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After witnessing an act of unprecedented violence without even flinching, an emotionally numb real-estate agent visits his ailing mother at the hospital, and then, the graveyard. Is there a speck of happiness in this cruel and short life?

25-year-old daughter returned home to her elderly parents. We follow family members in their sexual dreams, their attempts at family solidarity and their struggle for health.

A meditation of death for the inner and outer man.

A wandering peddler separates from his fellow salesman and becomes involved with criminals in the jungle.

Kamal, 20 years old, can't have sexual intercourse with women although he is married. He goes to the big city and notices beautiful Vera, whom he follows round town. Will his partnership with her husband, a mafia thug, help him become a man ?

Ljudmila Ignatenko tells the story of her and her husband Vasilij, a firefighter who was one of the victims of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

After being imprisoned for the killing of ethnic Tutsis during the Rwandan genocide, Manzi must face the emotional and psychological consequences of his most personal crime: the murder of his best friend's family.

Mythical story about a fishing village on the south coast of Senegal. Two men in the village are both in love with the same beautiful girl.

Eleanor is living at a retirement home. Today is her birthday and it's time to celebrate. She is exited to meet her daughter who is going to visit her. Linda, who's working as a nurse, helps out choosing Eleanors clothes and tableware. But things do not turn out as Eleanor though.

Cisco Dudu and his friends are street children in Rwanda. The love of the world of film is their driving force. All the money goes to cinema tickets and they dream of one day becoming stars themselves. But Cisco realizes that if he's going to be a great director, they'll have to earn a camera together.

Some media-gurus comes up with the idea to a reality-soap-opera, where the contestants not only leave when they are voted out, but executed on live-television!

In this 87 minute long conversation with Ingmar Bergman, he talks about his relation to the art of film. He expresses his passion for filmmaking and filmmakers. The film doesn't include any extracts from Bergman's films.

Kia dies in a traffic accident. She comes to heaven and is given the option of rebirth or going back to her old life.

An elderly man and his existence in a harsh environment. He fishes, dig up potatoes, take care of his sheep and workhorse. He works in the barn, collects seaweed, eats a simple meal and drinks a snaps. "Skål" is the only word he utters.

A family is leaving their apartment for a vacation in Poland. While waiting for the taxi cab, they ridicule each other using verbal abuse.

Sven, a middle-aged chef, works in a restaurant kitchen in Gothenburg. The rest of the restaurant staff consists of noble immigrants. Sven is shy and basically a decent guy who loves to talk about how he prepares his mayonnaise. He finds it difficult to make contact with women, and it is precisely his shyness that causes him to sometimes resort to quite aggressive jokes to overcome it. Such, with a racist edge, are directed in particular at a newly hired black waitress, Connie, who, without knowing the job, constantly drops her plates of laid out dishes on her way from the kitchen to the canteen. Sven gets annoyed with her at the same time as he is attracted to her. Clumsily he seeks contact and takes her into confidence.

This film festival invites you to watch a movie while you're encased in a tomb. Gothenburg Film Festival 'most claustrophobic cinema' is promoting sci-fi movie 'Aniara' with the creepy stunt.

* Now I will read some poetry for you all. The conditions are as follows: If during my reading I notice the least sign of disinterest, a yawn or a cough or a gesture of impatience, I will immediately terminate the reading. Poetry, like all deeper human activities, requires concentration.