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A nuclear power plant worker obsessed with counting has set a maximum limit on how much electricity he wants to consume. The energy that should have lasted him for the rest of his life is slowly running out, forcing him to decide on its final use. 3 MWh is a film poem about degrowth and shows what it would look like if man stopped putting themselves at the centre of nature. 16mm analogue footage digitally damaged by recorded electrical discharges based on the protagonist's voice demonstrates the relationship between man and material reality.

A bird called Memory has forgotten how to come back home. Lua, a trans woman, tries to find Memory in the streets, bud the city can be a hostile place.

Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.

Two kids explore the dreamworld they create when they play together. The world contains a lot of mystery and suspense. Is everything real, or is it all just a fantasy?

Vera, 13, engages in self-harm and ends up in the emergency room. The news of a six-month wait for specialist help upsets her mother. Dealing with this crisis very differently, there seems to be a surmountable distance between mother and daughter. Is it possible for them to re-connect?

While the townsfolk are celebrating the village's anniversary parade, Étienne tries the impossible: to show them how beautiful his family’s cacophony really is.

This is the story of the talented carpenter Per Strandell's life's work - The Elk Sofa. Built a hundred years ago for one of Sweden's wealthiest men, it is a piece of furniture that carries a history of shattered dreams, betrayal, and tragic demise.

Ali has run his car workshop in Lillpite outside Piteå in Norrbotten for 5 years. The car workshop has become an important meeting place for the residents of the otherwise sleepy village. Now Ali has once again had his application for a permanent residence permit rejected and has decided to leave Sweden. The country he has been trying to become a part of for so long. How does this affect Ali, his employees and the residents of the village?

Buenos Aires, 2019. A museum security gard has an unexpected premonition that makes her improve her economy in an unstable country in constant crisis. This change has an impact, in turn, not only on her professional path, but also on her love life.

The public discourse has become increasingly aggressive, and Daniel witnesses this firsthand when he encounters an angry man on the streets of Gothenburg, Sweden. The storyteller is the “leftie Fag” Daniel, accused by the angry man of throwing stones in the city. After the accusation, he is shocked and calls his mother in Colombia, who says that barking dogs do not bite. But does it hold the truth? The search becomes a reflection of nowadays Sweden, showing both angry men and helpful fellow human beings.

Under a scorching sun, Charlie is bored out of her mind and dreams of going to the seaside. But she's forced to guard a seedy motel with her cousin Jess, who's slumped in her deckchair. The two teenagers don't get along and bicker at every opportunity. On the radio, the monotone voice of a collapsology researcher predicts the imminent end of the world and suddenly erupts into reality.

In summer 2021 Kabul falls to Taliban, members of the Under-18 Afghan Women’s Football Team attempt a daring evacuation from their homeland. Ayenda tells the thrilling story of how the girls escaped with their lives, and the improbable network that banded together to get them out.

A husband and wife married for 5 years, own a Odong-Odong at the carnival together, spending their days entertaining and taking care of other people’s children without any of their own. Between meddling relatives, self-doubt and an explosive confrontation, they uncover why they have not been blessed with a child.

The Nordic Chamber Orchestra, German Violin Virtuoso Kolja Blacher and Tonmeister Hans Kipfer has crafted an inventive musical cinematic masterpiece. With Beethoven's devout music in absolute focus, this production brings further deep and beauty to his Violin Concerto.

Adventure racing is the toughest sport on the planet. Follow the Swedish team SAFAT during the world championships in South-Africa in 2023 during a grueling yet amazing 920 km long race. It took them beyond everything they thought was possible.

Black Sheep is a story about memories, longing and search for security and for a new life.

This 2D animated tale explores themes of spirituality, the circle of life, and the importance of resilience in the face of adversity. With a focus on inspiring and guiding children, it encourages them to keep moving forward, teaching essential life lessons about determination, resilience, and the beauty of life's journey.

