"A hearty autumn, full of interesting titles on paper"

This autumn, the

corona

add a real series clash to the repertoire.

Many films have been forced to postpone their premieres, which gives a packed December, especially around Christmas Eve.

On December 18, Henrik Schyffert's directorial debut Spring Uje, spring - which was a success already in January at the film festival in Gothenburg.

It's a bubbly and entertaining comedy that could be a given Christmas success - if it were not for the fact that this year's most high-profile premiere day, Christmas Day, this year offers three potential audience favorites: the new Sune film, Peter Dalle's Micke Persbrandt drama Till the Sun goes up and not least the reboot of the Jönsson League.

The industry hates such

cannibalism, meaning that contemporary Swedish films tend to eat up each other's audiences, which paves the way for a chicken race - it will be interesting to see which of the films backs first, and changes the release date.

Or they drive across the cliff together in a death-defying Thelma and Louise scene.

Reach.

The film autumn and winter are also unusually child-friendly, with a substantial investment in Swedish children's film.

Ambitious things with a high tail - like Space Travel, the children's book film adaptation Nelly Rapp - monster agent and not least Linda (Gordon and Paddy) Hambäcks Apstjärnan.

Yes, and then another contribution to the Sune franchise, as I said.

Renaissance woman Josephine Bornebusch has entered a third breath and, in addition to her other film and TV projects, has managed to squeeze out a film on the theme of corona and isolation, in Orca, which comes in October.

The number of women in the register

is otherwise not impressive, about six out of 24, it depends a bit on how you count.

It is clear that the initiative 50/50 by 2020, which was initiated by the Swedish Film Institute's boss Anna Serner four years ago, has not been fulfilled.

But it is still going in the right direction (throughout the year it is said to be 43 percent female directors), and that slogan was probably mainly a clever formulation to draw attention to ongoing gender equality work.

Speaking of the Jönsson league, they have put together a really strong team there.

With Tomas Alfredson as director, and the talented humor club David Sundin, Anders "Ankan" Johansson and Henrik Dorsin in the lead roles, plus then Hedda Stiernsted - yes, it even makes me look forward to the next coup.

The question, however, is why

it is only the female role that is not played by a comedian.

It feels a bit dated: The tidy woman and the grown-up babies.

But who knows, Hedda Stiernstedt may have hidden humor legs and be allowed to play just like the boys?

As a fan of horror movies - at least good horror movies, and they are not that many per se - I look forward to The Other Side, which seems to be a variation on the old theme of haunted houses.

Film history does not directly benefit from good Swedish horror, but you can always hope that the Other Side is the exception that confirms the rule.

In short, a hearty autumn, full of interesting titles on paper - with a record number of documentaries.

But the question is who will see all these movies?

We know from experience that only a handful of titles will go plus - and the corona does not make that thing better.