Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

There are technical problems in the church and Mrs. Lindblom is the only one who has appeared at the mass, but the priest decides to carry out his sermon anyway.

In the middle of the night two young women are waiting for a taxi on a desolate road. At the same time two young men driving around in a car...

In a quiet neighborhood of a small town we find a family in turmoil as a man struggles for balance in his relations to himself and his family. Wrestling an inferno of emotions he ventures into himself, finding the most primal of all truths... ...the beast within.

It all takes place one summer at a music camp where the children crawl out of their tents every morning and gather for the day's rehearsals. Of course, there will be a concert eventually, but the road there is lined with both passions and complications. The horn player has lost his best mouthpiece and no one wants to help him look for it, except the conductor's 7-year-old son Franz. The conductor himself is constantly waving his baton, but life cannot be controlled by it. With unique animation techniques and specially composed music, the film takes us on an exciting journey among French horns and thistles.

Indra finds that people constantly discriminate against her and judge her due to her skin color. With a humorous and critical perspective, Donkeyland puts into words structural racism through a contested narrative.

Vincent has a secret that forces him to stay away from the people he loves. But when he meets Gustav, love strikes Vincent. As their love grows, so does his fear of letting his secret destroy his new lover.

Alice har tröttnat på sin pålitlige men förut­sägbare Bosse. Hon håller så smått på att kasta sig i armarna på en annan man. Bosse söker å sin sida tröst hos vännen John som rekommenderar sin egen metod: att antyda otrohet och låta svartsjukan rädda äktenskapet. Bosse väljer dock att ”kompromettera sig” med Johns fru Wiwianne. Tillsammans övar de förförelse utan att på allvar förföra någon och därmed är otrohetskarusellen i gång.

Baron Silverbuckla is a high-grade bachelor who, during his visit to the seaside resort of Kalvö, is surrounded by loads of married young ladies and their equally important mothers.

A deserting soldier is caught and sentenced to death and his only way to win his freedom back is to convince the judge that he had no other choice. His plead tells of both supernatural entities and an extreme fear of death.

A drama shot in 5 hours and 17 minutes, exactly the time it takes to travel by rail from Malmö to Stockholm. It's mid-winter. On a train a man and a woman end up in the same compartment. They have a typical conversation between strangers until they discover they are going to the same wedding. It's unimportant whether they got an invitation or are going uninvited. The important thing is that both have plenty of reasons to stop the wedding… It soon turns out that they share not only the same goal but also painful memories and romantic disappointments. This brings them closer together.

A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of jealousy, Dahlin abuses his wife Inga and after that he is forcibly interned again. Inga is a nurse and she is now moving to a mountain village to work at a district clinic. During an emergency visit, she encounters her childhood sweetheart, the doctor Gunnar, and old feelings between them begin to flare up again.

The Paragraph Man is the faltering, stumbling, comic, sad and tragic story of an immigrant youngsters journey towards sociopolitical awareness, a very first attempt to understand his true situation as an immigrant in post-colonial Sweden.

The Björcks are an ordinary middle-class family in a large Stockholm apartment with with two children, Greta and Ville. But the family's happiness is threatened in two ways: Greta prefers Börje Schack instead of the well-behaving Bertil. And the flirtatious Mrs. Holten tries to snare Mr. Björck.

Fourteen-year-old Emma goes to a party with friends of her brother's and ends up passed out on a bed with an older boy who takes advantage of the situation. Later her brother Markus senses that something is wrong, but Emma keeps her thoughts to herself. She has trouble dealing with her own emotions. But then she meets Aron, an easy-going guy who spends his days on a skateboard.

A documentary made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Alfons Åberg, the main character in a children's book series by Swedish author and illustrator Gunilla Bergström. We'll get to see how the characters and illustrations was made.

Johan enjoys the autumn work in the small park in his hometown, but he is worried ...

In 2015, Dagny Carlsson quickly garnered the attention of millions of Swedes when she started blogging for the first time at age 102. Now at age 106, wanting to experience as much as she can, she accepts an invitation from a Finnish film director who wants her to star in a short film. So, off to Åland she goes!

A man with a mission climbs the stairs of a haunted apartment building.

After a decade apart, PH and Ralle reunite with some unexpected consequences.

Actor and director Ulf Friberg has filmed August Strindberg's play "Leka med elden". Or at least almost. The story of a middle-aged couple and their summer guests slides almost unnoticed into the story of the relationship between the actors and the director. The result is an airy, summery metafilm of both classic and innovative cuts.

The student Jonas "Luntis" Lundström accepts a position as an informant with trustee Borg at the Högvalla estate. He will teach Borg's son Börje. On his way to the estate, he runs into Harald Mannberg, who is on his way to a maid, Signe Borg. Mannberg tries to buy his way into the estate by assuming the role of informant. Lost.

The story of a family in 6 scenes taking place between 1978 and 2002. Showing the circumstances of how Ronny became like he did.

A girl looks out over a snow-covered garden where everything seems to lie eeriely still. Further into the house lies her sick mother in her bed. When a strange being shows up outside the window, the borders between dream and reality, life and death, cease in this experimental horror poem.

Choreographer is found murdered and the police investigate. There are several suspects among his lovers, dancers and family members.

