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- A mysterious woman picks up an elite hockey player after a game. They spend a hot night at an estate, then she disappears. He becomes obsessed with her, and gets to see her in a strange show with white swan wings at a sex club, but is abused by her entourage and asked to leave her alone.
- A lonely young woman spends most of the time at home in her empty apartment after her husband left her. Eventually she gets a job at an elephant factory where you make five new elephants from parts of a single. At the same time, she dreams of a dwarf who wants to dance with her. But the dwarf is taboo. And when she tells about her dream to a workmate she is dismissed from work.
- Two friends play and breathe tightly, tightly, daily and momentarily. They each have a dog who also shares their life and play. When the war comes, the adults decide that the girls are no longer allowed to play with each other. Some adults actually decided that the one girl, Hedi, wouldn't even be allowed to exist.
- Mio is 17 and lives on Henriksdalsberget just outside Stockholm. He was sent to Sweden as an eight-year-old from Thailand, hoping for an education and a better life. It really didn't turn out that way. With criminal identity, no self-esteem, housing problems, jealousy, violence and drugs, he struggles to survive. Time and again he falls back into destructiveness, but finally he decides to really change his situation.
- It starts with the most vulgar stereotype of "bad" youth, who are super, fuck, abuse their teachers and knock over old aunties in the subway. Then, through a quote from Socrates, we learn that the older generation always dislikes the youth. The rest of the film is devoted to telling what it is really like to be young, to live between two worlds, the children's and the adults'.
- Claes Wennerberg is the head of the auction company Belinder Auctions that he has taken over from his father-in-law. Competition is fierce and the pursuit of high-selling objects is ruthless. After a questionable painting comes in and the company gets noticed in the media, Wennerberg ends up in the cold.
- The Maharaja is out hunting in the jungle, but gets nothing because Sabu, the jungle boy protects the animals from hunting. The Maharaja also wants to marry the Rajah's daughter, who, however, loves someone else. Sabu solves everything with the help of the animals, and the Rajah's daughter marries her beloved.
- A film about the memory. Poetic and scientific musings about our world of concepts. What would life be without memory? What actually happens to us who put a large part of the memory in the computer? An art historian, a neurologist, a psychoanalyst, a philosopher, a myth researcher, etc. give their opinion on what memory means in our daily life and for our human conditions.
- About a journey into the psyche of a former paratrooper. He lives isolated in his apartment in Stockholm, where he sleeps with a knife under his pillow and the sheets for the windows block out the sunlight. In the closet, he has pictures from the war in a box that he does not dare to open. A TV program from the war in Bosnia throws him back into his memories and after a bottle of whiskey he finally opens the box.
- Sven, a middle-aged chef, works in a restaurant kitchen in Gothenburg. The rest of the restaurant staff consists of noble immigrants. Sven is shy and basically a decent guy who loves to talk about how he prepares his mayonnaise. He finds it difficult to make contact with women, and it is precisely his shyness that causes him to sometimes resort to quite aggressive jokes to overcome it. Such, with a racist edge, are directed in particular at a newly hired black waitress, Connie, who, without knowing the job, constantly drops her plates of laid out dishes on her way from the kitchen to the canteen. Sven gets annoyed with her at the same time as he is attracted to her. Clumsily he seeks contact and takes her into confidence.
- "Graffiti brought them together and within the gang they created a sanctuary where they temporarily not have to adapt to the outside world." This world is not for me. " Wrote Jussi in his last text message. Based on his friend Jussi's suicide, Ragnhild Ekner depicts a time and a life in the shadow of society during the early 2000s. She herself came into the gang when she moved to Stockholm as a 20-year-old. They shared alienation together and graffiti became both a lifestyle and an artistic expression.
- The adults are annoyed at the children in the residential area and think they are in the way and only make up of unemployment. The children usually stay in a garage. One day, Tove, one of the girls, suggests that the children make a circus performance. They start practicing some circus numbers. The children also go out in search of things that can be used in the circus. Harry, a man who lives in a bus, stands as a circus director. Eventually, the naughty Berra, who previously tried to sabotage the project, also gets a task, and then it is time for the premiere.
