Today the program for the 47th film festival in Gothenburg was released and as usual there is a lot of film shown during 10 days in February. Around 250 films from around 80 countries will be shown between January 26 and February 4.
AI and Bergman
This year’s festival focus is AI, here a paraphrase of Another intelligence.
– It is our way of investigating the relationship of film art and society to the new AI technology. Among other things, we have done an AI adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s classic film “Persona” where, with the help of AI technology, we have Alma Pöysti do a new interpretation of the role that Liv Ullman did in the original, says Jonas Holmberg, the festival’s artistic director.
Lightsaber wielders are hailed
Another of the films Jonas Holmberg is looking forward to is the opening film “Handling the undead” Thea Hvistendahl film adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel. But also paying tribute to this year’s honorary award winner Ewan McGregor will be a highlight.
– He has done everything from “Trainspotting” to wielding his lightsaber in “Star Wars” and many other fantastic roles and he is coming to Gothenburg to present his film “Mother, Couch” but also to receive the honorary award and participate in a longer conversations, says Jonas Holmberg.