In the Norwegian mountains, young Ragnhild drifts into daydreams of the fairytale castle Soria Moria when she is supposed to be fetching milk, blurring the line between chores and imagination.

The Swedish throwback band The Boppers play a farewell gig in Piteå, Sweden.

"Living Night", also known as "A Livermere Poem", was written by English scholar and ghost story writer Montague Rhodes James.

Teodor is happy and newly married to Marianne; unfortunately, his domineering mother-in-law shares the young couple's home.

Julia is in love with her best friend Christian. Christian is in love with the single life. A film about the modern day relationship, being young, stupid and daring to say yes to love.

Glenn dislikes people who do not use their turn signals when driving. Glenn takes the law into his own hands and, by chance, ends up fighting against even greater crime alongside young Annika.

A film about making a film. Following a production team and their movie director trying to make a BIG action movie about the people of Norrland (a place in northern Sweden). The project fails, but everyone learns something about themselves in the process.

Leila Khaled was the first woman to hijack a plane. In 1969, she showed her grenades to the terrified passengers by order of the Che Guevara commando unit of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Through the ensuing media bombardment, she put the Palestinian nation on the global map. The pretty 24-year-old Leila became a hero to many Palestinians, including the Swedish/Palestinian teenager Lina Makboul, who is now a filmmaker. At least Leila dared to do something, Lina thought at the time. She visits Leila 35 years later with a camera, and finds a woman who does not regret anything.

A concert in memory of Roxette singer and pop star Marie Fredriksson held on the stage of Stora teatern in Gothenburg on January 20th, 2020 and featuring cover performances from artists and people close to Fredriksson during her productive career.

A divorced woman takes matters into her own hands and destroys her late ex-husband's will, to ensure that their daughter receives her rightful inheritance. Will her efforts be for naught? Based on "Lille Rødhætte" by Henrik Pontoppidan.

Carlo is looking for a apartment and finds the perfect one. Renata is being shown the apartment at the same time. They both decide to get it but bump into each other with their realtor's and a conflict arises.

As Otto tries to sleep, he wonders what the rest of the family are up to when he has gone to bed.

Bogdan becomes the victim of the corruption in a small town when he loses a court case to a local bank but everyone in the town just covers for their friends.

Sabina has traveled from Romania to the small Swedish town Holmsund with her Roma brothers. They work in a garage and Sabina is looking for a job. Elin, born and raised in Holmsund, is in the church singing at the graduation ceremony. A summer is about to start and Sabina will get to know Elin. Together they will revolt against the old ways and find something new in each other. At the same time the society around them collapses in fear and Elin’s dad becomes insane by sorrow. Because there is a madness in the Swedish idyll.

Eva discovers a contest of an altarpiece. Her husband Adam makes a simple sketch. Adam wins the competition. The success makes Adam famous.

After playing the infamous urban legend game "Madame in Black", Alex and his sister, Emma, experience the wrath of the evil witch Madame in Black.

A mystery game of light and shadow. The shadows seal around the army's. It is the men of the two extreme parties who shoot at each other, spreading destruction and death.

Six new Swedish directors give us their views of the big day when school is finally over. A documentary that follows 24 hours of five students from different parts of Sweden as they prepare for and celebrate their big day. The day when you step out into the real world, the grown-up's world.

A teenage boy with possible self-harm behavior is allowed to use the school auditorium alone to record a video but after strange events and threats he has to gain control of both his mind and own destiny.

"Our Daily Bread" - Revolves around a group of women who start working at a pizza bakery.

The 12-year-old Edda loses her parents, one of her hands and the ability to walk in a tragic car accident. At the hospital, she learns that she will have to go live with her nervous uncle ...

Theatre production of Astrid Lindgren's Karlsson på taket filmed for television.

SVT Sport has met some of Sweden's biggest sports stars to see how they handled the invisible opponent - covid-19.

Elsa is afraid to sleep, actually she has not slept a wink for thirty years. Early one morning she finds an uninvited guest underneath her sofa. The creature turns out to be none other than the Night itself.

Seven-year-old Polina and her 13-year-old sister Nastia live and breathe ballet. Both of them are studying at the Boris Eifman Dance Academy in frigid Saint Petersburg. They’re currently awaiting their grades to find out if they’ve done well enough to be promoted to the next year, with Nastia lovingly guiding he little sister through the process. But in the meantime, Nastia also has to deal with the high demands that the academy places on its students. The gorgeously styled shots are sometimes calm, even clinical, and sometimes warm, lively and funny.

SVT's (Swedish television) summary documentary about the 2026 World Cup, focusing primarily on Sweden. It will be released in December 2026.

Göran Stål, an elegant and spoiled young man, has a relationship with painter Margit Degn, who is deeply in love with him. But Göran has a lot of bad business deals.

"For Bravery in Tent" - A military farce with an all-star cast consisting mainly of comedy, songs and slap sticks.

Two girls in a swimming hall discuss a betrayal.

Professor Barclay travels with the young Dorian Holbein to the big city to oversee his violinist education.

Juck (literally Hump) is a dance group that made its breakthrough in a 2013 viral video, where they pushed the limits of how the female body is allowed to express itself and make a statement. Since then they have 'humped' all over the world. A film that swings between documentary, dance and fiction asks the question, "What is femininity?".