Movies: Stefan Jarl

'Gästgivargår'n' depicts a restaurant at the foot of Kinnekulle dating back to the 1500s. There, restaurateur Stefan Johansson runs an inn based on local ingredients....

A cry from the revolutionary wilderness. About the solidarity that disappeared....

Documentary in which director Stefan Jarl has a blood test performed on himself to show the "chemical burden" of trace chemicals in the blood of all people born since World War II....

Stefan Jarl and the Danish director Carsten Brandt, having exchanged letters for many years, decide to start a correspondence of cinema letters. They are interrupted when Carsten is diagnosed with cancer, but Stefan continues to send his short film l...

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With impressive visual clarity, memories, experiences, and events are interwoven with myths and dreams in a film about the search for meaning in a fragmented reality....

Birgitta Trotzig's "A Landscape" depicted from the mythology of the sore human deaths from which the drug has been collected....

A feature-length documentary, possibly focusing, at least in part, on the recent anti-globalization protests in Gothenburg, Sweden and the alleged police misconduct during the protests....

The twelve-year-old Jåvna is the guide to the Sami everyday life. He talks about his culture and about his future as a reindeer herder. The film depicts the conflict between Swedish society and the Sámi world....

The fourth and final part of the Mods Trilogy. Kenta has left us. Stefan Jarl inherits two things from him: a Viking helmet and an unusually large can of medium-strength beer....

A documentary about Arne Sucksdorff. Stefan Jarl interviews Sucksdorff in his home where they talk about his films, life and memories....

A documentary about Swedish Discus champion Ricky Bruch as he prepares for the 1984 Olympics. The film highlights Bruch's obsessive behavior regarding his training and preparations. Facing difficulties with the Swedish Olympic Committee, Bruch is den...

The film documents the alternative festival, made to protest against the Eurovision Song Contest held in Stockholm 1975. There are many Swedish and international artists on stage, as well as some clips from speeches, riots, civil wars, and the people...

This is what the filmmakers say about the film: We wanted to make a feature film about the class society Sweden. But we were not allowed by the Swedish Film Institute. At least we filmed some and cut it together into a short film. The class society i...

A decade has gone by and the spirit of the preceding film, Dom kallar oss mods, has disappeared. Kenta is an alcoholic and lives with his girlfriend Eva. Together they have a son, Patric. Kenta's mom is in jail for manslaughter and Kenta goes to Kron...

About the "aware, free and unrestrained modern woman" Anna Susanna....

A tribute and portrait of the Swedish filmmaker Bo Widerberg. Thommy Berggren presents slices and comments on Widerberg....

A documentary which visually captures the day-to-day routines of a husband and wife on a small farm....

Misfits to Yuppies is the last of three films (Dom kallar oss mods, Ett anständigt liv, Det sociala arvet) that shows conditions for addicts in Stockholm and try to find out how social legacy have been transferred to their children from previous film...

A documentary about the Swedish film-maker, photographer and writer Arne Sucksdorff by his apprentice Stefan Jarl. The documentary includes several scenes from Sucksdorff's work and reveals the intimacy between two of Sweden's most important film-mak...