- About the problems and questions that arise when a young person becomes an adult, what occupies his thoughts, what is important in meetings with other people, how he searches for his own place in life, how he handles the meeting with love and the person who becomes the most important there. When the film is shot, the rock singer Hasse is 24 years old; he lives in Stockholm. The camera follows him through his days, to the rock club, to the stage, to meetings with friends, parents and girls. He meets Johanna, who is 16, and what is called infatuation, eventually love, arises. How does Hasse now create a place for himself in life, how do they build up their community? Both are big-city children, raised in welfare Sweden, which perhaps no longer provides welfare but has created an emptiness, a meaninglessness.
- About a ship's family and a found child. in the 1920's In the poor neighborhood, an orphan boy grows up with an old severe laundry mat. Her childhood companion, a fine seamstress, moves in and depicts the boy the great fine world where she worked. In the city there is a young couple who have a problem, they have no child.
- The film is based on Swedish artist Marianne Hall's sculptures. The music - "Prayer of the Heart" - is written by the English composer Sir John Tavener and performed by Björk. The film expresses protest and appeal, tenderness and care in the midst of the agony of our time, it is a prayer for mercy, for mercy.
- In Limhamn, close to Malmö, Sweden, they don't want a crying sculpture in their main square. People are happy there and a statue should create a positive feeling. This is why people protest loudly from all sides, despite the fact that "Det svenska tungsinnet" borrows tangible features from the well-known actor Gösta Ekman and has the artist Marie-Louise Ekman as its creator.
- A portrait of Swedish filmmaker and writer Vilgot Sjöman (1924-2006) who will always be associated with the "Curious"- films and "491". In 1963 he was involved in the filming of "Nattvardgästerna/Winter Light" by Ingmar Bergman. At the same time, he wrote the reportage book "L 136: Diary" with Ingmar Bergman, which would later become a TV documentary called "Ingmar Bergman makes a film". In 1964, his film adaptation of Lars Görling's novel, "491" created a scandal when the state film censorship cut out a number of scenes.
- About the actress, playwright and director Lo Kauppi rehearsing work for the performance "White offended men". The film portrays Lo Kauppi in political action in the big as well as in the private, and on the journey back to where it all began: to her parents' hometown of Kangos in Tornedalen. A film about longing, courage and wanting to change the world through art.
- Monjural Hassan owns a discotheque in Falun, Sweden. An acquaintance persuades him to invest money in making a film in Bangladesh. Monjural, who hopes to make money from the project, arranges an audition at the discotheque. They choose Lisa, a blonde Swede who accompanies her parents to Dhaka in Bangladesh. There Monjurai falls in love with the Muslim actress Shangita.
- In autumn 2012, Alexander Salzberger's autobiographical monologue Kicktorsken premiered at Backa teater in Gothenburg. It will be a success with both critics and audiences. Kickcod depicts a young man's life journey edged by addiction, despair and euphoria and is at the same time a story about the search for love and confirmation. In 2013, Alexander received the offer to stage the monologue at Unga Dramaten in Stockholm. This film follows his journey.
- The Old Town of Stockholm has been threatened many times. The worst was when, in 1959, a large motorway was pulled through the heart of the city, a sword cut that split the Old Town in two. The Riddarholm church, where the Swedish regents are buried, is trapped by the traffic that roars forward a few meters away. Who in France would come up with the idea of building a motorway next to Nôtre Dame?
- The film depicts the Swedish sculptor, graphic designer, painter, writer and art educator Torsten Renqvist's work with the sculpture group Lautrec's girls. However, we have not documented the entire long work process, but have chosen a more subjective goal. Trying to reproduce something of the atmosphere and charge that prevails during and around the creation process of a face.
- Shows song, music and dance from Dancehall National, commonly known as Nalen in Stockholm. The film is a pure music and dance film and shows no less than three stellar ensembles in full action - Het Miller's hot quintet from Holland, Seymour Österwall's Swedish elite orchestra and Jimmy Woode's all-black bass are responsible for the music. Black singer Kosto Kilroy and Javanese swing singer Sanny Day are seen and heard as soloists. Furthermore, Nalen's jitterbug stars and adjutant Engvall with his 100 singers and musicians from the Salvation Army participate. A beauty pageant and a carnival also feature prominently in the film. Among the melodies is the popular samba Manana.
