"A film spring in the shadow of covidens"

No big titles, few famous names - over half are directorial debutants - and an unusual number of documentaries.

It takes time to produce film and it is only now that we get to see the effect of the ravages of the virus.

At the same time as the large investments have been forced to close, the smaller projects have been able to thrive, with small teams and ditto budgets, and have not been as vulnerable.

The companies also do not want to premiere their most expensive creations as long as there are restrictions.

as half of this spring's Swedish films are documentaries.

Including Excess will save us - by Morgane Dziurla Petit who made a feature film of his already acclaimed short film of the same name.

A hybrid between documentary and feature film where the director returns to his small home village on the French vischan.

Screwed on small town life and the desire out.

We can only include one (1) popular broadside: Mårten Klingberg's Vasaloppet comedy Ur spår, which houses Hollywood-Swedish Katia Winter's Swedish feature film debut and Bonusfamiljen's biggest quarrelsome Fredrik Hallgren.

On the children and youth side, it still looks quite nutritious.

From fantasy to gender dysphoria.

And much more, like two film adaptations of the psychologist Jenny Jägerfeld's novels.

Partly the ADHD comedy So ​​fucking easy going, partly Comedy Queen, which is directed by the growing director Sanna Lenken, who most recently won in Berlin for her debut My little sister, and who is now going there and competing again.

You can probably perceive an LGBTQi theme here as well, in widely differing titles such as the three documentaries Nelly and Nadine, Gabi - between the years 8 and 13 and Prejudice & Pride - a queer film story, as well as the seemingly twisted novel film adaptation Magisterlekarna which takes place at a school where everyone - students and teachers - is gay.

Sounds crazy and odd.

A game of prejudice and identity politics - I hope.

But most undoubtedly attracts Black Crab.

The author Jerker Virdborg's dystopia from 2002 is extremely suggestive, it is a novel that has literally screamed for being filmed, but it is only now, 20 years later, that it comes.

It is a thriller about a military mission in a future Sweden at war and considering all the war fuss that the Russian movements in the Baltic have aroused in the country recently, the timing is disgustingly good.

Noomi Rapace is called in the lead role.