Stig Björkman

The White Wall

A day in the life of Monika, an ordinary, modern (ca.1975) Swedish woman. Her surroundings are a lot sleeker than her daily existence, though; she's unemployed, her husband is gone, and she's alone in the midst of what ought to be the good life.

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, with interviews with his closest collaborators and a new generation of filmmakers.

Ingmar Bergman

Portrait of Ingmar Bergman, made while he was working on The Touch, about his professional and private life in the early 1970s.

Viaggio in Bergmania

This is a cinematic pilgrimage by two young Turkish directors to their biggest source of inspiration, Ingmar Bergman. Their desire to approach even further to Bergman and to his work leads them to make this journey from their hometown Istanbul to Sweden, the land of Bergman. Their journey passes through not only to Stockholm, Uppsala, Dalarna, Gotland and of course Faro, but will also be an inner journey to their own selves.

… But Film Is My Mistress

Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence - such as Woody Allen, Olivier Assayas, Bernardo Bertolucci, Arnaud Desplechin, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier, the film provides a vivid portrait of the artist who in each new project found a challenge for himself and for the people he worked with - both actors and colleagues behind the camera.

Bergman Island

An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.

Kvindesind

A psychological drama. The action takes place within a few hours in a woman's life. She is burdened by the decision whether she should leave husband and child in favor of an American she has fallen in love with.

Bakom jalusin

A Swedish writer is visiting Morocco. At his hotel, he stays next door to an Italian couple. He becomes obsessed with the woman, spying and following her. One night she knocks on his door.

The White Wall

A day in the life of Monika, an ordinary, modern (ca.1975) Swedish woman. Her surroundings are a lot sleeker than her daily existence, though; she's unemployed, her husband is gone, and she's alone in the midst of what ought to be the good life.

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, with interviews with his closest collaborators and a new generation of filmmakers.

Ingmar Bergman

Portrait of Ingmar Bergman, made while he was working on The Touch, about his professional and private life in the early 1970s.

Viaggio in Bergmania

This is a cinematic pilgrimage by two young Turkish directors to their biggest source of inspiration, Ingmar Bergman. Their desire to approach even further to Bergman and to his work leads them to make this journey from their hometown Istanbul to Sweden, the land of Bergman. Their journey passes through not only to Stockholm, Uppsala, Dalarna, Gotland and of course Faro, but will also be an inner journey to their own selves.

… But Film Is My Mistress

Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence - such as Woody Allen, Olivier Assayas, Bernardo Bertolucci, Arnaud Desplechin, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier, the film provides a vivid portrait of the artist who in each new project found a challenge for himself and for the people he worked with - both actors and colleagues behind the camera.

Bergman Island

An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.

Kvindesind

A psychological drama. The action takes place within a few hours in a woman's life. She is burdened by the decision whether she should leave husband and child in favor of an American she has fallen in love with.

Bakom jalusin

A Swedish writer is visiting Morocco. At his hotel, he stays next door to an Italian couple. He becomes obsessed with the woman, spying and following her. One night she knocks on his door.

Corona Film Club

Documentary about filmmaker and film lover Stig Björkman during the pandemic year of 2020 when he stay in touch with his friends over his laptop.

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a young Swedish woman who became one of the most celebrated actresses in world cinema.

Evening Land

Denmark is in deep crisis: the country is hit by general strike, during the holding of a NATO summit in Copenhagen. Meanwhile, a minister is kidnapped by extremists, and state power cracks down against politically-active leftists.

Christina Schollin - sista föreställningen

It is a new documentary made by film director, author and film critic Stig Björkman that will be shown on Sveriges Television in May. It was recorded in connection with Christina Schollin's last theater role as Helena Ekdahl in Teater Galeasen's production of "Fanny and Alexander". In the documentary, Christina looks back on her long film and theater life.

Images from the Playground

In the early fifties Ingmar Bergman got himself a cine-camera, a 9.5 mm Bell & Howell, which he often used both privately and in his work. "Bilder från lekstugan" ("Images from the Playground") embark on these films, giving a diverse representation of one of the greatest artists in cinema.

Modiga mindre män

Young children have adventures in a fantasy world.

Garbo: Where Did You Go?

An urgent, timely and compelling portrait of Hollywood icon Greta Garbo, whose fame, isolation and loneliness still captures us.

I Am Curious, Film

The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries

Imorron och imorron och imorron

A documentary about repetition. People from different professions give their view on what repetition means to them.

Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier

A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his film universe. Filmmaker Stig Björkman follow von Trier during a period of more than two years, meet him at work, at home and at leisure. Written by Fredrik Klasson

Georgia, Georgia

A singer whose companion hates whites falls for a white U.S. photographer in Sweden.

As Long As The Heart Beats

In the spring of 2020, when the Coronavirus pandemic paralyzed all of Sweden, employees at a nursing home are forced to experience how the infection finds its way in, and the situation becomes increasingly desperate. Care assistant Hanne finds herself in a difficult dilemma.

Walk On Water If You Can

Literature graduate Orlando begins a love affair with the Foreign Ministry official Anders. She follows him to Argentina. There she learns that he is already married.

Between Summers

Torun and Mikael have been married for a few years. When vacationing on the Danish coast, their young son Melker accidentally drowns. Torun initially blames her sister, who was supposed to supervise her children. Later she turns her anger and grief against her husband. Since none of them know what to do with their feelings, they start to drift apart.

Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind

Prolific writer Joyce Carol Oates has remained intensely private. Until now. Through a long-standing friendship, and persistent inquiry, director Stig Bjorkman is granted unprecedented access to document her mornings of longhand writing, her walks with her husband—to visit her within her solitude.

Svensk Filmindustri: La grande aventure du cinéma Suédois

Rarely in the history of the cinema, a company films productions will have marked the history and the culture of its country like "Svensk Filmindustri". Since its creation in 1919 by Charles Magnusson, Svensk Filmindustri have produced 1200 films including the major works of Mauritz Stiller, Victor Sjöström and Ingmar Bergman. The uncontested talent of the actresses Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman have given Swedish cinema a world recognition, a cinema that celebrates the power of the forces of nature, and where the inner life of its characters remains in our memories.