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.

Anos 30, Dogville, um lugarejo nas Montanhas Rochosas. Grace (Nicole Kidman), uma bela desconhecida, aparece no lugar ao tentar fugir de gângsters. Com o apoio de Tom Edison (Paul Bettany), o auto-designado porta-voz da pequena comunidade, Grace é escondida pela pequena cidade e, em troca, trabalhará para eles. Fica acertado que após duas semanas ocorrerá uma votação para decidir se ela fica. Após este "período de testes" Grace é aprovada por unanimidade, mas quando a procura por ela se intensifica os moradores exigem algo mais em troca do risco de escondê-la. É quando ela descobre de modo duro que nesta cidade a bondade é algo bem relativo, pois Dogville começa a mostrar seus dentes. No entanto Grace carrega um segredo, que pode ser muito perigoso para a cidade.