Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

Recorded during a visit to Angola's liberation movement, the MPLA's eastern front in 1968. The film opens with some Angolans performing a symbolic play about the war. In addition, the military and political training, the guerrillas' contact with the local population, political meetings, etc. are shown. The battle songs, which run throughout the film, are from authentic recordings with guerrilla soldiers.

A mysterious calling from the forest lures a human into a cave, where he is met by the wrath of nature's spirits.

What triggers the sparkle and juice of each persons life? What makes us open up to the unknown and just leap out of our comfort zones? And where is your secret place where you recharge your batteries? Don´t wait! It might be too late!

Everything could have been so perfect: the boat, the fishing rod, father and son...

In June 1931, my grandfather all of a sudden starts photographing everything around him in the Båstad area. Just as suddenly he then stops, around the time his son Göran is sent away.

Warehouse manager Claus is evicted from his apartment and ends up on the street. Tsega, a single mother of three, is forced to constantly move around in search of a first-hand rental contract. Homelessness today affects different groups in society, and many of them are children. But how do we solve the problem? We also meet Tanja from the Housing Agency, who is fighting to get the real estate industry to take part of the responsibility.

Kalle is a farmer. We follow him at work and he tells us about the living conditions of a farmer.

Who is Sweden's greatest athlete of all time? By what means would you measure and compare? Meet grandma, who whipped carpets with such perfection that Sweden's sport elite turned green with envy. A humorous film asking a serious question - who is actually rewarded for their achievements?

On April 15, 2000, on the day ten years after Greta Garbo's death, a cardboard containing about fifty letters was opened at the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia, USA. The letters were written by Greta Garbo and addressed to her friend Mercedes de Acosta. She was a playwright and screenwriter. But in Hollywood, she came to be best known for her love affairs, with some of the biggest female stars of the film and theater.

Documentary about the state of El Salvador in the late 70's.

A simple and ubiquitous pose: two glossily made-up women gaze into the camera’s eye and smile. But what begins as an ordinary image of femininity descends into raw uncanniness as the camera audaciously lingers and zooms, illuminating the tense and gruelling bodily labour involved in holding onto something that may have seemed so natural.

A film about extras, loneliness, the need to be seen, clowns and dreams. The extras want fellowship and friendship, lines and more lines, to be the center of attention and to be someone else, if only for a day.

Two sisters talk about memories, homesickness and nostalgia, but words feel insufficient. How do you describe feelings that are bigger than words and how do you talk about thoughts when thethoughts drift away?

The allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs have shocked millions of fans and the entire music industry. Claims of so-called “Freak-offs,” where his girlfriend and others were allegedly drugged and forced into group sex with male prostitutes, are just part of what appears to be a sex crime empire on the same scale as the Jeffrey Epstein case. According to a comprehensive lawsuit, dozens of victims are also minors.

Acclaimed artist Salad Hilowle reimagines the life of George Sylvan a.k.a. Joe Sylvain, the first Black actor in Swedish cinema who, among other things, played Starke Adolf in a film version of Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Långstrump (Pippi Longstocking) and was the partner of Ester “Miss Arona” Nygren – the “strongest lady in Europe.”

A meditation on early Swedish anime fandom and coming of age at the turn of the millennium. Memories from a first love in bleeding video colors, the last analogue revolution before the world was fully digitized.

The Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989 and the scenes of joy were understandably almost hysterical. But how did it go then? The mental wall between the population of East and West Berlin has not been entirely easy to tear down.

Olle Häger interviews former Army General Bo Westin who shares his thought during all the crises in the sixties.

With humor and wonder and to images that grow from morning to night, a seven-year-old girl talks about the world of adults.

A report from the inside of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) - about a country whose future no one believed in. But after several major setbacks, China took North Korea under its mighty wing.

A documentary following the rock band First Floor Power for a year as they try to make it big.

A multi-national Arctic Expedition, either the 1901 or 1903 expedition.

A short, animated film for children about a dog named Bulten, which is the first of several films by Lennart Gustafsson.

A contemporary documentary film about four teenage girls as fearless, but on wobbly legs takes a step from nine to high school, from the teen chaos on the way to adulthood.

A documentary about a Swedish diving club's expedition to the Red Sea in 1955.

A documentary about the Johannes Church in central Stockholm and the quaint neighbourhood surrounding it in the middle of such a big city.

"Change the system, not the climate" is a common demand in the climate movement. But what kind of system do we actually want? In the midst of humanity's worst crisis, the pioneers stand ready.

Documentary following Per, who is assistant principal at Sofielundsskolan (Sofielund school) in Malmö.

A gymnastics performance by the Sofia girls at the Acropolis.

In the interrogation room, 67-year-old Lisa (Ann Petrén) stands accused for a brutal crime in the subway. The downhearted story that follws gives us insight into a lonely person’s confused inner world, characterized by delusions and fabrications.

A bad winner and a good loser are struggling to understand conflicting emotions after a surprisingly uneven badminton game.

Various curiosities in Stockholm.

Music student David develops anorexia after a home party at his college. This short film depicts the development of an eating disorder raw and without filters.

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With filmed material, Jenny Svenberg Bunnel's animations and old pictures, we follow director Andreas Bjunér's grandmother Unni from growing up in war Oslo and a violent father to how a teenage love took her to a new life in Sweden. A decision that would prove to lead to this film even being made.

Ahead of a performance in Sweden on 27 April 1923, Pat and Patachon shot a short promotional film titled ‘We’re Coming Back’ with the subtitle in Swedish: ‘A little prelude to the joy of the coming evenings.’ Patachon makes a call from a phone booth in Sweden to one of the phone booths on Kongens Nytorv, in Copenhagen, where Pat happens to be, and the two agree to accept the invitation to spend Easter in Handen, a suburb of Stockholm. (stumfilm.dk)

It’s ABBA night on Mallorca, but before things get started, Totte (Kodjo Akolor) warms up the audience with some gospel. Johanna Ställberg puts a twist on woke culture with a charter satire that pinches where it hurts.

Leon meets his shadow. The time has come for change.

A documentary that pushes the boundaries of reality. What is sick? What is healthy? And who sets the limit? The film portrays a person and his relationships, both to relatives and to the inner life.

Within the framework of a allotment, our existential riddles are explained by an older man's thoughts.

A film about Gotska Sandön in the Baltic Sea and its history. At the station, the staff live with their families.

A man, fishing in his boat, catches a blue lady’s shoe floating along the river. Did it belong to Andrea, the Polish berry-picker, who fled from the tyranny of the Blueberry King, supported by the Blueberry King’s own son, the poetic weakling Stig?