BREAKING SOCIAL

All societies are based on the idea of a social contract. We work, study, pay taxes - diligence and hard work should be rewarded, but this is rarely the case. Filmmaker Fredrik Gertten, examines the global pattern of kleptocracy and extractivism, but also finds hope on the path.  A way beyond cynicism and despair.

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JOZI GOLD

Grandmother and environmental activist Mariette Liefferink is up against the richest mining corporations in Africa. The golden era has left 1,6 million people living on radioactive grounds, but she is on a mission to force the gold industry to clean up.

FOR SOMEBODY ELSE

Cristal, Deanna and Michelle have chosen to become surrogate mothers. In this intimate and thought-provoking documentary, filmmaker Sven Blume follows these three California women and the everyday chaos and emotional turmoil they go through as they lend their bodies and carry someone else’s child.

PUSH

Landlords without faces. Apartments without renters. A documentary exploring the new, unlivable city. Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities worldwide. Incomes are not. The working and middle classes are getting pushed out of cities, while financial powerhouses use housing as a place to park money.

DEAD DONKEYS FEAR NO HYENAS

Farmland – the new green gold. Hoping for export revenues, Ethiopia’s government leases millions of hectares of farmland to foreign investors. But the dream of prosperity has a dark side where the World Bank plays a very questionable role…

BECOMING ZLATAN...

The decisive years of Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic, told through rare archival footage where a young Zlatan speaks openly about his life and challenges.

BIKES VS CARS

The bicycle, an amazing tool for change. Activists and cities all over the world are moving towards a new system. But will the economic powers allow it?

MARIA AND HER SHADOW

This is the story of Maria, a person like you and me… only she’s the best boxer in the world.

BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!*

The true story about a Swedish filmmaker and a banana corporation. Dirty tricks, lawsuits, manipulation, and the price of free speech.

LOVE ALWAYS, CAROLYN

They say behind every great man is a great woman. Carolyn Cassady was behind two. Wife of beatnik icon Neal Cassady and lover-muse of Jack Kerouac.

I BOUGHT A RAINFOREST

Jacob Andrén, an ordinary young man, is thinking back upon his days in primary school. He is wondering about what happened to all those trees that he and his classmates bought after raising money at a flea market. They received a certificate, he recalls. But that was almost 20 years ago.
Did their effort really make a difference?

BANANAS!*

Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he tackles the Dole Food Company in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it? In the suspenseful documentary BANANAS!*, filmmaker Fredrik Gertten sheds new light on the global politics of food.

THE LEFTOVERS

Join us on this dumpster diver adventure down the east coast of Australia! With no money, no food, driving only on vegetable fuel they plan to drive 2000 km in 7 days living on nothing but society’s waste.

FINAL IMAGE

A Swedish-Argentinean cameraman named Leonardo Henrichsen films his own murder. 33 years later a Chilean journalist searches through the events that lead to Leonardo´s death and discovers the identity of the man who shot him.

BURMA VJ

In Burma ”Joshua”, a young video journalist of 27, works undercover to counter the military regimes propaganda and keep the world informed about the state of affairs inside the closed country. Armed with small handycams Joshua and a handful of other reporters, venture out into the streets to make news reportages at great personal risk.

MILKBAR

This is a story about a Polish milkbar and a stubborn woman running a business that springs from another time. Danuta has a mission to serve healthy and cheap meals. Look at Mc Donalds what kind of food is that? Danuta says, they are all over the world! Why can’t there be milkbars all over the world?

BELFAST GIRLS

This is the story of Mairéad Mc Ilkenny and Christine Savage, growing up in post-war Belfast. Two strong, young women with their everyday life struggles, living as in different worlds in the same city, cut off from each other by many high walls.

THIN ICE

Dolkar, a young Buddhist woman from Ladakh in the Himalayas wants to play ice hockey. She and her friends tries to make ice to skate on, get equipment and coaching. But the biggest problem is that the men in charge don’t think women ice hockey is important. Dolkar contacts the Muslim girls for support.

THE SOCIALIST, THE ARCHITECT AND THE TWISTED TOWER

A dramatic, behind-the-scene-story about the building of Santiago Calatravas Turning Torso. A 190 meter high, twisted residential building which was appointed “worlds best residential building project” at Mipim in Cannes, 2005.

AN ORDINARY FAMILY

What would you do if you woke up one morning and all your savings had vanished? Argentina goes bankrupt and many of its inhabitants who once lived a comfortable life suddenly became poor.

BYE BYE MALMÖ

George Wilson from London and Reinhardt from Nürnberg have a difficult mission (mission impossible). Together with their men from Fagioli – PLC they are going to dismantle the worlds largest crane and move it to South Korea.

BOOGIE WOOGIE DADDY (SHORT)

A film about a father who suffered from vertigo. About a son who, in his father´s folder of negatives, finds love, despair and reconciliation with a painful memory. The father´s suicide and the great emptiness that followed.

TRUE BLUE 2 - THE WAY BACK

The legendary football team Malmö FF has been kicked out of the Swedish Premier League for the first time in 64 years. A young guy, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, gets an important role in the team. However, his cocky attitude creates problems in the team. Zlatan has to control his temperament and learn that football is a team sport.

THE DEATH OF A WORKING MAN'S NEWSPAPER

Although it had been in existence for 113 years, Arbetet, a Malmö newspaper, was in its death throes by September 2000. A miracle would be needed to save it.

TRAVEL WITH SILUETTE

An encounter with the African savannah and Nordic cross-country skiing. Between traditional dancers from Tanzania and well educated, modern dancers from Europe and USA. Skånes Dance Theatre´s performance Siluett awoke great attention when it toured in Scandinavia and East Africa 1998-2000.

BLÅDÅRAR (True Blue)

This documentary presents the supporters of Malmö FF, who will do anything for their team whether they win or lose. True Blue fans don´t mind if they have to drive 1500 miles to Croatia for a cup match to cheer on their team, no matter what weather may be.