26/09/2013 - Swedish film personalities, including Finnish former SFI ceo Jörn Donner, celebrate the institute’s 50th anniversary at the Göteborg Book Fair between September 26-29

The Swedish Film Institute started celebrating its 50^th birthday during the Cannes International Film Festival, and while waiting for the main event between October 16-20 at Stockholm’s Film House, Swedish film personalities will mark the anniversary with a four-day programme at the Göteborg Book Fair (September 26-29).

The institute’s head of press Jan Göransson will show films from the 50 years and talk to filmmakers who have left their fingerprints on the period, starting with Finnish writer-director-producer Jörn Donner (photo), who was managing director of the institute between 1978-1982.

Donner, who has 50 producer credits, 32 as writer, 31 as director, 20 as actor, 10 as editor and 59 for appearing as himself in films or television series, produced Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander (1982), which collected four Academy Awards (including Best Foreign-Language Feature); he is still the only Finn to have won an Oscar.

Göransson will also talk to Swedish actress Gunnel Lindblom, directors Stefan Jarl and Gabriela Pichler (whose Eat Sleep Die [+see also:
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Kajsa Hedström, head of the institute’s film archives, has prepared a cavalcade of Swedish commercials from those 50 years. SFI seminars in the Book Fair include a discussion with Swedish actress-director Helena Bergström about how cinema can increase the interest in reading among children and young audiences – and Films make the world larger, with institute ceo Anna Serner.