Alfredson's 'Tinker' to start Stockholm

STOCKHOLM -- "Mess Tailor Soldier Spy" will open the 22nd Stockholm Intl. Film Festival, marking a homecoming celebration due to its Swedish helmer Tomas Alfredson. The fest, which screens 173 game game titles from November. 9-20, will close with Pedro Almodovar's "The Skin Home Is.Inch Your competitors features a more effective Scandinavian flavor than usual, with four Nordic films among the 22 game game titles -- Joachim Trier's "Oslo, 31 August" and Jannicke Systad Jacobsen's "Turn Me On, Dammit" from Norwegian, and Ruben Ostlund's "Play" and Levan Akin's "OthersInch from Sweden. Whit Stillman will chair the jury, along with his film "Damsels in Distress" screening from competition among 16 game game titles inside the American Independents section. French actress Isabelle Huppert will probably be honored while using fest's Lifetime Achievement Award. Mexican auteur Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu can get the Visionary Award, and may give a masterclass. The U.S. is represented inside the primary competition by Miranda July's "The Long Run,In . Sean Durkin's "Martha Marcy May Marlene" and Andrew Okpeaha MacLean's "Round the Ice." A effective choice of British competitors includes "Shame" by Steve McQueen, Paddy Considine's "Tyrannosaur," "Coriolanus" by Take advantage of Fiennes and Andrea Arnold's "Wuthering Levels," the fest's focus gala screening. "OthersInch is among three Swedish films getting world premieres within the fest, along with Staffan Lindberg's "Not such a long time ago in Phuket" and Kjell-Ake Andersson's "Elsewhere." You'll in addition have a Nordic premiere for your lavish Swedish period drama "Simon as well as the Trees," directed by Lisa Ohlin. Danish helmer Nicolas Winding Refn's L.A. thriller "Drive" is screening from competition on view Zone section, which includes David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method," Paolo Sorrentino's "This Ought To Be the areaInch and Gus van Sant's "Restless." "Our 22nd program is fully full of strong game game titles and fresh beginners, which year we are very happy to present more female company company directors than in the past,In . mentioned festival director Git Scheynius. "The festival offer everyone else our most extensive gala program so far, made up of local world premieres and Nordic premieres of worldwide high-profile game game titles," added program manager George Ivanov. You will also have masterclasses by cinematographer Christopher Doyle and Danish producer Peter Aalbeck Jensen. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com