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Browse 37 movies from Dramatiska Institutet
Short film based on the book by Ulf Lundell.
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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
Linus is going on a date with his dream girl he met online, or rather, it is what he believes.
Jan 2010
It's Valborg in Skellefteå and John is preparing a speech. On his way to the festivities his car breaks down and he has to spend the night with Astrid who is celebrating on her own.
Jan 2004
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
May 2002
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
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
Gerda runs a farm in the shadow of a nuclear power plant. She has just been widowed. For the first time in 15 years, her sister Marie comes to visit. Much is unsaid between them, and dark memories emerge as the hours pass.
Sep 1989
Two Swedish teenage girls are traveling to India to stay for months, but it's not going as planned.
Feb 2011
Two pregnant women with completely different personalities meet at a health center.
Jan 2008
Nina Argentina is a story about a Swedish woman, Nina, who goes to Argentina to look for her lost son. She claims that the father has kidnapped him, and that they are somewhere in Buenos Aires. But it turns out that Ninas situation is much more complicated than at first glance. Nina Argentina is a story about sense and sensibility, about the fine line between what Is right and wrong.
After the divorce 14-year old Nina lives with her father, a UFO-observer. He's not the warmest of fathers, which troubles their relationship. One night, when he is out looking for aliens, she takes his car to go to a party, but crashes it. Her father mistakes the crash for aliens landing. —Kurt Aerden
Jan 1997
"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
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.
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