- The eccentric and bipolar concert pianist Ann-Mari Fröier upsets, touches and takes a lot of space. And is judged by many as a mad woman. However, social judgment comes quickly to shame when 87-year-old Ann-Mari Fröier invites to her world with Mozart, the unlikely environments and her unique life.
- Cisco Dudu and his friends are street children in Rwanda. The love of the world of film is their driving force. All the money goes to cinema tickets and they dream of one day becoming stars themselves. But Cisco realizes that if he's going to be a great director, they'll have to earn a camera together.
- The Swedish painter, poet, singer/songwriter and tinsmith Ruben Nilsson (1893-1971) never performed in front of an audience or on a gramophone record. The only thing that has been preserved is a privately recorded lacquer disc, where Ruben Nilsson sings "The Immortal Horse". In its technical imperfection, it is a unique document, presented for the first time in the film.
- About Artur Lundkvist (1906-1991) a Swedish writer, poet and literary critic. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1968. Maria Wine (1912-2003) was a Swedish-Danish poet and writer. Artur and Maria married in 1936. The two settled in Stockholm, and remained together until Lundkvist's death in 1991. Artur Lundkvist published around 80 books, including poetry, prose poems, essays, short stories, novels and travel books, and his works have been translated into some 30 languages.
- About Staffan Lamm's attempt to understand his childhood. He is the son of the child psychiatrist Gustav Jonsson, he remembers women from the concentration camps in Belsen who lived with the family when he was small. He also remembers his uncle Göran, who ended up in a mental hospital early on. Staffan pays him a visit.
- When Edda and Mattias married five years ago they made a pact. To make the idea of "eternal love" come true,they decided to stay married for five years - and then, when still madly in love, separate. According to the contract, this will be their last year together. What are they thinking about their coming breakup? Did their love experiment work out?
- Examines different ways of telling a story and the possibility of combining these. The film contains documentary, fictional and animated material. Part of the film is shot in Greenland and another part in the antipode New Zealand. "Solid or Liquid" (about water) highlights different aspects of human life, where water, in all its forms, plays a decisive role.
- Documentary depicting the aftermath of the nuclear power plant accidents at Three Mile Island outside Harrisburg (Pennsylvania, USA) on 28.3.1979 and at Chernobyl outside Kyiv (Ukraine) on 26.4.1986. People will speak who lived near the nuclear power plants and who fell ill - usually in various forms of cancer - after the reactor failures. They talk about false information, covering up the consequences of accidents and the difficulties in finding someone responsible for what happened. Biophysicists and nuclear physicists confirm the residents' fears that the emissions and damage were far greater than what was officially reported.
- 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.
- Tobias is in the middle of life. He is an art curator, divorced and lives with his 16-year-old daughter. His ex-wife struggles with her new life, his brother seeks excitement in life by cheating and his daughter yearns to move away from home.
- At the end of the 70s, the music group Dag Vag was formed. It all started when frontman Stig Vig got a guitar to play in his prison cell, and some time later the band took Sweden by storm. The members themselves used to call their music "Transcontinental rock reggae" and they created hits such as "Fog", "Musik" and "Rulla på". In 2012, Stig Vig died after a long illness. In this film, we get to follow along from beginning to end through unique images and clips from a bygone era. We also hear friends and colleagues talk about the band's significance and musical journey, including via the legendary tour with Ebba Grön.
- About people who come to Bombay to seek their fortune in the city's big film industry. We get to follow some people in their quest to catch the attention of film producers. Rajiv writes scripts in the evenings, but is forced to support himself by doing odd jobs during the day. Sonya has had a few small roles in a couple of films and often she goes out to Famous Film Studios where she joins those who gather outside the gate every day hoping to be discovered. On the train home, she performs her clown act to save up for the ticket. Shahnaz was sold to a brothel with promises to dance in Bollywood films, but the film career came to nothing and now she sits in the window of the brothel. Their shared dream helps them to endure an everyday life that stands in stark contrast to the escapism that the Indian film represents.
- A dramatic depiction of honor, family feuds and thousand-year-old traditions. In Albania, the tradition of avenging an injustice according to the motto "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" still lives on. This has led to people being trapped in their homes for fear of being murdered due to a family feud.
