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The straw goat in Gävle will turn 50 years old on Christmas 2016. The municipality is planning a big party and the goat builders are working hard to make the goat extra nice. The big question is whether it will burn down like so many times before. At the same time, the whole world is laughing at the phenomenon.

Ultras – the heart and soul of football stadiums around the globe. The supporters that will do anything for the team and yields that extra power into the game to help their team win. ULTRAS is not your regular sports film. Through epic images and a cinematic mosaic of football supporters and their societal contexts around the world, we portray a subculture that is widely known but yet mysterious and inaccessible for most of us.

A Sámi woman fights for her right to claim a tax deduction against the purchase of a dog. Why the Swedish authorities fail to recognize the dog's use as a reindeer herding tool versus a pet opens up a larger discussion about Indigenous rights and economic discrimination in this humorous takedown of the Swedish government's ignorance of Sámi culture.

As the members of the Stockholm Boys' Choir's voices begin to crack, they are placed in a quarantine choir. As they inhabit this liminal space between boyhood and manhood, these young men share with us their most intimate hopes, fears, desires—and, of course, the music that is so central to their lives.

Claes is a pensioner whose greatest wish is to finally make it to the nearby cinema. What if it rains? What if his sweater doesn’t match the shirt he is wearing? It's probably better to stay in the safety of his own home and switch on the television. In the total isolation of his solitary life, and out of an entirely unfounded fear of stepping outside his flat, Claes has turned his tidy home into a prison. This is a film that demonstrates what loneliness can do to a person.

The years go by and suddenly you are not as young and promising anymore. Was this how life was supposed to be? Sandra is stressed about life's checklist and Veronica worries about losing her sexual capital. Emelie, the mother of small children, is happy that she has time to shower every day and Jonna is happy about the separation. Eleaver is tired of her partner never putting the socks in the laundry basket. And who can even lie down? Martina Carlstedt meets women who are all in their prime between 30 and 40.

Few persons born in the 1940s in a documentary about what love is.

We are far away from the Internet dating world when we gain entrance to the little office where Svetlana runs her Love Agency. Men and women from Arkhangelsk, in northwest Russia, come to her with the same dream: to find a partner in life. It's never too late to fall in love, says Svetlana. But when people with different hopes and experiences are brought together, it is not easy to find the perfect match. —Martina Carlstedt

They are 14 years old and have been best friends as long as they can remember. But since Anna-Nora has got a boyfriend, the feelings are completely different.