Jonas Karlsson Movies

Babies are supposed to bring families together, but the lack of one is doing just the opposite for one hapless couple in this domestic comedy from Sweden. Johan (Jonas Karlsson) is a twenty-something with no particular ambitions in life who is living with his wife Karin (Johanna Sallsstrom) on a farm run by his father Henrik (Ralph Carlsson). Henrik wants Johan to take over the farm some day, but while he's willing to work there until something better happens along, he's not sure he wants to make it his life's work. But John's problems with Henrik are small potatoes compared to his troubles with Karin; the couple has decided they want to have a child, but Karin has been unable to conceive, and as they try one medical treatment after another in hopes of putting Karin on the nest, their marriage starts to fray at the edges. Most of the cast and production staff on Hans och Hennes also worked on the popular Swedish television series The Confession. While the film's English title is Making Babies, the film's original title literally translates as His and Hers. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Daniel Lind Lagerlof's romantic comedy Miffo stars Jonas Karlsson as a minister who is unhappy with the work he has been doing in a large church and applies to work in a small community. There he meets Carola (Livia Millhagen), a woman who is wheelchair-bound but is bursting with life, and her unemployed mother Sonja (Kajsa Ernst). As is to be expected from the genre, the two opposites soon grow to love one another and change each other's lives. Miffo was screened in competition at the Montreal Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

A boy who spends his days playing with toy soldiers grows up to photograph real ones in action in this short comedy-drama from news photographer turned filmmaker Jens Assur. As a child, David was captivated by images of war, and could spend hours playing with models of tanks and aircraft that he'd built, or fighting pretend battles with his friends. In 1994, at the age of 24, David is no less obsessed with war, and has learned to make a living from his preoccupation by working as a photojournalist. David is sent to Rwanda with Mats, a reporter, to cover the bloody civil conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis, and together the men find themselves both engrossed by the drama unfolding around them and appalled by the human toll this particular conflict has taken upon the people of Rwanda. Den Sista Hunden I Rwanda (aka The Last Dog In Rwanda was screened as part of the short film series as the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

In this charming Scandinavian family movie, director Ella Lemhagen spins a tale about a youth coming to terms with his identity and his single mom. Eight-year-old half-Greek Tsatsiki lives in a Stockholm suburb with his attractive mother, who dreams of being a rock star. Tsatsiki longs to meet his Greek father, believing that he is an octopus fisherman in the Mediterranean. In preparation for a future meeting with his absent dad, he practices swimming at the local gym. Meanwhile, Tsatsiki's mom, who was dating her band's bass player, has fallen for a dashing young cop who is a boarder in her house. Tsatsiki, Morsan och Polisenfilm was screened at the 1999 Haugesund Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi