2019 Industry Guide

42nd Göteborg Film Festival goteborgfilmfestival.se Jan 25–Feb 4 2019 #gbgfilmfestival Contents 10 Nostradamus report 11 Tv Drama Vision TV Drama Vision is a two-day conference and 4 Welcome co-financing platform with focus on TV drama from the Welcome to the 6 Industry, Press and Guest Nordic region and beyond. Centre – Scandic Rubinen Opening hours and all practical 11 Nordisk Film & TV 38 Nordic Competition information you need to Fond Prize Festival Arena! know as an industry guest. 42 International Competition 7 Watching films and Press screenings 48 Nordic Documentary Competition 8 Accreditation Guide A explicit visual guide of what's 50 Ingmar Bergman This is where it all happens! Almost. included in your accreditation. Competition World class seminars and famous guests. 9 Festival Map 52 Nordisk Film & TV Events, concerts, parties and a lot more. Fond Prize

13 Calendar 54 Swedish Shorts Competition

14 Festival Calendar 2019 56 Nordic Film Lab Films, seminars, Master Nordic Film Lab is an exclusive Classes, concerts, parties, networking forum for upcoming press screenings and northern filmmakers. industry programme. 61 Film Production in West Sweden 34 Discover the 10 Industry 62 Who's who at Göteborg Programmes 42nd Göteborg Film Festival? Film Festival 10 Nordic Film Market Read more about the Göteborg Film Festival’s market festival's annual focus, and networking platform for special programmes, guests new Nordic film and TV drama. and competitions.

Free entrance with festival pass or accreditation. Address: Auktionsverket Kulturarena, Tredje Långgatan 9

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3 From Namdev Bhau: In Search of Silence Film Festival 42nd Göteborg

Welcome to the 42nd Göteborg Film Festival

Welcome to the Göteborg Film Festival, the leading film festival in Scan- dinavia, featuring a vast selection of films from all over the world. Over the course of this 42nd edition of the festival, 400 films from 83 countries will be presented. This Industry Guide provides a summary of the festival, and contains all the practical information you will need about screenings, seminars, and parties, the films and drama series in competition, and much more. As always, the festival presents an extensive line-up of new Nordic films, including a number of world premieres. With the ongoing climate crisis as a vantage point, the apocalypse is the main focus of this year’s Göteborg Film Festival and the programme will explore in a number of ways how today’s filmmakers visualise the future in the context of the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. On a brighter note, the festival’s parallel focus is on Nordic Comedy. Read more about this year’s festival highlights and the outstanding competition programmes on pages 34–55. The Nordic Film Market and TV Drama Vision are the primary meeting places for international industry delegates to discover new talent, current and future trends for the screen industries, and upcoming productions from the Nordic countries, as well as to attend private market screenings. The 6th Nostradamus report will be presented and discussed during a seminar featuring the sharpest minds from the industry. Check out the industry programming on pages 10–11. We hope this guide will help you make your time at the festival the unforgettable experience you – and we – want it to be.

We wish you all a great time in Göteborg!

Cia Edström Jonas Holmberg Mirja Wester Head of Industry Artistic Director CEO

For further information, please visit goteborgfilmfestival.se

4 5 Watching films Press screenings Breakfast at Film i Väst Industry Centre As an accredited participant of the Göteborg Friday January 25 January 26 – February 4, 08:00 – 10:00 Film Festival, you have access to the festival’s 12:00-13:20 Lucky One, Biopalatset 8 Venue: Film i Väst Showroom, Kungsgatan 7 Scandic Rubinen film programme. Delegates with Network ac- 12:00-13:30 Serenity, Biopalatset 10 Film i Väst invites accredited festival attend- creditation may attend films every day before 13:00-14:50 White Boy Rick, Biopalatset 9 ees to daily networking breakfasts at their new 15:45 (access subject to availability). Those 14:00-15:50 Aniara, Biopalatset 8 showroom on Kungsgatan 7, located between Welcome to the Industry Centre! For the fourth consecutive with VIP (orange) badges may attend films 14:00-15:40 Stan & Ollie, Biopalatset 10 the festival venues Biopalatset and Draken. throughout the day (access subject to availa- 15:45-17:50 Destroyer, Biopalatset 7 year, the centre is located on the third floor of the Hotel During the festival, the showroom is open every biity). Delegates with other accreditation for- 16:00-17:50 Aurora, Biopalatset 8 day, for taking meetings and working space, Scandic Rubinen, Kungsportsavenyn 24. This is where the mats may also pick up tickets at the Industry until 17:00 except February 1. Press and Guest departments, as well as the Accreditation Ticket Desk. More information follows. Saturday January 26 Desk and Industry Ticket Desk are located. 08:15-10:00 Blind Spot, Biopalatset 9 Industry Ticket Desk 09:30-11:20 Aniara, Göta 3 Attendees with Press, Industry, VIP (purple), or 10:15-11:45 Mating, Capitol 2 Festival Arena Nordic Film Market accreditation can pick up 11:45-13.25 , Göta 3 Woman at War January 26 – February 3, 09:00-03:00 tickets for festival screenings that take place 13:45-15:20 Claire Darling, Göta 4 Venue: Auktionsverket Kulturarena, Tredje Långgatan 9 Industry Centre Accreditation Desk Press Centre the same day or the next day. Please remember This is where you will collect your accredita- The press department is in charge of all com- to bring your badge with you to obtain tickets. Sunday January 27 Festival Arena (Festivalarenan), is the main The Industry Centre is open to all accredited tion and meet our welcoming staff, as well as munication with the media. We also assist 09:15-11:15 If Beale Street Could Talk, venue for the festival’s seminars and events. guests. Here you will find plenty of space to a message board that provides up-to-date accredited journalists with information and Ticket Desk opening hours Biopalatset 8 The venue also offers opportunities to hold network, have meetings, or just relax. Pick up details about schedule changes, daily events, interviews. Jan 25 – Feb 4 08:30–12:30 11:45-13.30 Ben is Back, Göta 3 meetings, have a cup of coffee, or just sit back your accreditation at the Accreditation Desk, and press information. and enjoy the great programming. and visit the Industry Ticket Desk if you want Press Centre opening hours Festival Scope Monday January 28 to obtain tickets for screenings. Coffee and Accreditation Desk opening hours Jan 25 – Feb 3 10:00–18:00 Online Video Library 09:30-11:15 Gloria Bell, Biopalatset 3 wi-fi are available throughout the festival. Jan 26 09:00-03:00 Jan 31 11:00-19:00 Jan 25: 14:00–18:00 A wide selection of festival films is available 09:45-11:00 Harajuku, Biopalatset 5 Jan 27 09:00-23:00 Feb 1 11:00-20:00 For the festival’s more than 1,800 accredited Jan 26 – Feb 3: 08:30–18:00 Guest Centre on Festival Scope for online viewing. You are 11:30-14:00 Loro, Biopalatset 5 Jan 28 11:00-23:00 Feb 2 09:00-17:00 guests, there is a broad selection of industry Jan 29–30 11:00-01:00 Feb 3 11:00-16:00 Feb 4: 10:00-12:00 The guest department handles accommoda- granted access if you belong to one of the fol- events taking place. The Scandic Rubinen is the tion, transport, and dinners for festival guests, lowing categories: Distributor, Film Festival, TV, Tuesday January 29 industry hub – it’s where festival guests stay, Starting January 31, Nordic Film Market accreditations can be picked up at Biopalatset, Kungstorget 2, where as well as taking care of the festival’s various VOD, Production, International Sales, or Press. 09:30-11:20 At Eternity’s Gate, and delegates cross paths between screenings, the market takes place. juries. Access is valid for the duration of the festival. Biopalatset 1 seminars, and other events. The Ruby Bar De- Avalon Industry Networking Festival Scope will also feature a selection of 13:00-14:40 Our Struggles, Göta 3 likatessen on the hotel’s ground floor and the Nordic Film Market Desk opening hours January 30 – February 2, 14:00-17:00 Guest Centre opening hours the films for viewing online for members only 10:15-12:15 Sons of Denmark Biopalatset 8 Rooftop Bar is open most evenings during the Biopalatset, Kungstorget 2 Jan 25 – Feb 3 10:00–18:00 after the festival. To become a member, please Venue: Avalon Hotel, Kungstorget 9 festival. Refreshments and wi-fi are available Jan 31 11.00-17.00 visit festivalscope.com Wednesday January 30 throughout the day. Hold your afternoon meeting, network, or just Feb 1 – 2 09.00-17.00 09:30 - 10:45 Season, Biopalatset 1 have a drink in the relaxing environment at the All TV Drama Vision participants will collect their entry Social media & online videos 09:45-11:25 Arctic, Biopalatset 3 badge to the event at the opening on January 30 at Avalon Hotel. Follow the festival online: 10:15-12:05 Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Stora Teatern, Kungsparken 1, where the seminar takes place. Facebook.com/gbgfilmfestival Biopalatset 7 Twitter.com/gbgfilmfestival Contacts Instagram@gbgfilmfestival Thursday January 31 TV Drama Vision opening hours for badge Industry Centre: 09:30-11:30 Kursk, Biopalatset 3 collection +46 (0)31 339 30 06 We also encourage everyone to use the hashtag 09:30-11:40 Queen of Hearts, Göta 3 Stora Teatern, Kungsparken 1 [email protected] #gbgfilmfestival on social media. 10:45-12:15 Koko-di Koko-da, Jan 30 – 31 09.00-17.00 Biopalatset 10 Press Centre: To watch master classes, interviews, trailers +46 (0)31 339 30 01 and other filmed material online, visit: Friday February 1 [email protected] goteborgfilmfestival.se/en/videos 09:45-12:20 The House That Jack Built, youtube.com/gbgfilmfestival Göta 3 Guest Centre: 12:45-14.30 Swoon, Göta 3 +46 (0)31 339 30 12 Wi-fi at Scandic Rubinen [email protected] Network: Scandic Easy Log in: Your name + your mobile number

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TV Drama Vision moderator: Wendy Mitchell January 31 – February 3 TV Drama Vision Full programme: For all guests and the full programme Shaping Landscapes and Moving Mountains check out our website goteborgfilmfestival.se/tv From Harajuku

Redrawing the maps of the changing land- sustainable businesses while challenging scape of international TV drama and tracking themselves creatively? These are some of the The 6th the swift changes in the commissioners’ wish challenges and questions. lists is the main focus of this year’s edition of Presenting two inspiring days with the most TV Drama Vision is supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Nordic Film Market Nostradamus report Creative Europe, Region Västra Götaland and Film i Väst. TV Drama Vision. Which are the stories and exciting talent and the key executives that are January 31 – February 3 Biopalatset 9, February 1 business models that will shape the coming creating the drama of today in the Nordics and changes and cut through the noise to push beyond. With more than 60 guests on stage, 16.00-17.30 Nordic Film Market is the principal market for Nordic the limits further? close to 40 upcoming projects and the best film as well as a meeting place and networking platform Media analyst Johanna Koljonen presents the What are the current TV world's disparate networking opportunity in the region. 6th annual report of the Nostradamus Project, commissioners currently looking for? Which for the industry attending Göteborg Film Festival. Event Partners 2019: Cinelink, Series Mania, Drama Series which monitors and analyses the rapid chang- are the shows that cut through the noise and Days, Helsinki Script, The Norweigan Film Institute, es in the screen industries. The presentation is impact audiences? How can creators build Chimney, MediaXChange followed by a discussion with invited experts. The market presents new and upcoming films conference and co -financing event focusing The current report, as well as the previous edi- that are available for distribution, works in on drama series from the Nordic and beyond. tions, is available at progress and projects in development from Nostradamus is our multiyear international ini- goteborgfilmfestival.se/nostradamus. the Nordic region (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, tiative to analyze and look into the near future Nominees Jury Finland and Iceland) of the fast changing screen industries, releasing Moderator: Johanna Koljonen, CEO Participation | Design Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize The New Nurses (Denmark) Buyers, distributors, sales agents and fes- its 6th annual report on February 1 during Nordic | Agency AB Nominated writers: Claudia Boderke, Laura Birn tival programmers from all over the world are Film Market. Nordic Film Market takes place at Open for all accredited guests. For the third consecutive year, the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for out- Lars Mering Actress, Finland invited to travel to Göteborg to discover fresh Biopalatset, Kungstorget 2. standing writing of a Nordic Drama series, funded by Nordisk Film & TV All The Sins (Finland) talent and new trends from the region. The 2019 Fond, will be handed out at Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision. Nominated writers: Merja Aakko, Mika Nordic Film Market lineup consists of 19 Nordic This year six Nordic drama series have been announced as nominees for Ronkainen Alexander Karim Presented by Göteborg Film Festival, in collaboration with feature films, 16 works in progress and 11 proj- the NOK 200,000 (€20,000) award which goes to the series’ main writer(s). The Flatey Enigma (Iceland) Actor, Sweden ects in development presented at the Discovery Lindholmen Science Park and with additional support Nominated writer: Margrét Örnólfsdóttir from Region Västra Götaland, Nordisk Film & TV Fond co-financing platform. Nordic Film Market is supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize Award Ceremony and Kulturakademin Kieler Street (Norway) Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Creative Europe, Region Västra January 30, Valands Nightclub. Time: 18:30, By invitation only. The screenings, Works in progress and Dis- Nominated writers: Stig Frode Henriksen, Götaland, Scandinavian Films och Film i Väst. Read more about the nominated series on page 52-53 Christina Jeurling Birro covery sessions are open for Nordic Film Market Jesper Sundnes, Patrik Syversen Journalist, Sweden/USA

accredited only. For full program and partici- State of Happiness (Norway) pant lists check out the Nordic Film Market pro- Nominated writer: Mette M. Bølstad Justin Judd gramme folder or goteborgfilmfestival.se. The The Inner Circle (Sweden) Producer & Content market starts with TV Drama Vision, a two-day Nominated writer: Håkan Lindhé Consultant, UK

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13 Thursday and Friday January 24—25 - All fi lms and events

In Swedish 09:30–15:45 20:00–04:00 Summit: The Last Party – Swedish Film Policy Göteborg Film Festival

Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 Grand Opening Party

The Swedish Industry Weekend kicks off with Venue: Valand the festival’s annual conference on Swedish Film This year’s opening party is a journey towards Policy. By invitation only. the end. Pacha Matriark and her entourage lead you through Valand’s floors, where you are an goteborgfilmfestival.se Read more: extra and the creators of the apocalypse play the leading roles. An art experience with TV shopping, SMS loans, and a dance at a trash heap. But it’s also just an awesome party with live acts, art, DJs on four floors, six dancefloors, and endless nooks and crannies to discover.

The Last Party is open to everyone holding a valid ticket. Doors open at 20:00 pm and the party continues to 04:00 in the morning.

Thursday January 24 5 CHA Close Enemies (19.25) 29 BIOP 7 Volcano (22.20) 6 HAND Ruben Brandt, Collector (19.05) 30 BIOP 8 Still Recording (22.30) From Obscuro Barocco 19.00 7 HAGA 1 Distorted Privacy (19.05) 31 BIOP 9 Sir (22.10) 4001 DRA 19.00 Britt-Marie Was Here (20.35) 8 AFT A Man is Dead (18.40) 32 BIOP 10 Black is Beltza (22.00) 9 GÖ2 When Arabs Danced (18.55) 21.00 Most of the highlighted seminars and events are conducted 17.45 33 BIOP 3 Tranny Fag (22.15) in English. Friday January 25 10 HAGA 2 Welcome to Sodom (19.20) 11 FRÖ The Third Wife (19.25) 21.15 34 DRA Iron Sky The Coming Race (22.50) Calendar 2019 Swedish-language events are marked In Swedish 09.30 18.00 35 STOR Britt-Marie Was Here (22.50) INDUS FAR Summit: Swedish Film Policy (15.45) 12 BIOP 7 What Is Democracy? (19.50) 36 BIOP 1 Okko’s Inn (22.50) For the full seminar and event programme, and to read 13 BIOP 8 Extinction (19.30) 4033 HAND Killing (22.35) 12.00 more about the fi lms, please visit goteborgfi lmfestival.se 14 BIOP 9 What Walaa Wants (19.30) From January 25 to February 4, 2019, the 42nd Göteborg PRESS BIOP8 Lucky One (13.20) 15 BIOP 10 Heavy Trip (19.35) 21.45 PRESS BIOP10 Serenity (13.30) Film Festival presents an amazing programme of 400 37 GÖ2 Azougue Nazareth (23.05) 19.00 13.00 16 BIOP 1 Central Airport THF (20.40) 22.00 films from 83 countries. Over 11 intense days, attendees How to read the schedule PRESS BIOP9 White Boy Rick (14.50) 17 BIOP 3 The Apollo of Gaza (20.20) 38 GÖ1 Closing Time (24.00) 4088 GÖ3 Deva (20.20) will take in the festival’s Nordic competition, numerous 14.00 PRESS BIOP8 Aniara (15.50) world premieres, the Focus: Apocalypse section, and the 19.30 22.15 PRESS BIOP10 Stan & Ollie (15.40) 18 AFT The Dead and the Others (21.25) 39 HAGA 2 Las Sandinistas! (23.55) Swedish Short Competition entries, among many other 19 GÖ1 LOL (20.50) 4085 CAP Her Smell (24.35) VisningsnummerVisningsplats.Visningstitel. Sluttid.VisningenSidhänvisning. har förfilm. 15.45 för att köpa biljett. PRESS BIOP7 Destroyer (17.50) offerings. The festival also presents a broad programme 19.45 184 DRA Startsladden (14.10) * s 48 20 GÖ2 Don’t Be a Dick About It (20.55) 22.30 16.00 of engaging seminars, master classes, concerts, and 21 BIOP 2 Only You (21.45) 40 HAGA 1 Shut Up and Play the Piano (23.55) 4002 BIOP 9 El Pepe: A Supreme Life (17.15) 4032 HAND Grass (20.55) parties, as well as its parallel industry programme. 4003 BIOP 10 Light as Feathers (17.30) 23.59 PRESS BIOP8 Aurora (17.50) 20.00 41 ROY Assassination Nation (25.50) This Calendar is your overall guide to the festival. Color guide 22 CAP Petra (21.45) 17.00 23 CHA Serenity (21.50) On the lefthand pages, seminars and event are Festival Films 4004 GÖ1 Island of the Hungry Ghosts (18.35) 25 HAGA 1 Passion Is Key (21.25) • 4005 BIOP 2 I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History Seminars & Events 26 FRÖ Sorry Angel (22.15) highlighted, and on the right, the complete daily schedule as Barbarians (19.20) • FEST VAL The Last Party – Göteborg Film Festival Parties & Concerts 4006 BIOP 1 Dry Martina (18.35) is listed, including all film screenings and happenings. Grand Opening Party (04.00) • Industry Content 4007 BIOP 3 I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story (18.35) • 20.15 Press Screenings 17.30 27 HAGA 2 The Sentence (21.45) • 1 DRA Aurora (19.35) 2 STOR Aurora (19.35) 20.30 3 ROY In Fabric (19.30) 28 ROY With the Wind (22.00) 4 CAP Zoo (19.05)

AFT = Aftonstjärnan / BIOP = Biopalatset / CAP = Capitol / CHA = Chalmers / DRA = Draken / EVEN = Events / FAR = Festivalarenan / FEST = Parties & Concerts / FRÖ = Frölunda Kulturhus 14 GÖ = Göta / HAGA = Hagabion / HAND = Handels / INDUS = Industry / ROY = Bio Roy / SEM = Seminars / STOR = Stora Teatern / VAL= Valand / YAK = Yaki-Da 15 Saturday January 26 - Highlighted Events Saturday January 26 - All fi lms and events

Saturday January 26 14.30 19.10 82 AFT Up the Mountain (16.40) EVEN FAR Speech for the Climate: Roy Fritsche 08.15 – IN SWEDISH (19.20) PRESS BIOP9 Blind Spot (10.00) 14.45 19.15 09.30 83 STOR Keep Going (16.10)84 4011 GÖ2 Menocchio (21.00) SEM FAR Swedish Film Institute: The Audience in Haga 1 Focus – IN SWEDISH (15.30) Keep It in the Family (16.10) 19.30 09.30 85 BIOP 1 Hale County This Morning, This 119 BIOP 1 Yuli (21.20) PRESS GÖ3 Aniara (11:20) Evening (16.05) 120 BIOP 2 Obscuro Barroco (20.30) 86 BIOP 2 Welcome to Sodom (16.20) 121 BIOP 3 Losing Alaska (20.55) 09.45 87 BIOP 3 A Thousand Girls Like Me (16.05) EVEN FAR Winter host: Marcus Lindéen 42 STOR With the Wind (11.15) – IN SWEDISH (20.15) 43 ROY Theatre of War (11.10) 15.00 44 BIOP 1 I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History 88 DRA High Life (16.50) 19.45 as Barbarians (12.05) 89 HAGA 2 Distorted Privacy (16.25) 122 FRÖ Her Smell (22.05) 90 FRÖ Working Woman (16.35) 123 GÖ1 Guerilla (21.15) 10.00 91 GÖ1 The State We Are in (16.10) 124 BIOP 7 The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine 45 DRA Aurora (11.50) 92 GÖ2 Jill Bilcock: Dancing The (22.55) 46 CAP Petra (11.45) Invisible (16.20) 125 BIOP 8 Subira (21.25) 47 CHA My Masterpiece (11.40) 93 BIOP 8 Srbenka (16.15) 126 BIOP 9 Revansch (21.25) 48 HAND Central Airport THF (11.40) 94 BIOP 9 Under the Wire (16.35) 127 BIOP 10 Little Moscow (20.45) 49 HAGA 1 What Walaa Wants (11.30) 95 BIOP 10 The Day I Lost My Shadow (16.35)ww 50 AFT Funan (11.25) 20.00 51 FRÖ Rona, Azim’s Mother (11.30) 15.15 128 HAGA 1 Apocalypse Now! (21.15) 52 GÖ1 Still Recording (12.00) 96 CAP Lust for Love (16.50) s 100 129 HAGA 2 Los Reyes (21.20) 53 GÖ2 Closing Time (12.00) 97 HAND Monrovia, Indiana (17.40) 130 AFT Only You (22.00) 54 BIOP 2 A Man is Dead (11.10) 55 BIOP 3 Pichku’s Dream (11.55) 15.30 20.20 SEM FAR Dragon Award Nominee: SEM VAL It’s a Fucking Man’s World 10.15 Tuva Novotny – IN SWEDISH (16.00) (IN SWEDISH) 56 HAGA 2 Shut Up and Play the Piano (11.40) 57 BIOP 7 When Arabs Danced (11.40) 16.00 20.30 58 BIOP 8 Extinction (11.45) 98 ROY Mating (17.30) 131 DRA Aniara (22.20) 59 BIOP 9 Island of the Hungry Ghosts (11.50) 132 STOR Destroyer (22.35) 60 BIOP 10 Zoo (11.50) 16.15 133 CAP Out of Blue (22.20) PRESS CAP2 Mating (11.45) 99 CHA 1985 (17.40) 134 CHA Assassination Nation (22.20)

