Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

The hare takes on the responsibility of arranging a really merry Christmas. Short film with song and dancing stuffed animals.

Liselotte Wajstedt creates a tender narrative about her grandmother. She examines a personal history and discovers connections to her own life. The work also reflects several profoundly universal questions and ideas about life. Liselotte Wajstedt sews a white kolt for her grandmother using the sewing machine she inherited from her. Along the hem she has printed a row of images from the grandmother’s life, which are then joined together, piece by piece.

Anima Mundi is a filmic interpretation of mythological motifs, primitive rites and notions taken from samic culture in northern Sweden. Carved figures and forms in black and white represent a pagan world of signs, and esoteric symbolism that pays scant attention to the public mind or the ephemeral quality of life and out inevitable fate. (Filmform)

It all started when Astrid was going to move to Gothenburg. A first-hand lease in an apartment district turns into a hub for 13 years of life. Many people have lived and slept here. Love has bloomed and life has been changed.

Gunnar Gräshoppa is looking for his/her true gender identity. To be happy, you have to be honest with yourself and follow your own innermost desires.

Some people will move large valuable household goods, and the old people who barely have anything at all are forced to leave their safe existence for the new unknown.

She should have stayed in bed.

Three Swedish living rooms, under three different stages of life.

A short film about fatherhood and a tribute to those who were there.

A woman doesn’t want to have children. Yet, or perhaps because of that she often end up in discussions about having children. In the film she answer the most common questions she has got.

Wolume. 2 is released in memory of our beloved friend Fredrik 'ASOC' by Stockholm based WOL Crew. About a year and a half ago we released our first DVD, 'Wolume 1, a 120 min train-action dvd with focus on Stockholm based WOL crew. This year we have been putting in a lot of work to overshine that release. A true train action graffiti movie from the zero tolerance scandinavian capital Stockholm.

Jenny is going to search for the stage school. The film follows her vands before and during the test to determine her future.

A lonely old woman moves to a retirement home.

Lydia, Lorenzo and Augustine work at Minerva, a space station in Earth orbit. The station is the most important part of a defense system that helps to maintain world peace. One day, the three get a new directive: World War. Disagreements arise and the key question becomes: what is our individual responsibility?

Kapten Groggs and his companion Kalle sail to foreign shores, encountering wild animals, stormy weather, and friendly villains.

This film looks at the efforts to rebuild Afghanistan's infrastructure and culture, as seen through the eyes of women, such as former Deputy Prime Minister Sima Samar, whose fight for education and health-care rights for women and girls put them in danger. Having survived the Taliban, they are putting their lives back together.

The Matusita house has been abandoned in the center of Lima for 50 years. A haunted house where all Lima's accidents are said to be housed. Some upper-class people around a dinner table bet, the loser has to spend the night in Matusita. It will be a meeting with the sorrows and dreams of the Peruvian people.

The Bachelor Renström tries to find a decent housemaid.

Vera, 13, engages in self-harm and ends up in the emergency room. The news of a six-month wait for specialist help upsets her mother. Dealing with this crisis very differently, there seems to be a surmountable distance between mother and daughter. Is it possible for them to re-connect?

About Hannah Ryggen, a Swedish-born Norwegian textile artist. Self-trained, she worked on a standing loom constructed by her husband, the painter Hans Ryggen. She lived on a farm on a Norwegian Fjord and dyed her yarn with local plants.

One of two carnival films recorded in 1912 by Frans Lundberg's company on behalf of the Lunda students' carnival committee.

Stage show featuring songs and comedy bits with Eva Rydberg & Ewa Roos

An introduction to dressage with tips from real professionals

Doris Olsson remembers her thoughts about the forest when she grew up.

Bille lived at Möllan. She looked like an old man, an old pedo.

In 1959, nine dead bodies were found in the Djatlov Pass in Siberia. Nobody knows what happened. Now a Swedish archaeologist thinks he has the solution to the mystery. Can the answer be related to a catastrophe that occurred in the Swedish mountain world in 1978? What really caused the downfall of the Djatlov expedition?

Acclaimed stand-up show where comedian Carl Stanley presents thoughts, nonsense and emotion-based opinions as if they were scientifically based truths.

In 1998, some young guys arranged a party in Gothenburg. Four guys who did not get into the party wanted revenge and built a fire to spoil the party. The fire spread explosively and 63 young people died and over 200 were injured. Nebil, who arranged the party, was accused of 63 friends' death. He was then 15 years old. He lost his footing in life, became grossly criminal and participated in gang wars in Gothenburg. In 2013 he was shot. Shirin was 14 years old when she went to the party with her two sisters. Both sisters perished in the fire. Her curiosity about the guilty got her to seek them out, to find out what was behind their actions. Danijel miraculously survived. He was in hospital for six months before he came back to life. Then he wanted to be able to do everything that his friends could. But it did not work. Nebil, Shirin and Danijel are three of the young people we will meet, 15 years after the disaster, in Hate and Reconciliation.

Timmy is going back into the ring after an accident forced him to take a break from Wrestling.

A man standing with the gun pointed at his head experiences a vision that helps him in his decision.

The Francophile Thomas becomes delighted when his daughter Louise brings her French boyfriend to the childhood home.

The second documentary in a trilogy of films about elderly couple Hans and Kerstin Stralström. In the first film, the couple went to Argentina, where they met Guillermo and Juan. In this film, the two Argentinians travel to the cold of northern Sweden, to visit with Hans and Kerstin. Humorous culture shocks and language barriers ensue.

This is the first DVD from the Swedish black metal band Dark Funeral. The group has been around since 1993, and their current lineup includes original guitarist Lord Ahriman and longtime vocalist Emperor Magus Caligula along with some newer members. Attera Orbis Terrarum: Part I is a 2 DVD set that includes three live shows. The first one was recorded on March 12, 2005 in Katowic, Poland. Tilburg, Netherlands was the setting for the second concert and was recorded on March 5, 2006. The final concert on the DVD was filmed less than two weeks later in Paris, France.

As a big sister (abla), Selma takes on the role of the anxious guardian in the family. On Selma's birthday, however, the youngest sister, Mira, leaves to recycle some cans - which turns out to have some disproportionate consequences.

Derek and Karen are at home. They do some work, have lunch, watch television, go for a walk, sometimes play the guitar. A response to Jean-Luc Godard's One Plus One (1968).

Magdalena Andersson has been the Swedish Minister of Finance for five years. In this interview by Katrine Marçal, she comments on feminism, climate awareness, leadership and government finances. Magdalena Andersson is critical of the new type of feminism that is emerging: "Blaming women is not feminism," she says. When it comes to climate awareness, the finance minister thinks that the kind of activism that Greta Thunberg stands for is fantastic. But it is about setting up structures in society, such as systems that disadvantages fuel-consuming cars.

The character in the red dress is self-confident but a bit numb. The character in the blue dress is full of feelings but hasn’t found her place in life.

Birgit Åkesson (1908-2001) was a Swedish a dancer, choreographer and dance researcher. She was one of the leading figures in European avant-garde dance.

A film about the artist Jan Hafstrom.