Tobias Janson

Sara Parkman has, through her very unique expressions revolutionized Swedish folk music and her album Vesper proves a big breakthrough. Yet, there's something about this sucess tale that doesn't feel quite right. The devotion to art can make you feel alone, because as the fire burns strong it also hurts. Now we meet the person behind Sara Parkman's strong stage persona, as a new album begins to take shape based on a topic Sara has long avoided – love.

Director Mia receives a life-changing announcement and begins a journey into her own history. We also follow the astronaut's lonely journey through space and the aging gangster Vincent who makes a surprising find in his basement.

In eleven chapters, we follow two Yazidi girls from Iraq who hope to find safety and a new life in Germany. We meet them the first time at Idomeni, a temporary camp in Greece on the border to North Macedonia. There they live close together. The mobile phones are always nearby, as the only link to the family and friends in Iraq. Yasir’s wife has been a prisoner of ISIS for a year and a half, but hope of reuniting is rekindled when he receives a message about a prisoner exchange between ISIS and YPG forces. David Aronowitsch’s masterfully portrayed Idomeni is a touching portrait of children and adults during a period of waiting, hope and the deep wounds that will never disappear.

나이 든 갱스터 빈센트는 밤새워 일하며 또 다른 삶을 꿈꾼다. 그러나 느닷없이 십대 딸 아디나를 책임지게 되면서 그의 삶은 변하기 시작한다.

10살 소년 올렉이 사는 우크라이나 동부는 대공포와 미사일 소리가 종종 울려 퍼지는 전쟁 지역이다. 때로는 멀리서, 때로는 섬뜩하게 가까이서 들려오는 전쟁의 소리. 이미 많은 사람들이 이 위험 지역을 떠났지만 올렉은 어머니가 돌아가신 후부터 자신을 돌봐 준 할머니와 함께 남아있다. 그들에게는 딱히 갈 곳이 없다.

수십 년간 소실되었던 이 특별한 푸티지에는 피터 비어드와 그의 가족 또는 지인들이 담겨 있다. 영화는 1970년대 미국 동부의 몬투크 곶에서 그들이 형성했던 창작집단의 활동과 영향력을 다시금 발견하는 기회를 제공한다. (2018년 제19회 전주국제영화제)

25 years after Paris is Burning, we dive back into the fierce world of voguing battles in the Kiki scene of New York City, where competition between Houses demands leadership, painstaking practice, and performances on point. A film collaboration between Kiki gatekeeper, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, and Swedish filmmaker Sara Jordenö, we’re granted exclusive access into this high stakes world, where tough competitions act as a gateway into the daily lives of LGBTQ youth of color in NYC. The new generation of ballroom youth use the motto, “Not About us Without Us”. Twiggy and Sara’s insider-outsider approach to their stories breathes fresh life into the representation of a marginalized community who demand visibility and real political power.

The film follows 10-year-old Oleg, whose life has been turned upside down by the ongoing war in East Ukraine. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother Alexandra in a small house in a village on the frontline. Most people have left the village, but Oleg and Alexandra love their life together there and want to stay on and take care of each other. But life is becoming more and more difficult and the war does not seem to end.

While southern Europe is crumbling, Angola is the world’s fastest growing economy. In Africa’s rapidly developing cities, urban musicians are creating sounds that have come to define the new generation. Urban music like kuduro, coupé-décalé and azonto have arisen out of social change and have come to define a new African identity shaped by post-colonial consciousness.

12살 빅터는 유명 발레학교의 학생이다. 빅터는 다음 학년으로 갈 수 있는지가 결정되는, 학교생활에서 가장 중요한 공연을 앞두고 있다. 모든 선생님들과 학생들의 부모님들이 그 행사에 참여한다. 빅터에게는 할머니 밖에 없다. 빅터의 소원은 외국에 있는 아빠가 공연을 보러 오는 것이다.

Gustaf Norén (former Mando Diao) and actress Shima Niavarani meet in a studio in Brooklyn for a new, radical interpretation of Miss Julie. When the director does not show up, they end up spending the night together. What starts out as a professional meeting between two politically conscious young artists develop into a power game where their inner feelings are exposed. Do they have the situation under control or are they victims of their own fame and the roles the media assigned to them?

Ruben (10) is one of the best fencers in the club. He has won nearly every title in Denmark, so this season he has to face some of the toughest and most talented fencers in Europe. A lot is a stake for Ruben and he has to find the strength within himself to overcome his anxiety and control his temper if he is to win the big european championship. Ruben's best friend Marie is fencing too, and alongside the drama that is played out on the fencing piste, an even greater story is unfolding about a friendship between a boy and a girl in their early teens - a time when many things change.

Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.

"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.

Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in US society from 1967 to 1975. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in the United States during that period and includes the appearances of Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and other activists, artists, and leaders central to the movement.

Silent Shout: An Audio Visual Experience is a live DVD from The Knife, taken from the April 12, 2006 concert at the Trädgår'n, Gothenburg, Sweden, in their 2006 Silent Shout tour. It was released in Sweden in November 2006 on The Knife's Rabid Records label. The DVD features a 5.1 surround sound recording of the show (with visuals from Andreas Nilsson), as well as all 11 of their music videos. Their short film When I Found the Knife is also included. The DVD was included in a limited edition box set version of Silent Shout released in July 2007 along with an additional CD of the concert's audio.