Summer with Monika

Summer with Monika 1953

7.30

Monika from Stockholm falls in love with Harry, a young man on holiday. When she becomes pregnant they are forced into a marriage, which begins to fall apart soon after they take up residence in a cramped little flat.

1953

Galapagos with David Attenborough

Galapagos with David Attenborough 2013

7.20

Two hundred years after Charles Darwin set foot on the shores of the Galápagos Islands, David Attenborough travels to this wild and mysterious archipelago. Amongst the flora and fauna of these enchanted volcanic islands, Darwin formulated his groundbreaking theories on evolution. Journey with Attenborough to explore how life on the islands has continued to evolve in biological isolation, and how the ever-changing volcanic landscape has given birth to species and sub-species that exist nowhere else in the world. Encompassing treacherous journeys, life-forms that forge unlikely companionships, and survival against all odds, Galápagos tells the story of an evolutionary melting pot in which anything and everything is possible.

2013

Rospiggar

Rospiggar 1942

5.00

A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

1942

As the Sea Rages

As the Sea Rages 1959

1

After five years of war, Clements, a professional seaman, has no ambitions other than to live in peace and carry out his activity. Having settled down in the archipelago of the Aegean Sea, he has founded a small sponge fishing company in an idyllic place and foresees an optimistic future. Unfortunately, he soon finds himself caught in a crossfire...

1959

Do You Believe in Angels?

Do You Believe in Angels? 1961

6.60

Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

1961

Eden

Eden 2020

6.40

Eden is a coming-of-age film about a Protestant Confirmation camp on a summer’s week, set in the archipelago of Helsinki. Aliisa is the intellectually confident non-believer, Jenna is the queen bee and Panu is the scared bird. The experience of these teenagers is affected by Tiina, a young and eager priest.

2020

Islands of Creation

Islands of Creation 2015

6.20

In the jungles of the Solomon Islands, a remote archipelago in the South Pacific, a biologist is attempting to do something Charles Darwin and Ernst Mayr never accomplished: catch evolution in the act of creating new species. Albert Uy is on the verge of an amazing discovery in the Solomon Islands, but there's a threat looming on the horizon. The islands' resources are being exploited, putting all local wildlife at risk. It's a race against time to gather the evidence necessary to prove the existence of a new species before it's lost forever.

2015

Robinson i Roslagen

Robinson i Roslagen 1948

4.20

To get away from his nagging wife, a man goes to a desert island to settle down there.

1948

Kesän maku

Kesän maku 1975

3.00

Liisa, a young nurse returns to a remote island where she has spent the summer leaves in her youth. She soon gets to know some of the regular residents on the island, Pekka and Paula. During the summer party the underlying tensions mount.

1975

Archipiélago

Archipiélago 1992

5.20

An architect witness the brutal massacre by the police of an anti-government meeting and escapes to a remote archipelago.

1992

Hemsöborna

Hemsöborna 1944

5.00

In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the widow Flood with the farm. Carlsson has big plans for the island, including having paying guests in the summer but Gusten, the son of the widow, is negative. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

1944

Vi på Väddö

Vi på Väddö 1958

4.00

Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.

1958

Darling of Mine

Darling of Mine 1955

5.00

The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly interested in getting an interview with him. She finds out secret information about his next movie, and to stop her from revealing it, Jack Harris gets her alone with him on an isolated island in the archipelago. Romance blossoms... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

1955

Rosen på tistelön

Rosen på tistelön 1945

5.50

A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.

1945

Paradise Gowns

Paradise Gowns 2016

10.00

Through the stories of Finnish archipelago's inhabitants and glimpses of their lives, and the breathtakingly beautiful images of the islands’ nature, the viewer gets to experience the rhythm and atmosphere of a concrete place that exists today, but that is completely timeless and otherworldly at the same time.

2016

Japan Sinks: 2020

Japan Sinks: 2020 2020

7.20

After catastrophic earthquakes devastate Japan, one family's resolve is tested on a journey of survival through the sinking archipelago.

2020

Gulag, the Story

Gulag, the Story 2020

8.00

A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely punitive Soviet concentration camp system, remains largely unknown.

2020