Ulf Rönnerstrand

Témoin d'un braquage raté à Cologne, le cinéaste reconstitue la scène en plan fixe avec 96 figurants.

Dans la vie, il y a deux catégories de personnes : celles qui sont naturellement drôles et celles qui peuvent apprendre à le devenir... Sasha, 13 ans, appartient à la deuxième catégorie. Pour ne surtout pas ressembler à sa mère qui était toujours triste, elle décide de devenir une reine du stand-up et de faire à nouveau rire son père !

Role-playing and multiple narrative layers are interwoven in a complex and philosophical film about learning, life perspectives, and facing profound changes.

"Cold/Kyla" - About the murder of John Hron at Kode, Sweden, 1996. "Kyla" is a state of mind, it gives the image of the fatherless patriarchate's lost sons. It's graduation and three boys gather at a lake to celebrate the school's over. But they has no future to look forward to. The atmosphere is intense and they beat down quickly on each other's faults and shortcomings, inciting each other.

Juha, 12, class clown in the suburb of Sävbyholm, Sweden. To be funny is the only thing he is good at and all he wants is to fit in the social peckingorder at school. When Juha as an adult performs the show – My Life As A Comedian- to sold out theatres and tells the horrid and funny stories from his childhood to the audience he gets an unexpected visit from an old friend from school which makes him return to Sävbyholm and deal with his past.

Mariken Halle first asked around her neighborhood if she might make a school film about one of her neighbors. When that didn’t work, she and her small film crew began addressing people on the streets of Göteborg. How would they imagine a movie that they would want to star in? The results were far from fantastic – she encountered dismissively amused responses and boring, confused ideas. But some of the people she talked to were different. They try getting into their “life role” – and she begins to direct them....

Tommy and Monika take in the spectacular view from a mountaintop. It's a beautiful hot summer's day. Fluffy clouds drift by. The sky is blue. Tommy delights in the birdsong. It's a fine day for a picnic.

Set in the 1970s, Blackwater tells the story of how four random people's lives converge after two tourists are found murdered in a tent near the Swedish mountain town of Blackwater.