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Browse 34 movies from Dramatiska Institutet
A military exercise in the Swedish winter landscape turns into a nightmare fight against an unknown enemy.
Sep 2006
David is a drummer supported by unemployment benefit, disappointed that life didn't turn out the way he planned. Now he's on the night ferry from Germany with three thousand ecstasy tablets taped onto his torso. The plan is to sell the pills in Sweden in order to get enough money to start all over somewhere else. But when David meets his first love Sara in the all you can eat buffet, he starts to question the course his life is taking.
Jan 2009
A girl's grief and a father's betrayal.
Jan 2004
A pair of upper middle ages where the man has been retired due to tinnitus undergoes a crisis. The woman has been cheating and crying and crying excuses at home. It appears that ...
Oct 2001
Two pregnant women with completely different personalities meet at a health center.
Jan 2008
A man with a battered, jangling suitcase appears in an airport out of nowhere. The surprised customs officer, ever more confused, gets a free ticket for a performance he will never forget.
Jan 1987
It's Valborg - Walpurgis Night. The annual celebration of spring. The doctors' choir is rehearsing for tonight's celebrations. The only ones left at the hospital are the nurse, the medical intern and the patient care technician. The doctors trust them to give the patient the proper care. It is, after all, Valborg - Walpurgis Night.
The film depicts a young woman's first task as a homemade. The task is to help a disabled man with a toilet and dressing
Aug 1993
"The Ticket Inspector" - 60-year-old Alfred lives alone with his cat. He is doing his job with zealous diligence until he meets the love of his youth.
Feb 1992
Linus is going on a date with his dream girl he met online, or rather, it is what he believes.
Jan 2010
A man is assigned to measure out land for subdivision on an estate. People and animals behave strangely, and the man hears a strange story about a woman who disappeared without a trace from the estate twenty years earlier.
Jan 1990
A classic tale of love and betrayal. Framed in the mysterious atmosphere of the dying Swedish winter.
Nov 1988
A tribute to the Swede Sally Bauer who swam across the English Channel in 1939.
Jun 2000
K-G has lost his foothold in life. He has no energy, doesn't know what he wants, and cannot work anymore. His wife Birgitta doesn't understand him.
Feb 2002
Balkan 1992. Ariana is in her parents' home country to sing on a peace gala. She brings her Swedish husband and nine-year-old daughter. But the war breaks out.
Aug 2004
Eva is separated from her husband and daughter by the police. A story about taking the consequences of one's choice.
Two homeless Kurdish brothers see Superman in the town's first movie theatre and decide they are going to live with him in the US. It's a long, dangerous road in the hands of ruthless human smugglers.
Nov 2010
Henrik returns home to the family he hasn't seen in fifteen years just in time for his father's funeral. The coffin is a couple of sizes too small and his mother wants to sleep forever. More then ever Henrik needs to unite with his older brother Ronnie, who has spent his whole life at home on the farm.
One day when the alarm operator Sara gets an emergency call, she can no longer manage her job according to the regulations.
14-year-olds Angela and Arina have a goal: to see and touch their idol, Bill Kaulitz of the German pop band Tokio Hotel, at Madame Tussaud's. But just as the girls have their goal in sight; their world seems to collapse around them. A film about friendship, infatuation and the heartbreak of growing up.
Mar 2010