Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

The film is a story about the self destructive behavior. It is a narrative about a divided self, someone that exposes herself, drives herself hard, and at the other end someone who is being exposed and tormented.

Filip Collin, the elegant small town patron, has suffered from money market concerns due to bankruptcy on foreign exchanges.

The little puppy Aston finds a lonely a cold stone in the forrest a decides to bring it home a care for it. Based on the childrens bokk with the same name.

A Squad of elite commandos is lost in the Swedish wilderness during a secret mission. A tactical unit is sent out to investigate. I the meanwhile a group of hikers enter the area. Their phones suddenly loses reception and the compasses stops working. One after the other they start to disappear.

Two students ponder the afterlife. They make a nocturnal agreement that the one who dies first will appear to the other at a certain time the day after the funeral. Then one student dies.

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

Erik Ernsson is on his way to Jon-Persgården in Ångermanland to seek employment. He befriends the old man Janne Vängman.

Philip is a grass widower who suddenly wants to buy a piano to his wife before she's back home, but it's Saturday and the time is short.

The last call for the flight to Stockholm is announced over the speakers. Shadi stands outside the gate and holds her mothers skirt as tight as she can. The mother caresses Shadis braided hair, and then tears her fingers apart from her daughter, and a man forces Shadi onto the plane. Shadi is eleven years old and all alone on her way to an unknown world. She ends up at an orphanage for unaccompanied children in Stockholm. But flashbacks from the war and nightmares make it hard for Shadi to tell the difference between reality and fantasy. The only thing she wants is to be with her mother again. And so one night she hears her mothers voice in the hall.

Two friends argue over robbing a tech store. Desperation is dragged to it's limits as the fine line between bravery and stupidity is humorously blurred.

The capital is preparing for the Olympic Games in 1912. Greta spends time with many other young workers in Strömbadet. Only 17 years old, she surprisingly wins gold in swimming and becomes Sweden's first Olympic champion

A queer film in a world where normative relationships set the rules for who can become a parent and in what way. About the bodies that normalise us to gender when we want to reproduce. About the desire to gift that opportunity to someone else and the common desire and attempt to become pregnant together.

Fredrik Mack (Gustav Ranft) owns a glue factory in northern Norway and Ove Rolandsen (Eugen Skjønberg), a great womanizer, works for him. When Mack's beautiful daughter Elise (Lilla Bye) returns from studies, Ove immediately flirts with her.

Philip's mother is ready to leave and Filip has to spend a night in a rural castle together with the daughter of one of his mother's workmates and a delayed babysitter. Also the castle is rumored to be haunted.

Helga Wedin is a middle age widow. Her husband spent all their money on horse racing and now she sits on a parceled small farm, in a forgotten village in the North of Sweden.

The animated film is a series of tales about animal life, friendship and being close. A declaration of love; the relationship between young and old, and about the desire to go on wonderful, fantastic adventures. It is produced for the youngest audience and their parents. Based from Lena Sjöbergs highly acclaimed book with the same name.

Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong. Recorded at a Pistoltearern performance.

Tratten and Finkel's main occupation consists of producing home-made booze and delivering them in a car that has the same tune as the ice-cream car.

Björn Borg is not only one of Sweden's greatest athletes but also one of its most eccentric and mysterious icons. In an emotional portrait, Borg travels back to Wimbledon to relive memories and show new sides of himself.

During a duck hunt the local land owner Brandt has told his ranger and his son to sit in a boat and collect ducks as they are shot down. When Brandt's dog gets in the water he commands the ranger's son to jump in the water to save the dog but the boy drowns.

The hypocritical wholesaler Johan Ekberg is taught a lesson.

"Death in Arboga" - Johanna Möller has no emotional or moral barriers. She could work as a professional killer. That's how she portrays herself. In jail during trial she tried to bribe her own children to give her a fake alibi. Now the 43-year-old is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her father and the attempted murder on her mother.

In 1909, in an undemocratic Sweden, a bastard child is born and given the name of Hervor. Her mother is unmarried, due to which she is called a "whore' and is driven from her home. Hervor grows up at shelters and orphanages, unwanted, rejected by society. As an adult she spends her life struggling for social justice. In old age she tells us her story. Director Knutte Wester brings his grandmother's memories to life thought hand-painted animated images and has us witness someone being rejected in order to unite others. A story that all too often still repeating itself.

Three parallel events during the same night. The main characters lose control and their loyalty is jeopardized.

Social Democratic election film. Young Lasse is unemployed and drawn to the Communists. However, he comes to the Social Democratic fold after heroically capturing a saboteur. He falls in love with young Greta, whose father is a nimble master tailor who knows how to put both communists and citizens in place.

