Ruben Östlund to direct the audience at Göteborg Film Festival

The shared experience of the cinema is unmatched. But has contemporary scrolling on individual screens hurt audiences’ ability to participate in a collective screening? In This Is Cinema! two-time Palme d’Or winning director and the festival's Honorary President Ruben Östlund wants to get to the bottom of the behaviours of modern-day cinemagoers. At Göteborg Film Festival, he will challenge the lazed audience of contemporary cinema to create the world’s best cinema culture.

During an exclusive screening of Triangle of Sadness at the Göteborg Film Festival, director Ruben Östlund will break the fourth wall and step into the movie theatre; not only having directed the film showing on the screen but also directing the audience in the cinema.

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Actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi to head Nordic Competition jury at 46th Göteborg Film Festival

Zar Amir Ebrahimi, the praised and award-winning – including Best Actress at Cannes – lead actress of Holy Spider will head the jury of the Nordic Competition at the 46th Göteborg Film Festival.

Göteborg Film Festival proudly presents celebrated Iranian actress, director, producer and casting director Zar Amir Ebrahimi as president of the Nordic Competition jury at the festival 2023. Amir Ebrahimi won the Best Actress award last Cannes Film Festival for her performance in Ali Abbasis Holy Spider, which has just been shortlisted for an Academy Award. Her other works include Bride Price vs. Democracy, Teheran Tabu and the upcoming Shayda, written and directed by Noora Niasari, which will have its world premiere in competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. And on January 4, Les Survivants (White Paradise), a contemporary western starring Amir Ebrahimi and directed by Guillaume Renusson, was released in France.

The other jury members for Göteborg Film Festival's Nordic Competition include actress Sofie Gråbøl (Denmark), director Antonio Lukich (Ukraine) and composer Matti Bye (Sweden). Nine films will compete in the Nordic Competition 2023. The nominees will be revealed on January 10.