Finally the time has come for a twelve days film fest to light up the winter darkness. Stockholm presents 16 Red Carpet screenings at the premiere theatre Skandia, most of the screenings will have actors or directors present. Miranda July joins us on Skype and we also present Wong Kar Wai's favourite photographer Christopher Doyle. Between November 9 - 20 the festival will show 173 films from 44 countries, and welcome  directors, actors and film lovers from all over the world. &nb...

Last night the 16th Filmfest Hamburg came to ist close with the German premiere of the Belgian-French road movie “Eldorado” in the presence of director Bouli Lanners.The 16th Filmfest Hamburg opened with the mountaineering drama “North Face”. The German premiere was attended by director Philipp Stölzl, lead actress Johanna Wokalek and the two actors Simon Schwarz and Georg Friedrich. This year’s Douglas-Sirk-Award was presented to the director Atom Egoyan. The renowned award is presen...

Today the winners of the 9th Stockholm International Film Festival Junior were presented. The Bronze Horse for Best Film went to the Estonian drama The Class by Ilmar Raag. Among the 500 films in the 1 minute film competition two winners are now making a new short film each with a professional film team.The nine members of Juniorgruppen voted The Class as the best film of 2008. Director Ilmar Raag was present at the Skandia theater during the Awards Ceremony where he received Junior’s 5 kg hea...