STORA TEATERN (kungsparken 1)

09.30 – 15.00 Film Political Summit (in Swedish)   

The Göteborg Film Festival starts with its annual conference on Swedish film policy. By invitation only. 

FILM I VÄST (Kungsgatan 7)

10.00 – 14.45 Film Forum Sweden Day 1 (in Swedish)

Content can be rewatched on the Industry Platform 

Film Forum Sweden (Filmforum Sverige) is the Göteborg Film Festival’s initiative for the Swedish film industry, held on 29 and 30 January. Two days of inspiration, competence development and forward-looking dialogue. Film Forum Sweden is open to all accredited festival attendees. Conducted in Swedish, with possible exceptions.  

Film Forum Sweden Panels and Talks   

10.00–11.15 406 days – A Matter of Time 

11.30–12.15 Swedish Screenskills Committee: A New Mission  

13.00–13.45 Film & TV Companies West: Work in Progress  

14.00–14.45 Who Owns the Story? The Role of the Screenwriter in the New Film Market  

To check out the full programme, please visit goteborgfilmfestival.se/filmforum-sverige  

STORA TEATERN (Kungsparken 1)

15.15 – 17.10 Director’s Talk: Lucile Hadžihalilović  

Lucile Hadžihalilović is one of France’s most exciting directors, belonging to what is being called the New French Extremity movement. She began her career as an editor, made her feature film debut with Innocence in 2004, then directed Evolution in 2015. Hadžihalilović’s work defies genre conventions and she is a master of creating enigmatic worlds and distressing atmospheres. The conversation follows the screening of Earwig.  

Moderator: Johan Blomqvist, Göteborg Film Festival   

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit goteborgfilmfestival.se

SKANSHOF (Lilla Bergsgatan 1) // ONLINE

21.00 – 21.30 Studio Draken – Live from Skanshof 

Streamed at Göteborg Film Festival Online Digital Salong

On Saturday and Sunday evenings, Emma Gray Munthe brings you exciting festival news and summaries from Studio Draken at Skanshof. Studio Draken is presented in the Göteborg Film Festival’s digital salon, with limited seating for a live audience at Skanshof.  

FILM I VÄST (Kungsgatan 7)

10.00–14.45   Film Forum Sweden – Day 2 (In Swedish)  

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10.00–10.45 The Legacy of Sven Nykvist  

11.00–11.45 Warning! May Contain Traces of Reality!  

13.00–13.45 The Movie Theatre: A Matter of Destiny 

14.00–14.45 The Natural Voice: Who Can Claim It?  

To check out the full programme, please visit goteborgfilmfestival.se/filmforum-sverige  

 AFTONSTJÄRNAN (Plåtslagaregatan 2) 

18.00–19.35  Filmisk salong  

Filmisk Salong features evenings full of films and conversations about art, life and society at Aftonstjärnan, the city’s most charming cinema. 

The Secret Life of Livestock: Cow, by Andrea Arnold (In Swedish)  

How does livestock experience day-to-day life and how has humanity looked at its relationships with animals over time? A conversation about animals as subjects and portraying animals artistically with author and cultural writer Helena Granström, author and doctoral student in theology Philip de Croy, and doctoral student Dorna Behdadi. A collaboration with the Swedish Church.  

Host: Olle Agebro, Göteborg Film Festival 

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit goteborgfilmfestival.se  

SKANSHOF (Lilla Bergsgatan 1) // ONLINE

21.00 – 21.30 Studio Draken – Live from Skanshof 

Streamed at Göteborg Film Festival Online Digital Salong

On Saturday and Sunday evenings, Emma Gray Munthe brings you exciting festival news and summaries from Studio Draken at Skanshof. Studio Draken is presented in the Göteborg Film Festival’s digital salon, with limited seating for a live audience at Skanshof.  

