Stefan Jarl Movies

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

Stefan Jarl and the Danish director Carsten Brandt, having exchanged letters for many years, decide to start a correspondence of cinema letters. They...

On Saturday, April 26, spring came to Sweden. That same day, Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Bringing mild winds to Scandinavia. Sweden...

A father and his son move to small village in the south of Sweden. One day, the boy finds an injured bird. He skips the school and spend more time in...

Loosely based on the Sala gang, a group of five people that committed murders and thefts in Sweden in the 1930s.

With impressive visual clarity, memories, experiences, and events are interwoven with myths and dreams in a film about the search for meaning in a...

"U-barn was based on a few simple things: combining some forms of societal imprinting through education and advertisement, some educational...

A documentary about Stefan Jarl's Mod-trilogy.

Stefan Jarl follows several homeless people in Stockholm during the cold winter of 1999.

Birgitta Trotzig's "A Landscape" depicted from the mythology of the sore human deaths from which the drug has been collected.

A documentary which visually captures the day-to-day routines of a husband and wife on a small farm.

'Gästgivargår'n' depicts a restaurant at the foot of Kinnekulle dating back to the 1500s. There, restaurateur Stefan Johansson runs an inn...

Naturens Hämnd ("Nature's Revenge") is a moving and thought-provoking documentary about what we do with our natural enviroment, and what...

A hot summer evening at a youth club in the city of Stockholm. 13 youngsters talk about their experiences of police violence and their views on the...

This is what the filmmakers say about the film: We wanted to make a feature film about the class society Sweden. But we were not allowed by the...

The twelve-year-old Jåvna is the guide to the Sami everyday life. He talks about his culture and about his future as a reindeer herder. The...

A short tribute to director Stefan Jarl's late friend, filmmaker Bo Widerberg, who passed away in 1997 at the age of 66.