Discoveries from Sweden World Cinema

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.

Three Swedish teenagers express their thoughts about bi- and homosexuality while navigating questions of identity, self-acceptance, and societal expectations. Through personal stories and reflections, the film explores their struggles, hopes, and the challenges of growing up as LGBTQ+ youth in Sweden.

Ida and Karin are a lesbian couple whose relationship is threatened by a long-buried secret: Ida's father sexually abused her as a child, and serious emotional scars remain. Now that it has been revealed, what can these women do to ensure it doesn't destroy them?

The dancer who almost vanished from history — brought back in a storm of dreams and rebellion. Lucia Joyce, the brilliant but forgotten daughter of James Joyce, moves through a world that refuses to let her be free. Lucia Joyce & Flappers is not a simple retelling of her life — it’s a radical resurrection. In a hypnotic blend of memory, fantasy, and historical imagination, Małga Kubiak reclaims Lucia’s voice, her body, and her fierce, uncontainable spirit.

A cold winter day, a stranger knocks at the door to the farmer Linus and his wife Nina in their distant forest farm in Sweden. A story by Vilhelm Moberg.

Film from Kenan Korkmaz

Baron Baltzar Casimir Von Gahl - after an earlier adventure commonly known as "Baron Olson" - owns an old farm, but has huge debts.

Filthy rich Käthie Löwenborg has tired of being wealthy and is pretty sure that every bachelor has a huge love – for her money. She decides to let her housemaid change role with her so that she can have some days of peace and quiet.

Nico, born Christa Päffgen in Cologne, Germany just before the outbreak of the Second World War is one of the most mythic icons of our time. She was the supermodel who became Andy Warhol’s most notorious muse and the singer of legendary American rock band Velvet Underground. She had a troublesome love story with Jim Morrison and gave her son his first shot. She was a nomad, always on her way to Paris, London, or New York and stood in the center of the sixties’ art revolution. In "Nico – Sphinx of Ice", we are taken on a journey through the psyche of the broken and unbreakable sixties’ icon.

This movie summarizes Galenskaparna and After Shaves 30 years old companionship. This movie contains a clip for every year for the last 30 years.

Ghost Rider dons the uniform of Sweden's finest, capturing more high-speed mayhem on his 1000cc Yamaha R1. When pursued by the real police, he dodges roadblocks and disappears with a flick of the wrist and a trail of burning rubber. Includes full audio from the bike and hair-raising near-misses!

A report of the 60th anniversary of the Children's Day, which also included the talent competition "Vi som vill opp" from Humlegården in Stockholm.

In Almaty, Kazakhstan, 17-year-old Mila escapes her unstable home life by joining an elite swimming team led by Vlad. Amid intense training and suspicions of doping, Mila faces a complex attraction to Vlad, while traumatic memories and moral dilemmas threaten to undermine her new-found independence.

General Consul Kristina Holm has a good relationship with her three grandchildren because they really like her, but also for the annual "traditional" financial contribution they receive.

This is the touching story of the Christmas Truce that inspired the Sabaton song of the same title.

Janne Modig lives in Småbacka and loves to pull pranks with his friend Nisse.

"Gambämark" is a musical produced and performed by the Finnish-Swedish humor group KAJ in co-operation with Wasa Teater. Originally premiering on stage at the Ritz Hotel in Vaasa in the autumn of 2018, it premiered on TV for the wide public on 1.3.2019. "Gambämark" is about a small town in Finnish Ostrobothnia, which decides to isolate itself from the outer world and builds a large wall around its borders. The people of the town enjoy life as it used to be - but is everyone truly happy?

A common shoe-shiner inherits a castle. Something his mean relatives dislikes. They try to scare him away with the help of fictional ghosts and other pranks.

At the Royal Ballet School's brutal auditions, two Black girls compete for a place in a world that wasn't made for them — but find each other along the way.

Horst Schröder built Epix Förlag, publishing groundbreaking, controversial comics from around the world. Facing triumphs and setbacks-censorship, legal battles, and personal tragedy-he changed Sweden's comic landscape forever.

About wanting to have the "peak".

A pandemic spreads and the death toll soars. In a venerable hotel an elevator gets stuck. The pregnant Irene, the receptionist Mia, the janitor Kristof, and the actress Liz are trapped. On a radio they hear the world outside collapsing. As hunger and thirst increase the elevator turns from safe haven to death trap. As they lose hope they let go of built-in defenses and get under each others skin. Kristof and Mia have a common past laden with betrayal and sorrow. Irene is married to a man who abuses her. Liz is torturing herself over the death of a child. Finally Irenes water breaks and there is no alternative but to cut the cable that holds the elevator and plunge towards an unknown fate.

