Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

A live action role-playing game takes place in the 17th century. A less committed player deviates.

A celebrated movie star, Mai Zetterling stepped behind the camera in the early 1960's as one of the few female directors in the world. Her works were immediately celebrated worldwide but were later marginalized and forgotten. Always controversial, she stepped on some male toes while telling stories of marital oppression and human liberation. How come we know so little about one of Sweden's most innovative directors? And is what we know true?

A young fisherman starts a business and climbs on the social ladder to avenge the man who plagued his parents.

Pianist Stefan Nilsson died in his home on May 25. He is best known as a composer of music for popular films and television series. In February 2023, after a period of illness, he received shocking news - he had the incurable disease ALS. Stefan Nilsson and his wife Charlotte Hasselquist Nilsson then contacted Tom Alandh and it resulted in a conversation about life, love and Stefan Nilsson's rich musical work.

Jacob has been struggling hard for several years, which has paid off. During a dramatic day, when Jacob's entire life is turned upside down, he is forced to decide whether that price is worth paying.

"Art is more precious than a hot dog" - Francis Picabia's (1879-1953) pamphlet is the title of this color animation of Cartsen Regild's art and the studio recording in black and white.

Elma, a young writer, gets dumped by her girlfriend. Along her path to recovery, she sets out on a spiritual, physical, and meta-physical odyssey throughout the Swedish countryside. She encounters a number of equally wandering souls, longing for some company on the roads, while the past, present and future of Sweden slowly unravels. —Sao Paulo Film Festival Catalogue

In a near future, four criminal psychotics divides themselves from society in a road trip of random ultra violence upon anyone that crosses them. Their violent nature soon forces them into the Swedish country-roads on their flight from the police. What they don't know is that their murderous joy-ride soon will turn into a desperate fight for their lives as they end up in a village that have been cut off from the rest of the world since the age of the Vikings, and where the government have disposed radioactive waste that has turned the villagers into mutated, cannibalistic monsters! And this is a fight our band of outlaws are not sure to win.

About being young and Sámi, focusing on the topics, pride, love and conflict. Isabel moves from her mother in Stockholm to her father in Jokkmokk. Amoc rap in Aanaarsämikielâ, Inari Sámi, a language used among 400 people. Alette doesn't feel like a Sámi. Thomas is a drummer, snowboards and dream of being an actor. The skier Tonje always fall in love with a Sámi. Why? Jon is adopted from Colombia and joiks a lot. Thomas and Petra plan for their future. Ritva loves horseback riding. Amanda likes theatre and politics. Vocalist Sandra wonders how much Sámi she is. Johan is brought up in a religious home where music is prohibited. Aslak love scooters. Marit was bullied in school because she is a Sámi.

In front of the salvation Army headquarters. An old man who is being teased by a flock of children, is almost run over by a car. Out of the headquarters gates march singing and playing female Salvation Army soldiers. One of the women is on her way to a nearby restaurant where the two sisters Ruth and Fanny works as waitresses.

Two brothers, Leif and Arne, are on a fishing trip. Leif is a whiner and criticizes Arne and almost everything, but the conversation leads to more important topics. A loving parody on men from the North of Sweden.

Once loving and full of hope, now a ruthless and resentful gang leader, Teodor, finds out that a kid is selling drugs on his street. He decides to pay the kids family a visit and confront them. Teodor tells the tale of his own fall into criminality and leaves them with a simple choice.

A focus on Sweden's greatest dramatist, August Strindberg, his years spent in Paris and the inspiration the city had on his poetry.

Swedish tv film based on "Galgmannen" play

Young runaway aristocrat fall in love with blacksmith's daughter.

A Swedish version of Jeppe on the Hill. Jeppe is a drunken peasant. The Baron and his men play a joke on him.

A drama about a person who gets the opportunity many dream of, to relive his life. In his past he committed a crime. It must not happen again. Now everything will surely be different.

