 The Draken (Dragon) cinema, the main venue of the festival. | |
| Location | Gothenburg, Sweden |
|---|---|
| Awards | Dragon Award Best Nordic Film, The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award, etc. |
| No. of films | circa 450 films from 70 countries (in 2012), 10 theaters, and many other venues |
| Website | https://goteborgfilmfestival.se/ |
Göteborg Film Festival (GFF), formerly Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF), known in English as the Gothenburg Film Festival, formerly Gothenburg International Film Festival, is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden and the largest film event in Scandinavia. When it was launched on February 8, 1979, it showed 17 films on 3 screens and had 3,000 visitors.
Today, the film festival takes place over 10 days each year at the end of January and beginning of February. In recent years an estimated 450 films from 60 countries annually have been screened for 115,000 visitors.[1] The film festival is an important market place for contractors in the movie industry.
- ^ "Göteborg International Film Festival". Filmfestival.org. Archived from the original on 2008-01-24. Retrieved 2023-11-14.