Jan Alvermark

Un artista ha escogido a un famoso actor masculino para que juntos, en el contexto de un largometraje, se deconstruyan a sí mismos y a sus papeles invasivos. Se involucran en un juego sin límites con su entorno en una exploración de la identidad, masculina y femenina.

"It's simple! We do as we're told." This disconcerting reply comes from a Swedish employment office employee when asked how the country’s most unpopular government agency works. And that’s not all: in this creative documentary, case workers, receptionists and psychologists reveal how the Swedish employment system is failing. They complain about inadequate software and mystifying error messages, excessive caseloads and demoralizing results—on average, each case worker helps just 10 people find work each year, and only one in 10 clients will find a new job. To assure the anonymity of the interviewees, they're all represented by cardboard puppets. Thanks to visible puppeteers, expressive eyes and recognizable gestures, these puppets quickly take on the appearance of real people. The result is a fascinating, comical and artistic study of human strategies to get along in an irrational bureaucracy.

Part jazz history, part true-crime tale, Kasper Collin’s new documentary employs extensive archival footage and new interviews to tell the tragic story of the magnificently talented trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who murdered him in a New York bar in 1972.

Three times Tonino is a creative documentary about one of Europes most significant screenwriters, Tonino Guerra, who wrote scripts to more than 120 movies, by Fellini, Antonioni, Tarkovskij and Angelopoulos. Tonino Guerra was also a poet, a painter, a sculpturer – an artist.

"My mother is spending all her time with her dying father. I’m spending all my time filming her. As the end is getting closer, my mother and I start doing the filming more and more together. It becomes our way of dealing with the time we have left." —Marius Dybwad Brandrud

"My mother is spending all her time with her dying father. I’m spending all my time filming her. As the end is getting closer, my mother and I start doing the filming more and more together. It becomes our way of dealing with the time we have left." —Marius Dybwad Brandrud

A long distance call from a long lost lover makes her reminisce about their common past. She remembers the spring when they met in Paris, the riots, the vespa and the cat named Baby. A film about love, time and things that got lost along the way.

Basado en hechos reales, cuenta la historia de unos niños negros de entre 12 y 14 años, hijos de inmigrantes, que robaban a otros muchachos con intimidación, utilizando a su favor el racismo y los prejuicios sociales. (FILMAFFINITY)

Incident by a bank is a detailed account of a failed bank robbery: A single take where over 90 people perform a meticulous choreography for the camera. The film recreates an actual event that took place in Stockholm in June 2006.

We were at it for seven years. My mother and I. Trying to make the perfect image of me.

A shadow play about love and sorrow, featuring a girl, her bird friend and Death.

A shadow play about love and sorrow, featuring a girl, her bird friend and Death.

Inside and outside the well-kept hedges life carries on as usual. The King buys his daily newspaper. Bertil searches the parking lot for dogs to photograph. Hans and Gun-Britt is planting a big, but still too small rock in their garden. Trying to get their minds off it all. As darkness falls over the little village in the woods, the Indians gather for a meeting in the town house as angst, frustration and silent prayer echoes in the night. With visual precision and attention to detail, director Mikel Cee Karlsson captures people and their existence in a small village deep inside the Swedish forest. Over a period of four years, the music video director and former professional skateboarder Mikel has been capturing singular scenes from a part of today’s Sweden where reality inexorably seeps in behind the colourful fasad. With a mixture of playful precision, humour and melancholy he portrays people’s dreams, their relationships and everyday destinies.

Presentado en la sección "Una cierta mirada" en Cannes 2008, el segundo largometraje de Ruben Östlund construye un retrato de la sociedad sueca en cinco episodios unidos por el mismo tema: el poder del grupo sobre el individuo. Mediante una estética que privilegia el uso de largos planos-secuencia y de encuadres poco convencionales, el filme contrasta las perspectivas de un par de jóvenes seducidas por el alcohol, una maestra que alecciona a sus alumnos y las de un grupo de hombres envueltos en una situación homosexual. Seleccionada por Suecia como candidada al Oscar 2010 en la categoría de película de habla no inglesa. (FILMAFFINITY)

Artist Marianne Lindberg De Geer thinks about her old friends from the 70s, where did they all go?

A 30-years old man is celebrating Midsummer's eve together with friends on the west coast of Sweden. He makes his friends come and watch as he is going to jump into the sea from a very high bridge.

A little girl gets separated from her teddy bear and is inconsolable.

La maestra sueca Göran atrae a la estudiante de secundaria Mikaela y escribe una novela erótica para su clase.

About an 11-year old girl and her life in the area commonly known as "Seppan", after the local factory AB Separator, south of Stockholm in the 1960s.

Gösta Eriksson, a hairdresser, buys a car from used-car dealer Bertil Planåker. But Gösta soon discovers that the car is a wreck. Planåker won't give him his money back, in fact he denies ever having seen Gösta. Gösta's brother Rolle is released from prison and promises to help him. They form an investment company, Parabola, and convinces Planåker to invest a lot of money in it. Planåker has a lot of shady business colleagues who also invest their money. Gösta's and Rolle's scam becomes much bigger than they had bargained for.

A young girl dreams of a birthday party, where family and friends from her day-care center are invited. But in fact, her parents are always quarreling.

Documentary about children and accidents focusing on a family who lost their son who fell down a well.

Svante is a young boy who lives with his family in a Stockholm apartment. One day he meets Karlsson, a chubby little man in the prime of his life, who can fly using a propeller on his back and who lives in his little house on the roof.