Eagles of the Republic

The most famous actor in Egypt, George Fahmy (Fares Fares), gets an offer he’d better not refuse: playing President al-Sisi in a hagiographic biopic. The final entry in the director’s…

Crossing

When her sister dies, a retired teacher (Mzia Arabuli) in Georgia goes to Istanbul together with a young guide (Lucas Kankava) to try to find her niece, a trans girl…

The Last Adventure 

Jimmy Mattsson (Göran Stangertz) abruptly ends his military service and is hired as a high-school teacher… but sleeping with one of the 16-year-old students (Ann Zacharias) causes a problem. One…

And Then We Danced

Merab (Levan Gelbakhiani) has been training Georgian dance together with his girlfriend (Ana Javakishvili) for years when a new dancer (Bachi Valishvili) makes an appearance…  The love story may be…

Fanny and Alexander: Dark Christmas

Bertil Guve. Photo: SFI Ingmar Bergman would have been 100 years old next year, so in his honor Stockholm’s leading department store dedicated their annual Christmas window display to Fanny…

The Nile Hilton Incident 

Cairo, 2011; a young singer is found murdered in a hotel room and a police officer, Major Noredin Mustafa (Fares Fares), looks into the case that turns out to have…

Il Capitano: Drifting

Antti Reini and Maria Heiskanen. Photo: Sandrews On July 3rd 1988, a married couple and their 15-year-old son were murdered in a small community called Åmsele in northern Sweden. Father…

Dalecarlians

Mia (Sofia Helin) is driving home for her father’s 70th birthday, fearing the sense of isolation in the village where she grew up, and the aggressive bitterness of her sister…

Man on the Roof: The Enemy Within

Sven Wollter and Thomas Hellberg. Photo: SF By 1976, American audiences had already familiarized themselves with Martin Beck. He was the Swedish police detective who starred in a series of…