This chapter investigates film in a national context marked by gender equality-oriented, father-friendly family policy, and a general lack of stigmatization of single parents in dominant media and political discourses. Drawing upon international research on (single) fathers in cinema, the chapter analyzes three films from the 2010s, Mig äger ingen (Nobody Owns Me), Min så kallade pappa (My So-Called Dad), and Yarden (The Dockyard) to argue that whereas single fathers have been heroic protagonists in Anglophone film, in Swedish fictional film they are tragic figures, who fail to live up to both the “traditional” role of provider and protector of children, and the “modern” role of involved, caring father. These representations potentially “de-throne” the (patriarchal idea of the) father, since they expose social and material vulnerabilities of fathers. However, they also counter the “normalization” of single fatherhood and the ostensible “non-stigmatization” of single parents in Sweden.