Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

Sara is driving instructor to a Somali family in Sweden.

An animated interview with a woman on sick leave.

Hollywood's epic stories from the Wild West have inspired an alienating role-playing universe somewhere out in today's Swedish wilderness. Here, a large group of freedom-loving people dressed in cowboy boots and Stetson hats get together in a re-enactment of a past that was never theirs.

Why do you dress up?

A seemingly never-ending project that through strong determination and small breakthroughs along the way is finally completed. In an environment of chaos and junk, norms and structures are challenged, not least in one’s own family.

The truck driver Bertil tries to compensate what he missed and spend as much time as possible with his youngest daughter.

A desire to belong and the desire to be respected for their choices. A film about norms and attitudes.

A poetic, musical picture story from the torchlight procession in Vissefjärda on All Hallows' Day in Sweden, about a woman's thoughts as she goes to visit her husband's grave.

A documentary about what makes young men growing up in a democratic and tolerant society, turn to fundamental Islam.

Behind a wine-red velvet curtain in the window of a small tin booth at Nevsky Prospekt, Ira sits and checks that the city's trolleybuses are on time. Her work is a remnant of the communist system where everyone should have a job. From her street corner, she gets time to reflect on the city, the people and her own life. She has understood how quickly life can change and with that insight, she sees everyday life in a different light.

An animated short about a regular guy follows an anonymous everyman from his birth to his grave. It is also a play on pictorial conventions; all the images in the film were made from sampled or homemade pictograms.

Loppan lives in the land of tomorrow where it grows bubble gum in the trees and the wind often blows. Loppan usually plays with the wind, but today the wind is late, so she goes on a small hike.

"Målle Lindberg - clown or prophet?" - About the evangelist and singer Målle Lindberg, a.k.a. the Gypsy Preacher. The film depicts parts of his life with archive footage from the 1950's and 1960's.

A documentary where actor Mats Flink speaks the spectator through a movie screenplay. We will hear his thoughts about the text and follow the intended recording sites.

Jon believes he has some kind of rash. When his girlfriend Katja explains to him that there are ruptures, he is struck by panic.

Arne wants to go to Simon's birthday party but his mother forces him to go to Jerry's birthday party instead. Then he must go, or?

About a group of people who come together in their love of Australian TV series Prisoner (a.k.a. Prisoner Cell block H).

When the first album by the Latin Kings' was released in 1994, it created a sensation in the Swedish music world. Culture journalists claimed that The Latin Kings were the most important thing happening on the Swedish popular music scene since the birth of punk rockers of Ebba Grön.

Humor with Peter Wahlbeck from 2010. CABARET FÜR ALLE premiered in the fall of 1999 and immediately became a success with audiences and critics. The show, which toured all over the country, was based on characters and material from the FÜR ALLE world created by Peter Wahlbeck, Mikael Ericsson, Mikael Reuter and Fredrik Emilsson. By request, the show was revived as CABARET FÜR ALLE - REDUX for a few evenings at Mosebacke Establissement in early 2010. Just like when it started in 1999, Peter Wahlbeck and Mikael Reuter were on stage and Fredrik Emilsson was the conductor. This DVD is a live recording from February 27, 2010. CABARET FÜR ALLE - REDUX was guested by the lyte comedian Fjönte Jönsson, the one-armed rock singer Benny the Cat, the machine gun-obsessed Evert Taube soundalike Sailor Karlsson, the journalist Hasse-Klas, the taxi driver Dragan Vogab, the ALU assistant Alu Pettersson, the gay conspiracy theorist Colombo Karlsson and the Military Santa Claus.

Lars, 23, is studying film in Chile. Twelve year old Yoselin is a belly dancer and wants to become a doctor. But her hips are beginning to crumble. Lars finds out that hundreds of kids have fallen badly ill because of toxic waste at his home town, Boliden, in Sweden. Lars tries to find out whether the mining company is accountable for what has happened to Yoselin and the other inhabitants of Cerro Chuño. Boliden, one of the biggest mining companies in the world, refuses to take any responsibility for what happened. But Lars finds Rolf, the former head of environment of Boliden. Rolf admits that his advice to the company was necessary for the decision to send the waste to Chile and surprisingly decides to follow Lars back to Chile to find out what really happened.

At Uncle Blue's house, Petter and Lotta get to go to their very own school. Their teacher teaches the children everything under the sun. They play cowboys and Indians and learn how to build an igloo. When Aunt Brown's birthday comes around, they prepare a surprise, with a treasure hunt and ghost games. Of course, it turns out to be a very successful birthday!