Follow the national teams behind the scenes in exclusive clips and personal portraits that celebrate Sweden's greatest football stars. Joy and sadness alternate and it all culminates in the awarding of the Gold and Diamond Balls.

The story about Klas Ekengren, the mayor of a small Swedish town, and his mother Alma.

The goosebumps never lie. The Truth About ASMR. ASMR is the network phenomenon that, with the help of whispers and role play, gives users euphoric shivers. SVT Edit depicts the stars, conflicts and future of the movement. Does ASMR work? Anders Hansen and other researchers explain how it affects the brain. For many millions of fans, ASMR is a quiet haven of security in a connected world. But there is also a dark side - some people believe that many ASMR videos are so intimate that the experience is almost bordering on porn. In the documentary, Swedish stars such as actor Hedda Stiernstedt and artist Parham try to make their own ASMR videos. This is the story of the whispers that created a viral world success.

In a sanatorium for people in their 60's Walter meets Virginia and falls in love. His boyish invites only upset her. In another attempt to capture her interest he directs "Romeo and Juliet" starring the residents of the sanatorium.

Östersunds FK is a sensation in the world of football. After climbing to the Allsvenskan in record time, they became the first Swedish team to reach the Europa League playoffs. Behind their success lies, among other things, a well-known cultural initiative that has forced the football guys far outside their comfort zone.

Autumn, the season when nature prepares to be reborn by dying. Two young fellows. They are perhaps not the most popular characters in the small Tornedalen community since their method of subsistence is on the outskirts of morality.

Kurt and Sonja are happily married and dream of buying a house and have children. One day Kurt's old friend Nick pops up. Secrets from Sonja's past life surface.

In a magnificent concert special from beautiful Dalhalla, Benjamin Ingrosso, together with a large string orchestra, invites you to an unforgettable musical evening interspersed with personal stories. In addition, Benjamin cooks food for his musicians - an Italian pasta!

The Finnkampen is the oldest surviving international competition in athletics. Sweden and Finland have competed against each other since 1925 in a mixture of respect and love-hate. This documentary by Lotta Fahlberg delves into the history of the Finnkampen, where we get to see the hustle and bustle both on the track and behind the scenes, and the Swedish ups and downs over the years.

Karin and Richard are about to celebrate midsummer in the countryside when Karin spots an email on Richard's computer that turns their relationship upside down.

It's Valborg in Skellefteå and John is preparing a speech. On his way to the festivities his car breaks down and he has to spend the night with Astrid who is celebrating on her own.

The incredible story of a red scarf from a small Swedish city just below the Arctic Circle, appeared in the eye of the storm, on a rioter at the US Capitol breach on 6 January 2021.

Documentary about the Intervision Song Contest in general and the 1980 edition in particular. Focuses on Finland's participation and the shipyard strikes in Gdansk at the time.

EPOKALIPSA uses narrations from Vlado Butler books, and very short of Malga Kubiak’s own book OMS.

After being forsaken, a doubting priest goes out on a symbolic journey to find his faith.

The young Anders is in love with Marit, whose father, the farmer Bjur-Erik opposes their relation. He watches jealously his daughter and becomes furious when he hears that she sneaks off to see Anders.

In "Dr.Chesterfield," you'll embark on a thrilling journey across different dimensions. Follow the journey of an independent scientist. He explores the intelligence of nature by creating new substances in his homemade lab. He tries to open up parts of the brain to access higher dimensions. He tries to bend time and space with only his mind as a tool, but he accidentally gets access to the universe's black box: where everything that has happened is stored. The new substance gives him superpowers and brings the US military's attention, and the hunt for Dr.Chesterfield begins.

A hereditary and supernatural illness slowly twists the relationship between a boy and his mother. Through the course of 20 years Simon comes to learn of this illness and finds out that his mother will one day be consumed by it. When the time comes that the mother can no longer take care of herself, Simon is put to the test.

