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- An examination of how the traditions of the Sami villagers in northern Sweden is confronted with modern day society.
- Lonely medical student Frank is pleased with his flat, a quiet place to focus on his coming exams. But when he meets the girl upstairs, the intrusive Lotte, he realizes there is something wrong with the place. Each time he leaves his apartment, Frank is scared... the talkative concierge, the annoying child, the love-sick Lotte, her brutal ex-boyfriend and above all, her new jealous boyfriend, the scary Micke, they all seem to be Frank's enemies.
- "Kicki has after several years abroad returned to Sweden. Her 17-year old son has been brought up by his grandmother and has a very distant relationship to his mother. In an effort to get reacquainted Kicki invites her son to join her on vacation in Taiwan. But her hidden agenda is that Taipei is also the home of the Taiwanese businessman with whom she has been conducting an Internet romance".
- Olle, an introverted, well-mannered boy with an air of innocence and sincerity about him has been camping with his father at the same camping ground with several other people for years now. A sort of tradition that ends in a karaoke party. Then one summer, a family friend brings her reticent 'city boy' nephew, Kevin, and his pet budgerigar. Olle accidentally releases the bird and what follows is a discovery of friendship and love between the guy who has grown up in a loving environment and simply accepts love for what it is and the guy who's apparently been burned too many times in his own circle to feel comfortable with it.
- Wanting to know the ways of people, a pelican turns into a gawky young man who soon learns to speak, thanks to his outstanding talent in imitation. He befriends Emil and Elsa, two children who--unlike adults--see that their new neighbor "Mr Berd" is not human but a big bird wearing a suit. The Pelican Man lands a job at the opera and falls in love with a pretty ballerina, looking so much like a bird herself. Troubles start when adults too find out about "Mr Berd's" ornithological origin.
- Minoo returns to her family in Sweden to attend her sister Gita's wedding. Her mother and father believe that she has disgraced the family having worked as a stripper.
- A stream of consciousness, a journey, a wonder of human beings, life and the world, of the corporeal and what can not be seen, but there is. A woman traveling around the world. We follow her to Ireland, Iceland, India, Spain and Egypt, where she faces both real and fictional people.
- The tiny village in the far north of Sweden called Ensamheten (Solitude) has sixteen inhabitants. They all share an unusual passion - armwrestling. Among them is 22-year-old Heidi Andersson, three times a world champion. Here is a varied life. One day in the forest with the other lumberjacks, the next she is in the big city modelling bridal gowns. She hunts moose with her mother and talks about boys with her father. The village is a cooperative and they are all behind this slender woman as she takes on the world.
- The twelve-year old Carmen has to stay at home during the summer while most other people are on holiday. She plays with the the younger children Anders and Kerstin. The much older boy or young man Bengt-Olof is a little bit retarded and has no other friends of his own age. Therefore he frightens and mobs the younger children in the neighbourhood who first try to flee him. But after some days they plan their revenge...
- Lara is an aggressive feminist who meets Adam while shooting her documentary on feminism. Between those two we see a unique relationship form.
- The author Thomas meets his childhood friend Hoffman on an autumn night in 1997. They decide to let a dream come true: to make a film of a play by Thomas, Veranda for a Tenor, with Hoffman in the lead role. The story takes us back to the summer of 1961, which changed their lives. The writing of the script awakens memories and forbidden questions are answered. Their friendship is put to the test a final time. Veranda for a tenor is a film about male friendship, but also about love. Their love for the same woman...
- In this sober and moody documentary, Danish director Anders Østergaard explores the life, and death, of Swedish wonder kid jazz pianist Jan Johansson through a rain-soaked windshield. A very well-produced documentary about a fascinating, brilliant and mysterious musician.
- A look at post-9/11 America by the Danish documentarian.
- Kerstin is 7 years old and has been abandoned by her best friend, Ingegerd. In Shirley Temple's loving look she finds a new friend. She can trust her completely.
- Jon Bang Carlsen travels through South Africa looking into the problems between black and whites after apartheid.
- A contemporary documentary film about four teenage girls as fearless, but on wobbly legs takes a step from nine to high school, from the teen chaos on the way to adulthood.
- In the nineties, Carolina Falkholt lived in New York and painted graffiti with the city's underground elite. Today, she is an established artist in fine culture who wants to stir up debate about sexuality with her gigantic murals of gender. In this film, she returns to the United States to work where she experience the resistance is strongest. After painting a giant penis on a house facade, she ends up in an American legal process that could threaten her future in the country. While the reactions and debates around her are hailing, she is forced to fight with both external and internal demons to make her voice heard.
- A traveling salesvan makes a stop once a week in a small rural village in Sweden. The camera follows the daily lives of two of its solitary elderly inhabitants: Greta, 90 who has decided to take up residence in a rest home as her final abode, and Albert, 79 who lives with his three cats in a rundown house surrounded by weeds. Both of them, who strive to live true to themselves as they look back on their lives, deal with their own subtle anxieties before reaching natural decisions.
- Documentary about one of Spain's few female bull-fighters, Cristina Sánchez, and her career, from small provincial arenas to the bullfighting arena in Madrid and the hardships of being a woman in a male-dominated sport.
- A film about the memory. Poetic and scientific musings about our world of concepts. What would life be without memory? What actually happens to us who put a large part of the memory in the computer? An art historian, a neurologist, a psychoanalyst, a philosopher, a myth researcher, etc. give their opinion on what memory means in our daily life and for our human conditions.
- Aligermaa - eight years old - sits on a horse as if born to do so. She lives in Mongolia, together with her father, mother and her big and little brother. On the open-wide steppes, where the wind whistles and the sky is an endless, colourful panorama, the family lives in harmony with the harsh and breathtaking nature. However, in Aligermaa's world, the horse is absolutely crucial and so everybody is eagerly awaiting the magnificent annual horse race, where all of the children will take part.
- The place is a hospital room with four seriously ill patients. The death angel comes to get one of them.
- A film about people and buildings. The film takes us through a Bucharest of the 1990's where we meet six different persons, six different characters and their relation to their houses and homes.
- A young man from Sweden comes to a small town in Portugal in search of his father who he never knew.