Scandinavia’s greatest film-TV occasion, the Göteborg Movie Pageant, has unveiled the entire lineup for its forty eighth version, as a consequence of unspool Jan. 24-Feb. 2 in Sweden’s second largest metropolis.
For her first gig as inventive director, Pia Lundberg and her staff can be treating the competition’s standard 270,000-plus movie followers in theaters and on-line to a wealthy program of 270 movies from 83 international locations, together with 25 world premieres.
Setting the tone for this yr’s overarching theme of “Disobedience” and civil resistance would be the opening movie “Secure Home” by Norwegian helmer Eirik Svensson starring “Sick of Myself”’s Kristine Kujath Thorp and “Gladiator 2”’s Alexander Karim. Based mostly on the real-life story of Medical doctors With out Borders’ Director Common in Norway Lindin Hurum, the story is ready in a refugee camp through the 2013 civil battle within the Central African Republic. Norwegian help employee Linn is beneath extreme stress as she strives to guard a person with out endangering her colleagues’ security. ”We’re thrilled to open the competition with such a gripping and deeply transferring movie,” stated Lundberg who feels the principle protagonist’s problem of rules and immense braveness “resonate strongly with this yr’s program focus: “Disobedience.”
“Secure Home” has additionally the honour of competing within the competition’s important Nordic competitors, the place 9 titles will vie for one of many world’s greatest money prizes of SEK 400,000 ($36,000).
Secure Home
Credit score: Graham Bartholomew Fantefilm
Different contenders embrace the Oscar shortlisted “The Woman with the Needle” by Magnus von Horn, 2024 Cannes Un Sure Regard opener “When the Mild Breaks” by Rúnar Rúnarsson, Berlin Golden Bear entry” Love” by Dan Johan Haugerud, San Sebastian-selected “My Everlasting Summer season” by Sylvia Le Fanu, 2025 Sundance-selected “Sauna” by Mathias Broe, 2025 Rotterdam-selected “Orenda” by Pirjo Honkasalo, and two Swedish debuts set to world premiere.
“Dwell a Little” is directed by rising expertise Fanny Ovesen (“She-Pack,” “All That’s Left”) for which she earned the Anna Prize, awarding the undertaking’s relevance to the UN Ladies’s Conference. The drama, produced by Kjellson & Wik, activates two younger women – Laura and Alexandra – as they arrive in Warsaw, the primary cease on their summer-long couch-surfing journey throughout Europe. Nevertheless, the journey takes an surprising flip when, after a wild night time out, Laura wakes up at a stranger’s place with no reminiscence of what occurred. Within the title roles are Embla Ingelman-Sundberg, Aviva Wrede and French actor Oscar Leasage (“Marie Antoinette”).
“Kevlar Soul” by Maria Eriksson-Hecht (“The Skinny Blue Line”) is described as a harrowing and emotionally-charged drama by which two brothers navigate an grownup world that has failed them. Lizette Jonjic of Zentropa Sweden and Ronny Fritsche of Avokado Movies are producing.
Highlights within the eight-title Nordic Competitors program absorb “Mr No one Towards Putin” by David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin, which can come straight from Sundance. The movie follows Russian major instructor Talankin, an unlikely hero, as he begins to combat Putin’s propaganda machine after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Made in Copenhagen produces, with DR Gross sales dealing with gross sales. Different Nordic doc entries embrace the IDFA-opener “A couple of Hero” by Piotr Winiewicz, and the world premiere of “Ultras” by which Ragnhild Ekner attracts an enchanting painting of soccer ‘Ultras’ subculture. Story AB in Sweden produces.
Sauna
Credit score: Christian Geisnaes
Worldwide Movie Gems
As at all times crammed with movie gems from the remainder of the world, served to the native viewers as options to one of the best of one of the best from the Nordics, the Ingmar Bergman Competitors will current eight debut and second options starting from the San Sebastian’s entry “On Falling” by Laura Carreira, to Denise Fernandes “Hanami”, winner of a New Administrators’ Award in Chicago. Moreover, as many as 18 titles from 18 totally different international locations will display within the Worldwide Competitors, such because the Cannes Grand Prix winner “All We Picture as Mild” by Payal Kapadia, the Australian jail drama “Inside” starring Man Pierce, making its worldwide premiere, and the Spanish thriller “Pheasant Island”.
The debut function by Asier Urbieta as a consequence of bow as a world premiere in Göteborg, tells of a younger couple whose lives are abruptly rocked by the looks of a corpse on the Pheasant Island within the Bidasoa river between France and Spain.
Elsewhere, the non-competitive Gala part will showcase 14 star-studded movies starting from Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Finish,” Brady Corbet’s triple Golden Globes winner “The Brutalist” and James Mangold’s “A Full Unknown” to Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer.”
As introduced earlier, retrospectives can be devoted to actor-director Julie Delpy and Oscar-winning director Thomas Vinterberg who will obtain the Dragon Honorary Award and Nordic Honorary Award respectively and ship masterclasses, subsequent to award-winning exiled Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof (“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”).
