Key Highlights
- Following up on last year’s accolade to Thomas Vinterberg , versatile Swedish actor and producer Noomi Rapace will receive the festival’s coveted Nordic Honorary Dragon Award Jan.
- 28, to highlight her talent in “captivating audiences around the world with her uncompromising presence and fearless expressive power,” said artistic director Pia Lundberg who added: “Her ability to find and portray what burns, unsettles and moves us cuts straight through the screen.” Related Stories Projeto Paradiso Bows Bold 2026 Incubator Slate at Ventana Sur (EXCLUSIVE) Rapace whose career spans over nearly two decades and 50 films and series, will be honored with a retrospective spotlighting three of her most significant features: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (2009) by Niels Arden Oplev, which proved her international breakthrough garnering a BAFTA nod, the Swedish drama “Beyond” (2010) by Pernilla August and Icelandic horror “Lamb” (2021) by Valdimar Jóhannsson.
- Popular on Variety Rapace will also attend alongside helmer Teona Strugar Mitevska the Nordic premiere of the buzzy Venice Horizons title “Mother.” “She was no saint” said the actor about her tour-de-force turn on the Catholic saint Mother Theresa in a recent interview with Variety.
- Besides the Rapace retrospective, an initial handful of pics selected for the Göteborg Film Festival’s 49th edition have been unveiled, including the opener “The Quiet Beekeper,” and four titles, illustrating this year’s overarching theme, “Truth”: Kaouther Ben Hania’s “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Petter Næss’s “No Comment,” Kirill Serebrennikov’s “The Disappearance of Josef Mengele” and Jim Sheridan’s “Re-Creation.” “We live in a time when the very Idea of truth is being put under pressure.
- Where the boundaries between fact and fiction often become blurred: in news feeds, on social media, and in political rhetoric.
