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The premise: A 10 meter high diving tower. People who have not been up there earlier this gets to choose whether to jump or climb…
Few places are so filled with power as the world’s leading ballet companies. Only one percent of all aspiring ballerinas manage to get there, and of…
A Flickering Truth unwraps the world of three dreamers living amongst the dust of Afghanistan’s 100 years of war as they struggle to protect and…
Lydia and her brother were born in the Netherlands but the family is still waiting for a residence permit. Through songs Lydia have written she…
China may have embraced capitalism, but that doesn’t mean Maoism has vanished. In A Young Patriot, we get an eye-opening take on China’s millennial generation…
In their award-winning debut The Hussin Brothers dissect consumerism and the American dream. Inspired by Jack Kerouac they embark on the road to chase their own dreams. Over…
Filmed during a media workshop for Syrian girls in Jordan’s Za’atari Refugee Camp, 17-year-old Khaldiya meditates on how the camp has opened up new horizons…
– I bought three granola bars, just in case things get rough. A bunch of city dwellers are planning a nature expedition. But it is not…
A poetic “coming of age” story of survival, abuse – and horses. The film follows a group of young people in Ballymune, a suburb of…
Early in September 2015 culminates the worst refugee crisis since World War II. We get to follow this in Hungary, indirectly in Europe, which closes to…
Early in September 2015 culminates the worst refugee crisis since World War II. We get to follow this in Hungary, indirectly Europe, which closes to the…
– Something happens when you have muscles. You walk into a room and you can sense how people get uncomfortable. I think thats in our…
Before the fall of communism, there were no less than 400 cinemas in Romania. After having sold out to private operators, today there are fewer…
A portrait of an enigmatic personality who created a new way of thinking about culture and film. Who was Harry Schein? Maud Nycander and Jannike…
Ester Blenda is a story about the groundbreaking journalist and author Ester Blenda Nordström’s spectacular life during the 19th century first half. Ester Blenda was one…
Four promising projects are presented: A Journey in to the Russian Soul by Staffan Julén, about and with Svetlana Aleksijevitj. Scheme birds is Ellen Fiske and Ellinor…
In 1992, a wave of refugees from the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina reached Denmark. With refugee camps completely full, the Red Cross pulled a…
– There’s so much money coming in to Kibera from international donors, but our lives do not change. Something is not right, says Boy Dallas,…
From the cotton plantations in the south to the 70’s Harlem and the Bronx. Fresh Dressed is a film about the urban fashion way from the…
World Champion in boxing Frida Wallberg is about to make history as the First Lady of boxing. But when she is up to defend her…
During the violent riots in London 2011 Esau Essadi Green got caught on film when he robbed a semiconscious man on the street . When…
In Kristineberg lies an abandoned hotel that the young filmmakers Roxane and Moa often go by. In their own belief that the hotel is empty they…
While the Egyptian people rose up and showed their displeasure at the Tahrir Square in Cairo, many people in the remote areas followed the events via television. The…
The musician Bill Drummond, who in the ’80s and’ 90s played in the band The KLF, drives his car from the east to the west coast…
In Jackson Heights, New York, people speak over 167 different languages. There is such a concentration of cultures from all over the world that it is unlikely…
This debut film by two journalists is about three women who come to Sweden to beg money in order to give their families in Romania a…
The title of the Otolith Group’s film In the Year of the Quiet Sun comes from the reduction of the sun’s surface temperature that occurs every…
When Tania sees her friend Tomas lose himself in depression and drugs, she decides to do everything in her power to rescue his friend from destruction. The…
In Janes: Little Girl Blue we get to follow one of our most acclaimed rock and roll icons. By reading the letters sent to her parents, some of…
Hanna was not even born when her father plunged to certain death during his attempt to climb K2 , the world’s second highest mountain. Lukasz was…
Camilla clears out the old life. Malou longs for a relationship. Leif likes interior and Nancy remembers their holiday flirts. Livingroom consists of a series of…
In 2010 Martha Nabwire and Niki Tsappos participate in the world’s biggest street dance contest Juste Debout in Paris. They win and are the first…
In cooperation with Socialist Sunshine Cinema, The Modern Museum of Stockholm presents four short films that highlight the artistic- and art institution’s power: Staff at…
Mona Lisa lived a normal regular lifestyle as a teacher and a mother. But depression hits her in pieces and she begins to self-medicate heroin, while…
My letters is how about a family that breaks down after an attempted murder with racist and xenophobic overtones. It also about how a family member takes…
Darkness has descended on Jarska parking but a new day has just started for the girls at the truck parking area in southern Poland. Here truck…
A filmmaker from Galicia in Spain emigrate to Sweden. Through a video diary based on glimpses and fragments from his everyday life, we follow the…
Emotional farewells on a filled bus terminal turns soon into panic. The bus that will soon roll out is getting full and the passengers get crowded to get…
