After a successful kick-off the Stockholm International Film Festival Junior invites you to an eventful week with films and exciting meetings. 25 films from 19 countries in 8 days. The festival takes place April 15-22. Here are some highlights from this year’s addition of the Stockholm International Film Festival Junior: Monday, April 16th Trigger will be presented by its director Gunnar Vikene at the Skandia theatre at 11.30 AM. The director meets the audience with actor Sven Wollter during a...

The spirit of Alfred Hitchcock hovered in Miami over the audience at the Gusman Premiere screening of THE PAGE TURNER, a hold-your-breather suspenser by France’s Denis Dercourt in the grand tradition of the Master of Suspense. A capacity crowd sat enthralled with the twists and turns of the plot as a young woman plots revenge on the callous musician who years before extinguished her chances for musical greatness.The audience’s fascination with the sinister was also the hallmark of SATANAS, t...

Eight new Nordic films have been chosen to take part in the Nordic Competition at the Göteborg Film Festival. The award consists of an award sum of 150 000 SEK and the statuette Filmdraken (the Film dragon) by Swedish artist Ernst Billgren. Göteborg Film Festival will be inaugurated January 27. Opening film will be the Viking drama Beowulf & Grendel by director Sturla Gunnarsson. Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård plays one of the main characters and will also be present on the Opening night. Ne...

As the major film festival in Scandinavia, the 29th Göteborg Film Festival will screen more than 400 high quality Nordic and international films during the ten-day period of the festival.The next edition of the festival will take place from January 27 until February 6, 2006. This year’s director in focus is the British documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto, who has devoted her work to portraying the situation of women all over the world. Kim Longinotto has lived and worked in Japan, Iran and ...