Stefan Jarl

Själen för fan (2024)

The spiritual has been surgically removed in our society. Money has become part of the people's soul. Two voices from the film Själen för fan, a reflection on how our society has become a slave under the power of money. The economy has been allowed to ...

Shards (2024)

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. ...

Brevfilmen (2021)

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 letters ...

Before Winter Comes (2018)

A family on a small farm tries to live as usual even though there is a violent coup in the country. The threat is constantly present. ...

Koltrasten (2014)

A short tribute to director Stefan Jarl's late friend, filmmaker Bo Widerberg, who passed away in 1997 at the age of 66. ...

Decency (2013)

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

The Subjection (2010)

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. ...

Epilog (2006)

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. ...

The Girl from Auschwitz (2005)

A portrait of the legendary Swedish journalist and writer Cordelia Edvardson (1929-2012). She was only fourteen when she alone was brought to the concentration camp of Theresienstadt and later to the camp of Auschwitz. ...

Paradise Lost (2004)

Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced (2003)

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. ...

Muraren (2002)

A documentary about acclaimed Swedish actor Thommy Berggren. ...

Gästgivargår'n (2001)

'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. ...

Beauty Will Save the World (2000)

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

De hemlösa (2000)

Stefan Jarl follows several homeless people in Stockholm during the cold winter of 1999. ...

Life at Any Cost (1998)

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

Nature's Warrior (1997)

13 year old Kim feels at home in the wilderness. One night, nature's soul appears to him in the form of an Indian, and designates him nature's protector. ...

Samernas land (1994)

About changes in the Sami living conditions. Traditional remarking and untouched nature mixed with images of brutal industrialist attacks in the landscape. ...

Misfits to Yuppies (1993)

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 films. ...

Jåvna, renskötare år 2000 (1991)

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. ...

Good People (1990)

A father and his son move to small village in the south of Sweden. One day, the boy finds an injured bird. He skips the school and spend more time in the woods with the bird. ...

Time Has No Name (1989)

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

The Threat (1987)

On Saturday, April 26, spring came to Sweden. That same day, Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Bringing mild winds to Scandinavia. Sweden suffered heavily of radioactive poison. ...

The Soul Is Greater Than the World (1985)

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 denied th ...

Nature's Revenge (1983)

Naturens Hämnd ("Nature's Revenge") is a moving and thought-provoking documentary about what we do with our natural enviroment, and what concequences it brings along. ...

The Painter (1982)

Stig works at a factory and loves painting. When the factory shuts down Stig enters the abandoned building and starts to paint a brick wall. ...

A Respectable Life (1979)

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 Kronoberg ...

Man on the Roof (1976)

When an inspector is murdered in hospital, the investigation led by Detective Martin Beck uncovers reports of misconduct and possibly revenge. ...

We Have Our Own Song - The Music Movie (1976)

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 at th ...

Transform Sweden (1974)

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 is incl ...

Ture Sventon - Privatdetektiv (1972)

Private detective Ture Sventon is visited by his friend Mr. Omar of the Arabic desert. Sventon decides to travel with Mr. Omar on his flying carpet to Paris. However, Sventon almost exclusively lives on cream puffs, and to transport these across the contin ...

The Magic Circle (1970)

Loosely based on the Sala gang, a group of five people that committed murders and thefts in Sweden in the 1930s. ...

They Call Us Misfits (1968)

A documentary film depicting a group of young boys from Stockholm which live on the outskirts of society. The film is the first part of a trilogy. ...

U-barn (1968)

"U-barn was based on a few simple things: combining some forms of societal imprinting through education and advertisement, some educational situations and an old commercial. And then genetic imprinting, i.e., handicaps of some kind, and show how children b ...

The Truth About the New Anna Susanna (1967)

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

Snutarna (1966)

A hot summer evening at a youth club in the city of Stockholm. 13 youngsters talk about their experiences of police violence and their views on the police. ...

Kyrie (1965)

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

Själen för fan (2024)

The spiritual has been surgically removed in our society. Money has become part of the people's soul. Two voices from the film Själen för fan, a reflection on how our society has become a slave under the power of money. The economy has been allowed to ...

Victoria - en film om kärlek (2015)

Documentary about the making of Bo Widerberg's film 'Victoria'. ...

The Subjection (2010)

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. ...

With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof (2004)

A documentary by Ronny Svensson and Markus Stromqvist on the making of Bo Widerberg's 1976 movie Man on the Roof, featuring extensive interviews with cast and crew ...

Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced (2003)

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. ...

I Am Curious, Film (1995)

The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries ...

Misfits to Yuppies (1993)

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 films. ...

A Respectable Life (1979)

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 Kronoberg ...

They Call Us Misfits (1968)

A documentary film depicting a group of young boys from Stockholm which live on the outskirts of society. The film is the first part of a trilogy. ...