Photo: Carla Orrego Veliz FEST FAR Stand-up: Klubb Hybris (22.00) 11.45 16.30 61 ROY 3 Faces (13.25) 4081 GÖ3 This Magnificent Cake! (17.30) 20.45 PRESS GÖ3 Woman at War (13.25) SEM FAR SEM The City and the Film Industry 135 ROY The Unpromised Land (22.15) In Swedish – IN SWEDISH (17.15) 09:30–15:30 18:15–19:00 22:00–03:00 21.15 12.00 17.00 136 HAND Heavy Trip (22.50) A full day with the Master Talk: Jill Bilcock & Party: True Love Film 62 STOR Dogman (14.00) 100 BIOP 1 The Trial of Ratko Mladić (18.40) 138 BIOP 2 Thou Shalt Not Kill (23.15) 63 HAGA 1 Pushing Boundaries (13.35) 101 BIOP 2 Wild Relatives (18.10) 139 BIOP 3 Don’t Be a Dick About It (22.25) Swedish Film Institute: Lena Runge Edition 64 AFT Memories of My Body (13.45) 102 BIOP 3 The State Against Mandela and the Others (18.45) 21.30 12.15 17.30 140 GÖ2 Dachra (23.20) The Audience in Focus Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 65 CHA Tito and the Birds (13.30) 103 DRA Blind Spot (19.30) Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 Meet two star editors in dialogue about work, Power ballads from the film world, love and eup- 104 HAGA 1 Moving Sweden 2 (19.00) 21.45 12.30 105 HAGA 2 LOL (18.50) 141 HAGA 2 Balangiga: Howling At this year’s festival, the Swedish Film In- rhythm, perspective, and impeccable expres- horia! In the borderland between evening and 66 CAP Lost and Found (13.55) 106 AFT At War (19.25) Wilderness (23.40) stitute pus the focus on the audience. Who, sion. Jill Bilcock is one of Australia’s most influ- dawn, build bridges from hate and despair to 67 HAND Sorry Angel (14.45) 107 FRÖ Sir (19.10) 142 BIOP 10 The Mercy of the Jungle (23.20) 68 HAGA 2 Passion Is Key (13.55) 108 GÖ1 Hamada (19.00) 4065 BIOP 1 Dry Martina (23.20) in fact, is the culturally interested audience? ential film editors, with editing credits including love and warmth. And let’s be honest: we love 69 FRÖ My Favourite Fabric (14.05) 109 GÖ2 All We Own (18.45) How do you win the battle for their attention? films like Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom and certain film sequences more than others, and 70 GÖ1 Right to Fight (14.05) 110 BIOP 7 A Family Submerged (19.05) 22.00 71 GÖ2 Las Sandinistas! (14.10) 111 BIOP 8 The Proposal (18.55) 143 BIOP 9 Light as Feathers (23.30) How did the meeting with the audience for Moulin Rouge, and Sam Mendes’s Road to Perdi- have more than once been lifted up by a power- 72 BIOP 1 The Apollo of Gaza (13.50) 112 BIOP 9 El Pepe: A Supreme Life (18.45) 144 GÖ1 Tranny Fag (23.15) the team behind the emotive documentary tion. During the festival, Axel Grigor’s prize-no- ful soundtrack. The power of the film ballad 73 BIOP 2 The Sentence (14.00) 113 BIOP 10 Black is Beltza (19.00) 4022 BIOP 8 Roads in February (23.25) 74 BIOP 3 Volcano (14.20) FEST FAR True Love Film Edition (03.00) Reconstructing Utøya go? Additionally, witness minated documentary Jill Bilcock – Dancing the reminds us of the first dance, the first kiss, true 17.45 a live meeting between a film commissioner and Invisible will be screened. Lena Runge has been love – even if only on the silver screen. This is 12.45 114 STOR Woman at War (19.25) 23.59 75 DRA Stan & Ollie (14.25) 145 ROY In Fabric (26.00) a group of film workers, and participate in speed active as a film editor for thirty years, and has True Love Film Edition. 76 BIOP 7 An Elephant Sitting Still (16.40) 18.00 dating with film commissioners. Finally, get set edited most of Björn Runge’s films, among other 77 BIOP 8 Be Natural: The Untold Story of 115 CAP Real Love (19.40) Alice Guy-Blaché (14.30) for this year’s Guldbagge Awards (Sweden's le- projects. She is currently working on The Wife, Entrance from 22:00. SEK 180 at the door inclu- 78 BIOP 9 Searching For Oscar (14.00) 18.15 ading film awards) with a talk with some of the for which Academy Award nominations abound. des a Festival Pass. 79 BIOP 10 The Gentle Indifference of SEM FAR Master Talk: Jill Bilcock & the World (14.30) Lena Runge (19.00) nominees. The day-long event is carried out in 13.45 Moderator: Helene Granqvist, president of WIFT Presented in cooperation with Avenyfamiljen. GÖ4 (15:20) co-operation with Oberoende Filmares Förbund PRESS Claire Darling 18.30 International. The program item is a collaboration with 116 ROY Claire Darling (20.05) (OFF), the Swedish association of independent WIFT. 14.00 117 CHA The Image Book (20.00) filmmakers. Read more: goteborgfilmfestival.se 80 ROY Rafiki (15.25) 118 HAND Ash is Purest White (20.50) 81 CHA Daughter of Mine (15.40) 4070 GÖ3 Our Madness (15.30) Read more: goteborgfilmfestival.se SEM STAD Roy Scranton @ Klimatpodden (15.30)

COLOR GUIDE = Festival Films = Seminars & Events = Parties & Concerts = Industry Content = Press Screenings AFT = Aftonstjärnan / BIOP = Biopalatset / CAP = Capitol / CHA = Chalmers / DRA = Draken / EVEN = Events / FAR = Festivalarenan / FEST = Parties & Concerts / FRÖ = Frölunda Kulturhus 16 For full seminar and• event programme• and to read more about• the films visit goteborgfilmfestival.se• • GÖ = Göta / HAGA = Hagabion / HAND = Handels / INDUS = Industry / ROY = Bio Roy / SEM = Seminars / STOR = Stora Teatern / VAL= Valand / YAK = Yaki-Da 17 Sunday January 27 - Highlighted Events Sunday January 27 - All fi lms and events

Sunday January 27 13.45 18.30 13:00–21:00 185 HAND Aquarela (15.15) 4025 BIOP 9 Little Moscow (19.30) 09.15 4078 GÖ3 Las Sandinistas! (15.25) 4048 BIOP 7 Her Job (20.00) VR: What We Eat PRESS BIOP8 If Beale Street Could Talk (11.15) SEM FAR SEM Swedish Shorts Startsladden SEM FAR Bar Talk: The Håkan Liu Stipend – IN – IN SWEDISH (14.30) SWEDISH (19.00) 09.45 Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 146 STOR Claire Darling (11.20) 14.00 18.45 What We Eat is an dive in-depth into non-orga- 147 HAND Revenge (11.25) 186 HAGA 2 Djon África (15.40) 220 BIOP 1 Hale County This Morning, 148 GÖ1 Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice This Evening (20.05) nic agriculture. The creators, Danish VR studio Guy-Blaché (11.30) 14.15 221 BIOP 2 Living the Light – Robby Müller (20.15) Mannd, work with immersive experiences and 187 AFT Ruben Brandt, Collector (15.50) 222 BIOP 3 The Chrysanthemum and the 10.00 188 BIOP 7 Hamada (15.45) Guillotine (21.55) will be on location to ensure the feeling of a 150 DRA Aniara (11.50) vegetable getting sprayed is as realistic as pos- 151 ROY Blind Spot (11.45) 14.30 19.00 152 CAP Yuli (11.50) 189 STOR Loro (17.00) 223 AFT My Masterpiece (20.40) sible. What We Eat is a prototype of an upco- 153 CHA Ash is Purest White (12.20) 190 BIOP 1 Funan (15.55) ming lengthier and more extensive VR work, 154 HAGA 1 The State We Are in (11.10) 191 BIOP 2 Don’t Be a Dick About It (15.40) 19.10 155 HAGA 2 Moving Sweden 2 (11.30) 192 BIOP 3 Season of the Devil (18.25) EVEN FAR Speech for the Climate: Maja Rosén tailored to influence what we choose to put in 156 AFT The State Against Mandela and the – IN SWEDISH (19.20) our mouths. Take part in the VR work at Festi- Others (11.45) 14.45 157 FRÖ The Day I Lost My Shadow (11.35) s 156 193 CAP Guerilla (16.15) 19.30 valarenan. Bookings on location. 158 GÖ2 Srbenka (11.15) 194 GÖ1 The Unpromised Land (16.15) 225 CHA In Fabric (21.30) 159 BIOP 1 Ayka (11.50) 226 GÖ1 Real Love (21.10) The VR experience is open the following days: 160 BIOP 2 Azougue Nazareth (11.20) 15.00 EVEN FAR Winter host: Pella Kågerman and Hugo 161 BIOP 3 Losing Alaska (11.25) 195 DRA Swedish Shorts Competition – Lilja – IN SWEDISH (20.15) Jan 27 13.00-21.00 (Break 16.30-17.30) Startsladden (16.50) Photo: Josef Samuel Jan 28 13.00-21.00 (Break 16.30-17.30) 10.15 196 ROY They Shall Not Grow Old (16.40) 19.45 162 BIOP 7 Ága (11.55) 197 HAGA 1 Moa Martinson – The Mother of the 228 BIOP 10 Redemption (21.25) s 140 Jan 29 11.00-21.00 (Break 13.00-16.00) 163 BIOP 9 Up the Mountain (12.25) Country (16.30) 4010 GÖ2 Menocchio (21.30) s 142 Jan 30 11.00-18.00 (Break 14.00-15.00) 164 BIOP 10 All We Own (11.30) 198 FRÖ Daughter of Mine (16.40) 199 BIOP 9 The Image Book (16.30) 20.00 15:00–16:30 20:30–21:00 11.30 200 BIOP 10 Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint 229 CAP White Boy Rick (21.50) 165 BIOP 8 Dead Souls (20.00) s 130 (16.35) 230 HAND High Life (21.50) Master Class: Roy Concert: Pop-up Choir SEM FAR The Two Shot – unseen directing SEM FAR Master Class: Roy Scranton (16.30) 231 FRÖ I Feel Good (21.45) – IN SWEDISH (12.15) Scranton Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 11.45 15.30 20.15 166 GÖ2 The Proposal (13.10) 201 GÖ2 Jill Bilcock: Dancing The Invisible (16.50) 4026 BIOP 9 Dogman (22.15) Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 Anna&Martin och Kören started up in 2014 with PRESS GÖ3 Ben is Back (13.30) only 15 members. Today, they number nearly 16.00 20.30 Roy Scranton is one of the biggest names in 12.00 202 HAND Never Look Away (19.10) 232 DRA If Beale Street Could Talk (22.30) 100, and you will meet most of them at Fes- 167 HAND Infinite Football (13.10) 203 HAGA 2 Pushing Boundaries (17.35) 233 ROY Endzeit – Ever After (22.00) apocalyptic theory. An author and journalist, he tivalarenan when they present rock and pop 168 HAGA 2 Apocalypse Now! (13.15) 4066 GÖ3 Deva (17.20) 234 HAGA 2 LOL (21.50) teaches at the University of Notre Dame du Lac 169 GÖ1 Stand by Me (13.30) 235 BIOP 1 The Great Buster (22.15) classics. Rock out and sing along, dance or let 236 BIOP 8 Debt (22.10) in Notre Dame, Indiana. Among others, Scran- 16.30 yourself be filled with energy, joy and love when 12.15 204 AFT The River (18.25) 4012 BIOP 7 1985 (21.55) ton has written Learning to Die in the Anthro- 170 AFT Mating (13.45) 205 BIOP 1 Under the Wire (18.05) 4080 GÖ3 What Is Democracy? (22.20) this 90-person choir gives it all they’ve got on 171 BIOP 1 Working Woman (13.50) 206 BIOP 2 Los Reyes (17.50) FEST FAR Concert: Pop-up choir (21.00) pocene and We’re Doomed. Now What? Essays this Sunday evening in January. 172 BIOP 2 A Family Submerged (13.50) 207 BIOP 7 Evelyn (18.05) on War and Climate Change, and is a regular 173 BIOP 3 Roads in February (13.40) 21.00 contributor to the New York Times and Rolling 16.45 237 BIOP 2 Thou Shalt Not Kill (23.00) 12.30 208 CHA An Impossible Love (19.00) Stone. His novel War Porn is based on his expe- 1 74 DRA Woman at War (14.10) riences in the Iraq War. Learning to Die has been 21:30–23:00 175 STOR Keep Going (13.55) 17.00 21.15 176 ROY Open Hearts (14.25) 210 ROY Our Time (20.00) 238 STOR Ben is Back (23.00) described as a “powerful, useful, and ultimately Concert: Le Bandit 177 CAP Stop Making Sense (13.55) 4009 GÖ1 Divine Wind (18.40) 239 AFT Rafiki (22.40) hopeful book that more than any other I've read 178 HAGA 1 Moving Sweden 1 (13.45) 4024 BIOP 9 Grass (18.10) 179 FRÖ The Announcement (14.05) 4501 TJO Melancholia (19.15) 21.30 has the ability to change people’s minds and Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 180 BIOP 7 Obscuro Barroco (13.30) FEST FAR Concert: Le Bandit (23.00) create change. It presents, without extraneous Le Bandit creates minimalist music with an 181 BIOP 10 Out of Blue (14.20) 17.15 SEM FAR The Unthinkable (Den Blomstertid 211 CAP Pity the Lovers (19.00) 22.00 bullshit, what we must do to survive on Earth.” electronic vibe. Her voice is soft an d powerful, Nu Kommer) – 6 months later – IN 240 GÖ2 Zoo (23.35) In Swedish and carries traces of her background in soul and SWEDISH (13.30) 17.30 212 FRÖ Only You (19.30) In collaboration with the Swedish Church. 13:45–17:00 gospel, with heartfelt lyrics and melodies. Heavy 12.45 213 GÖ2 Take It or Leave It (19.15) and light, dirty and clean all at once. “Just like 182 CHA Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (16.15) 215 BIOP 10 Summer Survivors (19.00) Startsladden – Best 183 BIOP 9 The Trial of Ratko Mladić (14.25) Swedish Short me”, artist Helena Lundström says. And yes, it 18.00 is the same Helena Lundström who, by focusing 13.00 216 DRA Lucky One (19.45) EVEN FAR Workshop: Mad Maxed Makerspace 217 HAGA 1 Graduation Film Valand (20.10) Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 + Draken on product reuse, has soared to the celebrity (17.00) 218 HAGA 2 Lost and Found (19.25) elite of Sweden like Sarah Klang for WOW, Anna EVEN FAR VR Experience – What we Eat (21.00) Meet the nominees: Auktionsverket Kulturare- 18.15 Hauswolff for Nobel, and Linnéa Henriksson in 219 STOR Maya (20.05) na 13:45–14:30 13.30 Så mycket bättre (So Much Better). 184 GÖ2 Subira (15.10) 4075 GÖ3 Song Lang (20.00) Screening and award ceremony: Draken 15:00 (admission SEK 140)

COLOR GUIDE = Festival Films = Seminars & Events = Parties & Concerts = Industry Content = Press Screenings AFT = Aftonstjärnan / BIOP = Biopalatset / CAP = Capitol / CHA = Chalmers / DRA = Draken / EVEN = Events / FAR = Festivalarenan / FEST = Parties & Concerts / FRÖ = Frölunda Kulturhus 18 For full seminar and• event programme• and to read more about• the films visit goteborgfilmfestival.se• • GÖ = Göta / HAGA = Hagabion / HAND = Handels / INDUS = Industry / ROY = Bio Roy / SEM = Seminars / STOR = Stora Teatern / VAL= Valand / YAK = Yaki-Da 19 Monday January 28 - Highlighted Events Monday January 28 - All fi lms and events