- A documentary spy thriller that takes place during the Cold War but is resolved today in the small village of Burträsk outside Umeå in Sweden. A deeply religious priest, liked and respected by all, or a ruthless spy who did not hesitate to report his friends and colleagues to the dreaded Stasi security service in the former GDR? Who is Aleksander Radler, the man with two different personalities?
- In the 1920s, Dziga Vertov explored "The Man with a Movie Camera"'s possibilities. In the 2010s, the Cat with the film camera appears in a residential area in Lund. Here, documentary filmmaker Emelie Carlsson moves Gras, takes the Cats to depict people's everyday lives. "The Cat Trip/Kattresan" is a film about being human.
- A story about loneliness, longing for love and the complicated relationship between mother and son. The bachelor Lennart lives at home with his mother Vera in a small town in the sparsely populated countryside. He looks for companionship on Russian Loveline and starts online dating with Irina from Petchenga. Lennart paints a handsome but deluded picture of himself - the cabin turns into a farm with horses, he calls himself a transport consultant instead of a driver and pretends to read Dostoevsky. He studies Linguaphone Russian and sends expensive gifts to his Russian love. Lennart is happy. But not his mother.
- Berlin is like an island in the middle of East Germany, a divided city known for its wall, the so-called Berlin Wall. Ever since its inception, this has been extensively exploited by Western propaganda. The notions about it are based in the general public on the fact that it was created to prevent people from traveling as they wish, from escaping. The wall that separates West Berlin from East Berlin is considered a crime against humanity. The truth is that the wall has caused many tragedies, the people on both sides of it are hermetically sealed off from each other. Those who are indignant about the existence of the wall, base their opinion entirely on the propaganda, which in the Cold War game manipulated the background to its creation. The film shows how necessary it was for East Germany to effectively close its border and the consequences of that for West Berlin.
- In an eerie hotel, a murder has been committed in a brutal way and the only survivor remembers nothing at all. The next day, Peter, a journalist, comes to the scene to investigate. We follow Peter into a chilling story where the truth about the hotel's dark past meets the light of day. Once again, the hotel and its occupants face a horrible and inevitable fate.
- Five people visit a strange underground world. They will meet the holy Sibyl and give her some of their blood. A bizarre and atmospheric journey into the unknown commence.
- A cavalcade of love couples that we all meet right after sex. We follow a conversation that winds its way between couples of different nationalities, sexual orientation, age and life situation. The conversation runs uninterrupted between the different couples, they are all the same couple, they are all the same. And different.
- Joakim inherits a mysterious suit that changes him and sends him on nightly wanderings. Together with the colleague in the porn shop, the shrewd Larsen, he finds out how this is connected to the cinema Tystnaden and the films that used to be shown there. But the Silence is threatened by a small man from a lumberyard. He wants the Silence, and with it the mystery of Kappemannen, to be buried forever.
- Behind the scenes look at Elvis impersonator Eilert Pilarm's last tour.
- Benny is 13 years old and lives alone with his constantly absent mother. In school he is terrorized by an incomprehensible teacher. Life is a plague. One day, an unusual day, he begins his PRAO, Practical work life orientation, on Arne's Garage and Tire's service and nothing in Benny's life becomes the same.
- In interviews and with film archive material as well as with interleaved short feature film scenes, the story is told about the secret, anti-communist organizations that emerged in the Nordic countries after the Second World War, and about the relationship between the Swedish C Agency, the German Abwehr and the Finnish intelligence service during the war itself.
- A man has a hard time deciding. He does not know what he really wants. And it is the circumstances that must decide.
- A tale of curious children, dangerous women, the occasional gangster, and a budding friendship. Uncle Frank, 48 years old, and Peder, 13 years old, are forced to go together to the Reeperbahn in Hamburg to make one last deal, but nothing turns out exactly as they imagined.
- Antero, who is 14 years old, lives as a foster child with an elderly couple on a small farm in central Sweden. It is around 1960. His mother, who is an alcoholic and emotionally unstable, has to leave him in an orphanage when he was 7 years old. Sometimes she is overwhelmed by love for her son and then makes clumsy and half-hearted attempts at contact. Antero - isolated and left to himself - both wants and does not want to meet her.