THE FUTURE OF SWEDISH FILM

1 KM SCREENING
MAURITZ, FILMHUSET
NOVEMBER 10
17:30–20:00

1 KM PITCH
MAURITZ, FILMHUSET
NOVEMBER 11
13:00–15:00

1 KM FILM is Sweden’s leading short film pitch competition, where emerging directors present their upcoming projects to a jury and audience of industry professionals from across the Nordics and beyond. Held during Stockholm Industry Days, it’s a key platform for discovering the next generation of Swedish film talent. This year, held in English to reach a wider international audience.

‍Established at the very first Stockholm International Film Festival in 1990, 1 KM FILM has long been a launchpad for new voices in Swedish cinema. Previous winners include Frida Kempff, Amanda Kernell, John Skoog, and Ninja Thyberg, Ville Gobi. The 2024 winner was Lode Kuylenstierna.

‍The winner receives 400,000 SEK in financing and production support for the completion of their project. Partners include the Swedish Film Institute, Film Stockholm, Storyline Studios, Tint, Ponytail, the Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film, Independent Kostym, and Fyra K Media.

Synopsis:

On the night ferry from Stockholm to Riga, migrant worker Vaidas (45) strikes up a conversation with a group of young, partying Swedes. Invited to their cabin for drinks and games, he soon realizes that their friendliness isn’t entirely genuine — he’s there as a source of amusement, a mascot for their night. Confronted with this, Vaidas must decide whether the role is still worth playing — as a brief escape from his own reality.
ADAM STARSMARK
Previous film Vaka
Pitching Färjan från Valhalla
Synopsis:

On the outskirts of a village in West Bengal, two young men are welding something massive — a wall of metal and wires mounted on the back of a motorcycle. Colors, patterns, electricity, box upon box. Suddenly, one nods to the other, who steps forward, plugs his phone into one of the loose cables — and then: bass. LOUD is an audiovisual documentary capturing the beautiful and absurd subculture of Box Competition in West Bengal, India.
BALDER LJUNGGREN
Previous film Vrå
Pitching LOUD
Synopsis:

On a rooftop in Athens, Felix and Franka are sleep. Their intimacy is broken when a five-year-old boy suddenly appears with a ball. A silent game unfolds. When the ball rolls toward the roof’s edge, the boy runs after it and falls to the street below. Frozen in shock, they do nothing. Far from home, in a place where no one knows them, their reactions expose the worlds they come from. What begins as shock deepens into a moral divide.
DEA SARAČEVIĆ
Previous film Silver City
Pitching Silence
Synopsis:

Homeless asylum seekers sleeping on the streets, volunteers being obstructed, and attacks from the far-right are the result of Ireland’s new migration policy. After two years of failed attempts, filmmaker Dennis Harvey has finally found a way to hold the Migration Minister to account.
DENNIS HARVEY
Previous film The Building and Burning of a Refugee Camp
Pitching The Government Position on the Ongoing Refusal to Provide Accommodation to all International Protection Applicants
Synopsis:

Newly hired Michaela hasn’t yet been assigned a client project and is instead tasked with organizing the company’s summer party. During dinner, she sits next to the founder, Vidar, hoping to make a good impression — but the mentorship talk quickly slips into uncomfortable territory. Every attempt to create distance is turned against her. As the evening unfolds, tension mounts in a dark satire about power, shame, and how a company’s so-called “family culture” conceals its boundary-crossing behavior.
JOHAN STAVSJÖ
Previous film Konstnärssjäl
Pitching Work Ethics
Synopsis:

Fragments from a hot summer day of 1992 during an orienteering competition. A TV commentator loses himself in dark thoughts when technical glitches prevent him from doing his job. Two teenage boys discover a tingling feeling of desire and lust in their pursuit of each other. While waiting for competitors to pass their checkpoint, two officials realize that they have been forgotten. A film about the eternal loop of being lost, searching and finding oneself over and over again.
SERGEY VASILIEV
Previous film Skogsbadaren
Pitching Orientering 92
Heavily pregnant Bitte struggles with the limits of her own body — torn between awe, discomfort, and frustration in her relationship. When she discovers a hidden hole in her bathroom floor, she glimpses Aaron, a humiliated porn actor, and an absurd, dreamlike bond forms between them. As Bitte becomes increasingly drawn into this strange connection, she begins to question her desires, her sense of self, and the suffocating expectations of motherhood that surround her.
VERA SJUNNESSON
Previous film Infantile
Pitching Badkar
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