Göteborg International Film Festival

The Göteborg Film Festival is the biggest public film festival in Scandinavia. Each year, some 500 films are screened for 180 000 visitors. Additionally, some 60 film related seminars attract roughly 5000 visitors. The aim of the festival is today two-fold. It is an annual opportunity to offer interested viewers a broad program of films that not always reach the cinemas. It is also a meeting place for the Nordic film industry. In 2000 the festival established a market place for Nordic film. The ambition was to strengthen the role of the festival as a Nordic meeting place and to be the interational link to new Nordic films. During four days, new films are screened for an international group of buyers, distributors and festival representatives. The market place, which runs parallel to the ordinary festival, is called the Nordic Film Market and hosts 500 specially invited guests each year. It is today the biggest single market place for Nordic films. Moreover the industry part of the festival introduces Nordic Film Lab - networking forum for upcoming Scandinavian filmmakers, focusing on developing the creative and artistic processes of filmmaking.