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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- He's called Jann of Sweden and lives in California. He's a barber - and a cowboy. Jan Eldnor moved to the US in 1969, but has never managed to learn more English than absolutely necessary. When he doesn't work as a barber he's a cowboy and often appear in parades. His horse, "Cloude Rochelle", is the woman in his life, even if his wife Lisbeth is there as a bit of a "second lady". In Jan's world, the childhood dream of living in the Wild West is still very much alive.
- 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 peace and reconciliation in a country that not so long ago was torn apart by bloody civil wars, El Salvador. In 1979, Jamie Hill, a spoiled multimillionaire, was kidnapped by the ERP guerrillas and released for a ransom of 4 million dollars. After his release, Hill suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, had marital problems and began drinking and using drugs. This went on for a couple of years until he realized he had to stop. Since 1986, Hill has been drug-free. The kidnappers' lives have also changed radically since the kidnapping. Joaquín Villalobos, the infamous guerrilla leader who funded his army with kidnappings, and his ex-soldiers have become high officials in the new democratic El Salvador and signed, among other things, the peace agreement with the United Nations in 1992. Today, Villalobos and Hill are close friends who work together to build the country.
- 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.
- Märta Eriksson and Berta Edergren become maids with responsibility for almost all housework and all childcare. The profession became their only position until marriage and had a family of their own. Karin Leffler and Maja Wennerstrand got places as cooks and housekeepers in the same family. In the film, the women themselves tell about their fates, it is a piece of women's history. As a contrast to the drudgery of reality, we also get to see the dashing maids of the 30s and 40s films, who never allowed themselves to be oppressed.
- 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.
- During the same day, Flip is fired, chased by a criminal gang and robbed. After this, he is affected by agoraphobia and instead grows a great interest in food. It is not until the Vietnamese girl Lin appears in his life that things start to happen.
- About a childless housewife's situation that arises when she got married with the desire to leave working life. Hint of neurosis due to lack of contact with society. The victim of her attempt to reach someone outside the home becomes a door-to-door salesman.
- About the German artist George Grosz (1893-1959) and his paintings from the World War I and the Weimar Republic. The political climate and mental atmosphere of the German 20th century is nowhere captured as in Grosz. In his heart-breaking intersections of satire and realism, the whole menagerie of currency hogs and coupon clippers, politicians and jacks, war invalids and whores, the happy 20th century's desperate "hop we live" stand out against a fund of bottomless misery. Here, inflated nationalism, the spirit of domination and subjugation, corruption and incompetence, the paradoxical mix of clairvoyance and blindness with the paralyzing sense of impending disaster are mixed.
- A lyrical documentary in a Stockholm environment that has its starting point in three collections of poems by Lars Norén. There is in these, often very everyday scenes, a charge that is evoked by the poet's vision and it is this special vision that we want to convey. However, it is important to remember that the decisive factor is not what we see, but how we see it, and of course this also applies to this film.
- 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.
- 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.
- About the structural transformation, corporate concentration increase, and the commercial banks' strong influence in the society, while the people lose power over the decision-making processes. Only in a socialist society can the people participate and decide on the development, say the film's creators.
- "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.
- 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'.
- 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.
- The suicidal gambler Tom Haget receives an invitation to the D.L.D.C. (The Living Dead Club), whose members apparently see it as their task to help each other to "end this empty earthly existence" according to a lottery system. At the same time, an acquaintance of Tom Haget, Lieutenant Dick Huntley, receives an assignment from his superiors to go to a distant destination with a large sum of money. However, Huntley is hit by a car, unconscious and without ID documents he ends up in a hospital, is reported missing, and it is widely suspected that he ran away with the money. Confused and desperate Huntley meets Haget and gets an invitation to the Living Dead Club.
- Kalle, 14 years old, loose his footing in reality when his family split up. During an escape trip, he lives alone for a few days at the family's cabin in the outermost archipelago, where he studies nature and writes "Sagan om Blixt", about an "übermensch" freed from all the problems in the world.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.