Philip Zandén

Jan's fastfood-business is going bankrupt, his girlfriend has left him, and he is being exploited by his live-in father. Therefore, he has nothing to loose when he gets mixed up in the kidnapping of famous rock star Iver Mo. But Jan has never been able to do anything right his whole life, and there are others who want to get their hands on the ransom money. (imdb)

The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together. (imdb)

Political thriller with social comedy, based on a 1910 novel by Ricarda Huch. Set in pre-revolutionary Russia, depicts the conflicts of conscience arising when an idealistic assassin hires on as his secretary/bodyguard to his designated victim, a government minister. (ftvdb.bfi.org.uk)

Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother's death he discovers he was adopted. As his world begins to fall apart, he decides to find his birth parents. The hunt leads him to Portugal - in a taxi - where more surprises await him. (imdb)

This is a comedy about people who work in the theater, live for the theater, think of nothing but the theater. The director seems crazy, the art director has idiotic ideas and the acting coach is eccentric: they even look like brothers, related by their common obsession for the theater. The new project is Mozart's Don Giovanni, in which the director insists to give it a brand new interpretation and an avant-garde treatment. Now, he has to deal with the violent objection from the whole crew. (imdb)

After hiring Micke, a carpenter from Stockholm, to help renovate her kitchen, upper class Veronika develops immediate feelings for him. The two are keen to start a relationship, but their two children are less enthusiastic. Veronika decides a holiday to Bohuslan where her parents live is just what the couple needs.

This picture reveals Denmark at the second half of the 19th century in the way the literature of that period (the so called critical realism) does. Aristocratic family bears the brunt of the tyranny of its head, Nils Uldahl-Ege. Once madly in love with his wife he betrays her giving way to his primitive lust. From that moment on, life of the whole family increasingly becomes intolerable due to Niles's numerous adulteries and outbursts of sudden anger.

Swedish romance author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna endures a turbulent marriage with David Sprengel, a bisexual and collector of erotica. In a hallucination, Agnes is brought to a mental hospital in Venice, carrying her fictitious autobiography with her.

When the wife wants a divorce, the neurotic husband struggles to come to terms with what happened and how to get his old life back.

Single mother Lotta and her younger sister Sanna are both successful in their different jobs, and are living very different lives, but are attracted to men who are their opposites.

About the artist couple Sigrid Hjertén and Isaac Grünewald, their love, artistry and struggle for survival, in a difficult time. (imdb)

A nightclub owner has problems with two things, money and potency. He ought to change his life. A loan shark sends a torpedo at him in order to collect a debt. (imdb)

His name is Carl Hamilton from a Swedish noble family - trained by the CIA and a army SEAL. When a group of terrorists based in Sweden threatens to initiate their diabolic plans - the Coq Rouge Carl Hamilton is activated. (imdb)

When a young man who takes care of his schizophrenic father meets a young woman he tries to break free from his father to live his own life.

John and Carl have a small publishing company. One day John meets the poet Clara who recently made her debut, and Clara's fiancé Stig. John and Clara fall in love with each other, and she moves into an apartment owned by John. John breaks up with his wife and moves in with Clara. But Clara has a nervous breakdown. (imdb)

Tin-Tin is a bar pianist, living with the radio talk show host Paul in a relation gone stale. Still her parents are expecting grandchildren. Then a self certain Norwegian business man turns up giving her the eye. (imdb)

A young man is hiding in the bushes. His clothing and hair indicates it's the 1700s. The young man tears out a page of a book and wrap a string around it. He approaches a girl and hands over the book page to her. (imdb)

Siv works as a prompter for the Norwegian opera. As the rehearsals for Aida starts, she marries a demanding man, Fred, who still has a strong connection to his ex-wife. Starting at her wedding, Siv must repeatedly take a back seat, both to Fred's children and their mother. But when she meets a man who shares her passion for music, she starts to question the path her life has taken. (Signy)

On the eve of June 28th, 2011 Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at stake by illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. After months of research, planning and failed attempts, they were finally on their way to report on how the ruthless hunt for oil affected the population of the isolated and conflict-ridden Ogaden region. Five days later they lay wounded in the desert sand, shot and captured by the Ethiopian army. (imdb)

About a young film critic who dream of interviewing actor Jean Gabin and Jean-Louis Barrault and one day directing a movie. (imdb)

The Jewish Cohens live in Stockholm. Rosha's 60th birthday is up and her husband and 3 kids will be there. 25 y.o. Angelique, a psychology student called Freud, still lives at home. Rosha's told, she's got cancer with weeks to live. (imdb)

Katherine, who survived the Holocaust at age seven, visits her fatherland of Transylvania, Romania for the first time departing from Sweden with her family. Not only do both happy and frightful memories of her forgotten past come to life, but she must also face the depressing reality of Ceausescu’s communist dictatorship and the romance developing between her husband and her sister.