Monday January 28 14.45 19.30 16:00–17:15 270 ROY Pity the Lovers (16.30) 309 BIOP 1 Divine Wind (21.10) 08.30 271 HAGA 2 A Thousand Girls Like Me (16.05) 310 BIOP 2 Cold November (21.05) From Verdens Undergang EVEN FAR Therapy – Facing the Apocalyptic 4013 ROY Giant Little Ones (21.05) Feelings – IN SWEDISH (11.30) 15.00 EVEN FAR Winter host: Josefine Neldén to Apocotainment Ticket purchase is required in order 272 CAP Passion Is Key (16.25) – IN SWEDISH (20.15) to participate in this program item 273 FRÖ Debt (16.40) (screening number 9995). 2 74 BIOP 1 The Trial of Ratko Mladić (16.40) 19.45 Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 275 BIOP 2 A Man is Dead (16.10) 311 CHA Aniara (21.35) Ideas of the world coming to an end have 09.30 276 BIOP 3 Be Natural: The Untold Story of 312 HAND At War (21.40) PRESS BIOP3 Gloria Bell (11:15) Alice Guy-Blaché (16.45) 313 BIOP 5 M (21.30) always been a hot topic for pop culture. De- velopments since the turn of the millennium 09:45 15.15 20.00 PRESS BIOP5 Harajuku (11.00) 277 BIOP 4 Redemption (16.55) 314 CAP Lucky One (21.30) have seen increased interest in the apocalypse 278 BIOP 6 A Family Submerged (16.50) 315 BIOP 7 Take It or Leave It (21.45) in both film and TV; at the same time, we see 10.00 4029 BIOP 5 Evelyn (16.50) 316 BIOP 8 Winter After Winter (21.50) 241 DRA Ruben Brandt, Collector (11.35) 317 BIOP 9 The River (21.55) the explosion of reality TV and trivial popular 242 ROY Revansch (11.40) 15.30 318 BIOP 10 27 Steps of May (21.50) science shows. Which themes recur in the his- 243 CAP Out of Blue (11.50) SEM FAR Focus: Apocalypse – Work in progress: 4503 STOR The Pine & The Elk (22.00) 244 HAGA 1 Keep It in the Family (11.25) SUB (16.00) tory of apocalyptic films? How have they been 245 GÖ1 Closing Time (12.00) 20.15 portrayed over time? And what will things be 246 BIOP 6 1985 (11.25) 16.00 319 GÖ2 Endzeit – Ever After (21.45) 4027 BIOP 9 Little Moscow (11.15) 279 DRA Rafiki (17.25) like in the future? 4073 BIOP 10 Guerilla (11.30) 280 GÖ1 This Magnificent Cake! (17.00) 20.20 281 BIOP 7 Obscuro Barroco (17.00) SEM VAL Bildens betydelse (IN SWEDISH) BIOP 8 Light as Feathers (17.30) Collaborating: Peter Szendy, philosopher and author 10.15 282 of the book Apocalypse-Cinema; Carolina Hellsgård, 247 HAGA 2 Right to Fight (11.50) 283 BIOP 9 Meili (17.30) 20.30 director and current this festival with the zombie film 248 GÖ2 The Witch Hunters (11.45) 284 BIOP 10 Infinite Football (17.10) 320 AFT Maya (22.20) Endzeit; Peter Modestij, director with several apocalypse 249 BIOP 8 Jill Bilcock: Dancing The SEM FAR From Verdens Undergang to 321 GÖ1 Summer Survivors (22.00) works; Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson, professor of ethics. Invisible (11.35) Apocotainment (17.15) 322 BIOP 4 Volcano (22.20) The seminar is a collaboration between the Swedish 323 BIOP 6 White Boy Rick (22.20) Church and will be held in English. 11.30 16.15 EVEN FAR Live quiz: On the Tram (På Vagnen) PRESS BIOP5 Loro (14.00) 285 GÖ2 Beyond the Visible – Hilma – IN SWEDISH (22.00) 12:00–13:15 13:00–21:00 af Klint (17.50) Moderator: Marit Kapla, editor at Ord&Bild. 12.00 21.00 Into the Apocalypse VR: What We Eat 250 DRA Real Love (13.40) 17.00 324 DRA Gloria Bell (22.45) 251 HAGA 1 Lust for Love (13.35) 286 STOR Leto (19.00) Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 253 BIOP 2 Welcome to Sodom (13.35) 287 ROY In My Room (19.00) 21.15 22:00–23:00 254 BIOP 8 The Chrysanthemum and the 288 HAGA 1 Soyalism (18.05) 325 HAGA 2 José (22.40) Our existence is threatened and the world as we Take part in the VR work at Festivalarenan. Guillotine (15.10) 17.15 know it is on its way to the apocalypse. Despite Bookings on location. Concert: Virgina and the 255 BIOP 9 Island of the Hungry Ghosts (13.35) 289 HAGA 2 Moa Martinson – The Mother of the 21.30 256 BIOP 10 The Gentle Indifference of Country (18.45) 326 HAGA 1 Dachra (23.20) the rapidly increasing climate threat, our de- Flood the World (13.45) 327 BIOP 1 Song Lang (23.15) The VR experience is open the following days: structive race to the end continues. How does it 4021 BIOP 3 Menocchio (13.45) 17.30 328 BIOP 2 Djon África (23.10) 13.00-21.00 (Break 16.30-17.30) 4079 BIOP 1 Dry Martina (13.35) 290 CAP Raven’s End (19.15) Jan 27 Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 really feel to stand on the threshold to the End? SEM FAR Into the Apocalypse (13.15) 291 CHA Ága (19.10) 21.45 Jan 28 13.00-21.00 (Break 16.30-17.30) Repression, activism, and acceptance are some With the updated country compositions, Vir- 292 HAND Serenity (19.20) 329 ROY Destroyer (23.50) Jan 29 11.00-21.00 (Break 13.00-16.00) 12.15 293 AFT Loro (20.00) of the ways we deal with the fact that we may Jan 30 11.00-18.00 (Break 14.00-15.00) ginia and the Flood land in a mix of ghost folk 257 ROY The Third Wife (13.55) 294 FRÖ Shake It All About (19.10) 22.00 soon no longer exist. and Southern goth, while Cornelia Adamsson’s 258 GÖ1 Don’t Be a Dick About It (13.25) 295 BIOP 1 Seder-Masochism (18.50) FEST FAR Concert: Virginia and the Flood (23.00) 296 BIOP 2 Winter Flies (18.55) Meet directors Benedikt Erlingsson, at the voice brings to mind both Emmylou Harris and 12.30 297 BIOP 3 Season of the Devil (21.25) festival this year with Woman At War; Hugo PJ Harvey. Musical influences shift across a 259 CAP Swedish Shorts Competition – Startsladden (14.20) 17.45 Lilja and Pella Kågerman, the duo behind the soundscape that stretches from the beautiful 260 HAGA 2 Deva (13.50) 298 BIOP 4 Sivaranjani and Two Other film adaptation of Harry Martinson’s space epic to the dark and to the heart-rending. Don’t miss 261 GÖ2 All We Own (13.45) Women (19.50) 262 BIOP 4 Subira (14.10) 299 BIOP 5 Living the Light – Robby Müller (19.15) Aniara; bishop Susanne Rappman; and Stefan the extremely powerful debut. 4091 BIOP 6 Moa Martinson – The Mother of the 300 BIOP 6 Angelo (19.40) Edman, biologist and author, in a discussion Country (14:00) 18.00 about the existential, philosophical, and emo- 13.00 301 BIOP 7 Virgins (19.30) tional side of the threat of the end of the world. EVEN FAR VR Experience – What We Eat (21.00) 302 BIOP 7 The Day I Lost My Shadow (19.35 303 BIOP 9 One Last Deal (19.35) 14.00 304 BIOP 10 Borders, Raindrops (19.35) Moderator: Björn Wiman, culture editor at DN and 264 DRA Claire Darling (15.35) author of the book “Sent på jorden – 33 tankar om 265 GÖ1 When Arabs Danced (15.25) 18.30 världens största nyhet” (Late on Earth – 33 Thoughts on 266 BIOP 7 Wild Relatives (15.10) 305 DRA Harajuku (20.10) the World’s Biggest News). 267 BIOP 9 Theatre of War (15.25) 306 GÖ2 Privacy of Wounds (19.40) 268 BIOP 10 Roads in February (15.25) SEM FAR Focus Apocalypse Bar talk: Ann The seminar is part of the festival’s Focus: Apocalypse. Eberstein – IN SWEDISH (19.00) This is carried out in collaboration with the Swedish 14.15 Church and Swedish publisher Atlantis, and will be held 4067 GÖ2 Our Madness (16.00) 19.10 in English. EVEN FAR Speech for the Climate: Ulrika Naezer 14.30 – IN SWEDISH (19.20) 269 HAGA 1 Moving Sweden 1 (15.45) 19.15 307 HAGA 1 Maximerat Animerat (20.45) s 124 From Aniara, Photo: Kuba Rose 308 HAGA 2 Stand by Me (20.45) s 104

COLOR GUIDE = Festival Films = Seminars & Events = Parties & Concerts = Industry Content = Press Screenings AFT = Aftonstjärnan / BIOP = Biopalatset / CAP = Capitol / CHA = Chalmers / DRA = Draken / EVEN = Events / FAR = Festivalarenan / FEST = Parties & Concerts / FRÖ = Frölunda Kulturhus 20 For full seminar and• event programme• and to read more about• the films visit goteborgfilmfestival.se• • GÖ = Göta / HAGA = Hagabion / HAND = Handels / INDUS = Industry / ROY = Bio Roy / SEM = Seminars / STOR = Stora Teatern / VAL= Valand / YAK = Yaki-Da 21 Tuesday January 29 - Highlighted Events Tuesday January 29 - All fi lms and events

Tuesday January 29 15.00 19.30 11:00–21:00 369 DRA My Masterpiece (16.40) EVEN FAR Winter host: Evin Ahmad 09.30 370 BIOP 7 Kieler Street (16.30) – IN SWEDISH (18.15) VR: What We Eat PRESS BIOP1 At Eternity’s Gate (11.20) 371 BIOP 8 Her Job (16.30) 372 BIOP 9 The Proposal (16.25) 19.45 09.45 4074 FRÖ Roads in February (16.25) 403 CHA Our Time (22.45) Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 330 BIOP 3 Menocchio (11.30) 404 HAND The Third Wife (21.25) Take part in the VR work at Festivalarenan. 15.15 405 AFT Giant Little Ones (21.20) 10.00 373 GÖ2 Privacy of Wounds (16.25) 406 BIOP 7 Soyalism (20.50) Bookings on location. 331 DRA Sorry Angel (12.15) 407 BIOP 9 Jumpman (21.15) 332 ROY Summer Survivors (11.30) 15.30 The VR experience is open the following days: 333 CAP Tito and the Birds (11.15) 3 74 GÖ1 Borders, Raindrops (17.05) 20.00 334 HAGA 2 Passion Is Key (11.25) 408 DRA Sons of Denmark (22.10) Jan 27 13.00-21.00 (Break 16.30-17.30) 335 GÖ2 The State We Are in (11.10) 16.00 409 BIOP 4 State of Happiness (21.30) Jan 28 13.00-21.00 (Break 16.30-17.30) 336 BIOP 5 Living the Light – Robby Müller (11.30) 375 CAP Pity the Lovers (17.45) 410 BIOP 8 All the Sins (21.30) 337 BIOP 6 The State Against Mandela and 376 HAGA 1 Right to Fight (17.35) Jan 29 11.00-21.00 (Break 13.00-16.00) the Others (11.45) 377 HAGA 2 Seder-Masochism (17.20) 20.15 Jan 30 11.00-18.00 (Break 14.00-15.00) 378 BIOP 1 Lucky One (17.30) 411 GÖ2 What You Gonna Do When 10.15 379 BIOP 2 Searching For Oscar (17.15) The World’s On Fire? (22.20) 338 HAGA 1 Moa Martinson – The Mother of the 380 BIOP 3 Losing Alaska (17.25) Country (11.45) 4034 ROY One Last Deal (17.35) 20.20 339 BIOP 7 Debt (11.55) SEM FAR Up Close with the TV Drama Jury (16.45) SEM VAL Valand Academy presents: 341 BIOP 9 Srbenka (11.30) EVEN FAR VR-Experience – What We Eat (21.00) An Alternative Film Industry 342 BIOP 10 Zoo (11.50) – IN SWEDISH PRESS BIOP8 Sons of Denmark (12:15) 16.15 381 BIOP 5 The Flatey Enigma (18.00) 11.00 20.30 343 GÖ1 Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint 16.45 412 STOR At Eternity’s Gate (22.20) Photo: Tobias Bauer Photo: Tobias (12.35) 382 BIOP 10 Gloria Bell (18.30) 413 GÖ1 The Eyes of Orson Welles (22.20) 344 BIOP 4 The Miracle (19.00) 414 BIOP 1 The Trial (22.50) EVEN FAR VR-Experience – What We Eat (13.00) 17.00 415 BIOP 2 In My Room (22.30) 383 STOR Too Late to Die Young (18.50) 416 BIOP 3 Becoming Animal (21.50) 12.00 384 CHA Aurora (18.50) 16:00–16:45 21:00–01:00 345 CAP Stop Making Sense (13.25) 20.45 346 HAGA 2 Distorted Privacy (13.25) 17.15 417 CAP Touch Me Not (22.50) Up Close with the TV Party: I’ll be there - 347 BIOP 1 Endzeit – Ever After (13.30) 4054 BIOP 6 The Inner Circle (18.55) 4023 BIOP 5 Rona, Azim’s Mother (22.15) 348 BIOP 2 Extinction (13.30) Drama Jury celebrating Broder Daniel 349 BIOP 3 The Apollo of Gaza (13.20) 17.30 21.00 4036 ROY 27 Steps of May (13.50) 385 HAND Ayka (19.20) 418 ROY Ben is Back (22.45) Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 SEM FAR Mark Cousins – Film Odysseys (12.45) 386 AFT Winter After Winter (19.20) 419 HAGA 1 José (22.25) 388 BIOP 7 Wild Relatives (18.40) FEST FAR I’ll be there Six new Nordic TV drama series compete for the The documentary I’ll Be Gone, in which we 12.15 389 BIOP 8 The Dead and the Others (19.25) - Celebrating Broder Daniel (01.00) Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize at the festival. The follow Henrik Berggren and several others 350 BIOP 5 Winter Flies (13.40) 390 BIOP 9 Cutterhead (19.00) 351 BIOP 6 Harajuku (13.40) 4502 DRA I’ll Be Gone (19.10) 21.15 jury deciding who among the talented scriptwri- from the band Broder Daniel, has its premie- 420 BIOP 6 Her Smell (23.30) 12.30 17.45 Photo: Carla Orrego Veliz ters will take home 200,000 Norwegian crowns re at Cinema Draken at 17:30 this evening. Af- 353 HAGA 1 Pushing Boundaries (14.05) 391 FRÖ Virgins (19.15) consists of Finnish actor Laura Birn (The Inno- terwards, the post-screening party kicks off at 354 BIOP 7 Balangiga: Howling Wilderness (14.25) 392 GÖ2 Angelo (19.40) cents, A Walk Among the Tombstones), Swedish Festivalarenan. A night inspired by one of Gö- 355 BIOP 8 Song Lang (14.15) 13:00–21:00 356 BIOP 9 Sivaranjani and Two Other 18.00 actor Alexander Karim (The Lawyer, Tyrant, Zero teborg’s most iconic rock bands with a concert Women (14.35) 393 HAGA 2 An Elephant Sitting Still (21.55) Mark Cousins - Film Dark Thirty), journalist and podcaster Chris- and tributes to Broder Daniel. 357 BIOP 10 Cold November (14.05) 394 GÖ1 M (19.45) odysseys tina Jeurling Birro (Pop Culture Confidential) Live performances featuring a cross-sec- 12.45 18.15 and British producer Justin Judd (Hulu, Con- tion of some of Sweden’s most exciting music 358 DRA I Feel Good (14.30) 395 BIOP 1 The Great Buster (20.00) 359 GÖ2 LOL (14.05) 396 BIOP 2 The Announcement (19.50) Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 tent Media Corporation, Nevision). We take the acts from the nineties to today – and a DJ set 397 BIOP 3 Redemption (19.55) temperature and check out their sentiment on by the creators of I’ll Be Gone, Amelia Trask 13.00 Irish filmmaker, film historian, film enthusiast 360 GÖ1 Take It or Leave It (14.45) 18.30 TV drama in general, and Nordic TV drama in and Sasha Hecht, and Henrik Berggren him- PRESS GÖ3 Our Struggles (14:40) 398 ROY Animator in Focus: Igor and Swedophile Mark Cousins is back. He broke particular. self. During the evening, check out the photo Kovalyov (20.00) through with The Story of Film and has since 14.00 399 CAP Gwen (19.55) exhibition of pictures taken during the making 361 CAP The Mercy of the Jungle (15.35) 400 HAGA 1 Boy in Bollywood (20.30) then praised among other works Stockholm in Moderator: Wendy Mitchell, Screen International. of the film’s creation by photographer Martin 362 HAGA 2 Lost and Found (15.25) SEM FAR Bar Talk: The Inner Circle Stockholm, My Love, and highlighted female 363 BIOP 1 Deva (15.20) – IN SWEDISH (19.00) Norberg, as well as other fun surprises and spe- 364 BIOP 2 The Sentence (15.30) filmmakers in the epic odyssey Women Make cial guests. In true Broder Daniel spirit, anything 365 BIOP 3 I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband 18.45 Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. His Fangirl Story (15.35) 401 BIOP 5 Namdev Bhau: In Search of can happen this evening. SEM FAR Can immersive storytelling change the Silence (20.10) works The Eyes of Orson Welles and Storm in world? – IN SWEDISH (15.15) 19.00 My Heart will be shown at this year’s festival. 14.15 402 BIOP 10 The Man Who Surprised Meet Cousins in a dialogue about creation, film 4037 ROY This Magnificent Cake! (15.15) Everyone (20.40) history, tireless film viewing, and deep dives into 14.30 19.10 endlessly fascinating archives. 366 BIOP 5 The New Nurses (15.50) EVEN FAR Speech for the Climate: 367 BIOP 6 Maya (16.20) Simon Bilbomb – IN SWEDISH (19.20) 368 BIOP 10 Heavy Trip (16.05) Moderator: Jannike Åhlund, editor, Nordic Women in Film SFI.

COLOR GUIDE = Festival Films = Seminars & Events = Parties & Concerts = Industry Content = Press Screenings AFT = Aftonstjärnan / BIOP = Biopalatset / CAP = Capitol / CHA = Chalmers / DRA = Draken / EVEN = Events / FAR = Festivalarenan / FEST = Parties & Concerts / FRÖ = Frölunda Kulturhus 22 For full seminar and• event programme• and to read more about• the films visit goteborgfilmfestival.se• • GÖ = Göta / HAGA = Hagabion / HAND = Handels / INDUS = Industry / ROY = Bio Roy / SEM = Seminars / STOR = Stora Teatern / VAL= Valand / YAK = Yaki-Da 23 Wednesday January 30 - Highlighted Events Wednesday January 30 - All fi lms and events

Wednesday January 30 454 GÖ2 Winter After Winter (16.35) 19.45 16:00–16:45 455 BIOP 8 The Inner Circle (16.25) 496 GÖ1 Heartbound (21.15) 09.30 456 BIOP 9 The Gentle Indifference of the 497 BIOP 5 Jumpman (21.15) Critics with Issues? PRESS BIOP1 Season (10:45) World (16.30) 498 BIOP 6 Ditte & Louise (21.30) 4017 BIOP 5 Thou Shalt Not Kill (16.45) 499 BIOP 7 M (21.30) 09.45 4018 BIOP 6 Theatre of War (16.10) Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 421 DRA Blind Spot (11.30) 4083 HAGA 1 What Is Democracy? (16.35) 20.00 There is an ongoing debate around the ques- PRESS BIOP3 Arctic (11.25) 500 STOR A Fortunate Man (22.45) 15.00 501 HAGA 2 The State We Are in (21.10) tion whether today's film critics tend to judge 10.00 458 FRÖ Ága (16.40) 502 GÖ2 Second Life (21.10) a films urgency, empathy and social pathos 422 ROY Angelo (11.55) 459 GÖ1 Azougue Nazareth (16.20) 503 GÖ3 Song Lang (21.45) 423 CAP Memories of My Body (11.45) rather than its artistic and aesthetic qualities. 424 HAGA 1 Graduation Film Valand (12.10) s 105 16.00 20.15 Is film critc as an independent entity, with its 425 HAGA 2 Lust for Love (11.35) 460 DRA White Boy Rick (17.50) 504 ROY Golden Youth (22.15) 426 GÖ2 Beyond the Visible – Hilma 461 CAP I’ll Be Gone (17.40) own discourses, being exposed to a far to strong af Klint (11.35) 462 BIOP 10 If Beale Street Could Talk (18.00) 20.20 Politicization. A cooperation with the Swedish 427 BIOP 4 State of Happiness (11.30) SEM FAR Critics with Issues? (16.45) SEM VAL Valand Academy presents: Alma 428 BIOP 5 The New Nurses (11.20) – IN SWEDISH Film Critics Association. 429 BIOP 6 Pichku’s Dream (11.55) 16.45 463 BIOP 1 Dry Martina (18.20) 20.30 BIOP 2 Baby (18.25) BIOP 10 Happier Times, Grump (22.25) Collaborating: Nick James, Sight and Sound; Helena 10.15 464 505 Lindblad, Dagens Nyheter; Jan Lumholdt, Svenska 430 BIOP 8 All the Sins (11.45) 465 BIOP 3 Harajuku (18.10) FEST FAR Infinite Football Dragon Cup (23.00) Dagbladet/Cineuropa; Maria Dommelöf-Wid, 431 BIOP 9 Cutterhead (11.45) 466 BIOP 4 Light as Feathers (18.15) Göteborgs-Posten; Mattias Oscarsson, Sydsvenskan. 432 BIOP 10 Namdev Bhau: In Search of 20.45 Silence (11.40) 17.00 506 DRA Can You Ever Forgive Me? (22.35) BIOP7 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (12.05) CHA Close Enemies (18.55) CAP Too Late to Die Young (22.35) Moderator: Marit Kapla, editor, Ord&Bild. PRESS 467 507 468 HAND Domingo (18.35) 10.30 469 HAGA 1 Mating (18.30) 21.00 From Searching For Oscar 433 BIOP 2 The Chrysanthemum and the 470 BIOP 8 Make Me Up (18.25) 508 HAGA 1 Nona. If You Soak Me, I Will Guillotine (13.40) 471 BIOP 9 Coureur (18.40) Burn You (22.40) 18:30–23:00 11.00 17.15 21.15 TV Drama Party 434 GÖ1 Soyalism (12.05) 472 GÖ1 Transnistra (18.55) 509 BIOP 1 Infinite Football (22.25) 435 BIOP 1 Divine Wind (12.40) 473 BIOP 5 Storm in My Heart (19.15) 510 BIOP 2 Becoming Animal (22.35) 11:00–18:00 12:00–12:45 EVEN FAR VR-Experience – What We Eat (18.00) 4 74 BIOP 6 Out of Tune (18.45) 511 BIOP 4 Her Job (22.45) Venue: Valand's Nightclub 475 BIOP 7 27 Steps of May (19.05) 21.30 VR: What We Eat Master Class: 11.45 4043 BIOP 3 Belmonte (22.45) Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize award ceremony. 4030 BIOP 3 Boy in Bollywood (13.45) 17.30 4069 BIOP 9 Privacy of Wounds (22.40) Igor Kovalyov Co-hosted by The Norwegian Film Institute. 476 ROY Long Day’s Journey Into Night (19.45) Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 12.00 477 AFT Daughter of Mine (19.10) 21.45 Music partner: Audio Network. 436 CAP Maximerat Animerat (13.30) 4071 GÖ3 Our Madness (19.00) 512 GÖ1 Sivaranjani and Two Other Take part in the VR work at Festivalarenan. Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 437 GÖ2 The Trial (14.20) Women (23.50) Bookings on location. 438 BIOP 10 Extinction (13.30) Ukrainian animator Igor Kovalyov is one of the 17.45 By invitation Only. 4035 DRA One Last Deal (13.35) 479 STOR A Faithful Man (19.00) masters of post-Soviet animation. He was a SEM FAR Animator in focus: Igor 480 FRÖ Borders, Raindrops (19.20) The VR experience is open the following days: Open for all accredited after 21:30! Kovalyov (12.45) 481 GÖ2 Patriotic Highway (18.55) Jan 27 13.00-21.00 (Break 16.30-17.30) part of the founding of the fi rst independent Jan 28 13.00-21.00 (Break 16.30-17.30) animation studio in Russia in 1988, has worked 12.15 18.00 439 BIOP 4 The Flatey Enigma (14.00) 482 HAGA 2 A Thousand Girls Like Me (19.20) Jan 29 11.00-21.00 (Break 13.00-16.00) as an animator for The Simpsons, and directed 20:20 440 BIOP 5 Kieler Street (13.45) Jan 30 11.00-18.00 (Break 14.00-15.00) Rugrats at the Hollywood studio Klasky/Csupo. 441 BIOP 6 Debt (13.55) 18.15 He is most cherished for his short films for 483 CAP Our Struggles (19.55) Alma Manusutbildning 12.30 adults, which have won prizes around the globe. and Valand Academy 442 ROY Virgins (14.00) 18.30 In this master class, Kovalyov shares how 443 BIOP 7 An Elephant Sitting Still (16.25) 484 DRA Season (19.45) 444 BIOP 8 Cold November (14.05) 485 BIOP 10 Fig Tree (20.05) he found his unique style, in which colour pal- Venue: Akademi Valand 445 BIOP 9 Petra (14.15) EVEN FAR GP Live: Praise, Raze and discussing the ettes and graphics interact with rhythmic struc- An interactive discussion with colleagues from Millions – IN SWEDISH (20.00) 13.00 tures to create bittersweet, comic portrayals Alma Manusutbildning and Valand Academy, 4015 HAGA 1 Stop Making Sense (14.25) 18.45 of human existence. Warm up with a short fi lm looking at the inspiration for and different app- 4016 GÖ1 Seder-Masochism (14.20) 4068 BIOP 1 Touch Me Not (20.50) programme featuring some of the gems of his roaches to starting from images and/or text. 14.00 19.00

