The Stockholm Film Festival is arranged between November 8 and 19 and the program is now presented.
Ethan Hawke will be one of the big international guests. The American will come to Stockholm on November 10 and will receive the festival’s Achievement award. The French filmmaker Catherine Breillat receives the Stockholm Visionary award and her latest film, “En sommar”, is shown at the festival.
It has already been known that Yorgos Lanthimos’ film “Poor things”, which received the finest prize in Venice earlier this fall, will open the festival. The British director Ken Loach receives the honorary prize Stockholm’s Lifetime award and it is also Great Britain that is the focus country of the festival this year. Loach’s latest film “The old oak” is also shown in Stockholm.
Another focus of the festival is AI and that the line between what is real and what is not is starting to blur. Several films on that theme are shown, including “Hello darkness” by director duo Soda Jerk and “Total trust” by Zhang Jialing.
In the latter film, the director, who lives in the United States, depicts how the Chinese state monitors its citizens with the help of facial recognition and data analysis.