GIFF in Cannes

Cannes Film Festival lasts for twelve days starting May 12. In addition to the fact that Göteborg International Film Festival is in place with a team of around ten people who are watching movies, fix our party and goes to meetings with the international film industry, also four swedish films will be screened in the festivals officiall programme. 

The debut feature film Sound of Noise by John Star Nilsson and Ola Simonsson compete in the Critics Week section. "Sound of Noise" was screened for the international industry as a work-in-progress in February at GIFF's Nordic Film Market.

The short film A Silent Child directed by Jesper Klevenås,
a photographer at Studio 24 of GIFF's honorary chairman Roy Andersson, is shown in the Director's Fort Night.

Short film Micky bathe, by Frida Kempff Skager and Camilla Power, had its world premiere at GIFF in January and now has a chance to win a Palme D'or in Cannes, where it participates in the main event.

Finally, the screening of ... but the film is my mistress, Stig Björkman's documentary about GIFF's former honorary president Ingmar Bergman, in the section Cannes Classics.

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