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  • Cinemateca Portuguesa pays tribute to Swedish post-war director Hampe Faustman

    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

  • Swedish nature in focus at the world's leading silent film festival

    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