VIRTUAL EVENT

17.00–22.00   Gothenburg Storytelling Days – Day 1 (in Swedish)  

Gothenburg Storytelling Days is an annual series of events that focuses on narrative and creative processes. This year, the focus is on feedback – the art of listening, communicating and collaborating beyond professional roles and art forms in the creative process. Through lectures, workshops and space for meetings and conversations, we target creators, distributors, financiers, students and professionals in the field of moving image, film and TV drama. Among the speakers are Anna Croneman (SVT), Christopher Haug (HBO Max), Josefine Tengblad (Nordic Drama Queens AB), Soni Jörgensen (screenwriter), Johan Hedman (Warner Bros.) and Jon Petersson (Viaplay). 

For more information about the programme, speakers and registration, please visit storytellingdays.com   

VIRTUAL EVENT

09.03–22.00   Gothenburg Storytelling Days – Day 2 (in Swedish)  

For more information about the programme, speakers and registration, please visit storytellingdays.com     

VIRTUAL EVENT

12.30–16.30  Working with Feedback in the Screenwriting Process (In Swedish)  

In a conversation with Soni Jörgensen (screenwriter), Peter Zell (executive producer SVT), Josefine Tengblad (producer & co-founder / Nordic Drama Queens AB) and Christopher Haug (Head of Drama Series Development Nordic, HBO Max), Johanna Koljonen discussed how better feedback could improve both work and writers.  

For more information about the programme, speakers and registration, please visit storytellingdays.com  

AFTONSTJÄRNAN (Plåtslagaregatan 2)

18.00–20.05  Filmisk salong   

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Contemporary love: Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy by Ryusuke Hamaguchi (In Swedish)  

How are things with love and relationships in this cursory, individualistic, stressful and fragmented time? And how can these things be depicted in art? A discussion about the difficulty of finding ‘the right one,’ keeping love alive and the pain of letting go, as well as desire and jealousy. Meet Amanda Romare, film producer and author of Half of Malmö Consists of Guys who Dumped Me; Marika Palmdahl, priest to the Masthugg congregation in Göteborg; and Emma Engdahl, professor of sociology and author of Depressive Love: A Social Pathology. A collaboration with the Swedish Church.  

Moderator: Camilla Larsson, Göteborg Film Festival 

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit goteborgfilmfestival.se  

AFTONSTJÄRNAN (Plåtslagaregatan 2)

18.00–19.50  Filmisk salong  

Rewatch at Göteborg Film Festival Online Digital Salong 

Film Art in Disorder: Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn by Radu Jude  

Never have we lived in such isolation and under so much regulation as we have in recent years. The individual’s desire for freedom has never been greater than it is now; at the same time, we live in an era when many people are demanding more order and stricter measures. Film researcher Sanjin Pejković and Radu Jude, the director behind this evening’s film, discuss how much order we can have in our lives and how two years in a state of exceptions, new rules, changing norms and obsession with repression and empty moralism, has affected society and our psyches.  

Host: Jonas Holmberg, artistic director, Göteborg Film Festival 

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit goteborgfilmfestival.se  

DRAKEN (Heurlins plats 15)

20.15–22.15  Director’s Talk: Bille August  

Danish master Bille August is one of few directors to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes twice – for The Best Intentions and Pelle the Conqueror, the latter of which also won Academy and Golden Globe Awards. August started out as a cinematographer and made his directorial debut in 1978 with In My Life. Jerusalem, The House of the Spirits, and Night Train to Lisbon are other works from his extensive filmography. His acclaimed major film about Karen Blixen, The Pact, will have its Swedish premiere at the Festival. The conversation will immediately follow the screening of The Pact.  

Moderator: Camilla Larsson, Göteborg Film Festival 

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit goteborgfilmfestival.se  

BIO ROY (Kungsportsavenyen 45) 

17.00–18.50  Director’s Talk: Radu Jude  

Films by Radu Jude, one of Romania’s foremost filmmakers, have previously been shown at the Göteborg Film Festival, among them Everybody in Our Family (2013) and I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2019). This year, Jude  is in the limelight with his inimitable sex-tape comedy Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, which was awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Critics have praised it as one of the year’s best films and it has made the entire film world talk about moral panic, philosophical history and what the pandemic has  done to our societies. The conversation will immediately follow the screening of Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn.  

