Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

Nilsson thinks the director Richard Hobert makes such terrible films and he had to go ask him why.

Arboga, Sweden: the train station, the river, the hospital and the market. This silent film is shown with new music by Matti Bye.

A visual film about nothing.

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

Stockholm, the Venice of the north.

A gymnastics performance by the Sofia girls at the Acropolis.

In his celebrated standup show, Messiah Hallberg riffs on what it's like to be misunderstood and to make up for the past.

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

An overview of Djurgården in Stockholm and what it looked like in the 1930s.

In the sixties, Louise’s maternal grandparents went to Greenland to teach the Inuit children the Danish language and culture. How did they perceive their roles in this cultural colonialism? From a personal point of departure and with a rich archival material, Louise tries to understand the colonial heritage she herself is part of.

Johan's mother Inga Britt falls ill with Alzheimer's disease at the same time as he himself becomes a parent. These crucial life events force them to deal with their complicated relationship, which essentially has lasted a lifetime. In this personal documentary, Johan decides to unravel and deepen his relations with his mother, before it is too late.

In 1979, following the Islamic Revolution, theatres across Iran were shut down, including the oldest, Tamashakhaneh Tehran, built in 1915. Filmmaker Shauheen Daneshfar explores its dusty, decaying interiors with 35mm film, reviving a past enriched with artistic expression and resistance through archival footage, choreographed re-enactments, and the memories of exiled and oppressed artists and performers. Scented Rooms is a powerful, poetic ode to a silenced history resoundingly present.

Stop-motion documentary based on interviews about anxiety.

Berlin Today: Memories of a city. Icy winds blowing around shiny-glass palaces.

Many children live with a secret that they think they are alone with. We meet three children in a film based on documenting their personal stories and thoughts. The film is animated and narrated with playful imagery and great curiosity. It invites the viewer into the children's inner worlds.

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20 years ago a Hollywood extra met a budding filmmaker. She honed her directorial skills and he practised lines. Years later, a film which was never supposed to be had already been shot. Neither reality nor fiction, but both at the same time.

Movements as processing and movements as memories. Grief takes physical dimensions in a well-told and moving documentary about Ann, who lost her son Gösta in the tsunami catastrophe of 2004, and who continuously struggles to gain control over her feelings.

Lente journeys out to her grandmother, Siri, who lives on Öland, wrapped in wintery barrenness. It Blooms at Night (Nattljus) is a beautiful, low-key film about meeting over a generational boundary, about life’s joy and about taking farewell.

Vera is 89 years old and married to a man who is 95.

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.

When the cartoonist Johan Wanloo teaches Spanish, he does not teach the usual phrases.

Two schoolgirls living in the northern reaches of Scandinavia during the lockdowns of the spring 2020 reflect on their situation. They realise that life may be even more difficult for those living further south.

A man contemplates suicide and gets hallucination from garlic.

Passages was filmed in Malmö, a city in the south of Sweden. It is a non-narrative film based on time, place and movement, which forms a trilogy with Landscape (1985 – 1987) and Labyrinth (2013). 48 different locations in the city were documented using circular pan shots.

Inhalation, exhalation, hold your breath, dive deep. Unconcious memories float to the surface. Exhale the past. Unexpected - a photographic collage animation laced with live action. A reflection on catching your breath. Breath-taking!

The Little Red Barn Show documents a group of friends coming together to make a concert happen amidst a global pandemic, on a farm, in a barn, in the middle of nowhere. Director Rolf Nylinder shares his perspective while he watches incredibly talented people work together to make something small, and simple, and ultimately utterly magical.

At a bustling dinner party a young girl, ignored and patronised by the adults around her, forms an unspoken bond with an equally excluded elderly lady across the table.

It is the largest fire in Sweden, in modern times. In the pressing summer heat, a small forest fire started in the forests of Västmanland. But it proved difficult. It spread rapidly, communities were evacuated and the smoke was noticed across much of the country. What really happened these days?

Do you need children, careers and partners to feel happy? The filmmaker Lotta Stemme has for five years documented both her own and three of her friends' griefs in the middle of their lives. Lotta tries to catch up with everything. Catherine chose to break up and move away from her children. Linda may not be able to have children and Marika opted out of her career and has invested everything in being a mother.

Liam is an F to M and lives in Sweden. Maria Åkesson talked with him while he was under hormonal treatment and observed how friends and family reacted to the changes he underwent during therapy. Investigating the emotional, medical and physical effects he experienced, the story is told alternating archive footage with interviews with Liam, his family and friends, in addition to animated sequences and several musical pieces, Liam created for the soundtrack.

A man gets the job to get 3 kilo cocaine hidden in a car in a container.

Swedish singer/songwriter Peter LeMarc is recording anew album "Svag doft av skymning/Faint Scent of Dusk" in the spring of 2012.

"The Climate Experiment" - About the Swedish artist duo Bigert and Bergström's climate-related art, which for three decades has been inspired by research on the effects of climate on humanity and vice versa. Tells the story of the growing realization of our own role in the changing climate. Our interference in the atmospheric cocktail could be described as the greatest experiment in human history. An experiment whose outcome is highly uncertain. The film presents the lurking awareness of our own role in the change of climate. The title refers to the kind of research that challenged the conception of nature as an inexhaustible resource, but also to the artists' own work with various geo-engineering projects, in which they try to deal with the effects of an increasingly heated atmosphere.

Footage from the solar eclipse on the 21st of August 1914, filmed in Sollefteå and Stockholm.

"We Challenge Satan" - The devil is raging and his willing tools are spreading their poisons in press and posters, which are pasted into thousands of places in the city. But the people of God rejoice. Hallelujah. It's victory. Jesus won a perpetual victory on Calvary and in His name we will be victorious.

The trio from Just Listen to the Drill is back! Louise has got some exciting news for her father - or not?

Few persons born in the 1940s in a documentary about what love is.

Whoever lies next to Karl-Johan is apparently not his girlfriend, Sofie. Although she has similar boots. But Sofie is on her way up the stairs - and maybe mother-in-law with a dog.

We meet two girls in the middle ground between childhood and adolescence, a time where it is easy to misjudge the difference between right and wrong.

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

After being hospitalized for PTSD and self-harm, Elma has been granted a student apartment in order to resume her philosophy studies. Being far from mentally recovered, the psychiatry has installed an artificial intelligence in her apartment - the 5th generation supportive housing system, titled "5R13ND" - programmed to aid her in her every day life and routines, and above all to control her daily intake of psychotropics. Quickly suffering from side effects from her new medication, Elma gets more and more reluctant to the idea of medically repressing her traumatic memories. In the shadows of her doubts about 5R13ND's motives, lies the terror of her past, waiting to be free.

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

A man talks about his life as a petti thief.

Summer in the Swedish neighborhood, children and adults are playing with balls and water guns. In fact, they have just won a lot of money.

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

PRISON SISTERS takes us through the journey of two young women who have been released from prison in Afghanistan. Outside prison, the respite they experienced in prison is replaced with death threats and violence. As women and former inmates, Sara and Najibeh lacks any right to exist. Sara's uncle intends to kill her an attempt to reclaim his honor in their small village. Fearing for her life Sara escapes to Sweden she applies for asylum but Najibeh stays behind. While Sara struggles to understand her newfound freedom, her prison-mate Najibeh disappears and soon Sara hears that she was stoned to death. Sara and the filmmaker want to find out the truth, only to encounter a maze of half- truths on the streets of Afghanistan. We follow the two main characters, revealing what happened to them - each with an exceptional fate depicting the horrific reality for women in Afghanistan.