“Sometimes, when I’m at home, I can feel my heart pounding. It’s like... I dunno... It’s incredible that it’s always beating. I can’t get my head around it. What’s so bloody amazing is that it keeps on beating. It’s never going to bloody well stop. My heart is never going to stop.”
Katarina
In the setting of a course at the Art University of Stockholm a lesson about work conditions of artists turns into a challenge of running the gauntlet for the two course instructors. As the students ask critic questions, the the whole situation escalates quickly.
Hanna
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
Experienced male actors are called to an audition. During the screen test, they realise that the female director is looking for something they are unwilling to expose. A humorous and masterful depiction of power structures and male defense mechanisms.
Nina Negg
Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and charismatic Morgan brothers.
Emma
A submerged self wakes up in a laboratory. Gradually we understand that it's the subjective experience of Ypsilon, a human brain being kept alive artificially.
Ulla
Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and private residences. Call Girl tells the story of how young Iris is recruited from the bottom of society into a ruthless world where power can get you anything.
A group of people have moved to Alaska. They are searching for a higher level of freedom.
Annastina
Every Christmas Kal, a handicapped and bedbound boy, wants something "alive", but never gets it. But soon it's Christmas again and Lame-Kals landlord's cat is going to have kittens. The landlord's two daughters, Annastina and Lillstumpan, now intend to cheer Kal by giving him something alive...
Elin Hammar
Politics, extremism and violence in Sweden. An extreme right-wing party is heading towards its best election result when the chief of staff at the Justice Department disappears without a trace.
