CAFE RAY

Author: Hussain Currimbhoy

  • International Short Film Program

    A specially curated selection of short films from Sweden, the UK, Lebanon, Malaysia and Denmark. Award winning narrative, documentary and experimental films selected from festivals like Cannes and Sundance, are presented, many for the first time, in Sweden. Catch the seeds of new talent and take a glimpse into cutting edge film culture. Tickets available here.

    BLEAT (Malaysia/France) 15 mins/ Fiction

    Director: Ananth Subramaniam

    Synopsis: When a conservative elderly Malaysian Tamil couple discovers their male goat is pregnant, they face a dilemma over its ceremonial slaughter.

    Fast F**king Car (Sweden) 11 mins / Fiction

    Director: Natanael Westerberg Andersson

    Synopsis: A hungry guy, his wingman and some fast cars are brought to life through a lone actor’s dialogue with himself. In a ten-minute take, 
    Fastest Fucking Car asks the audience what it really takes for a film to entertain and amaze.

    I Am Everything (Denmark) 12 mins /Animation/Experimental

    Synopsis: Using art history and the internet’s infinite image archive as building blocks, the director has created a thought-provoking and subtly funny work in which an artificial intelligence developing self-awareness looks at humanity’s moral limitations with a new perspective. Just as the spectra of light and sound extend beyond human perception, the AI discovers a mental spectrum far greater than any individual mind can comprehend, creating an unprecedented connection between technology and nature’s hidden patterns.

    Robata (Sweden) 15 mins / documentary

    Directors: Kristoffer Kronander , 
    Patrik Öberg

    In the shadow side of the Swedish construction industry, Ukrainian Serhii is fighting side by side with the union to get his unpaid wages back.

    I Can’t Think of Anything Right Now (Germany/Argentina/Lebanon ) / documentary’

    Director: Hussen Ibraheem 

    It’s raining heavily as a driver sets off to transport a passenger to what should be their final destination. But a wrong turn leads them into a surreal, fractured journey shaped by memory, displacement, and a divine mistake – one that forces a choice: to forget the past or carry its weight forever. «Between the Roads» is a haunting meditation on exile, identity, and the search for belonging in the liminal space between worlds left behind and lives yet to begin.

    A Round Of Applause For Death (UK) / 5 mins / Experimental

    Director: STEPHEN IRWIN 

    A surreal, abstract journey through a series of murderous dreams, where Death takes centre stage, and faceless spectators applaud the inevitable.

  • #Ward_Now by Ward Zaraa

    An hour of poetry, prose and music featuring Ward Zaraa and the works of Iyad Alhasan.

    Cafe Ray’s first solo art exhibition will launch on Friday March 20th, 18:00.

    Local artist Ward Zara launches of a collection of new drawings and paintings, many displayed for the first time in Helsingborg.  The works echo a study of home and belonging, delivered with humor and insight that only Ward can deliver. To celebrate we will host a reading of his poetry and the works of local poet, Iyad Alhasan.

    Music by Malmö DJ, Notayallah will also perform as part of the show.

    Tickets are limited. Purchase here

    Tracing Light – feature documentary

    104 mins / Documentary / Germany / directed by Sreemoyee Singh

    Date: 17:30 / Thursday, Feb 12 2026

    Tickets available for purchase here

    Light, without which life itself is impossible, is the working medium and obsession of director Thomas

    Riedelsheimer. Light, seen only in interaction with matter, allows us to explore the origin of the universe. In

    Tracing Light, science and art interact to illuminate the birth of stars and secrets of the molecular world.

    Einstein’s work on light changed our understanding of the world forever and revealed it as more complex

    and magical than was thought. Now, at a radical moment in physics, we bring together leading scientists,

    and artists who sculpt with light, across Scotland and Germany – from the Max Planck Institute at Erlangen,

  • Climate | Art | Fashion

    Stay tuned for a new event focussing on our relationship to climate through art and the fashion industry.

    Guest speakers, films and conversations will offer new perspectives on the future of the climate challenge and how we can meet it.

    Curated by Katarina Emgård and presented by ABF

  • Green Over Gray: Emilio Ambasz

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    Directed by : Francesca Molteni & Mattia Colombo

    Editing: Silvia Biagioni

    Cinematogprahy: Mattia Colombo, Timon De Graaf Boelè

    Run time: 55 mins / Country: Italy

    Screening time: Wednesday April 29 at 18:00

    Get your tickets here

    Synopsis: Green Over Gray portrays the theoretical and design development linked to the Green Architecture revolution, through the analysis of some seminal projects by Emilio Ambasz, which have covered the current debate on climate impact and introduced a vision of Nature that today, 40 years later, we recognize as a turning point in the history of the relationship between man and the environment. Such projects witness the importance of a well-balanced environment for better human daily life.

    A film is a perfect format for illustrating environmental care to vast audiences, showing how architecture can address the issue of climate change, better conditions for living, andbetter solutions for urban decay. The visual register therefore plays on the drawings and imagesof the built architectures, allowing us to enter the logic of Emilio Ambasz’s poetic world, in the belief that technique alone is not enough, and that architecture is such only if it is capable of arousing emotions.

    Architects and local partnersguide us in commenting on the works. The theme of Architecture’s accountability towards a design that ensures the welfare of the different ecosystems in which we live is also addressed in the documentary through exclusive interviews with, among others, Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma, Toyo Ito, JamesWines, together withBarry Bergdoll, Fulvio Irace and Stefano Mancuso.Original models, shot in a theatre with special visual effects, images of contemporary life in the existing buildings, above the lyrics and fables by Emilio Ambasz, give shape to an unconventional and dreamlike documentary on how Architecture can influence our behavior and our impact on the planet.

  • Open Mic Night #2

    Event date: 18:00 – 19:00 / Thursday April 23 2026

    We welcome Helsingborg musicians: Hold Your Horses, Hans Dahlin, Jesper Nielsen and Per Grumert

    Each will play a short set of new music live and (mostly) unplugged.

    If you  create original music and would like to perform, please send a sample of your music via link to us : cafe.ray.hbg(@) gmail.com.

    Tickets here or at the door.

    Seats are limited.