Jan Alvermark Movies

Svante is a young boy who lives with his family in a Stockholm apartment. One day he meets Karlsson, a chubby little man in the prime of his life,...

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just...

Swedish drama based loosely on a true story. Marten Klingberg plays Peter, an engaged man who finds himself attracted to a gay man called Nassim...

A hardboiled story that takes place in a far future when most things are over. What’s left is greed, cruelty, sexuality, fire and a tad of...

Gösta Eriksson, a hairdresser, buys a car from used-car dealer Bertil Planåker. But Gösta soon discovers that the car is a wreck....

It's summer and Sune Andersson's family is planning a holiday in Greece. Sune's father, Rudolf is sulking because then he won't be able to go on his...

"My mother is spending all her time with her dying father. I’m spending all my time filming her. As the end is getting closer, my mother and I...

In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one's foot down – or failing to do so – are explored.

In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an...

A shadow play about love and sorrow, featuring a girl, her bird friend and Death.

Part jazz history, part true-crime tale, Kasper Collin’s new documentary employs extensive archival footage and new interviews to tell the...

One hour making-of of Bergman's In the Presence of a Clown.

An artist has chosen a famous male actor for them together, in the context of a feature film, to deconstruct themselves and their invading roles....

A 14-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother.

"It's simple! We do as we're told." This disconcerting reply comes from a Swedish employment office employee when asked how the country’s most...

A long distance call from a long lost lover makes her reminisce about their common past. She remembers the spring when they met in Paris, the riots,...

Orenda means an invisible force, a life spirit that inhabits everything living and lifeless: people, wind, birds, rabbits, stone. The one who serves...

A film between fiction and reality, highlighting questions about group dynamics and established hierarchies. A group of people meet for their high...

A queer film in a world where normative relationships set the rules for who can become a parent and in what way. About the bodies that normalise us...

High school student Mikaela is attracted by her Swedish teacher Göran and writes an erotic novel for his class.