Majlis Granlund

Brenda Brave gladly helps her grandmother to sell candy canes at the market square. But one day grandmother suffers from a sore leg. Brenda has to take care of the candy cane sales all by herself.

A poem about the poetic pursuit that in a harmonious way longs for death to occur. Life's desires and worries have done much harm to the poetic self and the person sees death as a help to loosen a large weight from their shoulders.

La mère de Reine doit s'absenter pour travailler et le garçon doit partir en camp de vacances, mais il décide de rester à Stockholm, seul sans lui dire. Il déambule dans les rues de la ville et fait des rencontres...

Esarparen is a man who a long time wished death of his wife and suddenly is accused of murdering her. He protests his innocence. Does he speak the true or is he the man who could kill his own wife? Either that or is it a third possibility that bypassed both the court and the press?

Little Pu spends a summer in Norrland with all his relatives. He and his brother get to hear the story about the watchmaker who hung himself, learns to shoot with a bow and follow his father on a bicycle trip.

A woman gets cancer.

A man is assigned to measure out land for subdivision on an estate. People and animals behave strangely, and the man hears a strange story about a woman who disappeared without a trace from the estate twenty years earlier.

Set between 1930s and 50s, The Farewell the story of Valerie, who lives in a household totally repressed by her stern father. When Valerie has a brief affair with another woman, her father is extremely angry and tries to end the affair with physical force. However Valerie’s determination, independence and lesbian feelings cannot be crushed.

A charged power struggle between spouses. A tug of war to the death of an only child as ends and means. From an August Strindberg play.

En Suède, au début du XXe siècle. Helena Ekdahl, propriétaire du théâtre d'Uppsala, a invité sa famille et ses amis pour de somptueuses festivités de Noël. Ses trois fils sont présents, Oscar, comédien médiocre, Gustav Adolf, éternel coureur de jupons, et Carl, un professeur alcoolique. Parmi les petits-enfants qui prennent joyeusement part à la fête, Fanny et Alexandre. Au cours d'une répétition, leur père, Oscar, est victime d'une hémorragie cérébrale. Sa mort soudaine jette la consternation dans la famille Ekdahl. L'évêque Edvard Vergerus célèbre les funérailles. Il séduit Emilie, la jeune veuve, et bientôt l'épouse, au grand effroi des enfants, qui redoutent son puritanisme obsessionnel…

A story about 10-year-old Ruth and her life in Jakobstad in the years 1917-1918, during the Finnish Civil War. Based on a novel by Anna Bondestam.

Sune, un ancien étudiant en théologie et fils d'un prêtre, rencontre Viveka dans une église. Les deux se rapprochent au fil des discussions théologiques et finissent par se marier. Au fil des années, Viveka devient de plus en plus instable émotionnellement à cause de la jalousie et de l'anxiété religieuse. Sune accepte les problèmes mentaux de Viveka et, au lieu de chercher de l'aide pour sa femme, obéit à ses ordres de plus en plus bizarres. Viveka finit par perdre complètement la tête, s'enferme dans l'appartement du couple alors que Sune est absente et tente de faire croire à ses voisins que Sune essaie de l'assassiner avec un couteau. Lorsque Sune arrive à la maison, Viveka est emmenée à l'hôpital. Sune essaie de convaincre les médecins que Viveka n'est pas folle et devrait être autorisée à sortir. À la fin, Sune ouvre un robinet de gaz et se couche à côté de Viveka afin qu'ils meurent ensemble.

Kristoffer lives on the verge of poverty, just barely supporting himself on his photographic work and an allowance given him by his ex-wife to support their child. He is staying in his absentee mother's large old house, which she is preparing to sell. When he takes a photograph of a man who died by his own hand, the image fascinates him. He grows obsessed with the dead man's story and pushes his research as far as it will go.