Arne Sucksdorff Movies

Arne Sucksdorff’s drama follows four homeless children—Jorginho, Rico, Lici, and Paulinho—struggling to survive in the Rio de...

Göte is a young teen who seems to be at odds with his family and may not know his own mind that well either. Discontented and rebellious,...

A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.

A self-absorbed young biologist takes on a six-month research post in Antarctica to study a penguin colony. Alone in Shackleton’s abandoned...

A short documentary by Swedish filmmaker Arne Sucksdorff portraying everyday life in a rural Indian village. Through carefully composed images of...

Arne Sucksdorff’s ethnographic feature documents the life and rituals of the Muria people in the Bastar jungle of central India, focusing on...

A documentary about the fishing industry on the west coast of Sweden.

An impressionistic short film celebrating Stockholm’s rhythms of life, blending images of its streets, waterways, people, and architecture into...

Also known as A World Apart, this Brazilian documentary series by Arne Sucksdorff was produced during his years living in Mato Grosso with his wife...

Also known as Reindeer Time and Inheritance, this 9-minute short by Arne Sucksdorff documents the Sámi people’s autumn migration as they...

Arne Sucksdorff’s short documentary observes gulls raiding nests and stealing eggs with ruthless persistence. Though presented as pure nature...

A short about Romanis in Sweden breaking up camp and moving on.

Arne Sucksdorff’s celebrated nature film follows two brothers in rural Sweden as they witness a fox raid and secretly raise an orphaned otter....

This four-episode Swedish documentary series by Arne Sucksdorff draws on footage shot over four years in Brazil—especially in the Pantanal...

In the Norwegian mountains, young Ragnhild drifts into daydreams of the fairytale castle Soria Moria when she is supposed to be fetching milk,...

One of the so-called “Marshall films,” Living Storm was produced under the U.S.-backed European Recovery Program to illustrate postwar...

A nature documentary about the predators in the Swedish winter mountains: the owl, the bear and man.

A documentary about the Swedish film-maker, photographer and writer Arne Sucksdorff by his apprentice Stefan Jarl. The documentary includes several...