Maurits Elvingsson

"The Uppsala Kidnapping" - A black comedy centered on the real events of the kidnapping that became a viral phenomenon with millions of live followers. Inspired by actual events occurred in Uppsala during Christmas 2011. In a desperate attempt to solve his economic problems Josef Esfarander, a medical student, plans to kidnap a law student from a wealthy family, assisted by his girlfriend Shirin and a credulous friend from high school. Josef strongly believes he achieved the perfect plan, but contrary to all his expectation the carrying out of the kidnapping becomes a farce.

In vast mountain landscapes, high-rise buildings rise. They are empty. The mine eats slowly under them. It rattles in the houses at night when the ore is mined. In one of these demolition houses settles a woman who in her loneliness begins to hear voices. The voices come from a book. It is the voices of the miners that speak. She makes the voices and the former tenants a part of her everyday life. Until one day ...

The story revolves around a group of teenage boys. When one of them suddenly gets a chance to make a pact with the devil things shift quickly in their lives.

Loving, loyal and unafraid, the daughter of a wanted robber chief makes a secret friend in her father's magical and treacherous forest.