Bergman Revisited
Pernilla August
Tomas Alfredson
Jane Magnusson
Lisa Aschan
Patrik Eklund
Linus Tunström
Also Directed by Pernilla August
In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.
The Time-Bomb waiting to go off reflects the fear of the times in which we live. It’s central character, an important government minister, finds himself squeezed between the pressures of political office and the very real, personal security threat that gives rise to his deepest, innermost fears. Fear is a strong and intractable human mechanism, the expression and form of which has changed throughout time. Once it was the darkness and its’ unknown power that terrified but today that fear has other faces.
Henrik lies in his death bed and his wife Marianne is there with him. For the first time she get to meet his lover Paula.
A poignant story, told with sincerity and humor, about a young woman´s dramatic childhood and about her grief and the struggle to move on. Noomi Rapace plays the main character in her first feature after the success with the Millennium trilogy and she plays opposite her husband, actor Ola Rapace.Award winning actress Pernilla August makes her directorial debut with her take on the bestselling novel Svinalängorna by Susanna Alakoski.In other main roles we see rising star Tehilla Blad and the Finnish acclaimed actors, Ville Virtanen and Outi Mäenpää.A morning just before Christmas, Leena, 34, receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. Leena has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her lost and dark childhood. She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on.
Also Directed by Tomas Alfredson
A satiric campaign against the film critic Gunnar Rehlin.
Här är äntligen hennes show på DVD - showen gick för utsålda hus och sågs av över 150 000 personer. I över ett år har Sissela Kyle med stor framgång turnerat landet runt med sin föreställning "Dina dagar är räknade". Hon har själv lagt beslag på alla figurer och för första gången är Sveriges roligaste kvinna frisläppt på egen hand. Ogenerat, Obeskrivligt - helt enkelt vansinnigt roligt!
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.
Ben and Gunnar meet during a carpool from Stockholm to Göteborg in the summer of 1995 where they are attending a concert with Bruce Springsteen at Ullevi.
Percy Nilegaard collects Swedish single men and embarks on a bus trip to Tallinn with a so-called "highly-experienced driver".
A pair of brothers who have both died, meet up in an afterlife world known as Nangijala.
The books about Alfie Atkins have come to life in a brand new film package.
Lotta is 27 years old and an office slave. She has absolutely no ambitions to advance, most of the time she sits and wait until the office hours is over. Then she gets promoted ...
George Smiley comes out of retirement to settle the affairs of an old friend.
The books about Alfie Atkins have come to life in a brand new film package.
Also Directed by Jane Magnusson
Hasse and Tage were best friends for over 30 years. Their films, shows, songs and books influenced an entire nation and were the glue that held people's home together. As a comedic duo, they united right-wing ghosts and anarchists in laughter. When Tage dies prematurely, his children lose a father, Hasse a father figure and all of Sweden a country father. And when Palme dies just months after Tage, the Swedish stable society begins to crumble. For the first time, the Alfredson and Danielsson families open up the archives and give us exclusive access to their stories, photographs and recordings.
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, eighty nautical miles off the east coast of Sweden. He left Stockholm and went to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special cinephiles, came from all over the world, have traveled to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An edited version of the Swedish mini-series “Bergmans video,” 2012.)
A focuses on 1957, one of the most prolific years for the Swedish director. During the year he shot two films, opened two of his most celebrated films (The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries), and produced four plays and a TV movie while juggling with a complicated private life.
An electrician looks in the letterbox and sees 11 swans. This is the true story of one woman who wanted to do something good, but...
Lena and Karin have known each other for six years and have gotten really close to each other. When freedom is coming up for one of tyen, it's not as happy as it should have been.
A short film about Ingmar Bergman's power, sexuality and facial lipoma that gives him no rest.
A documentary dealing with the publisher Ebbe Carlsson's decision to start his own investigation on the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme
Madeline Stuart is a fashion celebrity who has walked the runway at the New York Fashion Week, has 700 000+ followers on Facebook and is covered by international media world wide. This documentary follows Madeline on her journey to becoming the world's first professional supermodel with Down syndrome, challenging our perception of identity, beauty and disability.
Documentary about Christina Lindberg, Sweden's most famous 70s centerfold model and exploitation star.
