Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

G-Spot Forever is a 1997 skateboard film from the legendary Swedish skateboard brand G-Spot.

What happens if Sweden joins the EEC?

A woman goes on nightly trips, in search of someone who has departed. One night, she has an unusual encounter. This film delicately explores cultural differences and the universality of the unspeakable grief, from Taiwan to Sweden.

A man, a bus stop and the wait to get home. Will the man ever get home or will the bus stop keep him there until the end?

A short film competition has come to town and it's putting pressure on those who apply. But does the film really have to be perfect or is it important to just start?

Kayfabe follows a mercenary's violent incursion into a jungle island—only to be met by forces far beyond his understanding. As battle unfolds, visions blur the line between invader and invaded, exposing the endless cycles of conflict and domination. In a world where myths fight back, the question isn't who wins—it's whether the pattern can ever be broken.

Sara Lundén sings about her lovers in a Mexican nightclub.

Amir visits his family's hunting grounds for the annual hunt. However, things take a dramatic turn early on when something goes terribly wrong. How will Amir navigate his way out of this dire situation?

A documentary about the remaining people in Malmberget in north Sweden, a small town collapsing into the mines beneath it. As residents reflect on the once vibrant community, the town itself is slowly dismantled around them

About Russia's transformation from communism to a market economy was coming to an end with disaster. Out of the ashes rose a powerful president who rules his country with an iron fist. How did it happen? SVT's former correspondent Peter Löfgren tells what happened when a bunch of young capitalists from the West were invited to reform Russia. Some became immensely rich while the majority continued to live in misery. The attempt failed and the road to power was soon open to a new type of leader. His name: Vladimir Putin.

A young man and a robot in the final moments before a meteor strikes their planet.

Johann Wilhelm Trollmann becomes middleweight champion in Nazi Germany. He is the first Roma boxer in the world to win the title. He is famous for his dancing fighting style. With the enactment of the racial laws, he is imprisoned in Wittenberge and Neuengamme concentration camps, where he dies at the age of 37. He decides to die as a champion and fights with a Nazi kapo who challenges him. Rukeli, which means tree, the Gipsy, knocks out the Nazi and the entire apparatus of power.

Images from Härnösand, among them Sami people selling reindeer meat from sleds.

Images from Sundsvall.

Jonas Lundqvist is something of an icon in the Swedish indie rock scene, with many critically acclaimed albums under his belt. However, the life behind the stage isn't always as shimmering; Lundqvist has separated from his daughter's mother, struggled with addiction, lost his father and watched his mother lost to Alzheimer's. But he also has a daughter who he wants to hold close and follow throughout the life and the documentary follows Lundqvist as he takes on the loneliness of losing parents and the dissolution of the nuclear family.

Short Film by Anne Robertsson.

A Video by Johan Niemi & Gustaf Johansson.

A group of proud Swedish patriots moves to the country to live patriotically, but things quickly go in another direction.

Gunilla disrupts the dynamics of an Alpha Male Pickup Boot Camp, where the confident leader, Close, finds himself unexpectedly outmatched. As Gunilla's self-assurance challenges the group's fragile egos, the camp's leader struggles to maintain his authority in a setting where traditional roles are humorously flipped.

Meet the people in the northern village of Muodoslompolo, Tornedalen, Sweden. A small community undergoing major transformations and with deep connections to a dark side of Swedish history.

DVD of Swedish rock band Bonafide's concert performance. Recorded at the sixth annual Hard Rock Hell Festival in Wales, late 2012, it was the last leg on the Ultimate Rebel Tour.

An eider duck defend her nest and eggs agains sea gulls

Probably the most brutal and outrageous clay animation ever made.

A man wakes up in an empty school. Is it a dream or not?

An ordinary house, surrounded by trees and ever-changing weather. Through its walls, we perceive sounds as the building silently witnesses the stories happening within its walls. Different voices fill the footage by telling us about their stillbirth experiences at different stages within their healthcare journey – together forming a whole.

An inspector's search for a missing person leads him on a nightmarish and surrealistic journey through the forest.

Patrik and Elsa are in an open relationship. Just as Patrik is moving to Paris, where Elsa lives, he learns that she has fallen for someone else. In four days, all three plan to meet. As the audience, we follow them through this unexpected breakup, observing their contrasting mindsets.

Four trans teenagers break into a school gym late at night. What spells are cast? What kind of magic is made?

About the taxi driver Els-Beth "Bettan" Aspås, 84 years old. A tough woman from the village of Härkmeri in Ostrobothnia who traveled to Sweden in 1950 and chose a career in the extremely male-dominated taxi industry.

Ulf Berner is home again - who was faster than the Swedish justice system and so snobbishly disappeared from prosecutors and bailiffs in the mid-80s. - Serious tax crimes, said the prosecutor, and the bailiff wanted thirteen million.

Ernest Thiel's life was like a grand movie where trips, parties and financial cuts succeeded each other. Until that day the bankruptcy was a fact.

A weather report for Stockholm.

In 1965, the British psychiatrist R.D. founded Laing Philadelphia Association in London, whose main purpose was to establish therapeutic refuges for people in mental crisis, however without using the coercive methods of established psychiatry. The film shows glimpses of the diversity of activities that are currently produced by the organization, with the main emphasis on a "birthing workshop" led by Laing himself.

The legendary sexual enlightenment Elise Ottesen-Jensen (1886-1973), nicknamed Ottar, was the first to speak about the unspeakable. She was a traveling lecturer on contraception, childbirth and the woman's right to her own body in the 1920s and 30s. Despite the fact that it was forbidden. Ottar was born in a Norwegian high-church environment where her mother Karen gave birth to 22 children.

In the spring of 1939, AB Radiotjänst was hit by one of its first public storms. A woman, Astrid Kindstrand, had read the daily news for the first time.

Film about friendship and solidarity.

When a young girl seemingly returns to her childhood home, memories of her father are awakened, confusing time and space. We follow endless moments between a father and daughter, where the memories that come to mind reflect the absence of words. Only that which surrounds the silence is spoken and remembered. But who remembers whom?

A Berlinale award nominated short feature.

Animated commercial.

Documenting the urban environment of Gothenburg, Sweden.

A white dragon weeps following a broken relationship, and a raccoon feels compelled to say yes when asked to work overtime. In an atmospheric and detailed puppet animation, self-will is doubted, and coupledom is questioned as the normative form of relationship.

Ismail has become undocumented and lives on a secluded island where a small black lamb captures his heart, all while someone from his past haunts him. Black Sheep is a symbol-laden story about having one's destiny resting in someone else's hands.