Another week, another fest, one could get used to this. The Göteburg International Film Festival, January 29 - February 8, is the biggest film festival in Scandinavia and one of the biggest audience festivals in the world. The program is chalk-full of the best of international cinema, both fiction and non. You can take a look at the astoundingly diverse program here. Highlights for me will be the chance to see new films from Fatih Akin, Nanna Frank Møller, and Sally Potter. Potter will also be conducting a master class there this Friday.
However, the biggest highlight of all will be representing the international début of Nicole Opper's first feature doc, Off and Running. As I write, the film and its makers, just experienced an amazing, sold-out opening weekend at the IFC Center in New York. The week-long engagement ends tomorrow; however, the film will be held over at the theater with two screenings a day, at least for another week. This Thursday's the night to go, though, if you want to meet the director (at the 8:05 show) and then join co-hosts IFP, Shooting People, FILMMAKER Magazine and Chicken & Egg Pictures for a party afterward at the Dove Parlour. Buy your tickets here.
The film will have three screenings at the GIFF, one Thursday night, one Friday late afternoon, and one late Saturday night. I'm very honored to be able to represent one of the very few American documentaries exhibiting there, plucked right out of the Tribeca festival last year at its premiere by one of the programmers in Sweden.
I still owe my millions of readers some reviews of some really stellar films I got to see at DocPoint, so that's to come. And, of course, impressions from Göteburg to come soon, as well.
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