Best Swedish animation movies
A curated collection of popular animation movies from Sweden.

To Garbo and Lenin (2018)
To Garbo and Lenin (2018)
Greta Garbo and Vladimir Lenin meet at PUB department store in Stockholm in 1917. They both have lost a dream, and they start a conversation that remains all day while they are walking through the city.
One Hundred Years (1984)
One Hundred Years (1984)
A short animation set to and inspired by The Cure's One Hundred Years. Max Anderssons debut animation film won 1st Prize at Melbourne international Film Festival, 2nd Prize at Los Angeles Animation Celebration and a special prize at Berlin Film Festival.
Hararna fångar och steker jägaren (1996)
Hararna fångar och steker jägaren (1996)
Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.

Keny-atta (2002)
Keny-atta (2002)

Wanderers (2014)
Wanderers (2014)
Wanderers is a vision of humanity's expansion into the Solar System, based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space might look like, if it ever happens. The locations depicted in the film are digital recreations of actual places in the Solar System, built from real photos and map data where available. Without any apparent story, other than what you may fill in by yourself, the idea with the film is primarily to show a glimpse of the fantastic and beautiful nature that surrounds us on our neighboring worlds - and above all, how it might appear to us if we were there.

The Shift (2021)
The Shift (2021)
Many years ago tech giants lost control of AI robotic technology. By kidnapping and monitoring newborns, the Ai robots are now trying to master the one thing they have yet to understand… Creativity.

Peter-No-Tail (1981)
Peter-No-Tail (1981)
Peter-No-Tail is a cat who's born without a proper tail on a farm by the Swedish countryside. Due to economical difficulties, the farmer is forced to get rid of Peter. The farmer can't bring himself to drown the cat, so he sneaks Peter inside the car of a family who are renting a house close to the farm for their summer vacation. When the family finally reach their home in Uppsala, Sweden, they find Peter and decide to keep him. Without a tail, he becomes the talk of the town among the other cats and, especially Mike, who teases him cruelly. Mean Mike and his two companions, Bill and Bull, are notorious for the nasty tricks they like to play on other cats. Mike is currently trying to court Molly Silk-Nose, but his rough and silly approach does not impress her, since she becomes interested in the kind and gentle Peter. But Mike won't give up that easily and he has a plan for how he'll get his revenge.

The Lovers (2023)
The Lovers (2023)
A relationship horror and unromantic comedy about a couple forced to deal with escalating bodily transformations.

Gordon & Paddy (2017)
Gordon & Paddy (2017)
The forest’s police chief Gordon is about to retire and he needs to find a new assistant. Paddy, a clever mouse with a great sense of smell seems to be the right candidate. Together they have to solve Gordon’s last case – the mystery of squirrel’s missing nuts. Could it be the fox that took them? Gordon and Paddy will soon find out.

The Dog Hotel (2000)
The Dog Hotel (2000)
On their way to find Paris, Sture the dog (Hasse Alfredsson) and his friend Picasso end up on a hotel in the middle of nowhere. Along with Miss Mops, Sture tries to sniff out who is causing all the strange events of the hotel.

Agaton Sax and the Bykoebing Village Festival (1976)
Agaton Sax and the Bykoebing Village Festival (1976)
Two villains escape from jail in London. They are planning an attack on Agaton Sax. Inspector Lispington and Sax are chasing the two bad guys, but the hunt is hampered by the villains have lookalikes.

Seven Days in the Woods (2010)
Seven Days in the Woods (2010)
A fragmented story of the forest as the bearer of emotions, life and dark mysticism. In short scenes, we are sucked into environments that, through the camera’s slow crawl and the intense presence of the sound, give us a sense of narrative. Something is threatening, but the story is broken. This is a disoriented horror movie or the unsorted memories from a traumatized camera.

The Burden (2017)
The Burden (2017)
A shopping center along a large highway is the scene of an apocalyptic musical. Animation with a strong sense of form set to auto-tuned music by Klungan. About liberation through great catastrophy.

ABBA - The Last Video (2004)
ABBA - The Last Video (2004)
ABBA - THE LAST VIDEO is the film about four hopeful musicians in search of a record contract. They pay a visit to the Big Record Company Boss and his oily assistant, performing one hit after the other, cheered on by their manager. But things don't really work out as planned...Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Frida look just like they did back then... or perhaps not.

