Per-Åke Holmquist Movies

In the years 1958 – 1989, public service monopolies prevailed in Sweden and SVT's reporting from Israel and Palestine was unique. Their...

Archaeological gardens and tunnels are built. Khaled and other Palestinians lose their homes. Lawyer Ziad gets angry new clients every day. Arieh and...

The Portuguese Revolution (1974-75) seen through the eyes of some of the most important photographers and filmmakers that witnessed the event. Their...

Her opponents gave her the “Bullshit Award” for sustaining global poverty. Time Magazine hailed her as one of the great heroes of our...

The last 31 years, PeÅ Holmquist has filmed in Gaza, depicting the fate of its people in this often cruel world. Now Holmquist makes a personal...

Ayed is a young Palestinian psychologist living in the embargoed territory of the Gaza Strip. Young Freud in Gaza follows him over the course of two...

Cecilia Uddén, known as "Camelen", is a Middle East foreign correspondent working for Swedish Radio and alone in having been awarded Stora...

The first genocide of this century occurred during the first World War, when 1.5 million Armenians were killed, and an entire nation was driven from...

Garbis is 99 years old, and one of the last survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

Documentary film that follows politicians during various events.

In the Thai mountains lives the headman Lao-Tong. In the late 1960s, the photographer PeÅ Holmquist met him for the first time. 27 years later,...

In the first documentary feature film made in Gaza, Gaza Ghetto highlights the historical precedents of war, dispossession and military control that...

Documentary about Denmarks first six months as a member of the EU

At the height of the Vietnam War, in 1969, Swedish filmmaker PeÅ Holmquist traveled to South East Asia to make a film on a Hmong village leader...

The interactions between three seventeen-year-old boys in Sweden. Thomas and Helge are born in Sweden while Jack is born in Libanon.