<b>Even though there’s an ocean between Per Hanefjord and Hollywood, the budding Swedish film director explained to The Local’s Lydia Parafianowicz that tinsel town honours aren’t out of reach for a kid who grew up 40 kilometres away from the nearest grocery store.</b>
A Swedish documentary filmmaker has been sued for defamation by US-based banana producer Dole Foods for a new film featuring a Los Angeles lawyer’s fight for Nicaraguan fruit workers.
Swedish cinema goers rushed to snap up tickets for the long-awaited film adaptation of the first novel in Swedish author Stieg Larsson's cult "Millennium" crime trilogy, which premièred on Friday.
Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments reaped five 'Golden Beetle' awards at Monday night's domestic film industry awards ceremony. Domestic vampire shocker Let The Right One In also received five awards.
<b>When the Swedish tabloids appear more interested in the celebrities of London and Hollywood than their own home-grown offerings, is it any wonder that we foreigners can find it hard to learn who's who in Sweden, asks Ben Kersley.</b>
US film "Frozen River" by Courtney Hunt was awarded the 16 pound Bronze Horse by the jury of the 19th edition of the Stockholm International Film Festival on Saturday.
The Italian Ambassador to Sweden has slammed a petition raised this week by a Swedish member of parliament in support of high profile Italian author Roberto Saviano.
Organizers of the Stockholm International Film Festival announced on Wednesday that British actress Charlotte Rampling will receive this year's Lifetime Achievement Award, while Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai will receive the festival's Visionary Award.
The children of world-renowned Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman are carrying out their late father’s wishes to have his home auctioned off to the highest bidder.
A security guard who surreptitiously filmed a woman in a sporting goods store has been acquitted by a Stockholm court because the woman didn’t know she was being filmed.
A short film collection shot on mobile phones by female directors seeking to create queer and feminist pornography is set to receive 350,000 kronor ($59,000) in Swedish cultural subsidies.
Swede Per Hallberg took home the Oscar for Best Sound Editing at last night’s Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood for his work 'The Bourne Ultimatum.'
Chinese authorities have barred Mikael Håfström from shooting his film "Shanghai", set to star John Cusack and Gong Li, in China, the Swedish director said in an interview published on Saturday.
Swedish actress and author Eva Dahlbeck, most famous for numerous appearances in movies by legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, has died, her son said on Saturday. She was 87.
<i><b>A warm Latin American breeze is warming Gothenburg film-lovers this winter, as the city's film festival adopts a Mexican accent, writes Matt O'Leary.</b></i>
The former girlfriend of Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger was informed of his death while filming in Sweden on Tuesday. Michelle Williams was in Trollhättan, western Sweden, with Matilda, her 2-year-old daughter by Ledger.
A prominent critic has apologized in public for being too kind in his review of the new box-office hit Arn- the Temple Knight, the most expensive film ever produced in Scandinavia.
