The 49th edition of Sweden's Göteborg Film Festival will open on Jan. 23 with a gala screening of Swede Marcus Carlsson's "The Quiet Beekeeper2 ("Biodlaren"), hailed by Variety this year as a breakout ...

The Chronology of Water, Kristen Stewart’s debut feature as a director, and Canadian filmmaker Sophy Romvari’s buzzy festival favorite Blue Heron, are among the headline titles Göteborg has set for ...

Visitors to this year's Göteborg Film Festival will be offered the chance to take part in a real-life lie detector test, and participants who pass the test will be rewarded with festival tickets as ...

The nine Oscar nominations for Norwegian Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” and two Palme d’Or awards won by Swede Ruben Östlund are signs of a far larger Scandinavian creative scene. That could be ...

08/01/2026 - The festival, which will place focus on the concept of "truth", will honour Agnieszka Holland and Noomi Rapace and welcome Ruben Östlund for a special talk about his forthcoming film With ...

The opening night slot marks further recognition for Swede Carlsson from Göteborg, where he won an Audience Award for “Dirtbags,” an early short, in 2014 The director of now three features, Carlsson ...