About Lisbet Palme - the wife of Olof Palme - Prime Minister of Sweden - till the night of his murder Feb 28, 1986. Lisbet Palme is a prominent child psychologist. Her social commitment specially regarding women and children are widely known.

This short film consists of 16mm home-movie footage recorded by Ingmar Bergman during the first two years of his son Daniel’s life, beginning shortly before his birth and continuing through early childhood. The material was edited by Bergman as an independent segment for inclusion in the 1967 Swedish anthology film Stimulantia.

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.

Portraits of six women and their drag king alter-egos.

A short philosophical reflection about receiving a fatal medical diagnosis in springtime when the power of nature is as strongest. It is a surreal state and all beauty and happiness is in contrast to the bleakness of the situation. Abruptly confronted by the question what is truly important the turmoil is within...Wordless. Life becomes painfully clear and the strongest feeling of all is that we have each other now, not tomorrow. There may never be a tomorrow.

A constant pursuit of mythical togetherness.

A stand-up show that pokes fun at topics such as what it's like to live at home with your parents as an adult. What it was like to be a school police officer in elementary school, what it's like to become a father, and what can happen when you lie about double-booking yourself for a gig.

Fragments of thoughts and associations, expressions of emotion in a film-poetic work where text, sound, animations, and images collaborate to create a beautiful and atmospheric whole.

Karin has no idea what she wants from life but thinks she finds the answer at her father-in-law's funeral.

Two people with completely different lifestyles and social backgrounds have found each other in the decision to leave life together.

"Big City Dangers" - About two orphanages children's upbringing in the countryside. Brynolf travels to his father in America. Inga moves to Stockholm for work. In the city lurks many dangers.

Leif is male dog, but his senile owner thinks he is a girl.

Laleh Pourkarim is one of the most prized but private artists in Sweden. Now she invites us home to Gothenburg for a historic concert.

There is great confusion in the director's home. The confusion overwhelms the couple when the young housekeeper turns out to be the director's daughter and the older one her mother. It can only go wrong, and it gives reason to send an excited and upset Olga Svendsen onto the field.

When all other countries went into lockdown, the Swedish politicians and experts decided that Sweden would remain a more open society. The Swedish model for fighting Covid-19 in recent years has been discussed across the entire world, and its main figures have been the object of both hate campaigns and personality cults. Documentary filmmaker Viktor Nordenskiöld’s camera has followed the front figures of the crisis at conferences and everyday places. The result is a highly interested insight into the processes that have laid at the foundation of the controversial Swedish strategy, and how the medial and political pressure affected the decision-makers.

An orphaned girl in a western world ends up with two incompetent bank robbers. These two brothers are in a heap of trouble - they owe money to the nasty El Queijo.

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

The wealthy Pantalone (Ulf Brunnberg) and Doctor Lombardi (Ewa Roos) have just witnessed the engagement between their children. Then an unusually cheeky figure pops up and throws all plans. She calls herself Truffaldina (Eva Rydberg) and seems free from what respect and label is called. Since an accident rarely comes alone, Rasponi now also enters the action and addresses all common concepts of the perishability of life. And it will not be less difficult when a gentleman from Torino, named Florindo, arrives at Venice and enters the same inn as Rasponi. Now it is for Brighella's innkeeper to take the vagina in beautiful hand and keep my good in bad play.

Göran Gentele's production of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera premiered on television on New Year's Day 1965. Gentele's version is an adaptation in which some of the roles have changed names and locations. The opera is sung in Swedish, and the translation was done by Erik Lindegren.

Swedish documentary about music and counter-culture in the United States.

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

Documentary about the search for Lauri, an Estonian drug addict who left for Colombia

The arrival of a new girl causes a stir in classroom social structure.

The Swedish dansband Barbados travels to the country they've taken their name from to learn more about the culture and music of that place.

The stock broker Franz Von Bierman has been speculating on the stock market and lost a lot of money.

A video activist group is struggling to keep their cameras in the occupied Western Sahara where the Moroccan authorities have managed to implement a near total media blockade.

Documentary about the fight for LGBTQ-rights in Sweden during the 1970s.

There are around fifty white moose in the Värmland forests. These are unique in the entire world. We get to follow nature filmmaker Ulf Jonasson through the seasons in his encounters with Ferdinand, a majestic white moose bull!

The ex pro boxer Knuttis Svensson suspects that his wife has a secret admirer.

An encounter between a sea monster and a fisherman results in a sort-of discussion about fear.

Lord Handsome travels incognito to find a woman who loves him more than his money.