Jan Coster

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.

The girlfriend Klara has recently fallen in love and wants nothing more than to hang out with her boyfriend. The mother-of-two Anna clocks how long it takes for her husband to cook baby formula. The ex-wife Vera can't let go of her ex-husband. The feature-film debuting Katja Wik presents a squib right on the money about women's tendency to, both consciously and unconsciously, limit themselves in their close relationships of two. Each frame conveys the film's theme of power manipulation and Katja Wik's neologism "victim-mentality rhetoric" (offerrollsretorik) is used by all parties as an effective weapon. Without stagnating in bitterness, The Ex-wife serves as a funhouse mirror reflecting this disturbing trait, which most of us can recognize, but which few dare to acknowledge

Mariken Halle first asked around her neighborhood if she might make a school film about one of her neighbors. When that didn’t work, she and her small film crew began addressing people on the streets of Göteborg. How would they imagine a movie that they would want to star in? The results were far from fantastic – she encountered dismissively amused responses and boring, confused ideas. But some of the people she talked to were different. They try getting into their “life role” – and she begins to direct them....

Three different types of people end up at the same table at the same bar. Stefan will talk about Thailand. Jeppe will talk about his son. And Mia will write everything down. A film about how different interests crashes, meet and crash again.

Tommy and Monika take in the spectacular view from a mountaintop. It's a beautiful hot summer's day. Fluffy clouds drift by. The sky is blue. Tommy delights in the birdsong. It's a fine day for a picnic.

Six strangers are sitting in a conference room. They’re in a focus group, but how much is there really to say about yoghurt? There’s so much more to discover about each other.

Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug extraordinaire Leo Gaut as being the dead crook's trigger-happy colleague. Gaut soon threatens the three witnesses, and only Johan, the badge-wearing hero, can save them.

15-year-old Ida lives with her mother in Rossö in the Strömstad archipelago. Over the course of three stormy days, her life is turned upside down. She has a strained relationship with her mother, a non-existent relationship with her father and is let down by her best friend. —Maria Eriksson

Three unconnected scenes; each a study of betrayed friendships, too much alcohol, the hurtful exercise of power. Somewhere in Sweden, sometime in June.

미국 로키산맥의 작은 마을 도그빌. 어느 날 총소리와 함께 아름다운 여자 그레이스가 찾아온다. 갱들한테 쫓기는 그를 마을 사람들은 불안해하면서도 숨겨준다. 2주 동안의 유예기간을 두고 그레이스를 관찰한 마을 사람들은 고운 심성과 지적 능력, 무엇보다 자기 몸을 아끼지 않는 헌신적인 노동을 높이 사 마을의 일원으로 받아들인다. 어느 날 경찰이 나타나 수배 전단을 붙이자 상황은 급변한다. 숨겨주는 대가로 노예 수준으로 전락한 노동을 강요하더니 급기야 내놓고 성적 학대를 가한다. 결국 그레이스는 마을을 탈출하기로 결심하지만 그녀의 계획은 수포로 돌아가고, 마을 사람들은 그녀가 도망가지 못하도록 개목걸이를 채우기까지 하는데...