This summer, Ksyusha has to spend it harvesting blueberries in the forest of Kiev with her mother and sister to earn a living for her family. But she is distracted, waiting for her lover Misha. As they flirt, they go deeper and deeper into the forest, unaware of the danger.

Blur: To the End depicts to the most recent chapter in the band’s story, captured during the period in which they made a surprise – and emotional – return with their first record in 8 years, the critically acclaimed #1 album “ The Ballad of Darren”.  

"Body Framed" is a short documentary film about the female body that explores our relationship with our bodies and how it changes throughout the time.

A choreographic interpretation of the mental strategies that are utilized in basketball. Under the guidance of Coach John Mosley, Head Coach of East Los Angeles College Men’s Basketball team, Micaela Taylor and Jermaine Spivey portray themes of disruption, confrontation, and resistance in the context of both the court and the relationships we hold.

In this playful experiment, we look within our own human body, where spirited body parts act as the voices in our head. A seemingly calm surface can be something totally different on the inside. Breathe is a playful short exploring the problem when your inner voices are giving you opposite advise regarding a decision to be made.

BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT is a short animated documentary exploring near-death experiences through five culturally diverse narratives, using real audio recordings.

Two young soldiers across enemy lines fall in love and find escape from their oppressive environments through music.

13-year-old Jackie and her friend Nova test their limits among horses, drugs and EPA tractors in a rural village.

The girl draws a circle on the ground. Passersby step into it, one by one. Soon the circle is full of people, struggling to stay within. Once the girl returns and erase the circle, people start heading their way.

It's a story about generations of women traveling through time and space to find safety. And how an island up north, maybe the start of reconciliation.

Told by the pioneering women who participated in it and built from archive unseen for fifty years, this is the extraordinary story of the 1971 Women’s Soccer World Cup, a tournament witnessed by record crowds that has been written out of sporting history – until now.

Mila struggles as she remains unpaid at work and a love interest becomes a source of comfort through his constant phone calls. But a promise of hope may also lead to tragedy and sad love songs.

What is a woman’s greatest sin? Her sacrifice to reach perfection? Crucifiga gives the audience a glimpse of a distant future where human kind and artificial intelligence has synergised into an android species; created and shaped into 'perfection' by the image of our icons. Tiled rooms repeated endlessly where symmetrical movements fill their void. An equal endless pursuit of perfection where old roles and stereotypes are hard-coded into each new generation. Glimpses of code are seen in repeated chores which have mutated into synchronized rituals. All accompanied by the banging of washing machines and dystopian soundscapes of noise and synthesizers.

One day, a girl living in a village sees blood on her panties. She’s having menstruation, but she doesn’t know what it is. She hesitates to ask someone and tries to discover on her own. She finally finds an answer, but that answer is only the part of the cycle she’s in.

Three loosely intertwined stories of betrayal and human weakness take place on the same day in a small Swedish town.

Disa discover's that a magic pen makes everything she writes down come true.

The road holds a promise of freedom. In this 16 mm short it acts a form, metaphor and a cinematic mythology as a phantasmagorical mixtape about being and becoming a truck driver unfolds.

Ana lives in the inner city of the suburbs of Rimini. Despite her being just a little girl, her childhood is denied by her mother Tamara, who always takes her during the burglaries. Something happens during one burglary and puts a glimmer of light to Ana’s mind: the chance of having a normal life.

Doris & Bettan – retired women enjoying the hard sun on a Spanish beach. Topless, smoking and sipping on cocktails. After complaints from a guest the manager tries to kick them out, but he is in for a surprise.

Edouard has been living in Port-au-Prince with just his daughter Zara for five years. Since his wife left, his daughter and him have only received a cassette from her, and that was a long time ago. After years of absence, what can we expect from a distant love?

La Cañada, Europe’s largest slum on the outskirts of Madrid, has been without electricity for over a year. In the firelight, Toni, a 13 year-old boy, discovers that his best friend Nasser is leaving forever. Amongst Roma legends of a possible future, Toni looks for a way to stay connected to him.

