Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

In the film Ultramarina, Edefalk has placed paintings and objects in the ocean to show describe the infinite space. (Filmform)

Documentary about people with uncontrollable anger and the outlets they find for it.

Presented to the oddest of movie watchers comes 2014's grand superhero tale 'Dr. Fightenstein - Warlock Vigilante'. Amaturishly recorded in about a weekend on a household supply budget, Fightenstein delivers the cheese, blood and gore in a harmlessly campy way for kids of all ages over 15.

1970 short film by Håkan Dahlström.

In the near future, Mariam and her family must navigate a financial crisis. At the same time, the Swedish government launches an integration tool called Language-maximization, offering immigrants a generous grant to erase all memory of their mother tongue.

"Time for Laughs" is a classic stand-up show with quick-witted humor, built on Al Pitcher's characteristic interaction with the audience. In these strange times, Al wants to make us laugh at all the typical Swedish phenomena that he still marvels at.

Jimmy Alm gets to know the town of Frövi by writing poetry.

Short Film by Carl Slättne.

Who is Sweden's greatest athlete of all time? By what means would you measure and compare? Meet grandma, who whipped carpets with such perfection that Sweden's sport elite turned green with envy. A humorous film asking a serious question - who is actually rewarded for their achievements?

A woman is out for a power walk when she stumbles.

The film is a testimony of one of the few Hungarians who survived the concentration camps in Germany during the Second World War. Ferenc Göndör's story takes place when he was of school age. As a Jew, he was not allowed to go to school in the same way as his peers. He had to practice pointless and hard work during some lessons. He was not allowed in to his hairdresser, to whom he had been going for many years: "Forbidden to dogs and Jews".

A day like any other at the hospital. Or is it? Something is making a noise.

The third documentary in a trilogy of films about elderly couple Hans and Kerstin Stralström. This last instalment is quieter than the first two, as the couple argue and ponder whether renovation of their house is a good idea. A beautiful final portrait of the couple.

Good night and sleep well Babblarna is 45 minutes long with short films, music videos, language games and dance films in a nice mix, just right for winding down before it's time to go to bed.

The series for divorced and mature young people with the Lorry gang! Bettan owns Café Ollonet, which is the regular hangout for Gunnar, Lennart, and Micke. Bettan has never had a man in her life, and her mother controls her via telephone. Bettan has her eye on Gunnar... who has been divorced for a long time and enjoys being single. Lennart is fairly recently divorced—but not quite. "It takes a while to get divorced," explains Lennart. Micke is married to "Kungsholmen's little midsummer flower," "the dainty little fountain of joy," or—as Micke usually puts it—"damn Kajsa!"

After years of hard work, the old owner of Augustssons retired with honor. Left behind are the loyal nanny Berta (Jeanette Capocci) and the diligent but somewhat nervous foreman Bergman (Mikael Riesebeck), who are ready to take over and lead the factory into a new era, along with the kind but perhaps not always strict financial manager Putte (Jojje Jönsson).

During a breathwork session, a reluctant skeptic opens herself to "new energies" and lets in something far darker.

A Stockholm newspaper is looking for new reporters, and announces that whoever gets an interview with ex-King Manuel of Portugal will be hired.

Noice is back on tour, now with a new lineup and new material being performed live for the first time in 28 years. The documentary follows the band both on and off stage through concerts, rehearsals, and travel, and explores how their return connects to their breakthrough and role in the Swedish music scene in the early 1980s.

Carefully composed images and distinctive portraits invite us into homes and workplaces across the country. By weaving together the simple and the mundane with the existential, the film creates a visual register of our time. It reflects a multifaceted nation and opens up a conversation about who we are as a society—and where we are heading.

A troubled teen is addicted to murder, his friend tries to tell him that the fate of the world with punish him. Maybe hes right, and maybe the punishment is bloodier than you expected...

Harrow Creek is a silent, calm town where nothing bad has happened in over thirty years. But the citizens' lives get turned upside down when a child is murdered, and the FBI agent James Morgan gets sent there to solve the case.

