25/06/2013 - US director Noah Baumbach and UK director Sally Potter will unspool new films in the programme, which runs until June 30

Last year the Fårö Bergman Centre Foundation began renovations on the Fårö municipal school to better facilitate its screenings, exhibitions, seminars, workshops, performances – and yesterday the new centre opened to host the 10^th International Bergman Week, which runs until June 30.

“Now the centres’s activities will take off - activities that will also contribute to development of the island. Ingmar Bergman became synonymous with Fårö – I am sure he would have been happy with this,” said Lennart Lindgren, chairman of Fårö Development.

Bergman’s grandchild Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel – a student of direction at Oslo’s Nordic Institute for Stage and Studio, and currently shooting his first documentary – talked about the summers he had spent on Fårø with "granddad".

The anniversary of the Bergman Week was celebrated at the Fårö Church with a Bergman inspired performance by Swedish actors Elin Klinge, Krister Henriksson, musicians Georg Riedel, Matti Bye, Clara Gustafsson and Katarina Nuttall.

US director Noah Baumbach and actress Greta Gerwig will be interviewed by festival director Jannike Åhlund, before screening their new film Frances Ha. Also UK director Sally Potter and producer Christopher Sheppard have a new film to show, Ginger and Rosa [+see also:
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Swedish Bergman actress Harriet Andersson is among the guests for the programme of screenings, lectures, seminars, concerts and guided tours to filming locations. Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin presents the video installation, Laterna Magica.

Bergman first came to Fårö in April 1960 to scout location for Through a Glass Darkly (1961) – since then, seven of his films were shot on the island, and Bergman lived there for long periods of his life. He is buried at the cemetery of the Fårö Church.