Göteborg winner to Bergman Week

During the Göteborg International Film Festival 2010 Esther Rots received The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award for her film Can Go Through Skin. This summer the director from The Netherlands visits The Bergman Week at the island of Fårö.

Esther Rots will be present at the Bergman Week between June 30 and July 3, staying in the Bergman suite at the Slow Train bed and breakfast. On July 1 her film will be screened. 

– It was a great honour to win. I never expected that. The film chose me, I did not know from start that it was going to be such a heavy film, says Esther Rots about her story about a woman trying to repair the damages after a rape.
   
Esther Rots is the fourth winner of The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award. The award goes to ” a debutant who in his or her film treats an existential theme with a dynamic or experimental approach to the cinematic means of expression".

The Bergman Week is organised on the island of Fårö on June 29 – July 4 in cooperation with The Göteborg International Film Festival, The Bergman Estate, Gotland Film Commission, and The Gotland University.

Bergman Week homepage  

See interview with Esther Rots from GIFF 2010 here.