Alexander Skarsgård and Benny Safdie will be honored at this year’s Stockholm Film Festival, with the Swedish actor receiving the Stockholm Directing Award, and the New York director getting the festival’s Visionary Award.
The Last of Skarsgård Back seatin which he plays a domineering biker who begins a turbulent relationship with the submissive Colin, played by Harry Melling, will screen in Stockholm, as will Safdie The breaking machinehis first solo feature as director. The film, which premiered at Venice, winning best director for Safdie, stars Dwayne Johnson as real-life MMA fighter Mark Kerr, with Emily Blunt as partner Dawn Staples. The breaking machine Recently opened to a disappointing $6 million in its North American bow, the lowest box office debut in Johnson’s career.
Stockholm has revealed the schedule for its 36th edition, running from November 5 to 16, which will include a best-of-2025 festival season, including Oscar contenders such as Park Chan-Wook’s No other choiceKleber Mendonça Filho The secret agentMascha Schillinski The sound of fallingand Shih-ching tsou’s Left-handed.
The festival opens with Tarik Saleh’s Eagles of the Republicthe final installment of his Cairo trilogy with fares with fares, and closes with Lynne Ramsay Die, my loveanother hot prize contender, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. Other highlights include the directorial debut of Ronan Day-Lewis Anemonewith dad Daniel Day-Lewis in his first screen role in the years, and Richard Linklater Blue Moonabout Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart, starring Ethan Hawke, which premiered in Berlin.
This year’s spotlight section, “Be Kind Rewind,” explores nostalgia and the persistence of memory through films such as VideoRoss Mcel Blue’s Remakeand Ira Sachs Peter Hujars Dayset in 1970s New York. The festival also honors the late David Lynch, who opened the first Stockholm edition in 1990, with screenings of Blue velvet And Mulholland Drive And a conversation with Blue velvet Star Isabella Rossellini.
Musical numbers throughout the program, with new documentaries like It’s never over, Jeff Buckley And the Swedish function Egghead Republicas well as Jennifer Lopez’s reinterpretation of Kiss of the Spider Woman And the Catalan drama OutsiderWith a score by Anna von Hausswolff and Filip Leyman.
Germany is this year’s country of intervention in Stockholm, represented by Schillinski Sound of falling And Christian Petzold Mirrors No.3 alongside new works by Lauro Cress and Joscha Bongard.
The documentary lineup features new films from Werner Herzog, Laura Poitras and Raoul Peck, while the Stockholm series program will feature new TV projects including Isabella Eklöf The death of Bunny Munroe And Justin Kurzel The narrow road to the deep north.
