Summer City

The Pulse of the Big City

January 1963 •Swedish

An experimental film about the city of Stockholm.

Ultimate Scandinavia

August 2007 •English

In this ultimate guide to Scandinavia travelers Megan McCormick, Ian Wright and Neil Gibson explore Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Lapland, Finland and the Baltic States. From enjoying a traditional Viking festival to crossing the Arctic Circle into Lapland for dinner with reindeer herders to a visit to the capital of Lithuania, Vilinus, and the Midsummer Night Festival in Kernave, these hosts will introduce the viewer to a variety of sites and attractions during their Scandinavian tour.

The Wonderful Journey of Selma Lagerlöf

December 2020 •German

The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character, and the first female storyteller to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909); a woman as pioneering in her life as in her remarkable work.

Chess på svenska: The musical that came home

November 2003 •Swedish

A film about Chess - from reading to first night

Misfits to Yuppies

April 1993 •Swedish

Misfits to Yuppies is the last of three films (Dom kallar oss mods, Ett anständigt liv, Det sociala arvet) that shows conditions for addicts in Stockholm and try to find out how social legacy have been transferred to their children from previous films.

Djurgårdsfärjan 2

June 2012 •Swedish

A paraphrase on Eric M. Nilsson's film Djurgårdsfärjan from the early 1960s.

The Slussen Misery

December 2020 •Swedish

Filmmaker Johan Palmgren returns to Slussen in Stockholm and captures both major crises and small observations this special year.

En kluven stad

January 1998 •Swedish

The Old Town of Stockholm has been threatened many times. The worst was when, in 1959, a large motorway was pulled through the heart of the city, a sword cut that split the Old Town in two. The Riddarholm church, where the Swedish regents are buried, is trapped by the traffic that roars forward a few meters away. Who in France would come up with the idea of building a motorway next to Nôtre Dame?

Vikarien

March 2006 •Swedish

For the young, ambitious substitute teacher Max Wejstorp the chaos in his school in a Stockholm suburb ultimately becomes unbearable. He summons his old teacher and mentor, the now 73-year-old legend Folke Silvén from Lund in southern Sweden. How the teachers has got an increasingly untenable work situation is shown in a very direct way in "Vikarien".

Det goda livet

October 2001 •Swedish

"The good life" is a documentary about Alf, a broker who sells expensive apartments in Stockholm. Alf lives the good life. But even the good life has several sides.

This Is Söderstadion

March 2015 •English

The days of being a supporter of the Hammarby football team are hard, even for the most dedicated fan. The unwilling step into the future is embodied by the leaving of the classic home stadium Söderstadion.

The Traffic Separating Device

April 2020 •Swedish

In order to rectify the poor bus accessibility at Slussen station in Stockholm, the city council, as per the municipal board’s recommendation, erects so-called ‘bus traps’ on the street.

Area 08 Vol. 1

January 2000 •English

A film devoted exclusively to graffiti on trains and metros of Stockholm, Sweden. The soundtrack is composed by the famous Swedish rap group, Looptroop Rockers among others. The film features many sequences of trainspotting and backjumps with the WUFC in particular and the infamous scene with the trashing of a subway car. The film was immediately banned from sale by the Swedish authorities.

Stockholm, entrée de l'exposition

May 1897 •French

A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.

This is Hammarby: Bad Weather Fans

August 2015 •English

Supporting Hammarby is more than just watching a winning team, these supporters are some of the most loyal in Sweden. This is their story.

Balloon Trip over Stockholm

January 1914 •Swedish

The Prize

December 1963 •English

A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.

Stockholm, My Love

November 2016 •English

Stockholm My Love is a city symphony, a love letter to Stockholm, the fiction debut of director Mark Cousins and the acting debut of musician Neneh Cherry. It follows one woman's footsteps through the streets of her native city, on a journey of recovery from a bad thing that happened to her exactly one year before. It's an exploration of grief, identity and the power of architecture and urbanism to shape lives, and a celebration of the power of walking and looking to make us all feel just a little bit better. With new music by Neneh Cherry, old music by Benny Andersson (of ABBA) and Franz Berwald, and images by Christopher Doyle and Mark Cousins.

Lämna mej inte ensam

March 1980 •Swedish

In the cold neon light of Stockholm City, Sofi, 15, drifts around in a blonde wig picking up clients. In the shabby room that her friend Pia and her pimp rent out, she spreads her legs for them. Then she takes the bus home to her parents in the dormant suburban residential community. "Did you have a good time as a babysitter?" they ask. As usual, they don't understand anything, anything at all!

Tommy

March 2014 •Swedish

After a year abroad Estelle returns home to collect her husband's share of the loot from a major robbery.