175 films from 51 countries, including 16 world premieres, will screen at the 21st Stockholm Film Festival (site), opening today and running through November 28. For the first time, the festival is teaming up with Mubi to present six shorts from the lineup online, all of them free to viewers in Sweden: Karen Aqua's experimental animation, Twist of Fate (site); Una Celma's The Man With the $150,000 Prize on His Head, a documentary about sculptor Lars Vilks, whose drawing of the prophet Muhammad in a Swedish newspaper drew protests from Muslims around the world (clip); Harry Chaskin's stop-motion reverie on Hollywood monsters, Bygone Behemoth (site; trailer above), Solomon Friedman's award-winning Junko's Shamisen, a favorite at SXSW (site, trailer), Michael Rittmannsberger's take on loss, Sister (site, trailer), and Nuno Rocha's video store romance, Vicky and Sam (trailer).
- 11/17/2010
- MUBI
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