Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

A gory action comedy, about a hobo who goes out for revenge after being brutally beaten by two crazed hoodlums.

Experience Håkan Hellström’s critically acclaimed concert from Gramercy Theatre in New York, 2016. A unique 360-degree concert experience featuring previously unreleased footage. The experience was exclusively shown at Universeum in Gothenburg in 2024.

Sten meets Nina on a train ride. He feels attracted to her but he is already engaged to his fiancee Marie-Louise.

Mary & I - A Late Bloomer’s Quest for Love is a heartfelt documentary and the directorial debut of stand-up comedian and filmmaker, Wally Zamwa. It follows Wally, a young man from Sweden, grappling with mental health and feeling adrift in life. At 29, he discovers "Mary" (cannabis), a turning point that sparks a journey of self-discovery, healing, and purpose.

Everyone in kindergarten has lost a tooth. Except for Elsa, who is the only one in the world who hasn't lost one. Until one day when it finally gets loose.

A lesser known spy of MI6, Alistair Bubb, is on a mission in Stockholm, Sweden. There, he is tasked to mentor a new spy - To fatal consequences.

In a small village there are two doctors - one professional and one quack. Dr. Bergman has to see the number of his patients dwindle, as they seem to prefer the traditional medication of the quack doctor, Rasmus Thomsen. Rasmus' son Erik graduates from medical school and returns to the village. While Rasmus and Dr. Bergman become enemies, Erik falls in love with Dr. Bergman's daughter Birgit.

Bernt comes to a small town to rob the bank. But behind the counter stands his old friends Hjalmar, and he has to pretend it was all a joke. Hjalmar asks him to spend the night at his home. He meets Ellen, now Hjalmar's wife. Bernt is still attracted to her and it was only a coincidence that it was Hjalmar who married her and not Bernt. When Hjalmar goes on a business trip, Bernt stays with Ellen.

Youth criminals Fredriksson and Bergström are taken to the police station on suspicion of robbery and manslaughter. Fredriksson breaks down immediately and he acknowledges his guilt for what he has done. But the police also would like him to admit to something he did not do. Bergström is not possible to crack. He succeeds without difficulty to manipulate his environment and his psychopathic traits becomes even clearer as the hearing progress.

About the new maid Snuttan

A documentary about the poet / singer / actor Cornelis Vreeswijk. Made about a year before he died.

Two days in young Rasmus life. Day one he tells his parents that he has AIDS. Day two when he dies, in the wake of the disease.

During a night at the big department store a gang of thieves are active, while the CMO is staging a pr coup to increase sales of swimsuits. The clerk Ann Marie and CEO's son Erik, manages to catch the thieves and then spend the night in the store dining and dancing.

Swedish film producer Lorens Marmstedt created Terrafilm with a group of young directors in mind, Hasse Ekman, Ingmar Bergman and Hampe Faustman. Terrafilm appeared as both the commercial and the artistic leader in Swedish film. 45 films was produced from 1938-1957. Some of the more attentive titles were "Ett Brott/A Crime)" (1940), "Flickan och Djävulen/The Girl and the Devil" (1944), "Musik i Mörker/Music in the Dark" (1948) and "Singoalla"(1949).

At Vallarna, 15 years were celebrated with a real bush detective story by Krister Classon. The performance, with our biggest audience favorites, broke all previous audience records. On stage, in addition to the immensely popular postman, Jojje Jönsson's "Dag-Otto Flinck", we also see Siw Carlsson, Ewa Roos, Mikael Riesebeck, Jan Holmquist, Anna Hallgren, Gösta Janson and Maria Mälson Nystedt. Don't miss the funniest experience of the year and a rare laugh-filled detective story at "Pensionat Solrosen".

A montage of the life of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, set to a song by Charles Manson

The little ghost Laban follows his father to go ghosting in the castle. But he is too small to rattle the chains and he is a bit afraid of the dark.

Documentary about the music festival Dansbandsveckan in Sweden that is the biggest gathering for fans of that music and dancing.

About wanting to have the "peak".

"Girls, Women and some other Dragon" - Depicts different women and their views on the relationship with their daughters and partners, and views on love, jealousy and more.

Torsten is a special guy who wants nothing more than to be ordinary. Except in the eyes of Beatrice Melin, of course.

Alex tells the children in his class what he wants to be when he grows up; after he uses an "adult word", his teacher tries to make the children understand it revealing a devastating past experience.

The legendary sexual enlightenment Elise Ottesen-Jensen (1886-1973), nicknamed Ottar, was the first to speak about the unspeakable. She was a traveling lecturer on contraception, childbirth and the woman's right to her own body in the 1920s and 30s. Despite the fact that it was forbidden. Ottar was born in a Norwegian high-church environment where her mother Karen gave birth to 22 children.

When TV-producer Ragnar Eklund was diagnosed with ALS, humor became a way to deal with his quickly approaching demise.

Pastor Elias is preparing a sermon for when the bishop is coming by his church.

At a desolate railroad crossing, a middle-aged man's planned suicide, gets distracted by a lonesome farmer.

The young architect Gunnar Bergstrand marries the Norwegian Eva, against his parents' wishes.

An itinerant sailor meets a beautiful girl on the road and takes a job with her father, the Skipper of an Arctic sealer. He must prove himself stronger than his rival among the glaciers and ice floes.

