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All Sweden articles – Page 21
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NewsWay Out West to premiere Easy Money 3
Sweden’s Way Out West festival has announced its film programme including Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight and Stephen Soderbergh’s Behind The Candelabra.
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NewsGöteborg launches cinematography award
The award is in memory of Swedish cinematographer Sven Nykvist [pictured].
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NewsSola holidays with Anderssons
EXCLUSIVE: Sola Media, the German sales agent specializing on family entertainment, has snapped up world rights on Swedish box-office hit, The Anderssons In Greece - All Inclusive [pictured].
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NewsMichael Nyqvist joins Father
The star of the Swedish-language Millennium Trilogy has signed on to the Cannes sales title My So-Called Father opposite Vera Vitali.
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NewsSomeone You Love heading to Cannes
Pernille Fischer Christensen’s Swedish drama to reunite Mikael Persbrandt and Trine Dyrholm.
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NewsABBA star to adapt witch novel
ABBA musician Benny Andersson has launched a new production company with his son to adapt award-winning Swedish novel The Circle.
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NewsSweden's Film i Vast scores record admissions
Swedish and international features co-produced last year by Swedish regional film centre Film i Väst in Trollhättan took a record 21 million admissions - 40% up on the previous year.
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NewsGentlemen and Gangsters begins shoot
Scandinavian feature film and mini-series Gentlemen and Gangsters, based on Klas Östergren’s best-selling novels and directed by Mikael Marcimain (Call Girl), has begun shooting.
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NewsEC plans third consultation on state aid
European Commission (EC) planning to launch a third round of consultation on its Cinema Communication this spring.
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NewsSweden’s Europa brings aboard Mistika
Europa will primarily employ the new Mistika systems [pictured] for 2D projects, but they can be upgraded to Stereo 3D or High Frame Rate (HFR) if required.
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NewsGoteborg’s Dragon Award goes to Before Snowfall
Other winners include Dog Flesh, Searching for Sugar Man, Northwest, A Hijacking, Wadjda, La Ravadeuse and Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart.
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NewsSwedish box office best since 1989
Swedish cinemas registered the best annual result since the late 1980s with 18.4 million admissions in 2012, up 12% on 2011 (16.4 million), according to the Swedish Film Institute.
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NewsBabak Najafi wins lucrative Göteborg award
Sweden’s Göteborg International Film Festival has awarded director Babak Najafi the Startsladden Award - one of the industry’s biggest prizes for a short film.
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NewsGoteborg to spotlight Norwegian features
Sweden’s 36th Göteborg International Film Festival, which opens tonight (Jan 25) with Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning’s action-adventure Kon-Tiki, have improved services for the 1,500 film professionals expected for the showcase, which runs through Feb 4.
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NewsEat Sleep Die and Call Girl sweep Sweden's Guldbagge awards
Directors Gabriela Pichler and Mikael Marcimain took the lion’s share of the Guldbagge – Sweden’s national film prize – when the Swedish Film Institute presented the awards last night (Jan 21) at a televised gala in Stockholm’s Cirkus.
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NewsGunnar Carlsson joins Anagram Produktion
Swedish producer Gunnar Carlsson - former head of drama at Swedish pubcaster SVT – has been signed as film and drama chief at Anagram Produktion, the Lund-based production company instigated in 2003 by Swedish actor-comedians, writers, directors and producers Anders Jansson and Johan Wester.
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NewsGöteborg unveils 2013 programme; reveals Dragon Award titles
Eight new Nordic features will compete for the $150,000 (SEK 1m) Dragon Award – one of the film world’s largest prizes – at Sweden’s 36th Göteborg International Film Festival.
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NewsCall Girl leads Swedish film award nominations
Swedish director Mikael Marcimain’s feature debut Call Girl has taken the lead in the race for the Guldbagge – the Swedish national film awards – collecting 11 nominations.
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NewsWallen quits Yellow Bird; Fernandez named CEO
Mikael Wallen is stepping down as president of Yellow Bird, the Swedish production company behind the original version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.