Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

Erik Andersson marries Brita Blomstedt. During the wedding party he drinks alcohol which he is not used to. Later that evening Erik is involved in a brawl that end with a policeman getting a knife in the back.

Director Mia receives a life-changing announcement and begins a journey into her own history. We also follow the astronaut's lonely journey through space and the aging gangster Vincent who makes a surprising find in his basement.

Two middle-aged brothers and farmers live together on the farm they grew up on. They are struggling with their loneliness and inability to run the household after their parents died so they put a "help wanted" ad in the local newspaper. They get more than they bargained for when Hillevi turns up with her mother and a goat.

A family on a small farm tries to live as usual even though there is a violent coup in the country. The threat is constantly present.

This short film is both a calm and upsetting portrait of an aging author's sorrow over the death of his long-term partner. Haunted by visions of his late husband, and in conflict with his daughter who is trying to renew the ties between them, he must tackle the impossible task of moving on and finding peace in the wake of a devastating loss.

Noomi is a refugee with traumatic memories, a stranger, afraid of contacts. Leo is a bourgeois man who is considering building a villa. Married with two children. Magnus is an artist, dreams of women. He associates with Noomi. Noomi is now meeting Leo.

Why hate society? Why just think that crime and riots are the only way into the future? Actor Ulf Stenberg and dancer Emil Rosén from "Teater Fryshuset" shapes young lives in this strong and intense performance. We follow three characters with very little faith in the future, who are tormented by poverty and segregation. It is a story of powerlessness and alienation, of hopelessness and distrust of police, government and society. The play is created partly to give young people an increased understanding of the consequences of making the wrong choice, and partly to increase the understanding of what young people's exclusion actually leads to. The play is based on real fate and interviews with guys and girls about their lives.

The kids on the south side of Stockholm get together to help their friend Kalle out when he's broken a window, by starting a fund-raiser. But some older kids are after the money.

Lena Svensson has been offered a new and exiting job in Stockholm that she can't say no to. But her husband, Gustav, has no plan of what so ever to move from his quiet little town of Vivalla, and especially his job as a very proud postman. After Lena started to commute between Stockholm and Vivalla, he decides to sell the house and give Stockholm a chance. He starts of with a job as a postman in one of Stockholm's worst districts, but after a mistake on a conference, Gustav seems to do quite a success at his new job, while Lena is struggling with annoying colleagues and a demanding boss.

A modern approach to Ibsen's classic with a youthful approach.

At a porn club in Stockholm, a brutal murder is committed - and one of the striptease dancers takes the blame.

Roland Hassel gets involved in a tangle of lies, betrayal and industrial espionage.

What triggers the sparkle and juice of each persons life? What makes us open up to the unknown and just leap out of our comfort zones? And where is your secret place where you recharge your batteries? Don´t wait! It might be too late!

Queen Silvia of Sweden tells a little about her life in an animation made of stamps.

A chief physician at a women's clinic is against abortion. He strongly influence the patients not to abort. But there are doctors who think differently.

The Fredriksdal outdoor theatre has been a comedy staple of Swedish summers and television in winters for decades. First under Nils Poppe and then under Eva Rydberg. But 2023 was Eva's last summer in charge of the theatre and the end of this era is celebrated by this documentary.

A disillusioned man believes that true happiness lies among the stars. Fueled by his desire for a new more beautiful world, he embarks on a daring space voyage.

When private 91 "Mandel" Karlsson is appointed General due to a computer error, he tricks a foreign military attaché into believing that the Swedish defense has a new weapon that turns male soldiers into women.

"The good life" is a documentary about Alf, a broker who sells expensive apartments in Stockholm. Alf lives the good life. But even the good life has several sides.

A group of young people gathered on the countryside to celebrate midsummer dancing, drinking and romancing. And some fighting too. Followed by more violence, jealousy and guilt. On the journey home one of the cars the travel in collides with a bus.

A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

A documentary about Sami comic artist Mats Jonsson and his relative Stor-Stina. Her remains were long believed to have been lost in a fire but were recently found and returned to her home town of Malå to be buried.

In the last film of the original 91 film series two letters - one written in spite and another in love - end up in the wrong hands, while 91 and 87 as usual try to avoid ending up in military arrest.

Carl Malm is a goodhearted man who runs a railway station. He lives together with his maid and her seven kids.

A comedy about the young Marie who works in a daycare. However, the house where her work is located has been sold and the new owner does not want the daycare to remain, because he is only interested in dogs. Eventually, Marie manages to get the host to think better and, with some tricks, even get him to like children.

Angelica "Angel" Holst was a celebrated rockstar in the '80s, but since then her fame and popularity has faded. Now it's time to step back into the spotlight – but to reach the top again she needs media attention, and the question is what price Angel is willing to pay to get back?

The world-famous Swedish boxer Flosse travels to Italy to fight for the world boxing title. In Rome he meets the nightclub singer Lollo.

Owning your own horse is a way of life! Your pony waits for you in the stable, every day, all year round. It's a responsibility – and it's wonderful! But getting a horse is a big step for the whole family. Have you thought everything through? In Egen Häst, you get good advice from Sweden's best riders. What type of horse is right for you? What equipment do you and your pony need, and how do you arrange stable space? How do you look for a horse, and how do you test ride and inspect it? How do you plan your training and how can you and your pony develop together? Meet Malin Baryard and Peder Fredricson, Jan Brink and Tinne Vilhelmson, Rolf-Göran Bengtsson and Maria Gretzer, Helena Lundbäck, Kyra Kyrklund, Magnus Gällerdal, and many more! Learn from your idols and hear how they got their first pony!

