Following directors will be available for interviews during Stockholm International Film Festival 2018

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This year, Stockholm International Film Festival will be visited by close to 60 innovative and interesting filmmakers from all over the world. Please see the list below for more information about exact dates when each director will be available to meet with the press.


Brady Corbert, the director of Vox Lux is one of the filmmakers visiting Stockholm International Film Festival 2018. 

During Stockholm International Film Festival, accredited journalists will have the opportunity to interview visiting directors and filmmakers who will be in Stockholm during the festival to present their films.

For interview requests, please contact press secretary Emma Rönn at pressekreterare@stockholmfilmfestival.se.

List of visiting directors, sorted by section:

Stockholm XXIX Competition:
Anna Odell, X&Y – 6/11-7/11
Tolga Karaçelik, Butterflies– 9/11
Jasmin Mozaffari, Firecrackers – 9/11
Ognjen Glavonic, The Load – 12/11
Crystal Moselle, Skate Kitchen – 12/11
Hiroshi Okuyama, Jesus – 12/11-13/11
Marcelo Martinessi, The Heiresses – 10/11
Antonia Mishiali, Pause – 13/11-14/11
Philippe Lesage, Genesis – 16/11
Wolfgang Fisher, Styx – 15/11
Simon Jaquemet, The Innocent – 16/11
László Nemes, Sunset – 16/11-17/11

Stockholm XXIX Documentary Competition:
Vitaly Manskiy, Putin’s Witnesses – 15/11
Ingrid Rydberg, An army of lovers – 9/11
Naziha Areb, Freedom Fields – 8/11
Bing Liu, Minding The Gap – 13/11-14/11

Stockholm Impact Competition:
Brady Corbert, Vox Lux – 16/11
Richard Billingham, Ray & Liz – 7/11-8/11
Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, Manta Ray – 13/11
Soheil Beiraghi, Cold Sweat – 8/11-9/11
Cristina Gallego, Birds of Passage – 15/11
Sergei Loznitsa, Donbass – 13/11-14/11
Nataliia Meshchaninova, Core Of The World – 14/11-15/11
Beatrize Seigner, Los Silencios – 11/11-12/11




Stockholm Open Zone:
Asghar Farhadi, Everybody Knows – 8/11-9/11
Mary Harron, Charlie Says – 8/11-9/11
Ahmad Abdalla, Ext. Night – 9/11-10/11
Alejandra Márques Abella, The Good Girls – 11/11-12/11
Carmel Winters, Float Like A Butterfly – 15/11

Icons:
Rick Alverson, The Mountain – 9/11-10/11

Discovery:
Meryem Benm'Barek, Sofia – 14/11
Laura Luchetti, Twin Flower – 9/11
Sarah Marx, The Truk – 15/11
Vanessa Filho, Angel Face – 7/11-8/11

American Independents:
Daniel Sawka, Icebox  7/11-8/11
Nathaniel Dushku, Mapplethorpe (Producer) – 12/11

Twilight Zone:
Jonas Åkerlund, Lord Of Chaos – 5/11-6/11
Vasan Bala, Director, The Man Who Feels No Pain – 9/11
Mani Haghighi, Pig – 8/11-9/11

Documania:
Lisa D ́Apolito, Love, Gilda – 18/11
Tom Donahue, This Changes Everything – 16/11-18/11

Special Event:
Margarethe von Trotta, Searching For Ingmar Bergman – 11/11-12/11
Ville Gideon Sörman, I See You – 6/11-9/11

Following actors will also be available for interviews:
Gunnel Lindblom, Searching For Ingmar Bergman – 30/11 and 11/11
Baran Kosari, Cold Sweat – 8/11-9/11
Malina Manovici, Lemonade – 15/11
Tugce Altug, Butterflies – 9/11
Mikael Persbrant, X&Y – 6/11-7/11
Vera Vitali, X&Y – 6/11-7/11

All interviews with directors and actors available on November 6th and 7th will take place on the red carpet before the world premiere screenings of X&Y.

To cover the gala opening of the festival on November 6th, please contact press officer Angelika Vaskevitch at press@stockholmfilmfestival.se.

Only accredited media are eligible to conduct interviews with visiting filmmakers. If you haven’t already requested press accreditation, please do so here: https://vp.eventival.eu/stockholminternationalfilmfestival/2018. Last day to apply is Friday, October 26th.
You will be notified about the status of your application by Wednesday, October 31st.

For more information and interview requests, please contact:
Angelika Vaskevitch
Head of Press, Stockholm International Film Festival
Tel: +4670 278 98 14
press@stockholmfilmfestival.se

Emma Rönn
Press Secretary, Stockholm International Film Festival
Tel: +468 677 50 31 / +4673 719 53 20
pressekreterare@stockholmfilmfestival.se 

The 29th Stockholm International Film Festival : 7-18 November 2018 
Stockholm International Film Festival was founded in 1990 and has grown to become one of Europe's leading film festivals. During the festival we present over 150 films from 60 countries. We also arrange exclusive previews throughout the year, open-air screenings during the summer, mobile film screenings for kids and youths as well as Stockholm International Film Festival Junior in April. 
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