Moderator: Johan Blomqvist, Göteborg Film Festival   

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit goteborgfilmfestival.se  

SKANSHOF (Lilla Bergsgatan 1 ) // ONLINE

21.00 – 21.30 Studio Draken – Live from Skanshof 

Streamed at Göteborg Film Festival Online Digital Salong

On Saturday and Sunday evenings, Emma Gray Munthe brings you exciting festival news and summaries from Studio Draken at Skanshof. Studio Draken is presented in the Göteborg Film Festival’s digital salon, with limited seating for a live audience at Skanshof.   

STORA TEATERN (Kungsparken 1)

20.30–23.30  Director’s Talk: Nordic Honorary Award Recipient Luca Guadagnino   

Streamed at Göteborg Film Festival Online Digital Salong 

 With the summery success Call Me by Your Name, he wrote himself into film history forever, but Luca Guadagnino has also directed films like A Bigger Splash, I Am Love, Suspiria, and the TV series We Are Who We Are. Meet him in a conversation about his upbringing in Ethiopia, his unique film aesthetic, and his 20-year  cooperation with Tilda Swinton. The conversation will immediately follow the screening of Call Me by Your Name. 

Moderator: Jonas Holmberg, Göteborg Film Festival 

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit goteborgfilmfestival.se  

STORA TEATERN (Kungsparken 1)

9.15–10.00  Göteborg Film Fund Panel: Democratic Perspectives on Global Film Funding  

Live stream on the Industry Platform 

The Göteborg Film Fund 2021 is an initiative that aims to strengthen the film industry and contribute to a diversified culture and media landscape with increased artistic freedom and free speech in Sweden. Meet Olena Yershova, a producer from Ukraine; Frédéric Boyer, artistic director of the Tribeca and Les Arcs Film Festivals; Issraa El Kogali Häggström, a Swede of Sudanese origin, filmmaker and the chairperson of Cinemafrica; and of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a discussion on the role of the moving image in a democratic society.  

Moderator: Ann Ighe, writer and assistant professor of economic history 

For more information, please visit goteborgfilmfestival.se  

STORA TEATERN (Kungsparken 1)

20.00–22.40  Actor’s Talk: Nordic Honorary Award Recipient Rebecca Ferguson  

After just a few roles in Swedish films, Rebecca Ferguson went into an international career as Elizabeth Woodville in the series The White Queen, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe. These days, she’s fighting with Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible, singing with Hugh Jackman, and conquering planets with Timothée Chalamet. Richard Hobert’s A One-Way Trip to Antibes and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune will be screened at the Festival. The conversation will immediately follow the screening of Dune. Rebecca Ferguson will participate online.  

Moderator: Jonas Holmberg, Göteborg Film Festival 

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit goteborgfilmfestival.se  

STORA TEATERN (Kungsparken 1)

10.30–12.00  Works in Progress: Burn All My Letters and Triangle of Sadness (in Swedish) 

We gain exclusive insights into the work on – and get to see material from – two of the coming year’s most anticipated and talked-about Swedish films. This year’s Works in Progress is held in collaboration with Film I Väst.  

Triangle of Sadness  

Ruben Östlund tells us about the rocky shooting and, for the first time, shows scenes from Triangle of Sadness, which was shot in Trollhättan and on the Greek island of Evia. for the first time. Featuring performances by  Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean Kriek and Woody Harrelson, among others, the film moves from the world of fashion to a luxury yacht and concludes on a deserted island, where hierarchies are turned upside down.  

Moderator: Johan Jonason, director 

Burn All My Letters (In Swedish) 

At the Festival in 2020, we met the team behind Burn All My Letters as they were working on the script. Shooting of the film, which is based on Alex Schulman’s autobiographical novel, is now complete. Meet director Björn Runge, producer Annika Sucksdorff, and actors Gustav Lindh and Asta Kamma August, who play Karin Stolpe and Olof Lagercrantz,  and see the first scenes from the film. 

Moderator: Camilla Larsson, Göteborg Film Festival 

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit goteborgfilmfestival.se