Directing
Growing up too fast. Or as Marco from the Gävle suburb Sätra puts it: "There are too many who become a man overnight, here in my area". When he was a child, his mother Carmen suffered a serious accident and Marco's upbringing became tough. But Marco has found his own way away from the crime and the violence he was about to be drawn into. It is also a suburb where messy youth and racist reactions threaten existence and how Facebook player Joakim Lamotte is treated when he arrives at the site. A film by Mikael Wiström.
Josephine has all her life been told that her Peruvian aunt Augusta died in an armed struggle for the rights of the poor. As an adult Josefin decides to find out the truth about the legendary Augusta.
A documentary of the complicated friendship between the filmmaker and a poverty-stricken Peruvian family.
A man, Jean, is critically injured in a freakish accident. He and Agneta, his partner, must cope with the impact of his injuries and determine a new path for their utterly changed lives.
FAMILIA is the story of the Peruvian Barrientos family trying to keep together through 35 years of continuous struggle against poverty. Love and cohesion is put to the ultimate test when 50 year old Nati Barrientos leaves her family for immigrant work in Spain. Will she be able to fulfill her dreams without destroying what is most precious to her - FAMILIA.
Maria is a young and ambitious photographer. Her editor has sent her on a mission. To photograph premature born children.
Flore is a passionate politician. She is in love but under constant stress, dealing with issues on being black in a more and more aggressive society – Sweden in the early nineties. Soon it will be too much for her.
The filmmaker and still photographer Mikael Wiström documents his reunion with Natividad and Daniel Barrientos 17 years after first meeting them in Peru.
In the 1970s, surrounded by the ideals of the Green Wave, Toba and Sussi seek a life in harmony with nature and move from the city to the countryside to live out their dream. But freedom proves to be as challenging as it is appealing.
