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1569 articles available in total starting from 21/08/2002. Last article published on 22/08/2025.

Fabik serves up Yesterday’s News: Romcom in which focus is food

Food – and the secrets of food – is one of the main ingredients in Swedish director Teresa Fabik’s Yesterday’s News (pictured), the screen adaption of Swedish author Kajsa Ingemarsson’s...  

27/09/2011 | Production | Sweden

Play

Delinquency, racism and integration in Europe. An explosive subject for a Swedish film of rare intelligence. Unveiled at Cannes and finalist for the Lux Prize 2011.  

24/09/2011 | Films | Reviews

Anyone for tennis? Sweden’s Avalon takes Toronto Discovery prize

Swedish director Axel Petersén’s feature debut, Avalon, won the international film critics’ Discovery prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, which ended on September 18. The FIPRESCI...  

19/09/2011 | Awards | Sweden

Easy Money for the sequel: €1,1m from the Swedish Film Institute

Swedish director Babar Najafi’s Easy Money II - the sequel to Daniel Espinosa’s 2010 thriller Easy Money – scooped €1.1 million and the largest share of the €3.4 million production funding that...  

19/09/2011 | Production | Sweden

Nominated for top Nordic prize, Beyond is now racing for the Oscar

Sweden’s 12-member Oscar committee has decided to submit Swedish actress Pernilla August’s feature directorial debut, Beyond, as Sweden’s official candidate for the 2012 Academy Award for Best...  

13/09/2011 | Oscars 2012 | Sweden

Andersson releases pilot for his new film

"The main characters are two men: one is a travelling salesman, the other is slightly retarded. It is the salesman who explains to his mate why society is as it is." Concluding his 'Living...  

08/09/2011 | Production | Sweden

Interview: Ruben Östlund • Director

"We humans are so afraid of questioning the rules"

Selected once again at Cannes with Play, the Swedish director explains why he took an interest in a highly polemical news story involving delinquency and racism.  

28/08/2011

Retired police detective returns to hunt Olof Palme’s assassin

Swedish actor Lars-Erik Berenett (now 68) will return to the screen as police detective Roland Hassel, ten years after he was last seen in the role. In Hassel 12 he is retired, but still trying to...  

18/08/2011 | Production | Sweden

Hobert returns with a One-Way to Antibes, with a stop-over in Haugesund

Shot in Luleå (northern Sweden) and Antibes (southern France), Swedish writer-director Richard Hobert’s One-Way to Antibes will screen in the Norwegian International Film Festival at Haugesund...  

11/08/2011 | Releases | Sweden

Small is beautiful: Little Film Festival honours Jan Troell

Swedish director Jan Troell, who celebrated his 80th birthday on July 23, will be honoured by Sweden’s smallest showcase – the Little Film Festival in Båstad, which takes place from August 2-8....  

26/07/2011 | Festivals | Sweden

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