Here are the highlights of the Stockholm Film Festival

This year, an unusually large part of the European film nobility abounds at the Stockholm Film Festival.

Or yes, at least their latest creations.

The corona put a plug in the bloodstream of the film body, but now it has come loose and then all the works come at once.

The festival has made an effort to reward female filmmakers, almost half of all directors are women, and a recurring theme seems to be "motherhood".

Not least in Pedro Almodóvar's inaugural

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The rainbow-colored Spaniard created odd and complex roles for women even at the time when the word

only meant alcoholic customer lunches.

Parallel mothers (with the frequent contributor Penelope Cruz in one of the mother roles) are not supposed to be an exception.

Little mother

An obvious highlight is French Céline Sciamma's latest work.

She made a big splash this year with the Cannes-acclaimed Portrait of a Woman on Fire, and here is a small fairy-tale-related relationship drama about a little girl who meets her mother as a child.

A simple but ingenious premise.

Spencer

A true multinational creation in which the American Kristen Stewart plays the British icon Lady Diana, directed by the Chilean Pablo Larrain.

The power of the dog

In Jane Campion's semi-modern western film that won an award in Venice this year, we see the very British Benedict Cumberbatch as a brutal cowboy, rancher and housekeeper in the 1920s depression in the USA.

Against him we also see the constant and multifaceted favorite Kirsten fumes.

In addition to these, also works by fine filmmakers such as Jaques Audiard (Paris, 13th arrondissement), Paolo Sorrentino (The hand of god) and Kenneth Branagh who ends the festival with the Oscar-winning Belfast.

Jane by Charlotte

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French film star Charlotte Gainsbourg makes her directorial debut in a documentary about another star, who also happens to be her mother, Jane Birkin.

The story of film: A new generation

Mark Cousins, the industrious Irishman with the quirky intonation, is best known for his film science monument The story of film, but has made a lot of more limited excursions into the world of film.

Here he puts the spotlight on the films of the 2010s.  

Zero fucks given

A disillusioned French drama about a young hardened flight attendant (Adèle Exarchopoulos from Blue is the warmest color) who travels back and forth through life and across the globe.

Tindersex and lively boredom are promised in what appears to be an exciting debut for director Julie Lecoustre and Emmanuel Marre.

Wild Indian

A drama about the

American situation in the United States.

Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr., who herself belongs to First Nation, debuts with a drama - about a man who is haunted by his violent past - which seems both complex and hard-hitting.