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Nightmare at the Museum

Röhsska. Saturday, January 26, 10pm,

The heavy gates to Röhsska Museet will creak open for a night to remember. All horror aficionados in need of a terror refill can get their fix during the Nightmare at the Museum. Bring your sleeping bag and some food rations and prepare yourself for the ordeal of a whole night of nerve-wracking films. Those who make it through the night will be rewarded with the smell of newly baked bread from the museum café.

The following films will be screened in Wernstedtshallen. The Shining, The Omen, Poltergeist, The Descent, Friday the 13th, Psycho and The Fly.

Festival brunch

Saturday and Sunday, January 26-27 and 2-3, 12pm

With inspiration from The Loft in New York. A different club with VJs and music from The project Gothenburg Experience.

Free screen

Hagabion. Tuesday, January 29, 7pm-11pm

Did you make a film that we failed to include in our festival programme, did you miss the deadline or do you simply find your film unsuitable for the dark of a cinema? Perhaps you're in a band or into stand-up comedy - or something completely different but creative? In that case you should sign up for FREE SCREEN!

In a collaboration with our favourite TV programme GARAGE (UR), we open up the new stage at the Haga Cinema café for everything imaginable!

Send in your application at the GARAGE website.

Film quiz

Respekt. Wednesday, January 30, 8pm.

Do you know in what way Sofia Coppola and Nicolas Cage are related? Which Seinfeld character appeared in Pretty Woman? And what the Western version of Seven Samurai was called? In that case, don't miss the grand finale of the festival's film quiz!

Every Wednesday throughout the autumn and winter, challenger teams from Film i Väst, Filmkrönikan, and others have tested their mettle against skilled quiz enthusiasts. Now four of our challenger teams, itching for revenge, face off against two new super challenger teams, comprising the nation's sharpest film minds. Former Festival Bosses and the SFI Allstars. You, too, can join the fray! Quizmaster: Anders Annikas.

YOU CAN ALSO compete right away by sending your own quiz question to filmquiz@filmfestival.org. The question should consist of an A and B section. Also include your contact information so that we can get in touch with you. The winning question will be used at our grand finale, where the winner will be rewarded and also gets to read his or her question.

Hit or miss? Your guide to the box office charts.

Hagabion. Thursday, January 31, 8pm.

During the week we will dispatch Andrea Reuter from SVT's Filmkrönikan, festival artist Niklas Eneblom and philosopher Bengt Brülde to three of the festival's hottest premières with a mission: to check out the cinematic, artistic and philosophical qualities of the films. At the end of the week - on Thursday Jan 31 in the Haga Cinema café - they will summarize their verdicts on stage. Is it hit or miss? Our hostess and guide is Emma Gray Munthe, and the films are Let the Right One In, The Early Years - Erik Nietzsche part 1 and Funny Games.

Film Auction

Göteborgs Auktionsverk's annual film auction, modelled after the international houses big movie memorabilia auctions, has grown with every year during its four-year history. The film related items to be auctioned off include props, a huge number of movie posters, signed objects and autographs. The starting bids vary and Göteborgs Auktionsverk promise something for every taste and budget. This year the director of Röhsska Museet will act as auctioneer. The historic locations of Auktionsverket from 1892 are just a stone's throw away from Järntorget.

Read more www.goteborgsauktionsverk.se
Göteborgs Auktionsverk
Tredje Långgatan 9
Phone: +46 31 704 77 00

Preview: Thursday 31/1 12pm-6pm
Friday 1/2 12pm-pm Friday
Saturday 2/2 10am-12pm

Auction: Saturday 2/2 12NOON

MMS your film

If, in the midst of the festival, you find yourself with a minute to spare, or happen to miss the tram to Chalmers, or is stuck in line waiting for a gala première at Draken or get stuck in a lift to the Riverton Skybar with a celebrity whose name escapes you - we have the solution: whip out yer olde camera phone and catch your "minute to spare" on film - or memory card, as it were. Then MMS your film to us and we'll splice them all together.

Film your minute to spare!
MMS the clip to 72010
Enter tv in the message field

Feel free to describe the minute you have filmed in your message - for example: tv 27/1 time 12.27-12.28.

The films will be made available as they come in at www.gp.webbtv.se
Don't miss GPtv's film festival coverage!

Frozen Moments

Röhsska. Opening of exhibition, Tuesday, January 15, 7pm.

A well-composed frame of film can say more than a whole dialogue. In Frozen Moments we exhibit a few frozen frames from film history and let them tell their tales. At the same time we present the story of the gadgets and the design surrounding the actual action. Frozen Moments is a collaboration between Göteborg International Film Festival, Röhsska Muséet and the Film Theory department at Göteborg University.

