Iannucci will attend the festival with The Death of Stalin, a relentlessly entertaining satire about the power struggle within the Communist Party after Stalin’s death. The impressive all-star cast includes names such as Steve Buscemi, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough and Jason Isaacs, among others

The 41st edition of the Göteborg Film Festival has begun! Gabriela Pichler’s Amateurs saw it’s world premiere and Alicia Vikander came home to receive the Nordic Honorary Dragon Award. And the fun has just begun! “Göteborg Film Festival – you both educated and introduced me to the world of film, and this art form that […]

The award winning director is back with her second feature Amateurs – an intelligent, warm and wonderfully funny film about who gets to decide on a community’s outward image.

During the Göteborg Film Festival 2018 opening night Alicia Vikander came home to Gothenburg to receive our Nordic Honorary Dragon Award. In her acceptance speech she was noticeably touched and talked about the importance of the #metoo movement.

Legendary film maker Margarethe von Trotta was asked to pick her favorite Bergman film. The choice fell on Hour of the Wolf. Here she explains why.

Gothenburg International Film Festival – this is where it all started for me, with an attempt to get in. Based on a lie. My mom, who might love film even more than I do (If that’s possible), She kept a yearly tradition while I was growing up. That I followed very closely. She would count […]

Film festival around the clock

Göteborg Film Festival’s Artistic Director Jonas Holmberg on the meaning of film in the age of climate crisis.

Mads Mikkelsen is this year’s recipient of Nordic Honorary Dragon Award.

“In the darkness there is also something playful and light. It’s an image of doom that is both cinematic and inward-looking.”