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Pia Lundberg on Her First Gig as Göteborg Artistic Director, Sundance and Rotterdam Dates Jigsaw and the Importance of Disobedience (EXCLUSIVE)
Pia Lundberg unpacks the program of the 48th Göteborg Film Festival, due to showcase 270 films from 83 countries
We didn’t feel any political pressure but how to showcase conflicts and to give a voice to filmmakers against authoritarian regimes was very much at the forefront of our mind, especially when we designed our program focus about disobedience and civil resistance. Fanny Ovesen’s “Live a Little” is a beautiful and brave female-driven title about sexual abuse, and Maria Eriksson-Hecht’s “Kevlar Soul”, a social-realist drama, in the Andrea Arnold vein, a genre that is perhaps lacking in Sweden, although “Paradise Burning” was also set in a similar environment. Julie Delpy, Thomas Vinterberg are being honored, and Joshua Oppenheimer, Mohammad Rasoulof, Trine Dyrholm, Dag Johan Haugerud are expected on the red carpet.
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