Jonas Rudström

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

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special film buffs, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergman's Video, 2012.)

Sture has not spoken to another human for so long that he has become mute. He lives a lonely and boxed-in life with no sustenance, getting his only thrills from playing bingo and stealing chocolates from the grocery store. One day the routines are broken when he catches a young shoplifter on his territory.

Top Swedish chefs Björn Frantzén and Daniel Lindeberg are working hard to get a third Michelin star for their restaurant but the pressure starts getting too much for their relationship.

The Hip hop group Kartellen is one of Sweden's most controversial bands. Here, the members present their chaotic history of musical success, substance abuse, crime and political controversy.

Silence Records is a record label run by the sound engineer Anders Lind together with Eva Wilke and later also Nikolaj Steenstrup. For decades, the company has provided us with innovative, intrinsic and magical music.

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.

Based on a series of interviews documentary film maker Anders Wahlgren made with architect Sven Markelius in 1969. Sven Markelius was one of the most radical architects in Sweden for many years. Since these interviews were the only recorded interviews made with Markelius we can get some insight into his philosophy 50 years later.

After ABBA won Eurovision in 1974 Sweden was tasked with hosting it the next year. This documentary tells the story of that production and places it in the social and political context of Sweden in 1975 and a music scene that was anything but supportive of the endeavour.

The wild forest has always played a significant part in art, mythology and our imaginations. So what is lost in us as humans when the wild nature is quickly diminishing, and the feeling of us being an integral part of a living environment is disintegrating? In Inner Woods we get to follow artists and activists that in various ways try to re-establish the relationship to the wild around us.

A film about the intersection of our inner and outer worlds, and the role our imagination plays in forming the reality we live in.

In 2025 it will be 80 years since the end of World War II. What was it like to live in Sweden during the war? How were people affected by everything that happened so close to home? SVT has asked the Swedish people to send in their memories: letters, films, photographs and diaries and several thousand responses were received from all over the country.

Selma Lagerlöf's life and work never ceases to fascinate and to be relevant. Selma Lagerlöf broke with the old role of women that she was expected to accept. Against her father's wishes, she applied for, and was admitted to, a teacher training college in Stockholm. She would now be on her own. And she had a particular goal, she knew she had "a strong star"; she had stories in her, and she saw beyond the visible.

Nordic design has long been a success story. Now SVT depicts a hundred years of design history, from the Paris Exhibition of 1925 to the Furniture Fair in Milan 2025. We meet passionate design collectors, some of the designers behind the beloved objects and get the story behind the Nordic region’s most famous and beloved design classics.