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- Where are we humans going? A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. We meet people in the city. People trying to communicate, searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things.
- A passionate coming-of-age tale set amidst the conservative confines of modern Tbilisi, the film follows Merab, a competitive dancer who is thrown off balance by the arrival of Irakli, a fellow male dancer with a rebellious streak.
- A reindeer-breeding Sámi girl who is exposed to the racism of the 1930's at her boarding school, starts dreaming of another life. But to achieve it, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.
- A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.
- A global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's perception of it.
- An intellectual freedoms documentary based around the interpersonal triumphs, and defeats of the three main characters against the largest industry in the known universe. The media industry.
- After a life of decadence and monthly allowances, sixty-eight-year-old Nojet inherits an apartment building in downtown Stockholm. However, the building turns on her and what appeared to be a cash cow is in fact a curse.
- Gustav and Oskar are twins. Oskar has Achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism. Both have blue eyes and blonde hair. They approach life in different ways. The director, Axel Danielson, have filmed Oskar and Gustav over a ten year period - from nine to nineteen - as they grow up together in an old farmhouse in the country-side, in the very South of Sweden. In 53 scenes in chronological order we follow the brothers through their journey of childhood, adolescence and struggle for identity.
- In the first documentary feature film made in Gaza, Gaza Ghetto highlights the historical precedents of war, dispossession and military control that influence a family's daily life in Jabalia Palestinian refugee camp. Intimate scenes --a child is born, a grandmother dies -- are inter-cut with visits to the architects of the Israeli military occupation. Ariel Sharon, Benyamin Beneliezar and soldiers on patrol candidly discuss their responsibilities.
- All people are beautiful when they work. Respectfully, Jean Hermanson photographed workers, mainly of the Swedish engineering and industrial divisions, and the images later became part of our modern cultural heritage.
- Marie is a social worker in an immigrant dense suburb. Outside her daily work she runs a youth center, leads courses and functions as parole officer for young Belem, who has served time in a correctional center. She also takes care of Belem's son, Ray, when Ray's mother is at work. Belem's release from prison coincides with the appearance of an irritatingly nosy economist from the social services head quarters, curious about Marie's impressing but costly work. As pressure mounts, Marie's true feelings rise to the surface and her methods and motives are questioned.
- We follow director Julia's journey back in time, where she, together with her parents Ewa and Lennart and the foster child Patrik, recollect the shocking events that changed their lives over thirty years ago.
- A 274-minute documentary portrait of the life of playwright August Strindberg. The topic of the movie is inextricable from its method of production: for two years, beginning in 1992, Watkins created the film in a communal collaboration.
- Documentary about Carolyn Cassady, her life and marriage to Neal Cassady, her relationship with Jack Kerouac and how she takes care of the literary legacy from both.
- This documentary is the third in a trilogy about a group of Swedish nonconformists. The first documentary was shot in 1967, and followed a bunch of rebellious youths around. These kids had nothing but contempt for those who fit into the society around them, and they were experimenting with drugs, and partying pretty heavily. In particular, it tells the stories of two young men, Kenta and Stoffe. Then, in 1979, the documentarian returns to cover the two men's lives, and the lives of their friends. What had been a friendly, cheerful bunch is now deeply involved in petty crime and drug use. Indeed, one of the two men followed in the earlier film (Stoffe) dies of a drug overdose during the filming of the documentary. The filmmaker returned in the early '90s, to see what has become of Stoffe's family, his friends, and Kenta and his family and friends. Stoffe's wife refused to meet with the filmmaker, but indicated that his son had been adopted, and has become a mechanic, living in the countryside. Kenta remained a "rebel," and remains proud of that fact, but his children studied hard and are on the verge of more conventional success.
- When filmmaker Patrik Eriksson breaks down after being dumped by his girlfriend, his colleagues Ruben Östlund and Erik Hemmendorff started filming their joint conversations with their mobile phones.
- The Other Sport (Swedish: Den andra sporten) is a three-part documentary series zooming in on the often harsh conditions of women's football/soccer in Sweden since the first clubs got structurally organized in the mid-1960's up until this very day. The three various approaches to story are told from the perspective of today's reality - The Winning Call (Vinnarskallar) - from yesterday's reality - Women Against The Tide (Kärringar mot strömmen) - as well as through a somewhat chronological study and insight to the important dates and decisive situations occurring throughout the history showing the developments of the sport - in Play Seriously (Leken Som Blev Allvar.)