ALMOST LIKE CINEMA

DVD feature

We are used to director's comments as a DVD feature. Here is the live version, as heard in a packed movie theatre! A recurrent and very popular programme point where we copy the original DVD version (without incurring the wrath of various copyright institutions) and invite some of last year's most interesting directors to comment their own film while it plays behind their backs, on the big screen! This year's films both premièred at GIFF precisely a year ago. We hope to get all the facts about casting and shooting as well as scandals and important everyday events.

Nanna Huolman

Handels. Saturday, January 26, 3pm.

Nanna Huolman received both long and earnest applause and the Church of Sweden Film Prize when her road movie Kid Svensk premièred at last year's festival. Now she's back to talk about what lies behind those popular film frames. Make sure to see the film before attending Director's Comment, it makes the whole thing so much better. Kid Svensk is screened in our "Swedish Films 2007" section.

Robert Lillhonga

Handels. Saturday, February 2, 3 pm.

Director Robert Lillhonga was escorted by police to the world première of Hating Gothenburg during the 30th film festival in Göteborg (a.k.a. Gothenburg). Some local football fans with a cinematic bent had got riled up by the title. While shooting the film, Robert also had trouble with Danish plainclothes policemen who wanted to interfere during a fight scene. In spite of all, the film had its opening. Now, a year later, its time to hear all the behind-the -scenes stories. (NOTE: Do try to watch the film once before attending the director's comment - it makes the whole thing much more rewarding!

Silent film in the Göteborg Cathedral

The Göteborg Cathedral continues to combine cinema and conversation within hallowed walls. This time Icelandic theologian and film scholar Árni Svanur Daníelsson talks about and shows clips featuring Priests on the silver screen. At 8pm there will be a screening of La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (C. T. Dreyer, 1927) with live music from organist Toni Weiser. Using one the cathedral's organs he will combine classical pieces from the 16th century onward with improvisations of his own. The music, arranged by Weiser himself, will underline the story and scenery of the film.

Wednesday Jan 31, 7pm
Free entrance

A collaboration between Göteborg International Film Festival, Teologiskt Forum, The Göteborg Cathedral and Kultursamverkan Svenska kyrkan.

Tim Perkis and band

Hagabion. Thursday, january 31, 9.30pm.

Tim Perkis is the director behind the film Noisy People, a documentary about improvisation musicians in San Fransisco.

Art fillm at Röda Sten

Opening of exhibition, Saturday, January 26, 12pm.

The artist Magnus Bärtås' last film, Kumiko, Johnnie Walker and the Cute is a video essay about two characters in Tokyo. The exihibition is open during the whole festival.

Speaking filmish

For each day of the festival we have selected one film and one language. See the film and then discuss it in its original language. After the screening you are most welcome to Språkcaféet at 5pm to explore new linguistic lands through your cineastic experiences. The discussions are hosted by language coordinators from Språkcaféet.
15.00 26/1 IN MEMORY OF MYSELF, PUSTERVIK, ITALIAN
15.00 27/1 THE SOVEREIGN'S SERVANT, PUSTERVIK, RUSSIAN
15.00 28/1 MUTUM, PUSTERVIK, PORTUGUESE
15.00 29/1 FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON, DRAKEN, FRENCH
15.00 30/1 YOUNG YAKUZA, PUSTERVIK, JAPANESE
15.00 31/1 PUDOR, PUSTERVIK, SPANISH
15.00 1/2 HOUNDS, FOLKAN, GERMAN
15.00 2/2 ISKARIOT, DRAKEN, SWEDISH
15.15 3/2 HAFEZ, PUSTERVIK, FARSI

Don't miss!

Ingemar Bergman Treasures

The world's largest Bergman retro is not our only way of commemorating our former Honorary President. In a unique exhibition at the City Library some of his friends and fans now put together a selection of photos, books and items related to both film and theatre. Things that now will be joined by seminars and conversations about one of Sweden's greatest artists ever.

The exhibition is a collaboration between, among others, GIFF, The Bergman Week, ingmarbergman.se, The City Museum, Röhsska Museet, and The City Library.

Read more about the seminars in our Cinemix programme.

Heremias

So, you thought that Ben-hur was a long movie? Or Apocalypse Now Redux? Get a grip! When Philippine director Lav Diaz makes a movie other epics pale (or shrink) in comparison. Two years ago Diaz visited GIFF with his eleven hour movie Evolution of a Filippino Family. This year he's back with Heremias, in the more compact nine-hour format. Everyone in search of a different, meditative experience is hereby ordered to Hagabion.

Wed 30/1 10am HAGA 2

Oscar Monday

In the best GIFF tradition, we screen a selection of the films that have been picked as national candidates for Best Foreign Language Film. The thirteen films nominated for festival screening are You, the Living (Sweden), Beaufort (Israel), The Orphanage (Spain), The Pope's Toilet (Uruguay), Gone With the Women (Norway), XXY (Argentina), Ben X (Belgium), Duska (The Netherlands), The Trap (Serbia), I Served the King of England (Czech Republic), The Class (Estonia), Eduart (Greece) och Short Circuits (Slovenia). On the Monday after the festival we screen six of them one more time. Check the programme - and savour the calm after the festival storm.

