Stockholm Fest pays tribute to Alexander Skarsgård and Benny Safdie

Alexander Skarsgård and Benny Safdie will be honored this year at the Stockholm Film Festival, the Swedish actor receiving the Stockholm’s Achievement Award and the New York director receiving the Festival Visionary Award.

The last of Skarsgård Back seatin which he embodies a domineering biker who begins a turbulent relationship with the submissive Colin, interpreted by Harry Melling, will be screened in Stockholm, just like Safdie’s film The smashing machineHis first solo feature film as a director. The film, whose first in Venice won the honors of the best director for Safdie, features Dwayne Johnson in the role of the real fighter of MMA Mark Kerr, with Emily Blunt in the role of her partner Dawn Staples. The smashing machine Recently opened its doors for a disappointing amount of $ 6 million in North America, the lowest start to the box office of Johnson’s career.

Stockholm has unveiled the program for its 36th edition, which will take place from November 5 to 16, and which will include the best of the 2025 festivals season, notably with candidates for Oscars such as that of Park Chan-Wook. No other choiceKleber Mendonça Filho’s The secret agentby Mascha Schillinski The noise of the falland that of Shih-Christ tsou Left -handed girl.

The festival opens with Tarik Saleh Aigles of the RepublicThe last part of his Le Cairo trilogy with Fares Fares, and ends with that of Lynne Ramsay Meurs, my loveAnother claim for prices, with Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. Among the other highlights, let us quote the first film by Ronan Day-Lewis Anemonefeaturing his father Daniel Day-Lewis in his first role on the screen for years, and that of Richard Linklater Blue moonOn the parolier of Broadway Lorenz Hart, with Ethan Hawke, the first of which took place in Berlin.

The Spotlight section of this year, “Be Kind Rewind”, explores nostalgia and the persistence of memory through films such as Video paradiseRoss MCELWEE Remakeand that of Ira Sachs Peter Hujars daywhich takes place in the New York of the 1970s. The festival also pays tribute to the late David Lynch, who inaugurated the first edition of Stockholm in 1990, with projections of Blue velvet And Mulholland walk and a conversation with Blue velvet Star Isabelle Rossellini.

Music occupies an important place throughout the programming, with new documentaries such as It’s never over, Jeff Buckley and the Swedish feature film Republic of egg headsas well as the reinterpretation of Jennifer Lopez of Kiss the spider woman and Catalan drama CoilWith music by Anna von Hausswolff and Filip Leyman.

Germany is the flagship country of this year in Stockholm, represented by Schillinski Noise And Christian Petzold Mirrors n ° 3 Alongside new works by Lauro Cress and Joscha Bongard.

The documentary program presents new films by Werner Herzog, Laura Poitras and Raoul Peck, while the Stockholm Series program will present new television projects, including that of Isabella Eklöf. Bunny Munroe’s death and that of Justin Kurzel The narrow road to the far north.