Lennart Malmer

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.

Famous acrobat Elvira Madigan meets Sixten Sparre, a married Swedish officer with two children. They decide to elope, but since Sparre deserted the army, he's unemployable and the couple encounter various hardships.

Documentary film about the protests against the 1968 Davis Cup tennis match between Sweden and Rhodesia, in Båstad, Sweden. In a series of interviews, demonstrators and members of the Swedish government give their views on sport, politics and civil disobedience.

This film documents the journey of actress Jane Fonda and her husband – future California state senator Tom Hayden – through North and South Viet Nam in 1974. They travel from villages to towns talking with ordinary Vietnamese about their lives and the effects of the war on their lives, families, and communities.

In 1984, ten Swedish directors joined together in the trading company Filmgrupp 10 HB to jointly produce a period document in the form of film.

The film documents the alternative festival, made to protest against the Eurovision Song Contest held in Stockholm 1975. There are many Swedish and international artists on stage, as well as some clips from speeches, riots, civil wars, and the people at the song contest itself.

About the question of whether we should proceed in developing and using nuclear power and the breakdown at Three Mile Island, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in March 28, 1979.

The life of married couple Max and Eva is disrupted by Max's old friend John, who moves in with them after being thrown out by his girlfriend.

Left-wing collective film targeting colonial politics in Northern Sweden (Norrland).

In 1965, Lennart Malmer travelled to Ireland in search of music. Throughout his trip, he filmed the people, places and events he encountered, culminating in a journey to Miltown Malbay in Clare. His documentary is a snapshot of the lives and music of the time, featuring uilleann piper Willie Clancy, sean-nós heavyweight Joe Heaney, and more.

Berlin is like an island in the middle of East Germany, a divided city known for its wall, the so-called Berlin Wall. Ever since its inception, this has been extensively exploited by Western propaganda. The notions about it are based in the general public on the fact that it was created to prevent people from traveling as they wish, from escaping. The wall that separates West Berlin from East Berlin is considered a crime against humanity. The truth is that the wall has caused many tragedies, the people on both sides of it are hermetically sealed off from each other. Those who are indignant about the existence of the wall, base their opinion entirely on the propaganda, which in the Cold War game manipulated the background to its creation. The film shows how necessary it was for East Germany to effectively close its border and the consequences of that for West Berlin.

Documentary about US war crimes in Indochina.

Filmed in two cities in Tanzania in the autumn of 1969. The film tells about two of the literacy projects that are ongoing in Tanzania, how the work is carried out in the cities, what difficulties one has to fight against. One town is an ujamaa town - a so-called socialist city - north of Viktoriasjön, the second city a masaj city near Kilimanjaro, where a solitary teacher carries out pioneer work among his own people.

Documentary from inside the liberation movement in Guinea-Bissau.

In May-June 1971, Malmer and Romare accompanied a delegation of experts sent by the international committee to investigate US crimes in Indochina and then reported on their experiences in 'Att samla några bevis'. The visual material is partly unique: it concerns, among other things, the documentation of the US Air Force's conscious investment in so-called anti-personnel bombs and mines. The use of napalm and chemical warfare agents is also discussed in a few sections, where an old woman and two mothers, who were in sprayed areas during their pregnancies, talk about and show the damage to themselves and their deformed children.

A school class at Gärdesskolan in Stockholm got to try out filming themselves with 8 mm cameras during one school year. The experimental activities were led by a group from FilmCentrum and Teckningslärarinstitutet. At first, they made films that they themselves would most like to make – e.g. a trick film with Donald Duck, a horror film, etc. They also filmed the environment in the City and each other in a “documentary” way. Then they tried to create “neutral” material – images of cars, etc. that they filmed in the City without any particular intention. They divided themselves into two groups – one each against motoring and traffic in the city.

Artistic glimpses of people on the move in Stockholm.