IN PRODUCTION
Over three traumatic years, filmmaker Anzhela keeps a personal diary of the life of residents of the tiny Republic of Artsakh - distilling the taste of life - through war, fragile peace, blockade and ethnic cleansing as they try to hold on to their culture, traditions and connection to the land.
When Siw Malmkvist's husband dies after 50 years of marriage, the now 87-year-old Siw ends up in a difficult choice. Should she stay in their shared home with all the memories or move. In a warm and humorous portrait, we follow one of Sweden's most popular artists today and in a dizzying journey through musical life from the 50s to today.
BEAUTIFUL FOOLS - THE RETURN OF THE ARK is a story about six ordinary guys that set sails to their Ark to save the world with music and love. It’s the dream of escaping everyday normative life and becoming someone else.
The Decision is a movie about a family that has decided to close their door to tourists and turn towards the local community to teach permaculture cultivation and self-sufficiency in order to reclaim something they lost in the tourist industry they themselves became an active part of.
Daughter of Genghis is an epic journey spanning 7 years, following Gerel, a violent neo-nationalist, who runs a gang of women in the underworld of the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar. Gerel is fighting for both motherland and motherhood. Her son Temuulen is neglected in this fight, but slowly she embraces her responsibilities as a mother while abandoning her violent path.
IN PRODUCTION
FIRE, WATER, EARTH, AIR is a poetic portrait of climate change in The Nordic countries. The film weaves together stories about everyday life in small communities in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and the Faroe Islands with scientific findings about living with the consequences of climate change.
In the near future - Öland is hit by a drought after years without rain. Terminally ill Leo and peer Zai find each other in the hospital. Together they run away from the suffocating confines and sadness of the adults to go on an adventure.
GRACELAND is a cinematic self-portrait on the burden of, and the comfort in, being someone's child or someone's parent. It’s about the fear of
falling and the longing to fall.
In this documentary we follow Lap-See from these first steps, to her big international breakthrough. The film is also a tribute to the power of art and its ability to give us new perspectives on something that is so everyday that we hardly see it - like a completely ordinary Chinese restaurant.
THE PHANTOM PAIN OF ROJAVA is a journey into the life of a group of female fighters in Rojava, an autonomous Kurdish state in Northern Syria, whose dream is to change the world by starting a women’s revolution.
MONA is a close and personal film about one of Swedens most beloved and hated women in power. The politician who repeatedly rose, but eventually lost everything and is now forced to reflect and live outside the corridors of power.
A film about Sweden's most famous choir, Tensta Gospel Choir, and the profound human need of union and spirituality in a secular time.
When film productions stop and cinemas are closing. In this new restricted world of his, Stig Björkman spends his time going trough his rich film archive and calls his friends, film directors and actors/actresses.
Christianity meets BDSM rituals in Maja Borg's dark and deeply personal film about healing, which with theatrical intensity unites body and spirituality.
A cold and clear Easter night in April 1990, the cruise ship Scandinavian Star departs from Oslo and sails towards Frederikshavn. During the night a fire erupts, and 159 people lose their lives. The authorities in Denmark, Norway and Sweden suddenly face a transnational murder case. At the same time there is a financial game following the ship, with traces to USA, the international shipping trade and a global reality.
The Lost Leonardo is the story of the discovery and search of a lost treasure. The most expensive painting ever sold. As the story evolves, the truth becomes blurred, like the painting itself. Any clear lines are hidden behind the smoky sfumato of spin, power amd hidden agendas. What gradually emerges is a tale of how the vested interest in the Salvator Muni's authenticity is of such tremendous power that the truth is secondary.
An emotionally intense music documentary with a humorous tone, about longing for love and the inevitable fact of ageing. The film explores the impossible meeting between a stalker and her idol, between Susanna and Natacha Atlas.Watching this oddcouple is to oscillate between tragedy and comedy.
NINOSCA - THE WOMAN AND THE EMIGRANT'S SONG is the third and last film of Peter Torbiörnsson's trilogy. A woman’s struggle for independence which requires her to face her past in the macho-culture of Central America.
Who was Sara Lidman, behind her political work and the critics praise? A film about Sara Lidman, the girl from Missenträsk who became a writer.
A documentary love story about a single mother from Sweden and a beggar from Romania who choose to defy all conventions and invest in love and a better life. A warm, immersive film challenging cultural norms and conventional family life.
An intimate love story and filmic journey through the first years of the career of a contemporary feminist icon.
In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Lucino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world’s most beautiful boy. A shadow that today, 50 years later, weighs Björn Andresen’s life. A film about the price of beauty. A drama that takes us to Japan, Italy, France and Denmark.