Actuality film showing King Gustaf V of Sweden and Queen Victoria (of Baden) on a visit to Berlin. Scenes likely include public ceremonies, military or civic honors, crowds, and royal arrival. Intended for newsreel-style exhibition in Sweden.

Stand-up special with Robin Berglund.

Johann Wilhelm Trollmann becomes middleweight champion in Nazi Germany. He is the first Roma boxer in the world to win the title. He is famous for his dancing fighting style. With the enactment of the racial laws, he is imprisoned in Wittenberge and Neuengamme concentration camps, where he dies at the age of 37. He decides to die as a champion and fights with a Nazi kapo who challenges him. Rukeli, which means tree, the Gipsy, knocks out the Nazi and the entire apparatus of power.

Adam lives a quiet and peaceful life in his apartment, but one day he gets a new neighbor.

Pelle Jöns does tricks as a snake person, swallows a sword and attempts to swallow a canon.

Acclaimed artist Salad Hilowle reimagines the life of George Sylvan a.k.a. Joe Sylvain, the first Black actor in Swedish cinema who, among other things, played Starke Adolf in a film version of Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Långstrump (Pippi Longstocking) and was the partner of Ester “Miss Arona” Nygren – the “strongest lady in Europe.”

A report from the inside of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) - about a country whose future no one believed in. But after several major setbacks, China took North Korea under its mighty wing.

A compilation of silent films in Bohuslän, Sweden.

A visual poem

A family dinner gone wrong.

An animated short film about a green wader.

Dahlberg's sets are architectural models, built to a circular plan, and filmed with a centrally positioned rotating camera--hence the seamless continuity of the installation's footage. What seem to be tracking shots are really ten-minute, 360-degree pans, describing loci that inevitably read as nodes in a labyrinth--a subtly scary one, since its vertical and horizontal extension implies the impossibility of finding an external vantage point. Taking the panopticon as its starring point, Dahlberg's investigation suggests a psychoanalytic appropriation of the panoptic model, revealing the surveying self as itself both self-surveying and vulnerable to surveillance. Might there be hiders in the house, unseen presences behind those half-closed doors and darkened entrances? The camera's full-circle pan becomes readable as a paranoid attempt to watch one's own back.

Documentary about director and cinematographer Nina Hedenius, who focused on life in the Swedish countryside and created classics such as "The Old Man in the Cottage" (1996). Hedenius was one of the first students at Christer Strömholm's photography school but then dropped out, which was the start of 60 years of persevering film production about life in stillness, vibrant moments and the enchantment of everyday life. Later on she reluctantly let the filmmaker and photographer Fredrik Wenzel into her home, who draws a tender and close portrait of one of the great filmmakers of our time.

Nurse and documentarian Rebecka Rasmusson brought her camera to a retirement home during the covid-19 pandemic. Among other things, the film taps into social distancing and the need for social activity.

We cross each other's paths & affect each other's fate at the ladies toilet. We drink and pee together, hold each other's hair when we puke and make out. A sanctuary where we can be at peace and together. Welcome to take a peek!

The ‘Indians of All Tribes’ group occupied Alcatraz prison, which closed in 1963, from 1969 to 1971 in order to build a cultural and educational center. When Söderquist visited the island in 1970, the occupants had built up a functioning society with jobs, family life and schools. The text ‘Indian America Land’ was posted on the outside of a building. In a voice-over, school teacher Bob Bradley discusses political inequality, social problems and the difficult situation for the Native American population in the USA, as well as the background for the occupation. The Return of the Buffalo is a stylized and unique documentary (the only filmed material from the occupation), a black-and-white depiction in which architecture, former prison buildings, politics, music and dance are interwoven with local radio, conversations and discussions into a focused whole. The film became the starting point for Söderquist’s Alcatraz – The Return (2013).

‘The Memor’ is exploring the future of memory. Enter a memory archive containing replicas from Earth’s deep past through to its post-anthropocene future.

Childhood friends head out to an island to go camping, but one of them has brought along a new friend and soon tensions arise. The jokes and the jargon lead to uncomfortable situations in a humorous film about the mechanisms of group dynamics.