For the love of good stories
Films
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Fjallið / The Mountain
Ásthildur Kjartansdóttir, Feature/Drama/95 min. 2025 Iceland/Sweden
A family's journey for love. A coming-of-age story of how the cosmos and a trip to the highlands offer comfort to a family looking for a way forward when their lives are upended by a twist of fate.
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Pity the Lovers / Vesalings elskendur
Maximilian Hult, Feature/Romantic Comedy/95 min. 2019 Sweden/Iceland
A romantic comedy about longing for love. Óskar and Maggi are brothers, seemingly well adjusted and easy going. But both have serious issues with close relationships and a very different MO dealing with the situation.
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Hemma / Home
Maximilian Hult, Feature/Romantic Drama/90 min. 2013 Sweden/Iceland
An unexpected love story. Lou is a super bright but socially awkward young woman. Led to believe that her maternal grandparents are long dead, she is shocked to find that it’s not true. This sends her on a journey to a remote village where her life takes a very different turn.
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American Burger
Bonita Drake & Johan Bromander, Feature/Horror Comedy/87 min. 2014 Sweden
100% Dead Meat! Do you want fries with that? English language Horror Comedy about a busload of American students, all jocks, cheerleaders and nerds, in for a shock on a culture trip in Europe.
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Kiruna Rymdvägen / Kiruna Space Road
Liselotte Wajstedt, Documentary/52 min. 2013 Sweden
The town Kiruna is going to be moved, torn down and levelled to the ground. The mining activities underground threaten it’s foundation. Houses will be moved, or torn down, and new quarters will be built on another site. The director grew up on the Company Site and is in a hurry to catch up with her past.
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Bättre ränta / In Your Interest
Jimmy Olsson, Fiction/Drama/Comedy/10 min. 2012 Sweden
It’s an ordinary day at the bank.
A stressed young man makes an entrance and sits down among the other waiting customers. When it is his turn at the lady cashiers he suddenly draws a pistol and declares it is a bank robbery. -
Gringa
Cesar Galindo, Feature/Drama Comedy/75 min. 2010 Peru/Sweden
There are only three ways out; by boat, by plane or by Gringa. Armed with a manual on how to charm a Gringa, Manuel a destitute farmhand from the Andes hopes to get a new start. The pavements in Cuzco are lined with Gringas and Manuel eagerly starts applying the technique. But it’s not so easy as it seems.
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Árvas / Tundra of Árvas
Liselotte Wajstedt, Music/3 min. 2009 Sweden
Music Video, Singer/songwriter Sofia Jannok. A woman finds colourful companionship on her drive through the bleak and magical landscape of Northern Sweden.
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Alla vill till himmelen / Everybody wants to Heaven
Angela Bravo, Documentary/Animation/8 min. 2008 Sweden
"I don’t remember when I first found out — that all people will die.” Tilia is 8 years old and her thoughts on life and death take her on an imaginative journey.
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En skymningsberättelse / A Twilight Story
Åsa Sjöström, Fiction/Animation/25 min. 2006 Sweden
Inspired by Maupassant’s “Who knows”. The Little Man lives a safe and orderly life. But then strange things begin to happen that shake his world. A ghost story with supernatural elements.
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Sámi Nieida Jojk / Sami Daughter Jojk
Liselotte Wajstedt, Documentary/58 min. 2007 Sweden
A road movie into Sápmi, the land of the Sámi. Armed in a Kolt and with a summer's course in the lingo the director intends to take her place among the people she belongs to. It's an exciting trip filled with expectations and fear of rejection.
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The Real McCoy
Pekka Lehto, Feature/Music/Documentary, 92 min. 1999 Finland/Sweden
Andy McCoy is the founder of Hanoi Rocks, the most successful rock band in Finland. His life has been a blend of success and mishap, of triumph and loss, he is a romantic rock´n´roll icon.
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Väninnor - Berättelser från garderoben / Companions - Tales from the Closet
Cecilia Neant-Falk & Nina Bergström, Documentary/50 min. 1996 Sweden
Five secretly lesbian women between the ages of 60 and 85. They used to live with the fear of being found out and rejected by friends, relatives, and colleagues. With powerful presence and emotional force, these women share their lives and their forbidden love.
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Dea Marina
Åsa Sjöström, Animation/Music/5 min. 1996. Sweden/Norway
A fascinating and extraordinary music film made with a mixture of live action and animation. Dea Marina is an ecological music film about myths, mankind and the sea.
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Tallinnen Tuhkimo / The Cinderella of Tallinn.
Pirjo Honkasalo & Marja Pensala, Documentary/69 min. 1996 Finland/Sweden
Estonian business woman Tiiu Silves built a profitable enterprise after the collapse of USSR. The film tells of her journey from teaching mathematics and selling flowers on Tallinn’s street to becoming a powerful player in the metal-export industry.
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Belma
Lars Hesselholdt, Feature Drama/75 min. 1995. Denmark / Sweden
Refugee girl Belma and her father fled war torn Bosnia and now live with other refugees on Flotel Europe in Copenhagen, where she meets Danish Rasmus. One day Belma’s father recognizes one of his torturers from prison camp among the refugees on the boat.
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Memento
Antonia D. Carnerud, Drama/15 min. 1995 Sweden / Denmark
Brutal summer images from the war in the Balkan Peninsula.
A classic war theme about a boy who must leave his mother and childhood home to go off to war. The mother anxiously awaits the boy’s return.The boy is in a tank, on his way toward the senseless destruction of his own home village. -
En Film om fotboll / A Film about Football
Beate Grimsrud, Documentary/57 min. 1995 Sweden
"How come you’ve played football for over 20 years?"
A question asked at the beginning of Writer Beate Grimsrud’s film about her relationship with football. "A Film About Football" is an unusual and humorous film about girls, women, and fighting spirit. It explores both the absurd and the poetic aspects of football. -
Flickor födda 1960 / The Girls of 1960
Una Celma, Documentary/58 min. 1995 Sweden
In 1960, the Twenty-First Party Congress declared socialism fully realized across the Soviet Union. That same year, six Latvian girls were born who began school together in 1967, on the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution.
By 1994, when the film is made, they are in their thirties with children of their own — all affected by the economic and political upheaval that followed the fall of the Soviet Union.
