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Stockholm Film Festival runs from November 11 to 22, with Bio Skandia on Drottninggatan as its hub. The programme is out, and 130 films is a lot to choose from. Here are five to start with.
1. You Can See Everything
The big talking point of the autumn. Nathan Fielder, the man behind Nathan for You and The Rehearsal, moved in with Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, shortly before she was due to begin serving her sentence for fraud. Along with documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim, he filmed their everyday lives, and what began as a portrait became something much … stranger. The film was shot in secret and first screened as a surprise at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. Now it will close the festival in Stockholm. If you’re a Fielder fan, he is also a producer on John Wilson’s The History of Concrete.
2. Wild Horse Nine
Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to The Banshees of Inisherin opens the festival. It’s a darkly comic CIA thriller set on Easter Island shortly before Chile’s 1973 military coup. John Malkovich stars and won the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival for his performance.
3. Paper Tiger
The festival’s centrepiece is James Gray’s crime thriller and family drama, in which brotherly love clashes with loyalty to the mob. Adam Driver, Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson star.
4. Wicker
Alexander Skarsgård received the festival’s Stockholm Achievement Award last year and is now returning. In Wicker, he stars opposite Olivia Colman in a role that makes him almost unrecognisable. Skarsgård and Gustav Lindh, who also appears in the film, will attend the premiere.
5. Club Kid
Jordan Firstman makes his directorial debut with a film about a carefree life on New York’s club scene that suddenly collides with fatherhood. The film is at the heart of this year’s Daddy Issues theme, which explores fatherhood and everything that can go wrong between parents and children.
There’s plenty more to see, of course: Julianne Moore sings in Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut, Pedro Pascal plays a cellist in Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth!, and Kore-eda has a new film out, Sheep in the Box. Lena Olin and John Turturro will receive the festival’s honorary awards, and this year’s focus country is Japan.
Stockholm Film Festival, November 11–22. The festival centre is at Klarabion in Kulturhuset until November 6, open weekdays from 11:00 to 13:00, before moving to Bio Skandia. Programme and tickets at stockholmfilmfestival.se.