Harry Schein

Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of Sweden was transfigured. “Palme” is about his life, his time, and about the Sweden he had created. About a man who altered history.

Harry Schein was an anomaly in Swedish cultural society. Equal parts playboy, intellectual, and political visionary, his life story could very well be the foundation of a Hollywood film. Citizen Schein is a film about a refugee who refused to look back, a film about powerful men, and the myths that fuel them.

A collage of voices and film clips with Olof Palme that illuminates a number of central themes in his ideological thinking. In the film, close friends and colleagues talk about Olof Palme and comment on his political vision.

A man on the verge of marriage is haunted by traumatic memories from his childhood.

Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at the after party.

Britt and Danin meet by chance one evening in Stockholm. During the long, bright night in June they act a half childish, half erotically strongly conscious hide-and-seek game with each other and with their own feelings

A traveling magician and his troupe arrive in a Swedish town in the 1840s, where their act is scrutinized by local authorities and a skeptical medical official. Their stay leads to a series of confrontations that test the boundaries between performance, belief, and deception.