Swedish International Film Festival

Movie : Dance : Generations Director: Dawn Gifford Engle “They’re sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone.” Billy Joel There are documentaries that simply project lives, and there are those that reveal the unseen truths of the human condition. Dance Generations, directed by Dawn Gifford Engle, belongs firmly t

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Movie : Super Turbo Jet Boats Director: Daniel Stuelpnagel Daniel Stuelpnagel’s Super Turbo Jet Boats is a brief yet remarkably coherent short film that manages to combine quirky humor, subtle visual craftsmanship, and low-budget innovation into a tightly-paced 14-minute runtime. The film follows five film-school slackers in Los Angeles whose faile

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Movie: The Discarded Ones Director: Johan Andren “December stillness, crossed by twilight roads, Teach me to travel far and bear my loads.” Siegfried Sassoon There is a quiet severity to The Discarded Ones, directed by Johan Andren, that resists immediate articulation. It is not merely a war film that strips away spectacle, but one that … Continue

Movie : The Discarded Ones Director – Johan Andren Can you recall the earliest moment when The Discarded Ones first emerged in your imagination? Was it sparked by a historical image, a philosophical question, or a personal experience?

Movie: Horses Director: Daniel Belton Horses, directed by Daniel Belton, unfolds less like a traditional film and more like a living, breathing structure of sensation. It resists narrative comfort and instead draws the viewer into an experience shaped by motion, stillness, and visual rhythm.

Movie : ENESCU, skinned alive Director : Toma Enache Enescu – Skinned Alive, directed by Toma Enache, offers a thoughtful and visually rich portrait of the legendary Romanian composer George Enescu. Instead of following a conventional chronological biography, the film approaches its subject through emotion, atmosphere, and personal relationships, c

Movie : Row Your Boat Director: Brian Golden Inspired by The Velvet Rage by Alan Downs, Brian Golden does not so much adapt a text as metabolize it. Row Your Boat feels like theory passing through flesh, as if the abstract architecture of queer shame had been rerouted into tendons and breath.

Movie : Kulyas 2: Zikr-i Ayin Director: Yunus Sevik “That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.” – H.P Lovecraft Kulyas 2: Zikr-i Ayin, directed by Yunus Sevik, unfolds like a whispered confession passed down through centuries. It does not rush to declare itself as horror.