The 42^nd edition of the trustworthy Göteborg Film Festival will open on 25 January with the world premiere of Aurora [+lire aussi :
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interview : Måns Mårlind et Björn Stein
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The highly vital and now well-established Nordic Dragon Award section will feature ten Nordic contenders for the main prize of SEK 1 million (circa €100,000). In addition to Aurora, the 2019 competition includes the recent Swedish Cineuropa Prize winner (see the news) Aniara [+lire aussi :
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interview : Tuva Novotny
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interview : Johannes Nyholm
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interview : Gustav Lindh
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interview : Ine Marie Wilmann
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interview : Mia Engberg
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Branching out of its traditionally Nordic stronghold, Göteborg now also presents an International Competition, with the winner due to be selected by the festival audience and awarded the sum of SEK 50,000 (€5,000). This year’s selection of 20 fiction or documentary titles brings us films from Europe, including Petra [+lire aussi :
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interview : Mia Hansen-Løve
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Q&A : Christophe Honoré
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interview : Peter Strickland
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interview : Sudabeh Mortezai
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interview : Etienne Kallos
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interview : Wanuri Kahiu
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fiche film] by Dominga Sotomayor (Chile/Brazil/Argentina) and Giant Little Ones by Keith Behrman (Canada). The Asian movies include A Land Imagined [+lire aussi :
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The 12^th edition of the Ingmar Bergman Competition, awarding a feature debut with – to use Bergman’s own definition – “an existential theme with a dynamic or experimental approach to the cinematic means of expression”, has eight contenders in the running, among them the German title Aren’t You Happy? [+lire aussi :
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Confirmed guests include Bille August, Jill Bilcock, Mark Cousins, Trine Dyrholm, Benedikt Erlingsson, Adina Pintilie, brothers Emil and Joachim Trier, Thomas Vinterberg and many more. This year’s Nordic Honorary Dragon Award will be bestowed upon Dane Mads Mikkelsen, once one of the cockiest representatives of the “young” Danish wave of the 1990s (notably Pusher), these days a highly celebrated international thespian of the most distinguished calibre (notably Casino Royale [+lire aussi :
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