Program release in September 2024

Handpicked

A Different Man

Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.

Handpicked

Beethoven Violin Concerto

The Nordic Chamber Orchestra, German Violin Virtuoso Kolja Blacher and Tonmeister Hans Kipfer has crafted an inventive musical cinematic masterpiece. With Beethoven's devout music in absolute focus, this production brings further deep and beauty to his Violin Concerto.

Made in Västernorrland

Beyond

Adventure racing is the toughest sport on the planet. Follow the Swedish team SAFAT during the world championships in South-Africa in 2023 during a grueling yet amazing 920 km long race. It took them beyond everything they thought was possible.

Music Mania

Blur: To the End

Blur: To the End depicts to the most recent chapter in the band’s story, captured during the period in which they made a surprise – and emotional – return with their first record in 8 years, the critically acclaimed #1 album “ The Ballad of Darren”.

Made in Västernorrland

Bye Bye Boredom

13-year-old Jackie and her friend Nova test their limits among horses, drugs and EPA tractors in a rural village.

Children's Film Program

Community and Difficulties

It is often together with others that we can overcome the greatest difficulties. Seven films where collaboration and relationships play an extra important role.

Sport!

Copa 71

Told by the pioneering women who participated in it and built from archive unseen for fifty years, this is the extraordinary story of the 1971 Women’s Soccer World Cup, a tournament witnessed by record crowds that has been written out of sporting history – until now.

Handpicked

Daybreak

Three loosely intertwined stories of betrayal and human weakness take place on the same day in a small Swedish town.

Sport!

Fimpen

Six year old Johan, a.k.a. Fimpen, loves football. One day his talents are discovered. It doesn't take long before Fimpen gets to travel around with the national team. Fimpen becomes an idol and media wants a piece of him all the time. It gets hard to catch up in school.

International Mid and Features Competition

Gondola

Visningen av Gondola inleds med den svenska kortfilmen Hurra, om ett födelsedagsfirande till sjöss.

International Mid and Features Competition

I Saw the Face of the Devil

If this program had a title, it would be "Higher Powers." From dollar exchange rates in Argentina, to the longing for pregnancy in Portugal, to exorcism in modern-day Poland.

International Mid and Features Competition

In the Land of Brothers

Three members of an extended Afghan family start their lives over in Iran as refugees, unaware they face a decades-long struggle ahead to be “at home”.

International Short Film Competition

International Shorts 1

Five shorts where relationships are put to the test, with loved ones or with a place, topped with musical cacophony, birdsong, and boundless love.

International Short Film Competition

International Shorts 2

Six shorts with existential themes, ranging from Iranian Titanic censorship, emptiness in a GTA setting, fantasy escape, magical moon, white light, and eighth day drama.

International Short Film Competition

International Shorts 3

Six international shorts – from a bathhouse in Japan to the tension in a traffic jam, first menstruation, and infertility. Fiction, documentaries, and animation.

International Short Film Competition

International Shorts 4

Seven shorts from as many countries. About love, human relationships, and our relationship with the Earth. A mix of fiction and animation.

Sport!

La Suprema

In a town erased from the maps where there's not even electricity, a girl dreams of boxing. When she learns her uncle will box for the world title and it will be broadcast live on tv, she and the community will do everything to watch the fight, while battling oblivion.

Children's Film Program

LasseMajas detektivbyrå - Maskoten som försvann

International Mid and Features Competition

Life´s a Bitch

The screening of Life's a Bitch begins with the Danish Oscar-nominated short film Knight of Fortune with this year's guest of honor Leif Andrée in the lead role.

Children's Film Program

Loranga, Masarin & Dartanjang

Three days of the wacky lives of an unemployed but competitive man, his son and father who thinks he has a new profession every day.

Music Mania

Louder Than You Think

An intimate portrait of creativity colliding with chaos. Gary Young, drummer for indie-rock icons Pavement, injected a wild-card unpredictability into the band’s breakthrough, lo-fi sound. But those same gonzo impulses derailed his rock star dream.

Music Mania

Machtat

Fatma and her two daughters, Najeh and Waffeh, are machtat, wedding musicians in Mahdia, a small city in Tunisia. The sisters follow opposite paths: while Najeh, divorced, try to remarry to escape the authornity for her brothers, Waffeh wishes to divorce her violent husband. And Fatma navigates between the two, praying that things will go better one day.

Made in Västernorrland

Made in Västernorrland 1

Locally produced shorts about everything from a bike race to Jesus, magic in the form of a drink and a pen, and a lottery ticket with bullet holes.

Made in Västernorrland

Made in Västernorrland 2

Three documentaries by filmmakers from Västernorrland, about a place where dreams can become true and about giving a voice to those who need to be heard.

International Mid and Features Competition

Memories of a Burning Body

Pleasure and desire through the memory and intimacy of three women over 65.

Handpicked

Milk Teeth

Myths about witches and malevolent wolf children incite the residents of an isolated village against each other in an atmospheric, fairy tale-like dystopia about exclusion and the fear of the unknown.

Children's Film Program

New Friendships

Animals and people, adults and children – we all need friendship. Seven shorts about finding new friends in unexpected places.

Premium

Opening Ceremony

Leif Andrée, Lisa Miskovsky and Stina Wirsén will kick off Filmfest Sundsvall 2024! Join us for an exciting evening filled with film, a concert, food, mingling, and opening speeches.

International Mid and Features Competition

Paradises of Diane

After the birth of her first child, Diane disappears in an unknown city, but her body reawakens her memories and what she is fleeing from.

Premium

Party Along: Mamma Mia!

The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA.

Children's Film Program

Sing with Ida

Ida On, known to children from a Swedish Children TV show, sings well-known children's movie songs together with the audience. Sing along, dance in your seats, and enjoy a wonderful musical moment!

Made in Västernorrland

Som vi har älskat

We meet the person behind Sara Parkman's strong stage persona, as a new album begins to take shape based on a topic Sara has long avoided - love.

Children's Film Program

Spinning Adventures

What ties together pirouettes on ice and a washing machine? Experience eight dizzying short films with adventurous characters.

Sport!

Sport: Girl Power

Four films about the ongoing struggle without a break. About dressing as you want and being able to play your sport on equal terms regardless of gender and origin.

Sport!

Sport: So Beautiful

Sport as an outlet, a path to something better, or the glue that holds a packed stadium together. Seven expressive films about the power of sports.

Swedish Short Film Competition

Swedish Shorts 1

Eight Swedish shorts. Exploratory, artistic and playful fiction, documentaries, animations and experiments.

Swedish Short Film Competition

Swedish Shorts 2

Eight Swedish stories from a teenage room, a yoga retreat, the moon, and a Spanish vacation paradise. Imaginative, emotional and vibrant short films.

Swedish Short Film Competition

Swedish Shorts 3: Norrland

Eight shorts from Norrland about life's relationships - with your partner, parents, friends, coworkers, and with ourselves. Fiction and documentaries.

Swedish Short Film Competition

Swedish Shorts 4: Norrland

Six shorts from Norrland. Fiction and documentaries about farewells to people, places, and negative thoughts, but also about embracing the present.

Handpicked

The Missile

A Soviet missile turns a small village in northernmost Finland into the focus of global politics in a subtle humoristic drama comedy.

Handpicked

Vägen till ingenstans

For three years, the director Johan Palmgren follows the life in five villages far away up north in Sweden, along a road north of Torneträsk.

International Mid and Features Competition

Vera and the Pleasure of Others

Vera discovers her own sexual desires as she listens to other people’s pleasure.