Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

A short animated feature.

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

Expressing desire, pursuing dreams, loving oneself, questioning the oppressive confines of patriarchy. Farida Baqi takes us on a lyrical and emotional journey through the life of a young woman from birth to adulthood in an unnamed Arab city.

The year is 2065. At Meditech, illegal genetical experiments are carried out on human beings in order to produce a super creature. But the creature escapes...

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.

In 1999, some of Sweden's most read and award-winning crime novelists formed a secret club called the Blood Group. At the meetings, everything from murder methods and intrigue is discussed.

Two groups of girls during a feverish summer night in a suburb of Stockholm. The same place, but two completely different worlds. A Sun in the Night is a poetically charged postcard, delivered with cinematographic perfection, and a bitter-sweet picture of a sisterhood that is both inclusive and conditional.

A burglary takes place where something sees and something hears. It soon turns out that the house has a dark secret.

Rocky is 15 years old and has stopped going to school. His social life is on the internet and he sits up every night to play computer games. One day he gets a friend request on Skype from Jackson. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona and doesn't go to school either. They fall in love, and Rocky starts a journey that will change his life.

Documentary about the swedish band "The Magnettes".

"Don't Be Seduced" - Gothenburg's Brecht-ensemble performs songs and texts of Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler.

VMA is a surrealistic action movie about alternative ways to make yourself heard.

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?

A documentary about Swedish indie rock outfit Bob Hund. Following the band from stages so small the band could barely fit, to huge festival stages the film mixes home-movie footage with interviews, tour movies and music videos.

"Our Daily Bread" - Revolves around a group of women who start working at a pizza bakery.

Kristoffer, an unemployed musician from Arvika is given the task of composing music for all of Stockholm's subway stations.

Annelie's menstrual cup is stuck and Lovisa helps her get it out. A film about friendship and always being there for your best friend.

A thriller documentary where the director seek answers on why her brother was shot by the Swedish serial killer Peter Mangs.

A coming of age documentary where the young person's teenage years has been characterized by domestic violence and adult responsibilities.

Fourteen-year-old Emma goes to a party with friends of her brother's and ends up passed out on a bed with an older boy who takes advantage of the situation. Later her brother Markus senses that something is wrong, but Emma keeps her thoughts to herself. She has trouble dealing with her own emotions. But then she meets Aron, an easy-going guy who spends his days on a skateboard.

Felix Tobias Herngren was born in 1967. He probably did not know then that he would become one of Sweden's most popular comedians. This DVD contains the very best with Felix. From the breakthrough of SMASH to TV success Solsidan. In Late night with Luuk Felix became cult with their characters Papi Raul Dan Bäckman Tim Hibbins. There are also clips from TV shows like Pang Bulle, Help !, the Pentagon, Extra Extra, Ulveson & Herngren, the social game, Parliament, the truth behind, Roast, Boston Tea Party and biofilms adults and every week. This and much more in the very best with Felix Herngren. AAAHHH, what fun ...

A friend's death triggers the tale about those of us who find community outside of society's norms. About the struggle to play the part of an adult in a world impossible to adjust to for many. Jussi's last text message states, 'This world is not for me.' Who exactly is this world for?

A woman and a man in their forties meet up for the first time IRL in a municipal gymnasium with the intention of creating a space of trust between themselves. A ”room” where they safely can explore sides of themselves that they suppress in their everyday lives.

"The White Hands" - 'I came to film in my capacity of poet, wanting to see whether I could express myself in pictures rather that in words-create a film poem. Not a traditional piece of lyric but something that suggests and hints and transmits its content even though it may not be comprehensible in a logic sense'. This is how Rut Hillarp described her film interpretation of the legend of Tristan and Isolde. She borrowed this classical theme from her collection of poetry The False Farewell. The White Hands is an attempted surrealistic visualization of a poem, using symbolic image sequences

Professor Ernest Wearnkeal has problems with repeated thefts at his Egyptian museum. For help, he turns to the famous detective and author Oswald Read. Read arrives at the museum under the disguise of a Dr. Kearn who will study the museum's art treasures. As Dr. Kearn, he is also introduced to the professor's beautiful daughter Ester.

In the animated short film Hello Robot!, we follow a girl in a desolate world as she finds an abandoned robot in a cave. Luck is short though, as batteries are hard to come by.

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.

Gerd’s only friend is a goldfish that recently died. She’s alone. Finally she decides to buy a new fish. Back at home she discovers that she has locked herself out – she has to climb up by the balcony pole! She falls, almost dropping the fish and a man appears to rescue...

A Norwegian customs officer, a Finnish poacher, and a mysterious Swedish woman meet at the border between their homelands, becoming entangled in a conflict over laws, language, and prejudice.

Politics meets personal survival, in this urgent, courageous and poetic bricolage diary that traces an exiled filmmaker’s escape from violent repression to the West via Thailand – only to face new forms of onerous control. Socrates Saint-Wulfstan Drakos is not the real name of the director who made Unerasable! And when the film is over, everyone in the audience will understand why.

When a son eagerly joins his father on a fishing trip, the catch never comes, and patience wears thin.

This is exactly what happened at Järntorget between 00:36 and 00:41 on September 13th, 2024.

Dance film.

A young girl sends a nude picture to her love interest, and during the long minutes that follow, she and her friend alternate between giggles and despair. Bastubabes tells with tenderness about exposing oneself to someone you care about and the intimacy of friendship.

Norrland in Sweden while the power plant dams are being built.

During a compulsory information meeting for unemployed people, the friendly face of a ridiculous, Kafkaesque bureaucracy exposes the truth behind unemployment.

Everyone has plans A, B, C and D. My plan is to turn all my plans into reality at the same time. How else do you get pregnant with an infertile guy?

11-year-old Emma and Yasra fight to become Hollywood stars. They practice song and dance, read tabloids, and have set up a budget to reach their goal in a portrayal of not being seen, which is both humorous and moving at the same time.

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

Emma doesn't want to eat and her dad doesn't know how to handle it.

Football will never get better than this, neither for the player nor the viewer. Because Tony, 'Rektorn', 'Nordan', 'Jocke' and the others cannot be bought with money. They are simply priceless. Grunden Bois is a football club in Gothenburg for players with intellectual disabilities. It is the largest club of its kind in Sweden with around 150 players at all levels. Football means a lot to the players and has given them a little edge in life.

No action, no scenario, except for the man in silence. Bob Hansson reads his poem to music by Flesh Quartet and pictures by Jesper Klevenås.

A documentary about Domus department stores in Sweden.

A pleasant game night with three best friends ends with death horror and unimaginable events.

Roma and Sinti people talk about their experiences in the Third Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany, inspired by Otto Pankok’s paintings of Romani theme and subject in the 1930s, declared degenerate art by the Nazis. These are moving narratives of persecution, discrimination, marginalisation, of life as second-class human beings, all of which lasts, incredibly enough, right up to the allegedly democratic present day of the film, since they live in inhumane conditions in barracks at the margins of cities and society and are not officially recognised as Nazi victims. Long, nearly uncut sequences open space for the people and their stories. That’s all it takes for one of Peter and Zsóka Nestler’s most important works.

The story of the swedish volunteer air force F19 during the winter war.

When the Soviet Union attacked Finland in the fall of 1939, Swedish fighter pilots brought Swedish planes to defend the north of Finland for over 60 days in freezing conditions. For some this led to spy missions for Stalin and Sweden.