22nd Göteborg Film Festival (1999)

A British writer pursues a young actress to Hollywood and needs all the help he can get to win her love.

Vildhundarna is a drama far away from the Swedish reality. It's about four young people on the outermost, with norms dispersed, the only survivors in a nameless city, in a nameless country. Vildhundarna could take place in the former Yugoslavia, or why not Warszawa in 1944 or Rwanda...?

Reine quits his job because he's tired of his boss. He takes a job at the Kumla Prison in hope that he can set up a play acted by the prisoners, who are not very interested. But they realize that if they do the play, they can escape while at a theatre.

Set during the World War 2. In the summer of 1941 the Finnish army crosses the border of Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola goes through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for Russian defensive positions. The platoon kills some Russian civilians and rests in a newly conquered village. There Lt. Perkola meets his fiancée Kaarina, who is serving in the Women's Auxilary Corps (Lotta). Then the platoon continues with the mission, but a message about Kaarina's possible death reaches Lt. Perkola. The message causes Perkola to become distracted during the mission.

Jonas and Emir are members of a criminal gang of 14-15 year-olds in Oslo. Emir has slight brain-damage after being beaten by his father as a 5-year-old, and Jonas' biggest problem is stopping Emir from hitting people on the head. One day, they are offered a job by a gang of drug-dealers: Deliver a packet of heroin to one guy and beat up another. This is the start of a chain of events that sends their lives spiraling out of control.

Welcome inside "The Blue Munken", a charming corner bar filled with lovesick dreamers. Here are the artists who never sold a painting, the writers with no books on the shelf and charmers without girls. One day Anita turns up.

The rise and fall of the "progg"-band "Verket". A beautiful story about friendship, love, music and politics.

About Swedish singer Freddie Wadling (1951-2016), his expressive sensitive voice, offbeat look and odd way of life.

Twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother Sirkka leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old Communist, and runs away with a German soldier. Their life under the protection of their grandmother and the teachings of communism ends first with the death of Stalin, then with that of their grandmother. The girls are eight years old when they are put in an orphanage. Their mother shows up at the orphanage in the company of Ramon, a Spanish trapeze artist. They are on a talent search for a German circus. Ramon trains the reluctant Irene during circus tours in Central Europe, and she becomes the trapeze star of the circus. The hard work soon exhausts Irene and she falls from heights, as if on purpose. Helena has secretly learned the art of fire-eating. Now she is burdened with both her mother and her sister. The violent life, however, separates the three from one another. In present-day Helsinki, middle-aged Helena has looked into her past, ceased to hate, and now, for the first time in her life, voluntarily accepts responsibility for another human being.

* Now I will read some poetry for you all. The conditions are as follows: If during my reading I notice the least sign of disinterest, a yawn or a cough or a gesture of impatience, I will immediately terminate the reading. Poetry, like all deeper human activities, requires concentration.

After witnessing an act of unprecedented violence without even flinching, an emotionally numb real-estate agent visits his ailing mother at the hospital, and then, the graveyard. Is there a speck of happiness in this cruel and short life?

A family is leaving their apartment for a vacation in Poland. While waiting for the taxi cab, they ridicule each other using verbal abuse.

An elderly man and his existence in a harsh environment. He fishes, dig up potatoes, take care of his sheep and workhorse. He works in the barn, collects seaweed, eats a simple meal and drinks a snaps. "Skål" is the only word he utters.

Kia dies in a traffic accident. She comes to heaven and is given the option of rebirth or going back to her old life.

Sven, a middle-aged chef, works in a restaurant kitchen in Gothenburg. The rest of the restaurant staff consists of noble immigrants. Sven is shy and basically a decent guy who loves to talk about how he prepares his mayonnaise. He finds it difficult to make contact with women, and it is precisely his shyness that causes him to sometimes resort to quite aggressive jokes to overcome it. Such, with a racist edge, are directed in particular at a newly hired black waitress, Connie, who, without knowing the job, constantly drops her plates of laid out dishes on her way from the kitchen to the canteen. Sven gets annoyed with her at the same time as he is attracted to her. Clumsily he seeks contact and takes her into confidence.

In a South African city, a West African street vendor befriends a homeless waif but encounters hostility and mistrust from the neighborhood toughs.

Dariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina to appear in porn, but they are not so innocent themselves.

Sarajevo, 1995. Senka, a young actress, misses her boyfriend, Camac, a soldier in the Bosnian army who is often away fighting. Despite everything, she continues to go with her brother-in-law to the theater to perform in a play.

While never-ending rain and a strange disease spread by cockroaches ravage Taiwan, a plumber makes a hole between two apartments and the inhabitants of each form a unique connection, enacted in musical numbers.

The emotive journey of a former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.