In 2011, Anton Hysén comes out as Sweden's first male gay footballer. Suddenly he has a decision to make - to pursue the sacrificial dream of becoming a professional footballer, or to step into a world that generates immediate recognition.

A brilliant psychology professor suffers from a Don Juan complex, which leads him to do everything he can to seduce every woman who crosses his path.

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.

Moonica Mac's artistry gently navigates through life's tribulations with grace and a compassionate spirit. Amidst the historic ambiance of Södra Teatern, Moonica Mac's performance captures both grand and minute moments of existence, crafting an intimate bridge between her art and the audience. Her passionate delivery promises an evocative journey through the realms of time and melody and poetry.

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

One day at a holiday home for the disabled in Hammerdal, Jämtland, depicted in clay animation and with authentic sound from the home that the film tells about. Various episodes show everyday events and relationships between the old ones who have lent their voices and characters to the movie figures. The film shows how an ordinary day looks like meals, mail delivery, card games and visits to the Salvation Army. In the end, the real people compare and comment on their characters.

The boys Johan and Ove are best friends. When Ove's father dies, Ove gets a little "weird" and they lose contact.

About the Swedish author/playwright/poet/director Lars Norén's creative process. He is one of Sweden's internationally most frequently played, and respected playwrights. On January 3, 2003, he begun to direct his 66th piece, "Kyla/Cold". Two years later, he looks back on one of the most dramatic periods in his writing life. The documentary "Kall" stays close to Lars Norén to his creativity and artistic purpose in life.

A suitcase full of photos, diaries, phonebooks and a tape with Finnish tango sets Swedish filmmaker Frans Huhta off on an odyssey to get to know his deceased mother and come to peace with a heritage in the shadow of a suicide "The sudden loss of someone who was close to you, who was recently tingling with life in every cell, cannot be described in words. And maybe that's why I was compelled to make this film. As if the need to communicate the inexpressible had taken this path, or rather forced its way up to the surface. Silence will never be an option. This film is a bridge, a meeting place, a starting point for a dialog about what must rise to the surface, about what we can't put words on." - Frans Huhta Karlsson

When Carl realizes he has become invisible, a struggle begins over time and space. With the help of Stella, the only one who can see him, he must solve the mystery of how he became invisible and how to become visible again. Lund becomes the arena for strangeness, love and bells.

In this hypnotic continuation of PPPasolini, filmmaker Małga Kubiak explores the dreams Pier Paolo Pasolini never got to realize. While the first film imagined his final hours in a surreal version of Stockholm, Epilog takes us further—into the world he longed to escape to. Pasolini had planned to move to Morocco, to live, write, and disappear from Italy’s gaze. But his death ended that story too soon. PPPasolini Epilog is the imagined afterlife of that plan: a haunting, sensual film filled with echoes of Petrolio, his unfinished novel, and reflections on exile, desire, and creation.

A group of young people are hiking in the mountains. Among them are Gull Werner, who is a happy girl, and her father has asked the others to keep an eye on her. She walks in the wilderness, falls in the snow and becomes unconscious.

Why can't I hear the sound of sewing machines anymore? A meeting with my family and the history of all their sewing machines.

A woman and a man wake up in the woman's stripped-down white apartment and talk about their relationship and life in general. They shower and then an old lady comes to visit.

Baron Conrad Wirvelpihl get hit in the head and lose his memory.

A short film from the inside of an eating disorder.

"It Happened in Ingermanland" - about a forgotten people's displacement that took place during the Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union. During the WW2, when the Nazi army arrived in the area of St. Peterburg/Leningrad about 63 000 Ingermanlanders was deported to Finland. In 1946 Stalin wanted them back for his work camps. About 5 000 fled to Sweden and settled there.

Based on the conversations Jösta Hagelbäck and Erik Ostlund had with Lars Kristiansson, a professor of information theory with data communication at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. The talks took place at the difficult cancer sufferer Kristiansson's sick-bed and dealt with his insights in computer technology, his hopes and fears for the new technology, the role of religion, the history of mathematics, reasoning about algebra, analytic geometry and the fourth dimension, along with cultural outlooks over the Western society's lack of mysticism and spiritual values.

Insurance salesman Paul is to be engaged with Louise, the daughter of his boss. Trying to sell insurance to a millionaire he meet the millionaire's daughter Annette whom he fall in love with after complications and funny business.

Anderssonskans Kalle is the horror of the neighborhood due to his mischief.

Love and Will is a picture about people in combat with life.

A Swedish TV movie based on the play L'Hôtel du Libre échange from 1894.

As revenge for being humiliated at a masquerade ball Dr. Falke plays a trick on Gabriel von Eisenstein.

Follows Thore Skogman has he works on his thousandth song, from idea to performance.

A group of five people with different backgrounds challenge themselves by driving 200 miles along Australia's east coast, using vegetable oil as fuel and their own food sourced from waste containers. Without money, but with great commitment, the trip will be a test of both the endurance of the travelers and the society, whose overproduction ends up in the waste pile. An adventure with dedicated "dumpster dive" experts Paul and Mykel as guides. On the trip they also take Nick from Scotland, Swedish student Sofia and Krystal who just have to get away from Brisbane for a while.

A young woman in Rwanda is about to give birth. The baby is turned the wrong way and her life is in danger. At the same time the water breaks for a woman in Sweden. She decides that she will cope with it herself; she refuses to accept any help. These two stories of women giving birth are woven into each other and appear to go on simultaneously in two completely different parts of the world.