Directing
Polish-Swedish journalist and documentary filmmaker.
Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.
A lovesick misfit, a mysterious beauty, a retired civil servant, a randy fortuneteller and a couple of doubtful, young, charismatic lovers meet in late summer on a Russian river cruise. They have one thing in common – similar emotional problems of suffering and doubts. However, they’ve come to the right place. River cruises in Russia are colloquially called “floating matchmaking agencies”. What does fate have in store for them?
Documentary about Lars Theodor Jonsson who was a cross country skier in the 1920s and 30s and now lives alone in the forest.
Lars Theodor Jonsson is Sami, 86 years old. Once upon a time celebrated ski king. For a couple of decades, he lives a secluded forest life in close dialogue with the animals, birds and trees. A man so deeply rooted in nature that he becomes a stranger to modern man.
The film combines the personal, political, and historical, tracing the horror of a pogrom committed against the Jewish residents of the Polish city of Kielce on the 4th of July 1946. This atrocity was committed by their neighbors, fellow Poles of Kielce. This film seeks to gain some perspective on the Kielce Pogrom, an event that has been all but scrubbed from the history of Poland. The filmmaker searches for answers, even reflecting on his own family's complicity (and perhaps more) in the event. Given the current political climate in 21st century Poland, this film is fiercely relevant today, as we must confront and combat the legacies of anti-Semitism in Europe and around the world.
The second documentary in a trilogy of films about elderly couple Hans and Kerstin Stralström. In the first film, the couple went to Argentina, where they met Guillermo and Juan. In this film, the two Argentinians travel to the cold of northern Sweden, to visit with Hans and Kerstin. Humorous culture shocks and language barriers ensue.
The third documentary in a trilogy of films about elderly couple Hans and Kerstin Stralström. This last instalment is quieter than the first two, as the couple argue and ponder whether renovation of their house is a good idea. A beautiful final portrait of the couple.
Twenty-two-year-old Oleg doesn’t live up to his mother Marina’s idea of a real man. She thinks he’s an autistic loafer. He’s enrolled at the University of Nizhny Novgorod and is supposed to be watching online lectures, but his mother says all he actually does is hang around watching TV. Oleg doesn’t have any need for friendships, either. Marina wants him to improve his life and subjects him to a series of unconventional treatments. In one particularly uncomfortable scene, we see the therapist riding him as if he were a horse. Another psychiatrist tells Oleg how useless he is and that he will always be alone. Strangely enough the camera seems to be welcome everywhere, and it closely follows these dramatic developments.
Tatiana and her daughter Valentina live in the boring, provincial town of Zhigulyovsk 1000 kilometres south-east of Moscow. Valentina, 22, works in a vodka factory, while Tatiana, 50, is a bus conductor. Valentina, whose dream is to be a TV star in Moscow, has to overcome her own limitations as well as the irony and malice of her comrades at the vodka factory. Tatiana has to adapt her expectations to reality when her potential life partner turns out to be a part-time drunkard and a deadbeat. And on top of all this, both women have to think about Valentina’s son Danilo’s future. One of them has to give up the dream.
On 12 March 1999 Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Bronisław Geremek, handed to the United States Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, the act of Poland’s accession to NATO. In such a way, Poland became a member of NATO. The efforts made by Polish politicians and diplomats of various political stands date back to the beginning of the 90s – the collapse of the Warsaw Pact structure and the time of Lech Wałęsa’s presidency. Accession to NATO was the main objective of Polish diplomacy.
A dramatic depiction of honor, family feuds and thousand-year-old traditions. In Albania, the tradition of avenging an injustice according to the motto "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" still lives on. This has led to people being trapped in their homes for fear of being murdered due to a family feud.
About an old couple in northern Sweden who discovered the love of tango and attended a dance course. During the four-month filming, the camera not only watched her painstaking attempts to learn the difficult steps, but also ups and downs of her everyday life.
The documentary follows the Englishman Mark Atkin in search of both his Jewish past and the family treasure which his father had told him about and has been an object of familial fascination for decades
A project that would initially be about alternative young people develops into a film about a cocky girl, Elle, who grows up with a mother who has a hard time showing emotions. Elle's upbringing is a struggle for acceptance. To get it both inside and outside the family, she seeks out spectacular expressions, provocative clothes and destructive behaviors.
Gawryło was a convicted felon, who felt a religious awakening. His main goal now is to become an orthodox monk.
A Russian producer, with his directing wife, will make a documentary in Sweden about Scandinavian mentality. Maybe the project can save their marriage. The wife and daughter arrive in Sweden, but the producer does not show up and this is not the first time. He is still in Moscow, drunk and happy.