Over six thousand rapes are reported in Sweden every year. Perpetrator is a film about some of those who have been convicted of this crime,…
This is the continuation of the Emmy-award winner Frihet bakom galler, where we follow two of the women after serving their sentences in Afghanistan. Sara fled…
Procrastination is a pretty universal phenomenon. The possibility of instant satisfaction often appears far more attractive than some vague reward in the future. That is…
Every year half a million young South Koreans take their baccalaureate. After twelve years of school, it’s time to show what you’re made of including…
Filmmaker Sara Broos invited her mother Karin Broos on holiday during her 60th birthday. Their first trip together as mother and daughter. But instead of coming closer…
After the fatal mistake by a doctor on Meia Lua, who lives in a shanty town in Brazil, he become paralyzed in both legs. This new…
Last spring, the Swedish poetry collective Revolution Poetry celebrated five years at a crowded Folkoperan in Stockholm. Revolution Poetry is a poetry collective and network that…
Maher is the Palestinian and to his profession engineer – but in the heart and soul a passionate dancer. He dreams of performing a modern…
Isabell has grown up with a struggling single mother. But when the mother’s new boyfriend enters the family their life becomes a living hell. The mother becomes…
Shadowlands is an animated short film about the inner darkness portrayed in the guise of a black unfortunate bird. About the thoughts of disaster refuses to let…
In the short film collection we have collected five short documentary films on the theme power. One ticket counts for all short films in this collection. All…
Malmö was once a typical Swedish working town with a homogeneous population. Today the city is a multicultural melting pot whose population consists of over…
A group of teenage girls, who according to Iranian law are considered to be criminal are staying at an isolated youth prison in Iran. Ghazal dream to…
Students from the first year at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic University’s master’s program in film and media as well as students from the documentary story…
Tensta Konsthall presents: The Eros-Effect. Art, solidarity and the fight for social justice – A special curated film program with it’s focus in contemporary art. The concept of…
Black Panthers was more than just high fists in the air, berets and loaded guns at Oaklands streets. The unique archive footage and interviews with some of…
In Kroppen är en ensam plats we get to follow into the universe of the world called eating disorder. We take part in the struggle between…
Anna has spent major parts of her adult life isolated in her apartment, plagued by panic attacks and depression. Through her love for the British…
In The Longest Run we follow the refugees Jasim and Alsaleh from Syria and Iraq, who got to know each other in a Greek youth…
Forget shame and fear, welcome to The Loony Bin! The Loony Bin! is a documentary based on the director’s diary-notes. The film uses authentic images and…
In this second part of a planned trilogy about modern heroes, we get to follow during a half a century the Polish-born Adam Jacek Winkler;…
When the Icelandic filmmaker Benediskt Erlingsson lays hands on archival clips from a century of vaudeville, Carnival and circus movies, the result is a survey…
Tempo is continuing its cooperation with the Swedish Cinematheque through a double screening to honor Janis Joplin. The whole world mourned Janis Joplin when she died…
– I would rather die than give up, says taxi driver Allonias of his struggle for decent working conditions, and against Fågelviksgruppen. In recent years, Fågelviksgruppen has been…
On normal days Samantha Montgomery works as a nurse. But when darkness falls, she is transformed into a soul artist called Princess Shaw who posts clips…
In Transmission from the Liberated Zones by the artist and filmmaker Filipa César, we follow the Swedish presence in the liberation movement in Guinea-Bissau (1963-1974). In the film…
In Stara Zburjivka, southern Ukraine, Viktor and Volodya has been designated as the “sheriffs” of the mayor himself. The mission is to keep track on…
In 1979 an underwater cave was discovered in connection to the lake Dolinsjön in Jämtland. The cave was found to be part of a giant…
Vivalla is a suburb in the Swedish town Örebro. For the most part it has been defined by others, by the outside world, and branded as…
Three months before Beyoncé lands in São Paulo for her concert fans are already in place in queue outside the stadium. All of them Beyoncé-worshipers,…
– It was just a joke. Sexual harassment and abuse in many school for children far down the ages is a part of everyday life.…
Wedding : A Movie is a personal, poetic essay in which Mohammadreza Farzad tries to understand the institution and concept of marriage. Farzad does a…
In the film When the Earth Seems to Be Light we get to follow some skaters, artists and musicians in the Georgian city and capital Tbilisi.…
Where Dreams Cross is in collaboration with the architect company White and Tempo Documentary Festival and it’s theme power doing a outdoor screening with the question…
Equally good and still incomprehensible and absurd is Where the Border Runs about the fictitious boundary on a muddy field somewhere in Sweden- as absurd seems the border…
The camera wanders around old spellbinding cars in the desert. Two playful and witty little boys show up and alter the course of events. From…
