Axel Öhman

Lobster Dinner

Left home alone one evening, a 12-year-old boy steals some live lobsters from his parents fridge. He brings these, as a gift, to the single mother of his best friend, only to claim in his house a place that goes beyond that of a dinner seat.

The Sound of Coins Hitting Brass

A young boy comes to understand why his enigmatic father loiters in laundromats listening to coin change machines that sound like casino slot machines.

Alfonso, on the Phone

Alfonso, a middle-aged Filipino immigrant, struggles to balance his family life back home with the new life he has made for himself in America.

Touch

When a fourteen year old girl's obsession with the new swimming instructor sets her into a world of undiscovered feelings, she travels between adolescence and womanhood, leaving childhood forever behind.