Swedish Shorts 2

A father decides to lock himself and his daughter inside their apartment to avoid a virus spreading across the world.

A surreal reflection of society and its norms.

A hitchhike along a new border in eastern Armenia becomes a journey within a human landscape. People try to show us the border and share stories of how it affects their lives. They sing about the soil on the other side and mourn what has been lost. This was once an area where people of different groups lived together, but wars and forced migrations have transformed a “we” into “us and them”. The border is very real and impossible to cross. But it is abstract and invisible in the landscape. Where is it? Is it inside us?

Yoshi is about to make one last attempt at becoming an artist in New York, but first, he must explain to his 11-year-old son that the boy will be left behind in Tokyo. This doesn’t go as planned, and who knows what Yoshi had in mind.

During an evening car ride, Johan opens up and reveals a deep secret, suddenly placing him at a crucial turning point in life. Silence fills the air as Johan dares to be vulnerable, awaiting the other's reaction. This momentous event will shape their relationship in a way that lasts forever.

Margareta, 89, watches the cows run onto the spring grass and is taken back to her childhood on a farm in northern Sweden. As the cows run out, she thinks of the past and present, how farm life has changed over time.

During a late summer evening at the nightclub ''båten båten'' in Umeå, Anna meets Nils. Nils is a 30-year-old DJ and Anna is 23 and works in a nursing home. Nils and Anna fall in love at first sight and it doesn't take long before Anna notices that she is pregnant, Suddenly they are going to be parents.

Josefine installs the world's fattest bass box in her car before her evening date with Billy. Young love fills the night air, but the loud music does not impress everyone. Soon, the date turns into a battle for life and death.