Seat 26D explores the inexpressible. With scale models built of paper, digital animation and live action, it reconstructs a passenger’s memory of a plane crash. Early morning, December 27th 1991. Flight 751 is taking off from Stockholm-Arlanda. 13-year old Sandro is looking forward to spending his Christmas holiday in Japan. At 1,000 meters altitude violent explosions are heard from both sides of the plane. The engines go quiet and they are silently gliding through the air. The pilots are forced to make an emergency landing and the plane crashes on a snow-capped field near the small village of Gottröra. The flight lasted 4 minutes, but the memory lasts a lifetime. Sandro narrates the story about the day he was about to die.

Edit Carlson is having trouble courting car mechanic Helge Malm, whose motto is "me mary? - never!", and when he reveals that he's about to receive an inheritance, Edit's sister Tora sets her sight on him as well.

Film from Kenan Korkmaz

Enock is six years old when he is taken to a Confucian Buddhist orphanage and given the Chinese name Alu. He becomes extremely skilled in acrobatics. Suddenly he must make a choice to reunite with the culture of Africa or to sign up for five years in order to study in Taiwan.

fifteen zero three nineteenth of january two thousand sixteen explores how everyday routines and gestures are transformed when a mother loses her child in the violence impacting Swedish outskirts since the early 2000s. The film resists simplistic media depictions of the suburbs and shows how a home can hold both mourning and the mobilization of women to fight for their own and others' children.

Depicts the explosive relationship between August Strindberg and Siri von Essen in 1889 while Siri is rehearsing a lead role in a play written by Strindberg.

A short, cautionary tale of emigrating to America.

A man wakes up in his apartment after a wild party. His best buddy comes by. They find a woman on the couch showing no signs of life.

There was a double homicide on the forgotten Swedish countryside several years ago. Two angry young men beat two young women to death, seemingly without any particular reason. The years passed but the images in our heads did not disappear. We tried to forget it, wrote screenplay after screenplay, but we always came back to those murders, and to telling the story about a part of Sweden that we never read about in newspapers, and that is populated by people whose thoughts and destinies rarely reaches beyond their village.

A mother and daughter prepare themselves for the return of the son.

The music festival "Midnight Light Festival" employ 7 girls to chauffeur the festival's artists in their "epa-tractors". During two summernights we get a insight into the 7 young girls' lives, thoughts, culture and dreams in the Northern Swedish inlands. Youth, dreams and engines in Vilhelmina municipality.

Three men are unfortunately trapped in a toilet at a department store during the Christmas holidays.

We get to follow a young man in his thoughts, where he shares his thoughts about anxiety and depression.

Three people compete in a televised competition for letters from home, but what awaits in the letters surprises the participants.

With a mixture of documentary and fiction - "Klassens Z" wants to show how it is to be a roma in a Swedish school.

A film about director Andja Arnebäck's family: “When I was pregnant with my first child and doing ultrasound, I thought about the coincidence that my child and I both exist. My Mom has told me that they wanted to forcibly sterilize my grandmother. Through archives and in meetings with my grandmother's two brothers, Axel and Knut, I investigate what really happened when they grew up in Gothenburg. ”

This personal and compelling portrait follows Gudrun Schyman, spokesperson of Sweden's Feminist Initiative political party, as she moves between small towns, refugee camps, and the corridors of power.

With the support of dramatic staging, a narrative teaches about sabotage and espionage directed at Sweden.

Mysterious international agent and playboy Jason goes from country to country engaged in a shadowy high-stakes game of espionage, love-making and violent intrigue.

Linn is a model who started playing hockey at the age of ten. Now she plays with a bunch of guys. But it is difficult to combine the model job with hockey.

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.

On June 7, 2014, Håkan Hellström took the stage in front of a sold-out Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg. With an audience of 69,349, the hometown concert became the most attended concert in Swedish history. This concert film captures not only the performance itself, but also follows several fans as they prepare for the show on their journey to—and through—Gothenburg.