Something to Remember (2019)

9/11 Simulation in Roblox Environment (2017)
9/11 Simulation in Roblox Environment (2017)
CGI collage short film originally premiered as part of the 'Extinction Renaissance' exhibition at the Loyal Gallery in Stockholm.

The Babblers - Only on Youtube (2017)
The Babblers - Only on Youtube (2017)
A 20 minutes long movie with Babblarna, with unique content only on Youtube. The movie was possible thank to a Kickstarter project in 2016. 401 generous and happy backers made sure that yours and all other small, even smaller and a little bigger children can enjoy this movie.
Lolita Separates (1988)
Lolita Separates (1988)
In this short slice of transgressive punk cinema, a woman achieves accidental revenge on her boyfriend after he cruelly kills and eats the fish-stick that she had magically brought to life. Despite this tragic event, not all is lost for Lolita, as she soon meets an unexpected new friend.

I Can't Breathe (2014)
I Can't Breathe (2014)
A woman takes a light bulb on a romantic dinner, a certain skeleton has family issues, and one girl has a very peculiar appetite.

The Expected (2021)
The Expected (2021)
A pregnant woman bleeds out in the bathtub. Terrified, her partner is forced to take care of the empty skin that remains and pour the blood into the empty aquarium. Then he continues his enclosed everyday life while something seems to be growing in the blood-filled glass box. Carolina Sandvik is back with a feverishly absurd horror story about a couple who don't get what they're expecting.

Exit (1990)
Exit (1990)
Åke is trapped in a theme park with no chance to escape, unless he's having a great time.

Bamse i Trollskogen (1991)
Bamse i Trollskogen (1991)
Bamse is a good-hearted bear whose grandmother cooks a special kind of honey, that gives him superpowers. When someone starts transforming the bear's friends into balloons and other things, Bamse and his friends Skalman (a turtle) and Lille Skutt (a rabbit) must journey through the woods to stop this person.

Bamse and the Thief City (2014)
Bamse and the Thief City (2014)
Sweden's most popular comic book character - the bear Bamse - will now get his first own feature film. In "Bamse and the city of thieves" the strongest bear in the world and his two friends Little Hopp and Shellman show that the best weapon against evil is -friendship (and a few drops of Grandma's Thunder Honey of course).

Christopher's Christmas Mission (1975)
Christopher's Christmas Mission (1975)
"Christopher's Christmas Mission"- A tale about a boy who steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm, while working in a post office on Christmas Eve.

Bamse and the Thunderbell (2018)
Bamse and the Thunderbell (2018)
Bamse's friends go on a quest to find the Thunderbell, the ingredient that makes Bamse strong. Meanwhile, the sly Reinard pretends to be a good guy to supplant Bamse as the hero of the town and win the affections of Mickelina.

Mamma Mu & Kråkan (2008)
Mamma Mu & Kråkan (2008)
Mamma Moo is a typical cow, besides that she wants to do so many uncowly things. Her idea of fun is biking and dancing, and when she meets Crow her happiness is complete - the fun is so much bigger when you have a friend. There's a catch; Crow does not want to be friends with a cow, especially not such a peculiar one.

Pettson & Findus - The Tomte Machine (2005)
Pettson & Findus - The Tomte Machine (2005)
The old man PETTSON and his cat FINDUS live on a small farm way out in the countryside in Sweden. Christmas is approaching, and Pettson has given Findus the rash promise that THE TOMTE will come around with gifts for him at Christmas Eve. Pettson does not believe in the Tomte, but in order not to disappoint his cat, he decides to build an artificial Tomte - a mechanical TOMTE MACHINE. Pettson has a hard time keeping the project secret from Findus and getting the machine to actually work in due time. But somehow a mysterious magical force interferes...

Laban the Little Ghost (2006)
Laban the Little Ghost (2006)
Pappa spöke gör sig redo för en natts spökarbete. Han visar Laban sina hemskaste spöktongångar. Det lilla spöket vill låta skrämmande, men oavsett hur han försöker, låter han söt. Problemet är att Laban är rädd själv när han går i de mörka korridorerna.