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Press release 2019-10-10 Swedish premiere of Roy Andersson’s About Endlessness at Stockholm International Film Festival About Endlessness (2019), the new film by award-winning director Roy Andersson will have its Swedish premiere and red-carpet screening at the 30th Stockholm Film Festival, 6:00 pm, November 10th at Skandia, with director Roy Andersson in attendance. The tickets to the film are released today at 5:00 pm. Photo: TriArt With About Endlessness, Roy Andersson continues his cinematic expression with a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, endeavors and failures. During the film's world premiere in Venice, he was awarded the Silver Lion. Roy Andersson is an award-winning Swedish director that created the “Living Trilogy”, that has defined his signature film style, an influential expression, that later made him receive the Stockholm Visionary Award 2014. The two first films from the trilogy, Songs from the second floor (2000) and You, the living (2007) was premiered at Cannes Film Festival and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) was the first Swedish film ever to be awarded with the Golden Lion in Venice. About Endlessness will have its Swedish premiere and red-carpet screening at Stockholm Film Festival 6:00 pm, November 10th at Skandia. Tickets are released today at 5:00 pm. The film is competing in the Open Zone section, where the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) selects the winner for Best Film. Journalists can apply for Press Accreditation to the 30th Stockholm International Film Festival here. The film is distributed by TriArt and will be in Swedish movie theaters November 15th, 2019. For more information, please contact: Matti Johansson, Head of Press +46 76 811 65 66 [email protected] Cecilia Oscarsson, Press Secretary +46 8 677 50 11 [email protected] The 30th Stockholm International Film Festival : 6-17 November 2019 Stockholm International Film Festival was founded in 1990 and has grown to become one of Europe's leading film festivals. During the festival we screen over 150 films from over 60 countries. We also arrange exclusive previews throughout the year, open-air screenings during the summer as well as Stockholm International Film Festival Junior in April. WE LOVE CINEMA! .

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Magnolia Pictures, Roy Andersson Filmproduktion, AB, 4 1⁄2 Fiksjon AS, Essential Films In association with Parisienne de Production, Sveriges Television AB, Arte France Cinéma, ZDF/Arte Film Capital Stockholm With support of Swedish Film Institute, Eurimages Council of Europe, Nordisk Film & TV Fund, Norwegian Film Institute, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg PRESENT ABOUT ENDLESSNESS A film by Roy Andersson 76 minutes, Sweden, Germany, Norway http://www.magpictures.com/aboutendlessness/ Official Selection 2019 Venice International Film Festival – Winner: Silver Lion for Best Direction 2019 Toronto International Film Festival FINAL PRESS NOTES Distributor Contact: Press Contact LA/Nat’l: Press Contact NY/Nat’l: George Nicholis Marina Bailey Ryan Werner Rebecca Fisher Marina Bailey Film Publicity Cinetic Media Magnolia Pictures [email protected] [email protected] (212) 924-6701 phone [email protected] 49 west 27th street 7th floor new york, ny 10001 tel 212 924 6701 fax 212 924 6742 www.magpictures.com SYNOPSIS A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality. We wander, dreamlike, gently guided by our Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments take on the same significance as historical events: a couple floats over a war-torn Cologne; on the way to a birthday party, a father stops to tie his daughter’s shoelaces in the pouring rain; teenage girls dance outside a cafe; a defeated army marches to a prisoner-of-war camp. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, ABOUT ENDLESSNESS presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.
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