Göteborg Head Jonas Holmberg Talks Festival Lineup, Thriving During The Pandemic & The Shifting Film Culture In Scandinavian
10.01.2023 - 21:07
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Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival unveiled its 2023 lineup today, featuring 250 feature films set to screen across 10 days, with highlights including Isabella Carbonell’s thriller Dogborn, starring Swedish rap star Silvana Imam, and Hlynur Pálmason’s well-received period piece Godland. Other stand-out titles include Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, which pops up in the International Competition, and Mia Engberg’s latest Hypernoon in the Documentary Competition.
The festival opens on January 27 with the world premiere of Abbe Hassan’s emotionally charged debut Exodus, which follows the story of a professional people smuggler who attempts to save a 12-year-old girl whose family has gone missing in the Syrian war. The festival’s closing film on February 5 is Camino by Birgitte Stærmose. The film is Viaplay’s first Danish feature project and portrays the complex relationship between a father and daughter walking a famous pilgrim route in Spain.
Guests set to pass through Gothenburg include Alicia Vikander, who will present a gala screening of the films produced by students of the 2022 cohort of the Alicia Vikander Film Lab — a three-year film training program aimed at increasing diversity in cinema. Ruben Östlund, the festival’s Honorary President, will also lead an interactive screening of his Palme d’Or winner, Triangle of Sadness, in Gothenburg on January 28.
On the industry side, the 17th edition of the TV Drama Vision summit will run February 1–2, while the Nordic Film market is on February 2 – 5.
Göteborg’s artistic director Jonas Holmberg caught up with Deadline a day before the program announcement to chat through this year’s lineup. Below, Holmberg breaks down some of the program’s hidden gems, how the festival managed to
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