32nd Göteborg International Film Festival (2009)

A free spirited Palestinian dancer becomes the wife of a prisoner.

Post traumatic life of the Bosnian Muslim widows and daughters after their husbands and fathers were murdered by Bosnian Serb Army. Plot is set in post war eastern Bosnian village near town of Zvornik.

Jesus and Fausto, two low-paid Mexican laborers working illegally across the border in LA, are offered big money and a sawn-off shotgun to break into the home of a drug addicted single mother and take her hostage.

A theater director struggles with his work and the women in his life as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

The story follows Beto, who's been in charge of taking care of an upper-class house for the last ten years, and subtly traces contemporary social conflicts with a very peculiar representation of how capitalism builds jailhouses on the most unimaginable places.

To redeem himself from a great sin, a man dedicates himself to building a church.

A young couple in love: Rebecca (32) and her boyfriend Julian (34) are expecting their first child and are full of pleasant expectation. As Rebecca gives birth to a healthy boy their luck seems to be perfect. But instead of the unconditional motherly love she was expecting she is thrown into an emotional turmoil. Helplessness and desperation reign and her own baby is a stranger to her. With every day that passes her inability to meet the demands of motherhood become more and more apparent. Unable to admit this to anyone, not even Julian, she falls into a deep darkness - to the point that she realises she is becoming a threat to her child. Now only unconditional love can bring her back on track...

A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.

Filmmaker and Iranian exile Nahid Persson Sarvestani talks with the widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran, who was overthrown in 1979.

A couple decide to get married in a church out in the country. It is 1 hour drive from Reykjavik but things do not go as planed.

Katrine has just given birth to a beautiful girl, but she worries about being a good mother, and when her boyfriend goes away for work she asks her own mother for help. But the two women have unresolved issues, and instead of feeling helped, Katrine feels more and more insecure and slowly falls apart.

Roy has lost his motivation and spends his days at home. Finally his wife can't take it anymore and sends him away on an alternative treatment. The method is ridiculous. Roy doesn't understand what he's doing there.The treatment only simulates treatment. The therapist is strange, so strange that Roy suspects that something is wrong. When he wants to leave, things get unpleasant for real.

At the Varden Psychiatric Clinic, the attendants are mad and the inmates are sane. Here is found life in all its different faces. As 24-year-old Aina meets the insane gang, they bring back her lust for life.

Two teen girls from a very restrictive Conservative Laestadian faith community, go alone to Helsinki for the first time.

A romantic drama about a security officer who tries to hide her secrets from her lover, a cop.

A stranger arrives into a remote farm where a mute boy is living with his mother.

It's early 2000, the young entrepreneur Patrick Casey count the millions. Everything seems possible, so why not - do a movie? A group of friends without much experience decides to make an epic cult, perhaps even "the best film ever made".

Inside and outside the well-kept hedges life carries on as usual. The King buys his daily newspaper. Bertil searches the parking lot for dogs to photograph. Hans and Gun-Britt is planting a big rock in their garden, trying to get their minds off it all. When darkness falls over the little village in the woods, the Indians gather for a meeting in the town house as angst, frustration and silent prayer echoes in the night. Over a period of four years director Mikel Cee Karlsson captured singular scenes from his old hometown in the middle of the swedish forest. Greetings from the Woods is a personal portrait of Swedish rural life stripped bare.

Juan "Accidentes" Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility.

Two Swedish guys driving around Spain searching for the historical verdict over Hitler's and Mussolini's old companion Franco. A road-movie in rental cars featuring Olof Palme, the world's biggest cross and a woman determined to put her family history in order. MARI CARMEN ESPAÑA - THE END OF SILENCE is the story of what happens when a country tries to amputate its past.

This is a documentary about publisher Ebbe Carlsson. Who became Sweden's most famous person when he in the late 1980s tried to solve the Palme murder

The Money And The Panic - A Film About Greed (Pengarna Och Paniken - En Film Om Girighet) by Maj Wechselmann is a documentary on the history of the western world monetary system development, the peaks and the crashes starting from the 18th century ending with the financial crash of fall 2008 and their possible connections to historical warfare events.

The young adolescent girl Jenna is turning into a young woman whilst her mother is dying. It is difficult for her, therefore, to admit that she is afraid of losing her mother. Instead, she behaves contrary to what one would expect from her.

Pirko lives in Gothenburg but gets kicked out of his pregnant girlfriend. He seeks his roots in northern Sweden. Pirko discovers karaoke.

What took place at Knutby, Sweden, in 2004. Pastor Helge Fossmo was accused of having killed his first as well as his second wife.