Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

The film shows episodes from the labor movement's breakthrough and reform work.

Images of Gothenburg, Sweden, around the time of its 300th anniversary.

A final feedback meeting is being held prior to the release of an art school's new commercial. Everyone is happy, but then a thought arises as to whether the commercial can be perceived as too white. The meeting escalates into a debate about how it happened, if it can be solved and above all - whose fault it is.

A man escapes from a psychiatric clinic, the tracks lead to the town Marstrand, where a woman is found murdered.

A woman who is unable to bear a child enters a world in her mind where she manages to get pregnant. As time goes, so does her sanity.

Jan and Gertrud have a sexual relationship, even though they are half siblings. Jan is an air traffic controller, while Gertrude is writing a dissertation on ferns. Jan falls in love with another woman, Jenny.

We follow the Swedish national cross-country team for a year. The sport has come a long way from the quiet lumberjack types of the old days to Charlotte Kalla's infectious winning smile.

In October 2021, Nils Einár Grönberg, Sweden's biggest rapper, was murdered, 19 years old. SVT Edit tries to capture his intense and dramatic career and explores whether gangster rap played a role in his fate.

When Halfdan’s old flame, Karina, comes to town, the reaction of his jealous wife Märthe begins to concern him. But Halfdan has no clue that they’re in fact childhood friends, and the two women agree to keep Halfdan in the dark for a little while longer. When Märthe is on her way out of town, Halfdan sees an opportunity to replace his jealous wife with an actress in order to impress Karina. Karina tells Märthe about the incident and they decide to teach Halfdan a lesson.

Three unconnected scenes; each a study of betrayed friendships, too much alcohol, the hurtful exercise of power. Somewhere in Sweden, sometime in June.

All living things on earth have a common past far back in time. Evolution has made us who we are. In the first part of Life's Miracle, we get to follow the trail of evolution in the development of an embryo. Medical photographer is Lennart Nilsson. He was the first to successfully photograph a living fetus inside a womb. For his efforts as a photographer, he was awarded several times.

Harry, returning home after six years in an asylum, has vivid recollections of a party many years ago with six of his friends. The party ended with one of them, Raoul, disappearing. A gardener is digging in Harry's garden when a skeleton and a watch with the name "Raoul" is found. Harry invites his friends to a dinner to solve the mystery of Raoul's disappearance.

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

Documentary on the Swedish rocktour and concert Badrock.

Thomas Hell is an officer in the Salvation Army. He has religious doubts and questions the meaning of his work. He meets Lili, an ex-prostitute struggling to start a new life and he falls in love with her. However, she has a pimp, the boxer Herman, who won't let her leave.

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.

The musical Sugar, based on the film I heaste laget, is performed at Fredrikdalsteatern.

Musical production of the space epic Aniara.

The young Nila has been in love with Marja for a long time. She say yes to his proposal and they decide to marry at Easter.

The Time-Bomb waiting to go off reflects the fear of the times in which we live. It’s central character, an important government minister, finds himself squeezed between the pressures of political office and the very real, personal security threat that gives rise to his deepest, innermost fears. Fear is a strong and intractable human mechanism, the expression and form of which has changed throughout time. Once it was the darkness and its’ unknown power that terrified but today that fear has other faces.

Tobias who works as a bouncer. One night he accidentally shoves a drunken guest. He is sentenced to be shoved in return, but he is not told when it is supposed to happen. It is about the feeling of living with uncertainty. How tormenting it can be to go around waiting for something you know is going to happen to you. But you don't know when or how. Through its Kafkaesque story, we want to pose serious questions while simultaneously making you laugh.Our aim is to make films that strike a chord in people with their subtle humor as they waver between the real and the surreal.

Lord Arthur Savile is engaged to Sybil Merton and their wedding is imminent, when palmist Septimus R Podgers predicts in a private room that Lord Savile will not marry until he has committed murder.

A single mother unable to find someone to look after her youngest son Tobben gets her older son Pingo to look after him for the day.

Documentary about the isolated farming communities in Valchiusella, Italy and the methods they use to survive.

Man wakes up from a coma in a forest only to find out that things are not what they seem.

During a flight to Örebro, two childhood friends crash but survive. At the hospital, Karl-Johan experiences fever dreams where he lives in the Viking age.

A TV-repairman has been replaced by his evil twin.

Nisse and Greta, a middle-aged married couple, sit and watch TV. To their surprise they get to experience their own life's in a TV show being broadcasted.

A classic hand-drawn film based on teenagers' own questions. The film was designed to be used in sexual education programs in middle schools. The film is produced by RFSU and UR, with support from The Swedish Inheritance Fund Commission (Allmänna Arvsfonden).

A woman wakes up from rain on her pillow. When she gets out of bed the rain follows her. She carries the rain with her through the day.