How will our eyes compare in a world that requires perfection, good grades and attractive CVs?

A bird hits a window of a café and disrupts its customers. A woman faces a decision on whether to ignore nature or to react.

Six year old Johan, a.k.a. Fimpen, loves football. One day his talents are discovered. It doesn't take long before Fimpen gets to travel around with the national team. Fimpen becomes an idol and media wants a piece of him all the time. It gets hard to catch up in school.

A woman discovers a solitary man at a barbecue site in the forest, despite the current ban on open fires.

A box is a box is a box. Sometimes though it's just a matter of perspective to discover something completely different behind it.

Would you still perform your art, even if nobody was watching? That’s a question Tevin faces everyday. After 26 years of professional playing Jai Alai - the fastest ball game in the world- Tevin is trying to bring back the crowds to the court. While remembering the glorious past of this sport in Miami, he tries everything in order to play one last match with a stadium full of people.

Dogs walking on the breakdown lane, bachelorettes partying in the car and a bored child looking for something to do. Thousands of impatient travellers are trapped in the traffic jam of the century. Ahead lies the Gotthard mountain, one of the longest tunnels in the world, the gateway to the sunny South. Glued to the asphalt, climate activists are heating up the mood even more. Who will snap first.

Two female cable car operators fall in love as pass each other in their gondolas.

Once the bell rings, you're on your own... A vivid encounter with former three time Czech National Boxing Champion. Experience the rise and fall in the career of a female fighter.

In a winter wonderland two friends are having a blast ice-skating on a frozen lake when suddenly a strange and unfamiliar world cracks open underneath them. Now they must learn how to deal with the other kind, not letting the fear and preconceptions rule.

I want to play volleyball, but I don't anymore. That's why I made this film: to approach the sport again after a break caused by hotpants and body hatred.

In an apartment in a city under curfew, a day expands from early Spring to late Summer. A couple experiences a disconnect. While Alba searches for a feeling of optimism in the interior of the house, Xavier escapes out into the garden, where he dedicates himself to cultivating a vegetable garden. There, he befriends a child. These dreamlike encounters awaken hope in him, but also the biggest fears.

Director duo Olofsson-Davis has crafted their own unique style, both in storytelling and through their eccentric characters. In 2022, we showcased Samses, and several of the cast members are recognizable in this year’s film, where Gunnar’s bromance with the troubadour Milton takes center stage. A birthday celebration at sea, complete with a catchy 80s-inspired dance floor, contrasts with scenes around Gunnar’s solitary cabin in the woods, before culminating in a bizarre mix of paranoia and party.

After the technological singularity dissolved man into time and space, a fragment of human memory lives on in a computer-like consciousness. HYPNOSUGGESTION is a collaboration between a human and an AI, a hypnotic sci-fi thriller consisting only of still images generated by an AI; an examination of our memory and subconsciousness.

Kościerzyna, a small town in northern Poland today. Majka, 18, is convinced that she is possessed. She decides to meet Father Marek Rogala, an exorcist priest.

Laura has recently lost her mother, and in her fear of being alone, she tricks her daughter into attending a parent-child retreat to work on their strained relationship. However, it quickly becomes apparent that this is not an ordinary retreat when they are forced to wear pink uniforms along with other children and parents.

Three members of an extended Afghan family start their lives over in Iran as refugees, unaware they face a decades-long struggle ahead to be “at home”.

A film about the limits of the body and the boundless mind.

Everything seems "normal" in the city of Los Santos in the video game GTA V: people meet to barbecue in the garden, visit the amusement park, lie on the beach and sunbathe. And yet the world is marked by a grave absence: children. The taboo that children could be hurt in the digital combat zone is so severe that the development company preferred to leave them out altogether "for their own safety".

Oscar-nominated Danish film starring Leif Andrée as Karl, a newly widowed man in a mortuary drama that explores the anxiety surrounding the death of a loved one. Naturally, it’s easier to fix a broken light than to open a coffin lid. The stranger Torben becomes an unexpected support.

