Directing
The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.
Swedish drama based loosely on a true story. Marten Klingberg plays Peter, an engaged man who finds himself attracted to a gay man called Nassim (Pjotr Giro). Peter's life is suddenly transformed from one of married domestic routine to one of passionate lust and longing for his new gay lover. However, things take a tragic turn when Nassim is discovered dead and Peter is accused of his murder.
Yvonne and Isa, who have been in love for a year, are going to Lebanon to visit Isa's relatives. But before the trip, Yvonne's mother dies unexpectedly and she is forced to reconnect with her little brother Klas, a talented opera singer. At the funeral, Yvonne explains to Klas that she wants to sell their mother's summer house, where they grew up. When Klas hears this, he breaks down in a way Yvonne could never have imagined. Fragments of memories from their childhood begin to flood Yvonne's mind, and nothing seems simple anymore. The trip to Lebanon is canceled, and Yvonne takes Isa with her to the summer house.
Summer by the sea. Young Nadja is about to learn how to swim. In the swim-school she is by far the best at swimming on dry land.
The teacher Beata travel by train on her way home. Beata's husband has left her after that her affair with a young student, Misja, was exposed. He has taken care of their children.
Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films (back-to-back) on the general theme of Danish women, directed by filmmakers including Krzysztof Zanussi, Monika Treut, Gustav Hamos, David Blair, Vibeke Vogel, Dusan Makavejev, Morten Skallerud and Lars Norgaard. Some dramatic vignettes mix with other comedic ones, but all are offbeat and experimental. The picture includes one animated sequence (by Norgaard).
At a time when dialogue has completely collapsed in the international arena, a group of policemen fight with dialogue as a weapon for democracy and everyone's right to meet and express their opinion in the streets and squares. We follow the dialogue policemen in the midst of the 2022 election campaign.
Golden Girl is a film about the forces at play around Frida Wallberg, WBC world champion. It's about putting it all on the line in a deadly sport. About rosy dreams that crash into a nothing less than brutal reality.
A contemporary documentary film about four teenage girls as fearless, but on wobbly legs takes a step from nine to high school, from the teen chaos on the way to adulthood.
Fackklubb 459 - the last battle of the baker, is a Swedish documentary film from 2004 that covers the Food Workers' Union and its last union battle.
Susanna Edwards' follows Christina Sanchez, Spain's most successful female bullfighter, in this intimate, intense documentary about what it means to be a woman in a male-dominated sport.
