Three Swedish films step into the spotlight as the 50th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) kicks off tomorrow, September 4. Two world premieres and one North American premiere mark a strong international presence for Swedish cinema at one of the world’s most influential festivals. In addition, five Swedish co-productions with funding from the Swedish Film Institute are included in the fest
Eagles of the Republic by Tarik Saleh has been selected as Sweden’s official submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
– We are honored to have been selected to represent Sweden in such a strong year for Swedish film. Our journey only just started but it will be extra fun to screen the film in Toronto with this recognition, says Tarik Saleh.
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Seven restored Swedish, Danish and Norwegian film classics will premiere at the world’s largest heritage film festival, Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna. The film series “Norden Noir” marks the first joint Nordic initiative at the festival, the result of a deepened collaboration between the Nordic film institutes.
The classic film Flicka och hyacinter / Girl With Hyacinths (Hasse Ekman, 1950) and
Tarik Saleh’s Eagles of the Republic will have its world premiere in the main competition at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, which begins on Tuesday, May 13. The film is in the running for the Palme d’Or, alongside the co-production Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier. Also premiering is Being Bo Widerberg by Jon Asp and Mattias Nohrborg, selected for Cannes Classics. In total, three other Swedish c
The month of May is here, and we turn our attention to Mai Zetterling’s 100th birthday on May 24. The visionary filmmaker’s centennial is currently being celebrated with retrospective series and screenings at BFI London and Vancouver Cinematheque and many other film festivals, cinematheques, and film institutes around the world.
Internationally, the centennial year 2025 began in February at the
Tomorrow, Thursday, on February 13, the 75th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival gets under way. During the festival Areeb Zuaiter’s debut Yalla Parkour has its European premiere, Frida Gustavsson is awarded the Shooting star and Maria Eriksson-Hecht’s debut Kevlarsjäl is also nominated for The Eisvogel prize for sustainable film production. Three Swedish co-productions are part of t
Passage and The Swedish Torpedo were each awarded four Guldbagge Awards at tonight’s gala, held at Cirkus in Stockholm. Three awards went to The Hypnosis. The Last Journey received the Guldbagge Audience Award, and Lasse Hallström was honored with The Award of Honor. Johanna Bergenstråhle received this year’s Gullspira, and Loran Batti was awarded the new award Guldpiga for G - 21 Scenes from Gott
In November, Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon – one of Europe’s most renowned cinémathèques – hosts a retrospective of six films directed by Swedish filmmaker and actor Erik “Hampe” Faustman.
Hampe Faustman made his directorial debut in 1943, and until his premature death in 1961 (at the age of 42) he made no less than 19 feature-length films. Hailed at the time as Sweden’s foremost realist film
This year’s edition of Le giornate del cinema muto in Pordenone (October 5-12) includes a programme called Swedish Nature and Ethnographic Films in which five non-fiction films from the Archival Film Collections of the Swedish Film Institute are presented.
The programme includes The Tale of the Last Eagles (1923) and two shorts by Bengt Berg, which forms the beginning of the rich Swedish tradit
