46th Göteborg Film Festival (2023)
Göteborg Film Festival 27 Jan - 5 Feb 2023, complete list
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- DirectorAbbe HassanStarsAshraf BarhomJwan AlqatamiIsa AouifiaA professional smuggler tries to save a 12-year-old girl whose family has gone missing in the Syrian war.
- DirectorOle GiæverStarsIvar BeddariBernt BjørnMaria BockEster hides her identity to avoid being exposed to racism. When Ester suddenly finds herself in the middle of demonstrations against a big dam development in Alta, a personal journey out of the shame she has carried so long begins.
- DirectorFrederikke AspöckStarsAnna NeyeSara Fanta TraoreClaus Riis ØstergaardSt. Croix, the Danish West Indies, 1848. Anna and Petrine are close friends. Both are women of color, but Anna is free and owns her housekeeper, the enslaved Petrine. Things are seemingly fine until rumors of a rebellion begin to swirl.
- DirectorHenrik Martin DahlsbakkenStarsAlfred Ekker StrandeThea Lambrechts VaulenPer FrischRejected by the art establishment, wracked with grief over the loss of his older sister and tortured by addiction, the film captures Edvard Munch's life, one of the world's greatest artists of all time.
- DirectorMalou ReymannStarsAmalie Drud AbildgaardLene Maria ChristensenDanica CurcicThe year is 1933, and society has very specific expectations of how young women should behave. Seventeen-year-old Maren is wild and unruly, so she is sent to the women's institution on Sprogø to adapt. The stay has the opposite effect.
- DirectorSelma VilhunenStarsAlma PöystiVilhelm BlomgrenEero MilonoffA middle-aged couple who, in the middle of an infidelity crisis, decide to open their marriage and venture into polyamory.
- DirectorHlynur PálmasonStarsElliott Crosset HoveIngvar SigurdssonVic Carmen SonneAt the end of the 19th century, a young Danish priest is sent to a remote part of Iceland. The deeper he travels into the Icelandic landscape, the more he loses a sense of his own reality, his mission and his sense of duty.
- DirectorMartin SkovbjergStarsAngela BundalovicJonas Holst SchmidtZlatko BuricA young woman named Ida disappears without a trace. Her boyfriend voluntarily lets himself be locked up to be questioned by Ida's father and brother, but Sander does not tell the whole truth.
- DirectorIsabella CarbonellStarsSilvana ImamPhilip OrosEmma LuHomeless and invisible - the Twins are constantly struggling to survive. Sister is a ticking time bomb; her screams are loud. Brother, on the other hand, doesn't speak, but rather screams inward.
- DirectorMarie KreutzerStarsVicky KriepsFlorian TeichtmeisterKatharina LorenzA fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth Of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.
- DirectorShô MiyakeStarsYukino KishiiMasaki MiuraShinichirô MatsuuraA hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.
- DirectorManuela MartelliStarsAline KüppenheimNicolás SepúlvedaHugo MedinaChile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
- DirectorLéa MysiusStarsAdèle ExarchopoulosSwala EmatiSally DraméVicky lives with her mother Joanne and father Jimmie. When Vicky's aunt Julia arrives after being released from prison, her presence brings back the past in a violent, magical way.
- DirectorSteven DoughtonStarsJames Le GrosTina HolmesKelvin Han YeeTwo Mexican day laborers are unexpected guests at their employer's intimate dinner party.
- DirectorChristopher MurrayStarsValentina Véliz CaileoDaniel AntiviloSebastian HülkOn the remote island of Chiloé in the late 19th century, an Indigenous girl named Rosa lives and works with her father on a farm. When the foreman brutally turns on Rosa's father, she sets out for justice, seeking help from the king of a powerful organization of sorcerers.
- DirectorEmanuele CrialeseStarsPenélope CruzVincenzo AmatoLuana GiulianiThe story of love between Clara and her children, set in Rome in the '70s.
- DirectorMikhaël HersStarsCharlotte GainsbourgQuito Rayon RichterNoée AbitaLeft by her husband, Elisabeth finds herself alone, responsible for the day-to-day care of her two children. She picks up a job on a night-time radio show, where she meets Talulah, a youngster she decides to take under her wing.
- DirectorMaryam TouzaniStarsLubna AzabalSaleh BakriAyoub MissiouiA middle-aged tailor and his wife find their relationship challenged by the arrival of a handsome new apprentice.
- DirectorDel Kathryn BartonStarsSimon BakerMorgan DaviesJosh LawsonAfter accidentally witnessing a violent crime, a young girl is left catatonic with shock, and struggles to make sense of what she saw, ultimately finding renewal in the inestimable world of her own imagination.
- DirectorDmytro Sukholytkyy-SobchukStarsOleksandr YatsentyukStanislav PotiakSolomiia KyrylovaPamfir wants to be a decent family man, but challenging circumstances force him to give up honest breadwinning to help his family.
- DirectorDavid WagnerStarsGerhard LiebmannLuka DimicJulia KoschitzVice Lieutenant Eismayer is the most feared trainer and model macho in the Austrian Military and lives as a gay man in secret. When he falls in love with a young, openly gay soldier, his world gets turned upside down. Based on real events.
- DirectorClement VirgoStarsLamar JohnsonAaron PierreMarsha Stephanie BlakeSons of Caribbean immigrants, Francis and Michael face questions of masculinity, identity and family amid the pulsing beat of Toronto's early hip-hop scene.
- DirectorMani HaghighiStarsNavid MohammadzadehTaraneh AlidoostiAli BagheriA married couple believe they meet their doppelgängers in Tehran.
- DirectorEmily AtefStarsVicky KriepsGaspard UllielBjørn FlobergHélène and Mathieu have been happy together for many years. The bond between them is deep. Faced with an existential decision, Hélène travels alone to Norway to seek peace and meet a blogger she found on the internet.
- DirectorTeona Strugar MitevskaStarsJelena Kordic KuretAdnan OmerovicLabina MitevskaAsja is a 40-year-old single woman living in Sarajevo. She meets Zoran, a 43-year-old banker, at a dating event. Zoran is not there looking for love though, but for forgiveness. During the war in 1993 he was shooting at the city from the opposite side, and he wants to meet his first victim. Now, they both have to relive the pain in their search for forgiveness.