Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

Gunnar Hesla grew up in a poor home, but at 25 he is a landowner.

Mr. Vinner's daughter, Lillan, accidentally breaks her mother's brooch and tries to catch a dragonfly as a replacement for the destroyed jewelry.

The lighthouse keeper Lang has become a loner since his little daughter drowned in the sea.

"Meat and Love" - Tells the story how Finnish human outcast are being exported to Sweden as a sausages. The local butcher falls in love with the fragile owner of the health food store. He begins to date her. It turns out to be inappropriate. The health food customers becomes uneasy. They mobilize their strong hatred against the cornea butcher. An intrusive and discolored drama. About cross-over lust, hunger and fears. Recording from the stage production.

During his five decades as an artist, Carl Johan De Geer has playfully leaped between genres and art forms such as painting, children's television and literature. All of it with a powerful political commitment and a large measure of absurdism. In CJDG, we follow his work on exhibitions in New York as well as Stockholm.

About a young couple. They fall in love, marry and separate.

Fifteen-year-old Máigon and her best friend Ánne-Sire are living in a small village in the Arctic tundra. It is summertime and the nights are nightless. The naive Máigon is challenged by the more experienced Ánne-Sire to make her sexual debut. Máigon feels the pressure, but she has her own plan, one that takes them on a fateful trip.

Married Jonny meets married Rebecka.

Gustav (15) is vegan and straight edge in 90s Umeå. One night, he follows his friend Zeke, full of hatred against the meat industry, to the town's slaughterhouse with gasoline-filled bottles. It will be a night that changes Gustav forever.

Florence Stephens inherited one of Sweden's richest estates. Her home was visited by royalty and nobility. As heir to her large estate, she appoints, herself unmarried and childless, the young extravagant Prince Carl Bernadotte trustee. A well-known family secret suggests that Florence Stephens might have blood ties to the Royal family.

1950s Sweden. Boy meets girl, boy kidnaps girl. Girl suddenly makes her own demands. For a few hours, a game of high stakes is played. Most desperate will win. And before the night is through, blood will be shed.

A short story about three men, a couple of chain saws, one snow mobile, some bystanders and lots of ice.

Dance super star Ana Laguna and acting legend Stina Ekblad meet with dancer, choreographer and director Giovanni Bucchieri in this expressive story about an unexpected meeting.

From 1957 to 1961 170.000 Algerians flee to Tunisia because of the war. Most of them walk by feet across the mountains and the desert, carrying only a few of their belongings in their hands or on donkeys. As there is no clay in the desert they cannot build ordinary houses. They have to live in pits in the ground, covered with canvas, but some are offered to stay in American army tents.

In a bizarre post-apocalyptic world, Drifterboy and Boss-Action go on a quest to find a supposed civilization beyond a mountain. Instead, they find hell.

New explosives will be demonstrated for the military authorities, but some shady characters looking to steal it to sell it to a foreign power.

Every day after school, Charlie works at the town's outdoor pool. When he doesn't sell hot dogs or cleans, he dreams about Evelina. They go to the same school, but she doesn't know who he is. Meanwhile, somewhere far away in she sky, a comet is moving closer and closer. But Charlie seems to be the only one who can actually see it. It is almost as if it is trying to tell him something.

A film for everyone who wants to find love. A romantic drama about Ben who wants his last day in Gothenburg to be unforgettable.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the album.

New Year's Eve program from Södra Teatern in Stockholm with hosts Gary Engman and Grynet Molvig to celebrate the new year of 1973. Performances from many different artists, including Ted Gärdestad, Göran Fristorp, Claes af Geijerstam and Staffan Scheja.

Portrait documentary of the Swedish comedic actor Thor Modéen full of clips from his greatest roles.

A woman throws her life away on the promise of divine glory in the next.

Esme is still an unspoiled youth when she lets the AI's intellectual algorithms take her away from what awaits her: society's foremost initiation rite - the first plastic surgery. In Beata Gårdeler's visually poetic future, narcissism has taken over and the norms of beauty has been drawn to extreme.

14-year old Julia is a frequent witness to the physical and psychological abuse her mother endures from her father. The fearfulness Julia lives in daily is evidenced by the many activities she starts, but can never finish, dreading her father’s reaction. Albeit he is extremely controlling, Julia seems to be a sociable teenager, with a protective instinct, although traumatized by her family’s reality. She is a well-informed young girl, well aware of what she has to do in order to put an end to the toxic environment they live in. Will she be able to, though?

Tage breaks up with his girlfriend Dora when he falls in love with the ballet dancer Maud.

A bicycle messenger sees a girl being brutally assaulted and dragged into a van. She immediately calls the police, but unfortunately the girl is found too late. It turns out that the murdered girl has been the victim of a serious sexual crime. Detective Inspector Irene Huss and the rest of the team begin to look for the murderer, but have very few clues to go on. When another young girl is murdered in a similar way, the team realizes that they are dealing with a sexual predator. How does he get in touch with the girls? Why do they agree to meet him? Why are they wearing special underwear?

