Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

Jan Lindqvist's epic historiographic film project Tiden är en dröm/Time is a dream is an attempt to trace the birth of modern Sweden through the early still photographies from that time.

On February 2, 2011, Jussi Björling would have turned 100 years old. Just in time for the anniversary comes the film, a drama documentary about the legendary opera singer.

Exodus tells the story about a man that suffers a panic attack during one of his normal days. After that, his life changes.

Harald and Steffe have just met. Sharing the same hate towards society and the world order, they set out on a journey through Sweden. The final evolution of mankind is at hand.

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.

Annie falls in love with baron Crona. However - rumors say Crona is terrible with money, and Annie's father, the consul, denies the baron's request to marry Annie. To be able to live together, the couple flees Sweden for Europe, where the rumors are proven more than true.

Footage of the field training exercises in and around Sigtuna, Uppland, during the fall of 1910

From the carefree summers of childhood to the turbulent teenage years. Five formative years in a young group of friends in Stockholm, where their bond is put to the test as they navigate their way into adulthood.

While grieving the loss of a relative, a young woman slowly becomes aware that her relationship with her boyfriend is slowly falling apart.

In May-June 1971, Malmer and Romare accompanied a delegation of experts sent by the international committee to investigate US crimes in Indochina and then reported on their experiences in 'Att samla några bevis'. The visual material is partly unique: it concerns, among other things, the documentation of the US Air Force's conscious investment in so-called anti-personnel bombs and mines. The use of napalm and chemical warfare agents is also discussed in a few sections, where an old woman and two mothers, who were in sprayed areas during their pregnancies, talk about and show the damage to themselves and their deformed children.

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.

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.

Laxman searches for her missing cat, but at the same time has to persuade her TV-watching classmate to finish his school work.

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.

A whale has stranded on a beach and the people go there to watch the spectacle. It becomes a very special afternoon for all involved.

A 10-year-old boy must unravel the mysterious sounds of the crickets to find a way to handle his grandfather's oppression.

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?

Two of Sweden's newspapers, from morning till night.

Eighteen Mill Street introduces Ukrainian artists Marianna Tarish and Nikita Gryshko soon after their relocation to Sweden because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The film explores Tarish and Gryshko’s relationships to intimate and domestic spaces and how they have been impacted due to their experiences at the start of the war while still living in the Ukrainian city of Kherson and as part of their journey to Sweden.

The short film that audiences are calling...

Stad (City) is Simon Gärdenfors' latest standup special. Shifting between a busy life in Stockholm and cites such as Tokyo and New York, Gärdenfors aims to contrast the life of the pulsating city with that of the rural life.

Women's football in Gävle in 1917. Girls in puffy shorts and long socks play on grass.

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.

A film about the former Swedish colony.

A film about the history of Sweden's Social Democratic Women's Association.

A short film about a boy, a man and a tree.

About Bo Lycke and his enemy - the Alzheimer's disease. He lives with his wife Eva on Brännö, among friends and musicians - surrounded by the sea. At the age of 59, he received his diagnosis, And when the film ends, more than ten years have passed. "When I got my sentence I promised myself not to get depressed and that I could drink as much as I want. And I have done that. But I watch myself all the time and I see how the abilities disappear, like now this with the underpants and socks... Now I notice that the language is also starting to mess with me!"

A woman is caught by a copy in the act of painting graffiti. She runs from the scene with the cop close behind. Perhaps the police officer knows her own fate when she sets off on the chase. Perhaps she succumbs to the will of the graffiti girl. Clearly, somebody needs to be punished.

Christer was once a successful real estate agent and restaurant owner, but became homeless after having lived for 36 years in a nice apartment. A short documentary of reflection.

A portrait of a young woman.

Bob the dog is back in his hometown of Helsingborg and with good news. Together with Helsingborg City Theatre and Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, they will perform an eventful concert from Storan's stage, which will be broadcast live digitally.

A psychiatrist and her husband host a dinner for their neighbors when she notices that someone is observing them from outside, but the others just dismiss her fear as mere exhaustion from overwork.

We see a human body and two hands that both hides and embraces in front of the camera's intense gaze. We do not know who the body belongs to. It is not possible to say if it is a man or woman.

Images of Stockholm in the snow, children sledding. Ships covered in a layer of ice, workers at work, birds on the ice and people skating.

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

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

The Cortina dance pavilion outside Falkenberg was once celebrated for its dances and social gatherings, but in the early summer of 2001 a music festival changed everything. For the residents of the village and for those who were there, there will always be a before and an after festival "2 heavy 4 you".