At the Cannes Film Festival four years ago, the concept "50/50 by 2020" was presented by the then Minister of Culture Alice Bah Kuhnke (MP) and the Swedish Film Institute's CEO Anna Serner.
But of the autumn films, only four out of 21 are directed by a woman, which Swedish Radio's Kulturnytt was the first to report.
- It is not just the films we have given support to, half are films that we have no influence on, says Anna Serner.
The goal, set in 2016, was that half of the films would have a female director or screenwriter by 2020. Since then, the number of female directors has directed an average of 30 percent of Swedish films per year.
"The world is unequal"
According to Anna Serner, the figure will land on about 43 percent women by the end of the year.
- It just shows that we have not managed to change the structures but that we have only changed our money, but there I think we can keep our heads high and say that the work we have done has had an incredible effect.
To reach half the women as directors or screenwriters, she believes that quotas could be a solution.
- The world is unequal and it takes time.
There are a number who are not a bit interested in achieving gender equality and how we change it, we do it together.