7–18 november 2012

”Accidents are like miracles. Either you believe in them or you don’t.” Our heroine makes a quick decision - she doesn’t believe. The body of her young boyfriend, Sean, has been washed ashore…
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The so called Monday killer spreads fear in rush-hour Tokyo. Every Monday at exactly 6 p m a young woman is murdered with an injection of poison in one of the packed trains on a circle line in…
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Wayne Wang's and Paul Auster's tribute to Brooklyn captures the essence of the best not only with New York, but the whole of the United States. Afro-Ame-ricans, Caribbeans, Asians, Jews, Italians,…
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Eunice wanders around a motorway landscape near Blackpool in north-western England. She is carrying a bundle of letters written by the woman she is searching for: her beloved Judith. Eunice walks…
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Slow, languorous violins. A small boy is expectantly gazing at the open fire when a rope appears and a smiling Santa Claus climbs down. The smile vanishes rapidly from the boy's face when a second…
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Luca feels rejected by women. He lives with a mother who is trying to rebuild her life, he idealizes a father he almost never meets and is in love with a girl who doesn't even see him when they…
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- Bang! Bang! You're dead. - No I'm not! This is the obvious reply which in Desperado is completely redundant. The fake blood already covers the body and the extra who got to participate for fifteen…
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At the beginning of the film we see Jakob knocking on a heavy front door. This is the door to a school for butlers. This is also the door to the hermetic world where the rest of the film takes place:…
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On one level the story is set during the filming of an American low-budget independent film. On another, the film is about the thoughts and dreams of the film crew - the director, cameraman, the…
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Harry is a lonely and rejected gay man with a red birthmark covering half of his face, as the ultimate symbol of his isolation from society. After a disastrous pub visit, in a desperate attempt to…
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The methodical Alex is a tax inspector who has been sent to a corrupt, desolate, small town to investigate suspected tax-evasion by the district's only large company: Turnbull Chemicals. Arriving…
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Philip Ridley is a versatile man, a veritable Jack-of-all-trades, who is as much a master of the written word as the mo-ving image. Whether in film, theatre, childrens' books or watercolours, Ridley…
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¡Fijo! Sure! It's cool! This expression is used so often in Jump into the Void that it becomes an invocation, an attempt to repress the loveless environment in wich Alex, the film's female lead,…
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One of the few really great contemporary American artists is an almost 30 year old cartoonist . Really. His name is Robert Crumb''. The year was 1969 and Öyvind Fahlström was taking the pulse of…
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Glitterbug from 1993 became the British filmmaker Derek Jarman's last film. He kept a frantic working pace before tragically dying of AIDS in early spring 1994. The feature film Wittgenstein (1993),…
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For hungry fans of Ed Wood, Brett Thompson's documentary is the ideal follow-up in the hunt for the late B-movie director's fascinating life. Interviews and excerpts complement and enlarge upon Tim…
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Stig Björkman's film is part of a major project where 15 directors have been commissioned to make their own documentary about film, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the medium. Björkman's is…
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If Godard's chief concern during the 60s was the deconstruction of narration and representation he has become during the 80s and 90s more interested in single images, and the breaking down of the…
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To have a camera watching your every move, to have your telephone bugged, to have hidden microphones recording every sound you make in your own home. It sounds like just another work-ing day for a…
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The director Mohsen Makhmalbaf plays himself in a film where the relationship between film and reality is examined hands-on. An Iranian film celebrating the centenary of the birth of film is planned…
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Unzipped is a portrait of the designer Isaac Mizrahi, and at the same time a film about the making of his autumn collection for the fashion show in New York 1994. It is a documentary that gives a…
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Mongolia's vast expanses and rolling hills. Human and spacial significance shrink when faced with their apparent infinity, and here other more natural units are used to measure the passing of…
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Harry, an amusing and rather ordinary young man who cares for other people, still has deep scars inside from an earlier psychosis. At the care centre that he regularly visits for medicine he meets…
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The scientist William Adamson is broke when he returns to England from the jungles ofthe Amazon. He meets Alabaster, an old aristocrat with a peculiar hobby: insects. Alabaster is an amateur…
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Pappi Corsicato is one of Italy's most interesting directors at present. He has his own inimitable style, deviating from traditional story telling and by deriding everything from road movies to…
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The old sea-front restaurant is run down. It lives a jaded life waiting for some latter-day yuppies to buy the place and at best turn it into a flashy nightclub. Eventually a new owner arrives and…
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The powerful Domenico Rosi owns a farmyard in the Chianti district. His 14 year old son is sitting at his father's trattoria, the source of his father's wealth, trying to learn to read. Rosi thinks…
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Using a slogan like ''a neo-romantic-fast food comedy'' makes you wonder if this film is anything other than an American low-budget film? The answer is yes. It is actually a German low-budget film…
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Ezekiel ''Easy'' Rawlins is an ex-soldier who fought in the Second World War. He moves to Los Angeles to seek his future, however the American dream seldom come true, particularly not for a black man…
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Eldorado begins at a rapid MTV pace with the disc jockey Lloyd encouraging us to celebrate the night. The night for searching within ourselves. The night for doing everything that has to be done…
