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Free quality films for children and young people at Stockholm Film Festival Junior

Stockholm Film Festival Junior invites all of Sweden’s school classes to share the joy of films. The festival has been a hybrid film festival since 2021 through the digital platform Festival on Demand, and this year the audience is also welcomed back to selected cinemas in the Stockholm area. There are 30 quality films from […]

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Ukraine in focus at Stockholm International Film Festival 2022

The Stockholm International Film Festival has announced this year’s focus nation for the festival, which will be held November 9 – 20. The program will consist of film screenings, director visits and seminars. Ukraine has had great cinematic success for a number of years. Last year’s winner for Best Film at the Stockholm Film Festival was the Ukrainian […]

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Melodifestivalen 2022 – Your Guide to Heat 4

So we are already getting to see the last seven entries of this Melodifestivalen season! And the Mello circus is already moving from The Avicii Arena to the bigger Friends Arena for this fourth heat, as well as the semifinal and the final. Last week brought us new finalists Anders Bagge and Faith Kakembo, but […]

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Is Sweden’s ‘Excellent’ Healthcare System As Good As The Rest Of The EU’s?
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Is Sweden’s ‘Excellent’ Healthcare System As Good As the Rest of Europe’s?

A good healthcare system improves people’s quality of life, according to Cigna Global. Sweden recently came in first place for ‘Countries With the Most Well-Developed Public Health Care Systems’, so it’s no surprise that life expectancy in Sweden is one of the highest across the EU. But how does it compare to the healthcare offered in other countries? […]

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Moving To Stockholm: How To Make Your New House Feel Like Home
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Moving to Stockholm: How to Make Your New House Feel Like Home

Stockholm is the perfect combination of natural green spaces and urban buzz – an ideal location for a family that wants to relocate to a gorgeous area. Expats find that moving to Stockholm is quite ideal since it’s been ranked at number 49 out of the 492 cities of the world when it comes to the cost of living. […]

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Sagolika Kvinnor – a calendar of fantastic women photographed by Caroline Roosmark

“Sagolika Kvinnor” (“Fantastic women”) is not your usual calendar, and the pictures are not your usual celebrity photographs. The photographs that Caroline Roosmark creates for her calendar feature famous Swedish actresses, singers, writers and influencers – representing feminine strength, beauty, divinity and epic qualities, while recreating fables and legendary characters. I have worked alongside Caroline […]

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Stockholm Achievement Award Winner Kenneth Branagh Discusses Childhood and the Importance of ‘Raw and Unfiltered’ Works of Art
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Kenneth Branagh on Childhood and ‘Raw and Unfiltered’ Works of Art

The 2021 Stockholm International Film Festival concluded with a screening of Belfast and a Face2Face discussion with the film’s writer and director Kenneth Branagh. Git Scheynius, the Festival Director, also presented Branagh with the Stockholm Achievement Award, which he warmly accepted. In discussing Belfast – a memoir based on a specific chain of events in […]

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Interview: Alex Camilleri, director & writer of ‘Luzzu’ at Stockholm Film Festival

With ‘Luzzu’ Alex Camilleri is not only bringing Malta to the big screen like we never have seen it before, but he’s also giving us a masterful approach to the life of fishermen in that country, the clash between tradition and modernity, the effects of climate change on the ocean and the struggles of a […]

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Stockholm International Film Festival 2021 – Opening Gala

The Stockholm International Film Festival kickstarted its 32nd edition with an opening gala the night of the 9th of November at Skandia theatre. There were plenty of well-known faces of the industry walking down the red carpet and the premiere of Pedro Almodovar‘s latest and very controversial film Parallel Mothers. Your Living City was there […]

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10 Unmissable films at the Stockholm Film Festival

We want nothing more than to open our eyes to the world again and this year’s film program, with 100 films from 48 different countries, is filled with critically acclaimed festival gems, crackling debuts and shaky views of a world in constant motion. Parallel Mothers by Pedro Almodóvar In Pedro Almodóvar‘s stories, the mother figure […]

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