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1991-2010

Films of Note

The Best Intentions (Bille August) [MORE] [ADD]

House of Angels (Colin Nutley) [MORE] [ADD]

Sofie (Liv Ullmann) [MORE] [ADD]

Sunday’s Children (Daniel Bergman) [MORE] [ADD]

Films of Note

Talk, It’s So Dark (Suzanne Osten) [MORE] [ADD]

Films of Note

Hamsun (Jan Troell) [MORE] [ADD]

Telenor buys SMATV distribution company SF Vision from Bonnier Group’s Svensk Film. [MORE] [ADD]

Fucking Åmål (Lukas Moodysson) [MORE] [ADD]

Före stormen (Before the Storm) (Reza Parsa) [MORE] [ADD]

Jalla! Jalla! (Josef Fares) [MORE] [ADD]

Sånger från andra våningen (Songs from the Second Floor) (Roy Andersson) [MORE] [ADD]

Tillsammans (Together) (Lukas Moodysson) [MORE] [ADD]

Vingar av glas (Wings of Glass) (Reza Bagher) [MORE] [ADD]

Lilja 4-Ever (Lilya 4-Ever) (Lukas Moodysson)  [MORE] [ADD]

Kopps (Josef Fares) [MORE] [ADD]

Ett hål i mitt hjärta (A Hole in My Heart) (Lukas Moodysson) [MORE] [ADD]

Masjävlar (Dalecarlians) (Maria Blom) [MORE] [ADD]

Rapper and film actor Snoop Dogg is arrested after a gig in Stockholm on suspicion of using illegal narcotics.   Dogg – real name Calvin Broadus – is held overnight before being released on bail.  [MORE] [ADD]

Acclaimed director Ingmar Bergman dies on Fårö Island at the age of 89.  [MORE] [ADD]

8/2 -

Actress Eva Dahlbeck, the star of Ingmar Bergman’s Secrets of a Woman (1952) and Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), and the author of a number of novels, dies in a retirement home in Stockholm at the age of 87 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. [MORE] [ADD]

18/3 -

The High Court rules that TV companies cannot insert advertisement breaks into feature films without first obtaining the director’s approval. [MORE]

21/3 -

It is announced that legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman is to have a city square in Stockholm named after him.   The square is situated in the Solna neighbourhood north of the City centre where Bergman began his career in the 40s at Filmstaden (Film City). [MORE] [ADD]

22/4 -

Steve Sodergren, the head of SF Bio cinemas announces that Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D will be the first feature to be screened publicly in digital 3D in Sweden.   The film, which stars Brendan Fraser, will be screened in one of the chain’s Stockholm cinemas in the autumn. [MORE] [ADD]

28/6 -

Longtime Ingmar Bergman collaborator Stig Olin dies of natural causes at the age of 87.  Olin, the father of actress Lena Olin, starred in a number of Bergman films as well as directing his own and composing popular classical music.  [MORE] [ADD]

12/1 -

Jan Troell’s Eternal Moment wins the Best Film award at the 2009 Golden Bugs awards ceremony in Stockholm.  It is one of five awards won by the film.   Tomas Alfredson’s vampire film Let the Right One In also wins five awards, including Best Director, while Ruben Ostlund’s Involuntary, which was nominated for five awards, wins nothing. [MORE]

Ung Pirat (Young Pirate), the youth branch of the Swedish Pirate Party which advocates file sharing and copyright reform, receives a 1.3 million kroner (£113,763) grant from the government. [MORE]

The trial of the operators of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay for copyright infringement begins in Stockholm.   Four men linked to the site, from which people can download music and films for free, face two years in fines and $150,000 fines if found guilty. [MORE]

The legal team prosecuting The Pirate Bay website for copyright infringement drop half the charges against the site. [MORE]

Niels Arden Oplev’s Män som hatar kvinnor (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), the first part of the late author Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy is released in Sweden and Denmark with high hopes of breaking domestic box-office records. [MORE] [ADD]

On the final day of the Pirate Bay trial prosecution lawyers call for the four defendants to be imprisoned, fined $180,000 and ordered to pay $13 million in damages. [MORE] [ADD]

The Bergman Centre Foundation appeals for funds to bid for the estate of the late Ingmar Bergman on the island of Faro.   In accordance with Bergman’s will, the estate is due to be auctioned at Christie’s in London on 20^th August 2009. [MORE] [ADD]

The Stockholm District Court denies claims that the Pirate Bay trial was biased because of Judge Tomas Norstrom’s links to groups such as the Swedish Copyright Association, a fact that the site’s owners plan to use in their defence at an appeal hearing.  Their defence comes just one day after the Swedish Pirate Party wins a seat in the European Parliament. [MORE] [ADD]

The government announces that it will shut down the country’s board of film censors in 2011, meaning that any film will be able to be released provided it doesn’t break government laws. [MORE] [ADD]

The beleaguered file-sharing site The Pirate Bay finds itself the target of a new legal challenge as 13 Hollywood studios call for the website to be closed down. [MORE]

Peter Sunde, one of the four members of The Pirate Bay website imprisoned for assisting in making copyright content available over the internet, announces that he has resigned from the site. [MORE] [ADD]

Global Gaming Factory, the company behind the plan to buy internet file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, is barred from trading its shares on the Swedish Stock Exchange amid speculation that the proposed buy-out was an attempt to manipulate stock prices. [MORE]

The belongings of the late Ingmar Bergman are auctioned at Bukowskis auction house in Stockholm.  The auction takes nine hours and raises more than 17.9 kronor (£2.2 million). [MORE]

Norwegian millionaire Hans Gude Gudesen buys the late director Ingmar Bergman’s estate on the island of Faro for an undisclosed sum.   Together with Bergman’s daughter Linn Ullmann, he plans to create a foundation and centre for film, theatre and other media. [MORE] [ADD]

Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer’s debut feature, a prison drama called R, wins the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film and the international critics’ FIPRESCI Prize at the 33^rd Göteborg International Film Festival. [MORE]