Boy From Heaven

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‘Boy From Heaven’

The Stockholm International Film Festival will present 130 films from 50 countries, opening on November 9 with Sweden’s international Oscar submission, Boy From Heaven by Tarik Saleh. 

Political thriller Boy From Heaven premiered in competition at Cannes where it was awarded best screenplay.

Actor Fares Fares will receive the Stockholm Achievement Award on opening night. His credits include Easy Money, Safe House, Westworld and Chernobyl.

The Stockholm Visionary Award will go to Sam Mendes who will present the Nordic premiere of Empire Of Light.

Other notable selections include Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All; Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Woman King; Oliver Hermanus’ Living; Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees Of Inisherin and Park Chan-Wook’s Decision to Leave.

The festival’s focus country for 2022 is Ukraine. Six Ukrainian films will be screened: Rising Fury, Freedom on Fire, Mariupolis 2, The Kiev Trial, How is Katia?, Butterfly Vision and Klondike; plus works in progress presentations and talks.

More than one-third of the programme is devoted to debut features, including Georgia Oakley’s Blue Jean, Mikko Myllylahti’s The Woodcutter Story, Jim Archer’s Brian and Charles, and Natalia López’s Robe of Gems.

The festival runs until November 20.

The Stockholm Competition includes 19 features:

  • Return to Seoul by Davy Chou (Fr-Ger-Bel-S Kor-Rom)
  • La Jauría by Andrés Ramírez Pulido (Col-Fr)
  • Holy Spider by Ali Abbasi (Den-Ger-Swe-Fr)
  • Lullaby by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (Sp)
  • Mother and Son by Léonor Serraille (Fr)
  • Love According to Dalva by Emmanuelle Nicot (Fr-Bel)
  • Blanquita by Fernando Guzzoni (Chile)
  • The Damned Don’t Cry by Fyzal Boulifa (Fr-Bel-Mor)
  • Beautiful Beings by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson (Ice-Den-Swe-Neth-Czech)
  • Bread and Salt by Damian Kocur (Pol)
  • A Man by Kei Ishikawa (Jap)
  • Harka by Lotfy Nathan (Fr-Ger-US-Tun)
  • Saint Omer by Alice Diop (Fr)
  • For My Country by Rachid Hami (Fr)
  • Emily by Frances O’Connor (US-UK)
  • La Maternal by Pilar Palomero (Sp)
  • Autobiography by Makbul Mubarak (Indo-Pol-Ger-Sing-Fr-Phil)
  • Scarlet by Pietro Marcello (Fr-It-Ger)
  • Until Tomorrow by Ali Asgari (Ir-Fr-Qa)

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