Movies: Tom Alandh

Documentary about wheel-chair bound stand-up comedian Jesper Odelberg. He was born with cerebral palsy and largely uses this as his material, but mixes his comedy with an overall serious message about inclusion and understanding....

A film about Jan Troell who turns 90 this summer. We get to see Jan Troell's own pictures, but also a conversation about childhood happiness and the joy of creation....

Ten years after documentary filmmaker Tom Alandh started filming homeless drug addict Pia Sjögren, he makes his third and final film about her. Pia was 14 years old when she started smoking cannabis and using drugs. Then it all happened really fast....

Bosse Högberg - once a tough European champion in light-middleweight since suffering from aphasia after stroke in 1988. The toughest fighter of Sweden ever. Against a Frenchman, he boxed fifteen rounds with the rejected jawbone....

"The good life" is a documentary about Alf, a broker who sells expensive apartments in Stockholm. Alf lives the good life. But even the good life has several sides....

Stefan Nilsson chose to end his life on May 25, 2023, just months after being diagnosed with ALS. This follow-up documentary by Tom Alandh brings to the surface the issues revolving euthanasia when there seems to be nothing left to do....

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 last year and was persecuted by two racists,...

It has been three years since Tom Alandh made the film "Det svåra livet" about homeless drug addict Pia. This film shows what has happened to her since....

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'Martina och jag', from 2008, was intended to be the last film about Martina Schaub, a woman with Down's Syndrome. But now, another ten years later, director Tom Alandh returns to Martina's world once more. She has been a part of Tom Alandh's filmogr...

He was 19 years old and promising gymnast. But one volt went wrong, one in a hundred thousand, and he broke his neck. Never go again, the doctors thought. And never again breathe on your own, without a respirator....

Pia Sjögren was the subject of three documentaries by director Tom Alandh, beginning in 2001. He first saw her on the street selling newspapers, homeless, addicted to drugs, trying to make enough money for the day. Since then, she has become clean, a...

Dark as ebony and agile as a panther was Tom Alandh's father. Many said that the darkness and wildness of him made him look like Tarzan, even though he only came from Åmål....

Documentary about the Swedish television reality show Expedition Robinson (Survivor) and how it got made....

There will be no 2018 World Cup in Russia for the new small nation of Kosovo. Only three goals scored, one point earned and last place in their qualifying group. In Kosovo, there is talk of crisis and disaster. But in Sweden, life goes on as usual fo...

For almost half of his life, Kenneth Viken has been in prison, and he does not know how many times he has been released, only to soon return . In January 2016 he is released again....

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 society....

It is more than forty years ago and the story is almost forgotten, the one about Inger Svensson, a young woman from Öland who wanted to be a priest when the resistance against female priests was the hardest. When the woman would be silent in the cong...

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

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 sections. But how would we have coped - if it had been a real war?...