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The year is 1936. Rafael is sixteen years old and goesto a strict Catholic school in France. He is the son of a Spanish nobleman and when the Spanish Civil War begins he is asked to come home to take…
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Taiwan has, during the 80s and 90s, become more and more visible on the international film scene. There are three key directors behind the Taiwanese ''new wave'', Edward Yang whose film A Brighter…
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Tanaka lives alone in a rented apartment and goes to work every day immaculately dressed in a suit and tie. However, he is hardly your average office cleric He is a yakuza, a gangster, who spends his…
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The idea had been growing in Kenneth Branagh's mind for a long time. He had wanted to make the film In the Bleak Midwinter for four years. However, there was no time or opportunity to work on a…
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Land and Freedom tells the story of David who in the middle of the '30s went from England to Spain in order to fight fascism. Fifty years later an old man dies in an ambulance on its way to the…
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Simon Cinema, or Monsieur Cinema as calls himself, is starting to get old. His palatial home bears witness to what has been his great passion in life -cinema. His home is crammed with films and film…
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The main character, Charlie Dyce, has just been released from a juvenile detention centre. He'd been placed there after having broken into his school, not to steal anything but just to sit there in…
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Flo and Minnie are two old friends who are forced to cope with life in slightly odd ways since the demise of their halfcrooked husbands. Flo goes downtown and shoplifts everything she can get her…
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The British/lrish film Nothing Personal is set in Belfast in 1975 during a fragile cease-fire between the Protestants and the IRA. We mostly get to meet assassin-like Protestant terrorists. Ginger, a…
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Rai is about a gang of youths in a Parisian suburb, but it might as well have been set in Los Angeles. The problems and the youth culture is similar; the gangs consist of Arabs instead of Blacks or…
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The hunt must go on, cries despotic land owner and big game hunter Singh from atop his elephant. Dressed in a Western European safari suit and with a hip-flask in his hand he is the unrivalled star…
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Patdcia Rozema's new film is about leaving a secure, well-trodden path and taking the first step into unknown territory. The main character Camille is a lecturer at a Christian college. She is…
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Graham Young is a talented young man who spends every spare moment studying chemistry. He lives in a suburb with his sister, dad and stepmother. Seemingly safe, cozy and harmless. However these…
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Keiko Nakadai gets the chance to appear as meteorologist on the evening news at the TV company JTV. After her weather report, she throws caution to the wind and pulls her skirt up, flashing her…
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A bloody corpse, a green scarf and a mysterious blonde are the only clues to begin with among the increasing number of stiffs in the city of Concord. In this hour of need Hook, the slightly confused…
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Sometime in the near future a city in the US is threatened by a big earthquake and the population is asked to calmly leave the city. Those who remain will risk being taken for looters and shot by the…
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A deranged splatter-movie editor has locked himself into his workroom. There is no doubt that he is going off his head -fast. Outside the rest of the staff are trying to calm him down and open the…
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Felidae takes us into the mysterious world of cats. The main character, Francis, is a very special and headstrong cat with a pretty cynical view of people. However Francis is not without charm and a…
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After finishing her mission in South America, Drew Fontaine, the film's heroine, returns to Los Angeles to participate in an art exhibition. Drew, also known as Femme Fontaine, uses the art world as…
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An American reviewer has called Mod Fuck Explosion'' a biker comedy for the Beavis and Butthead generation''. This is probably true. You could also say Mod Fuck Explosion is Beavis and Butthead's…
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Seven students at the Elverhoj High School are called to a meeting on a Friday afternoon in biology class. They hardly know each other and none of them knows why they are there. Suddenly the doors…
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The title of the film, Suite 16 (sweet sixteen), works as partly ironic, in contrast to the dark and heavily erotic story, but also states the setting for the film: a hotel room on the Riviera.…
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Steve is released from juvenile prison after serving time for car theft. His father isn't there to meet him. Disappointed, he has to make his own way home to his father in a run-down suburb of Los…
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Angela, ten years old, and her six years old sister Ellie, have grown up with a severely manic-depressive mother, Mae. In order to live a reasonably normal life despite the effect the illness has on…
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If you think that a film about a would-be weight-watcher who bakes pizzas, with a plot as fluid and minimal as a Brian Eno soundtrack, sounds boring, then here's your chance to change your mind.…
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Integrity and independence is the ideal thing to have. But in order to be independent you have to earn money, and when you earn money you may have to compromise your integrity. The young playwright…
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Men who are curious about what women talk about when men are not present are now able to slake their curiousity. Live Nude Girls has the answer. It is a film about women and female friendship, about…
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John Martin is a young aspiring writer, educated at Yale and recently arrived in Los Angeles. In order to survive and finance his writing John is obliged to take all sorts of casual work; initially…
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David Mamet is back with a new film, Oleanna. The celebrated playwright and filmmaker has chosen the highly topical subject: sexual harrassment. But it wouldn't be like Mamet to pro-duce something…
