The story of a love born in the strangest of circumstances between two long-suffering survivors of the hell that was the Holocaust. Their love overcomes all obstacles in its path, including death – when it eventually comes. Set in the Swedish rehabilitation camps during the autumn and winter of...
Mania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets her to realize that it is a fluid boundary between being healthy and being regarded as sick.
"Plenty of Boys, Shortage of Men" - ?About boys, men, male roles, and men vis-a-vis the Jungian archetypes and various mythical male figures such as St. George, Orpheus, Achilles and Oidipus. And why some boys eventually matures to men while others evolve to adult boys. Illustrative images and...
Sofia has lived in the small town Falköping during her childhood. Since she left her hometown she has become an famous international actress. Now she longs to return to the playgrounds of her childhood, and meet old friends
"Life and Death" - A female reporter intended to go on a reporting trip about childbirth to Japan, declines the offer. Instead, she visits a maternity hospital in Sweden. She meets a doctor, who she has been in love for 15 years.
A documentary directed by Marianne Ahrne, based on the French writer Simone de Beauvoir's Essay of the Age. The film discusses whether older people are really treated as human beings or not
"Marianne Ahrne: The film is based on a true story about my father and a now very famous artist. But it is completely fictional in its design. I imagine it as a poem with a touch of magical realism."
"I Will Become Sweden's Rembrandt or Die!" - About the life and art of the Swedish painter Ernst Josephson (1851-1906), his many travels in Europe and about the psychological crisis in 1885 which changed Josephson's artistry completely.
"Girls, Women and some other Dragon" - Depicts different women and their views on the relationship with their daughters and partners, and views on love, jealousy and more.
A street theatre group performs anti-capitalist and anti-militarist plays. The inner conflicts, about how to reach and how tight they shall embrace the working class, escalates and the group split up.
An Argentine actor comes to Sweden. He has pictured Sweden as a paradise. From his small rented room, he tries in vain to make contact with the Swedes.