Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs

These five award-winning coming of age short films offer a glimpse of how boys and young men tackle life's difficult desires: confronting one's demons, understanding sexual relationships, gaining the respect of one's father, or simply running away from it all. This is only the start of their complex formative years, where not every question has an answer, and not every answer makes sense. The short films are: Boys [Pojkarna] (2015); Ioana (2015); Kiem Holijanda (2017); Picnic [Piknik] (2015); Tomer & Elias [Tomer en Elias] (2016).

With the police closing in on his business Matt decides to get out before it is to late, however he is forced to deal with the unexpected.

The story of Mattheus, a boy from the suburb Jordbro, south of Stockholm. Mattheus has a gift. He's fast. Really fast. Mattheus' dream is to become the athletics star and represent Sweden in the Olympic Games.

An investigative journalist is found beaten to death in his home, where the fingerprints of a notorious criminal debt collector are also found. The murdered journalist has been threatened by right wing extremists, but it is the victim’s work with a book about “society’s dark side” that captures the Beck group’s interest. When the case takes an unexpected and terrible turn, there is suddenly much more at stake than finding the journalist’s killer. Martin Beck and his colleagues have never had to protect the balance of their professional and private lives with the same tenacity as they do now.

An otherworldly evil is slipping into a small town in Sweden. Six unrelated girls have been chosen to fight this evil. Together they must overcome their differences in order to save themselves and the world.

Markus is in an institution for young sex offenders. He is a shy boy whose face tells wordless stories. There is no physical proximity at the institution, so the inmates wrestle. It is a place where skinlessness quivers in the air. Markus's only friend in the institution is the wayward, violent Tobias. Markus's trial approaches, and then Tobias will find out why Markus has been locked up.

In a small mining community in Northern Sweden, a group of youngsters about to take the leap in the adult age fight with themselves and the world around, while the ground literally trembles under their feet.

In the middle of the night Erik's phone rings. It is his childhood friend, Elias, and all that separates him from death is a jump.

15살 세베는 엄마와 단둘이 작은 아파트에서 살고 있다. 말수가 적고, 무언가를 손으로 만들기를 좋아하는 세베는 자신만의 세상 속에서 위안을 얻는다. 위태위태한 현실에서 벗어난 그는, 그의 두 손으로 보잘 것 없는 것들에게 생명을 불어 넣는다. 그가 창조해낸 세계 안에서는 비록 혼자이기는 하지만 자유롭다. 그는 그만의 방식으로 최선을 다해왔다. 비록 엄마가 자신을 이해해 주지 못하더라도, 자신을 향해 상처주는 말들을 서슴치 않고 내뱉더라도 그는 맞서지 않았다. 세베는 방식이 다를 뿐 엄마가 자신을 무척 사랑하고 있음을 잘 알고 있으며, 자신 역시 엄마를 사랑하는 것 외에는 힘겨운 현실에서 벗어날 별 다른 방법이 없음을 잘 알고 있다. 현실과의 괴리감은 커져가고, 그의 세계는 점점 가라앉는다. 그리고 마침내 엄마를 제외한 모든 사람들과 완전하게 분리되어 버린다. 철저하게 고립된 세베를 엄마마저 이해해주지 못한다면 그는 더 이상 갈 곳이 없다. (2010년 12회 서울국제청소년영화제)