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Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Swedish
Description
After the end of a long marriage, Britt-Marie is starting over at age 63. In the small town of Borg, the only job she can find is quite challenging: to coach the town’s youth soccer team. Based on the bestselling novel by author Fredrik Backman (A Man Called Ove).
22) Who Talks
Publisher
New Europe Film Sales
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Swedish
Description
The new refugee home for children is being discussed at a public council meeting. Two people standing on opposite sides try to get heard. WHO TALKS raises questions about whose opinions actually matter and what creates polarization.
23) The sacrifice
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Swedish
Description
Tarkovsky's haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation. Made as he was dying of cancer, The sacrifice is Tarkovsky's personal statement, a profoundly moving, redemptive tragedy steeped in unforgettable imagery and heart-wrenching emotion.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Swedish
Description
Traveling to accept an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg—masterfully played by veteran director Victor Sjöström—is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death. Through flashbacks and fantasies, dreams and nightmares, WILD STRAWBERRIES dramatizes one man’s remarkable voyage of self-discovery. This richly humane masterpiece, full of iconic imagery, is a treasure from...
25) Play Time
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Swedish
Description
There are times when we could all do with a break. Little Nico is tormenting his young mother in a vast shopping mall. He wants everything and will not stop ramming the displays with his trolley. When his mother tries to move him on he kicks up a stink and starts screaming his head off. She stops short of giving him a slap, and instead runs out into the car park where she lights a cigarette. When she returns, Nico is gone. A member of staff is looking...
26) Lilya 4-ever
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Swedish
Description
Lilja lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt, who neglects her. Lilja hangs out with her friends, Natasha and Volodya, who is suicidal. Desperate for money, she starts working as a prostitute, and later meets Andrei. He offers her a good job in Sweden, but when Lilja arrives her life quickly enters a downward spiral.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Swedish
Description
In turn-of-the-century Sweden, four men and four women of different classes attempt to navigate the laws of attraction. During a weekend in the country, the women collude to force the men's hands in matters of the heart, exposing their pretensions and insecurities along the way. Includes director-approved special edition features.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Swedish
Description
Sam and Jonathan take us on a kaleidoscopic tour of the human condition in reality and fantasy. The journey unveils the beauty of single moments, the pettiness of others, life’s grandeur, and the humor and tragedy hidden within us all. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. **Venice Film Festival** winner.
29) Evil
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Swedish
Description
Swedish filmmaker Mikael Hafstrom directs the coming-of-age drama Ondskan (Evil), based on the autobiographical novel by Jan Guillou.
30) Mr. Sugar Daddy
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Swedish
Description
In the wake of a breakup, Hans decides to take the plunge and become a sugar daddy after spotting “toyboy” Andrej on the nightclub dance floor. Money can’t buy love, but it can buy pleasure, and Hans is desperate to regain any kind of control he can.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
Swedish
Description
Winner of the **Academy Award** for Best Foreign Language Film, Ingmar Bergman’s THE VIRGIN SPRING is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden. Starring frequent Bergman collaborator and screen icon Max von Sydow, the film is both beautiful and cruel in its depiction of a world teetering between paganism and Christianity, and of one father’s need to avenge the death of a child.
32) Undress Me
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Swedish
Description
Mikaela has undergone gender reassignment and is now a woman. One night at a bar she meets a guy who goes home with her. UNDRESS ME is a film about our notions of masculinity and femininity, and how we come into existence through the way others see us. Nominated for a Golden Berlin Bear for Short Film at the **Berlin International Film Festival**.
34) Delicacy
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Swedish
Description
Audrey Tautou stars as Nathalie, a happy and successful Parisian business executive who finds herself suddenly widowed. To cope with her loss, she buries herself and her emotions in her work to the dismay of her friends, family and co-workers. One day, inexplicably, her zest for life and love is rekindled by a most unlikely source, her seemingly unexceptional, gauche, and average looking office subordinate, Markus. As their relationship goes from...
35) Thelma
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Swedish
Description
A shy young student leaves her small town and religious family to study at a university in Oslo, but once on campus she experiences what appears to be a violent, unexpected seizure. Overwhelmed by the increasing intensity of the mystifying episodes and her powerful feelings for a beautiful classmate, THELMA struggles to control her supernatural abilities.
36) Autumn sonata
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999
Language
Swedish
Description
This film was the only collaboration between cinema's two great Bergmans: Ingmar, the iconic director of The Seventh Seal, and Ingrid, the monumental star of Casablanca. The grand dame, playing an icy concert pianist, is matched beat for beat in ferocity by the filmmaker's recurring lead Liv Ullmann, as her eldest daughter. Over the course of a day and a long, painful night that the two spend together after an extended separation, they finally confront...
37) Hedda Gabler
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Swedish
Description
Set in an anonymous corner of suburbia, this contemporary adaptation of Ibsen's play is a shattering exploration of ambition, domestic power and gender roles. Just married, Hedda Gabler and her husband arrive at their new home where Hedda's romantic rival from the past appears. Hedda must confront her desire for a life lived beautifully and without compromise - whatever the cost. This bracing dramatization brings new dimensions to Hedda Gabler's character....
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Swedish
Description
Shirin moves into a new home with her partner, and his son Lucas. Mysterious noises are heard from the uninhabited side of the duplex. Also, who is Lucas’ new friend? Shirin realizes that they are haunted by an evil that wants Lucas at any cost.
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Swedish
Description
A woman gives her teenage son some friendly advice on their way home from having met her son's boyfriend for the first time. Their conversation begins in a casual manner but ultimately leads to revelations that will completely change their relationship. Nominated for Best Short Film at the **Berlin International Film Festival.** Winner of the Short Film Award at the **Göteborg Film Festival.**
40) A woman's face
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Swedish
Description
In one of the most challenging roles of her early career in Sweden, Ingrid Bergman plays Anna Holm, whose bitterness over her facial disfigurement leads her to become a blackmailer. However, when one of her victims turns out to be married to a renowned plastic surgeon, Anna is given the opportunity to change her life.
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