Bird in the Window careere. With Sara Broos, Petra Revenue, Klara Björk 446 DRA Giant Little Ones (15.35) 486 HAGA 1 Roll Red Roll (20.20) 447 CAP My Favourite Fabric (15.35) 488 BIOP 2 Christian IV (20.30)

From From and Jyoti Mistry. 448 BIOP 1 I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History 489 BIOP 3 Long Way Home (20.55) Moderator: Midhat Ajanovic, film researcher and author as Barbarians (16.20) 490 BIOP 4 Siblings of the Cape (20.30) Organised by Akademi Valand. 449 BIOP 10 Black is Beltza (15.30) SEM FAR Archive Material – bringing it to life 19.15 – IN SWEDISH (15.15) 491 BIOP 8 What You Gonna Do When The World’s On Fire? (21.20) 14.30 492 BIOP 9 Before the Frost (21.00) 450 BIOP 2 Working Woman (16.05) 451 BIOP 3 Gwen (15.55) 19.30 452 BIOP 4 Still Recording (16.30) 493 CHA Killing (20.50) 494 HAND Okko’s Inn (21.05) 14.45 495 AFT The Man Who Surprised 453 ROY Sons of Denmark (16.45) Everyone (21.10)

COLOR GUIDE = Festival Films = Seminars & Events = Parties & Concerts = Industry Content = Press Screenings AFT = Aftonstjärnan / BIOP = Biopalatset / CAP = Capitol / CHA = Chalmers / DRA = Draken / EVEN = Events / FAR = Festivalarenan / FEST = Parties & Concerts / FRÖ = Frölunda Kulturhus 24 • For full seminar• and event programme• and to read more •about the films visit goteborgfilmfestival.se• GÖ = Göta / HAGA = Hagabion / HAND = Handels / INDUS = Industry / ROY = Bio Roy / SEM = Seminars / STOR = Stora Teatern / VAL= Valand / YAK = Yaki-Da 25 Thursday January 31 - Highlighted Events Thursday January 31 - All fi lms and events

Thursday January 31 549 ROY Our Struggles (16.40) 20.00 550 FRÖ Out of Blue (16.50) 585 STOR The Hunt (22.10) 09.00 551 GÖ2 Season (16.00) SEM STOR Master Class: Mads Mikkelsen (23.00) INDUS STOR TV Drama Vision 2019 (16.00) 586 CHA Ruben Brandt, Collector (21.35) 16.00 588 BIOP 6 Dogman (22.00) 09.30 552 CAP Stan & Ollie (17.40) 589 BIOP 7 Storm in My Heart (22.00) PRESS BIOP3 Kursk (11.30) 553 GÖ1 Island of the Hungry Ghosts (17.35) 590 BIOP 9 Neon Heart (21.30) PRESS GÖTA3 Queen of Hearts (11:40) 591 BIOP 10 Touch Me Not (22.05) 16.15 09.45 554 HAGA 1 Leto (18.15) 20.15 513 DRA A Fortunate Man (12.30) 4038 HAND Baby (21.55) 514 BIOP 1 Welcome to Sodom (11.20) 16.30 515 BIOP 2 Hamada (11.15) 555 GÖ3 Namdev Bhau: In Search of 20.20 Silence (17.55) SEM VAL Valand Academy presents: Before the 10.00 End of the World – IN SWEDISH 516 ROY Long Way Home (11.55) 17.00 517 CAP The Man Who Surprised 556 BIOP 1 Widow of Silence (18.25) 20.30 Everyone (11.40) 557 BIOP 2 Walden (18.50) 592 ROY A Land Imagined (22.05) 518 HAGA 1 Stand by Me (11.30) 558 BIOP 3 Balangiga: Howling Wilderness (18.55) 593 CAP The Harvesters (22.15) 519 GÖ1 Borders, Raindrops (11.35) EVEN FAR Khalik Allah 4084 HAGA 2 Graduation Film Valand (22.40) 520 BIOP 4 Las Sandinistas! (11.40) – From Harlem to Jamaica (17.45) 521 BIOP 6 Okko’s Inn (11.35) 20.45 17.15 594 HAGA 1 Animation Maximized (22.15) 10.15 559 GÖ2 Aren’t You Happy? (18.35) 595 GÖ1 Black Mother (22.05) 522 BIOP 7 Living the Light – Robby Müller (11.45) 523 BIOP 8 Moving Sweden 2 (11.45) 17.30 21.00 524 BIOP 9 The Witch Hunters (11.45) 560 STOR Arctic (19.10) 596 DRA Queen of Hearts (23.10) 561 CHA 3 Faces (19.10) 598 BIOP 8 Too Late to Die Young (22.50) 10.45 562 HAND An Impossible Love (19.45) 4072 GÖ3 Our Madness (22.30) PRESS BIOP10 Koko-di Koko-da (12:15) 563 AFT Fig Tree (19.05) 564 FRÖ The River (19.25) 21.30 11.00 565 BIOP 4 Emma Peeters (19.00) 599 GÖ2 The Beast in the Jungle (23.00) 525 GÖ2 The Third Wife (12.40) 566 BIOP 5 Nona. If You Soak Me, I Will 600 BIOP 3 Sons of Denmark (23.30) Burn You (19.10) 12.00 567 BIOP 6 Rojo (19.20) 21.45 From Black Mother 526 CAP Belmonte (13.15) 602 BIOP 2 Virgins (23.15) 527 HAGA 1 Pushing Boundaries (13.35) 17.45 603 BIOP 4 Out of Tune (23.15) 528 GÖ1 Gwen (13.25) 568 BIOP 7 Siblings of the Cape (19.15) 604 BIOP 5 Jumpman (23.15) 529 BIOP 1 Moving Sweden 1 (13.15) 569 BIOP 9 Phoenix (19.15) 530 BIOP 2 My Favourite Fabric (13.35) 570 BIOP 10 The Saint Bernard Syndicate (19.25) 22.45 531 BIOP 3 Redemption (13.40) 605 ROY Tranny Fag (24.00) 17:00–17:45 19:30–22:30 19:30–23:00 SEM FAR Fyrisbiografen - a success story! 18.15 606 HAGA 1 Shut Up and Play the Piano (24.10) – IN SWEDISH (13.00) 571 DRA Koko-di Koko-da (19.55) Khalik Allah - From Master Class: Nordic Film Market 572 ROY Fireflies (19.45) 12.15 4047 CAP The Deposit (19.45) Harlem to Jamaica Mads Mikkelsen Opening Reception 532 BIOP 4 This Magnificent Cake! (13.15) – SF Studios 100 year 533 BIOP 6 Ditte & Louise (14.15) 18.30 Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 5 74 HAGA 2 Stop Making Sense (19.55) 12.30 575 GÖ1 Patrimonium (19.45) Filmmaker Khalik Allah always breaks through Mads Mikkelsen is a Nordic cinema heavyweight, Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 534 ROY Happier Times, Grump (14.25) 576 GÖ3 Sivaranjani and Two Other boundaries, regardless of whether he is making and one of its most beloved actors. He is also 535 BIOP 10 Losing Alaska (13.55) Women (20.35) By invitation only. SEM FAR Bar talk: SF 100 years! films about Harlem at Night (Field Niggas), this year’s recipient of the festival’s Honorary – IN SWEDISH (19.00) Industry and accredited VIP guests are welcome 13.00 Jamaican identity (the festival film Black Dragon Award. The ceremony begins with the 536 DRA Aquarela (14.30) from 21:30. Open for all accredited after 22:30! 537 GÖ2 Jill Bilcock: Dancing The 18.45 Mother) or Beyoncé’s acclaimed Lemonade, screening of The Hunt, featuring Mikkelsen’s ex- Invisible (14.20) 4019 HAGA 1 Anori (20.10) which he directed. Meet an exciting film visio- cellent, Cannes-awarded performance, in which 14.00 19.00 nary in a conversation about how to take pres- he plays a man whose life is ruined when he is 538 CAP Heartbound (15.30) INDUS FAR Nordic Film Market sing stories and transform them into pulsating, accused of pedophilia. 539 HAGA 1 Take It or Leave It (15.45) opening reception (23.00) 540 GÖ1 Roll Red Roll (15.20) charged film essays. After the screening, Mikkelsen speaks with 541 GÖ3 Boy in Bollywood (16.00) Dagens Nyheter’s film editor Helena Lindblad SEM FAR Focus: Nordic Comedy – 2018 the 19.15 Right’s 1968? – IN SWEDISH (15.15) BIOP 8 Second Life (20.25) Moderator: Dina Afkhampour, festival director, 577 Cinemafrica. about his career and work. 14.30 19.30 A ticket to the film is required to attend the master class. 542 BIOP 1 Soyalism (15.35) 578 GÖ2 The Gospel of Eureka (20.45) 543 BIOP 2 Make Me Up (15.55) 579 BIOP 1 Golden Youth (21.30) 544 BIOP 3 Becoming Animal (15.50) 580 BIOP 2 Coureur (21.10) 581 BIOP 3 Transnistra (21.10) 14.45 545 BIOP 4 27 Steps of May (16.40) 546 BIOP 6 The Unpromised Land (16.15) 19.45 547 BIOP 10 Swedish Shorts Competition – 582 AFT The Eyes of Orson Welles (21.35) Startsladden (16.35) 583 BIOP 4 Patriotic Highway (20.55) 584 BIOP 5 Christian IV (21.15) 15.00 548 DRA Before the Frost (16.40)

COLOR GUIDE = Festival Films = Seminars & Events = Parties & Concerts = Industry Content = Press Screenings AFT = Aftonstjärnan / BIOP = Biopalatset / CAP = Capitol / CHA = Chalmers / DRA = Draken / EVEN = Events / FAR = Festivalarenan / FEST = Parties & Concerts / FRÖ = Frölunda Kulturhus 26 For full seminar and• event programme• and to read more about• the films visit goteborgfilmfestival.se• • GÖ = Göta / HAGA = Hagabion / HAND = Handels / INDUS = Industry / ROY = Bio Roy / SEM = Seminars / STOR = Stora Teatern / VAL= Valand / YAK = Yaki-Da 27 Friday February 1 - Highlighted Events Friday February 1 - All fi lms and events

and Producers, to share knowledge, experience Ten films, all by female directors, compete for Friday February 1 16.15 20.20 09:00–10:30 and strategies, helping facilitate coproduction €30,000. Can persistent work on gender equali- 646 HAGA 1 Black Mother (17.35) SEM VAL Valand Academy presents: What does business interest within the global marketpla- ty at film festivals lead to better numbers? Can 09.00 resistance look like? – IN SWEDISH Moving Sweden Seminar INDUS BIOP 9 Moving Sweden seminar (10.30) 16.45 ce. Each roundtable will be moderated by a it also affect which films are made in the future 647 BIOP 1 Before the Frost (18.25) 20.30 - Reflections from the member of the BAA Advisory Council, which by highlighting specific works and creating new 09.45 648 BIOP 2 Fig Tree (18.20) 681 STOR If Beale Street Could Talk (22.30) 609 BIOP 2 Volcano (11.35) 649 BIOP 3 Azougue Nazareth (18.05) 682 BIOP 1 I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History Experts includes: Jeremay Gawade (Lee and Thompson, masters outside traditional frameworks? How 610 BIOP 3 Ayka (11.35) as Barbarians (22.50) UK), Jennifer Elmore, (Red Arrow Studios, Ger- can the industry coordinate to attain gender 611 BIOP 4 Ága (11.25) 17.00 683 BIOP 3 I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband PRESS GÖTA3 House That Jack Built (12.20) 650 STOR Kursk (19.00) Fangirl Story (22.05) Venue: Biopalatset 9 many), Emilio Prieto (ECIJA, Spain), Johan Chris- equality? 651 CHA With the Wind (18.30) EVEN FAR Bingo Berit – IN SWEDISH (22.00) No fewer than six films supported by Moving tianson (Christianson and Wallentin, Sweden), 10.00 652 HAND Coincoin and the Extra- Collaborators: Francine Raveney, Eurimages; Anna 612 DRA Never Look Away (13.10) Humans (20.30) 21.00 Sweden have their world premieres during this Christoph Fey (Unverzagt von Have, Germany). Serner, CEO, Swedish Film Institute; Mirja Wester, CEO, 613 ROY Emma Peeters (11.30) 653 GÖ3 What Is Democracy? (18.50) 684 HAND Memories of My Body (22.45) Göteborg Film Festival; representatives from the industry CAP (11.20) BIOP 7 (18.25) BIOP 2 (22.25) year’s Göteborg Film Festival. Moving Sweden 614 Los Reyes 654 Make Me Up 685 Widow of Silence and other film festivals. HAGA 1 Distorted Privacy (11.25) BIOP 10 Happier Times, Grump (18.55) BIOP 7 Long Way Home (22.55) 09:30–10:30 Roundtable 1: Broadcasters’ terms 615 655 686 has invited four cinematic experts to reflect on 616 GÖ2 Patrimonium (11.15) FEST FAR Concert: A.M.E, Alice B, Det Brinner Different territorial broadcasters' terms of trade with Andrea Reuter, film critic and producer. BIOP 7 (11.30) (02.00) these new films, and to show clips from them Moderator: 617 Heartbound 17.30 & Steget production companies – how to improve them. 656 ROY Crystal Swan (19.05) that highlight creative elements that are of 10.30 657 CAP Joy (19.15) 21.15 10:45–11:45 Roundtable 2: Distribution Deals particular interest to them. The filmmakers 618 GÖ1 Phoenix (12.00) 658 AFT What You Gonna Do When The 687 DRA The House That Jack Built (23.50) Different types of distribution deals and roles of World’s On Fire? (19.35) 688 CHA The Saint Bernard Syndicate (22.55) then join the experts on stage for an in-depth distributors. 16:00–17:30 11.00 659 GÖ1 Cold Case Hammarskjöld (19.35) 689 BIOP 8 Roll Red Roll (22.35) 619 HAGA 2 Stand by Me (12.30) 690 BIOP 10 Endzeit – Ever After (22.45) discussion about the artistic choices in the se- 12:00–13:00 Roundtable 3: SVOD platforms 6th Nostradamus Report 17.45 lected scenes. Moving Sweden is a micro-bud- The types of deals with producers and distributors – do 12.00 660 FRÖ Heavy Trip (19.20) 21.45 they vary from territory to territory? get scheme intended to give both new and Venue: Biopalatset 9 620 CAP Transnistra (13.40) 691 BIOP 9 Meili (23.15) 621 HAGA 1 Winter Flies (13.25) 18.00 4055 ROY Iron Sky The Coming Race (23.20) For registration email: [email protected] experienced filmmakers a chance to challenge Media analyst Johanna Koljonen presents the 622 GÖ2 The Proposal (13.25) 661 HAGA 2 All We Own (19.15) 4090 GÖ3 When Arabs Danced (23.10) Presented by MediaXChange in association with 623 BIOP 1 Patriotic Highway (13.10) 662 GÖ2 Gods of Molenbeek (19.15) their creativity and explore new formats. The Kulturakademin and Göteborg Film Festival. sixth annual report of the Nostradamus Project, 624 BIOP 2 Siblings of the Cape (13.30) 663 BIOP 9 Searching For Oscar (19.15) 22.00 scheme supports films of various lengths, as well which monitors and analyses the rapid change 625 BIOP 3 José (13.25) 694 GÖ2 Cold November (23.35) as short series. Since May 2018, Moving Sweden in the screen industries. The presentation is fol- 626 BIOP 4 Shut Up and Play the Piano (13.25) 18.15 627 BIOP 7 Coureur (13.40) 664 HAGA 1 The Gospel of Eureka (19.30) 22.30 has stepped into working with features, with a 12:00–13:00 lowed by a discussion with a panel of experts. 4087 ROY Queen of Hearts (14.10) 695 CAP Her Smell (24.45) focus on first- and second-time filmmakers with The current report, as well as the previous edi- SEM FAR Master class: Jon Plowman (13.00) 18.30 696 HAGA 1 Cutterhead (24.00) 665 DRA Sonja – The White Swan (20.40) 697 BIOP 3 I’ll Be Gone (24.10) proven personal voices. Supported projects will Master Class: tions, is available at 12.30 SEM FAR Bar Talk: 50/50 by 2020 och be aired on SVT. goteborgfilmfestival.se/nostradamus 628 GÖ1 Golden Youth (14.30) 10% for 50/50 (19.00) 23.59 Jon Plowman 698 ROY Murder Me, Monster (25.50) 12.45 19.00 Presented by the Göteborg Film Festival in collaboration Moving Sweden is a co-operation between the Swedish Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 PRESS GÖTA3 Swoon (14.30) 666 CHA Yomeddine (20.40) with Lindholmen Science Park, with additional support Film Institute and Swedish Television (SVT). 667 BIOP 1 Season (20.00) from Region Västra Götaland, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Legendary BBC producer Jon Plowman is the 14.00 668 BIOP 2 Hale County This Morning, and Kulturakademin. Cinephille experts: Marta Balaga (a film journalist man behind humorous, innovative successes 630 DRA Out of Tune (15.30) This Evening (20.20) writing for international publications such as Cineuropa 631 HAGA 1 Nona. If You Soak Me, I Will 669 BIOP 3 A Film about Jörn Donner (20.00) and Episodi, and collaborating with various European like Absolutely Fabulous, The Office, and Extras. Burn You (15.40) 670 BIOP 7 Aren’t You Happy? (20.20) film festivals); Sarah Lutton (Nordic Film Programme Over a career spanning nearly forty years, he 632 GÖ2 Anori (15.25) Advisor, BFI London Film Festival), Kristina Trapp (CEO, 18:30–19:00 SEM FAR Actors Talk – IN SWEDISH (15.15) 19.10 EAVE), and Bérénice Vincent (Partner Totem Films). has learned everything there is to know about EVEN FAR A speech for the Climate: Emma Filmmakers: Jon Blåhed; Anna Charlotte; Caroline TV comedy and has, moreover, written a book Bar Talk: 50/50 by 2020 14.15 Öhrwall – IN SWEDISH (19.20) Eriksson; Julius Jorborg; Jenifer Malmqvist; and John 633 BIOP 1 Subira (15.55) 19.15 Skoog. Producers: Emma Åkesdotter-Ronge; Catherine about it: How to Produced Comedy Bronze. and 10% for 50/50 634 BIOP 2 The Deposit (15.45) 671 BIOP 8 Namdev Bhau: In Search Champagne; Erik Hemmendorff; Ann Lundberg; Tony Plowman is a collaborator at the festival’s indu- 635 BIOP 3 M (16.00) of Silence (20.40) Österholm; and Johan Seth. Moderator: Helen Ahlsson, 636 BIOP 4 Evelyn (15.50) 4050 BIOP 10 The Announcement (20.50) Film Commissioner – Moving Sweden, Swedish Film stry event TV Drama Vision, but also makes this Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 Institute. unique public appearance at Festivalarenan. At the Festival de Cannes last year, the 14.30 19.30 638 BIOP 7 Christian IV (16.00) 672 ROY The Other Munch (20.20) 5050x2020 Pledge for Gender Parity and Inclu- 639 BIOP 10 The Gentle Indifference of SEM ROY The Trier Brothers, talk following the In co-operation with Kulturakademin. (16.15) (21.00) sion in Film Festivals was launched. By signing the World screening on Friday, Feb 1. Moderator: Neta Norrmo, culture journalist. 673 GÖ3 Boy in Bollywood (21.30) 09:30–13:00 the pledge, film festivals agree to collaborate on 14.45 EVEN FAR Winter host: Johannes Nyholm Global Entertainment gender equality. The Göteborg Film Festival has 640 CAP Walden (16.35) – IN SWEDISH (20.15) Law Programme launch 16:00–17:15 worked with the intention of achieving gender 15.00 19.45 parity and equal representation for a long time, 641 ROY Rojo (16.50) 675 BIOP 9 The Beast in the Jungle (21.15) 642 FRÖ Maya (16.50) 4008 FRÖ Jumpman (21.15) Venue: Film i Väst Showroom, Kungsgatan 7 Audentia Award and and now it’s time to sign the 5050x2020 agre- 643 GÖ1 A Land Imagined (16.35) ement. Delphyne Besse and Berenice Vincent 20.00 Global Entertainment Law Programme launch Women in Film 16.00 676 CAP Mademoiselle de Joncquières (21.50) from Collectif 5050x2020 bring the document to 644 DRA Arctic (17.40) 677 HAGA 2 Lust for Love (21.35) With the evolving role of the Lawyer as an in- Venue: Festivalarenan, Tredje Långgatan 9 Göteborg Film Festival's Artistic Director Jonas 645 GÖ2 Second Life (17.10) 678 AFT Fireflies (21.30) tegral part of the producing team, MediaX- SEM FAR Audentia Award 4049 GÖ2 Neon Heart (21.30) This year, the Göteborg Film Festival has the Holmberg and CEO Mirja Wester, will sign the and Women in Film (17.15) change in collaboration with their Nordic honour of hosting the Audentia Award. The prize pledge under the superintendence of Helene INDUS BIOP 9 The 6th Nostradamus Report – 20.15 partner Kulturakademin, are launching a new presentation and panel discussion 680 HAGA 1 The Harvesters (22.00) was established by Eurimages in 2016 in order Granqvist, the president of WIFT. WIFT also has (17.30) 4044 GÖ1 The Quake (22.05) business strand: Business Affairs Acumen. A to increase gender parity in the film industry. a secret to reveal. Forum for lawyers, business affairs professionals

