Kersti Grunditz

Harry Schein was an anomaly in Swedish cultural society. Equal parts playboy, intellectual, and political visionary, his life story could very well be the foundation of a Hollywood film. Citizen Schein is a film about a refugee who refused to look back, a film about powerful men, and the myths that fuel them.

Artist Marianne Lindberg De Geer thinks about her old friends from the 70s, where did they all go?

Marta comes from a deeply devout Catholic family, they are nine siblings. After high school, she entered the strictest of all monastic orders, the Carmelite Order. Marta lives according to monastic rules that were instituted in the Middle Ages, she lives a life of prayer and silence, and never leaves the monastery. Seven times a year, she receives visits from her family; they meet in a visiting room separated by bars. Today, Marta is 45 years old and has lived her entire adult life in the convent. The siblings have chosen different paths in life, they live in very different places in the world. The film follows a family across three generations, who have all chosen to live with God at the center. A film about faith and existential questions.

After Marta had decided to become a nun at a young age, filmmaker Maud Nycander followed her and her family for ten years.

Ester Henning (1887-1985) was a Swedish sculptor and artist who spent 60 years of her life in mental hospitals. She was poor, in bad health mentally unstable and spent only four years in school before she had to earn a living. But from her closed world she created expressive and appreciated art.

A documentary about the rise and fall of the December Agreement (DÖ).

During his five decades as an artist, Carl Johan De Geer has playfully leaped between genres and art forms such as painting, children's television and literature. All of it with a powerful political commitment and a large measure of absurdism. In CJDG, we follow his work on exhibitions in New York as well as Stockholm.

A broken nose, a disjointed knee and tropical throat flux with months of side effects. Filmmaker Hanna Heilborn challenges herself by deciding to learn how to surf, just before her 40th birthday. She asks a film photographer to follow her on the road. It is not going exactly as she intended.

A documentary about the mystery of Stina Stoor, who was supposed to become the next great Swedish author.

Svetlana Chajkina and Kurt Piltto met on the internet 5 years ago. She moved from the big city of Kamensk-Uralsky in Russia to Östanbäck, a small village outside Skellefteå in Västerbotten. Svetlana is 49 years old, educated engineer with own company in Russia. She is energetic, very ambitious and a strong woman. She has a lot, except love. Kurt is 52 years old and lives alone with his dog. When they meet, he works as a workshop mechanic at a small company, collects motorcycles and waits contentedly for his pension. He believes he has everything, except love.

For the freelance drivers who took the initial opportunity offered by the international company Uber, the prospects of self-management and grand earnings were irresistible. Changes in Uber procedures, however, left the drivers frustrated and struggling. This innovative documentary probes the case of drivers in the Netherlands.