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FESTIVALS Sweden

Stockholm offering over 100 Nordic premieres

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The 21st Stockholm International Film Festival kicks off this Wednesday with Xavier Dolan’s ménage-à-trois film Heartbeats, and will close on November 28 with Ben Affleck’s The Town. Over 180 films from 50 countries will screen at Sweden’s top film festival, including 108 Nordic premieres, 16 world premieres and 18 films vying for the major Bronze Horse award.

US actress Holly Hunter will preside over the jury of the main competition programme. The 18 contenders for the festival’s top award include Sound of Noise [+see also:
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by Swedish filmmaking duo Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Julie Bertucelli’s The Tree [+see also:
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, Romain GavrasOur Day Will Come [+see also:
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and Florin Serban’s If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle [+see also:
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As an example of a new trend in Scandinavian cinema, two Hollywood thrillers directed by Swedish filmmakers will premiere in the Open Zone sidebar: Mikael Håfström’s Shanghai with John Cusack, and Shelter, directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein and starring Julianne Moore. Mårlind and Stein will also take part in the debate Swedes on the International Scene, along with Swedish producers Olivier Guerpillon (Sound of Noise), Kristina Åberg (Videocracy [+see also:
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), Fredrik Wikström (Easy Money [+see also:
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) and writer/director Jens Jonsson (The King of Ping Pong [+see also:
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), who is planning to make his next film in Germany.

A glance at the 11 Scandinavian Works in Progress to be presented by their directors and/or producers shows that thrillers and noir films continue to be a popular genre up north. The section will offer footage of upcoming films that include Babycall by Norway’s Pål Sletaune, starring Noomi Rapace; ID:A by Denmark’s Christian E. Christiansen, produced by Zentropa; and In Embryo, the directorial debut of Danish star actor Ulrich Thomsen.

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