Daniel Wirtberg

A little girl feels ignored, and family bonds shatter, when her mother and father get a cat.

In a cold eastern European suburb, a man walks out of the dark club to get some light in his eyes.

11-year old Julia is sent to her grandfather, against her will. The stay in the countryside soon turns into something far from expected.

How many really know that most of music history's biggest hits are covers from the beginning? What even fewer know is that the real creators of songs like "Folsom Prises Blues" and "Sweet Home Alabama" is the Dobermann Brothers, hiding somewhere deep in the northern forests of Värmland.

Sture has not spoken to another human for so long that he has become mute. He lives a lonely and boxed-in life with no sustenance, getting his only thrills from playing bingo and stealing chocolates from the grocery store. One day the routines are broken when he catches a young shoplifter on his territory.

Beyond That Wasteland is a poetic depiction of being in a borderland, in the wake of the disaster. A place where one is forced to stay awake in order not to perish. It is a timeless ninja epos about facing an ultimate, life-changing decision - to resist or surrender.