Stig Björkman

Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind (2022)

Prolific writer Joyce Carol Oates has remained intensely private. Until now. Through a long-standing friendship, and persistent inquiry, director Stig Bjorkman is granted unprecedented access to document her mornings of longhand writing, her walks with her ...

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)

A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a young Swedish woman who became one of the most celebrated actresses in world cinema. ...

Fanny, Alexander & Me (2013)

A documentary about the rehearsal of a theater production of Ingmar Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander" in 2012, in Stockholm, Sweden. ...

… But Film Is My Mistress (2010)

Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence - such as Woody Allen, Olivier Assayas, Bernardo Bertolucci, Arnaud Desplechin, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese and Lars v ...

Images from the Playground (2009)

In the early fifties Ingmar Bergman got himself a cine-camera, a 9.5 mm Bell & Howell, which he often used both privately and in his work. "Bilder från lekstugan" ("Images from the Playground") embark on these films, giving a diverse representation of one ...

Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier (1997)

A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his film universe. Filmmaker Stig Björkman follow von Trier during a period of more than two years, meet him at ...

I Am Curious, Film (1995)

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

Between Summers (1995)

Torun and Mikael have been married for a few years. When vacationing on the Danish coast, their young son Melker accidentally drowns. Torun initially blames her sister, who was supposed to supervise her children. Later she turns her anger and grief against ...

Imorron och imorron och imorron (1989)

A documentary about repetition. People from different professions give their view on what repetition means to them. ...

1985 - Vad hände katten i råttans år? (1985)

In 1984, ten Swedish directors joined together in the trading company Filmgrupp 10 HB to jointly produce a period document in the form of film. ...

Bakom jalusin (1984)

A Swedish writer is visiting Morocco. At his hotel, he stays next door to an Italian couple. He becomes obsessed with the woman, spying and following her. One night she knocks on his door. ...

Kvindesind (1980)

A psychological drama. The action takes place within a few hours in a woman's life. She is burdened by the decision whether she should leave husband and child in favor of an American she has fallen in love with. ...

Walk On Water If You Can (1979)

Literature graduate Orlando begins a love affair with the Foreign Ministry official Anders. She follows him to Argentina. There she learns that he is already married. ...

Evening Land (1977)

Denmark is in deep crisis: the country is hit by general strike, during the holding of a NATO summit in Copenhagen. Meanwhile, a minister is kidnapped by extremists, and state power cracks down against politically-active leftists. ...

The White Wall (1975)

A day in the life of Monika, an ordinary, modern (ca.1975) Swedish woman. Her surroundings are a lot sleeker than her daily existence, though; she's unemployed, her husband is gone, and she's alone in the midst of what ought to be the good life. ...

Ingmar Bergman (1972)

Portrait of Ingmar Bergman, made while he was working on The Touch, about his professional and private life in the early 1970s. ...

Georgia, Georgia (1972)

A singer whose companion hates whites falls for a white U.S. photographer in Sweden. ...

To Australia with Love (1969)

This short opens with a confrontation between a Customs officer and Melbourne actress Robin Bryning naked in a tin trunk. ...

No (1969)

How and why people refused military service in Sweden at the end of the 1960s. This is the reasoning of the Minister of Defense and the friends of non-violence and pacifists. ...

I Love, You Love (1968)

Helena and Sten are a couple but the relationship is falling apart. ...

The Truth About the New Anna Susanna (1967)

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

Joy (1964)

An experimental short film about a young woman in a modern city environment in Stockholm ...

Garbo: Where Did You Go? (2024)

An urgent, timely and compelling portrait of Hollywood icon Greta Garbo, whose fame, isolation and loneliness still captures us. ...

As Long As The Heart Beats (2024)

In the spring of 2020, when the Coronavirus pandemic paralyzed all of Sweden, employees at a nursing home are forced to experience how the infection finds its way in, and the situation becomes increasingly desperate. Care assistant Hanne finds herself in a ...

Bergman Island (2021)

An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between realit ...

Corona Film Club (2021)

Documentary about filmmaker and film lover Stig Björkman during the pandemic year of 2020 when he stay in touch with his friends over his laptop. ...

Searching for Ingmar Bergman (2018)

A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, with interviews with his closest collaborators and a new generation of filmmakers. ...

Viaggio in Bergmania (2011)

This is a cinematic pilgrimage by two young Turkish directors to their biggest source of inspiration, Ingmar Bergman. Their desire to approach even further to Bergman and to his work leads them to make this journey from their hometown Istanbul to Sweden, t ...

On the Trail of the New Wave (2009)

Svensk Filmindustri: La grande aventure du cinéma Suédois (2004)

Rarely in the history of the cinema, a company films productions will have marked the history and the culture of its country like "Svensk Filmindustri". Since its creation in 1919 by Charles Magnusson, Svensk Filmindustri have produced 1200 films including ...

Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier (1997)

A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his film universe. Filmmaker Stig Björkman follow von Trier during a period of more than two years, meet him at ...

Modiga mindre män (1968)

Young children have adventures in a fantasy world. ...