- Three teenagers express their thoughts about bi- and homosexuality.
- Director Mia Engberg received a call from a man from the past, who tells her he spent several years in prison. She remembers Paris, a motorcycle, a cat, memories and things that got lost in the way.
- An animated, stop-motion film from Sweden, set during the summer at a music camp.
- A film about male friendship that cracks. And a settlement with the 1900s patriarchal genius myth. Håkan Alexandersson (1940-2004) was an artist rebel in 60s.
- Leyla has her roots in a different culture, which she is reminded of daily. For her daughter it's different. A meeting, really a culture clash, triggers something unexpected.
- The director Shahriyar Latifzadeh follows four elderly people in their daily lives. Can their life wisdom help him understand how life should be lived if we had all the wisdom at the age of 35?
- In a dazzling sequence of shots Mikael Kristersson explores the greatness of the small objects in his own garden in Falsterbo, an old Swedish village. We see the real world from other perspectives and realize human beings are one species am
- Ewa Rudling's career as a photographer got an explosive start. She was in Paris when the student revolt began in May 1968. Ewa borrowed a camera and the pictures she took at the barricades at the Sorbonne University ended up in British The Observer. Physical and psychological abuse was part of young Ewa Rudling's everyday life. She had to take care of the little sister, but never felt any support from her mother. At the age of 19, Ewa too off for Rome. Her Nordic looks and appearance made her a model. Later she moved to New York and on the skating rink in Central Park, she met her prospective husband, Claude Duthuit, daughter's son to the artist Henri Matisse.
- A writer is working on a novel about the 1900s. He poses the question if broth (in the sense of concentrate) is an adequate choice of words to describe the century.
- Lara is an aggressive feminist who meets Adam while shooting her documentary on feminism. Between those two we see a unique relationship form.
- A film about a teenage boy, his father's suicide and the emotional vacuum that occurred afterwards.
- 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.
- A meeting of three artists. Claes the painter, Hans the musician and Jan the filmmaker.
- Zlatan has an adventure in the French Alps.
- Vincent Paterson is the one who told Michael Jackson to grab his crotch and who was called Satan by the Pope after directing the Blond Ambition Tour. He is an artist unknown to most people, but whose moves have been imitated in front of millions of mirrors. An educated and humble man who is the somewhat unexpected link between Madonna and Lars von Trier. A poor boy from Brookhaven, PA, who became a star choreographer in Hollywood. Director Kersti Grunditz - I met Vincent in 2001, read his bio and realized I had seen all his work, but never heard of him. After a good deal of persuasion he let me into his life and allowed me to make this intimate documentary.
- Depicts in documentary form, constructed as an associative poem, a fictional day across the country, recorded at Stora Sjöfallet, Sarek, Kutjaure, Kiruna, Bohuslän, Blekinge, Västergötland, Stockholm and other places.
- Molly's best friend, Effie, doesn't want anything more to do with her and has hooked up instead with the hip girls in their class. At first, Molly is very sad about this, but then she decides to strike back - with a little help from Klonkadonka.
- An animated film about the adventures of Bulten, the dog.
- An urban loner, who is afraid of dogs, allows his paranoia to overwhelm him.
- Some secrets are so dangerous that they need to be whispered. Gorki was born in Chile 1973 during the dictatorship. His parents gave him revolutionary and symbolic names as an action of resistance and the little boy was given a code name not to risk torture and threats.
- 'It was a time when everything was possible - All power to the Imagination!' About the all- activity center Gamla Bro in Stockholm 1969-1972. The film tells of the difficulties that arose during general meetings and in the face of a rigid and controlling bureaucracy. The activists' passion and utopian-romantic ideology were gradually broken down as another reality asserted itself, while the house became filled with older alcoholics, homeless people and drug addicts.
- A story about dimensions. It is late summer in the forties and five people are having a picnic on the beach. In just a few hours a lot of things happens.
- A portrait of a collaboration between two schools in India and in Sweden.