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‘Eagles Of The Republic’ review: Tarik Saleh reunites with Fares Fares to end his Cairo trilogy
Dir/scr: Tarik Saleh. Sweden/France/Denmark. 2025. 128mins
The primary two instalments of Tarik Saleh’s politically-charged ‘Cairo trilogy’ had been despairing examinations of the corruption and paranoia...
Icelandic drama ‘When The Light Breaks’ leads Goteborg winners
Runar Runarsson’s Icelandic characteristic When The Gentle Breaks headed the winners on the 48th Goteborg Movie Pageant, taking the Dragon Award for Greatest Nordic...
‘Crossing’, ‘The Swedish Torpedo’ lead winners at Sweden’s Guldbagge Awards
Levan Akin’s Crossing and Frida Kempff’s The Swedish Torpedo headed the winners at Sweden’s Guldbagge nationwide movie awards, offered in Stockholm on Monday, January...
‘Yalla Parkour’: Red Sea Review
Dir: Areeb Zuaiter. Sweden/Qatar/Saudi Arabia/Palestine. 2024. 89mins
A Palestinian director residing in America however searching for a connection together with her homeland finds one unexpectedly...
Swedish Film Institute selects two winners of £60,000 Wild Card prize
Scandinavian filmmakers Olga Krussenberg and Balder Ljunggren have acquired the Swedish Movie Institute’s Wild Card prize, of SEK 800,000 (£57,337) shared equally between them.
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‘Israel Palestine On Swedish TV 1958-1989’: Tokyo Review
Dir/scr: Göran Hugo Olsson. Sweden/Finland/Denmark. 2024. 206 minutes
Göran Hugo Olsson might hardly have anticipated how well timed his newest archive-based documentary would develop into...