Stockholm Film Festival Articles

Ashlee Thompson, Jennifer Lawrence, Isaiah Stone, Winter's Bone Debra Granik's drama Winter's Bone was chosen as the Best Film at the 2010 Stockholm International Film Festival, which wrapped up last Nov. 28. In the last week or so, Winter's Bone also topped the Gotham Awards and earned a slew of Spirit Award nominations. The film's star, Jennifer Lawrence, was Stockholm's Best Actress, while the film [...]

Sasha Grey in The Girlfriend Experience (top); 9 by Shane Acker (middle); Mads Mikkelsen, Anna Mouglalis in Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (bottom) The 2009 edition Stockholm International Film Festival attracted the two-decade-old festival's biggest audience ever: 130,000 moviegoers. The Stockholm festival's 20th anniversary was celebrated with screenings on ice, and the presence of international celebrities such as Lifetime Achievement Award winner Susan Sarandon, Luc [...]

Bitch Slap stars America Olivo, Julia Voth and Erin Cummings at the 2009 Stockholm Film Festival. (Photo: Carla Orrego Veliz.) Directed by Rick Jacobson, and co-written by Jacobson and Eric Gruendemann, Bitch Slap is a throwback to B movies of the '60s and '70s a la Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, in which women kick ass, throw punches, and display canyon-deep cleavage. The film had its [...]

Festival director Git Scheynius and Lee Daniels at the 2009 Stockholm Film Festival. (Photo: Carla Orrego Veliz) Lee Daniels' Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire earned Mo'Nique a best actress award. In the film, Mo'Nique plays illiterate, pregnant teenager Gabourey Sidibe's abusive mother. Additionally, Precious received an honorary mention from the International Film Critics. (Cary Fukunaga's Sin Nombre was the critics' top choice.) [...]