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Midsummer in Sweden; somewhere above the Arctic Circle. Many curious stories unfold in a small Finnish-speaking village, while the sun never sets.

A car belonging to a suspected hit-and-run driver has been spotted outside a swimming pool complex and the police are there to arrest the fugitive.

A concert in memory of Roxette singer and pop star Marie Fredriksson held on the stage of Stora teatern in Gothenburg on January 20th, 2020 and featuring cover performances from artists and people close to Fredriksson during her productive career.

When we die, there are still some practicalities that need to be taken care of before our time among the living is finally over. In Meanwhile on Earth we enter the world around our end station, an industry of death. It is a place where the existential meets the mundane, the sacred meets the profane.

For more than a decade, wildfires of unprecedented force have been devouring our lives, homes and forests at a steady pace. Each year, 350 million hectares of forest go up in smoke, the equivalent of six times the size of France. In the US, the fire season now lasts up to two months longer than a generation ago, and the surface burnt annually has multiplied by three. This film sets out on a gripping journey of investigation from Europe to the US, Canada, Brazil and Indonesia to follow the work of a global team of dedicated firefighters, scientists and fire experts as they investigate why our forests are going up in flames, and act on an unexpected discovery: if we want to save our forests, homes, health and our climate, we need to radically change our attitude towards fire and the way we fight wildfires.

The kitten Peter-No-Tail lives a wonderful and protected life in the countryside with the girl who loves him so much. After a terrible storm, he ends up alone in the city of Uppsala, a foreign world to him.

A life marked by murder threats. Gina Dirawi broke through on Youtube as a 20-year-old by recording sketches on the toilet. She was the super talent who quickly became popular by leading the Swedish edition of Eurovision Song Contest and being a Christmas host on National Swedish Television (SVT). But as her popularity increased, hatred towards her also grew. Behind the glamorous facade was a life of murder threats and bodyguards. We get an exclusive insight into Gina Dirawi's life. Friends, family and stars like William Spetz, Kristian Luuk and Danny Saucedo talk about how it was when a young comedian from Sundsvall took the stage in the big arenas. Gina Dirawi is currently writing a novel.

At Tomten's home in the North Pole, preparations are underway for Christmas. The snowman and the elves don't have wish lists, so Santa's workshop only runs at half speed. The problem is that people in the ordinary world have stopped believing in Santa's existence. And if everyone stops believing in Santa, the lamp of light goes out and the world of Santa comes to an end. Santa needs to pull himself up quickly and Mother Santa and the whole family are fighting to get Santa back on track, before it's too late.

Swedish documentary from 2019. Louie is a member of Hells Angels, something for which his family and perhaps especially his father the Pentecostal pastor has a hard time. And when Louie decides to pursue a career in the film industry, it creates some problems, as does his new colleagues. But leaving his old life does not prove to be as easy as Louie hoped, and sometimes he wonders if he will ever succeed. A film by Johan Palmgren.

Parents wait all their lives for their children to say "Thank you!" And the children in turn wait for a "Sorry!". This impossible equation is the starting point in the comedy "Call Mom!" Niki has just turned 35 and has to suddenly grasp all the life choices and relationships she dug for.

Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of this self-consciousness makes him more and more depressed. When he realises that his beloved wife plans to leave him, he decides to take his own life.

A portrait of Per Åhlin, who has been called the father of Swedish animation.

The wild forest has always played a significant part in art, mythology and our imaginations. So what is lost in us as humans when the wild nature is quickly diminishing, and the feeling of us being an integral part of a living environment is disintegrating? In Inner Woods we get to follow artists and activists that in various ways try to re-establish the relationship to the wild around us.

"England 79" - 17 scenes from Great Britain the winter of discontent, 1979.

Juha, 12, class clown in the suburb of Sävbyholm, Sweden. To be funny is the only thing he is good at and all he wants is to fit in the social peckingorder at school. When Juha as an adult performs the show – My Life As A Comedian- to sold out theatres and tells the horrid and funny stories from his childhood to the audience he gets an unexpected visit from an old friend from school which makes him return to Sävbyholm and deal with his past.

A passionate coming-of-age tale set amidst the conservative confines of modern Tbilisi, the film follows Merab, a competitive dancer who is thrown off balance by the arrival of Irakli, a fellow male dancer with a rebellious streak.

A bittersweet look at life’s many challenges, albeit as experienced by furry, feathered, and slimy creatures who sound and feel all too human.

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 effected 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. But when their initial reportage died, another story began. A story about lawlessness, propaganda and global politics. After a Kafkaesque trial they were sentenced to eleven years in prison for terrorism. And they were far from alone. Their cellmates were journalists, writers and politicians persecuted for not bowing down to dictatorship. Their reportage about oil was transformed into a story about ink, and their daily lives turned into a fight for survival inside the notorious Kality prison in Addis Ababa.