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SmĂĄstaden is about the small town of Larstad (like Karlstad, but Lars) where Sweden's youngest and most unwilling municipal councilor Simon Hoffman is tasked with saving the town from total decay.
Game and sports fan Bosse embarks on a crazy hunt for the big money on race tracks and football fields. Soon he is being hunted by the media and prosecutors. A series inspired by the real events that shook Sweden sports in the early 90s.
A ragtag group of public sector employees battle not only their own discord but also a bloodthirsty killer during a seemingly innocuous retreat.
The year is 1989 and Stefan works as a bus driver between Norrland and Murmansk. With him on the journeys is the Russian interpreter Jana which he has fallen in love with. He is prepared to do everything to win her love, but her mother sets an ultimatum - get a safe front door. Stefan has competition from a Russian and soon the contest is on, "who can give the mother the best door".
Ulph (Adam Lundgren) is in the hospital since he suffered from a serious form of earworm. Rednex's unmistakable "Cotton Eye Joe" ruins his life and drives him to the brink of insanity. The all-too-familiar phenomenon takes on physical form in Patrik Eklund's psychological thriller with a comic undertone.
Annbritt, a once-promising badminton player, has been going downhill ever since 1983, attributing her defeat in the Swedish championship final to an erroneous referee call. Almost 40 years later, Annbritt has hit rock bottom and can only look upwards. Determined to gain what was unjustly stolen from her, she sets out to achieve an unthinkable comeback. A tragicomic story of rebirth that applauds a troubled soul’s struggle to regain self-respect.
Struggling from the collapse of his career and a sudden unsurmountable tax debt, American immigrant George English stumbles onto the fact that there is a 50 million SEK reward for solving the murder of Olof Palme. He assembles a crew of misfits to assist him as he begins to imagine that solving this seemingly unsolvable crime of the century could be the answer to all of his problems, but as the deeper they go into the labyrinth the more dangerous their journey becomes.
Frank finds his wife dead in the bathtub. He can't handle the sudden loss and nearly implodes. Frank's best friend Lars tries his best to cheer him up but without any success.
The Swedish engineer Eugene Laestander has pushed the climate crisis to the history books, but mankind has not yet come to terms with its own worst enemy. Finito is a witty and humorous future dystopia with a twinkle in the eye.
A promising badminton player in her youth, Annbritt lost the Swedish championship finals in 1983, and, three decades later, she still hasn’t recovered from the defeat. Convinced that the loss was the result of the umpire’s missed call, she has since spiraled downward, a bottle of alcohol her constant companion. Buoyed by the unflagging enthusiasm of her son Matthias, who eagerly awaits her comeback, Annbritt is persuaded to train for a rematch against her old rival, in true Rocky Balboa style. But is the embittered, often-pickled aging athlete up to the challenge? Oscar nominee Patrik Eklund’s offbeat comedy with a heart holds out the hope that life just possibly might offer second chances.
Follows Marcus Tell and Ann Wilding, the Swedish police's most unlikely duo, forced to unite when their seemingly vastly different investigations lead to the same dramatic conclusion: an attack during Stockholm's Nobel Week.
An anatomical PowerPoint presentation about why a man has become the way he is.
There is something going on in the small town of Backberga. The towns proud telecom company Unicom is just about to launch a new modern profile when they discover that there is something lurking in the outskirts of Backberga. An accident triggers a power failure, which leads to a chain of events,mishaps and love stories. Flicker is a warm comic story about people trying to find their place within the modern society.
A lone Finnish soldier meets a lone Russian soldier at the border.
The time of change is on the threshold for fifty-three-year-old Kaj, who recently has started to question his authority as Sensei. After a workplace accident, Kaj is forced to find a way out of the past and a way into the present.
A man who still lives with his parents tries to realize his dream of becoming a magician.
As we celebrate Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest directors of all time, we asked how his legacy has affected Swedish filmmakers of today. Bergman Revisited is a compilation of six very different films, spanning from Bergmanesque drama to animated critical satire.
A group of scientists gathers to discuss the origin of a mysterious skull found 300 meters below the antarctic ice.
In room 1112 at hotel Riverton during Göteborg's 2011 film festival, director Jonas Selberg Augustsén brings together some of Sweden's most famous film workers and asks a question: "Are the celluloid film about to die, and what do you think it means for the moving image?" The film is inspired by Wim Wender's 1982 documentary, Chambre 666.
Over the years, those small sticking points pervading Krister and Kristina Carnemos's marriage have filled them both with doubts over a future together.
