Fårö Document

Bergman interviews the locals of Fårö in this fascinating documentary. An expression of personal and political solidarity with the fellow inhabitants of his adopted home, the island of Fårö in the Baltic Sea, this documentary investigates the sometimes deleterious effects of the modern world on traditional farming and fishing communities. The young, especially, voice doubts about remaining in such a remote, quiet place.

Di sma undar jårdi spejlar och berättar

Documentary about the Swedish band Di sma undar jårdi mixed with recordings from one of their shows.

Happy End

Happy End is a story about Lukas, a self-absorbed young man adrift who meets Marja, an experienced, older woman. Lukas dreams of becoming a rock star. He escapes the city to his father's holiday flat in Visby, a town on the Baltic island of Gotland. But the flat has been rented out to Marja, an eccentric 69-year-old writer determined to complete her memoirs. Nothing can hold her back, least of all a confused dreamer. Much against their will, a friendship slowly develops. But Marja harbors a secret, and when the truth emerges their friendship is put to the test. Their stay on Gotland takes an unexpected turn...

Bergmans Grandchild

Set in beautiful Faro, a young woman named Ida, feels lonely and loses all hope, believing death is looking for her. She soon comes up with a creative way of trying to cheat death itself.

Zombie-City Gotland

Tom Leimer arrives to the isle of Gotland, Sweden during the summer in order to find his old love Therese Sandström. She has, however, started a new life together with the upper-class-guy Karl von Silberhelm, and wishes no longer to know Tom because of his criminal past. A virus, turning people into living dead, breaks out on the isle. Tom makes his decision to try to rescue Therese - a choice that turns out to be more dangerous than he expected, since each who is infected hungers always for fresh human-flesh.

Blue Sea

Lieutenants Johnny Waller and Ingvar Lund have been appointed captains of two torpedo boats.

Stockholmsveckan

A bunch of young people travel to Gotland on their vacation - partying expected 24/7. But they get into trouble - with both the local population and a criminal gang.

Tear on the Cheek

Collage film juxtaposing footage of Nazi Germany and the occupation with contemporary Yugoslavia.

System Shock: How the MP3 Changed Music

This is the story of the MP3, an audio breakthrough that brought a billion dollar industry to the brink of collapse, but also paved the way for our modern digital lives. Germany 1995, a PhD student makes a technological breakthrough when he discovers how to compress audio without losing sound quality. He calls his new file type an "MP3". Within just a few years, and with the help of a nascent tech community, illegal MP3s begin filling up the hard drives of millions of computers around the world. It's the beginning of our modern digital age and internet culture. Featuring interviews with infamous music executives, artists, and techies, System Shock chronicles how the MP3 crushed the music industry and gave rise to the billion-dollar sharing economy.

We Summon You

A record of the unveiling of the monument to the victims of December '70 that took place in front of gate 2 of the Gdańsk Shipyard. Witnesses to the December events describe their experiences.

Alone in the World

The first documentary realized by Danuta Halladin after her studies announces one of the main themes of her future films: children and childhood. Alone in the World is a story about orphanages.

How An Opener Works

A portrait of a working man - Stefan Piętowski, a craftsman who, at the age of 85, sums up his professional life. In order to do so, he organizes "The History of One Working Life" exhibition.

Winners

Young people with disabilities are provided with health care and vocational training. Is it enough to prepare them for their independent life? We get to know some charges of the Rehabilitation Center in Konstancin.

Extravíos

Il silenzio è complicità

Generation Iron 5: Persia

Documentary about bodybuilding’s rise in the Persian regions, feat. 2022 Mr Olympia Hadi Choopan.

Ecos do Qatar

La meg være ung!

This documentary presents clips from a rich Scandinavian film heritage in order to visualise clichés related to the different eras as well as commenting upon tenacious preconceptions about youth. News headings and documentary footage throw the movie clips into perspective. Some 200 film titles have constituted the research material. Among the many interesting features revealed is the fact that young girls and boys play very different roles in the films, even in the case of rebellion and protest, which is a generally “young” quality. What do boys on one hand, and girls on the other, rebel against, and how are their protests and provocations expressed in the films?

The Foundation Pit

A found footage film compiled from countless YouTube videos in which the people of Russia make a direct appeal to president Putin. A kaleidoscope of the mood in the country – from submissive pleas to pure rage about injustice and rampant corruption.

Golda Maria

In 1994, film producer Patrick Sobelman recorded the testimony of his grandmother Golda Maria Tondovska, a Polish Jewish survivor of the Shoah.