In a dressing-room are five girls, all taking part in the music video for the track Hot Chicks. It is a fun, playful video where the girls have to shake their backsides and strut their stuff to the male artist. A studio manager tells them what is on the agenda, and using a stylist they get ready before starting rehearsals in the studio. Staring Jenny Hutton, Hedda Stiernstedt, Nanna Blondell. Director Ninja Thyberg.
After being diagnosed with an incurable disease Lisa returns to her childhood snow-capped landscape where hidden memories from the past lay buried deep under the ice. As Lisa is completely determined not to allow her disease to get any worse she embarks on a journey into her past to find out what may have caused her condition. Using feeling as a compass to lead her back to the past she comes face to face with her memories. Lisa Vipola is living life to the full when diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) at the age of 24. Lisas Sense depicts her perspective towards her own body that sways from curse to temple. Staged scenes and interviews shape a story set the very white nature of Jukkasjärvi in the very north of Sweden. —Anna Byvald
A Swedish singer trades Europe for China. Like a blonde nephew of Bryan Ferry, he enters the burgeoning music scene in Shanghai, where electronic dance music dominates. But is this new land of opportunity ready for his soul-searching, tormented voice? Is music really such a universal language?
When the global economy collapses the only true victors are those that weren't invited to the boom. Petey plays in a band and works in a pornography warehouse; Ginger works the night shift in a bar. From opposite coasts of the country, the two provide their personal takes on individual vs. collective crisis, together weaving a narrative that exposes a wasteland of shattered economic dreams, unfulfilled social promises and a bleak reality that only music and friendship can float freely above.
A neurotic recording session releases emotional turmoil.
Director and cartoonist David Liljemark tries to make contact with Bernhard Redenstedt, a mysterious 82 year old widower, who has been putting up little hand-written notes all over the streets of Lund for many years. David is deeply fascinated by these strange notes, and gets more and more curious about the lonesome man who writes them. However, Bernhard himself isn't as easy to find as his notes ... At the same time as David is chasing him for an interview, Bernhard is threatened to be evicted by his municipal landlord. When the time comes, David turns out to be the only person who's there for Bernhard, and things take a new turn. An unusual documentary about an unusual friendship.
If you are going to be really good at something, you need to start early. If you are a piano player too.
