Svenska filminstitutet.
Series
Criterion collection volume 101
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Swedish
Description
A story of four women's search for spiritual peace. Agnes is dying of cancer and is visited one last time by her two sisters, Karin and Maria. These two become entangled in feelings of jealousy, manipulation and selfishness. Yet Agnes is able to transcend her sisters' pettiness to remember moments of staggering beauty as well as horror.
Series
Criterion collection volume 262
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Swedish
Description
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...
Series
Criterion collection volume 262
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Swedish
Description
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...
Series
Criterion collection volume 261 (262-264)
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Swedish
Description
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...
Language
Swedish
Description
The Sacrifice: A dark and complex drama about redemption and the nuclear holocaust. When a middle aged intellectual in retirement on an island in the Baltic Seas witnesses signs of what he believes to be a nuclear holocaust, he offers to make the ultimate sacrifice in return for the salvation of mankind.
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky: This film shows the director Andre Tarkovsky in action as he makes his own picture "The sacrifice." The program explains...
Series
Criterion collection volume 101
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
A story of four women's search for spiritual peace. Agnes is dying of cancer and is visited one last time by her two sisters, Karin and Maria. These two become entangled in feelings of jealousy, manipulation and selfishness. Yet Agnes is able to transcend her sisters' pettiness to remember moments of staggering beauty as well as horror.
Series
Criterion collection volume 261, 262, 263, 264
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
Ingmar Bergman's autobiographical film that witnesses the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden, through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander.
Author
Series
Language
Swedish
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"La soledad de Oskar, un chico taciturno de 12 años de edad, parece llegar a su fin gracias a la llegada de Eli, una chica nueva del vecindario. A pesar de los terroríficos acontecimientos que alrededor de Eli de suceden, Oskar se siente atraido e identificado, más allá de cualquier clase de temor, e incluso sobre la sospecha de que Eli sea en realidad una criatura anormal. Sangre, violencia y ternura, son los ingredientes que dan forma a esta...
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
1930s Sweden. 14-year-old Sami girl Elle Marja and her sister are torn from their indigenous reindeer-herding family and placed in a government-run boarding school. There Elle dreams of education, of a future, only to be faced with racial examinations that class her people as inferior. What follows is a girl's attempt to escape one world of prejudice and another of old traditions, only to realize later the true cost of freedom.
10) Life's a breeze
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A struggling family makes a well-intentioned attempt to clean out their mother's house, and accidentally trashes a mattress she has been stashing her life savings in, Nan, her unemployed slacker son Colm, and his niece Emma must overcome their many differences to lead their family in a public race against time to find a lost fortune.
11) Trishna
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Trishna lives with her family in a village in Rajasthan and works in a resort to help pay the family bills. Jay is the wealthy son of a property developer. When Jay takes up managing resorts, he meets Trishna and wins her affection. They move to Mumbai, but problems arise when his deep family bond threatens their bliss.
12) Scheme birds
Publisher
SISYFOS
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Gemma, a teenage troublemaker, growing up in a world of pigeons and violence. From childhood to motherhood, her life unfolds as innocent games turn towards serious crime.
Publisher
Trinity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Swedish
Description
A boat filled with Swedish immigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm at the end of the 19th Century. Lasse and his son Pelle find work on a farm, but are treated very poorly. Pelle is determined to make a better life.
14) Le sacrifice
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Swedish
Description
As a wealthy Swedish family celebrates the birthday of their patriarch Alexander, news of the outbreak of World War III reaches their remote Baltic island and the happy mood turns to horror. The family descends into a state of psychological devastation, brilliantly evoked by director Tarkovsky's arresting palette of luminous grays washing over the bleak landscape around their home.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Danish
Description
""The Charmer" is an intense psychological drama about Esmail, a young Iranian man who is desperately looking to meet women who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time is running out he falls in love and his past catches up with him."--Provided by publisher.
Series
Criterion collection volume 297
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
"A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema ... follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly. Through Bresson's unconventional...
Publisher
[Distributed by] Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Swedish
Description
Mia's life is turned upside down when she falls in love with Frida. The two meet at an engagement party in the country and discover an instant attraction that immediately calls into question Mia's engagement to her boyfriend, Tim.
18) Pelle Erobreren
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Danish
Description
A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest form of life. Pelle starts to speak Danish but is still harassed as a foreigner.