SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2009

"S.O.S" was made in studios and outdoor locations in the chilly Stockholm spring for ABBA's third album "ABBA". Three other songs, including "Mamma Mia" received film clip treatment. Lasse Hallstrom came up with many of the characteristics that would come to define ABBA's video image.

On the hottest day of the year a husband figures out a way to get rid of his annoying wife in a game of scrabble.

Three perfectly true stories about lying.
In three episodes based on documentary interviews we meet the burglar who, when found out, claims to be a moonlighting accountant, the boy who finds himself lying and confessing to a crime he didn’t commit and the woman whose whole life has been a chain of lies.

A sequence of photographs from Ingmar Bergman’s family photo album. The film features his mother Karin and dates as far back as the late 1800’s. The camera slowly moves across the faces of the extended Bergman family through the ages, focusing especially on his mother, Karin.

Six Drummers participate in a well planned musical attack in the suburbs. As an elderly couple leave their apartment, the drummers take over. On everyday household objects they give a concert in four movements: kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and …

One day an Iranian woman loses her Swedish husband. She is afraid. She is broke. She sucks at languages. The worst thing is the shame of not being able to send money to her relatives back in Iran. But she starts playing internet poker and....

A figure skater enters a dark, cold, and unpleasant ice hockey rink. She begins her routine going faster and faster. Suddenly she stops and enters a new dimension. A dreamscape…

Lasse Hallstrom directed "Money, Money, Money" after the smash hit "Dancing Queen" and it was actually his favorite out of his works with ABBA. "It was consistent with the lyrics and the music," he remarked years later. "I loved editing my films to fit the music, to emphasize the rhythm and the idea of the music, to provide musical support and not just tell a story."

Ten-year-old Rasmus is tired of his parents never listening to him and decides to run away from home. But before leaving he records a cassette tape advice on how to handle life.