Young lovers Vera and Kurt are engaged, but Kurt has to leave for studies abroad. With Kurt away, Vera’s boss, Falk, decides to make her his wife.

A documentary made to celebrate Stig Järrel's 80th birthday, clips of old performances are mixed with new interviews with Järrel and colleagues.

Hanna, 32, is on her way home one late evening when she runs in to an acquaintance, Andreas, 20, who invites her to a party close by. The party consists of five twenty year old boys. At first, Hanna feels uncomfortable, but she’s adjusting. Soon she feels like she’s one of them.

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.

Filmmaker Azad Larki, who is undocumented, follows his mother during her final days in Sweden after his family has lived without legal status for two years. Facing deportation to Iran, they have survived in hiding, without rights or security. When his mother decides to flee alone to London - leaving her husband and son behind - the film captures a dangerous farewell where humor becomes a final survival strategy against fear, separation, and uncertainty.

We get to follow the influencer Bianca Wahlgrens 25th birthday party.

A lesson in the history of portrait art. A game with the camera's eye and our prejudices by artist Ola Billgren and filmmaker Carl Slättne.

Interview with Ingmar Bergman by the Swedish Film Institute's then CEO Jörn Donner about the filming of Fanny and Alexander.

A short film depicting the feelings of depression, anxiety, stress and other mental illnesses.

On Saturday, April 26, spring came to Sweden. That same day, Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Bringing mild winds to Scandinavia. Sweden suffered heavily of radioactive poison.

A fight breaks out between two men in medieval Stockholm, Sweden.

Feride is on the way home after a party when she meets a group of singing young men in a wooden boat. When the boat runs into trouble they get unexpected help from Feride who, without her consent, is taken along on their nocturnal ride in Stockholm.

A car mechanic saves his friend from getting fired when money is missing at his office.

This deeply insightful drama traces the events of one sweltering Swedish summer, when the bond between an adolescent girl and her older neighbour frays as their relationship comes under the scrutiny of those who can't understand what they share.

The wolves chase him. Pulling him in the neck when he's out, waiting at the bed in the bedroom to chop him in pieces. The psychologist says it's imagination. But he knows they exist.

Jonas Gardell's exhilarating, rebellious, joyful show is on a triumphant tour across the country. Critics raved and audiences gave standing ovations. And laughed, of course. Laughed until they cried. Laughed until they fell off their chairs.

Swedish counties Skåne and Hälsingland are presented through fotage of nature, industry and every day life.

Tim decides to visits his father Leif's workplace, the low-threshold housing facility Ryssevik. By following Leif throughout a workday and talking to those who call the place home, Tim seeks to understand what his father has dedicated the latter part of his life to.

An intricate triangle drama is placed at its apex around the deathbed of a mother.

Documentary on Swedish rockabilly singer/songwriter Eva Eastwood.

This is not a final letter, merely a wish in case life ends up short

In Czechoslovakia, between 1946 and 1971, the characters of two very different fairy tales interacted and enriched each other: on the one hand, the filmmakers of the Czechoslovak New Wave who, through poetic, committed and ambitious cinema, fought against the Soviet yoke with subtle irony; and, on the other, the writer Jan Procházka, who in 1968 added his voice to the popular outcry of the Prague Spring.

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.

The little ghost called Laban is afraid of the dark.

Snake is known as the best of the best, but when tasked with his hardest mission yet, he might have underestimated his assignment.... Snake wakes up from a 10 year old comatose and the only thing on his mind is revenge... someone's gonna pay.

Archaeological gardens and tunnels are built. Khaled and other Palestinians lose their homes. Lawyer Ziad gets angry new clients every day. Arieh and other Israeli settlers move in. PeÅ Holmqvist and Suzanne Khardalian follow a turbulent Jerusalem, 50 years after Israel took full control.

Sture and Birgit are secretly engaged. One day when they are kissing, they are discovered by Sture's father Dana. However, he promises not to reveal anything, as Sture would probably lose his job on Birgit's father Hjalle's shipyard. When Hjalle is forced by a usurer to pay back 23,000 on a loan, he gets problem. Dana promises to solve the problem, the question is just how. There is only one person that could help him, his childhood friend Gösta Hägg that nowadays is the director of a big company. But time passes quickly, and where is Mr. Hägg ...?

A married couple are preparing to set up August Strindberg's Miss Julie at a theater festival.

A cry from the revolutionary wilderness. About the solidarity that disappeared.

During an innocent party game at the friends' annual dinner on Walborg night, the hostess discovers that her husband is cheating on her with one of the friends. The discovery has significance for all the guests, as old relationships change and new ones are created.