Movies: Maud Nycander

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...

Reba is 14 and she lives with her family in Dhaka. Often on her way to school she is being followed or harassed by groups of boys who shout after her. It's part of everyday life in Bangladesh for young girls. In Reba's school class four girls have al...

Road's End is the story of Daina who lives in Latgale in Eastern Latvia, close by the Russian border. She lives two miles from the nearest road, with no electricity or running water. The roof has collapsed. She is completely dependent upon herself in...

When the first album by the Latin Kings' was released in 1994, it created a sensation in the Swedish music world. Culture journalists claimed that The Latin Kings were the most important thing happening on the Swedish popular music scene since the bi...

A contemporary depiction of the "big city" based on black and white images in slow motion....

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 ba...

Maud Nycander has over one and a half years, filmed a psychiatric emergency ward at St. Göran's Hospital in Stockholm....

At the beginning of the 2000s, Maud Nycander made a film about the couple Eva and Johan, two young people who fell head over heels in love and had a child within a year of meeting. As Maud now comes back to them, they have been together for 25 years,...

Maria is a young and ambitious photographer. Her editor has sent her on a mission. To photograph premature born children....

After Marta had decided to become a nun at a young age, filmmaker Maud Nycander followed her and her family for ten years....

The film is a tribute to the everyday heroes at Danderyd's hospital: the caretakers, the receptionists, the garbage collectors, the bed transporters - A story about hard work, job satisfaction and a seagull that has broken its leg....

Ester Henning (1887-1985) was a Swedish sculptor and artist who spent 60 years of her life in mental hospitals. She was poor, in bad health mentally unstable and spent only four years in school before she had to earn a living. But from her closed wor...

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