Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house and build a new and modern house instead.

A man goes from the tough life as a hired worker all the way into the Swedish government.

Olga is a young student and a revolutionary agitator in Russian ruled Poland.

In her first few days at an AI driven grief support job, Millie impersonates deceased loved ones, confronting the emotional toll and moral dilemmas of grief while struggling to connect with colleagues.

A fed up food delivery worker chooses a split second act of rebellion - one that results in an awkward, spiraling dance between the classes of 21st century Sweden.

The story takes place in the small town of Herrljunga, Sweden, in the summer of '94 when it was hot as hell and everything and nothing happened all at once. Johan's girlfriend Karin is going to leave Herrljunga. Johan is stuck between his punkband and best friends. Even if you let go in the end, it'll be a struggle. Especially if you're 15 and love, hate and everything in between is for the first time.

Journalist and activist Masih Alinejad has 4.5 million followers on Instagram after urging Iranian women to rebel against the forced hijab on social media. Her call to action has grown into one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in today’s Iran. Something that has made the regime desperately tighten its grip to regain control over the people.

Vicke Lundin is a car mechanic in a garage where the owner is a brutal and selfish. With him, Vicke argues about the bills the customers have to pay.

Real estate broker Oskarsson visits a cabin deep in the woods. There he finds a bedridden and mute old woman who seems well cared for. There has recently been a fire in the stove, there is food in the fridge, but no trace of who cares for her.

The action takes place around the Ingeborg's cafe. The councilor Leif Aronsson has planned a trip to Denmark, but it must be set after he had a brief discussion on money fiddling with Ingeborg. He suspects that one will discover he has taken money from the city budget in their own pocket.

A young woman is wrongfully accused of a crime. Adapted from the 1862 play by Johan Jolin.

Barbro has a sister in secret, a twin sister named Ylva-Li. Ylva-Li lives under a rose bush, but not any rose bush. It is Salikos roses. When Barbro feels lonely and like her family doesn't care about her she can disappear into the hole under the roses. This day, Barbro and her sister are going on a journey. A long journey to the most beautiful valley in the world.

Sequel to Sjunde himlen (1956). Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Willy Lorens (Hasse Ekman) have been happily married for a couple of years, but when Willy becomes a TV host with cutie Suss (Lena Granhagen) by his side, things start to fall apart

A documentary from within the Swedish Migration Board's locked repository where people are in custody awaiting forced deportation. Prisoner and guard are in close proximity around the clock. Converses during sleepless nights and playing football during hot summer days. We follow Sophie, 29, who loves her job at the repository, Sami, 20, the young rebel who is locked up but free inside, and Aina, 47, who were separated from her children and kept locked up while the police are stepping up efforts to enforce their expulsion order.

Judge Evald Sterner and engineer Kai Falk are rivals for the beautiful Jesta Fridman, daughter of a rich banker. Jesta loves Kai Falk but her father prefers Sterner.

Lena and Karin have known each other for six years and have gotten really close to each other. When freedom is coming up for one of them, it's not as happy as it should have been.

Two pilots must fly together in spite of the strong dislike of each other. At a training mission the aircraft wrecks over open water and they have to save themselves by parachute.

Josephine has all her life been told that her Peruvian aunt Augusta died in an armed struggle for the rights of the poor. As an adult Josefin decides to find out the truth about the legendary Augusta.

Ten-year-old Rasmus, his friend Pontus and his dog Toker, find out about a silver theft in the small town where they live. Family film from Astrid Lindgren's radio series.

A young man Lomov comes to propose to his neighbour Natalya but they keep on fighting over various topics.

Biffen and Bananen are two ex bicycle racers who works in the bicycle factory Standard. Biffen is a meat eater, Bananen a vegetarian and they are in constant quarrel.

A mythic depiction of a pagan sacrifice in prehistoric Sweden.

Chamber Opera on Anna Odell's art project "Unknown Woman 2009-349701". The action begins on the opera stage. Followed by a film of the recorded 'psychosis' and police intervention at Liljeholmsbron, Stockholm, Sweden. St. Görans Hospital, the Emergency Room - a still image on a belt bed with a sound recording when Anna Odell reveals to the nurse that it was all fake.

A story about a boy named Anders, who lives in an ordinary Swedish family in an apartment at the train station. Through his childhood, he experiences life's glorious scents of beautiful flowers and green forest, close and warm relationships with his grandparents and joyful play with his siblings. He has a strong friendship with his father and a great love for his mother. Still he lives in fear of death. He is afraid of losing all of this that is so valuable to him. In his thoughts and fears, he often turns often God, just as his sister, mother and grandparents, and ask Him for help and protection.

"Pig Hunt" - Lennart Siljeberg works at the Cattle Inspection Agency. He is the perfect bureaucrat, always careful and pedantic. The agency's latest mission is to extinguish all pigs on the island of Gotland. However, for some unexplainable reason, the local farmers use violence to destroy the agency's work.

A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.