Sweden’s nationwide legend Maj Zetterling who would have turned 100 in 2025 will even be honored with a particular retrospective celebrating her “disobedience,” referring to her daring depictions of sexuality and social norms notably in her directorial debut “Loving {Couples}” which created a sensation in Cannes 1965.
The competition will shut with the world premiere of the Danish epic revenge thriller “Stranger” set in prehistoric Scandinavia. Mads Hedegaard’s debut function starring Angela Bundalovic (“Copenhagen Cowboy”) and Danica Curcic (“The Chestnut Man”) is produced by Motor, with REinvent dealing with gross sales.
Thus far round 20 worldwide skills have confirmed their attendance together with actresses Trine Dyrholm, Tuva Novotny, and director Thomas Alfredson who will unveil the complete season of his SVT/Arte drama sequence “Faithless” as a Nordic premiere.
Commenting on gender illustration, Lundberg stated she “isn’t absolutely happy” as girls account for round 44% of all movies in this system. “The extent has been taking place in recent times which is unlucky contemplating our efforts and aspiration to succeed in gender parity. On the worldwide facet, the hole was even greater with roughly 75/25 male versus feminine administrators among the many movies we noticed. On the Nordic facet we’re at round 47.5% for the movies chosen for the competition. We’re additionally in a scenario in Sweden the place fewer movies are being made and public coin administered by the Swedish Movie Institute has gone down. Fairly a couple of Swedish indie movies nonetheless get financed, however these are extra usually directed by males,” she famous.
Göteborg’s parallel trade occasion TV Drama Imaginative and prescient will run Jan. 28-29 and the Nordic Movie Market Jan. 29-31.
Orenda
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Nordic Movie Competitors
“Kevlar Soul” (Maria Eriksson-Hecht, Sweden/Norway/Finland)
“Dwell a Little” (Fanny Ovesen, Sweden/Norway/Denmark)
“Love” (Dag Johan Haugerud, Norway)
“My Everlasting Summer season” (Sylvia Le Fanu, Denmark)
“Orenda” (Pirjo Honkasalo, Finland)
“Secure Home” (Eirik Svensson, Norway)
“Sauna” (Mathias Broe, Denmark)
“The Woman with the Needle” (Magnus von Horn, Denmark/Poland/Sweden)
“When the Mild Breaks” (Rúnar Rúnarsson, Iceland/Netherlands/Croatia/France)
Nordic Documentary Competitors
“A couple of Hero” (Piotr Winiewicz, Denmark/Germany/USA)
“Alexandra, If Not Seen, You” (Olivia Kastebring, Sweden)
“Kyiv Soloists” (Trond Kvig Andreassen, Norway/The Netherlands/Ukraine)
“Mr. No one Towards Putin” (David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin, Denmark/Czech Republic)
“The Thoughts” (Roozbeh Janghorban, Sweden)
“The Dialogue Police” (Susanna Edwards, Sweden)
“Trans Memoria” (Victoria Verseau, Sweden/France)
“Ultras” (Ragnhild Ekner, Sweden/Denmark/Finland)
Worldwide Competitors
“All We Think about as Mild” (Payal Kapadia, India/France/Netherlands/Luxemburg)
“Beloved Tropic” (Ana Endara, Panama/Colombia)
“Honeymoon” (Zhanna Ozirna, Ukraine)
“Inside” (Charles Williams, Australia/Sweden)
“Perhaps It’s True What They Say About Us” (Sofía Paloma Gómez, Camilo Becerra,
“Measures for a Funeral” (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada))
“Memoir of a Snail” (Adam Elliot, Australia)
“Ma-Cry of Silence” (The Maw Naing (Myanmar/South Korea/Singapore/France/Norway/Qatar)
“Pheasant Island” (Asier Urbieta, Spain)
“Santosh” (Sandhya Suri, UK/India/France/Germany/Chile/Argentina/Spain)
“September Says” (Ariane Labed, Eire/Germany/Greece/UK/France)
“Tremendous Completely satisfied Without end” (Kohei Igarashi, France/Japan)
“The Quiet Son” (Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, France)
“The Village Subsequent to Paradise” (Mo Harawe, Austria/France/Germany/Somalia)
“Three Buddies” (Emmanuel Mouret, France)
“Three Kilometres to the Finish of the World” (Emanuel Parvu, Romania)
“To a Land Unknown” (Mahdi Fleifel, UK/Palestine/France/Greece/Netherlands/Germany/Qatar/Saudi-Arabia)
“Vermiglio” (Maura Delpero, Italy/France/Belgium)
Ingmar Bergman Competitors
“Cactus Pears” (Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, India/UK/Canada)
“Crocodile Tears” (Tumpal Tampubolon, Indonesia/France/Singapore/Germany
“Gülızar” (Belkis Bayrak, Turkey/Kosovo)
“Hanami” (Denise Fernandes (Swizerland/Portugal/Cap Verde)
“On Falling” (Laura Carreira (UK/Portugal)
“Then, the Fog” (Martín Sappia, Argentina)
“The Land of Morning Calm” (Park Ri-woong, South Korea)
“The Final Romantics” (David Pérez Sañudo, Spain)