Documentary about legendary Swedish footballing family the Nordahls who all went on to become professional footballers after winning Olympic Gold in 1948.

Captain Grogg and Kalle are swimming in the ocean when some monkeys steal their clothes.

Emelie Högqvist is an actress at the Royal Theatre who gets involved in an intimate relationship with the Crown Prince Oscar.

When Magnus left Kerstin, she decided to be naked. Always. Since then she has been fined six times.

A film about Rikard, age 30. He is autistic and severely disfigured. He lives in a home for disabled people. He was separated from his mother as a three-year-old, and this continues to torment him today. To deal with life's trials, Rikard escapes into a fantasy world in which he's a 50-meter-tall giant.

Eric Stern can't get KAJ's Bara Bada Bastu out of his head. Not only that, he has developed an obsession with solving the riddle of KAJ ‒ who are they, where do they come from? How did three guys from Ostrobothnia go from completely unknown to all of Sweden's favourite? Eric travels to KAJ's home town, Vörå in Ostrobothnia in Finland, to find answers.

Four Swedish volunteer soldiers are trapped in Russia. In front of them lies the front with enemy outposts and patrols, behind them the enemy minefields. Hope to return to their own lines decreases each day. Corpses of fallen, "dead of cold and hard as iron", forms the macabre landmarks in the winter landscape. Nearby is a burnt Russian village.

In England, a famous jewel collection is stolen. The police suspect that the jewels have been smuggled to Sweden, and in Stockholm, the young insurance detective Peter Holmer is commissioned to trace the stolen jewels. The tracks first lead Peter to a certain ballet master Lando, but when he comes to Lando's flat, he finds him murdered. Before the police were summoned, Peter saw a young lady smearing from the floor. He tries to catch her, but when he gets down the street she disappears in a taxi..

We get to meet comedy icons like Babben Larsson, Robert Gustavsson, Mia Skäringer and Hampus Nessvold who talk about what humor really means, what makes us explode with laughter and how humor has changed over the years.

The author Thomas meets his childhood friend Hoffman on an autumn night in 1997. They decide to let a dream come true: to make a film of a play by Thomas, Veranda for a Tenor, with Hoffman in the lead role. The story takes us back to the summer of 1961, which changed their lives. The writing of the script awakens memories and forbidden questions are answered. Their friendship is put to the test a final time. Veranda for a tenor is a film about male friendship, but also about love. Their love for the same woman...

Documentary about the Swedish television reality show Expedition Robinson (Survivor) and how it got made.

The Swedish dismemberment murderer Anders Carlsson (1942-2007) is presented and speaks freely about his life. Hannu Rajala was killed on November 27, 1987, in Anders Carlsson's apartment in Hässelby, Stockholm. Rajala's body was found dismembered in black plastic bags ten days later at Gysinge, some 150 kilometers north of Stockholm. On October 21, 1988, Anders Carlsson is sentenced to psychiatric care.

The world is on fire, and one man does everything he can to avoid facing the impending apocalypse alone in this atmospheric zombie drama about the fear of losing everything you hold dear.

Connie is growing up on an estate and cling especially to Gunnar. When Connie mention that she has met a man, Gunnar gets angry and repels her. Connie decides to retaliate by taking over Gunnar's sister's husband, Boris, who is the owner of the estate.

The Wolf family reflects the crisis the country is in after suffering war and occupation. A resistance movement takes power after a foreign occupation of Sweden. They aim to regain the capital, Stockholm.

During the spring of 1940 two young men gets drafted and deployed close to the Norwegian border, where they fall in love with the same woman.

Sweden 1951. A new society is developing, a society where there is no room for the socially and mentally weak...

My Dear Mother is about the 15-year-old girl Dasha who lives in an orphanage in a small town in Russia. We follow her for five years, in all the thoughts she has about growing up in orphanages. She wonders why her mother left her. Until her grandmother died, she lived with her grandparents, who were Russian Sami. Dasha's father is in jail and her mother was a drug addict. Dasha would like to have contact with her roots and she wants to keep her Sami identity.

The year is 2079. After a World war, USA is weakened and Sweden is the first nation to have a permanent base on the moon. However, the scientists soon find a mysterious ice wall and behind it is the answer if we are alone in the universe.

"Hello Happy Summer!!!" - Valle and Bror are two fishermen brothers who lives in the remote archipelago. One day Valles wife receives a big inheritance from a distant relative and their lives takes a new turn.

A woman accused in court explains how she got started on this track.

Henrik Karlsson is accused of having stolen 5,000 SEK, even though he is innocent. But to protect the real thief, who is sick in hospital, Karlsson takes the full responsibility.

Gugge and Nuffe work at the competing meat wholesalers AB Delikatesser and AB Skånedelikatesser. The two companies compete for a large order and the two will stop at hardly nothing to get the order

Young Ruth goes against her father's will and leaves to live with engineer Edvin Holm. Their life together will prove difficult.

A mother walks with her melancholic son on pilgrimage to seek comfort at the Madonna image, thereby trying to heal the broken heart of the son.

A punctuation during a theater rehearsal between actor and director.

Iben and Thomas, a couple from Scandinavia, are on vacation on a sail boat in the Greek archipelago. Suddenly, one night, Iben hear a cry for help from the water.

Erika is 13 years and lives with her parents and her grandmother in the far north of Sweden in the 1940's. The family is depressed and disappointed in life. Erika dreams of a separate being in another world.

Based on Kristian Lundberg's novel about Anders, who goes from acclaimed author to physical worker at the bottom of society. He can no longer support himself through his cultural work and is forced to start anew, as a worker in Malmö harbour, at a place called 'The Yard'.