Film fan to spend a week watching films alone on isolated island for Swedish festival

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Sweden's Göteborg Film Festival is set to carry out cinema's ultimate social distancing experiment. For its 2021 event, Göteborg is inviting a single film fan to spend seven days alone on an isolated island in the North Sea with only the festival's films for company.