Göteborg Film Festival 2024

The 47th edition of the Gothenburg Film Festival, January 26–February 4, 2024

Welcome to the leading film festival in Scandinavia. Göteborg Film Festival started in 1979 and attracts around 270,000 visitors each year, in cinemas and online. For 11 days at the end of January the festival will show around 250 films from more than 80 countries in about 700 screenings. In addition, the festival always offer a packed programme with talks, parties, industry activities and new meeting places.

To create the magic atmosphere of a festival premiere for the audience watching from home, three to four new films will premiere in parallel every day, both in the cinemas and on Göteb​org Film Festival Online. The digital edition of the festival can only be streamed in Sweden.

Bringing the whole world to Göteborg has always been the festival’s motto, but the goal is also to be a springboard for new Nordic film out into the world. Every year the Nordic competition, Dragon Award Best Nordic Film, scrutinizes an upper-crust of competitors and the winner’s prize is 400,000 Swedish crowns.

The festival’s industry section, with Nordic Film Market at the vanguard, is the foremost marketplace for Nordic film and TV drama as well as an important meeting place industry visitors from all over the world.

Yet the festival is not just about film and normally it also invites you to some 40 seminars as well as live music performances, art exhibits and many other activities.