Gothenburg Film Festival

Gothenburg Film Festival, ("Göteborgs filmfestival") is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, launched in 1979. The first year the festival showed 17 films on 3 screens, and had 3 000 visitors. Today, the film festival is the biggest in Scandinavia and takes place 10 days every year between January and February. Around 450 films from 60 countries are screened for 115 000 visitors. [ [http://www.filmfestival.org/filmfestival/page/en/information/festivalen Info on the Festival site] ] .The film festival is also an important market place for the contractors in the movie industry.

The 2008 festival included a 51-title retrospective tribute to Ingmar Bergman. [cite web| url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117979651.html?categoryid=1019&cs=1&nid=2562 |title=Gotheburg fest plays ‘Ping Pong’ |date=2008-01-25 |accessdate=2008-02-05 |work=Variety |author=Alissa Simon] The festival’s audience award was won by the film "You, the Living", directed by Roy Andersson. [cite web |url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117979764.html?categoryId=13&cs=1 |title=‘Living’ nabs Gothenburg award |author=Gunnar Rehlin |date=2008-01-28 |accessdate=2008-02-05 |work=Variety]

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External links

* [http://www.filmfestival.org Official web page]
* [http://www.sr.se/laddahem/podradio/SR_SRI_en_sweToday_080204040058.mp3 English-language podcast] (Radio Sweden)