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Searching for Sugar Man
2012 film by Malik Bendjelloul
Häxan
Häxan (, The Witch; Heksen , The Witch; English: The Witches; released in the US in 1968 as Witchcraft Through the Ages) is a 1922 Swedish-Danish silent horror essay film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Consisting partly of documentary-style storytelling as well as dramatized narrative sequences, the film purports to chart the historical roots and superstitions surrounding witchcraft, beginning in the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Based partly on Christensen's own study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan proposes that such witch
Flee
2021 animated film directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
TPB AFK
2013 film by Simon Klose
ABBA: The Movie
1977 film by Lasse Hallström
I Am Greta
2020 documentary film directed by Nathan Grossman
Kon-Tiki
1950 Norwegian documentary film directed by Thor Heyerdahl
Logistics
2012 Swedish experimental art film
Videocracy
2009 film by Erik Gandini
Lightning Over Water
1980 film by Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray
Gitmo: The New Rules of War
2006 film by Erik Gandini
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
2015 film by Stig Björkman
A House Made of Splinters
2022 film directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont
Bananas!*
Bananas!* is a 2009 Swedish documentary directed by Fredrik Gertten about a conflict between the Dole Food Company and banana plantation workers in Nicaragua over alleged cases of sterility caused by the pesticide DBCP.
They Call Us Misfits
1968 Swedish film directed by Stefan Jarl
The Queen and I
2009 film by Nahid Persson Sarvestani
Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers
2003 film by Erik Gandini
The Swedish Theory of Love
2015 film by Erik Gandini
Resan
Resan (Swedish for The Journey) is a 1987 documentary film by Peter Watkins, made between the years 1983 and 1985 on several continents, and structured around the theme of nuclear weapons, military spending and poverty. Ordinary people are asked about their awareness of these issues.
A Respectable Life
1979 Swedish film directed by Stefan Jarl
Total Balalaika Show
1994 film by Aki Kaurismäki
The Gender War
2005 television film by Evin Rubar
My Heart of Darkness
2010 film by Staffan Julén
No Burqas Behind Bars
2013 film by Nima Sarvestani
Ra
1971 documentary film
Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
2011 film by Fredrik Gertten
The Planet
2006 film by Johan Söderberg
The Last Journey
2024 film by Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson
The Making of Fanny and Alexander
1986 documentary film by Ingmar Bergman
Back to Ararat
1988 Swedish documentary film
Scheme Birds
2019 documentary film by Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin
Language of Love
1969 film by Torgny Wickman
Yalla Parkour
2024 documentary film by Areeb Zuaiter
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
2004 film by Pirjo Honkasalo
Mein Kampf
1960 film by Erwin Leiser
Blandt Syd-Amerikas urskovsindianere
1921 Norwegian film
Sabaya
2021 film directed by Hogir Hirori
Sepideh
2013 film directed by Berit Madsen
The Lost Leonardo
2021 film directed by Andreas Koefoed
Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
2003 film by Lukas Moodysson, Stefan Jarl