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1419 articles available in total starting from 21/08/2002. Last article published on 19/04/2024.

Visitor conquers Göteborg Dragon

Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää’s feature debut The Visitor won the Dragon Statuette or Nordic Film Award (SEK 100,000) and its cinematographer Tuomo Hutri the Kodak Nordic Vision Award (SEK 50,000) at the...  

02/02/2009 | Festivals | Sweden

20% market share for local films

General admissions in Sweden increased by 1.5% in 2008, to 15.1 million, pushed upwards by studio tent poles such as Mamma Mia!, seen by a record 1.8m viewers. Swedish films, however, saw a 1.5%...  

30/01/2009 | Box Office | Sweden

Göteborg rocks with docs

Documentaries are hot at this year’s Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF). Nahid Person Sarvestani’s The Queen and I opens the biggest festival in Scandinavia today, which will end on...  

23/01/2009 | Festivals | Sweden

Everlasting Moments wins Best Film at the Guldbagge

Last night’s Swedish film awards, the Guldbagge awards’, held in Stockholm, was a triumphal evening for veteran filmmaker Jan Troell who won five awards for Everlasting Moments (including Best...  

13/01/2009 | Awards | Sweden

Everlasting Moments leads Guldbagge nominations

Jan Troell’s Everlasting Moments received the most nominations – eight – for the 2008 Guldbagge Awards (Sweden’s top film honours), to be given out in Stockholm on January 12. The European...  

05/01/2009 | Awards | Sweden

Antichrist gets SFI grant

Lars von Trier’s much-anticipated English-language film Antichrist has been granted SEK1.5m in production support from the Swedish Film Institute (SFI). Von Trier’s first foray into the horror...  

30/12/2008 | Production | Sweden

File sharing law in the making

The Swedish Parliament is on the verge of ratifying a much-awaited new law against file sharing over the Internet, to break the country’s image as a “safe harbour for pirates” and to protect...  

18/12/2008 | Legislation | Sweden

Interview: Tomas Alfredson • Director

Romantic and terrifying adolescent vampires

The success of Let the Right One In comes, above all, from the emotions evoked by this small, tender, romantic and terrifying love story  

16/12/2008

Let the Right One In

A potent blend of love and teenage angst, Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In continues to scoop up prizes at festivals worldwide  

16/12/2008 | Films | Reviews

Interview: John Nordling • Producer

“The book was so good it could take us all the way through”

The success of the debut feature produced by EFTI opened the doors to the US market for the Swedish company  

16/12/2008

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