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 is18, 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, a foreign worker in Swedish parks, loves his girlfriend and wants to marry her, but he is about to marry another girl to prevent her from being sent back to her homeland, Lebanon. Meanwhile, Roro's best friend Måns has serious problems getting an erection.
- 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.
- CreatorGreg 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.
- CreatorOskar 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.
- DirectorCatti 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.
- DirectorMarkus CastroStarsAdel DarwishNathalie WilliamsdotterAhmad Fadel"Ghabe" follows a Syrian refugee during the summer of the 2015 migration as he falls in love with a majestic forest in Sweden and a mysterious local woman living on its border.
- DirectorDaniel WallentinStarsEvin AhmadAnwar AlbayatiSofia BachHalim, a young boy who tries to find himself after the death of his mother.
- DirectorDavid DanialStarsBile AbdullahiRawa Farok Mohamed AliAnders AlpsäterThe homeless brothers Brouk and Bile finds a place to stay with the mean dad Johan. Now they have to find jobs to pay the rent in one week. The easiest way seems to become rappers.
- DirectorMelanie AronsonStarsOthman OthmanAlaa RashidYazan AlqaqFadi, a Syrian barber who runs a make-shift salon in a refugee camp in Southern Sweden, provides a neutral ear for the various ethnic and political groups residing in the hotel camp, awaiting decisions about their futures. Fadi's customers reveal the struggles of every day immigrant life and the dynamics between various groups within the camp. When Fadi develops a relationship with a new client, he is forced to question his own values, which are already so often challenged by life in Sweden. Within seconds, Fadi must make a potentially life- altering decision that may alleviate the pain from his past but that may change is future forever.
- DirectorDaniel EspinosaStarsJoel KinnamanMatias VarelaDragomir MrsicWhen JW becomes a drug runner in order to maintain his double life, his fate becomes tied to two other men: Jorge, a fugitive on the run from both the Serbian mafia and the police, and mafia enforcer Mrado, who is on the hunt for Jorge.
- DirectorRojda SekersözStarsAdel AhmadEvin AhmadStina AlmquistMirja must find her place after serving jail time. When she gets a job as a hotel cleaner she starts living a double life. She's torn between her sick mother and her old group of friends, who have always been her real family.
- DirectorManuel ConchaStarsKardo RazzaziAgnes Lindström BolmgrenSuzanne ReuterComedy about Mahmod who wants to be seen as Swedish - changes his name, gets Volvo, blue contact lenses and a Swedish wife.
- DirectorAnders LandStarsVictoria AdlerHassan BrijanyAnnika GardeskogHussein Hashemi receives the news that he will become a Swedish citizen. Excited, he goes all-in to be Sweden's best Swede. After a series of entanglements and conflicts comes the unexpected and emotional end.
- DirectorMilad AlamiStarsArdalan EsmailiSoho RezanejadLars BrygmannEsmail, a young Iranian man, is desperately looking for a woman who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time is running out, he falls in love and his past catches up with him.
- StarsJonathan AnderssonLiv MjönesGustaf SkarsgårdAn explosion happens and body parts are scattered. As a result "Sebbe" is taken in for questioning by the city police, but time is short since Interpol and FBI wants him to be handed over to them.
- StarsSofia PekkariGöran SjögrenNazif RamadaniThis show is about Swedish teenagers and their trials and tribulations. They come from different backgrounds with various socioeconomic issues. Main characters are Juan and Sabina who share a forbidden love
- DirectorErik PoppeStarsGustaf SkarsgårdSofia HelinMikkel Bratt SilsetBased on the book by Vilhelm Moberg (published in 1949) depicting a few people emigrating from Sweden to the United States in the 1840 - early 1850.
- StarsMarie AgerhällMoa LundqvistJesper RönndahlThree incompetent diplomats at the Swedish Foreign Affairs Department are a constant threat to world peace.
- DirectorCecilia ParsbergErik PauserIn an undisclosed location in central Stockholm a sort of state of exception seems to be in effect. During night time, job seekers from different parts of the world live here. Daytime they share the place with workers, building the new Stockholm. The main character of the film Thomas, has for three years been sleeping in a rat infested spot under a loading bridge. Now he is not even allowed to stay there and is going to be evicted. He gives a passionate speech about dignity, human rights and his fight to live a worthy life and support his family. The film is also distributed as part of a mobile sculpture that will tour Sweden and Europe.