1985 Lomdansen (The Dance of Loon) Jan Röed and Magnus Enquist
Loons or divers are territorial birds but they also fish together. The film follows this peculiar collaboration during a few early morning hours.
1995 Atlanten (The Atlantic) Jan Röed, Kristian Petri and Magnus Enquist
This film is ‘about’ islands in the Atlantic, from Iceland in the north via the Azores, the Cape Verde group, St Helena, and Staten Island to South Georgia. Each island has its own distinctive topography and civilization, contained by the filmmakers in stunning compositions that are held long enough to draw our attention to the details, and for us to savor the wryness with which evidence of human occupation has been framed in vast sea and cloudscapes. The inhabitants of different islands tell their stories, recite their poetry, and sing their songs. We meet, amongst others, a gory old whale hunter from the Azores. The owner of the world’s largest whisky collection slyly solicits for more. A priest and the governor of St Helena describe their isolation with succinct dismay. There is self-mockingly pretentious commentary drily enunciated by Max von Sydow, but despite this self-querying perspective, The Atlantic is like the work of a 19th-century showman/explorer endowed with state-of-the-art tools of the late 20th. In 1996. The film received a Guldbagge award for best cinematography, and the same year, it also received the Nordic film prize at the Gothenburg Film Festival.
2000 Fyren (The Lighthouse) Magnus Enquist, Kristian Petri, and Jan Röed
The film is a portrayal of some of the most interesting lighthouses around the world: La Coruna (Spain), Le Creach, Kéréon, Corduan (France), Livorno, Tino, La Laterna (Italy), Kampen (Germany), Understen (Sweden), Nubble Light, Rockland Breakwater (USA), Kannon saki, Shiriya saki (Japan), Cape Aghulhas, Slangkop (Africa), Ilha Rasa, Manuas, Jacaré (Brazil). The history of the lighthouses, the myths, and the legends associated with them, are recounted by former lighthouse keepers who have long been redundant due to modern technology. The film also showcases the beautiful nature that mostly surrounds the lighthouses. Received a Guldbagge nomination for the best documentary 2001.
2000 Singing apes Jan Röed & Magnus Enquist
This film explores differences in the calls and vocal interactions among various gibbon species. It examines the hypothesis that the study of gibbons may shed light on the evolution of human communication and bipedal locomotion. Wild gibbons occurring in the film include White-handed gibbons Hylobates lar, Hoolocks Hoolock hoolock, Javan silvery gibbons Hylobates moloch, Kloss's gibbons H. klossii, and Siamangs Symphalangus syndactylus.