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FESTIVALS Sweden

160 films in Stockholm

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The 14th edition of the Stockholm International Film Festival (November 13-23), one of the leading film festivals in Northern Europe, is paying a special tribute to US filmmaker David Lynch this year. The director will be present during the whole duration of the festival to present six of his films and he will be giving a public interview on November 21st.

The festival, which aims to launch young filmmakers and broaden the forum for innovative quality films in Scandinavia, will be screening over 160 films from 40 countries in its 11 different sections. Some 20 feature films will compete for the Bronze Horse, and these include Richard Jobson’s 16 Years of Alcohol, Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye Lenin! [+see also:
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and Tom Barman's Belgian film, Any Way The Wind Blows [+see also:
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The FIPRESCHI Prize, given to the Best Nordic-Baltic film, will be chosen from five recent Scandinavian films: the documentary on the making of Dogville [+see also:
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by Sami Saif, Dogs & Deer-Dogville Confessions (Denmark), Solveig Anspach's Stormy Weather [+see also:
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(Iceland/Belgium), Jens Lien’s Jonny Vang (Norway), Jarmo Lampela’s Eila (Finland) and Elmo Nüganen’s Names In Marble (Estonia).

The Festival will open tomorrow with the screening of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill 1 and will close on November 23, with Gus van Sant’s Palme d’Or winner, Elephant.

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