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När menige Adamsson får se en officer bli påpucklad av en hord fega kräk i folkparken gör han det enda rätta och går till strid. Men som den olycksfågel han föddes till blir Adamsson oskyldigt anklagad för

Det handlar om en flicka som drömmer om sitt födelsedagskalas. Men så väcks hon av föräldrarnas grälande som slutar med att modern lämnar hemmet i vredesmod. Dagen efter hämtas flickan på dagis av mormor. Filmen berättas helt ur flickans perspektiv, något som förstärks av Carl Johan De Geers yviga dekor.

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.   

After befriending a British couple with a mute son, Americans Ben and Louise accept an unusual invitation to bring their daughter for a weekend at an idyllic country estate. Yet when they discover their hosts are hiding sinister motives, Ben and Louise fear their family may be pawns in a disturbing plot. Led by a […]

When multiple residents of a Californian backwater begin to suffer from identical frenzied delusions, Dr Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) suspects the town is in the grip of a new kind of epidemic. But his investigations soon reveal the terrifying truth, uncovering not a medical emergency but an extra-terrestrial invasion that threatens mankind’s very existence. Directed […]

A startling and courageous film, Peter Davis’s landmark 1974 documentary Hearts and Minds unflinchingly confronted the United States’ involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it. Using a wealth of sources—from interviews to newsreels to footage of the conflict and the upheaval it occasioned on the home front—Davis constructs a powerfully […]

Mellan 1988 och 1990 gjorde SF en storsatsning på filmer byggda på noveller av Astrid Lindgren och tog in den mest lämpade manusförfattaren – Astrid själv! De åtta filmerna innehåller ett pärlband av våra mest älskade skådespelare och visades på bio i en bejublad novellfilmskavalkad. För första gången någonsin har dessa pärlor nu samlats i […]

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach is a funny, provocative and revealing account of the life and career of one of Britain’s foremost filmmakers, Ken Loach, as he turns eighty and looks back at over fifty years of filmmaking, encompassing classics such as Kes (1969) and The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Palme […]