Ylva Hemstad

The children were born with severe deformities and were predicted a bleak future. Thirty years later, they are stubborn, independent people, used to replacing lack of physical resources with ingenuity and will.

They came to Sweden together with 70,000 other Finnish children during the Second World War. They would be rescued from the war. But they came to strange people with an incomprehensible language. And they never understood why they must be separated from their families. They became adoptive children and foster children and only now can they remember what they have been through. After sixty years in Sweden, a group of war children from Hälsingland make a trip back to childhood.

A documentary about people in Stockholm and their daily commutes.

A film about an unusually stubborn man. Mikael Andersson was born without arms and legs. Today he is a strong, well-trained family man and lecturer with a lot to teach about willpower and human possibilities.

A documentary about the Johannes Church in central Stockholm and the quaint neighbourhood surrounding it in the middle of such a big city.

Meet the world in a wash-house in Rinkeby. Almost a hundred dryers, washing machines and centrifuges spin here when 22 families wash at once. Juan from Chile tumbles his long underwear while Akif from Turkey carries his wife's laundry.

Twenty toilets, a urinal and four ladies who work in the public toilet at Sergels Torg in Stockholm. They are the ones who make sure that the facilities are clean and that there's toilet paper. They also watch over drug users.