Göteborg Film Festival Unveils 2024 Lineup, Honors Ewan McGregor
Artistic Director Jonas Holmberg Steps Down, Festival to Debut AI-Altered 'Persona'
- The Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden's largest film festival, has unveiled its 2024 lineup featuring 250 feature films set to screen across ten days.
- The festival will be opened by 'Handling the Undead', a film adaptation of a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, directed by Thea Hvistendahl.
- This year's edition will be the last for Jonas Holmberg as Göteborg Artistic Director. He will be replaced by Pia Lundberg, formerly Counsellor for Cultural Affairs at the Embassy of Sweden in London.
- Ewan McGregor will receive the festival’s honorary dragon award for career achievement and will present the Nordic premiere of Niclas Larsson’s 'Mother, Couch'.
- The festival will debut their AI-altered version of Ingmar Bergman’s landmark feature 'Persona'.