Cecilia Milocco

In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one's foot down – or failing to do so – are explored.

Amina, a young and talented mixed martial arts fighter, struggles to raise her seven year old daughter. When she gets a shot at the world MMA championships, she is forced to make the toughest choice of her life.

A young girl follows her parents to a party where she experiences assorted grown-up rituals. As the evening progresses she finds the adults' behavior increasingly strange. Everyone tries to fit in, but not everyone succeeds.

During a swimming lesson a mother starts to feel uneasy about the coach's relation to one of the kids, but she has no proof. She faces a dilemma; to make an accusation of the worst kind, or to ignore a child who is possibly getting abused.

Caught on opposing sides of a debate about a proposed centre for refugee children, two parents try to navigate the turbulent tides of public opinion.

Three delegates from Sweden, Norway and Finland are gathered in Lapland to decide which piece of art should be placed at the border of their countries. But the committee is in for a surprise… The delegates are faced with the challenge of making a democratic decision: is there something they can agree on to represent a true Nordic movement?

An otherworldly evil is slipping into a small town in Sweden. Six unrelated girls have been chosen to fight this evil. Together they must overcome their differences in order to save themselves and the world.

The hyped French philosopher Malentende visits Sweden to present a groundbreaking hypothesis. Professors are ecstatic as they gather during the break to dissect the meaning of his words. Intellectual reasoning takes unexpected leaps in this wildly humorous film about the perils of blindly following authority.

A model agent tries to do a good deed but it pulls us into a game with our own judgemental gaze.

World War II is around the corner, but the only thing Sally Bauer can think of is the ocean. Her dream is to swim across the English Channel.

Alex tells the children in his class what he wants to be when he grows up; after he uses an "adult word", his teacher tries to make the children understand it revealing a devastating past experience.

What happens when a daughter is forced to be the mum of her own mother.

After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams begin to wake her up at night.

Heavily pregnant Farah (Gina Dirawi) is suffering from nightmares and panic-like delivery anxiety. To get peace and quiet, she and her boyfriend Johan (Viktor Norén) go to a house in the countryside. The panic attacks come back and she encounters and unexpected meeting.

Olga stands on the brink of adulthood and is making a five-year plan. She starts studying at the university, but at the same time, the allure of the talent hunt at the local mall, with promises of honor and fame, beckons to her. Balder Ljunggren skillfully depicts an ambitious young person torn between the seemingly endless possibilities of the present.

Nora is 15 years old. Her parents died when she was young and now she lives with Anders and Karin and their son Dag. They move into an old apartment in an old house in Enköping. Behind a wall they find some old items from people who lived there a long time ago. They also discover that their apartment is haunted by a ghost. Together with Dag, Nora tries to find out more about the people who lived there.

Sophie lives alone with her mother on a desolate farm in the middle of nowhere. A place that hides a secret far worse than she could have imagined.

Britt-Marie, a woman in her sixties, decides to leave her husband and start anew. Having been a housewife for most of her life and living in the small backwater town of Borg with few jobs available, she soon finds herself fending a youth football team.