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The Home and Redoubt

The Home (Hemmet) (Country: Sweden, Iceland, Estonia; Year: 2025; Director: Mattias Johansson Skoglund; Writer: Mattias Johansson Skoglund, Mats Strandberg; Stars: Gizem Erdogan, Anki Lidén, Philip Oros, Malin Levanon, Lottie Ejebrant, Lily Wahlsteen, Ayan Ahmed, Bengt C.W. Carlsson, Caisa Ankarsparre, Emil Brulin, Janna Granström, Peter Jankert)

Many years after leaving, Joel returns home to move his mother Monika to a care facility for the elderly struggling with dementia. But as she starts to have terrifying visions, he begins to suspect something supernatural is at work.

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Live A Little (Leva Lite) (Country: Norway, Sweden; Year: 2025; Director: Fanny Ovesen; Writer: Fanny Ovesen; Stars: Embla Ingelman-Sundberg, Aviva Wrede, Oscar Lesage, Beatriz Abrisqueta)

On a couch surfing trip through Europe, Laura wakes up in a guy's bed without any memories of what happened.

Redoubt (Värn) (Country: Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Poland, Finland, UK, Switzerland; Year: 2025; Director: John Skoog; Stars: Denis Lavant, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Livia Millhagen, Aron Skoog)

At the peak of the Cold War, farm worker Karl-Göran Persson starts fortifying his house. He gathers scrap metal and casts it into the walls to build a fortress meant to protect himself and his neighbours setting him on the path to conflict with his community

Full Review See: Denis Lavant on the art of constructing personas in Redoubt and The Stranger
, Interview with John Skoog about Redoubt