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The year is 1966, the place, Oakland, California. The blacks living in the ghettos are tired of being harrased by the police. They react by forming a group called The Black Panther Party of…
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Crowds, drinks, loud music and a joint or two. Suddenly the police arrive and take the hostess away. This is our introduction to the film's main character, Mary. She is 24 years old, and hasn't done…
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Rachel is a housewife who has everything she could wish for, a husband, children and a home. One day she discovers a man staring at her through the window. When her husband later tells her that he…
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Lower East Side, one of Manhattan's least fashionable areas. This is where Simon lives. He is a ''bootlegger'', i.e. he records concerts with rock-bands and lives off the income he gets from selling…
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Martin Mirkheim discovers one day that he owes the Florida state 147.956 dollars in back taxes. That evening, he and his beautiful but absent-minded wife, Lauren, go to a party at her brother Rob's.…
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Van Sant's new film - the first not to be written by himself - is set in a typical American small-town. Suzanne Stone lives there, a newly-wed with one goal in life: to become a TV star. Her husband,…
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Buzz Wall has a dream. A dream which will come true thanks to his revolutionary invention. His dream is to live the good life in Hawaii with his wife Betty. The invention is a suncream, Cammo, with a…
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Tom Noonan's feature film, The Wife, is in many ways similar to a chamber play - a drama with few characters and events which take place in a relatively short space of time and in a single place. The…
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Shay lives in Memphis. She is going out with Radio, the guitarist, and sings in his band. The relationship drags on, the days go by in a haze of sex, drugs, jealousy, quarrels and feelings of…
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Truth or dare with the person and the star Madonna. The camera follows her in a revealing and intimate portrait during her world tour with her provocative and professional show. Wearing vulgar,…
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Kika is, according to Almodovar himself, his most unpredictable work. The story starts as a colorful and easy going comedy, but gradually turns into a bloody cocktail of absurd humor exploding into…
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Every evening the despotic, new rich, thief, Albert, presides over vulgar food orgies at his latest favorite restaurant. He harasses everyone, helped by his lackeys. One of these is his wife,…
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The Danish director Jon Bang Carlsen's latest film Carmen og Babyface is set at a time of inner and outer turmoil. Adrian and Carmen are sister and brother and live in a happy but unconventional…
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A man's voice hums slowly, feebly, in resignation. We see a tabloid-style picture of a colourless shantytown. The only detectable movement is from the billowing chimney smoke. A single bird flies by.…
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Towards the end of the 1920s Finland introduced a twelve year long ban on alcohol. This resulted in very lively and profitable spirit smuggling from Estonia to Finland. As in America, this was a…
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An orange Volvo drives along a small gravel road. It passes a sweaty and exhausted man who pushes a stone along in front of him. The man stops and gives the car a resigned or even accusatory look as…
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All Things Fair is set in Malmö during the spring term of 1943. Stig, a third year student, is the main character of the story. He is known by the slightly derogatory name of ''stockholmaren'',…
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A narrow gravelled road cuts like a knife through fields and among trees. Far away you can hear the sound of a car approaching, quickly passing by and eventually disappearing. Suddenly you are in the…
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Eight-year-old Emil and his grandfather have just said goodbye to a very special friend, the dog Skundi. He stood by grandfather through thick and thin. The void Skundi left behind feels huge but…
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Masses of ice traverse the screen when the camera pans across a landscape which will become the setting of the plot. We move from the ice across the sea to Norway in the mid-twenties. The young…
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Inspired by Raymond Queneau's short story, Exercises de Style, last year's scholarship winner has created a love story. This meeting between two young people is wittily portrayed in various styles.…
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The Big Story is about a newspaper in America of the 50s. A young reporter tries to persuade the editor to give him bigger news stories. The special animation technique and the clear-cut caricatures…
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Fifteen animated short stories about life and death, and starring our favourite body parts. Stomach, head, heart etc all fairly obvious choices; apart from armpit. Our need for closeness and…
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An original music video. We follow composer Elena Kats-Chernin in atmospheric images and a dynamic collage, at work and privately. Paintings become photos become paintings; everything synchronised to…
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A man discovers, in unspoiled countryside, a mystical hole in the ground. He is attracted by the hole and begins to throw stones into it to see how deep it is. This accidentally starts a process…
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The festival veteran and creator of Lennart is here again, this time with a tale about Frank, Tomas and Lasse. Their childhood is spent taking snuff, drinking cider and dreaming about Linda.…
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Two couples on the road to nowhere in a car. The feeling of claustrophobia increases as the car gradually accelerates. A manifestation of the driver's power. Friendship at breaking point, infidelity…
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Job satisfaction is the key to a harmonic life, or is it? A philosophical swimming pool attendant lives his life at the bottom of a pool. His dream woman dives into his home every Friday at quarter…
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Viewers may easily mistake this for a school for the mentally handicapped. It is however a look into the heart of our future. The mass media have taken charge. Time stands still. A passive child in…
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More or less everyone has hopes and dreams for the future. It usually ends at that. To try to realize your dreams often has tragic consequences. Alternately humorous and tragic.