Filmed in post-war Beirut, Leyla Assaf-Tengroth's "Frihetsligan" proposes a trajectory around the city guided by an unusual little girl, hustling to find her bearings in a place that appears both hostile and inspiring.

Recorded on April 15, 2013 at Belgravia's storied Cadogan Hall, home of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, ‘An Acoustic Skunk Anansie – Live in London’ sees renowned British rock band Skunk Anansie serving up beautifully re-imagined versions of some of their best-loved songs before an enrapt audience of 900 fans. Tickets for the event sold out within hours of going on sale and having seen the finished results it’s easy to see why. An Acoustic Skunk Anansie is an intimate portrait of a band boldly toying with convention and their own illustrious history, it's a timely reminder that, even as Skunk Anansie approach their 20th anniversary as a band, the Londoners retain the power to provoke and surprise.

Brothers Österman at Svanö, after several years of bachelor life, say they need a housekeeper and announce the matter in the newspaper.

Official Enforcer concert DVD recorded at Saitama Super Arena in Tokyo on October 20th, 2013.

Stockholm Archipelago, 2010. An undated letter, written in French, is found in an old house.

A charming portrait of an 81-year-old Swedish woman's life - and love affair! - in the middle of Ukrainian nowhere, where time has come to a standstill.

Jonna meets the prince in her dreams, but he does not come without luggage. In this case, an annoying daughter.

Åsa-Nisse invents a new super fuel that makes boats look like rockets.

Eric has dedicated his life to become the World Champion of holding his breath. To succeed, he sacrifices everything - meaningful relationships, a career and friends. Starving for the need to be seen, he finally gets the break he's been waiting for.

The mayoress of Grönköping is against all immoral entertainment until she one day falls in love with the circus director that arrives in town.

A family in crisis during the holiday of Easter

A manager visits his anorexia daughter on the laser and talks with a problematic employee at the office. Through these two conversations we meet a man who, despite all the difficulties, just tries to make progress here in life.

The main character of Swedish director Sara Broos’s documentary is her godfather and close family friend Lars Lerin, one of Scandinavia’s most highly regarded modern painters. After a complicated period during which the extravagant artist pushed back waves of anxiety by overindulging in alcohol and pills (ultimately entering an abuse program), he focused on finding the love of his life. Via the internet he becomes intrigued by a young Brazilian dancer named Manoel, who flies to Sweden to see him. But due to the language barrier, age difference, and the Swedish artist’s frequent doubts, their relationship doesn’t appear very hopeful. This sensitive record of an untraditional love story takes the viewer through all the ups and downs of a relationship between two people from entirely different backgrounds for whom the tired old cliché of love moving mountains acquires absolute currency.

Tomten och Bocken - rider igen is a Christmas show with the radar couple Måns Zelmerlöw and Per Andersson. Here we get to experience a magnificent show with Christmas brilliance.

Mr X and Mr Y both have a hidden past. Mr X committed manslaughter in his youth without being caught. Mr Y falsified a debt without being punished. Now they meet in a countryside house in the middle of a storm.

Iris is on the verge of a burn out because she is forced to take all emotional and practical responsibility in her relationship with Leo. A mystical support group leader introduces her to a questionable method that could equalize her relationship. To follow through the method is harder than Iris expected.

Lisa, Pontus and Herman has formed a small artists’ collective in Stockholm. The successes are rare and occasionally this sets off an irritated mood.

Three pupils on the precipice between childhood and adulthood are studying at Østerskov Boarding School, one of the most unique schools in the world; here, classes are conducted through role-playing games, and the pupils are taught to come to terms with the trauma and their fluid selves through masquerades and metamorphosis. For two school years, the film follows the pupils and their highly emotional adventure through puberty, self-discovery, and maturity, illuminating with a sharp, intimate, humorous as well as poignant gaze, the chaos, the anguish, and the inexpressible joy of the first years of one’s youth.

After making peace with the Forevers, things change for everyone as the Repigeonator discovers Iki's secret multiverse.

Two rats, a father and his son, live in a suburb of Stockholm. One day, they discover that a cat has entered their home. Dad throws it out, but it's not the only cat.

The widower Stensson lives a happy life on his farm with his two children.

Engineer Gordon has made a new invention for the military and a master thief get the mission to steal the blueprints.

Patricio Galvey is in the middle of an almost unimaginable nightmare. He has not only lost his daughter, who allowed herself to be radicalised and travelled with her white, Swedish husband to Syria, where they both got killed. His seven grandchildren, aged 1 to 8, are now stuck in a prison camp in the war-torn country. The 50-year-old Swedish-Chilean Patricio has one mission: to get them out.

Shows projects built by Skanska all over the world. In Germany, Algeria, Indonesia, Greenland, but also Sweden; Stockholm, Åre and Helsingborg.