Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

A film about the artist Jan Hafstrom.

Ozan Kiliç is a player according to all the girls on the red line metro in Stockholm. He longs to fall in love, but it is not easy to become a Romeo.

Eager for new adventures, best friends Siri and Lee explore the sensual world of BDSM.

Swedish crime-drama directed by Kevin Bernal. It's the story of Diego, who hoped to never lose his friends after he ended school. However, five years go by and he finds himself alone, poor and living in a basement. Desperate for some money he agrees to run an errand for a dangerous criminal — which leads him to confront people he cared for in the past.

Truls and Lotta is in love, and when Lotta's parents are away, Truls sneaks away from his military service to be with her.

Doctor Lorne and James Wilson are rivals for the beautiful young Evelyn. The former uses hypnotism to reach his goals.

A Swedish short drama.

The film is about a telephone conversation and a man´s chaotic search for Cookie Puss, on the run in Berlin. The mood shifts and the disjointed impressions of the two protagonists are shown in the coarse-grained texture and exaggerated contrasts of a documentary. The sound track, with its heaving panting, links the fragmented flow of images. Cookie Puss is conceived as a filmed live performance, shot in German sub cultural environment. In form, it closely resembles the anarchically charged British punk at the same time as it is reminiscent of American underground movies.

The film was made with the aim of putting an end to the romanticization of the lives of model girls that has been prevalent in some popular press in recent times. The film portrays in a detailed way the unsafe and degrading environment in which the girls live.

Combining elements of documentary, fiction and dance the film portrays the female body's natural changes in different phases of life: puberty, childbirth, and menopause.

August, who lives in the small town of Blomstermåla, cannot do military service. But as Sweden rearms and Preparedness Week reaches the his small community, he is given the chance to explore both his own and others’ willingness to defend, in a disarming and humorous portrait of one of the defining questions of our time.

In his latest film Rum, Söderquist revisits footage from the shooting of Letters From Silence, placing them in dialog with recently shot footage. Deploying split-screen for the first time, Söderquist’s camera slowly and meticulously travels through sparse interior spaces and passages, evoking both a sense of enclosure and departure.

"A fathers first time being alone with his daughter" He notices that something is horrible wrong, his daughter Freya is missing her face, where the eyes, nose and mouth should be, is just skin... With an old folk lore book he desperately tries to fix Freya, but is the book really helping him?

Slussen is a lock interfoiled with a complicated net of roads in the town center of Stockholm. When it was built in 1935 it was a land mark for the New Sweden that was about to evolve. Now it is dirty, run down, hated but also loved and by many thought to be worth restoring. This is the place for the story about the people who live their lives around Slussen: The Brittish architects of Fosters that sit in the middle of the lock planning to build a completely new Slussen while the demonstrations are going on outside their door. The lock keeper Nina who has a heart for everyone. The bartender Jacob who thinks about what happened to the Swedish society that used to be a role model in the world, looking down at Slussen from the luxury restaurant Gondolen. And under a bridge by the lock the Swedish homeless friends Pekka and Mats share their everyday life with Polish Tomaz and Anja who drink too much vodka.

Twenty-year-old director Måns Månsson finds another Stockholm in Brooklyn, New York, where he works and lives.

Farbror Otto was eating his friend Snail, put the cigar in the shell.

In April 1975, six young German terrorists manage to break into the West German embassy in Stockholm. The documentary series provides a unique insight into the dramatic sequence of events.

Short film by Kent Vilhelmsson, Joaquim Lindvall, Muhammed Ferhatovic, Oliver Reuter, Johan Larsson.

In one of the posh offices of Sweden, a newcomer confidently steps into what appears to be an ordinary job interview. Yet, as reality blurs with imagination, he grapples with a profound sense of displacement, and what unfolds on the other side is a transformation he hadn't sought, one that proves invaluable. —Kinana Films AB

This is how you collect teledust.

The cast from "Catwalk" is reunited and reflects on their transforming journey. Story on how they navigate life of fame after their film and the preparations for a big event in Stockholm.

Short film reportage from the Swedish city with camera visits to famous businesses and entrepreneurs in various industries

Aljosha Taikon's loneliness is consuming him more and more. If things looked different, he would be the head of the family today, but that did not happen.