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 year is 1926 and Valter Liljefors has passed away. Valter's daughter Rut is very disappointed when she realizes that there is no money to inherit. The only thing of value is the house, and her mother Elsa lives there. However, the will states that if Elsa remarries, the house will go to Rut, who immediately begins looking for a suitable candidate. The plot also includes a shady priest, a sluggish valet, Götaland's most annoying brat, a naive stepsister, an unknown man and a refreshed Danish couplet singer.

What are they? What do they seek? When all the lights go out, they will wander. And you will never see them.

Comedy with Sten-Åke Cederhök and Tomas von Brömssen at the Lisebergsteatern in Gothenburg, featuring scrap dealers Albert and Herbert, a waiter with rabbit teeth and a shack maid with an incomprehensible village dialect.

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"A testimony about her." Her being the actor and vocalist Monica Zetterlund. At 25 in the beginning of her career. Monica sings with a trio at a concert. Returns to her empty home in Stockholm. Relaxes in loneliness. Next morning. An interview with writer Vilgot Sjöman. Then off to recording at a studio with the Phillips Recording Orchestra, featuring Jan Johansson on piano. Later a concert at Nalen in Stockholm.

An engineer and a businessman is on the run from Manchuria, where revolution and civil war erupted. Both suffer from typhoid and the businessman dies. Before he dies, he changes identity with the engineer.

Horses have been part of daily life for generations in the deprived Dublin suburb of Ballymun – and for 17-year-old Lorna and her family too. Her unemployed father finds structure and purpose in daily life by caring for his horses, while her sick mother wistfully remembers the days when she used to turn heads as she galloped through the town. These days it's Lorna who likes to spend all her free time in the stable or riding Bigfoot, her horse.

The coronation of King Håkon (Haakon VII) of Norway in 1905.

Lars interrupts his studies in mathematics at Uppsala University. Instead he takes a job as a teacher in an industrial community. When he discovers that one of his students is a mathematical genius, his desire for studies awakens.

Documentary about the Swedish equestrian Peter Eriksson

A Swedish family musical by Beppe Wolgers.

A young medical student falls in love with her professor. To pay for her studies, she works extra nights and performs as a popular singer at a dance restaurant. But she is fired because of an unpleasant guest and takes a job as a maid. The professor appears in the family and a carousel of lies takes off.

It has been five years since Nina's daughter went missing and only during the cigarette breaks do we get to follow her hunt for the perpetrator as she returns to Montenegro for one last time. A revenge told in 20 cigarettes.

It is an ordinary day at the bank. A somewhat stressed young man makes an entrance and sits down among the other waiting customers. When it is his turn at the lady cashiers he suddenly draws a pistol and declares it is a bank robbery. It is a situation that could have terrifying consequences if it was not for the the cashiers unusual take on the situation.

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

An erotic love story about falling in love with another woman and wanting to have sex with her all the time. Selma has a boring job and a boring boyfriend. When she meets Sofie at the swimming pool she can't stop thinking about her.

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.

'Do you feel cheaper?' We are filming young Lithuanian men working in Sweden. They do not want to be caught on camera, they do not want to participate in creating yet another media image of guilt and pity. They film us. We empty a bottle of moonshine, we dance on their porch. They might let us film them tomorrow. Second Class is a time document about class, respect, the value of work and human being.

John Smith is an accountant at a stockbroking firm, where the firm ends up in the liquidity crisis because of his managerial speculation with the firm's money. The bank wants John to take over leadership of the company.

The Hotel is the last part of a trilogy about travelling. The first two were The Atlantic (Atlanten, 1995) and The Lighthouse (Fyren, 2000). The hotel is a different kind of home. It can be a refuge, cul-de-sac, castle, nightmare, creative space...The first hotel was created as protection against the elements. Weary travellers could find shelter and rest. But it was also a place for legends and anecdotes.

An ax-wielding maniac turns a quiet retreat into a grisly nightmare for a woman and her friends.

GroM wakes up one morning to find that his mouth is stuck in a sour face. He, who wants to be happy and smile. His friend LobO comes visiting and together they embark on a journey to find a GroM's smile. They try with a circus visit and with magic potions, but it only makes things worse. Will GroM ever Smile again?

A politically motivated dramatic short film from Social Democrats ahead of the 1952 elections.

Strange things are happening in an old house in the middle of the woods where a woman lives. As a calling the woman hangs up a white dress and places matching shoes underneath. The spirit world makes itself known in a dark love story of grief, loss and sacrifice, as we try to determine whether the growing danger comes from the spiritual realm or the physical.

About Progg - progressive music in Sweden. "Everyone can play" was the slogan of the 70's music movement. But was everyone welcome to play? About capitalism, politics, equality between the sexes and hating ABBA.

In a far away future a man travels to a mystical virtual forest. Only to find himself in a very dark and sinister fairy tale. And unable to escape.

The waitress Monica goes to Västerköping to find out who actually was her father. By aunt Margareta, she has been told that her mother, who died at birth, had four admirers.

A paraphrase on Eric M. Nilsson's film Djurgårdsfärjan from the early 1960s.