Movies: Cicely Irvine

In Bodén’s hometown of Jämtland, staying put is anathema: speaking to a group of kids about this drive to leave home, she is told by a male student that only “stupid girls” would stay there any longer than is necessary. This hits home with Bodén, who...

Mariken Halle first asked around her neighborhood if she might make a school film about one of her neighbors. When that didn’t work, she and her small film crew began addressing people on the streets of Göteborg. How would they imagine a movie that t...

Three Swedish actresses work as waitresses in Oslo one summer. They use all their wits to get as much tips as possible. They plan to start a company and buy a house. They come to be our guides in the film and reveal a world of people doing things the...

A call center in Stockholm marks the starting point for a poetic and reflective documentary about what it means to live off the forest. With a unique tone and exquisite storytelling, director Clara Bodén explores the escalating distance between city ...

The Power Grid is about feeling tricked, seeing how a place is exploited and asking what is left of it. A personal film about power production and colonialism, about growing up surrounded by a wealth of mighty natural resources but being told you liv...

About the first three months of a pregnancy and a miscarriage. A story about the fragile balance between life and death where ambivalent feelings are intertwined with strange facts about fetal development. In the film, Magdalena Dziurlikowska play bo...

How do you know that someone is a ghost? You can't see his legs....

Somewhere in the Balkans, in a garden hidden by a large house, a story unfolds of a great love between two young women. Neither of them wishes to accept that their relationship might ever end. What happens, then, when one day fate takes an unexpected...