Fredrik Wenzel

Vi bara lyder

Erik Holmström, Fredrik Wenzel

Nils Dernevik, Leif Andrée

"It's simple! We do as we're told." This disconcerting reply comes from a Swedish employment office employee when asked how the country’s most unpopular government agency works. And that’s not all: in this creative documentary, case workers, receptionists and psychologists reveal how the Swedish employment system is failing. They complain about inadequate software and mystifying error messages, excessive caseloads and demoralizing results—on average, each case worker helps just 10 people find work each year, and only one in 10 clients will find a new job. To assure the anonymity of the interviewees, they're all represented by cardboard puppets. Thanks to visible puppeteers, expressive eyes and recognizable gestures, these puppets quickly take on the appearance of real people. The result is a fascinating, comical and artistic study of human strategies to get along in an irrational bureaucracy.

Broder Daniel Forever

Henrik Hellström, Kristian Bengtsson

Henrik Berggren, Adam Bolmeus

A film about iconic Swedish indie pop band Broder Daniel as they reunite during the summer 2008 before their last ever performance as a group. A concert held in honor of guitarist Anders who committed suicide earlier this year. It is a performance, and a portrait and a last goodbye from a band with more unconditional willpower than any other.

Man tänker sitt

Henrik Hellström, Fredrik Wenzel

Sebastian Eklund, Jörgen Svensson

An eleven-year-old boy observes his neighborhood as its surface orderliness rots away.

Charismatic Megafauna

Jesper Kurlandsky, Fredrik Wenzel

Life in hypermodernity seen from the cosmic perspective in a visionary masterpiece, where time and space transcend the human scale.

Farligt förflutet

Oscar Petersson

Jens Hultén, Cecilia Bergqvist

Stefan is a man with a violent past. His skills come in handy when he tries to help a Bosnian stripper find her father who is hiding somewhere in Sweden.