Movies: Tom Alandh

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....

He was 14 years old when he was at Solvalla for the first time. He had four kroner with him, two he put on Smaragd with Sören Nordin in the sulky. It's been more than thirty years, but he hasn't missed many competition days since then....

Pianist Stefan Nilsson died in his home on May 25. He is best known as a composer of music for popular films and television series. In February 2023, after a period of illness, he received shocking news - he had the incurable disease ALS. Stefan Nils...

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

Documentary which follows Kenneth Lantz, who is addicted to heroin....

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....

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....

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....

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,...

"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....

In 1974 documentary film maker Tom Alandh did a TV story about institutions for the mentally retarded. Then he met Martina, who was five and who had Down syndrome. For 35 years, which is unique in the Swedish television history, Tom Alandh and photog...

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....

Approximately half a million Swedes vacationed to Spain in 1972, one of Europe's poorest countries who had then been controlled by Franco since 1939. 120 000 of them chose The Canary Islands as their destination. The documentary highlights and contra...

A film about dreams and opportunities, not about problems....

The stone-mover boy from Göteborg who became world champion in heavyweight boxing, a midsummer night in 1959 that the Swedish people will never forget. The short straight right - made in Sweden - made "Ingo" the world's best-known Swede....

In the 1980s there was a punk band in Stockholm who put out one single, got torn apart by local music critics and went away. 35 years later they are contacted by a music label from New York interested in their music....

"A small film about a great artist" - The Swedish pianist Jan Johansson (1931-1968), one of the most celebrated jazz/folk music pianist's of Northern Europe. The film tracks the pianist's coming greatness through the great masters Schubert, Mozart, a...

Tom Alandh tells both about his soul and the story of the Elite Race. As every year goes off the rails on Mother's Day...

An easy trip a bit criss-cross that goes to Hjo and Gambia, Vimmerby and Ecuador, Greenland and Solvalla and Sarajevo. And on the trip you get to meet Ingemar Johansson and Ingmar Bergman and Gösta Bohman and Olof Palme and General Franco. And then t...