Martin is about to marry his fiancée Asta, when his foster father, Captain Weston, announces the term of his will -- in order to inherit the family fortune Michael will have to remain a bachelor.