Mantaray Film
DAUGHTER OF GENGHIS

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.

Fire, Water, Earth, Wind

A poetic portrait of climate change that combines science with four Nordic stories from small communities.

IDRIX

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

SMÅLANDS 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.

A REVOLUTIONARY GRANNY

The woman who served the longest political imprisonment in the history of Turkey, gets released with plans to recap with her revolutionary plans. The world has changed, but her resilience is intact. 

BANGLA DREAMS

FASHION SLAVES (BANGLA DREAM) is a documentary about three young women Ruma, Najnin and Sabina who all work for the textile industry in slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh. We follow their tiring lives but at the same time see that they still dare to dream about the future.

 
LAP-SEE LAM - THE ARTIST AND THE SINGING CHEF (2024)

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

THE PHANTOM PAIN OF ROJAVA is a journey into the life of a group of female fighters whose dream is to change the world by starting a women’s revolution.

MONA

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.

 
THE CHOIR (2021)

A film about Sweden's most famous choir, Tensta Gospel Choir, and the profound human need of union and spirituality in a secular time. 

MOVIE MAN (2021)

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.

PASSION (2021)

Christianity meets BDSM rituals in Maja Borg's dark and deeply personal film about healing, which with theatrical intensity unites body and spirituality.

 
SCANDINAVIAN STAR

A cold and clear Easter night on the 6th of April 1990, the cruise ship Scandinavian Star departs from Oslo and sails towards Frederikshavn, carrying 383 passengers and 99 crew members. During the night a fire erupts, and 159 people lose their lives. With a burning ship stranded in the middle of Skagerak, 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, which the authorities is not prepared for. Today, 30 years after, the arson is still an unsolved mystery.  

The Lost Leonardo

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.

CAPTURING THE DIVINE (2020)

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 (2020)

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.

SARA - a film about Sara Lidman (2019)

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.

JOSEFIN & FLORIN (2019)

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.

 

 
Silvana (2017)

An intimate love story and filmic journey through the first years of the career of a contemporary feminist icon.

SHADOWS IN THE SPOTLIGHT

In Iran, a country where it is forbidden for women to sing in public, women's voices become a solitary sound that is never allowed to flourish. These artist's greatest dream is to be on the stage.

 
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD (2021)

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" A Body In the Service of Mind (2022)

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.

THE LANGUAGE OF SILENCE (2017)

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.

 
The Great Game

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.

Nowhere to hide

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 (2017)

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.

 
Living . Loving (2018)

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.

 
 
 
Transphobia (2015)

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.

 
Misfits

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?

 

 

Ingrid Bergman In Her Own Words (2015)

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

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".

Release in Norway: 27 september 2013

Release in Sweden: 4 april 2014

Release in Denmark: 20 september 2014

The Land of Queens (2015)

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

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.

 
Days in Maremma (2014)

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.

Five Star Existence

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.

Not a man in sight

Marja 78, is fucking pissed off at all power doors and square toilets in the new apartment she and her wife Bodil moves into. It needs a sex change operation ...

Mette 35, stands with her wife Stina faced with the question: Will our children have no father?

Martine 24, wants people to think about her as an ordinary masculine man.

The director Mette Aakerholm Gardells personal film about three generations of lesbians, how they find their places and roles in relationships in a world where there is no man.

 
I See You (2014)

"I can see you with my fingertips, your footsteps tell me who you are, all I want is that you see me in return".

Adil and the spy

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. 

 
I'm my own Dolly Parton (2011)

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.

...but film is my mistress (2010)

Featuring Woody Allen, Bernardo Bertolucci, Olivier Assayas, Arnaud Desplechin, John Sayles and Martin Scorsese, this documentary captures Ingmar Bergman's strong filmmaking personality.

 

Dare Remember (2012)

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.

 
He Thinks he's The Best (2011)

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.

A Mother's Comeback (2011)

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.

Images from a playground (2009)

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.

 
The Photographer from Riga (2009)

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.

 

The Nun (2007)

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.

Alice and Me (2006)

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.