Also Directed by Lisa Aschan
A Polish stewardess who has to spend the night in Copenhagen to board her next flight meets a Danish man who insists on taking her out. The night does not turn out quite like either of them had expected.
Passionate love and Sapphic action when Ester and Anna shatter the silence.
When Emma meets Cassandra, they initiate a relationship filled with physical and psychological challenges. Emma does whatever it takes to master the rules of the game. Lines are crossed and the stakes get higher and higher. Despite this, Emma can't resist the intoxicating feeling of total control.
A story of two eight year old girls and all the obstacles they must overcome to be friends.
Parents wait all their lives for their children to say "Thank you!" And the children in turn wait for a "Sorry!". This impossible equation is the starting point in the comedy "Call Mom!" Niki has just turned 35 and has to suddenly grasp all the life choices and relationships she dug for.
The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they escape? What will be the cost of freedom?
Also Directed by Patrik Eklund
A man who still lives with his parents tries to realize his dream of becoming a magician.
The year is 1989 and Stefan works as a bus driver between Norrland and Murmansk. With him on the journeys is the Russian interpreter Jana which he has fallen in love with. He is prepared to do everything to win her love, but her mother sets an ultimatum - get a safe front door. Stefan has competition from a Russian and soon the contest is on, "who can give the mother the best door".
Leif finds himself progressively encroaching upon a delirious, hypnagogic mental maze, tugging at the intersection between dream and reality.
Struggling from the collapse of his career and a sudden unsurmountable tax debt, American immigrant George English stumbles onto the fact that there is a 50 million SEK reward for solving the murder of Olof Palme. He assembles a crew of misfits to assist him as he begins to imagine that solving this seemingly unsolvable crime of the century could be the answer to all of his problems, but as the deeper they go into the labyrinth the more dangerous their journey becomes.
A promising badminton player in her youth, Annbritt lost the Swedish championship finals in 1983, and, three decades later, she still hasn’t recovered from the defeat. Convinced that the loss was the result of the umpire’s missed call, she has since spiraled downward, a bottle of alcohol her constant companion. Buoyed by the unflagging enthusiasm of her son Matthias, who eagerly awaits her comeback, Annbritt is persuaded to train for a rematch against her old rival, in true Rocky Balboa style. But is the embittered, often-pickled aging athlete up to the challenge? Oscar nominee Patrik Eklund’s offbeat comedy with a heart holds out the hope that life just possibly might offer second chances.
Middle-aged couple Rolf and Eva live in a passionless relationship. They wear and tear at each other and Eva begins to feel sexually frustrated. One night she tries to seduce Rolf. He dismisses her but then something happens that will change their relationship forever.
Over the years, those small sticking points pervading Krister and Kristina Carnemos's marriage have filled them both with doubts over a future together.
An anatomical PowerPoint presentation about why a man has become the way he is.
Frank finds his wife dead in the bathtub. He can't handle the sudden loss and nearly implodes. Frank's best friend Lars tries his best to cheer him up but without any success.
Also Directed by Linus Tunström
Five minutes. A girl's doll carriage rolls toward a busy street while her father ignores her to talk to a friend; an impatient husband waits for his wife to cook his egg; lovers enjoy a last embrace as a man – her husband? – climbs the stairs. The friends part and the father looks for his daughter; the egg timer rings; the husband returns. Five minutes are almost up, but little is as we expect it.
It's a freezing cold Christmas in the 70s in Stockholm and the young writer Bobo decides to help the beautiful upper class woman Bonnie carry her Christmas tree home.
A girl is born with wings. When Filip and Anna first realize that their newborn daughter is not like other children, they react in wildly opposing manners. Anna considers it a miracle, while Filip sees it as a stigma. In order to survive as an adult, are we required to sever our connection to the magical?
The siblings Linus, 19-years-old, who are taking driving license and Vanja, 17-years-old, who's still in school. Their mom Eva works night shift at a hotel. We get to follow them during one month. Linus and Vanja begin to realize that they are living in a universe of their own. And there is neither room for the mom or boy- and girlfriends. At first it is only the longing love in unspoken thoughts. But when thought gets into words they realize that they are each others perfect half. They are drawn closer to each other and finally can't resist the taboo temptation in each others bodies. At first they deny, lie and try to resist. It's about shame and guilt and forbidden feelings which leads to a point where everything is at stake.