#swedishfilm Films featured in Blu-ray box 1 FEATURE FILMS AVALON Måns Månsson PHOTO: PHOTO: Janne, a 60-year-old party organiser intending to DIRECTOR: Axel Petersén run a nightclub during a major tennis tournament, CAST: Johannes Brost, Peter Carlberg, Léonore hangs out with his recently divorced older sister, Ekstrand Jackie. When an accident turns his life on its head, RELEASED: 2012 Janne, under pressure from those around him, DURATION: 79 min. embarks on a desperate search for a way out. Preview the full film here BEHIND BLUE SKIES Original title: HIMLEN ÄR OSKYLDIGT BLÅ Jonas Ingestedt PHOTO: PHOTO: Martin escapes his alcoholic father for the sum- DIRECTOR: Hannes Holm mer job of his life at the exclusive Royal Yacht CAST: Bill Skarsgård, Peter Dalle, Josefin Club in the idyllic archipelago of Stockholm in Ljungman, Adam Pålsson 1975. He meets true love for the first time and is RELEASED: 2010 being groomed by Gösta, a playboy in the centre DURATION: 107 min. of high society. Martin is inevitably drawn into one of the greatest scandal of all times in Swedish crime history. Preview the full film here Please note that the previews are only available for Swedish Foreign Missions. For password to the preview links, please contact [email protected]. FEATURE FILMS BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* nna Sivertsson A PHOTO: PHOTO: A major corporation sees its brand defiled and DIRECTOR: Fredrik Gertten reacts with full force. Dole sued Fredrik Gertten RELEASED: 2011 for his film Bananas!*, unleashing an arsenal of DURATION: 87 min. strong-arm tactics, media control and PR spin. In Big Boys Gone Bananas!* we follow the events, Preview the full film here and a clear picture emerges of just what freedom of speech is up against. CALL GIRL ukka Male J PHOTO: PHOTO: Stockholm in the late 1970s is the ‘model utopian DIRECTOR: Mikael Marcimain society’. But within a stone’s throw of government CAST: Sofia Karemyr, Simon J Berger, Pernilla buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive, August, Sven Nordin, David Dencik glittery and dirty world of sex clubs, discotheques RELEASED: 2012 and apartments used for illicit rendezvous. Call DURATION: 140 min. Girl tells the story of how young Iris is recruited from the bottom rung of society into a ruthless world where power can get you anything. Preview the full film here Please note that the previews are only available for Swedish Foreign Missions. For password to the preview links, please contact [email protected]. FEATURE FILMS PALME Hasse Persson PHOTO: PHOTO: On a February night in 1986, Swedish Prime DIRECTORS: Maud Nycander, Kristina Lindström Minister Olof Palme was shot dead on the streets RELEASED: 2012 of Stockholm, changing Sweden forever over- DURATION: 105 min. night. Palme is the film about his life and times, and about the Sweden he helped to create: a man Preview the full film here who changed history. THE ICE DRAGON Original title: ISDRAKEN Lena Lahti Lena PHOTO: PHOTO: The Ice Dragon is an adventure about 11-year-old DIRECTOR: Martin Högdah Mik and his quest for a new home. Mik runs away CAST: Philip Olsson, Feline Andersson, Hans on an ice dragon, owns a cat factory, befriends Alfredson, Malin Morgan, Hampus Andersson, brothers Bengt and Bertil, falls in love for the first William Nordberg time and eventually finds his way home. RELEASED: 2012 DURATION: 73 min. Preview the full film here Please note that the previews are only available for Swedish Foreign Missions. For password to the preview links, please contact [email protected]. FEATURE FILMS THE LAST SENTENCE Original title: DOM ÖVER DÖD MAN Jan Troell PHOTO: PHOTO: Torgny Segerstedt was one of the leading jour- DIRECTOR: Jan Troell nalists in Sweden in the 20th century. He fought APPEARANCES: Jesper Christensen, Pernilla a one man battle against the Nazi regime until his August, Ulla Skoog, Björn Granath death in 1945, and during these times his private RELEASED: 2012 life was marked by a world of chaos. The Last DURATION: 124 min. Sentence is both a psychological love story and a portrayal of the political situation at that time. It’s a dramatic tale about a man who couldn´t be Preview the full film here silenced. TPB AFK: THE PIRATE BAY AWAY FROM KEYBOARD imon Klose S PHOTO: PHOTO: TPB AFK is a documentary about three computer DIRECTOR: Simon Klose addicts who redefined the world of media distri- RELEASED: 2012 bution with the file-sharing network The Pirate DURATION: 81 min. Bay. Just how did hacker Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Internet activist Peter Sunde and beer Preview the full film here aficionado Fredrik Neij cause the White House to threaten the Swedish government with trade sanctions? Please note that the previews are only available for Swedish Foreign Missions. For