Göteborg Film Festival

Date
23 January to 1 February 2026
Website
goteborgfilmfestival.se

The 49th edition of the festival is titles Focus: Truth and highlights how truth is depicted, shaped, manipulated and questioned, on film and in the world around us.

All screenings between January 23 and February 1 at the festival's main cinema Draken are included in Cineville – including the opening film, the closing film and the Nordic Competition – see list of films below.

The screenings at Draken will have 10 seats reserved only for Cineville subscribers. But even after these 10 reserved tickets are sold out, Cineville members can continue to pick up a ticket for each screening, subject to availability.

Tickets for the screenings can be collected on the same day from the Biograf Draken box office upon presentation and registration of the Cineville card. In addition, you will receive a Festival Pass (value 60 SEK) absolutely free when you pick up your first ticket!

The reserved tickets, and the opportunity to pick up Cineville tickets for the day's screenings at Draken, will be available directly when the box office opens and it is first come, first served. See opening hours and accessibility info for Draken.

In all applicable Cineville cinemas in Sweden, you can also see the opening film and all other screenings from the Göteborg Film Festival with your Cineville card!

All films from Göteborg Film Festival

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Amrum

In 1945 Amrum Island, 12-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and farms to help feed his family. Life feels idyllic on this windswept isle until peace reveals an unexpected danger closer to home.

Showing from Friday 20 February 2026
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Arco

Arco, ten years old, lives in a far future. During his first flight in his rainbow suit, he loses control and falls in the past. Iris, a little girl his age from 2075, saw him fall. She rescues him and tries by all means to send him back to his era.

Showing from Sunday 1 February 2026
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Bad Apples

A struggling primary school teacher begins to make some questionable decisions after one of her students is injured.

Showing from Saturday
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Beginnings

Thomas and Ane, amid a divorce, haven't told their children. Ane suffers a stroke when Thomas plans to move in with his girlfriend. They stay together, facing challenges of their new reality.

Showing from Monday
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Biodlaren

English title: The Quiet Beekeeper
An exploration of love, nature, and the cycles of life through the eyes of a father and daughter longing for connection.

Showing from Friday 17 April 2026
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Butterfly

Two sisters raised on a charter resort in Gran Canaria reluctantly return to their childhood island to deal with their parents death, and end up with a half-finished esoteric retreat center in the Canary Islands.

Showing from Friday 30 January 2026
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Couture

American filmmaker Maxine arrives in Paris for Fashion Week on a life-and-death journey, facing challenges and self-discovery.

Showing from Friday 5 June 2026
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Eleanor the Great

After a devastating loss, witty and proudly troublesome Eleanor Morgenstein, 94, tells a tale that takes on its own dangerous life.

Showing from Monday
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Elon Musk Unveiled – The Tesla Experiment

Andreas Pichler's documentary follows whistleblowers, former employees and victims as they expose hidden data and safety concerns behind Tesla's self-driving car technology while examining Musk's grip on the company.

Showing from Thursday 29 January 2026
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Ett privat liv

English title: A Private Life
A renowned psychiatrist (Jodie Foster) mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.

Showing from Friday 13 February 2026
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Father Mother Sister Brother

Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.

Showing from Friday 10 April 2026
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Franz K.

English title: Franz
Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film follows the imprint Franz Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post-WW1 Vienna.

Showing from Friday 27 March 2026
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Göteborgsepoker

English title: Eras of Gothenburg
Church construction, icebreaking in the archipelago, and films from Victor Hasselblad’s private collection as we once again look back at old Gothenburg.

Showing from Saturday 31 January 2026
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Hamnet

The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

Showing from Friday 27 February 2026
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Hind Rajab – rösten från Gaza

English title: The Voice of Hind Rajab
Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under IDF fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.

Showing from Friday 30 January 2026
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Kraken

A marine biologist is doing research on a fish farm when she encounters several strange occurrences. Along with the brutal deaths of two teenagers, all signs point to the deep fjord – can there be more to the depths than the eye can see?

Showing from Friday 30 January 2026
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Lilla Amélie eller tecknet för regn

English title: Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Amélie, a Belgian child in Japan, explores life with her companion Nishio-san. Her third birthday becomes a turning point, marking the beginning of life-altering events that shape her understanding of the world.

Showing from Sunday
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Magellan

In the 16th century, young and ambitious Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan rebels against the power of the King of Portugal, who doesn’t support his dream of discovering the world, and persuades the Spanish monarchy to fund his bold expedition to the fabled lands of the East.

Showing from Friday 30 January 2026
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Mecenaten

English title: The Patron
Anna works as a cleaner, but pretends to be a success-
ful art patron in order to lure two young art students to
her employer’s empty house. The lie spirals in to more
lies, forcing Anna to navigate the escalating
consequences.

Showing from Friday 20 March 2026
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Mother

The film follows seven consecutive days at a pivotal moment in Mother Teresa’s life, the period where she decides to leave the Loreto Entally convent in Calcutta and launch her own order.

Showing from Friday 13 February 2026
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Orphan

In 1957 Budapest, one year following the failure of the Hungarian Revolution, a 12-year-old Jewish boy whose mother has raised him to believe that his father will return from the camps has his hopes shattered when a brutish stranger appears on the doorstep to take his family back.

Showing from Saturday 31 January 2026
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Rose of Nevada

A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.

Showing from Saturday
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Startsladden

Swedish Shorts Competition – Startsladden
Sweden’s most exciting directors and the year’s best short films.

Showing from Sunday
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Super Nature

We’re invited on a journey across 25 different countries, with people embracing both abundance and loss, to feel a sense of togetherness with our fellow dwellers on earth, human and non-human. Celebrating all we have and reflecting on all we have to lose, Super Nature proposes a new way of seeing.

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Tell Everyone

Amanda Aaltonen refuses to resign herself to the miserable fate of a poor woman and daringly seeks her happiness in the world. As punishment for breaking the rules, society deprives her of the most important thing of all, her freedom, and imprisons her on the island of Seili.

Showing from Wednesday 28 January 2026
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The History of Sound

Two young men during World War I set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen.

Showing from Wednesday 28 January 2026
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The Last Resort

When a Danish family finds themselves on a holiday island, in the midst of the first major refugee crisis in Europe in our time, our northern European, well-intentioned, humanistic values are put to the test.

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The Love That Remains

Hlynur Pálmason tenderly captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through both playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons.

Showing from Tuesday 27 January 2026
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The Testament of Ann Lee

Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, proclaimed as the female Christ by her followers. Depicts her establishment of a utopian society and the Shakers' worship through song and dance, based on real events.

Showing from Friday 20 March 2026
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Trollkarlen i Kreml

English title: The Wizard of the Kremlin
A young Russian filmmaker becomes an unlikely advisor to Vladimir Putin as he rises to power in post-Soviet Russia, navigating the new era's complexities and chaos.

Showing from Saturday
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Värn

English title: Redoubt
During the Cold War peak, a Swedish farmhand transforms his house into a community shelter, his fixation contrasting with everyday rural life, captured in striking black and white imagery.

Showing from Friday 27 February 2026
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Weightless

Fifteen-year-old Lea spends her summer at a health camp. She longs to be like her roommate at the camp, Sasha – fun, lively, and confident. While Sasha seeks attention from the local boys, Lea's heart is set on Rune, a charming instructor from the camp.

Showing from Sunday
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Winter of the Crow

A British professor witnesses a student's murder by secret police in 1981 Warsaw under martial law. She becomes a target while running through the city's streets, eventually forced to stop and take a stand.