Tom Alandh Movies

His real name was Gerard Gbeyo. He had been in Sweden for just over a year when he got off the bus in Skåne's Klippan one night in September...

Joakim Alpgård was completely paralyzed after crashing his car for six years and for six years he struggled against authorities in order to...

He shot a man twelve times; she was convicted as an accomplice to two murders. He served 20 years in a Texas prison, she 28 years in a California...

The bags are packed and the transport is waiting in the courtyard, because Edit Falk is to be moved today. Ösbyholm is to be closed down, her...

It's like a miracle, writing a book with the knuckles of the left index finger and the right thumb. Mattias Agnesund is the author who, despite a...

Pia Sjögren was the subject of three documentaries by director Tom Alandh, beginning in 2001. He first saw her on the street selling newspapers,...

Festival of the Midnight Sun, a.k.a. the Mantorp Festival became the biggest fiasco in Swedish pop festival history. The festival was presented the...

Nine years ago Tom Alandh included five year old Martina Schaub as part of a program about how society dealt with people with various handicaps....

Fräls oss ifrån ondo takes viewers inside Livets Ord, an American-inspired Christian revival movement in Uppsala, Sweden. Filmed in 1985,...

Municipal councilor Håkan Davidsson in Hjo is the strong man of the small community. A film about power and people in a very ordinary Swedish...

Aina Eriksson is eighty years old. She stays in a nursing home and is largely immobile. She looks back at her life in Stockholm and Paris, and the...

A portrait of the idyllic town of Karlsborg, Sweden, home to 4000 inhabitants, whose economy is dependent on the prominent local manufacturer of the...

This documentary follows Pia, who is homeless. She is struggling with her drug addiction. During the day she (and many other homeless people) sells...

When Robin Hagström Levin was five years old, his mother was sentenced to eight years in prison for serious drug offences. And in this...

By the age of 16, Kenneth Lantz was a full-blown drug addict. At 40, he quit and became one of the founders of Basta—Sweden’s first work...

There has been war in Sweden again. And Sweden won as usual. Fokus was involved in the Battle of Östergötland - one of the toughest front...

Approximately half a million Swedes vacationed to Spain in 1972, one of Europe's poorest countries who had then been controlled by Franco since 1939....

"It is not only the school but also the prison that is a mirror of society," says a board member at Hällbyanstalten outside Eskilstuna. Here are...