Two men in their 60s meet for the first time and discuss their respective sex changes, and subsequent reversals.

Always at G - the Hälsinge fiddler and actor Görgen Antonsson. Join him at fiddler meetings, pub gigs and theatre performances, but also to the Crown Princess's birthday and the symphony orchestra in Berwaldhallen.

Repainting Cuba takes a critical look at communist Cuba, where both the facades and the aging regime were given a coating of colorful paint in connection with the 50 year anniversary of the revolution. Two young Cubans under house arrest talk about being imprisoned for dealing with foreign tourists in a society where gossip and backstabbing is endemic, and where the heavy varnish can’t conceal the cracks.

Lara is an aggressive feminist who meets Adam while shooting her documentary on feminism. Between those two we see a unique relationship form.

As a big sister (abla), Selma takes on the role of the anxious guardian in the family. On Selma's birthday, however, the youngest sister, Mira, leaves to recycle some cans - which turns out to have some disproportionate consequences.

A summer night’s trip to an empty museum in the middle of a meteorite crater takes a magical turn when a star bursts through the cloudy sky. As it plunges into the museum the world is transformed into a sea of life, myth and times long past.

The cleaner Vera works at a museum and is in love with her boss Ted. She is too coward to do something about it and wishes that everything would be different. One day, a meteor is falling down from the sky and gives her mysterious forces.

Two marines go AWOL and save a girl from drowning, they then sneak her aboard the ship.

Relive the U21's magical summer of 2015, look back on the excitement, the magic and take part in never before seen interviews and pictures. 2015 offered an unforgettable "Golden Summer".

The artist Richard Stolpe paints a portrait of the beautiful blonde Gurli that leads to complications.

Rebecca and Fiona are best friends, producing dj's and share a dream of conquering the Swedish dj scene.

The life of a drug abuser through messages on his answering machine.

Follows Sven-Göran Eriksson as he returns to Italy for the last time to say goodbye and offers a look back at his great career in this country.

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.

The writer Stig Larsson's feature film debut. A different film which moves around various acting styles - various reality levels. The writer Stig converses with his friend Kim who's in London. A conversation which will get a fateful result.

About two neighboring houses on Södermalm in Stockholm and the people living in them.

When Nellie and Anton meet at a New Years party, they decide to spend the evening together. While exploring Stockholm on a romantic night like New Yeas Eve they only have one goal in mind; to create the perfect night. There's just one catch... They cannot fall in love!

In this promotional film in five parts, Greta points at the town of Malmö on a wall map.

An old man has a strange hobby.

Composer Edvard Björkman suffers amnesia during an accident at sea, but finds a new identity and career in Paris. Meanwhile, back in Sweden, his family suffers.

Erik, Harald and Borell are fighting for Majkens heart.

Can love exist without madness? An ultra-intense, high-speed (self-)portrait of four women exploring the darkest corners of love without a filter. Hard, brutal and real – to a score by electro-queen Eartheater.

An endearing story about Leif, a classic curmudgeon who is forced to spend some time with a young boy whose imaginative spirit is very contagious.

When a trio of friends goes searching for survivors after encountering a wrecked car on the side of the road, they soon find themselves struggling for survival, as they become lost in the woods and take refuge at a deserted house.

The film depicts the events surrounding the last public executions in Sweden.

Tom Alandh found a box that has been standing in his basement for almost 40 years, untouched. When he started to go through the contents, he found what was left of his foster parents' lives together: Photographs, old bills, receipts and letters he had never seen.

The widow Maja Brummell lives in Stockholm with her daughters Elsa, Brita, Ann-Marie, Svea and Ingrid. Mrs. Brummell has a lousy business sense.

Life on an idyllic horse farm in Skåne crumbles in a poignant yet hopeful family drama about the struggle with postpartum depression.

Ingmar Bergman's classic film adapted for the stage.

Aa self-indulgent TV theater dramatization of Sigmund Freud's thesis on Leonardo da Vinci.

The student Olle has signed up to sail the Atlantic. But his sensitivity and personal problems make it difficult to be accepted on board. When some of the students belongings disappear the suspicions are aimed at Olle.

On January 8, 2005, the storm Gudrun pulled over southern Sweden and large parts of the Småland forest blew down. How do you cope when your food disappears overnight? Anders and Lisbeth Ericsson, who run a smaller farm, were hit hard by the storm. 70% of their 250 ha were blown down. This put them in a difficult economic and emotional crisis. They realize that it is important to find new solutions in order to live on now that the conditions have changed so completely. Johan Forsman and his father Jan have a large farm with 1500 ha of forest. For them, it is not just a financial loss, the extensive work to take care of the broken forest feels endless. It is difficult to get enough people to work. Some of the assistance is taken from other parts of the world, including Finnish forest workers. The problem is that the Finns only speak Finnish, and a little Russian…