The loss of a loved one, the grief, the risk of yellow skin, and a coffin, that is too much for Karl to face.

In a town erased from the maps where there's not even electricity, a girl dreams of boxing. When she learns her uncle will box for the world title and it will be broadcast live on tv, she and the community will do everything to watch the fight, while battling oblivion.

An extraordinary child makes a friend for the first time.

To please Cecile, Tom agrees to adopt her dead neighbour’s Chihuahua. Actress Greta is crushed. Her dog and her assistant both died, run over by a bus. Franck and Lola fall in love at first sight. They have so much in common, except Lola doesn’t like dogs.

To please Cecile, Tom agrees to adopt her dead neighbour’s Chihuahua. Actress Greta is crushed. Her dog and her assistant both died, run over by a bus. Franck and Lola fall in love at first sight. They have so much in common, except Lola doesn’t like dogs.

Two babies are waiting to be born. One is an ordinary child. The second is a trickster. Twins are already itself a trickster prank of the nature. But here, next to an ordinary child, there is a visual copy of him breaking all the rules from the beginning.

A teenage girl spends the night before the most important day of her life (AKA the day she starts high school) preparing. Through increasingly desperate actions she crafts herself into the person that she thinks she wants to be.

During a cold winter night, the two friends Tom and Pete discuss a life-altering decision in a small cabin in the woods. Suddenly the night turns into a psychological nightmare, for one of them.

The movie is based on Barbro Lindgrens popular and absurd comical books.

An intimate portrait of creativity colliding with chaos. Gary Young, drummer for indie-rock icons Pavement, injected a wild-card unpredictability into the band’s breakthrough, lo-fi sound. But those same gonzo impulses derailed his rock star dream.

Fatma and her two daughters, Najeh and Waffeh, are machtat, wedding musicians in Mahdia, a small city in Tunisia. The sisters follow opposite paths: while Najeh, divorced, try to remarry to escape the authornity for her brothers, Waffeh wishes to divorce her violent husband. And Fatma navigates between the two, praying that things will go better one day.

The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA.

Pleasure and desire through the memory and intimacy of three women over 65.

When a strange child appears in the woods, Skalde and her estranged mother have to join forces to protect the girl from the village community.

Joel and My are torn between breaking up or giving the relationship another try. A situation they have been in so many times before. A struggle between following your heart or letting rationality make the decision.

Can you really have your cheese and eat it too?

The film portrays Linnea, a strong and young woman, who tries to follow her dream of becoming a truck driver. The journey is not straight. With a large amount of snus under the lip, four cats and some self-irony, she energetically takes on the challenges in Åsele. But through Linnea, we see that it is in the rural depopulated places, life can be most exciting and unpredictable.

Sylvie and Karim have given it a lot of thought. At every breakfast and on every walk from the loo to the bathroom. They’re ready to put the money they earned from scrubbing toilets and cleaning up the Bellevue Hotel into Sylvie’s latest aspiration: acquiring a domestic football player.

It took 7 days to create the world, it only took one to disrupt its balance.

It is the last day of the year and night falls on the small town of Toyama, Japan. A man goes to the public bath to retrieve a forgotten object. But once inside, the promise of a hot bath compels him to stay.

After the birth of her first child, Diane disappears in an unknown city, but her body reawakens her memories and what she is fleeing from.

The workers at the recycling market sort through what people no longer need. But as the northern city grows they face the perspective of becoming obsolete themselves.

A king and a queen have almost everything: love, pets and a flourishing garden, but something is missing. Where is the princess?

In an ocean full of big, bad fish, the pufferfish is trying to seem as big and strong as possible.

What if escaping into the imaginary world was the key to coping better with life's trials and tribulations? That's what Mylan does when she's overwhelmed by the fear of losing her grandfather.

Qirat is a film loosely based around the reconstruction of an oral family story surrounding a robbery that took place in the lush green valley of Fez, located in northern Morocco during the 1980s.

