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All Sweden articles – Page 22
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NewsGoteborg’s Dragon Award goes to Before Snowfall
Other winners include Dog Flesh, Searching for Sugar Man, Northwest, A Hijacking, Wadjda, La Ravadeuse and Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart.
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NewsSwedish box office best since 1989
Swedish cinemas registered the best annual result since the late 1980s with 18.4 million admissions in 2012, up 12% on 2011 (16.4 million), according to the Swedish Film Institute.
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NewsBabak Najafi wins lucrative Göteborg award
Sweden’s Göteborg International Film Festival has awarded director Babak Najafi the Startsladden Award - one of the industry’s biggest prizes for a short film.
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NewsGoteborg to spotlight Norwegian features
Sweden’s 36th Göteborg International Film Festival, which opens tonight (Jan 25) with Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning’s action-adventure Kon-Tiki, have improved services for the 1,500 film professionals expected for the showcase, which runs through Feb 4.
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NewsEat Sleep Die and Call Girl sweep Sweden's Guldbagge awards
Directors Gabriela Pichler and Mikael Marcimain took the lion’s share of the Guldbagge – Sweden’s national film prize – when the Swedish Film Institute presented the awards last night (Jan 21) at a televised gala in Stockholm’s Cirkus.
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NewsGunnar Carlsson joins Anagram Produktion
Swedish producer Gunnar Carlsson - former head of drama at Swedish pubcaster SVT – has been signed as film and drama chief at Anagram Produktion, the Lund-based production company instigated in 2003 by Swedish actor-comedians, writers, directors and producers Anders Jansson and Johan Wester.
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NewsGöteborg unveils 2013 programme; reveals Dragon Award titles
Eight new Nordic features will compete for the $150,000 (SEK 1m) Dragon Award – one of the film world’s largest prizes – at Sweden’s 36th Göteborg International Film Festival.
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NewsCall Girl leads Swedish film award nominations
Swedish director Mikael Marcimain’s feature debut Call Girl has taken the lead in the race for the Guldbagge – the Swedish national film awards – collecting 11 nominations.
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NewsWallen quits Yellow Bird; Fernandez named CEO
Mikael Wallen is stepping down as president of Yellow Bird, the Swedish production company behind the original version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
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FeaturesStockholm International Film Festival
This year’s festival showcased more than 170 films from over 50 countries.
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CommentLas Palmas receives online release
Swedish director Johannes Nyholm releases his short [pictured] online, together with making of documentary.
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NewsDolph Lundgren to receive Swedish-American honour
The veteran action star will collect the 2012 Eliason Merit Award at a ceremony on Nov 30 in Los Angeles.
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NewsCate Shortland’s Lore wins four Stockholm stallions
Australian writer-director Cate Shortland picked up an armful of prizes at the 23rd Stockholm International Film Festival for her post-war drama Lore.
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NewsStockholm’s industry line-up draws record figures
British film-maker Sophie Fiennes and 11 new films from the Nordic and Baltic regions are among the highlights of the industry line-up at this year’s Stockholm International Film Festival.
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NewsDafoe, Audiard and Troell to be awarded in Stockholm
23rd edition of the Stockholm International Film Festival runs Nov 7-18.
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NewsCall Girl to open 23rd Stockholm International Film Festival
Marciman’s debut [pictured] among three new Swedish features to compete for the grand prix for Best Film at the festival, which runs Nov 7-18.
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NewsThird film in Easy Money trilogy under way
Life Deluxe, starring Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dejan Cukic and Madeleine Martin, is under way in Sweden.
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NewsSlavic named UIP Sweden boss
Zoran Slavic has been appointed general manager of United International Pictures (UIP) in Sweden.
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NewsSwedish Film Institute backs eight new features with $5.8m
Films backed include new projects from Måns Mårling & Björn Stein [pictured], Daniel Alfredson and Stig Björkman.
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NewsHallström’s The Hypnotist selected as Sweden's entry for the Oscars
Director’s first Swedish film in 25 years selected for Oscar consideration by the Swedish Film Institute.