Sweden

Outspoken Swedish journalist Torgny Segerstedt vehemently opposes the spread of Nazism throughout Europe in the late 30’s in the face of government pressure to keep quiet on the matter. Based on a true story, The Last Sentence explores Segerstedt’s singular struggle, even as an affair with his best friend’s wife grows more intense. Jan Troell, winner of best director at the Montreal World Film Festival, glosses over no detail of Segerstedt’s fraught domestic but principled political life.

Based on the best seller by Lars Kepler, Lasse Hallström’s The Hypnotist follows a maverick detective and an insomniac psychologist who team up to find a missing girl before the murderer who killed her family finds her first. A departure from his previous style, Hallström (My Life As A Dog, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?) explores new territory, pulling the best from a seasoned cast, to create a gripping, fierce and shadowy thriller.

A father-son road trip morphs into a musical journey examining the fraught history of Finnish immigration in Sweden. Playful and affecting, this film nabbed the Best Nordic Documentary in Gothenburg and uses vintage tunes to delve into distressing memories shared by many Swedish Finns.