A young art student suffers from a lack of confidence and her battle-weary lecturer struggles with dark visions. Unexpectedly, their fates begin to intertwine on a strange and hazardous journey…
Pregnant Malin have no where to go, when her boyfriend breaks up. As a last resort she seeks up her father Martin, even tho they never met. But then before…
Three sisters, all adrift and in crisis, reunite at their childhood home as their domineering mother arranges a big birthday. But the festivities soon come to an end, repressed conflicts…
The Swedish flight attendant Lillemor falls in love with her teacher of jazz ballet, the American Robert. It all leads to some complications, not least because Robert is black. Finally,…
When Finnish-Somalian Mustafe discovers his ancestors’ land in the horn of Africa is full of copper and gold, he decides to swap his family’s safe but boring life in the…
For a long time, a group of friends have been on a yearly summer trip to Laholm. This year, they want to go somewhere else, at least everyone except Ulf,…
Kaj, Lennart and Robert are 30-somethings who goes out to dance every weekend. At one dance they meet Inger, whom Kaj falls in love with. Kaj has some friends who…
On an assignment to the abandoned, lawless and apocalyptic Sinai coast a Swedish photo journalist Ingrid is kidnapped by a gang of Palestinian men and hidden in the desert. Soon…
After his father is killed, King Valemon ascends the throne, only to be turned into a polar bear by a bitter witch who wants to be his queen. Valemon must…
The movie begins with the Jönsson gang making a minor burglary. It goes wrong and the gang leader, Sickan, gets caught. After he has spent 10 months in jail, Vanheden…
The Swedish summer is on and Göran, recently dumped by his girlfriend, is searching for the woman of his dreams. Göran is not altogether in harmony with himself or his…
Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys’ rural family home on the eve of young Jack Bradley’s (Rollo Weeks’) sixteenth birthday. Her remarkable likeness to a…
It has been seven years since Nina’s daughter went missing and only during cigarette breaks do we get to follow her hunt for the perpetrator as she returns to Montenegro…
A small village in Västergötland, Sweden. Everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his mansion, called House of Angels, is inherited by his unknown grand-daughter Fanny. She…
Once, a long time ago, Angelica “Angel” Holst was a celebrated rock star. Now she’s getting desperate to get a comeback. Then her husband has an idea: What if she…
Dylan Pettersson is a 23 year old girl from a small island in the Bohuslän archipelago with big dancing aspirations. When she’s talked into cleaning at the struggling drag club…
Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden’s Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that…
The subject of “Into Eternity” is Onkalo, the Finnish government’s attempt to solve its nuclear waste problem by carving a vast, 4km-deep bunker out of solid rock to bury it…
The young Dagmar Brink commits suicide. Her belongings are inherited by the resident caretaker in the house she lived in. The caretaker, who never knew her, wonders why and make…
Following a rough chronology from 1884 to 1894, when Norwegian artist Edvard Munch began expressionism and established himself as northern Europe’s most maligned and controversial artist, the film also flashes…
At 76, Swedish auteur Roy Andersson is about to complete his last film. With the end of his career in sight, the central thematic concerns of Roy’s work – vulnerability,…
A family of Polish immigrants lives in Sweden. One innocent lie triggers suspicions and leads to their daughter being placed with a foster family by social services. The parents undertake…
Michael has everything under control: a successful military career, a beautiful wife and two daughters. His younger brother Jannik is a drifter, living on the edge of the law. When…
A young mute woman, living in a small village, is expecting a baby. Her husband is at the same time writing a novel and using the villagers as his characters….
Artist, filmmaker and actress Anna Odell has opted to once again focus on herself for this exploration of the self and the other, of boundaries and (gender) identity. Who are…
John and Carl have a small publishing company. One day John meets the poet Clara who recently made her debut, and Clara’s fiancé Stig. John and Clara fall in love…
Mona has just moved to a new town and a new job, when she witness a grisly murder. She’s shocked but also fascinated, and when the police won’t listen, she…
Hypochondriac Lasse can and does pull the girls with no trouble, although for a short while this causes a real and painful health problem. Meeting Lena while delivering papers –…
A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to…