Movies: Alexandra Dahlström

Lilya Michailova lives in poverty, dreaming of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her neglectful aunt. Desperate for money, Lilya starts working as a prostitute, and meets Andrei, who offers her a good job in Swe...

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin....

Redheaded teen Remy is bullied by his soccer teammates and drawn into fights with his younger sister and mother in their cramped apartment. After a flare-up of domestic violence, he flees home and is tracked down by a bitter guidance counselor, Patri...

Sara invites her ex-husbands and their new families to celebrate Christmas with her and her husband Janne. Sara has always wanted to have a baby with Janne, and at the dinner table she reveals the news: she's pregnant. The only problem is that Janne ...

Moa is in her early 20s, works at a factory and lives by herself in a cottage in the forest. She is a vegan and follows her friends and demonstrations, mostly to fit in. But at home, by herself, she listens to pop music and use make-up....

On vacation in Stockholm, a teenage daughter is left wandering the city alone when her mother suffers from a sudden mental breakdown. Coming of age becomes an equally sudden necessity....

Summer holiday is over. Nora begins sixth grade and is drawn to intrigues and doesn't really know what side she's on. Or wants to be on. On one hand she feels sorry for the bullied Karin, one the other hand she wants to be friends with tough Fanny an...

Three sisters, all adrift and in crisis, reunite at their childhood home as their domineering mother arranges a big birthday. But as the festivities come to an end, repressed conflicts rise to the surface. Old wounds are opened and a new family is bo...

The quest for love and something true among local frequenters of restaurants, clubs, and bars in a hot summer in Stockholm....

In a small mining community in Northern Sweden, a group of youngsters about to take the leap in the adult age fight with themselves and the world around, while the ground literally trembles under their feet....

On a seemingly ordinary night out, a young man, Victor, finds what he think is true love for the first time in his life. But what starts as a dream soon becomes a nightmare and before the new day, Victor will have to confront his deepest fears and re...

In room 1112 at hotel Riverton during Göteborg's 2011 film festival, director Jonas Selberg Augustsén brings together some of Sweden's most famous film workers and asks a question: "Are the celluloid film about to die, and what do you think it means ...

A woman's revenge of a man, who harasses women, among them her own daughter....

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Jennifer wakes up with a bad headache and unsure of what happened the day before. She finds unpleasant clues in her apartment. When the doorbell rings, she assumes the worst but is pleasantly surprised to have forgotten her Tinder date....

The geopolitical tensions create anxiety at a theater set to stage Pushkin's "Onegin". For Maxim, the Russian-born lead actor, the situation causes inner turmoil that intensifies with the onset of the invasion of Ukraine. Multifaceted and complex que...

Lust for Life reflects El Perro del Mar’s music, telling us about the passing of time in a narcissist world. But where do all the female artists go when they grow older? About hope, integrity and the courage to walk on by....

Two best friends, Alex and Valentina, dream about conquering the world together. But when they go to Los Angeles and audition for the same part, they start competing about the big breakthrough. Eventually Alex has to ask herself what she’s willing to...

Marcos has never had a girlfriend. Mattias has been with the same girl for way too long. That's the upbeat of Swedish-Chilean director Manuel Conchas first feature, where two child hood best friends are about to meet the reality of adulthood. Or as M...

A model agent tries to do a good deed but it pulls us into a game with our own judgemental gaze....