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13.15 18.15 22:00–04:00 726 BIOP 2 The Other Munch (14.05) 764 HAGA 1 Tranny Fag (19.30) SEM FAR Work in Progress: En Komikers Uppväxt 4040 DRA The Man Who Killed Don Göteborg Film Festival – – IN SWEDISH (14.00) Quixote (20.30) Official Closing Party 13.30 18.30 727 GÖ3 Searching For Oscar (14.45) 765 AFT Blind Spot (20.15) 766 FRÖ Thou Shalt Not Kill (20.30) Yaki-Da Venue: 14.00 Let’s end the festival with as great as a bang 728 HAGA 1 Crystal Swan (15.35) 19.00 729 HAGA 2 Right to Fight (15.35) 767 HAND Cities of Last Things (20.50) as we started it. This year’s closing party takes 730 BIOP 3 Aren’t You Happy? (15.20) 768 BIOP 1 Real Love (20.40) TTXML . . place at the Yaki-Da Nightclub. 769 BIOP 8 Only You (21.00) 19.30 VHS 18:00–03:30 Restaurant on the top floor 14.15 770 CAP Domingo (21.05) SVOD 731 ROY El Pepe: A Supreme Life (15.30) 772 BIOP 2 Roll Red Roll (20.50) 22:00–04:00 Club 773 BIOP 7 The State Against Mandela and TVOD EST?! Free entry with a festival pass before 23:30, 14.30 the Others (21.15) 732 CHA Long Way Home (16.25) ott!! afterwards admission is SEK 180. 733 HAND At War (16.25) 19.45 734 AFT Raven’s End (16.15) 4051 GÖ1 The Deposit (21.15) Netflix SEM FAR A Lecture on sex-positive portrayals and utopian masculinity in film and TV 20.00 iTunes – IN SWEDISH (15.15) 7 74 CHA They Shall Not Grow Old (21.40) Saturday February 2 775 HAGA 1 Djon África (21.40) Amazon 14.45 776 HAGA 2 Anori (21.25) subtitling 09.45 735 STOR The Hummingbird Project (16.40) 777 GÖ2 Coureur (21.40) 700 STOR Out of Tune (11.15) 736 CAP Sonja – The White Swan (16.40) 778 BIOP 9 Yomeddine (21.40) 701 ROY Woman at War (11.25) 779 BIOP 10 Neon Heart (21.30) 702 CAP At Eternity’s Gate (11.35) 15.00 4045 GÖ3 The Beast in the Jungle (21.30) 4039 DRA Kursk (11.45) 737 DRA Swoon (16.45) 738 FRÖ A Fortunate Man (17.45) 20.30 10.00 739 GÖ1 Joy (16.45) 780 BIOP 3 Cutterhead (22.00) 704 CHA The Saint Bernard Syndicate (11.40) 74 0 BIOP 1 A Film about Jörn Donner (16.00) 705 HAND What Walaa Wants (11.30) 74 1 BIOP 8 Phoenix (16.30) 20.45 706 HAGA 1 Swedish Shorts Competition – 4020 BIOP 10 Cold Case Hammarskjöld (17.05) 782 AFT Shake it All About (22.25) DCP Startsladden (11.50) dvd/bluray? 707 HAGA 2 Lost and Found (11.25) 15.15 21.00 708 AFT Angelo (11.55) 74 2 GÖ2 Black Mother (16.35) 783 STOR Gloria Bell (22.45) 709 FRÖ Emma Peeters (11.30) 784 BIOP 1 Serenity (22.50) deadline!!? 710 GÖ1 A Land Imagined (11.35) 15.30 DAM 74 3 GÖ3 Nona. If You Soak Me, I Will 21.15 10.15 Burn You (17.10) 785 HAND Close Enemies (23.10) UV 711 GÖ2 Gods of Molenbeek (11.30) 74 4 BIOP 2 Her Job (17.00) 21.30 11.00 16.00 786 CAP Assassination Nation (23.20) INDUS BIOP 9 Akademi Valand 74 5 ROY Our Struggles (17.40) 787 BIOP 2 Touch Me Not (23.35) Works in progress (12.00) 74 6 HAGA 1 Privacy of Wounds (17.10) 788 BIOP 8 José (22.55) 712 BIOP 2 Walden (12.50) 74 7 BIOP 3 Season of the Devil (19.55) 4041 DRA Koko-di Koko-da (22.55) MESSY? 4031 GÖ3 Evelyn (12.35) 4082 HAGA 2 Working Woman (17.35) 21.45 16.45 789 GÖ1 Murder Me, Monster (23.35) Don’t worry. Leave it to us. 12.00 74 8 HAND Arctic (18.25) 790 BIOP 7 Srbenka (23.00) 713 STOR Stan & Ollie (13.40) 74 9 AFT Women and Comedy (17.45) 714 ROY The Quake (13.50) 22.00 We make sure that your material reaches its destination safe and sound. 715 CHA Yuli (13.50) 17.00 791 HAGA 1 A Family Submerged (23.35) If you have one film or if you have thousands, we possess all the tools 716 HAND In My Room (14.00) 750 CHA Ash is Purest White (19.20) 792 HAGA 2 Closing Time (24.00) 717 HAGA 2 Apocalypse Now! (13.15) 751 BIOP 1 Widow of Silence (18.25) 793 GÖ2 1985 (23.25) you need to bring your production to the audience it deserves – whether on 4086 CAP Queen of Hearts (14.10) 752 BIOP 8 Fireflies (18.30) 794 BIOP 9 Giant Little Ones (23.35) the silver screen in Seoul or a mobile device in Manchester. SEM FAR Film i Väst Reveals… 795 BIOP 10 Black is Beltza (23.30) – IN SWEDISH (12.30) 17.15 FEST YAK Göteborg Film Festival Official Closing 753 GÖ2 Winter After Winter (19.05) Party (04.00) 12.15 22.30 719 HAGA 1 Patrimonium (13.30) 17.30 796 BIOP 3 Revenge (24.10) 720 GÖ1 The Harvesters (14.00) 754 STOR The House That Jack Built (20.05) 721 BIOP 3 Season (13.15) 755 CAP Harajuku (18.55) 23.59 WE MOVE YOUR CONTENT 756 GÖ1 Ditte & Louise (19.15) 797 ROY Dachra (25.50) 12.30 758 BIOP 2 The Gospel of Eureka (18.45) 722 DRA The Eras of Gothenburg (14.05) 723 AFT Second Life (13.40) 17.45 724 FRÖ Still Recording (14.30) 759 BIOP 7 Obscuro Barroco (18.45) 725 GÖ2 Mademoiselle de Joncquières (14.20) 760 BIOP 9 Rojo (19.35) SEM FAR Work in Progress: 438 Days 4028 GÖ3 Make Me Up (19.15) Surbrunnsgatan 6 SE-411 19 Göteborg +46 (0)31 339 95 70 www.undertext.se – IN SWEDISH (13.15) 18.00 762 HAGA 2 Keep It in the Family (19.25) 763 BIOP 10 Rona, Azim’s Mother (19.30)

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Sunday February 3 15.00 886 HAGA 2 The Apollo of Gaza (21.20) 844 DRA At Eternity’s Gate (16.50) 887 AFT Theatre of War (21.25) 09.45 845 CAP Domingo (16.35) 888 GÖ2 Widow of Silence (21.25) 798 HAGA 2 A Thousand Girls Like Me (11.05) 847 FRÖ Phoenix (16.30) 889 BIOP 1 Gwen (21.25) 799 BIOP 8 A Film About Jörn Donner (10.45) 846 CAP Winning Film: The Ingmar Bergman 890 BIOP 2 Heartbound (21.30) International Debut Award 891 BIOP 3 Dachra (21.50) 10.00 SEM FAR Climate Change Adaptation in 4063 HAND Kursk (22.00) 800 DRA The Hummingbird Project (11.55) Gothenburg – a meeting with Henrik 802 ROY Aquarela (11.30) Kant – IN SWEDISH (15.45) 20.15 803 CAP Funan (11.25) 4089 BIOP 10 Mademoiselle de Joncquières (22.10) 804 CHA Ditte & Louise (11.45) 15.30 892 BIOP 7 Wild Relatives (21.25) 805 HAND Sonja – The White Swan (11.55) 849 CHA The Quake (17.20) 893 BIOP 8 Black Mother (21.35) 806 HAGA 1 The Eyes of Orson Welles (11.50) 850 HAND Gods of Molenbeek (16.45) 4062 ROY I’ll Be Gone (21.55) 807 AFT Belmonte (11.15) 851 AFT The Dead and the Others (17.25) 808 FRÖ Pichku’s Dream (11.55) 852 GÖ2 Djon África (17.10) 20.45 809 GÖ1 Fireflies (11.30) 4064 BIOP 9 A Man is Dead (21.55) 810 GÖ2 Patrimonium (11.15) 16.00 811 BIOP 1 Neon Heart (11.30) 853 BIOP 1 The Deposit (17.30) 812 BIOP 2 Before the Frost (11.40) 854 BIOP 2 Seder-Masochism (17.20) 813 BIOP 3 Moa Martinson - Landsmodern (11.30) 855 BIOP 7 Divine Wind (17.40) Monday February 4 814 BIOP 7 Los Reyes (11.20) 815 BIOP 9 Up the Mountain (12.10) 16.15 13.45 816 BIOP 10 Crystal Swan (11.35) 857 BIOP 3 I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband 897 DRA Our Time (16.45) Fangirl Story (17.50) 898 CAP Open Hearts (15.40) 11.00 4057 BIOP 10 El Pepe: A Supreme Life (17.30) 817 BIOP 8 Dead Souls (19.30) 17.30 16.30 899 DRA Never Look Away (20.40) 11.30 858 BIOP 9 Meili (18.00) 900 CAP Cold Case Hammarskjöld (19.35) We’re not just in the 818 HAGA 2 Apocalypse Now! (12.45) 16.45 20.00 11.45 4060 STOR Sons of Denmark (18.45) 901 CAP Koko-di Koko-da (21.25) 4046 GÖ2 Transnistra (13.25) shipping business, 17.00 21.00 12.00 859 FRÖ Golden Youth (19.00) 902 DRA The Man Who Killed Don 819 CAP Loro (14.30) Quixote (23.15) we’re in the problem 820 CHA The House That Jack Built (14.35) 17.15 821 AFT A Fortunate Man (14.45) 860 CAP Winning Film: Dragon Award Best 822 GÖ3 The Miracle (20.00) Nordic Film 823 BIOP 1 The Great Buster (13.45) solving business. 824 BIOP 2 The Gospel of Eureka (13.15) 17.30 825 BIOP 3 Aren’t You Happy? (13.20) 861 ROY Long Day’s Journey Into Night (19.45) 826 BIOP 7 Emma Peeters (13.30) 862 HAND The Man Who Surprised Everyone (19.10) With over 400,000 people across 12.15 863 HAGA 1 The Mercy of the Jungle (19.05) 828 BIOP 10 Murder Me, Monster (14.05) 864 GÖ1 Under the Wire (19.05) the globe, we’re here to help you 4058 STOR Recollections and Rediscovery: Swedish amateur films (13.40) 17.45 figure it out and get it done – 865 DRA Ben is Back (19.30) 12.30 867 CHA A Faithful Man (19.00) whatever “it” is. Our global shipping 829 DRA Swoon (14.15) 868 GÖ2 Christian IV (19.15) 830 HAND Monrovia, Indiana (14.55) team can help you find solutions 831 HAGA1 Vinnarfilmen: Dragon Award Best 18.00 Nordic Documentary 869 HAGA 2 The Sentence (19.30) 832 FRÖ Happier Times, Grump (14.25) 870 AFT Sir (19.40) to grow your business, expand 833 GÖ1 Joy (14.15) 871 BIOP 1 Arctic (19.40) 4052 BIOP 9 Kvinnor och komedi - förr 872 BIOP 2 A Land Imagined (19.40) overseas, or optimize your supply och nu (13.30) 873 BIOP 7 Hamada (19.30) 8 74 BIOP 10 The Trial of Ratko Mladić (19.40) chain with our expertise and 13.15 835 HAGA 2 An Elephant Sitting Still (17.10) 18.15 innovative technology. 875 BIOP 3 Siblings of the Cape (19.45) 14.00 836 GÖ2 Little Moscow (15.00) 18.45 837 BIOP 1 3 Faces (15.40) 876 BIOP 9 Petra (20.30) Find solutions at ups.com. 838 BIOP 2 The Other Munch (14.50) 839 BIOP 3 Cities of Last Things (15.50) 19.30 840 BIOP 7 Central Airport THF (15.40) 877 FRÖ The Saint Bernard Syndicate (21.10) 4061 STOR Can You Ever Forgive Me? (21.20) 14.15 4053 BIOP 9 The Harvesters (16.00) 19.45 879 HAGA 1 Animation Maximation (21.15) 14.30 4042 CHA Sonja – The White Swan (21.40) 841 BIOP 10 Winter Flies (15.55) 4056 GÖ1 Queen of Hearts (21.55) 4059 STOR Koko-di Koko-da (15.55) 878 CAP Winning Film: Dragon Award Best International Film 14.45 843 GÖ1 Cold Case Hammarskjöld (16.50) 20.00 881 DRA High Life (21.50)

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AD_GothenburgFilmFestival_18_210x260mm.indd 1 11/6/18 4:07 PM From: With the Wind Film Festival 42nd Göteborg

From Woman at War

The World’s Most Focus: Apocalypse Claustrophobic Cinema

Alone, confined and exposed. This year, the Is the world coming to an end? Temperatures and sea festival wants to explore what happens when levels are rising, and extreme weather is increasingly you watch a film under extreme conditions. Audiences are offered the opportunity to watch common. The reports keep coming in and there is an the epic sci-fi odysseyAniara and experience Welcome to the Göteborg Film the end of the world, trapped in a custom-made impending sense of doom. This is the backdrop of the sarcophagus, in the world’s most claustrophobic Festival, the leading film festival in cinema. Scandinavia. For its 42nd edition, Göteborg Film Festival’s Focus: Apocalypse programme. the festival presents an amazing programme of 400 films from 83 In Focus: Apocalypse, the festival delves into illustrate the theme in different ways. Among countries over 11 intense days, from how today’s filmmakers visualise the future the titles is the hotly anticipated film adapta- January 25 to February 4. in the context of the climate crisis. What tion of Harry Martinson’s Aniara, directed by problems interest them? How do they portray Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja, which sees the anxiety and the emotional, philosophical, its Nordic premiere in the festival’s Nordic In addition, the festival features and political dilemmas that face the human Competition. seminars, panels, parties, live music, species today – a species that must face up and a great industry programme. to the increasing likelihood of its own ruin? Read more about Focus: Apocalypse at These questions will be expounded on and goteborgfilmfestival.se given much space in our seminar programme. Read more about the festival’s annual US writer and climate expert Roy Scranton focus, special programmes, guests, is on hand to lead a master class that inu- agurates the Focus: Apocalypse programme. and the competition on the following Focus: Apocalypse includes a number pages. of new fiction and documentary films that

34 35 The Göteborg Film Festival

hosts the Willhardt Photo: Kenneth Audentia Award

The Göteborg Film Festival is proud Nordic Honorary Dragon Award 2019: to host the 2019 Audentia Award. The From Britt-Marie Was Here award, created by Eurimages, has previ- Mads Mikkelsen ously been presented at the Interna- tional Istanbul Film Festival (2016), the The Göteborg Film Festival proudly announc- Butchers. Since then, his career has continued Locarno Festival (2017), and the Toronto es this year’s Nordic Honorary Dragon Award along a brilliant and diverse path with out- Out of Tune International Film Festival (2018). recipient: Mads Mikkelsen. Mikkelsen attends standing performances in art-house dramas as Highlighted premieres Audentia – meaning “courage” and the festival to receive the award, lead a master well as major feature films likeCasino Royale, Denmark, Frederikke Aspöck “bravery” in Latin – reflects two vital World premiere, January 30 qualities for any woman wishing to class, and attend the Swedish premiere of Joe Rouge One and Doctor Strange. In 2012, Mik- pursue a career in film directing. With Penna’s Arctic. kelsen played the lead in Thomas Vinterberg’s at Göteborg Film Festival Stylish, musical, well-played drama-comedy the Audentia Award, Eurimages intends Mads Mikkelsen is undoubtedly one of the The Hunt, a role for which he received numer- about a charismatic celebrity entrepreneur to celebrate women who have had the Nordic countries’ foremost actors, with a stellar ous awards, notably the Best Actor Award at Nordic films out of competition courage to make that choice, by giving who is convicted for financial crimes and chal- career in his homeland of Denmark as well as the Festival de Cannes. their work greater visibility and inspiring lenges the leader of the prison choir. other women to follow in their footsteps. on the international scene. His breakthrough Along with Arctic, Mikkelsen also appears came with his feature-film debut in Nicolas at this year’s festival in Julian Schnabel’s At The nominees for the 2019 Audentia Award Winding Refn’s Pusher. Afterwards, he played Eternity’s Gate. The Göteborg Film Festival are: Frederikke Aspöck for Out of Tune Pity the Lovers a major part in the wave of success Danish also offers tribute to Mikkelsen with a retro- (Denmark); Claire Burger for Real Love Swoon Britt-Marie Was Here Sweden/Iceland, Maximilian Hult (France/Belgium); Mia Engberg for Lucky cinema that occurred at the beginning of the spective of a selection of his most acclaimed Sweden, Björn Stein & Måns Mårlind Sweden, Tuva Novotny World premiere: January 27 One (Sweden); Carolina Hellsgård for Endzeit 21st century, with memorable contributions to films. – Ever After (Germany); Eva Ionesco for World premiere: February 2 World Premiere: January 24 Golden Youth (France/Belgium); Sudabeh Flickering Lights, Open Hearts and The Green Irresistible film about the brothers Óskar and Mortezai for Joy (Austria); Tuva Novotny for This year's Closing Film is the world premiere of Swedish actress Pernilla August shines as a Maggi. They are terrified of close relationships, Blind Spot (Norway); Miia Tervo for Aurora the Swedish filmSwoon by Måns Mårlind and reborn 63 year old in Tuva Novotny’s warm and but seek out love and deeper meaning in life. In (Finland); May El-Toukhy for Queen of Hearts (Denmark); and Darya V. Zhuk for Crystal Björn Stein. Spectacular scenery and smoul- touching film adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s completely different ways. Swan (Belarus/USA/Germany/Russia). dering romance in this colorful love story about successful novel. Focus: Nordic Comedy the heirs of two rival amusement parks. The directing duo Mårlind and Stein (Underworld The Unpromised Land Clever cops and mysterious murders long ago established the Nordic crime film as an international Awakening, Shed No Tears, The Bridge) let go Iron Sky – New Gender- phenomenon. But over the last couple of years, Nordic films have developed a new tendency: we have Sweden, Victor Lindgren of the reins and dive into the most dizzying ro- Neutral Acting stopped frightening and started joking. Focus: Nordic Comedy is a tribute to contemporary Nordic The Coming Race World premiere: January 26 mance of the year. comedy and an attempt to understand the social and political role of this humour in today’s culture. Award Finland, Timo Vuorensola Two young women are in focus in this moving The Nordic Comedy has seen success all over the world. Since the European Film Academy launched International premiere: January 25 portrayal of friendship, rebellion and liberation New Gender-Neutral Acting Award a prize for Best European Comedy, four of five winners have been from the Nordic countries. Films and in a summer-green company town in the north This year, the Göteborg Film Festival The Deposit After having hidden Nazis on the dark side of TV series like A Man Called Ove, Dag, The Square, Klovn, Lilyhammer, Rams and The Hundred-Year of Sweden. launches a new prize: the Dragon Award the moon in Iron Sky, the revisionist and cult Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared have made the world turn to the Nordic Iceland, Ásthildur Kjartansdóttir Best Acting. The award is presented to International premiere: January 31 connoisseur Timo Vuorensola is back with a an actor in a film in the Nordic Competi- countries to have a laugh. hectic action-adventure that throws us from tion by the official jury. Read more about During the 2019 Göteborg Film Festival, we highlight the funniest, weirdest, and most provocative Self-interest is at stake, and the fine line be- outer space to the center of Earth. the nominated films and the Nordic work the Nordic countries have on offer right now. Read more at tween kindness and cruelty is explored in Competition jury on page 38. goteborgfilmfestival.se Ásthildur Kjartansdóttir’s graceful debut. Read more about our competitions ->

36 37 Nordic Competition Nordic Competition For the 31st time, Göteborg Film Festival will hand out the The Jury consists of: Adina Pintilie, award for best Nordic film, Dragon Award Best Nordic Film. All Director, Romania; Nick James, Editor of Nordic Competition Sight & Sound, UK; Dominga Sotomayor, in all, ten films are included in the competition, which offers a director, Chile; Joyti Mistry, Director & Dragon Award Best Nordic Film prize sum of one million SEK that is handed out in cooperation Professor, South Africa; and Hanne-Vibeke NORDIC COMPETITION with Volvo Car Group, Region Västra Götaland and City of Holst, Author, Denmark. Gothenburg. The winner of the award will be announced at the Dragon Award gala on Saturday, February 2.

