The international success of Brace Your Heart and director Amanda Kernell continues as she receives the Silver Shell for Best Director at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. Swedish actress Asta Kamma August has also been awarded the Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance for Hans Petter Moland’s Growth of the Soil.
Amanda Kernell’s Brace Your Heart will have its European premiere in main competition at this year's San Sebastián International Film Festival, following the film’s recent world premiere in Toronto. Angelica Ruffier’s La Belle Année also features in the festival’s competitive section Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, while Jon Holmberg’s Super Charlie is screening at the festival in a Basque-dubbed version.
Amanda Kernell's Brace Your Heart and Lars Vega's debut feature Arne Goes To Space will celebrate their world premieres at the 51st Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in the Platform and Discovery programmes, respectively.
Alex Schulman’s Adult Supervision, starring Gustaf Skarsgård, Fares Fares and Linus Wahlgren, has been selected as Sweden’s official submission for the International Feature Film category at the 99th Academy Awards, the Swedish Film Institute’s Oscar Committee announced today at Filmhuset in Stockholm.
The Swedish Film Institute’s Oscar Committee has selected three finalists for Sweden’s official submission to the Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film category: Adult Supervision by Alex Schulman, Brace Your Heart by Amanda Kernell and Bloody Men by Jens Sjögren.
Lars Vega’s debut feature Arne Goes To Space will have its world premiere in the Discovery programme at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The selection marks a strong Swedish presence at one of the world’s leading film festivals, following yesterday’s announcement that Amanda Kernell’s Brace Your Heart has been selected for the Platform programme.
Today it was announced that Amanda Kernell's upcoming film Brace Your Heart will have its world premiere at the 51st Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where it will compete in the Platform programme.
Newly restored 4K versions of Jan Troell’s classics The Emigrants (Utvandrarna, 1971) and The New Land (Nybyggarna, 1972) will be screened at the 40th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato, the world’s leading festival dedicated to film heritage and archival cinema.
More than 13,000 photographs related to the films of Ingmar Bergman have been digitized and made accessible by the Film Institute's Stills and Posters archive. The unique collection includes both production stills and behind-the-scenes photographs, many of which are being published and shown for the first time.
The 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival features Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s short film The End, as well as two Swedish co-productions selected for the Official Competition.
Official selection The End by Niki Lindroth von Bahr (short film competition) Sweden, France and Denmark Niki Lindroth von Bahr returns to Cannes with her stop-motion short film The End, in competition for the Short Film
Producer Linda Mutawi has been selected to represent Sweden in European Film Promotion’s prestigious Producers on the Move 2026 program. Each year, the program brings together 20 promising producers from across Europe during the Cannes Film Festival to foster new international collaborations and strengthen European film production. The Swedish Film Institute nominates Sweden’s participant.
Niki Lindroth von Bahr returns to Cannes Film Festival with her latest short film The End. This time she is competing for the Short Film Palme d’Or – one of the world's most prestigious film awards.It feels absolutely incredible. It’s been an extremely demanding production, and I’m so grateful that The End is getting such a fantastic premiere. It really gives you the energy to keep going with the
