Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

Two dances are performed.

"...The journey of a determined warrior seeking answers..."

"Born in a coffin" - For 60 years Sonja Malmberg worked as a undertaker in Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden. At the age of 83 she leaves the office, after also having written three books. Poems and texts from these books form the backbone of this portrait of her, in the meeting with filmmaker Staffan Winbergh. A friendship for almost 50 years.

Another adventure with Kalle "Blixten" Svensson.

Felix Herngren meets Ingvar Kamprad and talks about everything from growing up to business, family, ageing, death and of course about his life's work Ikea. Ingvar is considered by many to be one of the world's richest people and has now moved home after several decades abroad.

Documentary about actress Sif Ruud consisting of a long interview with her about her career with clips shown.

Two guys find a dead body in the forest.

A guy and a girl, an apartment and a relationship.

A unsuspecting group of strangers visits a man on his birthday unknowing of the evil that thrives beneath the surface.

Guldöronen är en samling vanliga män med en stenhård passion för bra ljudanläggningar. De tävlar med varandra på blodigt allvar om vem som kan få fram det bästa ljudet i sitt vardagsrum. Priset är den åtråvärda vandringstrofén Guldörat.

About modern Liberia and the iron ore prospecting on Mount Nimba.

Documentary about early 20th century revue artist and satirist Karl Gerhard

In the near future, Mariam and her family must navigate a financial crisis. At the same time, the Swedish government launches an integration tool called Language-maximization, offering immigrants a generous grant to erase all memory of their mother tongue.

The director gathers her activist friends from the revolutionary youth years in Uppsala to get answers to questions.

A washed out actor try his fortune as a hairdresser.

Brothers Paul and Georg Williams' latest invention is of great military importance, and a foreign nation enlist it's most deadly spy, Mylady, to get information about it.

The poor seamstress Hildur is having a dream, where she meets and marries a handsome lieutenant.

The celebated return to the stand up scene by Henrik Schyffert after a five year long break. A funny, intelligent and touching show where Schyffert masterfully treads between the deeply personal and the witless. A show about everything from family life, girl-texts, paid promotions and annoying young parents.

"What matters is that all children have the same opportunity to a meaningful spare time, that's my focus and that's what we're doing." Helga Valdimarsdottir, Board president of Angered Boxing Club. "Angered Boxing Club: So Much More than boxing" is a movie about boxing, commitment and everything that involves being active in a non-profit organization which creates safety and meaning for hundreds of children and adolescents and about how they together arrange Europe's biggest boxing tournament.

Images from Sundsvall and Mariefred.

Shows song, music and dance from Dancehall National, commonly known as Nalen in Stockholm. The film is a pure music and dance film and shows no less than three stellar ensembles in full action - Het Miller's hot quintet from Holland, Seymour Österwall's Swedish elite orchestra and Jimmy Woode's all-black bass are responsible for the music. Black singer Kosto Kilroy and Javanese swing singer Sanny Day are seen and heard as soloists. Furthermore, Nalen's jitterbug stars and adjutant Engvall with his 100 singers and musicians from the Salvation Army participate. A beauty pageant and a carnival also feature prominently in the film. Among the melodies is the popular samba Manana.

How is the life of a Sudanese stonepit-worker, a cleaning lady, a middle-aged woman and a little girl - all being inhabitants of a small and isolated island in the Baltic Sea - connected to the imaginary residue of the Swedish masterful director Ingmar Bergman, who was a resident on the very same island for over 30 years?

Stockholm street scene.

A film about the artist Jan Hafstrom.

When Carolina Falkholt does a mural painting at the 2022 Roskilde Festival, the festival management wants to stop her work. This meta-work, which is partially a documentation of Falkholt’s original creation, creates a discussion about art and censorship.

Kristina and Finn are two filmmakers, trying to document everything. During two years they turn the camera on themselves and their attempts at becoming parents. A struggle that through comedy as well as despair depicts the life-shattering moments of pregnancy, as well as the everyday moments.

The turn of a year in a snowy village in Sweden documents the need for change and continuance. A collective film about rites and times. Dala-Floda, Sweden, has 680 inhabitants. In the depths of the blue light of winter, six filmmakers ask themselves what it means to start a new year. Emerging locals formulate their views on time and our need for rituals and reoccurring events. Their answers parade poetically through the snowy and cold village landscape. A sort of time travel takes place and recalls ordinary as well as extraordinary memories and identities. The commonplace is our need for measuring time, our need for a beginning and an end. A ninety-year-old woman shows a way out of the never-ending dream phase of the evoked Phantom Carriage (Selma Lagerlöf) and exclaims: "Really, you ought to reset yourself. You have to feel completely at zero again".

The second part of the video series Man with balls on hands and feet, also including Man on air (2001) and Man on ice (1998). Man with balls on hands and feet is the name of the video series containing three films. The two first, Man on ice (1998) and Man on water (1999) shows a man venturing on the physical contradictory; to stand straight up on an ice or a water surface, with balls attached to hands and feet. In the third, Man on air (2001), the support obtained by friction is altered with a heavy stream of air. Through this very simple and obviously impossible combination of hard, spherical forms contradicting the ice, the water and the air stream, an excruciating yet human situation is stressed.

Documentary film maker Anders Wahlgren interviews the artist Peter Tillberg.

Short animation about two brothers who have to guard reindeers over night and keep wolves away.

In duorggat doarggistit, four smallbirches (duorga) are cut by a lake on the tundra.The trees are stifled, and the twigs are taken.The trunks are left behind standing in the landscape.

A satirical look at power and male confirmation in Sweden's film industry.

The tribulations during the recording of pornographic film.

A female figure gives birth to a spiral of toy animals to the sound of music, groans and screams.

A reflection on noise, silence, and grain. (Filmform)

A movie about an unusual relationship between father and son, the fear of losing what you love and the price of negligence.

A documentary, produced for Swedish television in 1962, which marks the fiftieth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. It examines both the film A NIGHT TO REMEMBER and Walter Lord’s book of the same name, and features firsthand accounts from three survivors of the tragedy.

A naive filmmaker. A faithful friend. An unforgettable trauma.

An animated short film about Aber and a vendor during a market visit.

Fernando, a guy from Värmland, fears that his best friend is in danger. He chooses to travel to Stockholm in order to save him.

'Gästgivargår'n' depicts a restaurant at the foot of Kinnekulle dating back to the 1500s. There, restaurateur Stefan Johansson runs an inn based on local ingredients.

A boy is pursued by a witch while taking a walk.