Kerstin Übelacker

Ghost Rockets centers on human desire to explore and explain the unknown. The film weaves together an ambitious UFO investigation with a personal story that gives a rare insight into the hearts and minds of a UFO-investigator. Every year, the organization UFO‐Sweden receives numerous reports about inexplicable occurrences ‐ usually dismissed as having to do with the moon, airplanes, satellites or mental instability on the part of the witness. Sometimes, though, they get a report that they are unable to explain, one of them being the story of the ghost rocket.

Epa-dunk music, crates of beer, and risky donut spins on the gravel lot. When the group gathers in the small town in Skåne, the mood is high, but when sixteen-year-old Bella is challenged to make out with her friend, difficult emotions are stirred.

A depressed son and an eccentric father enter into one joint construction project to get close to each other. Pretty soon things go to hell, both with the construction and theirs relationship. The son is lonely, dumped and depressed. The father is intoxicated and convinced that he will soon die. With tenderness and humor in the spirit of Lukas Moodysson, A complicated family relationship is displayed.

Reflective observations of Ukraine in wartime are interwoven with eye-witness accounts to contemplate the ultimate tragedy: the normalization of war.

Sofijah, the elusive and mysterious YouTube rapper from 2006, confronts her troubled past and musical legacy, and finds the courage to return to music— and to herself.