Employees in the Greek Parliament deal with boredom and antagonistic co-workers. They navigate their existential anxiety through the common areas of their historic office building, burdening them with its inescapable, rich history. Power games make tensions rise, causing them to break out in song. Music will make them earnest, understanding and will (hopefully) set them free before it’s too late.

"Äkta, Starka, Dolda" delves into the deep, unspoken bond between two brothers. As the older brother leaves home, their poignant final conversation explores their profound, unexpressed love, encapsulated in gestures and body language.

Red House is an animation that playfully explores metamorphosis in relation to the stability and structure of housing. Created using the AMIGA computer console and Deluxe Paint IV software, hand drawn sequences delight in the constant reconfiguration of images, characters and forms.

A 2D animation film about a deaf girl who has exceptional artistic talent but struggles with an overwhelming soundscape. Many deaf symbols and motifs are conveyed through her lens. The film is a visual and collective representation of deaf people’s childhood stories.

A film about a house and an idea. About the art of taking care of your community. About opening spaces for young people. About the word TOGETHER – for the true entrepreneurs of culture and democracy – across generations. About still making the impossible possible.

Anatomy of a stadium. Cable men, labourers, policemen, stewards, gardeners, tv technicians and supporters compose the backstage of the relentless ritual of football, staging an hypnotic still life made of rains and nocturnal mists, as we approach the destination on the champions’ bus.

One of the most common ways to reply to just about anything you're asked or told in Swedish, is not by using words. No. The most common answer is a sound, comprised of the sound of "M" with your lips shut and a series of tonal variations depending on what you want to convey. It's a most reliable and versatile sound.

The film shows three people, each emptying the dishwasher in an otherwise dark and empty room with only a spotlight on each person. In the film, the people focus on trying to move plates, glasses and cutlery as silently as possible in and out of the dishwasher. This creates a kind of humorous choreography of everyday chores with exaggerated movements to avoid making as little noise as possible.

Sevanik is a small dragon who lives in Lake Sevan and has only one friend, a fluffy cloud. The cloud follows Sevanik's every move and emotion. But one day, while exploring outside of the lake, Sevanik gets bitten by a mosquito. This event leads to unexpected changes in their lives and friendship.

We meet the person behind Sara Parkman's strong stage persona, as a new album begins to take shape based on a topic Sara has long avoided - love.

In the spin cycle of the washing machine, a pair of socks gets lost from sight! How terrible, the sock thinks at first, until it really notices the other garments for the first time. These new acquaintances put the sock friendship to the test. But the sock couple manages to accept that they both have their own interests. It's a film about friendship and openness to new things.

Legna and her cat Mira land on a planet in a small rocket with only have one goal in mind : to catch a Star ! However, gravity makes their mission almost impossible...

A sunflower prefers not to look at the sun and discovers a totally different world.

A short animated documentary exploring the immigration experience through the eyes of children learning how to swim with clothes on in the Netherlands.

A fed up food delivery worker chooses a split second act of rebellion - one that results in an awkward, spiraling dance between the classes of 21st century Sweden.

High on the cliffs in the peaceful forest, Golem opens its eyes. Then accidentally, Golem becomes a bridge for the forest animals to travel between the cliffs. One day, the event happens.

Maria and Peppe are competing in a bike race for charity. Every minute counts, and yet, Peppe has to stop to pee. Just a minor set back, though, right. Right...?

A son takes his father out to his favourite place.

Far away from home, a young emigrant woman uses the long summer days to delve into the worlds of the digital streaming.

In a love story set in a world where the Moon is very close to Earth, The Captain’s Wife is in love with The Deaf One but the Captain has a plan to win her back by selling more moon milk to The General and his men. A plan that the Old Captain think will be devastating for inhabitants of the village.

A whistle. The stands of the stadium get loud. The players protest angrily. The presenters follow the action on the field. In the middle of it, the referee. The whole stadium watches him. Now he has to decide and direct the energy of an entire stadium.

Can hedgehog swim?