Aurora Harajuku Partying nail technician with attachment issues becomes a match-maker for an Iranian refugee Ines Høysæter Asserson is brilliant as the teenage Vilde, who lives colorful Japanese pop culture in Miia Tervo’s irresistible debut. With exuberant energy and disarming, dark humor, Miia Tervo tells and dreams about traveling to Harajuku. It’s the day before Christmas Eve and Vilde’s mom jumps a story of loneliness, everyday racism, and alcoholism in an intelligent romantic comedy that plays from the balcony. Crushed and without a family, Vilde finds her way to her best friends at Oslo Central with prejudices and genre conventions. Aurora is a funny and complicated party girl who wants to Station. Social services force her to contact her absent father and they reluctantly decide to meet at exchange her crappy life for something better in Norway. Darian is a melancholy refugee from Iran the station. Maybe he can help her with the plane ticket to Japan? Ines Høysæter Asserson (Thea in who needs to get married fast so he and his daughter can stay in Finland. Aurora agrees to helping Skam) presents an unforgettable role interpretation, and with astute precision, Eirik Svensson shows him, and quickly finds potential wives – some of which are even younger than 80. Mimosa Willamo that he, like no one else, can describe teenage yearning and alienation. Not least through the beautiful, puts verve and presence in the title role of stylish and charming film about the transformative power manga-inspired animations and the dreamlike pictures from Harajuku. Cia Edström Jonas Holmberg of love. Director: Eirik Svensson . Fiction . Norway 2018 . Runtime: 83 min . International Premiere . Director: Miia Tervo . Fiction . Finland 2019 . Runtime: 106 min . World Premiere .

Blind Spot Blindsone Sons of Denmark Danmarks sønner Tuva Novotny’s impressive directorial debut is a deeply gripping family drama in which Pia Tjelta Hatred and distrust has taken over Denmark in Ulaa Salim’s powerful political thriller about ex- gives a strong performance of a mother in crisis. For decades, Tuva Novotny has been one of the treme voices in a dystopian near future. What would it take for a Nordic country to tip over and Nordic countries’ most cherished actors. Now she’s taken up the director’s chair evincing both perceptive alternate rhetoric for violence? In Sons of Denmark, a terror attack in the metro creates the breeding intimacy and impressive artistic courage. In one single take she tells the story of Maria (Tjelta) who’s ground for the advancement of the extreme right. One year after the bombing an election is held trying to understand what happened to her teenage daughter. In the catastrophic spotlight, Maria in Denmark and the nationalist leader Martin Nordahl’s party is victorious, at the same time as the and her husband Anders (Anders Baasmo Christiansen) are hurdled into 90 minutes of emotional violent network Sons of Denmark terrorizes Arabic minority on the streets. The young Zakaria wants chaos that forever changes them. The already prize-awarded Blind Spot immediately establishes to resist, and meets the mentor Ali who pulls him into an violent cell where he is recruited to murder Tuva Novotny as one of Sweden’s foremost film directors. Seminar: Dragon Award Nominee: Tuva Martin Nordahl. But everything is not as it seems in Ulaa Salim’s thought-provoking and politically Novotny, Sat Jan 26, 15.30, Festivalarenan. Jonas Holmberg urgent debut film. Jonas Holmberg

Director: Tuva Novotny . Fiction . Norway 2018 . Runtime: 103 min . Swedish Premiere . Director: Ulaa Salim. Fiction . Denmark 2019 . Runtime: 120 min . Nordic Premiere .

Aniara Season Säsong People flee Earth as it faces ruin from war and environmental destruction in this existential sci-fi With lyrical film images and mystical tall tales from the Scanian twilight, John Skoog approach- drama based on the Nobel Prize-winning author Harry Martinson’s titular work. The emigrating es the people in the village where he grew up, Kvidinge. John Skoog is a unique filmmaker, who in people aboard the colossal spaceship Aniara find themselves among restaurants and shopping almost all of his poetic films starts off with people and phenomena in northern Scania. Several of malls. Earth is doomed, but modern life seems to go on as usual. Yet soon after takeoff Aniara col- his short films have been shown at GFF, and Reduit was awarded the festival’s short film prize Start- lides with meteorites and is thrown off course, which drastically changes everything. The onboard sladden in 2015. His feature film debut Season is built up around a number of tales from Kvidinge. computer Mima, which helps its users re-experience life on Earth, becomes important for the people Some of the are mundane, while others border on the magical. Agricultural leaves a huge imprint on onboard. Pella Kågerman and Huga Lilja’s debut film raises a critic of civilization while placing hu- the location – its fields, machines and workers. With the help of cinematographer Ita Zbroniec-Zajt, manity in a universal context where its modest and fragile existence becomes alarmingly tangible Skoog succeeds at creating worldly but hypnotizing film images that make the familiar something and concrete. Tobias Åkesson foreign and the trivial poetry. Jonas Holmberg

Director: Hugo Lilja, Pella Kågerman . Fiction . Sweden 2018 . Runtime: 106 min . Nordic Premiere . Director: John Skoog . Fiction . Sweden 2019 . Runtime: 71 min . World Premiere .

Lucky One Koko-di Koko-da Well-poised, intelligent and apt as Mia Engberg goes from documentary to fiction and explores Snorting, sadistic humor, and pitch-black narrative pleasure in Johannes Nyholm’s playful follow-up “the visual silence.” Just as in Engberg’s Guldbagge-awarded documentary Belleville Baby (GFF to the Guldbagge-awarded The Giant and Las Palmas. A few years ago, Elin and Tobias lost their 2013), a dialog between Mia and Vincent is in progress. “Yes, but imagine if,” Mia says, and unfolds a child in a tragic accident. Now they are off on a camping trip in hope of finding their way back to long story that is not possible. Together with the recalcitrant Vincent, she develops a painful, modern each other. But when Elin wakes up early one morning and needs to pee, three strange figures show and at the same time timeless tale. The aging gangster Vincent works long nights and dreams about up and thus begins a nightmare scenario that seems to have no end. Like a hellish Groundhog Day, another life. When he is unexpectedly given responsibility for his teenage daughter, Adina, life begins a ghastly scene runs on repeat, with small variations. And each attempt to get out of it leads back to change. The film takes place in Paris and at a secret place somewhere near you. Maja Kekonius to the same claustrophobic scenario. Nyholm’s skillful directing keeps you in its uncanny grasp and Maja Kekonius Director: Mia Engberg . Fiction . Sweden 2019 . Runtime: 78 min . World Premiere . puts the roles of partnership under the microscope. Director: Johannes Nyholm . Fiction. Sweden/Denmark 2019 . Runtime: 86 min . Nordic Premiere .

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Queen of Hearts Dronningen A brilliant Trine Dyrholm uses her entire register when May El-Toukhy explores the limits of desire and the destructive power of lies. Anne (Dyrholm) runs a successful legal firm that specializes in children and youths. She and her husband Peter (Magnus Krepper) live a life where their successful careers coordinate with their twins’ horse riding lessons and lovely moments in the family’s enormous designer home in a lush suburb of Copenhagen. The face of this superficially perfect life cracks when Gustav, Peter’s teenage son from a previous relationship, shows up. Peter has a hard time getting close to his estranged son, but Anne finds a way of making contact. In the warm summer, Anne and Gustav’s relationship develops into something forbidden that risks ruining everything. Maja Kekonius

Director: May el-Toukhy . Fiction . Denmark 2019 . Runtime: 127 min . .

Sonja – The White Swan Sonja Anne Sewitsky’s biopic about the Norwegian figure-skating superstar Sonja Henie is a thrilling drama about personal rise and fall. There are no limits for Sonja Henie. She has already won ten world championships and three Olympic gold medals. Now she wants to become a film star, and when she is offered a supporting role in Hollywood, she makes sure to instead get contracts for the leading role in four feature films. Of course, success follows. Her enormous appetite for money, men and parties makes her an obvious central figure in night life. She readily brushes off setbacks and smiles with her invincible, triumphant smile, and most times it works. Anne Sewitsky (Homesick, GFF 2015; Happy Happy, GFF 2011) provides a sure-footed portrayal of Henie’s rise and fall – and from such heights it’s hard and painful. Maja Kekonius

Director: Anne Sewitsky . Fiction . Norway 2019 . Runtime: 115 min . European Premiere .

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40 41 International Competition International Competition The International Competition includes 20 international International Competition films and the winner will be selected by the festival audience. Dragon Award Best International Film along with 50 000 SEK Dragon Award Best International Film (approx. 5000 euros) is awarded to the winner. Dragon Award INTERNATIONAL Best International Film is presented by Göteborgs-Posten. The COMPETITION winner of the award will be announced at the Dragon Award gala on Saturday, February 2.

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Rafiki Our Struggles Nos batailles Irresistible and vibrant emotional cocktail about forbidden love among youths, which has been Belgian family drama that goes right to your heart! Romain Duris shines in his role as an aban- praised across the world but banned in Kenya due to it “promoting lesbianism.” Wanuri Kahiu dives doned father-of-two struggling to balance work, family and interests. Olivier (Duris) works at a into joy, butterflies and problems surrounding the first love of youth in this wonderful film about love, warehouse and also works another job as a union representative. He shows an enormous sense of pain and rebellion against a homophobic society. Kahiu has described her vision of future African film justice at work, but at home he is more absent. That his wife does not feel well is not something he as “Afrobubblegum,” and tells the story of the skater Kena and the extravagant Ziki in a film that is takes notice of – and one day she has left the family and Olivier is alone with two kids. Our Struggles sweet and colorful, but also sticks to your head. When the Kenyan authorities finally lifted the cen- highlights life’s big questions and feelings, but the portrayal hits a perfect chord and without giving sorship placed on the film, which was produced with support from the Göteborg Film Festival’s film way to sentimentalism, haughty moralizing, or complete darkness. Instead, the melancholy of the fund, it immediately became a success. Jonas Holmberg film and existence share their allotted space with humor and warmth. Which is why Our Struggles is Andreas Degerhammar Director: Wanuri Kahiu . Fiction . Kenya/South Africa/France/Netherlands/Germany/Norway 2018 . Runtime: one of the festival’s most captivating films. Bring tissues! 83 min . Swedish Premiere . Director: Guillaume Senez . Fiction . Belgium/France 2018 . Runtime: 98 min . Swedish Premiere .

Summer Leto Joy Love, rebellion and rock’n’roll. Kirill Serebrennikov’s acclaimed film about the Russian rock pioneer One of this year’s most praised films, and an exceptionally powerful and moving drama about the Viktor Tsoï is cinematographic magic and just as beautiful as important. Leningrad, early eighties, Nigerian Joy who gets caught up in trafficking and prostitution in contemporary Europe. This the period just before perestroika. Smuggled vinyl albums by Lou Reed and David Bowie inspire a multiply prize-awarded drama is about a young woman who made her way to Europe to try to create growing Russian underground scene brimming with magic and creativity. But the power’s resistance a better life for her family, her daughter and herself. Now she living with other women in an apartment to Western influence is rock solid. It is in this environment that the rock star Mike and his wife Na- in Vienna. They sell sex but most of the money they earn goes to their “Madame,” who has confiscat- tasha meet a young Viktor Tsoï. Together they permanently change the musical landscape of the ed their passports until they have paid off their debt. As director and scriptwriter, Sudabeh Mortezai Soviet Union. Leto is undeniably one of this year’s most beautiful films with scenography and cine- unsentimentally portrays the brutal everyday life of these women. Joy Alphonsus is unrivaled in the matography to die for. But it is a story that burns when Serebrennikov lets the politicized times stand leading role of the same name, Joy, a woman who with indomitable resolution challenges a system as a backdrop to a love triangle filled with passion, rock’n’roll and resistsance. Andreas Degerhammar that seems to be designed to break her down. Johan Blomqvist

Director: Kirill Serebrennikov . Fiction . Russia/France 2018 . Runtime: 120 min . Swedish Premiere . Director: Sudabeh Mortezai . Fiction . Austria 2018 . Runtime: 101 min . Nordic Premiere .

Claire Darling La dernière folie de Claire Darling Too Late to Die Young Tarde para morir joven Iconic actress Catherine Deneuve excels in a new, defining role as the eccentric Claire Darling, 16-year-old Sofia rides a motorcycle and sings The Bangles’s “Eternal Flame” in a poetic and mu- who suddenly decides to sell off all her earthly possessions. Claire is drawing towards the close of sical drama about searching for freedom and yourself. In the summer of 1990, Pinochet’s military life and on the first day of summer she decides to empty the house and arrange an ad hoc yard sale, dictatorship has just fallen, and the sun’s pale light rests atop a few families who live in a collective selling off furniture and exclusive antiques gathered over the course of an eventful life at bargain at the foot of the Andes. There they want to build something new and free in democratic Chile. At prices. Word of the event quickly spreads far beyond the borders of the little village of Verdonnere the center of the story is Sofia, an androgynous teenager whose smoking, flirting, and desire are all in northern France and soon Claire’s daughter Marie (played by Deneuve’s real-life daughter Chiara portrayed with incredibly sensitivity and presence by the debuting Demian Hernández. As Domina Mastrioanni) arrives, worried about her mother’s behaviour. The reunion is a chilly one, hampered by Sotomayor follows up the successful debut Thursday Till Sunday (GFF 2013) with this prize-winning old disputes. Julie Bertuccelli (Since Otar Left, GFF 2004, School of Babel), is back with a charming, growing-up drama, we see one of our time’s most interesting artistic careers take shape. Jonas Holmberg Johan Blomqvist elegant and brilliantly acted family drama. Director: Dominga Sotomayor . Fiction . Chile/Brazil/Argentina/Netherlands/Qatar 2018 . Runtime: 110 min . Swedish Premiere . Director: Julie Bertuccelli . Fiction . France 2018 . Runtime: 94 min . Nordic Premiere .

Golden Youth Une jeunesse dorée The Harvesters Die stropers Eva Ionesco deepens her collaboration with Isabelle Huppert in this sensuous indulgence in the An unwanted foster brother makes life fall apart for 15-year-old Janno in an intense coming-of- eighties about a young couple challenged by chic, upper-class bohemians. The orphaned 16-year- age film about drugs, religion and bruised masculinity in white South Africa. 15-year-old Janno old Rose leaves for Paris and parties with her boyfriend Michel at the legendary night club Le Palace, has grown up in a conservative family in the South African countryside. He has never really felt at where the decadence is both beautiful and unrestrained. During one of the many unbridled nights home there and his homosexual awakening chafes the family’s free-church traditions. The balance out they meet Lucille (Huppert) and Hubert (Melvil Poupaud), a bohemian couple in their fifties who in the nuclear family is upset when the family brings home a foster child that is Janno’s age. As his live in a huge house outside of Paris. It doesn’t take long before all four of them are living togeth- difficult background and drug addiction are revealed, the temperature rises in this tight-knit drama er – they love each other, fight each other, take drugs, make art, have sex and marry in one of film that weaves together historical, ethnic and social conflicts that simmer beneath the surface among history’s most alternative wedding ceremonies. After the autobiographical debut My Little Princess the once privileged Afrikaners. With distressingly beautiful cinematography and marvelous acting (GFF 2012), Ionesco continues to explore the borders between art, power and sexuality. Jonas Holmberg performances, Etienne Kallos’ film stands as one of this year’s most impressive debuts. Olle Agebro

Director: Eva Ionesco . Fiction . France/Belgium 2019 . Runtime: 118 min . Nordic Premiere . Director: Etienne Kallos . Fiction . South Africa/France/Greece/Poland 2018 . Runtime: 107 min . Nordic

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Maya Fireflies Luciérnagas With great precision and an unfailing sense for nuances, Mia Hansen-Løve (Thngs to Come, Eden) Prize-winning filmmaker Bani Khoshnoudi (Ziba GFF 2013) returns to Göteborg with a poignant presents a bitter-sweet story about love and healing. The French war correspondent Gabriel (Han- migration drama about love, sexuality and survival. Due to the sexual and violent oppression that sen-Løve favorite Roman Kolinka) has just survived a hostage situation in Syria and is now fumbling the young Iranian Ramin is subjected to in his home country, he decides to leave. But he boards the to find a way to move forward in life after this trauma. He returns to the area in Indian Goa where he wrong cargo ship and by mistake ends up in the chaotic harbor city of Veracruz in Mexico. Without spent a significant portion of his upbringing. There, he has a godfather, the charismatic hotel owner money and without knowing the language, he is forced to constantly battle cultural clashes and Monty. But it is the meeting with his daughter Maya (debuting actress Aarshi Banerjee) that turns other hardships. His despair is increased by feelings of guilt and an unbearable sense of missing out to be most significant for Gabriel. In Hansen-Løve’s hands, everyday simplicity is charged with the people he loves – but giving up is not an option. Fireflies is an incredibly strong and beautiful deeper meaning, and the story’s magical glow is further-highlighted by Hélène Louvart’s first-class story about love, sexuality, freedom, migration and – above all – survival. At any price. Clarice Goulart Johan Blomqvist camerawork. Director: Bani Khoshnoudi . Fiction . Mexico/United States/Greece/Dominican Republic 2018 . Runtime: 87 min . Nordic Premiere . Director: Mia Hansen-Løve . Fiction . France/Germany 2018 . Runtime: 107 min . Swedish Premiere .

Rojo Giant Little Ones A prize-winning and critically acclaimed noir drama about one man’s decline, and a chilling por- Charming high school film about sexuality and identity. A warm and affectionate portrayal of trayal of an Argentina that completely lost is moral compass. Benjamín Naishtat tackles the youth’s freedom, longing and – narrowmindedness. Franky’s life changes on his 17th birthday when turbulence in Argentina during the seventies with a somewhat absurd story about the esteemed he gets too close to his best friend Ballas. He goes from being a popular sports hunk to a potential small-town lawyer Claudio, whose perfect facade ruptures when a private detective begins asking victim of bullying. The rumor about his homosexuality is worsened by his father leaving the family uncomfortable questions. Claudio proves to have something to hide, both with respect to a miss- for a man. As the people around him step away from him, Franky and his friends decide who they ing person and his involvement in a highly dubious real-estate deal. One is reminded of Hitchcock are and want to be. The theme has been portrayed before in high school dramas, but rarely this as the tension successively rises and nothing seems to be what it first appears. Rojo is not just this nuanced, tender and with such richly illustrated characters. Several wonderful supporting roles gild year’s most stylistically solid drama-thriller, it is also an acute portrayal of a time characterized by the film, not least Kyle MacLachlan and Maria Bello as Franky’s parents. Giant Little Ones is a true corruption, abuse of power, and paranoia. Johan Blomqvist gem. Andreas Degerhammar

Director: Benjamín Naishtat . Fiction . Argentina/Belgium/Germany/France/Switzerland/Brazil 2018 . Runti- Director: Keith Behrman . Fiction . Canada 2018 . Runtime: 93 min . International Premiere .

Sorry Angel Plaire, aimer et courir vite Petra Author sick with AIDS meets youth with a thirst for life after a conversation about books in Chris- Spanish family drama packed with secrets, lies and drama. Petra confirms that Jaime Rosales is tophe Honoré’s queer homage to love, literature and the nineties. The French, queer film-profile one of Europe’s most exciting directors. After her mother’s passing, Petra decides to find out who her Christophe Honoré returns to his childhood Brittany in a love drama about the 40-year-old author father is. Convinced that it is Jaume – an acclaimed and especially unsympathetic artist – she takes Jacques who, due to his illness, has already entered the end of his life. After an author appearance up study with him. It all goes off-kilter and becomes a wild family drama with intrigues that make in Rennes, he meets the handsome and carefree student Arthur who is in contrast ready to throw Almodóvar seem toned-down. Rosales won the Ingmar Bergman competition with the masterpiece himself whole-heartedly into life and love. Parallel to the film’s melancholic, tragic streak runs an Solitary Fragments (GFF 2008). Since then Rosales has experimented with the cinematic expression in equally bouncy, intimate and humorous love story, which takes the passionate couple from the three films (all shown at GFF). Petra is his most audience-friendly film to date – a driven and thrilling rainy west coast to the cultural circles of Paris. The nineties feeling is made complete with loads of melodrama – but he would not be Rosales if he didn’t play with narration and form. Which he does contemporary pop music and a romantic cinema visit to Jane Campion’s The Piano. Jonas Holmberg with that honor! Andreas Degerhammar

Director: Christophe Honoré . Fiction . France 2018 . Runtime: 133 min . Swedish Premiere . Director: Jaime Rosales . Fiction . Spain/France/Denmark 2018 . Runtime: 105 min . Swedish Premiere .

