Lukas Sjögren

A man works in a dystopian office. He copes by thinking about beautiful paintings during breaktime. Ants crawling out of his skin and a strange coworker interrupt his peace of mind but they remind him of his past as an artist.

A hereditary and supernatural illness slowly twists the relationship between a boy and his mother. Through the course of 20 years Simon comes to learn of this illness and finds out that his mother will one day be consumed by it. When the time comes that the mother can no longer take care of herself, Simon is put to the test.

A large party hall is full of strangers and relatives. Roger navigates through it. Today is his 80th birthday, he fears it might be his last. He´s searching for his two children and he wants to tell them his goodbyes. The noise in the hall intensifies, the children don't care about Roger and the others barely even notice him. This Goddamned Noise is a surreal horror film that reflects on time and purpose in an indifferent world that only makes noise.

The film takes place in the Swedish capitol Stockholm during the year 1809. War has ravaged Europe continuously for the last seventeen years. The common citizens of Stockholm live in misery as poverty, violence and death dominate the shadowy alleys. A coup feels inevitable and the coming dissolvement of the nation is what's on everyone's lips. In a beautiful salon six nobles are hiding away from it all by partying and socializing. One night the hostess Charlotte reveals to her five guests that she will be forced to sign over her property to one of them, for fear of otherwise losing it to the rebelling antigustavians. A game begins in the candlelit salon. A game of covert intentions, manipulation and mind games as five nobles attempt to find out who of them is best suited to take over the beautfiul estate. Time passes as they're all constantly driven towards their own personal abysses. All meanwhile the sounds of gunshots and yelling echo from beyond the gilded window sills.

A surreal tale told in three chapters about a man suffering from a severe back pain. The people around him fail to understand his experience and slowly the man descends into madness and despair.

An inspiring tale about a pacifist teenager who killed a man who insulted his buddy and now has to flee an oppressive society that doesn´t understand his side. Erik Bergqvist is a young documentary filmmaker who is eager to tell the truth and create a martyr and a symbol out of his subject. The film is a satirical look at the documentary genre and how a narrative perspective and subjects can be used and misinterpreted for a larger goal. It´s a callback to the old swedish docudramas Stockholmsnatt and They Call Us Misfits about troubled teenage men in Stockholm.

An ambitious young actor has 15 minutes to read a scene and convince the short-tempered and perfectionist director that she is the right choice for his upcoming feature film. It´s a story about power dynamics that explores the importance of art and the ethical limits that exist in its creative process.

A man watches stressed people outside his window while awaiting a visitor.