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The Stockholm International Film Festival started in 1990 and is today one of the leading competitive film festival in Northern Europe. The festival takes place every year in November with more than 170 films from more then 40 countries. The festival organizes exclusive screenings and the popular Summer Cinema - an outdoor mini-festival. In April the Stockholm International Film Festival Junior brings the latest films to youngsters between 6 and 16 years of age.

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Git Scheynius, festival director Stockholm Film Festival

We are proud to present this year’s program filled with quality films from all around the world. News of this year is the new filmsection Stockholm Impact Award, and the best documentary film will be awarded. It is also the first time we have a greater number of women than men competing for the Bronze Horse. We can also announce that the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will visit Stockholm for the first time

I’ve always loved Stockholm, both the city and the festival, so it is a great honour to have been selected as the opening film of the festival. This film is five years in the making, and there were moments when we didn’t know if it would ever get finished. The fact that it’s out there, and that it can play on a stage as big as that of the Stockholm Film Festival is surreal and humbling.

Jonas Carpignano, director of Mediterranea.

We are looking forward to present this year’s titles in Short Film Competition, delivering an array of intriguing topics with categories ranging from documenteries to comedy and drama. The award aims to encourage directors in the begining of their careers, that every year surprise us with their creativeness and originality

Git Scheynius, the festival director of Stockholm International Film Festival

This year’s Twilight Zone presents more realistic and present dangers without being detached from the dark and the fantastic. Neo-nazis and punks clash in Green Room, a virus outbreak in Denmark triggers military action against middle class suburbia and a giant tsunami hits Norway

George Ivanov, program director at Stockholm Film Festival.

The current situation at the European borders has made us decide to focus on the issue of migration this year. The selection of films tells the stories of people fleeing or leaving their homes for different reasons

Git Scheynius, festival director of Stockholm International Film Festival

British director Stephen Frears never shies away from taking on people’s dark and tragic sides, doing so with warmth, passion and a sense of humor. This year’s receiver of the Lifetime Achievement Award is a filmmaker who is not afraid to take a stand for those who exist at the margins of society. His filmmaking ranges from political films with social pathos to grand epics with the biggest stars. Regardless of what form the story takes, Stephen Frears shows us that he is a director with a genuine curiosity for people’s life stories.

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Stockholm Visionary Award 2009 goes to a visionary director and a producer with visions – Luc Besson

Wed, Oct 21, 2009 18:01 CET

The 20th Stockholm International Film Festival presents the Stockholm Visionary Award to French director Luc Besson. Besson will visit the festival to accept the award in person and to meet the audience in a special Face2Face on Nov 26th.Motivation: Since his debut, Mr Besson has fulfilled the idea of a renaissance man. Making his mark as a writer, director, producer and mogul, Mr Besson has relentlessly explored new worlds and offered us his personal visions from the subway underground and the bottom of the ocean to space and fantastic fairy tales. One can truly say Mr Besson is a

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Stockholm Visionary Award 2009 goes to a visionary director and a producer with visions – Luc Besson

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