A beautiful Swedish silent film

The building I work in was previously a school for blind children, and last night I watched a really beautiful film from 1932 about the school. It can be viewed on the Film Arkivet website here. It's a silent film, so I'd recommend it even if you cannot understand Swedish. There are also some scenes of Stockholm almost 100 years ago, which is really interesting to see.
I was really impressed to see the children doing amazing dance routines, and making things so accurately, despite being blind. Maybe it's just the tone of silent films, but there's something very ethereal and beautiful about it. The children look so happy and seem to have so many opportunities in this film, especially considering that it was a different time then.
For me, it was also very interesting to see places in the film that I see every day. It's strange to think I've probably been in some of the rooms that are shown in the film, and I certainly recognise the outside areas. It's about 20 minutes long, and worth watching. It gave me another chance to practice reading Swedish too!

Language success, job failure

I'll get the negative part out of the way first! It appears I was unfortunately not successful in my job interview last week. I haven't heard from the recruitment agency yet, but I'm assuming this is the case because this morning I found the exact advert for the job re-posted, dated yesterday! I'm not surprised, I really didn't feel that the interview went well, but this is a new form of rejection I've never experienced before. It's a bit frustrating, but I was kind of expecting it, and actually I'm not completely sure I'd have really enjoyed working there anyway. Maybe it's for the best.

On a more positive note, yesterday I decided to watch a subtitled Swedish film I've seen a few times before, Fucking Åmål, which I really like. The last time I watched it was well over a year ago, long before I started to learn Swedish, so I wanted to see how much of the dialogue I could understand now. I thought it would also really be helpful to hear pronunciation and accents. Happily, I was able to understand a lot of sentences, and words within sentence, even without reading the subtitles, and this makes me feel more confident. I also found hearing the way that words are pronounced really helpful. I think this is something I need to work on, because I still think that understanding speech is one of my biggest problems. My confidence in speaking is growing every day and I'm so much less nervous than I was previously. It's kind of weird that this time last year I could not speak Swedish and had no intention of learning Swedish, and now I have this language in my head constantly.
Fucking Åmål is a good film with a happy ending, but I've seen other films by Lukas Moodysson that are a lot less uplifting. It's very 90s, which reminds me of when I was a kid. I'm keen to watch more films in Swedish though, as I really did find that watching it was beneficial for me. If anyone reading this has any good suggestions for films in Swedish please let me know!