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The year was 1916, we follow Sire’s everyday life, until her final moments. We are a part of her little world and get to see how big that little world can be. How rich it’s in emotions, sounds and memories. Sire reminds us of life, not death. She was my Máttaráhkku, great-grandmother, and my grandfather was 10.
A documentary on social dancing in Sweden and the culture surrounding it.
Rakel is a strict Christian believer living in the far north of Sweden in the 1930s. When her husband forms a sectarian movement, with directions straight from God, she has no choice but to join the increasingly explicit cult.
A dance film by Maja Lindström in collaboration with choreographer Anna Vnuk. Awarded Best Musical Composition, Georgetown Indy Short Film Festival, Washington DC.
A woman's perspective of the Swedish Torne valley culture from childhood during the 90's to early noughties, adulthood and into 2050, told through the creation of a traditional Torne valley bread that takes her through space and time.
The year is 1995. It knocks on the door of "Greedy Arne" Nyman's dilapidated house. It is Death who has come to take him. Greedy Arne is not worried of Death, he is more afraid of door-to-door sellers, but he has something vital to deal with first. It will be the beginning of a walk with Death by his side, which continues in an old rusty Volvo 240.
Nils Jönsson wants to retire in peace and quiet but when Norrbotten is threatened by Germans he teams up with journalist Sara to save the day once again!
A lone Finnish soldier meets a lone Russian soldier at the border.
A documentary about abuse and mental illness among young people in Sapmí.
Travelling across vast swathes of the Scandinavian hinterland, the life of the herdswoman is under threat from the ruthless global appetite for resource.
Elin and Jennie’s parents are separated and have an infected relationship. Depicted from the two sister’s perspective we follow them through their everyday life dealing with parental intrigues.
A man who lives in isolation tries to make contact with a boy who doesn't know that the man is his father.
"The Childhood Friend." - Tomas lives with her parents. One day, his father's cousin Serkuu comes to visit. At first Serkuu wins Tomas's trust but later he brutally let's him down. Fifteen years later, Tomas has become a police officer and takes his service revolver when calls on Serkuu to retaliate.
About a boy, with Meänkieli as his mother tongue, takes his first moped trip on the day he turns 15. He is stopped by local policeman, who also speaks Meänkieli. An unpleasant situation arises and the boy becomes abused.
"If you wish to stay together this long don't ever forget to say good night, my darling, and good morning, dear." Veikko and Impi Schroderus (78) built a house in Pelkosenniemi, Finnish Lapland in the beginning of 1950's. At the time, a state-owned hydroelectric company, Kemijoki Oy, started harnessing the rivers of Lapland. When the company presented its plan to build the Vuotos reservoir, the area to be drowned was inhibited by 150 people including Veikko and Impi. Now they are alone. The fight over Vuotos reservoir has lasted over forty years. In 1982 the Finnish government decided that the reservoir wouldn't be built, but the company didn't give up. A decade later a new government decided that the company can apply Water Court for the permission to build the reservoir, and the fight was on again. Despite the long fight, Veikko and Impi haven't given up hope. They still love their home.
At school they used to call him Bázo, a Sami expression for a slightly retarded person. In his village they still use the name behind his back. In a way it is true. Emil is not the smartest person in the little mountain village where he lives with his father. he never even learned how to read or write properly.
Documentary about an eclectic group of students from all corners of the planet at one of the world's top industrial design schools in Sweden's faraway north just below the Arctic Circle. The film explores everyday life and dynamic design processes at Umeå Institute of Design during the school's 25th anniversary when traditionally generous and export-driven Sweden has decided to impose steep tuition fees for non-Europeans, the very students instrumental in making the school what it is today.
A love affair between a Swedish nurse and a Russian prisoner of war during World War II.