Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

A middle-aged woman observes a young man who spends a good deal of his life in the window on the other side of the street.

God exterminates mankind and replaces the humans with turds.

A short film about Mikaela Laurén. She did not want to be remembered as a prison customer, she wanted to be remembered as the worlds best boxing champ.

Jon is a gay friend, but he's not gay.

Valentino and Munevera come from Bosnia and hope to get a residence permit in Sweden. They beg for stuff at a recycling station in Gothenburg. But many would rather throw their belongings away than give them away.

Rarely screened two part documentary on the Swedish-Chilean folk music group Victor Jaras barn [Victor Jara's Children], formed by folk musician and researcher Mariella Ferreira. One of several films by Peter and Zsóka Nestler in the 1970's and 1980's on the political situation in Latin America, produced for Swedish public television.

Travelogue depicting a road trip from Stockholm to the Berlin wall. The film is mostly shot from a car window but includes found footage as well.

A couple of Swedish men do business across the border involving both Russians and Poles.

He wakes up in the woods, bloody and confused ...

A man that no one knows is walking in the park without getting anywhere. When the winter arrives and he dies the local government arranges a big fair in the park. The people are happy and buy things.

Four high school students in a group room read each other's essays. The typically disturbing position game between the teens soon slides into a much more serious situation.

The film is a visual sound poem, a political investigation into human-ocean relationship. Tjaetsie means water in South Sámi language. The film takes us to the inhabitants both in and around the sea, a journey through vulnerability and hybris. With human-affected time as our backdrop, the mythical figurine "Gorrijh gujne" (Spawning Lady), of the Froan sea represents the ancient forces of Ocean.

An examination of where the Sweden Democrats (SD) stand politically and how they relate to their history. Sweden Democrats or Swedish Democrats (Swedish: Sverigedemokraterna, SD) is a national-conservative, populist political party in Sweden founded in 1988. The party describes itself as social conservative with a nationalist foundation. The party has been characterized by others as right-wing populist or far-right, national-conservative, and anti-immigration. The party has been represented by Anders Klarström, chairman 1992-95, Mikael Jansson, chairman 1995-2005, and Jimmie Åkesson, chairman since 2005.

It's constantly going on - the battle of the brains. Across the chessboard, people of all varieties and all ages meet. A rhythmic tribute to chess.

Astrid Askberger talks about what it is like to get a new wall ten meters from her window. The film depicts how people become tiles in a larger game, but also how they, with their own initiative, can find ways to relate to the rules of the game.

Torgny proposed to Ebba when they were 20. Her father put a stop to it. 60 years later they meet again.

A documentary showing various labour workers and how the changing society is threatening these jobs.

The Argentines Omar, Mesmar and Diego love Sweden - but none of them have been there. Diego works with Swedish speaking customers at a call center in Buenos Aires, and actually sounds like he's from Sweden. No wonder people are surprised when they learn that he is Argentinian and working from a different part of the world.

Eric M Nilsson talks to his mother over the years when they lived during German occupation in Belgium. Over a box of things from those years his father left behind, they helped together to remember.

An underperforming office worker does everything he can to fit in.

Grogg and Kalle interacts with several animals including a kangaraoo and an ostrich among others.

Anders Petersen is one of Europe's leading still photographers. A unique performer on the international photographic arena. He has published books like Café Lemitz, Boundary to Love, Prison, Nobody has seen anything and Close / Distance. The books and images have influenced and inspired a generation of Scandinavian photographers.

Saami artists explain their connections with the yearly eight Saami seasons

A short film about a young man's revolt against compulsion and discipline.

Live performance from US doom metal band Trouble, recorded in Stockholm in 2003. Among the songs featured are 'At the End of My Daze', 'Run to the Light' and 'Psychotic Reaction'. R.I.P. Come Touch the Sky At the End of my Daze Plastic Green Head Fear Memory's Garden The Misery Shows (Act II) Psalm 9 Run to the Light All Is Forgiven Psychotic Reaction The Skull Revelation (Life or Death) The Tempter

A man draws Captain Grogg on a hot air balloon flight.

We have the completely insufferable 40-year-old loser Björn who is super, does drugs, vandalizes, jerks off to P-rolls and peeks through windows, and then we have the innocently sweet (but possibly twisted) 18-year-old priest's daughter Ellen who falls head over heels for the slob. And, they become a perfect couple of course. He lends her his finest Motorhead T-shirt and teaches her everything he knows out of love: like unexpected ways to open beer bottles, how to vandalize street lamps and steal mops. Around the couple we see Björn's well-mannered and admonishing twin brother Lorang with his wife Lotta who is extra naughty in the evenings, Björn's pleasantly paranoid slob cleaner Thompa and otherwise a colorful collection of social cases.

"Bäst före?!" is a monologue about getting older and how fast the years pass by.

At the Royal Ballet School's brutal auditions, two Black girls compete for a place in a world that wasn't made for them — but find each other along the way.

In the autumn of 1968, Director Eric M. Nilsson and film team accompany Swedish opera singer Birgit Nilsson during the many-faceted events of her life, on and off stage.

Two criminals, seeking to manipulate a school teacher into changing a final grade, find themselves embroiled in unexpected complications when they visit his home.

A trip from Harnosand to Sollefteå.

Documentary film that follows a group of Swedish engineers who build Sweden's first spacecraft.

Film follows two schoolgirls living on the northern edge of Scandinavia during the coronavirus quarantine time in spring 2020. The kids compare their lives to people living in other places, and how situation could be worse for them.

A Russian producer, with his directing wife, will make a documentary in Sweden about Scandinavian mentality. Maybe the project can save their marriage. The wife and daughter arrive in Sweden, but the producer does not show up and this is not the first time. He is still in Moscow, drunk and happy.

Ánne is attending a writer’s course. She is met with racial prejudices because of her Sami ethnicity. A writing assignement gives her the courage to confront a fragile memory, a wound that cuts deep.

Twenty toilets, a urinal and four ladies who work in the public toilet at Sergels Torg in Stockholm. They are the ones who make sure that the facilities are clean and that there's toilet paper. They also watch over drug users.

A case of mistaken identity causes problems during a couple's anniversary celebration at a nice restaurant.

After a long evening of taking photos, the photographer returns to his darkroom, where he discovers mysterious things in the images.

A surreal miscarriage tale.

An encounter with God's humble warriors in Sweden. The organization reports a worldwide membership of over 1.7 million, consisting of soldiers, officers and adherents collectively known as Salvationists.

Lots of people in the streets and squares of Vimmerby, southern Sweden. Some gesture and play small scenes in front of the camera.

Sunday 10 April 1960 was a historic day for the Swedish Church. That day, for the first time, three women were ordained as priests, including Ingrid Persson, who was ordained in Härnösand's cathedral.

Shrek - Sleeping baby version with plush animals.