Johan Hagelbäck

A short film about a long life. - A lonely old man cleans a lonely apartment, from time to time his stream of consciousness flows into daydreams about jumbled body parts of women or undaunted horse-rides to vibrant Romani music.

This short animation film is based on a Tove Jansson picture book. It tells of the little knytt (“knytt” is a non-existing word signifying something tiny like a crumb) who is ever so lonely, but so shy that he is afraid to approach others. The story follows the trials and tribulations of the little knytt and how he finally finds company.

Blad-Johan and the Nature Filmer are two cartoon characters who are part of this rhapsodic montage of crazy ideas and situations that take place in nature.

A mother has to take care of her wild baby.

Going out for a lemonade with Dad is not a bad idea, especially if you happen to invent dynamite afterwards. A short and almost true story about Alfred Nobel.

Some eggs in a car accident. Made of sour milk.

The story of Small and Large Rabbit. Made after a 1925 lithograph by Nils von Dardel.

Everyone is fooling each other. It's a game to cajole the kids into bed.

Hasse is 8 years old. His parents are drinking and arguing. Every day Hasse picks up his diary from the hideout behind the radiator to write down his thoughts.

The minute hand and the hours meet all the TIME and you never know what can happen.

Imagine trying to smuggle something out of the Customs Museum. It’s got to fail.

At the museum they suddenly realise that one of the poison arrow frogs has escaped from its cage. Panic! Everyone is terrified, because the poison arrow frog is one of the world's most poisonous creatures. But fortunately there's a hero at the museum that day! We're not going to give away how he saves everyone, but let's just say that frogs and people aren't that different after all.

Kalle Kran works high above our heads in one of those building cranes. He sees almost everything, is a really nice guy and has a really strong crane. When things are wrong, he puts them right. There's no limit to what Kalle can fix.

When grandfather hedgehog sees the sun with its beams on the sea horizon, he thinks it's a hedgehog and tries to sail to it on a soap.

A mammoth who has been frozen for thousands of years has to keep away from scientists and Zoo managers.

Once upon a time there was a little fish...

Malkon is sent to the dentist while his parents are reindeer-scoring in Jukkasjärvi. The strange dentist does not behave as a dentist usually does, not at all.