Göteborg Film Festival Unveils Competition Lineup, Sets Sidse Babett Knudsen Honor and Thierry Fremaux-Ruben Ostlund Conversation
variety.comAnnika Pham Actors Ewan McGregor, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, directors Ruben Östlund, Ernst de Geer, Ramata-Toulaye Sy and Cannes Film Festival honcho Thierry Frémaux are some of the stellar guests set to walk the red carpet at the 47th edition of Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival.
This year’s Göteborg Fest unspools from Jan. 26 to Feb. 4. For his last run as artistic director of Scandinavia’s biggest film festival, Jonas Holmberg has selected 240 films from 82 countries, and what he calls “one of the strongest lineups ever” for Göteborg’s main Nordic competition strand.
Among the highly anticipated titles vying for the coveted Best Nordic Film Dragon Award worth SEK 400,000 ($39,000), is Norway’s “Handling the Undead” by Thea Hvistendahl, set to kickstart the festival on the heels of its Sundance world premiere. “This will be the first time we open with a zombie horror,” notes Holmberg, who looks forward to welcoming back Hvistendahl (five years after her debut “The Monkey and the Mouth”), as well as the horror pic’s co-stars Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie of “The Worst Person in the World” fame.
Another female director returning to Göteborg is Finland’s Miia Tervo (“Aurora”), with the world premiere of “The Missile”. “It’s a wonderful, intelligent and charming dramedy,” said Holmberg about the satirical rehash of a true incident which shook Finnish Lapland, several decades ago: the landing of a Soviet missile.
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