Monday 4/2 4:30PM DRAKEN PUSTERVIK

3 films/0 cuts - Editors of the world, unite!

A film is made in the editing room - so the saying goes. But not always. Hitchcock's The Rope is probably the most famous example of a film made without cuts. Another gem in this peculiar genre is Aleksandr Sokurov's The Russian Ark. This year's festival presents no less than three films where the editor has been banned from the production. The Swedish debut Preludium, the Italian drama Waltz and the harrowing Columbian thriller PVC-1 all weave together parallel storylines in a single take. The result is impressive. Check the programme.

Celebrating Selma, with piano and conversation

Selma Lagerlöf would have turned 150 this year. We celebrate her by screening the silent film In Quest of Happiness, based on Selma's novel. And not only that - we also present a discussion between film expert Bo Florin and Lagerlöf scholar Lisbeth Stenberg right after the screening. And as an opening film we show a short documentary from 1924 featuring Selma herself. Both films are accompanied by silent film pianist Stefan Wingefors. Almost a small festival in its own right, in other words!

Sunday 3/2 3pm Draken.

Ajvide Lindqvist is King

John Ajvide Lindqvist is well on his way to become Sweden's answer to Stephen King. Not only is he the best horror writer in the country, now the movie versions of his stories are coming out in spades. This year sees the première of three films based on Ajvide Lindqvist's stories. The vampire flick Let the Right One in, based on his novel, competes for the Nordic Film Prize. We also show the competing short story film Majken and the short film Paperwalls, both based on stories from the anthology Paperwalls. Read the stories, see the films, dream the nightmares!

Scenes from two marriages

This year you have a unique opportunity to polish off two complete TV series on the big screen. On Monday Jan 28 we show all episodes of Ingmar Bergman's classic Scenes from A Marriage. Two days later, it's time for the world première of the newly produced The Regicide. In the former, Erland Josephson and Liv Ullman play an unhappy married couple. In The Regicide things are even worse, as Reine Brynolfsson portrays a Finance Minister and wife beater (Marie Richardson). In other words: two long, angst-laden cinematic experiences - but in a good way!

Monday 28/1 12.30pm Capitol and Wednesday 30/1 5.30pm Bergakungen 4.

Whatever happened to Jesper and Robert?

How do you move on after a celebrated feature film debut about male friendship? We know, at least, what Jesper Ganslandt and Robert Lillhonga did. The Falkenberg Farewell director's latest is the humbly titled Jesper Ganslandt's 114th Dream which is included in the short film package Swedish Images 3 and as an opening film to Persona non grata. Robert Lillhonga's new film is the almost hour-long documentary Surviving the Act, which will be screened along with a documentary about Jan Troell. Will Ganslandt and Lillhonga live up to expectations? Judge for yourselves!

De Geer - now worse than ever!

No, we never get enough ? it's time for Carl Johan De Geer again. He made last year's festival poster and we screened seven of his most praised short films. This year do it the other way around and screen four films that met with critical scorn - to De Geer's own surprise. Carl Johan will talk about the fate of these films at one of the screenings. And not only that - the man on last year's festival poster, Gustave Lund (a.k.a. Gurra G in the band Just D) gets his comeuppance. This time it's De Geer's time to be seen, in Gustave Lund's directorial debut: the short film Näsblod i öknen (Noose Blood in the Desert).

Multi-artist Andreas Nilsson

Andreas Nilsson didn't just make this year's intro film. He also plays guitar in Silverbullit, made the award-winning set design for The Knife's shows - and has made a number of distinctive videos for bands as diverse as Gyllene Tider and Bright Eyes. We present a special screening of ten of his videos, with Andreas Nilsson present to present them!

Sat 26/1 5.30pm Bergakungen 3.

The Festival goes dance band

Film festivals are high class culture, and the very Swedish phenomenon of dance bands are junk culture? Or are they? No, we don't think so, and will let Draken swing to the beat on Sunday Jan 26. First out is the newly restored Under ditt parasoll, the film made by legendary dance band Sven Ingvars in 1968. A box office disaster in its day, but today a sweet breeze of nostalgia. And right after that it's time for the world première of the documentary May I Have the Last Dance?, a delicate and melancholy portrait of the rise and fall of the Swedish dance bands. If you didn't like dance bands before, you will after watching these two films!

Sunday 27/1 12.30pm and 3pm Draken.

Loving Göteborg!

Göteborgsepoker (Gothenburg Epochs) are back! This time we've excavated a row of old amateur films from the archives of the Swedish Film Institute in Grängesberg. From the 20s to the 70s, from Styrsö to Avenyn, from porn shops to summer camp! Add to that live piano music and you get a great opportunity to decide if things really were better in the old days...

Sunday Jan 3 5.30pm Draken.