Country Focus: Sweden
by Cineuropa
29/09/2010 - Articles, interviews, news, analysis on the Swedesh audiovisual sector.
Country profile: Sweden
International Film Guide 2012: Sweden
A survey of the film culture and output in Sweden published by the International Film Guide.
SFI publishes 2009 annual report
The Swedish Film Institute’s (SFI) Facts and Figures 2009 – providing in-depth information about last year’s film year in Sweden (including on admissions, production, distribution and festival news) – is now online. As SFI CEO Cissi Elwin Frenkel stressed in the report introduction, 2009 was “a unique and exceptional year” for Swedish cinema, with one in three tickets sold for a Swedish film, thanks largely to the Millennium trilogy. For Elwin Frenkel, the SFI succeeded in raising the...
Sweden - Local market share at a record 32.7% in 2009
Swedish admissions hit the roof in 2009, with 5.6 million, the first time in the 2000s that domestic films passed the five million mark. Even without the three Millennium films, local films attracted over 20% of country’s moviegoers.
2009 boasts best audiences figures ever
Final admissions figures are not available yet for 2009, but the data for January to November already show that Swedish films could register their best market share ever since the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) first started analysing attendance figures, back in 1963. According to Thomas Bryntesson, head of research at SFI, over 15.6 million tickets were sold for the first 11 months of the year, up 13% over the same period in 2008. Swedish films accounted for five million ticket sales, which...
Local films boast 145 international wins in 2009
On Monday, the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) invited local producers and filmmakers to celebrate the record 145 international awards given out to 56 shorts, documentaries and feature films in 2009, up by 62 wins from 2008. Many festival programmers who have been viewing Nordic films over the last couple of years agree that within Scandinavia, it is no longer Denmark but Sweden that produces the most innovative films. This year, the sheer volume and diversity of Swedish films celebrated at...
First half of 2009 up by 27%
Driven by the exceptional performance of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which pushed the market share for Swedish films up to 32.4%, total admissions in Sweden during the first six months of the year reached 7.5m, up 26.9% over the same period in 2008. According to figures published by the Swedish Film Institute (SFI), admissions in Sweden were at their highest level since 2004, and June alone was the best since 1994, with over one million tickets sold. Seven Swedish films passed the...
Sweden - Facts and Figures 2008
The Swedish Film Institute’s annual report for the year 2008
Sweden - International Film Guide Survey
In 2008, vampires conquered Sweden. The best film of the year was Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in), directed by Thomas Alfredson, which was awarded Gothenburg Film Festival’s Nordic film prize. It is based on John Ajvide Lindqvist’s bestselling novel about the friendship between a bullied young boy and a girl who turns out to be a vampire. Combining impressive technical skill with sensitive characterization and a mastery of the genre, Alfredson has come up with the perfect...
20% market share for local films
General admissions in Sweden increased by 1.5% in 2008, to 15.1 million, pushed upwards by studio tent poles such as Mamma Mia!, seen by a record 1.8m viewers. Swedish films, however, saw a 1.5% drop, to end the year with 3 million admissions and 20% of the market, against 21.6% in 2007. According to preliminary figures just released by the Swedish Film Institute, only two Swedish mainstream movies managed to compete with US blockbusters in the Top Ten: the epic film Arn: The Knight Templar...
Sweden - Regional Film Funds (March 2005)
Regional Film Funds in Sweden With as Film i Väst a model not only in Sweden but all over Europe, regional film funds in Sweden have become a crucial part in the financing of local films, and as a new Film Law is being drafted by politicians, the whole Swedish industry is lobbying the government to make sure regional film financing will be included in the 2005 Film Agreement. Sweden is as famous today in the film world for its grand master Ingmar Bergman and the new talented enfant terrible...
Scandinavia - Coproduction in Nordic Countries (March 2005)
Coproduction in Nordic Countries The majority of feature films made in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland are co-productions between two or more of those territories relying heavily on production subsidies from the local film institutes and sometimes from the Nordisk Film & TV Fund. For films with budgets over €2.5m aiming at a wider international audience, Nordic producers have to look else where for co-financing as they cannot rely on the small local markets to recoup production...
Sweden - >Production subsidies in turmoil (November 2003)
Production subsidies in turmoil Following two years of booming business and an injection of energy from new filmmakers and entrepreneurial producers, the Swedish film industry is experiencing a period of uncertainty. A lack of subsidies for production has reduced the flow of Swedish-made titles, and urgent measures are needed to mend the production machine. In preparation for the new Film Law (set to come into force in 2004), producers, the Swedish Film Institute and trade associations have...