Joyce Carol Oates is often described as “America’s foremost woman of letters” and her extraordinary talents are recognized around the globe. With words as her constant companion JCO has penned over 100 novels across a variety of genres throughout her award-winning career.
A suitcase full of photos, diaries, phonebooks and a tape with Finnish tango sets Swedish filmmaker Frans Huhta off on an odyssey to get to know his deceased mother and come to peace with a heritage in the shadow of a suicide.
Michael seeks the truth about his grandfather Henning Haslund-Christensen. An explorer, arms smuggler and secret agent who took part in an expedition that helped shape modern China. A story about loss of memory, family and connecting with the past.
We follow medic Nori Sharif over five years of dramatic change after the American retreat from Iraq in 2011. He starts by documenting stories of survivors, but as he finds himself trapped between ISIS and the Iraq Militias, trying to save his own family, he turns the camera on himself.
Letters to a serial killer is a documentary thriller where the protagonist is seeking answers to why her brother was shot. A journey that leads to new questions and unexpected answers.
They move into Europe's first senior housing for homosexuals. Behind closed doors the opening awaits, and for the first time they find their way home and can truly start loving themselves.
Two women from the same village in Kurdistan, who fled for very different reasons, are brought together in this transcendent documentary that explores community inclusion and exclusion.
Three American teenagers from Tulsa, Oklahoma, grapple with life in this coming of age story, portraying torn family bonds, emotional isolation and the everyday consequences of being openly LGBT in the buckle of the Bible belt.
What do you do when you're 15, dream to come out as gay and live right in the middle of the Bible Belt?
Cannes-awarded, paying a tribute to Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman and celebrating the centenary of her birth, comes this feature documentary by director Stig Björkman with voice over by Swedish actress Alicia Vikander.
The Optimists is an extraordinary volleyball team of women between the ages of 60 and 98. Despite their weekly training sessions, The Optimists have not played a match for 30 years. Now they have decided to play one final game. But against whom? Is there a suitable team of handsome Super Old Boys to be found out there? Rumors say there is a group of Swedish gentlemen who call themselves "Krutgubbarna".
The dairy farmer Mats-Åke has decided to stay at his farm in the north of Sweden. He has good help from his thai wife and her relatives who travel from Thailand to undertake seasonal work in the area. A history from a region that can not afford prejudices.
Mother's Wish is a documentary that brings together women's stories from around the world. Twelve women from different countries share their stories about the most important turning points and moments that changed their lives. Together their stories form a poetic and emotional film about love, fear and loneliness; the moment of happiness after the birth of the first child, the pride of mother on the daughter's first school day, the escape and survival from forced marriage, the scars left behind by abuse, all told by women.
A bittersweet portrait of a community in Italy, where farmers have secretly agreed to rent out their fields for solar panels and by doing so are ruining the area's breathtaking view.
5 Star Existence is the director Sonja Lindén’s cinematographic quest to the core of the modern information society where technology and human being get more and more entwined. The film explores the consequences that the technological explosion has on our relating and culture as well as on our psychological, emotional and physical wellbeing.
"I can see you with my fingertips, your footsteps tell me who you are, all I want is that you see me in return".
All our Uigher maincharachter Adil from the Xinjiang province wanted, was to take care of his family, but the war on terrorism turned everything upside down.We follow in his tracks over a period of ten years, beginning with being in the wrong place at the wrong time on 9/11.
A documentary about five women ready to take on whatever challenges life throws at them, inspired by Dolly Parton’s strength to go her own way and defy the pressure to conform.
Featuring Woody Allen, Bernardo Bertolucci, Olivier Assayas, Arnaud Desplechin, John Sayles and Martin Scorsese, this documentary captures Ingmar Bergman's strong filmmaking personality.
A movie about a rape that occurred 25 years ago. Ewa travels back to the city of Malmö, where the assault took place and starts talking to her friends and her family about what happened.
Maria Kuhlberg's uncles, Aldo and Carmine, have been at loggerheads since they were little. In her film Maria examines if her family, despite his violent social heritage, can become reconciled.
If I don't do this now, I'm afraid I'll stop living. I need to prove to myself and everyone else that I can do it – life doesn't end at 50.
Stig Bjorkman captures Bergman's unique filmmaking personality with unique material filmed by Bergman himself behind the scenes of several of his biggest film productions.
Inta Ruka, one of Latvia's most prominent photographers, bears witness of the conditions of the artist during the Soviet period and in today's Latvia burdened by financial crises.
At the age of 19 Martha makes a crucial decision. She leaves her family and friends to live as a nun in a very strict monastery. In the film "The Nun" Maud Nycander tells us about a radical life choice.
A touching portrait of 90 years old premier Queen Alice Timander, and a drama about love, betrayal, being a mother, daughter and a woman who bears a dream while making a career.
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