Jan 11, 2026 10:00pm PT Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival Introduces Lie Detector The high-profile move is aimed at highlighting a current age ‘when personal narratives often overshadow factual truth,’ the festival announced Monday By John Hopewell Plus Icon John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent john_hopewell Latest Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival Introduces Lie Detector 3 minutes ago Netflix Smash ‘Secrets We Keep’ and Canneseries Prizewinner ‘A Better Man’ Scoop Nominations for Göteborg’s Nordic Series Script Award 4 days ago Inside the Oscar-Shortlisted and Annie-Nominated ‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls,’ a Fable for Times of Unfettered Greed 6 days ago See All Courtesy of the Göteborg Film Festival Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival, the biggest film-TV event in the Nordic countries, is introducing a lie detector test, to point up the event’s central 2026 debating point: Truth. Inside an interrogation room built for the occasion, members of the public will undergo a polygraph examination conducted by a real-life specialist, Ørjan Hesjedal, the festival announced Monday. The “high-pressure scenario inspired by investigative environments – complete with cameras, lighting and physiological monitoring” – is voluntary, though likely to prove very popular.
