Sweden - short films 2

In a small Italian mountain village, poet and script writer Tonino Guerra is sitting and talking. During the Second World War he was captured and put in a concentration camp. With death snapping at his heals, he starts writing poems the local dialect of his native district. Miraculously he survives, publishes his writings and becomes a poet…

Sam is transferring between two airports during his stopover in London, carrying a big suitcase with a broken handle. While waiting for his bus in the city centre, he wanders away from the bus terminal in search for a toilet. During this night odyssey it soon becomes apparent that trust is hard to find, and that things seldom are what they appear to be.

A shame, really, that more real people don't find this place, there is plenty of room after all. Many more could roam here aimlessly, and it could grow into a national sport.

Thomas Tidholm

Frank finds his wife dead in the bathtub. He can't handle the sudden loss and nearly implodes. Frank's best friend Lars tries his best to cheer him up but without any success.

An animation that depicts what happened the minutes before the murder of the Swedish Foreign minister Anna Lindh.

On the hottest day of the year a husband figures out a way to get rid of his annoying wife in a game of scrabble. Film based on the novel Death by Scrabble by Charlie Fish.

elaboration: Agata Bratek