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The worst is yet to come, despite Joel's belief that his troubles are finished after getting his mother in a care facility for dementia. It goes deeply into issues of love, friendship, and the fear that everyone has of losing themselves.

Sara and Ali is looking through photo's from a hike in the Swedish outbacks. There's a few pictures that Ali doesn't recognize. Sara has been visiting a cemetery that they were specifically told not to go to. Not long after a woman appear in the photo, a woman that wasn't there when the photo's were taken. There's a price to be paid for Sara's trespassing.

Fragile soul's inner turmoil unfolds as he grapples with personal demons while pursuing a seemingly mundane goal, unveiling the profound human struggle within life's simplicity.

As if immersed in the situation, the viewer witnesses a distressing encounter between angry parents, a helpless teacher and three schoolgirls. It soon becomes clear that certain things are going wrong in their class. There have been complaints of bullying. The parents are mainly concerned with defending their own children. They throw around neurotic accusations and make untenable demands. Using a camera which itself seems to participate in the discussion, scene after scene is dissected with refreshing malice and a sense for the dark side of human nature. Desperate attempts to resolve things unleash an avalanche of other problems. It takes a long time before Denise, Bella and Mina can have their say.

Nilo (Bahar Pars) is a feminist writer, living an orderly life with her husband and 13-year-old daughter Laura (Nadja Rosenberg). When her irresponsible sister Maya (Zhala), whose projects constantly tend to bomb, both "kidnaps" Nilo's Volvo and daughter and heads south, Nilo tags along. The goal of the trip is Portugal, where the sisters' complicated mother (Susan Taslimi) recently diagnosed with cancer lives, together with Maya's son, who it has finally become time to take responsibility for.

In an international conference, a young PhD student discovers that nobody listens to her. Let Her Speak is directed by Ulla Heikkilä, and it is part of the film anthology Force of Habit (Yksittäistapaus).

In the last part of director Bahar Pars trilogy on structural racism the audience is invited to join two women on their journey of avoiding, expressing and ultimately fighting about these issues and the way those affect their life.

An environmental specialist goes to a job interview but the interviewer is more interested in her 'exotic' background than her skills. Dream Job (Unelmaduuni) is part of the film anthology Force of Habit (Yksittäistapaus).

Film that deals with exactly this situation. The film that looks at political correctness, kindness and covert racism; is inspired by the events of the director's life.

Summer night in Stockholm. People meeting people. Loners and drifters hooking up. Babies making babies. Meet Emma, 35 and Joel, 17, two strangers waiting for the night bus to take them home..

In 1982 the first case of HIV was discovered in Sweden. We meet three men who tell the story of love, community, lust, shame and grief in the 80's in Sweden, a time and place for queer people with a constant backdrop of death and loss.

Ten-year-old Noni lives with her mother during the week in Vasastan, and on the weekend stays with her father in Skärholmen. On one weekend, with her stepsister Elizabeth, Noni sees the world for what it truly is.

Shima Niavarani is one of Sweden's most multifaceted artists. Here we get to follow her work with her first solo show in over 13 years.