1. ”The limit” (Director: Ali Abbasi)
the Year’s best Swedish film is a liberating limitless new husband in arizona who find themselves in the borderland between romance, queerdrama, krimthriller, horror, fantasy and naturlyrisk John Bauer fairy tale. Based on John Ajvide lindqvist’s eccentric novell has Ali Abbasi created an impressive, original debut film which revolves around the tulltjänstekvinnan Tina (Eva Melander) who has a supernatural sense of smell. Completely rättmättigt praised with jurypriset in the section Un certain regard in Cannes and awarded to Sweden’s official Oscarsbidrag. ”Limit” is sensuous, smart, and scary in real life.
2. ”Goliath” (Director: Peter Grönlund)
”Tjuvheder-director Peter Grönlund is back with yet another socio-political drama about a hard life in the margin. Teenage Kimmie is dreaming of a new life beyond their nedläggningsdrabbade an industrial town. But when father Roland unexpectedly goes into prison he is forced to take over our dads precious volvo skumraskaffärer. Describes socialrealism about a forgotten Sweden with a one-hundred percent tonträff.
”Young Astrid” Photo: Nordisk film
3. ”Young Astrid” (Director: Pernille Fischer Christensen)
Before Astrid Lindgren was a Swedish national monument, she was a young tonårsmamma. Alba August is doing a free-spirited, compelling, and genuinely nice interpretation of the aspiring writer as a young puppy. A girl who tokdansar when no one bids up, cut their hair in the jazzy page and, above all, never gives up on his children. ”Young Astrid depicts with warmth and joy of the female frigörelseprojekt whose pain points created the classic children’s literature.
4. ”Jimmie” (Director: Jesper Ganslandt)
the Impressive and thought-provoking flyktingdrama where ”Farewell Falkenberg”-the director turns on the reality of migration flows. ”Jimmie” is a intense and sensual film told entirely from the perspective of a Swedish fyraårings point of view, with an intrusively suggestive photo in the child’s eye level. A twisting and gripping story of a family forced to flee for his life.
5. ”Amateurs” (Director: Gabriella Pichler)
”Eat sleep die ‘ director Gabriela Pichler has teamed up with the writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri. The result was a tender, eager, and dreadfully funny portrayal of a Swedish small-town life. The fictional Lafors is in the centre of a furious (media)satire full of quirky characters in different ages.
”Heart” Photo: SFI
6. The ”heart” (Director: Fanni Metelius )
The samtidsnära långfilmsdebuten ”the Heart” explore the pages of the relationships that make romance usually rarely put words. Fanni Metelius – previously seen as a entertaining man of independent mind in Ruben Östlund’s ”Tourist” – depicting the passion of encumbrances and testing the limits of the intimsfären like no other right now.
7. ”Euphoria” (Director: Lisa Langseth)
Courageous, life-affirming and existential relationship drama of betrayal and atonement, in death’s waiting room. Alicia Vikander and Eva Green, two mismatched sisters have gone their separate ways after a problemtyngd upbringing. As adults reunite in a mysterious dödsklinik for assisted suicide that is driven by ”the organization” in which Charlotte Rampling plays a mysterious widow.
Mikael Persbrandt and Anna Odell, ”X & Y” Photo: Björn Larsson Rosvall/TT
8. ”X & Y” (Director: Anna Odell)
Five years after the success of ”Reunion” reenacts Anna Odell another gruppdynamiskt experiments in hybridfilm, this time a freaked out identitetslek together where she explores issues of gender, power and sexuality along with Michael Persbrand. The cream of the Danish acting elite, Trine Dyrholm, Sofie Gråböl and Thure Lindhart. Surprisingly enough, this year set aside.
9. ”Top of nothing” (Director: Måns Månsson and Axel Petersén)
The Swedish filmårets mad dog is deliberately ugly, obstinate, provocative, and completely, completely wonderful. Månsson and Petersén has created a apart black comedy that doesn’t resemble anything. Léonore Ekstrand is bizarrely fascinating in the role of decadent, avdankad playgirl who returns home to cremate his father and develops psykopatdrag when she must fight for fadersarvet – a neglected apartment building.
”Lasse-Maja’s detective agency” Photo: SF
10. ”Lasse-Maja’s detective agency – the first mystery” (Director: Josephine Bornebusch)
”the Sunny side”-the star Bornebusch light even as a director. Her playful directorial debut goes back to the roots and tells the story of how LasseMajas detective agency was formed. Neat, smart, fun and really entertaining. Not the least bizarre supporting roles which, among others, Johan Rheborgs bizarre skolvaktmästare stands out as a possible guldbaggekandidat.
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Ingmar Bergman with the family. Photo: Lennart Nilsson
1. ”Bergman – a year, a life” (Directed by: Jane Magnusson)
the Commemoration of 1957 goes to Ingmar Bergman’s karriärkurva straight up. His creative flow is magical. At the same time, he has six children with three different women and a hectic love life. A smart starting point for a fun, informative and just the right irreverent documentary about the world’s greatest director. An extended version with the title ”Bergman – a life in four acts” is broadcast on SVT from the 26/12.
2. ”Reconstruction Utøya” (Director: Carl Javér)
the Sounds of the shots are central, when the Swedish director Carl Javér make a strong dramatisation of the massacre which took place on the lägerön Friday 2011. Four of the survivors of the young people are recounting their versions of the terrible hour, when 69 people were executed. A gripping, effective, and liberating unadorned attempt to process the personal, traumatic memories – but also make them universal.
”the Raft” Photo: Triart
3. ”The raft” (Director: Marcus Lindeen)
Fascinating about the ”Sexflotten” – the scandalous social anthropology experiment with eleven strangers, and a mad scientist who drove around aimlessly on a raft in the Pacific in the seventies. What was it that happened? Why did the travelers to kill their leader? By letting the survivors have a reunion in a stripped-down studio with a replica of the original raft, links Lindeen together the past and the present in an ingenious way.
4. ”Feature film 136” (Director: Kristian Petri)
A small gem of a metafilm, which depicts the filming of Bergman’s iconic “the winter light” in the early 60’s. In a smart and stylish way raises Kristian Petri’s life in film by korsklippa unique archival footage and revealing brevfynd with recent spelscener where Jonas Karlsson and Henrik Dorsin plays the loaded versions of Ingmar Bergman and Vilgot Sjöman.
5. ”The man who played with fire” (Director: Henrik Georgsson)
Stieg Larsson is best known as the ”Millennium”-the author, but what he really spent the greater part of his short life was that closest to the maniacal documenting the Swedish extreme right. Henrik Georgssons film not only gives a new picture of Larsson, but also links together the xenophobic 80s and 90s, with the present and the sweden democrats ‘ entry on the political scene.
