Johan Palmgren

Robin ownes a beautiful old theatre in Norrköping, Sweden. There he lives with his husband. To solve a critical financial situation for the theatre, Robin puts up an equivoque burlesque show. In the middle of rehearsals he gets a phone call from Christian, the owner of a swingers club, who is in desperate need of new facilities because of a terrible fire that ruined his club. Renting out the cellar is a very interesting option for Robin and soon the two new friends start to cooperate while the town of Norrköping is in rage. The dream of Cristian is to make a big swingers party in the whole theatre and sometimes dreams come true.

Filmmaker Johan Palmgren returns to Slussen in Stockholm and captures both major crises and small observations this special year.

She has been called the world's oldest blogger. This film is about a very energetic 103-year old, Dagny Carlsson.

The student campus Flogsta was built in Uppsala in the 1970s. Since then, the Flogsta roar has happened every evening at 22:00. This is the moment when hundreds of students unleash their anxiety at the same time and scream out of the windows. Probably a tradition unique in the world.

A portrait of Benny Fredriksson who for 16 years was CEO of Kulturhuset / Stadsteatern. He also had a background as an actor and director. In connection with a media hunt he resigned and later took his own life.

In order to rectify the poor bus accessibility at Slussen station in Stockholm, the city council, as per the municipal board’s recommendation, erects so-called ‘bus traps’ on the street.

Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became the father of two daughters. Trouble starts when the girls grow up and the family decides to emigrate to Sweden. When they end up living in a caravan outside Hässleholm, all their expectations are dashed.

Swedish documentary from 2019. Louie is a member of Hells Angels, something for which his family and perhaps especially his father the Pentecostal pastor has a hard time. And when Louie decides to pursue a career in the film industry, it creates some problems, as does his new colleagues. But leaving his old life does not prove to be as easy as Louie hoped, and sometimes he wonders if he will ever succeed. A film by Johan Palmgren.

A large iron meteorite is found by two enthusiasts. But who owns it? A subtle film about property rights that develops into a philosophical and slightly absurd story.

Allonias decides that enough is enough. He works 12-13 hours driving his taxi every day and still has no money left to pay for rent and clothes for their three children. He begins a battle against Sweden’s largest taxi company owned by billionaire Rolf Karlsson. It leads to Rolf Karlsson selling the entire empire for around 2-3 billion SEK. But for Allonias it has a high price…

As a child, Elena had a fascination with the blood and gore of splatter movies. As she matured, this bloodlust became her dark and dirty little secret. We join her on a journey of discovery and awakening as she tries to come to terms with her very particular tastes.

For the young, ambitious substitute teacher Max Wejstorp the chaos in his school in a Stockholm suburb ultimately becomes unbearable. He summons his old teacher and mentor, the now 73-year-old legend Folke Silvén from Lund in southern Sweden. How the teachers has got an increasingly untenable work situation is shown in a very direct way in "Vikarien".

Anders and Harri are best friends. They share an interest in music. Anders is also very fond of trains. They decide to go to Getå, where the biggest train-accident in Sweden took place in 1918. Suddenly there is music in the air. A film about friendship, fears and trains.

The film follows the tracks of a master fraudster, impersonator and Ponzi schemer who, among other exploits, coached the Hungarian ladies' swimming team to success at international championships without being able to swim himself and, a few years later, claimed to be an archbishop and buyer of antique paintings for the Vatican Museum. In both cases, he made many acquaintances, came across as engaging and helpful but finally vanished with millions in cash. Interviews with people who encountered the man and were duped by him, though despite this and despite losing money, many of them retain a humorous feeling about what happened.

Constructed in 1955 to initially connect Kiruna in Sweden to Altavatn in Norway, the work with the Solitary road was stopped for military reasons. Five small villages had been connected by the road and they were left with a deserted 20 km stretch in the wilderness. Along the road Sami people and finish farmers continue their lives. They still have the road and they have brought really old cars over the ice of Torneträsk so they could drive during summer time. One of the old men that built the road, Sven-Erik Stöckel, writes a letter to the politicians in Kiruna, asking them to finish the road so people do not have to risk their lives getting to the road crossing the dangerous lake of Torneträsk. Will it ever be finished? And what happened to the children that were born as a result of the road workers coming into the wilderness meeting the local girls?

Torgny proposed to Ebba when they were 20. Her father put a stop to it. 60 years later they meet again.

The straw goat in Gävle will turn 50 years old on Christmas 2016. The municipality is planning a big party and the goat builders are working hard to make the goat extra nice. The big question is whether it will burn down like so many times before. At the same time, the whole world is laughing at the phenomenon.

At his death bed their amazing love story unfolds. Ebba and Torgny reunited 90 years old, after 60 years apart.

Ferdinand the bull was real. And everything was just like in the fairy tale. But the ending was something completely different. Meet the family who cuddled with the friendly bull in the paddock, the grandson of the keeper who accompanied him on the fateful journey to the arena, and the man who actually saw the bullfight in 1936 and has never been able to forget it. They all have their own story. And of course, we meet the beloved bull in a unique newly discovered film.

With over 15,000 participants and millions of TV viewers worldwide, Vasaloppet is one of Sweden's most popular competitions - a 90-kilometer race that for some can take up to 16 hours to complete. But what happens to those who don't finish the race? Those who have trained too poorly or have too little kick wax - or perhaps fell and broke their pole. The reasons for breaking are countless, but one thing these skiers have in common: the unpleasant journey to Mora in the Brytbussen. A documentary by Johan Palmgren and Björn Carlberg.