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1571 articles available in total starting from 21/08/2002. Last article published on 27/08/2025.

Petersen goes biographical in engaging Avalon

The winner of the Discovery FIPRESCI prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, Axel Petersen’s Avalon is an engaging film about terribly repulsive characters. In a word, as Scandinavian as...  

17/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Forum/Sweden

Davies to sing Sunset Song

Veteran British filmmaker Terence Davies (pictured - The Deep Blue Sea) is all set to begin his dream project, an adaptation of classic Scottish novel Sunset Song. Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932...  

17/02/2012 | Production | UK/Sweden

Hallström passes the baton to Sundvall to direct The Paganini Contract

While Swedish director Lasse Hallström is midway through The Hypnotist, his first Swedish feature since 1987, Swedish major Svensk Filmindustri AB announced at the European Film Market in Berlin...  

10/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Market/Sweden

Corpo celeste takes the Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award in Göteborg

Alice Rohrwacher’s Corpo celeste has won the Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award. This prestigious recognition for European directors was given to the Italian filmmaker at the Göteborg...  

08/02/2012 | Awards | Italy/Sweden

Norway's Company Orheim scoops Göteborg’s wealthy Dragon

Prior to its local premiere on March 2, Norwegian director Arild Andresen’s second feature, Company Orheim, received the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Feature at the Göteborg International Film...  

06/02/2012 | Festivals | Sweden

Millennium days are over but admissions were up, local market share 19.8% in 2011

Last year Swedish cinema admissions totalled 16.4 million, with Swedish productions controlling 19.8% of the market. While attendance was 3.7% up on 2010, domestic market share was slightly down...  

03/02/2012 | Admissions | Sweden

Swedish Film Institute backs veteran directors Andersson and Hallström

Two Swedish veteran directors relieved the Swedish Film Institute of almost a month’s production funding, as Roy Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence and Lasse Hallström...  

02/02/2012 | Production | Sweden

New Swedish film agreement between state and industry: Too little money

Although the new Swedish three-year agreement between the government and the film industry will pour an additional €3.4 million into the support system, the budget is far from sufficient, says...  

01/02/2012 | Industry | Sweden

Up and rolling, the Göteborg fest wants Dance Music Now

Depicting a neurotic singer who fails to deliver, capsizing an entire studio session, Swedish director Johan Jonason’s Dance Music Now (pictured) collected the €117,000 Startsladden Prize for Best...  

31/01/2012 | Festivals | Sweden

She Monkeys and woman directors rule Sweden’s Guldbagge awards

”A typical example of typecasting,” said Swedish actor and singer Sven-Bertil Taube. ”In the film I am an old, half-blind man with a heart condition, and this is exactly what I am.” At Sweden’s...  

24/01/2012 | Awards | Sweden

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