Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

The son of a Swedish man murdered in Germany decides he must find out everything about what happened. Being confronted with the cruel elements of the crime, the next big shock comes when the son meets the press and his father's neighbors: Can the murder be explained by the victim's unconventional lifestyle? The Great Liberty (Den Stora Friheten) is a visually poetic film about love and about to accept what's different. It's a son's quest to understand his father and at the same time restore his name - beyond gossip, tabloid journalism and piles of police reports.

A rich girl is not allowed to get married with commoner, Per, by her mother.

Two pale coprophages from Malmö drive the garbage truck late at night.

Man flees from poor and war torn country.

"Arne Hegerfors presents: Own Goals & Football Stunts. An entertaining collection of football stunts and own goals. Perfect for all football lovers who want to laugh at mishaps."

Mora Träsk in Concert

Actuality documentary film recording the funeral procession of King Oscar II of Sweden on 19 December 1907. Footage includes public mourning in Stockholm: the katafalk (catafalque), processions of military units and guards, participation of royal family members (including Gustav V, Gustav VI Adolf), and scenes of the city in mourning.

Images from Children's Day 1905.

A lyrical, impressionistic tribute to Stockholm where images from today's Stockholm are interspersed with short scenes from Arne Sucksdorff's film People in the City from 1947.

Swans, ducks and countless other birds in Lillfjärden, Sweden.

An abstract animation with influences by Hans Richter, based on Eric H. Olson's optochromy, staged and set to music by Jan W. Morthenson.

During a blizzard on the tundra, a Sámi woman is herding her reindeer when she is raped by a man. Her sister who is far away senses that something is wrong and starts looking for her. Wrapped in fear and confusion, both women will unite in their fight for revenge.

"The Elephants" is a film about masculinity and the impossible equation in having feelings without being able to express them.

A choreography of sorts, involving a camera and a couple who are in the midst of their existential errands. Filmed at Heingeborgen in Skåne, Sweden, in the year 2000. The couple are author Sture Dahlström (voice and text) and his wife, painter Anna-Stina Ehrenfeldt. (Filmform)

Grizzly and Elmh

G-Spot Forever is a 1997 skateboard film from the legendary Swedish skateboard brand G-Spot.

What happens if Sweden joins the EEC?

A woman goes on nightly trips, in search of someone who has departed. One night, she has an unusual encounter. This film delicately explores cultural differences and the universality of the unspeakable grief, from Taiwan to Sweden.

Kayfabe follows a mercenary's violent incursion into a jungle island—only to be met by forces far beyond his understanding. As battle unfolds, visions blur the line between invader and invaded, exposing the endless cycles of conflict and domination. In a world where myths fight back, the question isn't who wins—it's whether the pattern can ever be broken.

Sara Lundén sings about her lovers in a Mexican nightclub.

Hussein Darby, the last projectionist of Cinema Jenin in Palestine, thought it a golden opportunity. When a German NGO came to restore the theater, Hussein was ready to prove his skills. He believed that it would help him get his job back. To revive the 50-year-old projector, he travels across the West Bank and even attempts to enter Israel. But he doesn’t know that his era has already passed.

A film about chasing traces of Dalida

A young man and a robot in the final moments before a meteor strikes their planet.

Images from Sundsvall.

Short Film by Anne Robertsson.

Five months before the election, Nyamko Sabuni abruptly left her job as party leader for the Liberals. Many were surprised by the decision, and in the interview with Malou von Sivers, Sabuni speaks openly about her time as party leader and why she chose to leave. It is a harrowing picture of betrayal, backstabbing and comments from party colleagues about her skin color.

Reinhold Pettersson (1874-1953) worked as a cinema usher in the 1910s. He was the filmmaker’s great-grandfather. His life is intertwined with the history of the Röda Kvarn movie theater in Borås, Sweden.

A group of proud Swedish patriots moves to the country to live patriotically, but things quickly go in another direction.

Probably the most brutal and outrageous clay animation ever made.

Patrik and Elsa are in an open relationship. Just as Patrik is moving to Paris, where Elsa lives, he learns that she has fallen for someone else. In four days, all three plan to meet. As the audience, we follow them through this unexpected breakup, observing their contrasting mindsets.

Four trans teenagers break into a school gym late at night. What spells are cast? What kind of magic is made?

At the Stadsmissionen's retirement colony at Stenfasta, several of the guests have passed the centenary mark. They all tell us that they still have the same longing for love, community and joy when they are 100 years old as when they were younger. Many of them sit isolated in their apartments during the year, they are too healthy and energetic to get help from society but too old to venture out on their own antics. And they all share the same longing, namely to have fun together for two summer weeks. In the documentary, we meet people who have lived a century, but still have both the spark of life and humor.

Gunilla Boëthius is 73 years old when her life history and identity suddenly change. Through a DNA test, she gets a brand new father - the Finnish war hero and General Paavo Talvela. Those who have withheld the truth for her have died a long time ago, where there is no one to answer. Who is Gunilla really - is she a love child who came into being in the shadow of the war and not at all the firstborn to the debater CG Boëthius? Now she needs to travel in Paavo's footsteps to recreate herself.

Ernest Thiel's life was like a grand movie where trips, parties and financial cuts succeeded each other. Until that day the bankruptcy was a fact.

Ivar Lo-Johansson is interviewed and talks about life as a state worker and about his upbringing in Ösmo. Tells about the struggle in care for the elderly and about the life of the Roma in Sweden.

A short film.

Swedish documentary from 2001. John Ausonius became known as the Laser Man in the 1990s after shooting 11 people with immigrant backgrounds, one of whom died from the injuries. Gellert Tamas, author of the book The Laser Man, meets John Ausonius in prison where, for the first time, the Laser Man publicly confesses his crimes.

Animation short.

A portrait of the actor and singer Rikard Wolff featuring some of his collaborators.

International Workers' Day and the 250th anniversary of the Treaty of Roskilde. May Day demonstration and flower procession in Kristianstad and the Roskilde Festival in Karlshamn.

SVT follows Jimmie Åkesson (SD) and Nooshi Dadgostar (V) during and after an election where, for the first time, they had the opportunity to reach the ultimate political power in Sweden. Behind the scenes.

Dåv experiences a lucid dream about a better life.

Stockholm and it's traffic problems.