Magnus Gertten
Nelly and Nadine meet in Ravensbrück concentration camp. They spend the rest of their lives together. Decades later, Nelly’s granddaughter goes in search of clues. A poignant film about a love story and the need for individual and collective remembrance.
A film about those who quietly pick up after the rest of us. Yonas Albawi is the popular property owner who works hard to keep order around the residential area Planteringen in Helsingborg. He loves his job, but when he is met on Monday mornings by the chaos in the garbage rooms, his patience is tested.
In Uzbekistan, the government has started its own war on terror. A war that – like so many others – is waged for political reasons, which rarely have anything to do with reality. As a result, thousands of Muslims are imprisoned on false charges of conspiring to commit terrorist crimes. One of them is the human rights activist Dilya's brother Iskandar, who has been imprisoned in the notorious Jaslyk prison in a barren desert since 2002 – an inhumane place of which there are no images. Today, she lives in exile in Sweden because of the threats and harassment, but Dilya continues to fight the case of her brother and other prisoners with the help of Amnesty International.
The decisive years of Swedish soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimović, told through rare archive footage in which a young Zlatan speaks openly about his life and challenges. The film closely follows him, from his debut with the Malmö FF team in 1999 through his conflict-ridden years with Ajax Amsterdam, and up to his final breakthrough with Juventus in 2005.
Recalls the day when Holocaust survivors took their first steps into freedom, unaware of their future. Every Face Has a Name puts a name on those nameless faces and lets them recount their feelings of that day, the 28th of April, 1945.
A documentary about the Swedish singer Björn Afzelius, his life and work, told by interviews with friends, family and bandmates and through unique and never-seen-before archive material.
Sofia Rapp Johansson is a young, talented and critically acclaimed author. She is also a singer, performer and poetry slammer. But behind Sofia's successful outer career she is carrying a darker inner story, formed by a childhood full of violence, sexual abuse and a long list of foster homes. Att skära sig fri (Cutting loose) is a story about a young woman, who is fighting against all odds and turning her inner rage to a creative output and a struggle for justice.
In 1945 Irene, Ewa and Joe were among the nearly 30,000 survivors rescued from German concentration camps to the peaceful harbour town Malmö, Sweden. Here they started life again.
In the old days, Norway used to be a safe haven for Trolls, but not anymore. One day three young goats decide to get rid of an old Troll who lives under a bridge. Little do they know that he is the last survivor of his species, the very last Troll of Norway...
It is in Lund that Sweden's very first house occupations take place. On May 17, 1969, a house to be demolished on Västra Mårtensgatan is occupied by a group of young people who call themselves Allaktivisterna/The Activists.
A gripping portrait of the dramatic, extravagant and ego-centric actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård (1928-1998) who would always be at the center of everything. On the out side he was a hailed and confident diva. In his solitude he was plagued by insomnia, anxiety and a complicated relationship with his father. Includes Ernst-Hugo Järegårds last performance "Aktörens läte/ The sound of the actor" (1998) and "Abstract Poker" (1971).
An old roll of film from the summer 1965 shows a party in an apartment on Fersens road in Malmö. It shows local popidols from bands like Namelosers and Gonks, but also common pop guys and girls. They gather around some exclusive guests: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones from Rolling Stones - the first international popband that visits Malmö. 40 years later the film creators meets some of the guests at the party. Rolling Like a Stone is a documentary about the people who had their identity shaped during the years in the mid-sixties. It is also a film about the difficulty of growing old with your dreams, and living in the present.
Malmö FF:s gulddrömmar från mitten av 1990-talet har övergått i misströstan och förstämning. År 1999 sker något som aldrig hänt förut; klubben åker ur Allsvenskan på eget bevåg, efter att under en längre tid ha underpresterat sportsligt. Många inom föreningen är chockade och handlingsförlamade, men en ung lovande anfallare i Zlatan Ibrahimović och en nytillträdd sportchef i Hasse Borg blir klubbens nya framtidshopp.
Documentary about Björn Afzelius, a well known contributor to modern Scandinavian music history.
About The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club establishment in southern Sweden during the early 1990s.
Documentary following the planning and execution of Sweden's biggest music festival. Interviews with festival staff are followed by interviews and performances by the bands. This year the festival had chartered their own plan from London to bring the coolest bands in Britain to Sweden, which prompted television personality Henrik Schyffert to quip "If this plane crashes the hottest band in England will be Marillion"