A heartfelt story of the beloved Argentinian merry-go-round operators who have dedicated their lives to providing fun and happiness to children and their neighborhoods. This is a story of perseverance and community above the individual.

Tells the empowering story of an abused single mother working at a small-town newspaper who gets drawn into the investigation surrounding the missile crash, which upends life in a small northern village.

As a magical moon creeps in, different timelines entwine in the mysterious and stagnant town of Manzanillo.

In a small town in northern Sweden, two strangers meet outside a club and decide to go on an adventure together through warm summer night. An adventure that leads to a tale of growth, love and dance. One thing is for sure, the night belongs to them.

The Queen of Basketball is an Academy Award® winning, electrifying portrait of Lusia “Lucy” Harris, who scored the first basket in women’s Olympic history and was the first and only woman officially drafted into the N.B.A. Despite her incredible accomplishments, Harris, who died unexpectedly on January 18, has remained largely unknown — until now. Here, she shares her story in her own words.

15-year-old Gustav is vegan and straight edge in 90s Umeå. One night, he follows his friend Zeke, full of hatred against the meat industry, to the town's slaughterhouse with gasoline-filled bottles. It will be a night that changes Gustav forever.

The shadow of the war on art reaches all the way to the north of Sweden in this fragmentary feel bad-comedy with a vintage feeling. In a slow tempo, the situation for today’s artists melts together with the early 1900s labor activists.

On a beach in the South of France, the young Ali spins over a high bar. This modern- day acrobat introduces us to another form of gymnastics, the one of the street. An undisciplined discipline. Freestyle is to gymnastics what Breakdance is to dance. A culture where the body becomes an object to express itself. It is a way for Ali to break free from established rules and feel free.

Titanic, broadcasting suitable version for Iranian families, with fantastic visuals and everlasting sound for the first time from Iranian national TV.

Bernard works behind the windows of a ticket booth at the Town Hall Square subway station and is waiting for something he seems to have forgotten. One day, however, a little tiger shows up and turns Bernard's orderly life upside down. A short film about an unexpected visitor, annoying radio songs and the lust for life!

Can poetry, music, and art process traumatic experiences? The film, originating from an art project, aims to highlight and give a voice to young women's stories about difficult experiences. With a gentle touch, words, images, and music are intertwined.

For three years, the director Johan Palmgren follows the life in five villages far away up north in Sweden, along a road north of Torneträsk. The strange thing is that the road starts and ends in the wilderness, it’s not connected to the road network.

This hybrid documentary takes us on a journey into a world without men. The island tradition is, that the women choose the image that will represent them in their grave after they’re gone. Realuty and subconscious mix, as the author questions: “How does it feel to have a family tree consisting only of women? What do our ancestress’ whisper from their silent portraits?”

Vera discovers her own sexual desires as she listens to other people’s pleasure.

Outside the bar sits a young couple, Nora and Anton. They are drinking beer, talking about whether or not they should have an abortion. Nora is angry, but about what? Anton is trying to understand, but they can’t have a child just because this happened. Or can they?

Stina Wirsén's beloved figures have grown up, and the new generation gets to take their place on film. There are great feelings when the stuffed animals come along to the preschool. It's so hard not to compare yourself (and your stuffed animal) to others!

Stina Wirsén's beloved figures have grown up, and the new generation gets to take their place on film. There are great feelings when the stuffed animals come along to the preschool. It's so hard not to compare yourself (and your stuffed animal) to others!

Patrick invites his friend Nelson for a last night of drinking, before Nelson moves to Gothenburg. But instead of a night of celebtration; it becomes a night of confrontation when Patrick orders a mysterious drink.

Cheri-lee is inconsolable when her Granny Daisy dies. As Daisy ascends, she sees Cheri-lee’s grief, and returns as a little white egg that transforms into a butterfly. A metamorphosis that mirrors Cheri-lee’s stages of grief.

A scruffy yellow street dog ekes out a miserable existence on a rubbish dump. He yearns to love and be loved. Could the little boy that brings him food be the answer to his prayers?