Erik Ponti, a 15-year-old boy, lives with his mother and sadistic stepfather in Stockholm. At home, his stepfather beats him every day after dinner. His docile mother ignores her husband's sadistic nature and allows the violence to proceed. At school, Erik is violent and frequently engages in fights, as a result of his violent upbringing. After a particularly vicious fight, Erik is expelled. The headmaster labels him vicious and accuses him of being pure evil. In an attempt to provide her son with a fresh start he sorely needs, his mother sells of some of her possessions and sends Erik to a boarding school.
The film begins with Pippi sailing around the world with her father, Captain Efraim Longstocking, her pet horse, Horse, her pet monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and various members of the ship's crew. One night during a hurricane, the captain is washed over board into the sea. As he drifts off, he calls to Pippi that he will "meet her in Villa Villekulla". To that effect, Pippi and her pet animals make their way home, Villa Villekulla, to await his return. Not long after arriving, she makes friends with the two children across the street — Tommy and Annika, who are captivated by her free spirit and fun-loving attitude. They soon convince her to go to school (for the first time in her life) where she gets into trouble, despite winning the hearts of her classmates.
Une réflexion sur la vie humaine dans toute sa beauté et sa cruauté, sa splendeur et sa banalité. Transportés dans un rêve, nous sommes guidés par la douce voix narrative d'une Shéhérazade. Les moments non pertinents prennent le même sens que les événements historiques : un couple flotte dans une colonie dévastée par la guerre ; alors qu’il accompagne sa fille à une fête d’anniversaire, un père s’arrête pour attacher ses chaussures sous une pluie battante ; des adolescentes dansent devant un café ; une armée vaincue marche vers un camp de prisonniers.
Merab (Levan Gelbakhiani) et sa partenaire Mary (Ana Javakishvili) se sont toujours entraînés dans l’Ensemble National Géorgien. Quand Irakli (Bachi Valishvili) arrive sous les yeux de Merab, il représente à la fois, pour lui, son rival et son désir…
Two emotionally estranged sisters, Ester (Ingrid Thulin) and Anna (Gunnel Lindblom), and Anna's son, Johan (Jörgen Lindström), a boy of 10, are on a night train journey back home. Ester, the older sister and a literary translator, is seriously ill. Anna coldly assists her, seemingly resenting the burden. They decide to interrupt the journey in the next town called "Timoka", settled in a fictitious Central European country with an incomprehensible language and on the brink of war.
The film opens on the birthday of Alexander (Erland Josephson), an actor who gave up the stage to work as a journalist, critic, and lecturer on aesthetics. He lives in a beautiful house with his actress wife Adelaide (Susan Fleetwood), stepdaughter Marta (Filippa Franzén), and young son, "Little Man", who is temporarily mute due to a throat operation. Alexander and Little Man plant a tree by the sea-side, when Alexander's friend Otto, a part-time postman, delivers a birthday card to him. When Otto asks, Alexander mentions that his relationship with God is "nonexistent". After Otto leaves, Adelaide and Victor, a medical doctor and a close family friend who performed Little Man's operation, arrive at the scene and offer to take Alexander and Little Man home in Victor's car. However, Alexander prefers to stay behind and talk to his son. In his monologue, Alexander first recounts how he and Adelaide found this lovely house near the sea by accident, and how they fell in love with the house and surroundings, but then enters a bitter tirade against the state of modern man. As Tarkovsky wrote, Alexander is weary of "the pressures of change, the discord in his family, and his instinctive sense of the threat posed by the relentless march of technology"; in fact, he has "grown to hate the emptiness of human speech".
Persona begins with images of camera equipment and projectors lighting up and projecting dozens of brief cinematic glimpses, including a crucifixion, an erect penis, a tarantula spider, clips from a comedic silent-film reel first seen in Bergman's Prison (depicting a man trapped in a room, being chased by Death and Satan), and the slaughter of a lamb. The last, and longest, glimpse features a boy who wakes up in a hospital next to several corpses, reading Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time ("Vår Tids Hjälte" in the film), and caressing a blurry, transient image that shifts between Elisabet and/or Alma's faces.
1982 Stockholm: Bobo and Klara are 13-year-old girls ostracized by their peers for their love of punk rock. Androgynous, with short hair and baggy clothes, they endure the wrath of condescending teen boys who play in a rock band called Iron Fist at their youth center. The girls start their own band to irritate the boys, though neither girl knows how to play music. Bobo feels neglected by her single mother and uses punk as a means of escape. Klara is angry and political and writes sardonic lyrics as her creative outlet.
An epidemic begins to spread throughout the globe, causing humankind to lose their sensory perceptions one by one. The story focuses on two people: Susan, one of a team of epidemiologists who are trying to find the causes of the disease, and Michael, a chef who works at a busy restaurant located next to Susan's flat. The two meet and get to know each other as the epidemic progresses, a relationship which soon turns to love.
Dans la Suède du début du XXème siècle, Arvid Stjärnblom, un jeune journaliste, et Lydia Stille, fille d’un artiste peintre, tombent éperdument amoureux. Mais leur idéal d’une passion pure et inconditionnelle se heurte à la réalité de l’époque ; désargentés et effrayés par l’avenir, ils épousent finalement, l’un comme l’autre, un parti plus fortuné. Des années plus tard, alors que chacun a fondé un foyer, ils se retrouvent. Déchirés entre famille et passion, ils devront dès lors assumer leur choix et en payer le prix…
« Le Caire confidentiel » ou « The Nile Hilton incident », est un film de Tarik Saleh, sorti en salle en 2017. En raison des fortes connotations politiques présentées, ce long métrage s’est vu sélectionné pour le ‘‘festival international du film politique’’ de cette année-là.
Dans un futur indéterminé, la Terre est ravagée par des catastrophes et les humains émigrent en masse vers la planète Mars à bord d'immenses vaisseaux commerciaux. À bord de l'Aniara, les passagers vaquent nonchalamment à diverses occupations consuméristes en attendant la fin du voyage, qui doit durer trois semaines.
The film concerns the police force of a small fictional Swedish village, Högboträsk. The village is so peaceful that crime has become nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime. This would mean the loss of income for the policemen, so they begin to stage crimes in order to preserve their jobs. This includes burning down the local hotdog stand, hiring a drunk to steal a packet of sausages, thrashing a local car, faking a shootout and staging a kidnapping using their friends as actors.