A documentary film about Norrbottensteatern's tour life in a smoking snowstorm and in warm People's House the year the Berlin Wall was torn down.

The trans-European motorway, also known as the "Guest Worker's Road", is full of dangers for the migrants who drive to Turkey for their summer break. This portrait of this highway is a powerful documentation of the history of labor migration to Europe.

Impressionistic depiction of Stockholm.

A young woman tells the story about three different old ladies she met while traveling by bus. Although brief, the meetings have left a lifelong effect on the woman.

Tilia is 8 years old and her thoughts about life and death take her on an imaginative Stockholm subway journey.

A film about the Swedes who try to help individual refugees.

A short horror story about a young woman who wakes up to discover that her husband hasn't come home from his night shift. Now she needs to find out why.

The title Killing Time refers to the act of waiting – a common state for people in occupied areas or surrounded by blockades. It also points to the imminent death of the individuals portrayed in the mobile phone images and videos, which were taken by people living in Gaza and given to Kent Klich by surviving family members. One of them was the lawyer Gareeb Abed, who filmed himself with his mobile phone, waiting. He was killed while working at police headquarters in Rafah on 27 December 2008, the first day of the Israeli offensive Operation Cast Lead.

After the audience successes "Nyrakad Buskis" and "320 kg Buskis", the comedy gang from the west coast hit the road with "Scen Sommarbuskis". A performance with lots of newly written material and good favorites from Stefan & Krister and Falkenbergsrevyn's most beloved productions. After the audience successes "Nyrakad Buskis" and "320 kg Buskis", the comedy gang from the west coast hit the road with "Scen Sommarbuskis". A performance with lots of newly written material and good favorites from Stefan & Krister and Falkenbergsrevyn's most beloved productions.

'Current' creates layers of time through dance improvisation - in between reality and fiction - performed as a ritual for resistance in a place where rice fields, fish ponds and gardens currently are replaced by fancy buildings and crowded highways. It is the first encounter between a Swedish and an Indonesian choreographer where the only shared language is dance. The movements are an immediate response to space, bursting of ideas, outpouring of dreams, while following currents of struggle and hope through a visual journey.

In a foreign landscape, a young Swedish and Jewish man attempts to understand his past whilst forging a way for his future

Two Swedish guys driving around Spain searching for the historical verdict over Hitler's and Mussolini's old companion Franco. A road-movie in rental cars featuring Olof Palme, the world's biggest cross and a woman determined to put her family history in order. MARI CARMEN ESPAÑA - THE END OF SILENCE is the story of what happens when a country tries to amputate its past.

A grumpy woman tries to keep her new flowers in mint condition, but a pigeon keeps screwing them up by shitting on them. This leads to madness and a duel between life and death.

A women tells the story of a ten year long dramaticrelationship from her youth. While a classic romantic swedish love story play.

Two friends without a clue set out on a journey to survive the end of the world. An atomic cocktail of journalistic, archival, and D.I.Y. Bunker Building, I.C.B.M. addresses the ever growing survivalist trend, the personal price of survival, and the perpetual state of preparedness the world has found itself in since the birth of the atomic bomb.

The year is 1983. Found archival material depicts people in the small Bosnian town of Tešanj. Suddenly a well-known figure appears, the filmmaker’s grandfather who died in the Bosnian war. Repressed and hurtful feelings, but also a chance to remember, in a film that calls for reflection.

A Kurdish-Swedish soccer team’s journey to become champions and a symbol of resilience for the Kurdish people.

Lars is an elderly Swedish man, who has chosen to spend his winters in solitude as a care taker of the few hiking huts next to Sweden's highest mountain Kebnekaise. The film explores the inner and outer world of his stay at the hut and questions wether or not happiness can ensue, when life is not shared with friends and loved ones.

During the Second World War, Stockholm was the Casablanca of the Nordics. A place where information was everything. Swedish intelligence's most important spy was a 22-year-old German secretary and art student called Erika Wendt. A girl whose dream was of a life in Sweden with her boyfriend after the war. Then in 1943, Erika was invited to dinner by her German boss and suddenly ordered back to Berlin. Did the Gestapo know about her double life? This film is based on an actual event.