Around the Fire

(1998)

An uptight New York City lawyer takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse upstate for a family vacation.

A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.

The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous "Ruby Glass".

A teenager is raised with horses at her parent's racehorse stable who has a deep exceptional bond with young horse. An accident threatens to bring racing careers to an end but they battle together to achieve victory.

Fyra ungdomar möts på en iscensatt slutstation för att prata om smärta, vänskap och döden. Samtalen växer fram improviserat och bygger på verkliga livsöden. Kate som förlorat sin son i cancer får en sista chans att möta honom. En film om att bära sitt arv i en tid med oändliga val. En film i regi av Henric Hemmerlind i en serie examensfilmer från Stockholms konstnärliga högskola.

Ten-year-old Noel wants to be more like his older sister. A visit to the hairdresser sparks jealousy, bringing sibling rivalry to the surface. A film about longing beyond the norms of 2000s boyhood.

In a near future, Mariam and her family must resolve a serious financial crisis. Meanwhile, the Swedish government launches Language Maximization where immigrants are offered a generous grant to erase the memory of their native language.

In the dead-end grind of chasing shoplifters, a store detective is confronted with a colorful cast of life stories.

A guided hypnosis session pulls Hanna into her darkest memories, until a human rights activist hijacks the narrative. A film about cruelty disguised as kindness - and the fight to reclaim freedom.

Efter ett smärtsamt uppbrott kastas Julian ut på en surrealistisk resa mellan verklighet och drömmar. En film i regi av Måns Helldin i en serie examensfilmer från Stockholms konstnärliga högskola.