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see all genres ›With its frequently close ties between stage and film worlds, the films of Sweden have been notable for powerful directorial sensibilities and forceful acting since the earliest days of cinema, specifically in the work of actor/director Victor Sjöström (alias Victor Seastrom). From the early-1950s onward, Ingmar Bergman helped shape the audience for international cinema worldwide, while encouraging subsequent major talents from Jan Troell to Lukas Moodysson.
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Summer Interlude
Touching on many of the themes that would define the rest of his legendary career (isolation, performance, the inescapability of the past) Ingmar Bergman's tenth film was a gentle drift toward true mastery. In one of the director's great early female roles, Maj-Britt Nilsson...Watch Movie
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Inga
In 1968, Scandinavia was considered to be at the very forefront of sexual permissiveness, particularly onscreen. That was certainly okay by Brooklynite Joe Sarno, whose already considerable body of titillating softcore features tended more toward angst-filled psychodrama than their usual...Watch Movie
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Ship of Theseus
If the parts of a ship are replaced, bit-by-bit, is it still the same ship? A celebrated experimental photographer struggles with the loss of her intuitive genius as an unexpected aftermath of a physical change; an intellectual monk confronting a complex ethical dilemma with a long held ideology,...Watch Movie
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You, the Living
"A slapstick Ingmar Bergman" is how the Village Voice described the films of Swedish director Roy Andersson, while the Washington Post name-dropped Jacques Tati, Monty Python and even Andrei Tarkovsky to sum up an aesthetic that combines formal rigor with anti-capitalist critiques, bizarre human...Watch Movie
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A Swedish Midsummer Sex Comedy
A SWEDISH MIDSUMMER SEX COMEDY is a heartfelt, ensemble, romantic comedy set in an idyllic Swedish summer. Sumptuous food, saunas and midnight skinny-dipping are tradition during the Swedish Midsummer, the longest day of the year. This year, friends have gathered to the...Watch Movie
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Linnea in Monet's Garden
Here she comes, right from the pages of the best selling book! The charming tale of a little girl's love affair with Impressionist Claude Monet's paintings is now brought to life in full animation. Join Linnea and her friend Mr. Bloom as they set off to Paris, and then to...Watch Movie
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A Woman's Face
In one of the most challenging roles of her early career in Sweden, Ingrid Bergman plays Anna Holm, whose bitterness over her facial disfigurement leads her to become a blackmailer. When one of her victims turns out to be married to a renowned plastic surgeon, Anna is given the opportunity to...Watch Movie
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The Architecture of Doom
Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, THE ARCHITECTURE OF DOOM captures the inner workings of the Third Reich and illuminates the Nazi aesthetic in art, architecture and popular culture. From Nazi party rallies to the final days inside...Watch Movie
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
This Swedish feature film chronicles the last days of the war in Budapest. The Soviet noose is tightening around the city, yet the unrelenting mass murder of Jews continues. Raoul Wallenberg, an attache to the Swedish Embassy, was sent at the initiative of Swedish Jewish...Watch Movie
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Exposed
Lena (Christina Lindberg) is a young teen in need of excitement and sexual satisfaction. Torn between her meek and innocent boyfriend Jan and the sadistic party-goer Helge, Lena’s life turns upside-down when Helge takes some nude photographs of her. These photos can destroy her life and Lena must...Watch Movie
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Hamsun
In this epic story of love and treason, screen legend Max von Sydow (THE EXORCIST, MINORITY REPORT, HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, THE SEVENTH SEAL) gives a career-crowning performance as Knut Hamsun, Norway’s controversial Nobel Laureate. Hamsun is his country’s most beloved writer. But with the shadow...Watch Movie
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The Inheritance
Ulrich Thomsen (of the festival hit CELEBRATION) stars in this absorbing, Dogma-like look at family loyalties, personal responsibility and class distinctions, made under the mantle of Zentropa Entertainments, Lars von Trier's production company. Thomsen is Christoffer, a Dane living abroad in...Watch Movie
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In Search of Dracula
Moving easily between history, myth and fiction, IN SEARCH OF DRACULA turns up a trove of vampire lore. We get a taste for Transylvanian folkways, vampire bats, Vlad the Impaler’s bloody exploits, Greek Orthodox rites and, of course, Bram Stoker’s composition of the original...Watch Movie
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As It Is in Heaven
Nominated for "Best Foreign Film" at the 2005 Academy Awards®, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN is the story of Daniel, a successful international conductor who returns to his childhood village in Sweden. Soon thereafter, the local church choir seeks him out to solicit his advice. He can't...Watch Movie
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Light Keeps Me Company
Twice an Academy Award® Winner and considered one of the foremost cinematographers in the history of film, Sven Nykvist is best known for his work with Ingmar Bergman, with whom he created some of the most important films of modern cinema. Despite a tumultuous personal life...Watch Movie
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Terror of Frankenstein
Two years after directing an unusual documentary investigation into the vampire legend, monster maven Calvin Floyd tried his hand at traditional adaptation with the Frankenstein story. While TERROR OF FRANKENSTEIN lacks IN SEARCH OF DRACULA’s secondary interpretations, Floyd's...Watch Movie
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Bananas!*
BANANAS!* is a suspenseful court room drama that examines the intricacies and injustices of the global politics of food. Focusing on a landmark and highly controversial legal case pitting a dozen Nicaraguan banana plantation workers against Dole Food Corporation, BANANAS!* uncovers the alleged...Watch Movie