password to the preview links, please contact [email protected]. SHORT FILMS LAS PALMAS ohannes Nyholm J PHOTO: PHOTO: A middle-aged lady on a holiday in the sun tries to DIRECTOR: Johannes Nyholm make new friends and have a good time. The role RELEASED: 2011 is played by a one-year-old girl, the rest of the DURATION: 14 min. cast are marionette puppets. Preview the full film here MUSIC FOR ONE APARTMENT AND SIX DRUMMERS Six drummers participate in a well-planned DIRECTORS: Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, musical attack in the suburbs. Ola Simonsson RELEASED: 2001 DURATION: 10 min. Preview the full film here Please note that the previews are only available for Swedish Foreign Missions. For password to the preview links, please contact [email protected]. SHORT FILMS LITTLE CHILDREN, BIG WORDS Original title: SMÅ BARN, STORA ORD Frida Wendel Frida PHOTO: When it’s Alex’s turn to tell his seven-year-old DIRECTOR: Lisa James Larsson classmates what he wants to be when he grows RELEASED: 2010 up, an uncomfortable discussion begins about DURATION: 12 min. the meaning of an unknown but loaded word. The teacher’s explanation reveals her own story Preview the full film here – a story of victim and offender. TUSSILAGO West German terrorist Norbert Kröcher was DIRECTOR: Jonas Odell arrested in Stockholm on March 31, 1977. He RELEASED: 2010 was leading a group planning to kidnap Swe- DURATION: 14 min. dish politician Anna-Greta Leijon. A number of suspects were arrested in the following days. Preview the full film here One of the people arrested was Kröcher's ex- girlfriend, ‘A’. This is her story... Please note that the previews are only available for Swedish Foreign Missions. For password to the preview links, please contact [email protected]. SHORT FILMS ANDERS & HARRI Anders and Harri are best friends. They share DIRECTORS: Åsa Blanck, Johan Palmgren an interest in music. Anders is also very fond RELEASED: 2008 of trains. They decide to go to Getå, where the DURATION: 13 min. biggest train-accident in Sweden’s history took place in 1918. This is a film about friendship, fears Preview the full film here and trains…and suddenly there is music in the air. SLAVES Original title: SLAVAR ‘We were abducted, my mother, father, sister and DIRECTORS: David Aronowitsch, Hanna Heilborn I. Then they killed my parents and separated me RELEASED: 2008 from my sister. I was five’, Abuk tells us in a low DURATION: 15 min. voice. ‘I stayed with one of the men who kidnap- ped us and took care of his goats.’ Slaves is about Preview the full film here Abuk, nine, and Machiek, fifteen. Like thousands of other children they were taken from South Sudan by government-sponsored militia in Sudan and used as slaves. Please note that the previews are only available for Swedish Foreign Missions. For password to the preview links, please contact [email protected]. SHORT FILMS COFFEE TIME Original title: ELVAKAFFE Maria Fredriksson PHOTO: PHOTO: Four elderly ladies get together for coffee. They DIRECTOR: Maria Fredriksson sip from elegant china while discussing Viagra, RELEASED: 2013 orgasms and quickies. Nothing’s off the table as DURATION: 14 min. they reminisce about the past and revel in the sexual revolution that’s come up around them, Preview the full film here empowering their pleasure well into their twilight years. GLENN THE GREAT RUNNER Glenn, the great runner, is about to compete. DIRECTOR: Lisbet Gabrielsson The question is whether he will get the support RELEASED: 2004 he needs? DURATION: 3 min. Preview the full film here Please note that the previews are only available for Swedish Foreign Missions. For password to the preview links, please contact [email protected]. SHORT FILMS FOR CHILDREN ASTRID Lisabi Fridell PHOTO: PHOTO: Astrid, 11 years old, wants to decide on her DIRECTOR: Fijona Jonuzi own. Her mother thinks she is too young. This RELEASED: 2012 particular day Astrid revolts and takes off to have DURATION: 15 min. a day on her own with her friends. High on her freedom she bargains for a little more than she Preview the full film here can handle. When the day is over Astrid has a problem she needs to solve. Astrid is a study in freedom, responsibility and our fear of guilt and shame. UNRULY Original title: BANGA INTE It’s the last year of the 90s and the last days of spring break. DIRECTOR: Fanni Metelius 15-year-old Mickan and her girlfriends are hanging out with a RELEASED: 2011 smaller group of teenagers, when Mickan meets Leon, who has a DURATION: 15 min. reputation for being a ‘player’. But who is the slut and who really gets played? Mickan and her best friends find themselves in situa- Preview the full film here tions where the fun turns serious, the unjust hierarchies and norms are being questioned, with their friendship at stake.