A Land Imagined Angelo Bored police officer tries to find a missing Chinese construction worker in an acclaimed film noir A young black man comes as a slave to Austria in the eighteenth century, is dressed like a noble that won the Golden Leopard at Locarno. After a workplace accident in Singapore, the Chinese man and becomes a mascot of the upper class. Angelo is based on the story of Angelo Soliman, guest-worker Wang goes underground. He has no passport and cannot return home, but begins sup- one of the Austrian Enlightenment’s most controversial figures. He comes to Austria at a very young porting himself by working as a chauffeur. He has a hard time sleeping and spends his nights at an age, most likely from Nigeria or northern Cameroon. Once he is in Vienna he is raised and taught in internet café, where he falls in love with the manager. At the same time, the disinterested police officer accordance with the aristocracy’s standards, and rises eventually in rank until he becomes the high- Lok is tasked with finding Wang. During their investigation, the policeman is forced to learn more about est manservant at the royal court. The limits of Angelo’s freedoms are drawn when he decides in all the conditions in the environments where the poor migrant workers live in the huge city. Freddy Olsson secrecy to marry a white woman. He is shunned by the nobility and forced to find a footing a world

Director: Siew Hua Yeo . Fiction . Singapore/France/Netherlands 2018 . Runtime: 96 min . Nordic Premiere . without set rules. In precision form, Markus Schleinzer captures through burlesque and pantomime, a costume drama with close connections to today. Freddy Olsson

Director: Markus Schleinzer . Fiction . Austria/Luxembourg 2018 . Runtime: 111 min . Nordic Premiere .

Real Love C’est ça l’amour The River Ozen Bouli Lanners shines as the involuntary single father of teenagers in Claire Burger’s earnest and Distant cousin presents iPads to five tight-knit brothers in a remote Kazakhstani farm in this hyp- elegant drama about parenthood and family ties. Claire Burger solo debuts as director and script- notizing Venice-winner. The oldest brother Aslan is his strict father’s substitute at the isolated farm writer after having won the debut prize in Cannes together with two codirectors for Party Girl (GFF deep in a remote area of Kazakhstan. He fairly delegates work to his four young brothers and takes 2015). And she does this with an equally as well-acted as well-written family drama about a mid- them to the deep river. One day the brothers’ life takes a new turn when a young man comes to visit. dle-age father of teenagers who suddenly has to shoulder responsibility for the entire family. Bouli The mysterious city boy shows them computer games and opens a door to the world. When he sud- Lanners (Rust and Bone, The Giants) plays Mario, whose wife suddenly leaves him with the daughters Niki and Frida and their turbulent teen relationship problems. She cuts off communication complete- denly disappears the family ties are put to the test. With parallels to Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth, ly, and Mario unexpectedly applies for a drama course as a last means of reaching out to her. Real the acclaimed filmmaker Emir Gaigazin’s (Harmony Lessons) paints a unique and immortal piece of Love is a warm, charming, and very authentic film, which received a well-deserved prize at the film art. His stripped-down and ethereally beautiful film language speaks to all senses. Niclas Goldberg festival in Venice. Johan Blomqvist Director: Emir Baigazin . Fiction . Kazakhstan/Poland/Norway 2018 . Runtime: 114 min . Nordic Premiere . Director: Claire Burger . Fiction . France/Belgium 2018 . Runtime: 99 min . Nordic Premiere .

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In Fabric Film i Väst congratulates its co-productions Peter Strickland is back with a silly, violent, and dark-humored giallo story about a murderous dress that goes berserk in a warehouse. A must for all genre film fans. An irate dress tries to kill the women who wear it in Peter Strickland’s (Berberian Sound Studio, The Duke of Burgundy) com- Dragon Award ical, bloody and ultra-kooky elegy about the golden age of swanky department stores. In Fabric is a spectacle of wonderful figures that move through and about the shopping mecca – from morbid Best Nordic Film shop assistants with a fondness for mannequins that bleed menstrual blood to a murderous washing LUCKY ONE machine busy tearing up the entire store. It is Lynchian, it is ridiculous, and it has so much body fluids that you will need a life vest to survive this genre film massacre. Olle Agebro Mia Engberg Director: Peter Strickland . Fiction . United Kingdom 2018 . Runtime: 118 min . Swedish Premiere . Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary COLD CASE The Man Who Surprised HAMMARSKJÖLD Everyone Tchelovek kotorij udivil vseh Mads Brügger Russian fairy tale crossed with gender-transcending modernity, as the forest ranger Egor tries to cheat death in this multiply prize-awarded Siberian drama. Merkulova and Chupov’s (Intimate Parts, GFF 2014) second feature film is an impressive, formally mature play with death. Egor, who works hunting poachers in the Siberian wilderness, receives startling notice – that he has cancer and only two months left to live. His wife Natalia (Natalya Kudryashova, well-earned acting prize in Venice) refuses to accept this death sentence and shoves her husband off to new doctors and questionable healers. But Egor chooses a significantly more surprising route to avoid his fate. This is a beautiful, terrifying and thought-provoking film that digs deep into its characters’ psyches and challenges conceptions about sex and gender. Johan Blomqvist Dragon Award Director: Natasha Merkulova, Alexey Chupov . Fiction . Russia/Estonia/France 2018 . Runtime: 106 min . Best Nordic Film Nordic Premiere . KOKO-DI KOKO-DA Johannes Nyholm Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary PARNING Lina Mannheimer

Dragon Award Startsladden Best Nordic Film SORRY NOT SORRY SÄSONG Julia Thelin John Skoog

Startsladden ZLATAN I ALPERNA Monne Lindström

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46 47 Nordic Documentary Competition Nordic Documentary Competition For the seventh time, eight Nordic films are nominated for The Jury consists of: Yolande Zauberman, the Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary. The winner Director, France; Mika Gustafson, Director, Nordic Documentary Competition Sweden; Martijn te Pas, Senior Programmer receives services from the post-production company Chimney IDFA, Netherlands. Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary for a value of SEK 250,000. The winner of the award will be NORDIC DOCUMENTARY announced at the Dragon Award gala on Saturday, February 2. COMPETITION

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Transnistra Gods of Molenbeek Aatos ja Amine Film poet Anna Eborn fascinates in a touching and beautiful film about youth, love and friendship Debut with a secure sense of style about six-year-old Aatos who is looking for their own gods in in the remarkable breakaway republic Transnistria. With headstrong films such as Pine Ridge (GFF a world shaken by suicide bombers. The district of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean in Brussels has become 2014), Epifanía (GFF 2017) and Lida (GFF 2018), Anna Eborn has stepped forth as one of our time’s world-famous as a center of jihadism, but for six-year-old Aatos and his friend Amine, it is a familiar most interesting Swedish documentary filmmakers. Now she’s traveled to Transnistria – an unrec- home. Here, they listen to spiders, discover black holes, and fight about what is going to steer a flying ognized breakaway republic that has its own currency, army, and a flag donned with a hammer and carpet. Together they search for the answers to life’s big questions. But the brutality of the adult world sickle. In this country undergoing an identity crisis, 16-year-old Tanya hangs out with her friends. In makes itself known when terrorists detonate a bomb in the neighborhood. Aaatos envies Amine’s intimate and poetic images, Eborn portrays how the Transnistrian youths socialize, make out, and Muslim faith and looks for his own gods, although his classmate Flo questions him; she is strongly fall hopelessly in love. Jonas Holmberg convinced that anyone who believes in God is completely nuts. Gods of Molenbeek is a wonderful Maja Kekonius Director: Anna Eborn . Documentary . Sweden/Denmark/Belgium 2019 . Runtime: 100 min . Nordic Premiere . portrayal of childhood friendship, inquiry and the creation of meaning in a chaotic time. Director: Reetta Huhtanen . Documentary . Finland/Belgium/Germany 2019 . Runtime: 72 min . International

Patrimonium Den frelste jord Cold Case Hammarskjöld In preposterously beautiful scenery, the Danish gentry fights time by hunting fox, shooting pheas- Dressed in white clothes, a safari helmet, and the Phantom’s ring around his finger, filmmaker Mads ant, and managing real estate. Danish society once rested on the nobles. They tilled the earth, Brügger searches for the truth about Dag Hammarskjöld’s death. In 1961, the secretary-general administrated the economy, and defended the kingdom when the king called upon them. But the of the United Nations, the Swede Dag Hammarskjöld, died in a mysterious plane crash in Ndola in period of splendor came to an end centuries ago. What is the landed gentry up to these days? In the Northern Rhodesia (present day Zambia). The conditions surrounding the accident are still unclear. hyperaesthetic film Patrimonium, they do their best to cope with a changing world without losing Full of conspiracy theories, the filmmaker Mads Brügger and the amateur researcher Göran Björk- their proud traditions. They speak of preserving nature and hunting fox by horseback clad in red dahl set off to find the truth about what caused the crash, while openly flirting with the image of jackets. But modern capitalism continuously makes itself known through the construction of power themselves as colonial men mansplaining the African continent. What begins as conspiracy theories stations and the squawks of pop music. In perfectionistically designed scenes, the Swedish direc- leads them on to find new tracks left by the loathsome footprints of colonialism – crimes far worse tor Carl Olsson portrays a societal class in crisis and a fascinating cultural heritage. Jonas Holmberg than they could have imagined. Maja Kekonius

Director: Carl Olsson . Documentary . Denmark 2019 . Runtime: 73 min . World Premiere . Director: Mads Brügger . Documentary . Denmark/Norway/Sweden/Belgium 2019 . Runtime: 128 min .

Hamada Little Moscow Litla Moskva Can you invent or reinvent yourself in a place where nothing happens? With humor and patience Director of Rams, Grímur Hákonarson, explores why an isolated fishing village was run by com- as weapons, the young people in Hamada manage to do so. The Arabic word �a�rawi means munists for half a century. During the cold war, the rest of Iceland was run by rightwing and cen- “inhabitant of the desert.” Pent up in a refugee camp in the middle of the Sahara desert live the trist politicians and was loyal to the USA. But in the small town of Neskaupstaður, located in one of Sahrawi, a fishing people who were displaced by force from the sea. Eloy Domínguez Serén follows Iceland’s most remote places, the communists were so strong that the fishing village was given the three young adults who refuse to let themselves be limited by this confinement. Like young people nickname “Little Moscow.” Now, a tunnel project and a municipal merger have changed everything. throughout the world, they are driven by their dreams, hopes and desperation. Zaara wants to learn The isolation has been punctured and the fishing industry privatized. The Cannes-winner Grímur how to drive, Taher is a slacker, and the ambitious Sidahmed tries to resist the pressure of going to Hákonarson takes us to an odd place and meets with the communist leadership, the oppositional Spain to find a better life. With a poetic and warm narration, Dominguez Serén portrays their youth minority, and the entrepreneurs of the new era. Jonas Holmberg Maja Kekonius and gentle rebellion. Director: Grímur Hákonarson . Documentary . Iceland 2018 . Runtime: 57 min . International Premiere . Director: Eloy Domínguez Serén . Documentary . Sweden/Norway/Germany 2018 . Runtime: 89 min . Nordic

Privacy of Wounds Mating Parning Filmmaker Dalia Kury conducts an experiment where she invites three former prisoners from Lina Maria Mannheimer’s net-based relationship drama gives us a cross section from the sex Syria, to share their memories in an honest conversation taking place in a simulated prison in and love lives of two children of the nineties. Director Lina Maria Mannheimer (The Ceremony, GFF Oslo. Hasan, Mazen and Khaldoon have all been political prisoners in Syria. They meet for the first 2015) places a personal ad in a dating app. The premise is clear: She intends to follow two children time in the cell and begin to cautiously approach their memories. They are all intruiged to meet with of the nineties and their dating habits for one year. After having cast her two main characters, who other political prisoners as well as humble about the terrible things they’ve experienced. Their stories are to separately provide insight into their lives as young people on the mating market, something are full of both pain and hope. How do you greet a mother you haven’t seen in 13 years? How do you happens that takes the film down an unforeseen path – they start dating each other! The result is hug your child after a year of torture? How do you help your fellow prisoners mend their wounds? an intimate portrait of youthful effervescence, startling infatuation, and bitter-sweet heartbreak. From these shared experiences arise an honest and intimate conversation that remind us what is Since Mannheimer never meets the main characters, they are allowed to create themselves and their important in life. Maja Kekonius relationship through the screen. It is as brutally honest as genuinely heart-warming. Annie Karlsson

Director: Dalia Al Kury . Documentary . Norway 2018 . Runtime: 69 min . Swedish Premiere . Director: Lina Maria Mannheimer . Documentary. Sweden/Denmark 2019 . Runtime: 90 min . World Premiere .

48 49 Ingmar Bergman Competition Ingmar Bergman Competition

Ingmar Bergman was the honorary president of Göteborg Film The Jury consists of: Ivan Tverdovsky, Festival until his death in 2007. In cooperation with him, the Director, Russia; Christian Monggaard, Ingmar Bergman Competition Critic, Denmark; Emma Gray Munthe, festival established an international film award for “a debuting Critic and Festival Director Bergman Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award filmmaker who in their film treats an existential theme with a Week, Sweden. INGMAR BERGMAN dynamic or experimental approach to the cinematic means of COMPETITION expression.” 2019 marks the 12th edition of the prize, this year with eight nominated films. The winner of the award will be announced at the Dragon Award gala on Saturday, February 2.

Guerilla Winter After Winter Dong qu dong you lai Minimalistic and excellently filmed moral drama about Barnabás who reluctantly joins the Hun- Family comes first in Jian Xing’s peerlessly beautiful period drama that gets in under the view- garian guerrilla. The year is 1849. Hungary has been occupied by Austria and is fighting both the er’s skin. In northeast China lies Manchuria, which was occupied by Japan from the beginning of Habsburgs as well as the Cossacks. The army has dispersed and now consists of small guerrilla forces the 1930s to the end of the war in 1945. The winter of 1944 is very cold and there is almost nothing to in the forests. Young Barnabás has seen his hometown burned down and is looking for his brother who eat. The Japanese force all men who can walk on two legs to fight under their flag. Using wonderful is a soldier. When they reunite, Barnabás is also recruited by the guerrilla. The intrigues thicken when black-and-white images, Jian Xing narrates about Kuner. Since her husband cannot have children, he, out of fear of reprisal, lies about his background as a conscientious objector. The tension further her father-in-law tries to leave her with his reluctant middle son. When he runs away from home only rises when feelings burgeon between Barnabás and a nurse his brother is in love with. Moreover, the the youngest son is left, but he is picked up by he Japanese the same day that the wedding is to take enemy lurks in the shadows. György Mór Kárpáti impresses with a gripping melodrama about killing place. Winter After Winter is a moving film about a society where the most important thing in life is or being killed. A debut with an extremely secure sense of style. Andreas Degerhammar that the family lives on. Freddy Olsson

Director: György Mór Kárpáti. Fiction . Hungary 2019 . Runtime: 85 min . World Premiere . Director: Jian Xing . . China 2019 . Runtime: 110 min . Nordic Premiere .

Second Life Sun-hee-ea-seul-ki Coureur Coureur Rejected teenage girl creates a new identity and a second life in this impressive debut about Rebellious junior champion defies his father and with the dream of becoming a pro within reach vulernability and the need of confirmation. South Korean Park Young-ju has been praised for her he begins competing for a shady cycling team in Italy. Director Kenneth Mercken was himself an short films, and in her captivating feature film debut she explores the mechanisms of lies and the amateur cyclist, but when he ventured among the elite his body did not respond to the usual per- consequences of an endless need of confirmation. The high school student Sunhee coats the truth formance enhancing concoctions. To succeed as a professional cyclist he would have needed to use to become popular among her classmates, but when the lies are uncovered she becomes ostracized. mortally dangerous doping substances. So instead he quit cycling and applied for film school. In the Frustrated, she brands her best friend as a thief. The false accusation leads to terrible consequences, debut film Coureur, Mercken uses his own experiences from the dark sides of the testosterone-laden and Sunhee ends up at a children’s home in the countryside. There, she changes her identity and tries sport of cycling. The result is a well-rounded and intensive drama about bodies, revolt and togeth- to start over with a new name. Freddy Olsson erness where you really feel the adrenaline in your blood and the burn in your thighs. Jonas Holmberg

Director: Park Young-ju . Fiction . South Korea 2018 . Runtime: 71 min . International Premiere . Director: Kenneth Mercken . Fiction . Belgium 2018 . Runtime: 97 min . Nordic Premiere .

Aren’t You Happy? Das melancholische Mädchen Fig Tree Photographic wallpaper, philosophy and nude boxing in Susanne Heinrich’s feminist reconcili- Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian’s autobiographical directorial debut is a gripping growing-up drama about ation with living conditions for a new generation of women in a post-erotic era. How does the a young Jewish girl fleeing the civil war in Ethiopia. 16-year-old Mina has lived her whole life in war. new generation of young women feel? What do their love lives look like? In Susanne Heinrich’s pas- It is 1989 and the Ethiopian civil war has gone on for as long as she can remember. She and her brother tel-tinged debut film, they are described as a generation that ‘drinks macchiato, meets their lovers live together with their grandmother, waiting to be able to travel to Israel where Mina’s mother has and has pseudo-intellectual discussions at galleries.’ It is a generation that neither shares its parents’ already settled. But escaping the war also means that Mina will be forced to leave Eli, her Christian idealism nor its grandparents’ pragmatism. Aren’t You Happy? is a playfully theoretical and casually boyfriend, who is doing his best to avoid forced conscription in Mengistu Haile Mariam’s army. Aäläm- stylized film loaded with stunning one-liners like, ‘In the dictatorship of self-actualization, everyone Wärqe Davidian lets his own life story serve as the basis of this moving adventure about a young girl is an artist.’ All lines are delivered in theatrical deadpan. Even in the musical bits. Jonas Holmberg trying to achieve the impossible in a world where everything is at stake. Olle Agebro

Director: Susanne Heinrich . Fiction . Germany 2019 . Runtime: 79 min . Nordic Premiere . Director: Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian. Fiction . Israel/Germany/France/Ethiopia 2018 . Runtime: 94 min . Nordic Premiere .

Siblings of the Cape Misaki no kyodai A Family Submerged Familia sumergida A film that asks more questions than it answers and that will not leave anyone unmoved. In the Lively and ambitious debut film where the borders between truth and fiction as well as past and same spirit as Kore-eda’s Shoplifters. Two siblings live together in the margins of society. The brother present are blurred. Marcela is busy with her big family while her sister Rina lives alone in the mem- Yoshio has an injured leg and difficulties walking, the sister Mariko has a mental disability and spend ories of their parents’ childhood home. When Rina dies it’s up to Marcela to clean up the estate. At the majority of her time shackled at home in the shed where they live. When Yoshio loses his job, he the same time that she feels lost in the new situation, the partially grown-up children are served both crosses all boundaries and sells his sister’s body to make money for food and rent, which leads to food and love. The husband goes away on a business trip, and Marcela finds company in a young consequences he cannot foresee. Siblings of the Cape is an unusual, provocative and captivating friend of her daughter, Nacho. The director Maria Alché is herself an actress at base, and she lets film from a debuting director who doubtlessly goes their own way. Freddy Olsson Mercedes Moran blossom in each scene as the expressive Marcela. Freddy Olsson

Director: Shinzo Katayama . Fiction . Japan 2018 . Runtime: 90 min . International Premiere . Director: María Alché . Fiction . Argentina/Brazil/Germany/Norway 2018 . Runtime: 92 min . Nordic Premiere .

50 51 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize For the third year, Göteborg Film Festival is presenting an award The Jury consists of: Laura Birn, Actress, NORDISK FILM for Best TV Drama Script to the main writer(s) of a Nordic Finland; Alexander Karim, Actor, Sweden; Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize Christina Jeurling Birro, Journalist, & TV FOND PRIZE series screened at the festival, the first of its kind in the Nordic Sweden/USA and Justin Judd, Producer Nordic Light TV Drama region. The prize worth € 20,000 is funded by Nordisk Film & TV and Content Consultant, UK. Fond. The winner of the award will be announced Wednesday, January 30.

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The New Nurses Sygeplejeskolen State of Happiness Lykkeland

An entertaining drama in stylish fifties dress about the fates and adventures of the first male nursing Love and oil are at the heart of an irresistible, sixties-styled emotional drama about Norway’s path from a struggling students in post-War Denmark. Seven years after the end of the Second World War a controversial decision fishing nation to one of the richest countries in the world. The fishing industry, which for so long supported an entire is made at Fredenslund Hospital: for the first time in Danish history, men are allowed to apply for the nursing region, is ebbing and the locals of Stavanger are worried about the future. Unsuccessful attempts to drill for oil increase education. A decision that comes with divided opinions. The scriptwriters Claudia Boderke and Lars Mering the sense of despondency until a last try finally produces results, becoming the start of the Norway we know today. One portray the young, former soldier Erik and the young upper-class woman Anna, who together with the other of the Nordic countries’ foremost scriptwriters, Mette M. Bølstad (winner of the scriptwriting competition at GFF 2017 with students take to battle against the prejudices of the time and its antiquated conventions, upheld by the hos- Nobel and current with Sonja – The White Swan in this year’s Nordic Competition) serves us an engaging drama where pital’s old guard. Driven by a captivating momentum, romantic intrigues and era-specific details, The New love, liberation, class differences, politics and religion are skillfully highlighted through the four, young main characters Nurses deals with a piece of Nordic contemporary history, relevant even today. The first two episodes of the and their fates. The series has one of the highest budgets in Norwegian history and has reached and audience in the series will be shown at the festival. Jenny Runsten millions at home. The first two episodes of the series will be shown at the festival. Mirja Wester

Nominated writers: Claudia Boderke, Lars Mering. Director: Roni Ezra. Series . Denmark 2018 . Runtime: 80 Nominated writer: Mette M. Bølstad. Director: Petter Naess, Pål Jackman. Series . Norway 2018 . Runtime: 92 min . min . Swedish Premiere . Swedish Premiere .