Phychiatrist Montague Ullman details his philosophy on the meaning of dreams.

A father and his daughter is visited by an unsettling and once familiar presence.

"The Man, The Murder, The Mystery" - On February 28, 1986, the Swedish Prime minister Olof Palme was murdered. Since then, police, investigators and commissions have worked on the issue in various ways. A great number of journalists have also examined the case.

A young man in a small Swedish town has a secret affair with the town bootlegger while the man fixes his motorcycle.

Revisiting a teenage crush on a female teacher, Angelica Ruffier embarks on a delicate journey of memory and desire. A finely woven, reflective essay on past longings and present selves infused with the subtle glamour of French cinema.

Anders Wahlgren has visited some new residential areas with different apartment buildings. Årsta center, Sätra center, Kista, Viksjö and Fältöversten in Stockholm.

Cecilia is a lonely widow who has lost contact with her son. One day she meets young Håkan who doesn't have any friends. Despite the large age difference, they have much in common.

When seven-year-old Jorge is kidnapped, his mother is forced to confront her past.

A Viking village is living peacefully until they are attacked amid st an Old Norse marriage ceremony celebrating the main characters Vyktorya and Loke. There seems to be only one survivor.

A documentary about the nature cinematographer Mikael Kristersson in Falsterbo.

The film To New Horizons draws its inspiration from the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1930's, when American engineers, construction managers and designs were used for the planning and building of Stalin’s first Five-Year plan for the industrialisation of the Soviet Union. In the arts and specifically in the culture of cinema there were exchanges and influences between the two powers, revealing a co-dependency of these two cold war enemies.

Stop-motion animation about the deeply transformational experience of motherhood.

The forest, a house, and people.

What happens when two broken people meet? David has just been left by his wife after trying to have a baby for years. Sandra has managed to escape her abusive boyfriend. David and Sandra's paths cross, and David takes Sandra home to care for her injuries. Later, they begin an odd relationship where both fulfill each other's demands. David feels needed and appreciated. Sandra has finally met someone who cares and treats her with respect. At the same time, the couple becomes increasingly isolated from the outside world. Why is it that David doesn't want to be seen with Sandra? And why is it that none of David's friends or family have ever seen Sandra? David's true colors become more and more apparent as he uses suppressive techniques. Does Sandra and David's relationship have a future, or is there a great tragedy around the corner?

Lasse Lindroth was one of Sweden's most controversial comedians. As a young provocateur in 90s Sweden, he stepped onto the newfound stand-up scene and heckled the audience's prejudices. A documentary about identity, belonging and the search for community in our Swedish society. With humor as a weapon, Lasse took up the fight. The question is how far are we prepared to go for a laugh? Lasse Lindroth's life ended tragically far too early.

“We made an insane film in Ibiza”. Rut Hillarp notes in her diary 1961. Hillarp films and participates herself in the company of her friends. In its drive to intoxication and lust, Dead Drunk has similarities with surrealist films and thus opens itself up to the unconscious action. (Filmform)

A collection of music videos by raison d'être, Sakral Wounds was originally released on PAL VHS in an ultra limited edition of 40 copies on B.o.C.a. tapes in 1994. B.o.C.a. was Peter Andersson's private label at that time. Very simple technology, a large amount of sampled clips, and practically no budget were involved in the production.

Sicily with Gustav Tønnesen, Josef Scott Jatta, Filip Almqvist, Vincent Huhta, Simon Hallberg, Eric Hedberg, Axel Lindquist, Martin Sandberg and Nisse Ingemarsson.

SORELLA'S STORY explores the story behind a single atrocity photography of a group of women and 11-year-old Sorella, during the Holocaust.

The main topic of the film is suicidality in context of close relationships. But its focus is not on the suicidality itself. Instead it gives insights into the thoughts and feelings of a close person / partner who never had any suicidal intentions themselves. It therefore provides a very different new perspective on how one can possibly think about suicide and a close relationship to someone who is facing this problem.

As a girl travels through Sweden she listens to several voice messages from a man who keeps asking her when she's coming home again. The messages get more aggressive and tensions arise before the girl arrives in Gothenburg and has a violent and revealing confrontation.

Absent IX 00:32 Loop 2013/12/26

Newly orphaned and freshly wounded from an immense loss, a boy lends his companion a prosthetic arm for the day. The companion would then expose the prosthetic limb to a mélange of textures and materials, whilst documenting the whole process. As the moon inches closer and closer towards the sun, the boy sees something unusual reflected on the water's surface...