Recent Short Films From Sweden

For years, Swedish short films have been presented at major film festivals around the world, regularly winning top international prizes.  Johan Brisinger's Passing Hearts won both the Special Jury Award and the Parents Choice Award at the New York International Children's Film Festival just last week.

New Faces of Swedish Cinema at Lincoln Center offers a selection of some of the finest recent shorts, a wide-ranging survey spanning many styles and genres, that will introduce the next generation of Swedish cinema:

Twelve Years Old by Therese Mörnvik  
To Kill a Child by Björne Larson & Alexander Skarsgård
The Eiffel Tower by Niklas Rådström
Passing Hearts by Johan Brisinger
Glenn, the Great Runner by Anna Erlandsson
Dancing with Dwarfs by Emelie Carlsson
She Is Dead by Sara Lundén and Henry Moore Selder
Peptalk by Andrea Östlund
Rewind by Gunilla Heilborn and Mårten Nilsson
Headway by Jens Jonsson

New Faces of Swedish Cinema
presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th Street (Plaza Level)
New York City
April 1-7, 2005

For showtimes and more information, visit the website of the Film Society at Lincoln Center.

The film series is presented in collaboration with the Swedish Film Institute in Stockholm and with support from the Consulate General of Sweden in New York.

Photo: The Eiffel Tower, courtesy of the Swedish Film Institute