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A man is standing in the rain looking at an electric cable that ought to be mended. He doesn't bother. Instead he ends up in the boot of his own car. Fighting for his life with his hands tied behind…
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A superb little black and white drama about the repulsive mrs. Foucault and her daily rituals. This monotonous lifestyle can't go on forever. Two boys with a fascination for flattened metal play a…
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Midsummer atmosphere; colourful, a flowery meadow, small lights on branches and on the lawn and a large green field. An elderly woman in the middle of the field with an accordion in her arms. A man…
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Yes sir, I can boogie ... M A Numminen is back. After last year’s Wittgenstein it's time now for techno-disco. It radiates luminous colour and glitter. Both repulsive and seductive with this…
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Rape is a crime. Someone must be punished. But who is the guilty party? The legal process is seen here as something monstrous and hideous in its search for the truth. The rape victim is subjected to…
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Pib and Pog are two Mr. Blobby-like figures, as if straight from children's TV. But the film develops into a nasty and telling pastiche of the genre. Imagine Monty Python making a splatter version of…
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A story about a man travelling from Turkey to Germany, and back. At the same time events from the past make themselves known and weave a rich temporal tapestry. The present becomes intangible. The…
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30th of November is a modern Romeo and Juliet story about a love affair between the Swede, Adam, and the refugee Julia from South America. They live in a typical Stockholm suburb, where their…
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Älskar, älskar inte (Loves me, loves me not) is the story of Patrik and Mia, a young couple in love who are planning a future together. He is wild and full of vitality and is a pilot in the Air…
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Fanny and Zac return to the House of Angels, which the brothers Gottfrid and Ivar have taken care of for the past year. Their return has been keenly awaited by the village, for various reasons.…
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Year 3065. A polar expedition discovers an aluminium case containing black and white photographs from the twentieth century. Scientists are amazed at our eccentricities. We go back in time in a long…
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Torsten is a completely ordinary fifty year old man. He lives in an ordinary house with an ordinary family in a thoroughly ordinary Swedish town. Then one day Torsten is fired from the bank where he…
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The mourning widower, Ragnar, and his son's pregnant girlfriend, Catti, arrive at a summer house in Osterlen to enjoy the gardens and the early autumn apple harvest. But Ragnar is also approaching…
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Dynamite-Harry and Vanheden are leaderless, and Doris needs a new fur coat and other necessities of life. Basically they are in desperate need of money. This is when Herman Melvin, ex-Chief of…
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The Runebergs are an ordinary family, living in a terraced house with their three children. They go on an eagerly awaited holiday by the sea, at Oskar’s boarding house, to relax and to spend some…
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The merry swindler Carlo Marcellini travels around in the new age, around 1483, selling his miraculous potion ''The Tears of Saint Peter'' which can cure all illness and give eternal life.…
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Torun is on holiday with their two children and sister Ellen by the beautiful Atlantic coast in Denmark. During a few moments of inattention on the beach, an accident kills one of the children. Home…
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Jazz-freaks, Karl-Otto, Folke and Gosta live in a conservative 1930s Norrland, in northern Sweden. There is no understanding here for their music and lifestyle. Because of an inheritance they are…
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An artist, Stig F Dahlman, is found dead in the cellar of his house in Stockholm. The police rapport states that he has probably been dead for three months. When the police close the investigation,…
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Two Swedish businessmen are kidnapped in Rome as a result of a conflict between the Swedish weapons industry and the Italian navy. The mafia, who carried out the kidnapping, takes the businessmen to…
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Palle Hagman is a charming dreamer with an incredible optimism. He travels around Europe's theatre and amusement world with his actor wife and son, Martin, hoping for fame and fortune. The magic…
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