Ballad Film

How do we talk to each other online? Based on authentic chats from an internet forum.

Two Norwegian sisters receive a premonition from God that makes them buy an apartment in a tiny Swedish town, Gullspång. Meeting the seller, she is a dead-ringer of their older sister, who committed suicide 30 years ago.

A stranger-than-fiction-story, the core is a mysterious package that the Sandnes family from Valdal in Norway has been receiving every Christmas for the past two decades, with gifts for everyone.

A Sámi woman fights for her right to claim a tax deduction against the purchase of a dog. Why the Swedish authorities fail to recognize the dog's use as a reindeer herding tool versus a pet opens up a larger discussion about Indigenous rights and economic discrimination in this humorous takedown of the Swedish government's ignorance of Sámi culture.

The years go by and suddenly you are not as young and promising anymore. Was this how life was supposed to be? Sandra is stressed about life's checklist and Veronica worries about losing her sexual capital. Emelie, the mother of small children, is happy that she has time to shower every day and Jonna is happy about the separation. Eleaver is tired of her partner never putting the socks in the laundry basket. And who can even lie down? Martina Carlstedt meets women who are all in their prime between 30 and 40.