All the Sins Kaikki synnit The Inner Circle Den inre cirkeln Suggestive thriller in beautiful summer garb with depths reaching into murder, prejudice and rela- The position as Sweden’s prime minister is at stake in a titillating drama about medial and political power struggles tionships in a city in northern Finland. After not having been home for 10 years, the police officer Lauri during Almedalen Week. Sweden’s prime minister is expected to announce their resignation. Before the news becomes public during the Almedalen Week, where Swedish politicians annually meet, it’s crucial for the potential successors to returns to investigate the murder of two elderly men in the city where he grew up. The deceased were strategically positions themselves and clean out any skeletons in the closet. The minister of enterprise David Ehrling members of the Laestadian congregation that permeates life in the small town. Along with him he’s (Niklas Engdahl, Bonus Family) and his press secretary (Nanna Blondell) try to navigate the political playing field with a brought the more experienced colleague Sanna, who doesn’t hesitate to partake in the good things in critical tabloid reporter (Ebba Hultkvist Stragne) at their heels. The Inner Circle, freely based on Per Schlingmann’s novel life. Lauri’s boyfriend in Helsinki thinks that he is holding back all his feelings and is about to give up. “I maktens öga” (In the Eye of Power), is a political drama, which in the blaze of Sweden’s ongoing governmental crisis The encounter with his hometown reawakens Lauri’s past life – can you forgive everyone for their sins soars to exceptional heights of excitement and wonder about what may actually be taking place behind the curtains of politics. The first two episodes of the series will be shown at the festival. Bar Talk: Inner Circle, Tues, Jan 29, 18.30- and what is in fact a sin? The first two episodes of the series will be shown at the festival. Cia Edström 19.00, Festivalarenan. Mirja Wester

Nominated writer: Merja Aakko, Mika Ronkainen. Director: Mika Ronkainen . Series . Finland 2019 . Runtime: Nominated writer: Håkan Lindhé. Director: Håkan Lindhé, Anders Hazelius. Series . Sweden 2019 . Runtime: 100 min . 90 min . Swedish Premiere . World Premiere .

The Flatey Enigma Flateyjargá tan Riddles, mysteries and old legends in an exciting drama about a young teacher of Nordic studies who returns to the island where they grew up and who ends up in the middle of a murder case. It is 1971 and spring has come to Iceland in Margrét Örnólfsdóttir’s reworking of Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson’s novel of the same name. Johanna’s father has left behind decades of research about an enigmatic, medieval text on the Norwegian kings. When a Danish cryptographer is found dead on an uninhab- ited island nearby, she risks being accused of the murder. To find out what happened, Johanna turns to the ancient texts and the dark legends. Moreover, the man she fled from 10 years ago is sent to the island to investigate the murder, and Johanna is forced to confront her greatest fear. The first two episodes of the series will be shown at the festival. Cia Edström

Nominated writer: Margrét Örnólfsdóttir. Director: Björn B. Björnsson . Series . Iceland 2018 . Runtime: 108

Kieler Street Kielergata

Multifaceted thriller about a man who discovers that he is not the only one with a dark past in the small-town idyll with the lowest criminality in Norway. Who are we in actuality, beneath the surface, behind the facade. When Jonas’s neighbor and friend confronts him and his dark past, he panics and kills him. At the same time that he needs to dispose of the body, he is expected to help his wife prepare the upcoming barbecue party, deal with his moody step-daughter and his unlikable boss (Johan Rehborg). The subsequent insight that the neighbors in Slusvik are not who they make themselves out to be, and have protected identities, disturbs the peace. Who are we actually, what is normal, and how far are the inhabitants in the small town prepared to go to not be found out? Very far, it turns out. The two first episodes of the series will be shown at the festival. Cia Edström

Nominated writers: Stig Frode Henriksen, Jesper Sundnes, Patrik Syversen. Director: Cecilie A. Mosli, Patrik Syversen . Series . Norway 2018 . Runtime: 90 min . Swedish Premiere .

52 53 Swedish Shorts Competition

The Jury consists of: Swedish Shorts Competition Shahab Mehrab, Director, Sweden; Isabella Eklöf, Director, Sweden; Startsladden Mattias Nordkvist, Actor, Sweden; Anna Anthony, Producer, Sweden Eight films have been selected to compete at the 42nd Göteborg Film Festival Swedish short film competition. The award is one of the world’s largest short film prizes and includes nearly 300 000 SEK in cash and film equipment. The prize is financed by the Swedish Film Institute, SVT, Gothenburg Film Studios, Red Rental by Maan, Teaterförbundet, Folkets Bio, Film i Väst, Independent Kostym and Shoot&Post. The winner will be announced on Sunday January 27. Deva A film by Petra Szöcs

Hangry Jamila Among the Birds Expectations run high as Alicia (Emma Molin) and John (Ulf She is on the way out of the house when she sees an envelope. Jamila’s In a world that is in constant and unstoppable change, it is easy Stenberg) get their first child-free weekend in ages. Adam family has received a rejection of their asylum application. She acts as to become historyless, lose clarity of perspective, and be blind- Pålsson debuts as a director with a story about a couple who if she doesn’t see it, takes her younger sister to school, and meets up ed by the moment. The circumstances shape our belief of what in the absence of their children have to take care of one an- with her friends. But everywhere she turns she sees them everywhere – is possible and much of what once was a struggle for many other’s childish eccentricities. Annie Karlsson the police. Sophie Vuković (Shapeshifters GFF 2017) provides a moving has now become taken for granted. Can a longer perspective Regi: Adam Pålsson. Fiction. Sweden . 2019 . Runtime: 15 min . World insight into an upbringing permeated by uncertainty. Emma Caviezel increase our understanding of our surroundings? Annie Karlsson Premiere . Regi: Sophie Vukovic . Fiction. Sweden . 2019 . Runtime: 14 min . World Regi: David Gülich. Documentary . Sweden/United States . 2019 . Premiere . Runtime: 14 min . World Premiere .

Sorry Not Sorry Who Talks Zlatan in the Slopes

Feride (Gizem Erdogan) is on the way home after a party when she A new group home for unaccompanied minors is set to be Sweden’s best football player has untied his skiing boots and meets a group of singing young men in a wooden boat. When the boat opened in Sweden and the municipal government has invited is taking it easy in a cabin up on the slopes, but once a snow- runs into trouble they get unexpected help from Feride who, without the residents in for dialog. Elin Övergaard (Picture World GFF blinded woman needs help he readily offers a hand. This ir- her consent, is taken along on their nocturnal ride in Stockholm. Julia 2017) poses questions about polarization, normalization and resistibly charming animation reminds us why we once fell in Thelin (Push It GFF 2017, Tweener GFF 2018) is back with an equally whose views are taken into consideration at a tumultuous love with the player from Malmö. Jonas Holmberg as raw and unsettling as humorous study of power. Annie Karlsson Maja Kekonius Monne Lindström . Sweden . 2019 . Runtime: 15 Regi: Julia Thelin . Fiction. Sweden . 2019 . Runtime: 14 min . World town meeting. Regi: Animation. Premiere . Regi: Elin Övergaard . Fiction. Sweden . 2019 . Runtime: 15 min . min . World Premiere . World Premiere .

Nuit Sonja’s Grill Brutal, painful, and beautiful about our perspective and so- At Sonjas Grill, Bella is sitting around waiting for her boy- cietal norms. Ann Holmgren (Volcano GFF 2017, Edit & Al- friend Gabbe. An old text-message conversation between josja GFF 2015) shoots a visual punch-in-the-face where the Gabbe and his ex sheds new light on their relationship. A fight camera comes so close you can catch a whiff of an accursed wrapped up like an all-singing-dancing Christmas cracker, Coming soon to Draken Film life. Maja Kekonius confidently delivered by Bella (Linda Pira) and Gabbe (Pablo Regi: Ann Holmgren Aurebekk. Documentary. Norway/Sweden . Leiva Wenger). Maja Kekonius 2019 . Runtime: 15 min . Nordic Premiere . Regi: Måns Nyman . Fiction. Sweden . 2019 . Runtime: 7 min . World Premiere .

54 55 Adel Khan Farooq Amy Black Ndiaye Director/Screenwriter Norway Screenwriter, Norway

Filmography: Cockroaches (short in development), Oslo (feature Selected filmography: 2019: Daddy’s Girl (short), 2018: Wisting in development), Green Team (documentary in development), (drama series), 2016-2017: Actor Aber Bergen (drama series), 2016: 2018: Psykt (short), 2017: Recruting for Jihad (documentary). Mamma (short).

Adel Khan Farooq is a director, author and journalist Amy Black Ndiaye is a screenwriting graduate based in Oslo. Adel has covered crime for the Norwe- from The Norwegian Film School (2016). She is Nordic Film Lab gian tabloid newspaper Dagbladet, and contributed currently in development of the feature films to several documentaries as a researcher, photographer and cameraman, Daddy’s Girl and Too Young To Die (directed by Julia Lindström), and in before his directorial debut and breakthrough with Recruiting for Jihad. NFIs script development program with the feature An Amputation (directed The film has drawn praise by the critics by referring it as an essential and by Simon Tillås). Since 2017 she has been working as writer and developer Nordic Film Lab is an exclusive networking forum for up- groundbreaking piece of investigative filmmaking. Adel’s book “My Broth- in Monday Scripted where she is series creator of the rapsical Verden er ers”, about radicalization, became a bestseller in Norway. He is currently min supported by NFIs “nye veier”. Amy is in love with basketball, rap and and-coming Scandinavian filmmakers, focusing on the working on several projects, both filmmaking and scriptwriting. women, and believes that more is more and less is less. artistic processes in filmmaking. One of the most vital functions of a film festival is to act as a meeting place – the atmosphere that arises when large numbers of people gather together around a Anna Paavilainen Ann Lundberg common interest has an attraction in and of itself. Since Director, Finland Producer, Sweden Selected filmography: 2019: Just Say if it's Not Ok (short), 2019: Selected filmography: 2019: The City That Never Sleep - A 2008, the Göteborg Film Festival has worked on enhancing Two Bodies on a Beach (short), 2018: Mitä mietit, Ronja Salmi? Christmas Musical (feature in development), 2019: Big Galaxies (tv-series, 3 episodes), 2016: Stay (short), 2015: Eat Stars (animated short), 2017: Argue (short), 2016: Becoming this particular function by creating a special forum for Ta Mig (short), 2015: Koka Över (short). Zlatan (feature documentary, as junior producer), 2010: This is Our Home (short). Anna Paavilainen is a Finnish filmmaker and an talented filmmakers. The Nordic Film Lab is a one-year Ann Lundberg began working with Anagram in 2016, actor. She has studied in Theatre Academy Helsinki first as a junior producer and later as a producer. For Anagram, Ann has programme that provides a space where participants can (2002-06) and in Stockholms Filmskola (2014-15). Her most famous work, produced the short musical Argue, by directors Isabelle Kågström and monologue “Play Rape” about normalization of rape scenes in film and meet potential future work partners, as well as a place Adam Selgeryd and the animated project Big Galaxies Eat Stars, directed theatre, has been translated into English, German, Swedish, Hungarian by Anna Charlotte, which is screening at Göteborg Film Festival. In 2018 for in-depth discussions about creativity and the art of and Catalan. Currently she is writing and directing various productions Anna Charlotte and Ann Lundberg received script funding from the Swedish for film and tv. filmmaking. Film Institute for the sequel Big Galaxies Hide Planets. Apart from this, Thanks to the collaborations with our partners, Ann has several projects in development, including her first feature and TV-drama. Norwegian Film Institute, Danish Film Institute, Finnish Film Foundation, Swedish Film Institute and Film i Väst we are proud and happy to welcome the participants of Dawid Ullgren Eliza Jones Nordic Film Lab 2019! Director/Screenwriter, Sweden Producer, Sweden

Selected filmography: 2019: Miss Inga Issues (short), 2018: Selected filmography: 2019: Sorry Not Sorry (short), 2019: Jamila Nittonhundraåttioett (short), 2017: Freak (short), 2016: Mr. Sugar (short), 2019: Sonja´s Grill (short), 2018: Tweener (short), 2017: Push Daddy (short), 2013: Kärlek kl 03.56 (short). It (short), 2015: Stallion (short), 2015: Francis (short)

Dawid Ullgren graduated in 2018 from Stockholm Eliza Jones is one of the founders of the production Academy of Dramatic Arts, StDH as a film director company Grand Slam Film, which she is currently with his exam filmMiss Inga Issues (Crash and Burn, running together with Markus Waltå. They founded Honey). He was selected for the European Film Promotions programme the company after graduating from Stockholm Academy of Dramatic ”Future Frames: Ten filmmakers to follow” at Karlovy Vary IFF with his film Arts in 2015. The company produces fiction where the story dictates the Nittonhundraåttioett (1981). The film had its premiere in competition at format. Grand Slam puts a lot of weight in development, and believes in Göteborg Film Festival 2018. He has previously studied at Alma Manusut- strong relationships between producer and writers and directors. Current bildning in Sunne. He is now working on his first feature film that is best project The Forest or One Day All This Will Be Yours is in development as described as a queer thriller-crime-drama about date robberies in Sweden. a Scandinavian co-production. Directed by Andreas Öhman, it is a warm drama-comedy about inheritance, heritage, freedom and family.

56 57 Emilie Blichfeldt Julia Lindström Marioan Hosseini Racha Helen Larsen Director, Norway Director/Screenwriter, Norway Screenwriter, Sweden Producer, Norway

Selected filmography: 2019: The Stepsister (feature, in develop- Selected filmography: 2018: Daddy's Girl (short), 2017: Grab Filmography: 2018: Rosa Moln, 2018: Martyren (short), 2016: Selected filmography: 2020: Daniels Inferno (feature in develop- ment) 2018: Sara's Intimate Confessions (short), 2013: How Do You Them By The Balls (short), 2016: Mamma (short), 2013: Utan Dig / Proposition (short). ment), 2019: Where Man Returns, 2018: ODDA (short) Like My Hair? (short). Without You (short), 2013: Vinnare /Winners (short documentary). Marioan was born in Kurdistan and grew up in a ref- Racha Helen Larsen has several years of experience Emilie was born in Northern-Norway in 1991. She first Julia is educated in documentary filmmaking and ugee camp in Iraq for about six years before he got from the industry, working for many of the largest TV got noticed with her distinctive short filmHow do you screenwriting in Stockholm, and got her bachelors to Sweden. Stockholm has been his home since 1993. production houses in Norway, as producer, director like my hair? It won the Critics Award at the Norwegian degree in film making at the Norwegian film school in He studied screenwriting for film and television at Stockholm academy of and post-production manager. In 2018 she was one of the founders of Short Film Festival. In 2018 she graduated from The Norwegian Film School 2016. Her graduation filmMamma won several prizes at European festivals dramatic arts 2012-2015. He is currently writing on two feature films, one the Oslo based production company Yellow Log. At Yellow Log she is the with a degree in directing. Her graduation film,Sara's Intimate Confessions, and sold to the national broadcasters NRK and SVT. She currently com- of them together with Ahmed Abdullahi, the same director and producer creative producer, as well as being responsible for the strict company profile continues her feministic project with a further exploration of her talent for pleted the short filmDaddy’s Girl. During 2019 she will continue developing that made Martyren and the other for SF studios. Marioan also works half and guidelines for selecting projects. Racha has her education from the subjective and untraditional storytelling. It premiered in Locarno and is two feature films and will direct one Swedish tv-series with the production time on SVT Drama as a script editor. University of Manchester with a Masters in Ethnographic Documentary, screening at Clermont-Ferrand. Emilie is currently developing the feature company Yellowbird for Viaplay, and one Norwegian tv-series with the and masters from Volda University in Documentary Filmmaking. Lately, The Stepsister with Mer Film. production company Anti TV for TV2. Julia loves fireworks, parking lots she attained an Executive Master of Management from BI Norwegian and the characters who chase the moments, who feel lager than life. Business School.

Julia Thelin Lisa Jespersen Rikke Tambo Andersen Sara Isabella Jønsson Director, Sweden Director, Denmark Producer, Denmark Screenwriter, Denmark

Selected filmography: 2019: Sorry Not Sorry (short) 2018: Tweener Selected filmography: 2017: September (short), 2015: De Frie. Selected filmography: 2018: Den nat vi faldt /The Night We Fell Selected filmography: Miss Osaka (feature, in production), 2018: (short), 2017: Push It (short), 2015: Helljus (short), 2013: Cindy 2014: Reunion (short), 2011: Youth (short). (documentary), 2018: Lykkelænder / Happy Native (documenta- The Messenger (short), 2018: September (short), 2015: Gold Coast. (short). ry), 2017: Kærester / Lovers (hybrid). Lisa Jespersen was born in the countryside of Denmark Sara Isabella Jønsson is a 27-year old Danish screen- Julia Thelin (b. 1991) is a screenwriter and director. Rikke Tambo Andersen is a producer from Copenha- in 1988. Her interest for film grew as she attended writer, currently in her last year at the National Film Thelin studied film at Fridhem Folkhögskola (2011– gen Denmark, who has been working in the industry the European Film College and later on studied film School of Denmark. Apart from her film school proj- 2013) and screenwriting at Brobygrafiska (2014–2015). Thelin has directed for more than 10 years. Rikke works with both fiction and documentary and directing at The National Film School of Denmark. She ects, she has worked with Danish-Swedish director Daniel Dencik on feature dance films, music videos, and short films. She has written and directed has produced several award-winning titles. As of 2018 she is a member of has made a handful of short films all with interest in the comic aspect of film Miss Osaka, which is now being shot in Japan. Their collaboration the short filmsPush It and Tweener, which were screened at most Swedish the EAVE Network. In 2015 Rikke established Tambo Film. The company people’s existential crises. Her graduation filmSeptember received a lot began with the feature filmGold Coast - a historical period drama shot on festivals, and has competed in a number of festivals abroad. Her most expanded in 2017, as she started collaboration with Beofilm, a fiction film of attention for it's precise and very emphatetic portrait of a woman in location in Ghana - which premiered in 2015. Currently, she is working with recent short, Sorry Not Sorry, is nominated to Startsladden – Best Swedish production company. With Tambo Film she is committed to producing her 60’s and the difficulties that comes with that age. director Lisa Jespersen on a feature film funded by New Danish Screen to Short at Göteborg Film Festival 2019. fiction and hybrid films and love films that challenge convention, in genre, be shot in summer of 2019. method or style.

Mads Hedegaard Maria Lappalainen Ulaa Salim Director, Denmark Director/Screenwriter, Finland Director, Denmark

Selected filmography: 2017: Skull Fracture or ‘Aren’t You Rather Selected filmography: 2010: Fight For a River (documentary), Selected Filmography: 2019: Sons of Denmark, 2017: Land of Our Young To Be Writing Your Memoirs?’ (documentary short), 2015: 2006: Not Only Pushkin (documentary), 2005: Milja (short), 2002: Fathers (short), 2016: Exil (short), 2015: Son's of Our Fathers (short), The Film That Doesn’t Exist (documentary short). On Edge (documentary), 1998: Pressing Iron And Few Gunshots 2014: Det Rene Hjerte (short), 2013: Min Bror (short), 2012: Ung For (short), 1995: The Bed (short). Evigt (short), 2011: Karim (short). Mads graduated from The National Film School of Maria Lappalainen graduated from ELO Film School Ulaa Salim was born in Denmark in 1987, both parents Denmark in 2017. At Good Company Pictures he is Helsinki (Aalto) with an MA in screenwriting and has are originally from Iraq. In his films he uses his personal working on the feature length doc Kim Canon Arm & Co. - a deadly serious also an MA in fiction film directing from Russian Federation Institute of experience as inspiration. Last year Ulaa Salim graduated from The Nation- comedy, set in the world of arcade games and world records. It’s about the Cinema (VGIK). Maria has directed short films and documentaries, that al Film School of Denmark and established Hyæne Film with his partner friendship between a group of unlikely heroes and peculiar world class have been screened in various film festivals. She is currently working on and producer Daniel Mühlendorph. Sons of Denmark is Ulaa Salim's debut gamers, who - against a backdrop of loss and longing - has set out to a documentary about Finnish women gaining suffrage and writing a his- film and is nominated for Best Nordic Film at Göteborg Film Festival 2019. play the arcade game Gyruss non stop for 100 hours. Additionally Mads torical tv-drama inspired by the true story of Catherine Jagellon. Both is developing his first feature film at Nordisk Film Spring, a coming of age projects are at the stage of development and have received support from film disguised as a revenge story, set in the stone age. Finnish Film Foundation.

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