To Madeleine, the muddy road to the nearby town in front of her family’s farm seems like a threshold to another world. A mystical coming-of-age story in which the teenager experiences glimpses of the unknown as feelings of longing and loyalty collide.
Anna Norheim
A young woman tries to find her origins after having been abandoned as an infant at a cemetery wrapped in a cloth with satanic symbols, but as she gets closer to answers a malevolent spirit is telling her to leave.
Anna
Anna lost her child in an accident. Estranged from mundane life she has stopped feeling physical pain. Numb, she decides to end her life throwing herself out of a window. Miraculously Anna survives and wakes up in a nursing home where she befriends a nurse and a young boy. Slowly Anna starts to create meaning to her existence in hope to be able to carry on living. But how does this created meaning relate to the actual reality? Anna seems struggling with how to perceive her surroundings.
Ellen
November 1999. 67-year-old Trond lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year's Eve 2000 alone. As winter arrives he discovers he has a neighbor, a man Trond knew back in 1948, the summer he turned 15 and the summer Trond's father prepared him to carry the burden of his forthcoming betrayal and disappearance.
Olivia
아스트리드 린드그렌은 부모의 도움으로 부유한 부르주아 자녀들만 다니는 고등학교에 다니게 된다. 지역 신문의 편집실 인턴 자리를 꿰찬 이 18살짜리 소녀는 누구보다 승승장구하고 있는 것처럼 보인다. 레인홀드 블롬베리는 그녀에게 교정, 교열과 작문 방법을 알려주다가, 아스트리드와 그만 사랑에 빠지고 만다. 그의 아이를 가진 아스트리드는 중대한 결심을 한다. 그와 결혼하지 않은 채, 스스로 자기 자신을 돌보고 혼자서 아들, 라쎄를 키우겠다고 말이다. (2018년 제20회 서울국제여성영화제)
Linda
Becker runs a business in Tingsryd, Sweden, specialized in garden furniture. In fact he sells everything you can make a profit from, including black labour from the Baltic countries. Becker, who is driven by his obsession with money and consumption, has built a local empire with his lucrative business. Now his business is being threatened, both from the in- and the outside.
Gunnel
우연히 친구들을 따라간 은밀한 장소. 아이리스는 사회 고위층의 간부들에게 하룻밤을 제공하기만 하면 그 대가로 화려한 사치를 누릴 수 있다는 사실을 깨닫는다. 가족에게, 친구들에게, 세상에게 모두 외면 받는 그녀지만 이곳에서는 아름다운 얼굴과 몸매만으로도 누구보다 사랑 받고 찬사 받는다. 그 값비싼 명품과 뜨거운 욕망 모든 것에 중독되어가는 그녀. 그러나 어느 새 자신도 모르게 점점 더 위험 속에 빠져들기 시작한다.
Embla
Yngve invites his new girlfriend Embla to spend a week of summer holiday with his family at a nudist camp. Embla is not a nudist but keen to become a part of the family. Nevertheless tension rises between Embla and Yngves mother, as Embla feels pressured to adapt to the family costumes.
