Coming back is not the same as staying

Worried asylum seekers, angry activists, and obedient case workers in an equally wonderful as sharp stop-motion film about people who are all caught in the bureaucratic claws of the migration agency.

Lente journeys out to her grandmother, Siri, who lives on Öland, wrapped in wintery barrenness. It Blooms at Night (Nattljus) is a beautiful, low-key film about meeting over a generational boundary, about life’s joy and about taking farewell.

In the northern region of Hungary, the populist propaganda of Orbán’s regime dictates the lives of military high school student Luca and her friends. But how do you distinguish between the opinions imposed on you and your own intrinsic beliefs in the most forming period of your life?

Danne and Hugo spend their days building model aircrafts. But when up in the air, even the smallest breeze of wind can destroy the planes they have been working on for weeks. “That’s the way it is.” - Hugo says

The friends Amanda and Savannah are going to take part in a reality show. Shortly before leaving for the recording location, Amanda gets an offer she can’t resist. Dreams about fame collide with remorse in Guldbagge-nominated Simone Norberg’s portrayal of a drama seeking TV world.

Romanos bar is the only café in the town of Aboadela: a small place in a valley in the North of Portugal. Here a group of young men spend most of their time - playing cards and talking shit. Some seem to search for a way out of the town, while others have accepted that it is what it is.

The girls at the refugee home in Färjestaden, in the south of Sweden, tell their own story about love, friendship and how they ended up living at a campground. A story filled with just as many traumatic memories of displacement as insightful hopes for the future and inspiring dancenumbers.

Sam returns to his hometown after being away for a couple of months, and the atmosphere is tense as he reconnects with his childhood friend Kevin. During an evening filled with alcohol and cigarettes, Sam wrestles with his conflicting emotions about his old social circles.

Building on the discourse around the infamous area of molenbeek in Brussels, the filmmakers invite you on a walk in a patchwork of places held together as a floating concrete jungle where logic is substituted by interwoven spaces held in absurd rooms. The journey tries to follow the logic of those who designate an area as a bad one, detaching it from a broader context, as no man is an island.

Two friends can't afford their rent and decide to take criminal actions, as they document the act through an app.