A Swedish Defence

A Swedish Defence

0.0IMDb Score
Released:2021-11-17
Duration:20 min
Country:Sweden
Director:Simon Elvås
Actors:Torkel Petersson, Omeya Lundqvist-Simbizi, Jessica Liedberg, Mahmut Suvakci, Jakob Fahlstedt
Production:Stockholm University of the Arts

Overview:

In this satirical drama, an international arms deal is interrupted by teenage protesters. A Swedish engineer tries to prevent his activist daughter from embarrassing him at work and ruining Sweden's relations with Turkey.

Recommendations for you

The Adults
6.2

The Adults

Eric returns home for a short visit and finds himself caught between reuniting with his sisters and chasing a victory with his old poker group. As the trip extends, Eric finds it increasingly difficult to avoid confrontations and revelations as his carefully constructed façade of his adulthood gives way to old childhood conflicts.

Landline
6.1

Landline

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

Magpie
6.5

Magpie

A couple's lives are thrown into disarray when their daughter is cast opposite a controversial major star.

Treasure
6.5

Treasure

A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.

American Pastoral
6.2

American Pastoral

Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.

Somewhere in Queens
6.3

Somewhere in Queens

Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.

Family Weekend
6.3

Family Weekend

A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.

Almost Friends
6.3

Almost Friends

A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.

Code 3
7.1

Code 3

A burned-out paramedic tries to survive his last 24 hours on the job while training a new recruit.

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
6.1

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let go of her painful past.

Light of My Life
6.5

Light of My Life

Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.

Uncorked
6.1

Uncorked

Elijah must balance his dream of becoming a master sommelier with his father's expectations that he carry on the family's Memphis BBQ joint.

The House of Tomorrow
6.8

The House of Tomorrow

The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.

About Alex
6.1

About Alex

When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.

Why Him?
6.4

Why Him?

A dad forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter's young rich boyfriend.

40 Acres
6.7

40 Acres

Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm, as they make one last stand against a vicious militia hell-bent on taking their 40 Acres.

Hooking Up
6.3

Hooking Up

Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addict. As their true motivations for the road trip come to light, the unlikely pair force one another to confront their issues, discovering that there might actually be more to love than just sex.

CQ
5.9

CQ

A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.

Accidents Happen
5.9

Accidents Happen

There are dysfunctional families... and then there are the Conways. After a family tragedy, 15-year-old Billy Conway has become the de facto glue between his bitter mom, distant brother, and stoic dad. But when Billy starts to act out, everything changes for him and his family

What Maisie Knew
7.1

What Maisie Knew

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.