Immigrants portrayal in Swedish Cinema
stereotypes are an expression of the dominant ideology. Stereotypes serve to naturalize the power relationships in society (Image and Representation Key Concepts in Media Studies by Nick Lacey)
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- DirectorReza BagherStarsSara SommerfeldAlexander SkarsgårdSaid OveissiNazli is 18, born in Iran, raised in Sweden. She lives with her father Abbas and her older sister Mahin. Nazli, who want to blend in calls herself Sara. One day Abbas tell her how he sees her future.
- DirectorJosef FaresStarsFares FaresTorkel PeterssonTuva NovotnyRoro, second generation swede with family from Lebanon is a park worker together with Måns in this comedy about where Middle East and Sweden clashes. About forced marriage and true love.
- DirectorGabriela PichlerStarsNermina LukacMilan DragisicJonathan LampinenA young Eastern European immigrant, working in Sweden, is faced with a painful choice when she's laid off from her factory in the name of efficiencies.
- DirectorJosef FaresStarsJan FaresTorkel PeterssonHamadi KhemiriA heartwarming tale about a beloved father who is trying to cope with cultural clashes, loss and the search for love in average Swedish society.
- DirectorMani Maserrat-AgahStarsPoyan KarimiChanelle LindellOliver Wahlgren-IngrossoMustafa Moradi is aching to find a girlfriend. On the other end of the city, Linnea is desperately searching for a guy with style, courage and a burning passion.
- DirectorErik GandiniStarsErik GandiniLars TrägårdhMarie Helena FjällåsInternationally Sweden is seen as a perfect society, a role model and a symbol of the highest achievements of human progress. The Swedish Theory of Love digs into the true nature of Swedish life style, explores the existential black holes of a society that has created the most autonomous people in the world.
- CreatorsGreg PoehlerJosephine BornebuschNiclas CarlssonStarsGreg PoehlerJosephine BornebuschLena OlinNew York City accountant Bruce moves to Sweden in Northern Europe, after falling in love with a Swedish woman.
- StarsHanna ArdéhnFelix SandmanDavid DencikMaja, a student in Stockholm, finds herself on trial for murder after a tragedy at her school. More doubts and suspicions arise when new revelations are made.
- StarsFelipe Leiva WengerPontus Bjernekull MörnerBoba EanLilla Al Fadji wants to be a hip hop manager
- DirectorHelena BergströmStarsRakel WärmländerNina ZanjaniKorhan AbayTwo girls of different background, one a immigrant from Turkey and the other a girl that needs to get out of her fathers shadow both apply to the police academy were they become close friends.
- DirectorHannes HolmStarsRolf LassgårdBahar ParsFilip BergOve, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.
- DirectorTuna ÖzerStarsArvin KananianMiryam MeralHümeyra Rencber
- DirectorGreta StocklassováWhat if you got the chance to build a new society from scratch, what would it look like? Located more than 200 km above the polar circle, the Swedish mining town Kiruna is built on the world's largest and most modern iron ore mining tunnel, which created a significant income for the Swedish government. However, due to the mining the city has started to collapse and in order to save the industry, the city council together with the mining company LKAB have decided to move the town and its citizens 3 kilometres to the east. In doing so, the town has turned a potential disaster into a great opportunity. The new Kiruna will be an even more progressive, even better society for the future. But is it even possible to plan an ideal world? On the backdrop of a moving city, the citizens of the New Kiruna are fighting their own battles. We follow the teacher Timo, a local activist against the moving, the teenage Sami girl Maja who is discovering her family roots and cultural heritage as well as Abdalrahman, a teenage boy from Yemen, who came to the town as a refugee and slowly realizes that it takes more than just a paper to become a Swede. The seemingly very different characters are facing the same questions as the city is looking for its place. They are starting their personal search for identity, values and a greater future. Kiruna - A Brand New World is a portrait of a utopian and dystopian town as well as a hard-hitting reflection of today's society.
- CreatorsOskar SöderlundJesper GanslandtStarsEvin AhmadAlexander AbdallahAli AlarikThe entrepreneurial jet set and the criminal world are more brutal, chaotic, and ruthless than ever. When these two worlds collide, loyalty, friendships, and business partners will be tested in the never-ending quest for easy money.
- CreatorWilhelm BehrmanStarsGizem ErdoganAmed BozanAliette OpheimAgent Fatima gets a tip that a terrorist act is planned in Sweden. At the same time, teenager Sulle has opened her eyes to her student assistant who opens the doors to a fascinating new world.
- DirectorLisa AschanStarsVera VitaliPernilla AugustIssaka SawadogoIn Sweden of today, Alex is among a group of people carried in an underground "prison" waiting for their expulsion from the country. We do not know to where, do not know why.
- DirectorAlain DarborgStarsNanna BlondellAnastasios SoulisThomas HanzonWhen Nadja becomes pregnant, she and David make an attempt to rekindle their relationship by traveling to the north of Sweden for a hiking trip, but soon their romantic trip turns into a nightmare.
- DirectorElla LemhagenStarsSamuel HausAlexandra RapaportJacob ErickssonLittle Tsatsiki, son of a single mother in Sweden, has never met his father, a Greek fisherman. Tsatsiki befriends a nice but straight-laced motorcycle policeman renting one of their rooms and decices he is the right guy for his mother, an amateur rock singer in love with her band's bass player. To take a break from all this romantic hassle it's time for a holiday trip, and Tsatsiki and his mother end up in the very same Greek village where Tsatsiki was conceived a decade earlier.
- DirectorsCatti EdfeldtYlva GustavssonStarsBeylula Kidane AdgoyGustaf SkarsgårdEmbla HjulströmKidz in da Hood is the gripping and warm story of Amina, who came to Sweden with her grandfather three years ago. Amina has not yet received her residency permit and when her grandfather dies everything seems to fall apart. She temporarily hides out with pierced and tattooed rocker Johan, who lives in a worn-down suburb. The wild girl Mirre lives on the same floor as Amina and together they begin fighting for Amina to stay in Sweden and live with Johan.
- DirectorFredrik BoklundStarsAnders JanssonJohan WesterKarim RasheedBumbling TV journalist find himself reporting from a coup d'etat in Africa.
- DirectorReza ParsaStarsPer GraffmanMaria LundqvistSasha BeckerA Middle Eastern taxi driver living in Sweden, alongside his daughter's classmate, finds his life descending into chaos, terrorism and the demons of his past.
- DirectorGeir Hansteen JorgensenStarsMike AlmayehuMichalis KoutsogiannakisLia BoysenA 15 year old Somalian boy meets a 40 year old Iranian man on a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them they decide to the take their fates in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.
- CreatorPeter Emanuel FalckStarsMichael MerikanLena B. NilssonFyr Thorvald StrömbergSecond Avenue (Andra Avenyn) is a Swedish TV series about an ex-prisoner, his sexually-confused boxer son, his on-and-off Christian girlfriend, her father who is a priest, his friend who is a psychiatrist, his foster child who is a teen mom, the father of her child who is a boxing Muslim, and many more.
- DirectorOsmond KarimStarsTandi AgrellAstrid AssefaLina Endeki LarssonHow is it to be black in Sweden, a country which prides itself as the most tolerant and open-minded in the world? African-Swedish contributors tell tales of a different reality.