Stockholm International Film Festival

Location
Stockholm
Date
Now - 22 November 2026
Cineville card discount
A wide selection of films are included in the Cineville membership
Website
www.stockholmfilmfestival.se

During 12 intense festival days in November, hundreds of film premieres from around the world will be screened. We give audiences the chance to see the latest and greatest films before anyone else. We also organise parties, panel discussions, Industry Days and mingling.

➽ The films listed here are included in the Cineville membership. On many of them there's a limited amount of Cineville tickets – first come, first served!

How to book Cineville tickets:

  • Find the film(s) you're intrested in
  • Click on the blue Boka button - this redirects you to the festival site
  • Choose the available screening (Bio Skandia, Klarabiografen or Zita)
  • The Cineville ticket category is now visible – click on Add to cart
  • Go through the rest of the steps: Checkout, Confirm & Pay etc (although it's 0 kr)
  • Done! Your ticket will be e-mailed to you.

(You don't need to log in with your Cineville card or festival membership to book.)

At the screenings:

  • Only pre-booked Cineville tickets are accepted.
  • Please show both your ticket and your Cineville Card to the staff.

All films from Stockholm International Film Festival

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Anchors Aweigh

When a well-meaning loser gets rejected by his much younger and more successful blonde girlfriend, he rents a small sailboat by the airport and spirals into a state of deep personal reflection.

Showing from Friday 20 November 2026
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Another Day

Garance is a young actress but not a star. She manages things as best she can, finding fuel and comfort in alcohol. As she embarks for an eight-year journey of life changes, she drinks more and more. Until death seems to loom.

Showing from Friday
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Atlantic Rhapsody

On a surreal journey through haunting, unforgettable imagery, we follow Ding Mao, who accidentally eats a shark and subsequently loses his grip on reality. Haunted by hallucinations of his missing father, he sets out on a quest to find him.

Showing from Monday
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Behemoth!

Gifted cellist Alex Serian returns home to Los Angeles after 20 years on the road. Music, which has been the constant, all-consuming river of his life, begins to carry Alex on an adventure that will change him forever.

Showing from Friday 8 January 2027
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Birds of War

The love story of a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman as told through 13 years of personal archives across revolutions, war, and exile.

Showing from Friday
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Black Carpet: Dubbelvisning av Full Phil och Of Womb

Black Carpet Double Feature: Full Phil & Of Womb
Two wildly unhinged films, one night and a whoooole lot to unpack between AND after the screenings. What could possibly go wrong?

Showing from Friday
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Che Guevara: De sista följeslagarna

English title: Che Guevara: The Last Companions
In the shadow of an iconic life, filmmaker Christophe Dimitri Réveille has spent 22 years gathering testimonies. Through interviews with members of the guerrilla column who survived Che, he carefully pieces together fragments of history that might otherwise have been lost.

Showing from Friday 7 May 2027
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Chronovisor

A French academic is seduced into a world of untold histories in her scholarly quest to uncover the mystery of a history-capturing camera-like machine created by clandestine Benedictine monks. An academic-noir, armchair mystery in the lineage of Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco.

Showing from Monday
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Club Kid

A hard-partying New York City club promoter sees his whirlwind lifestyle upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had.

Det finns inga bra karlar

English title: No Good Men
When a conflict at her news station turns life upside down, unexpected possibilities emerge for Naru – a thirty-year-old divorced camera operator. The political inevitably becomes entangled with the personal, and the stakes rise as Naru begins to doubt herself.

Showing from Friday 27 November 2026
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Dua

Prishtina, Kosova, late 1990s. As war looms and ethnic tensions escalate, 13-year-old Dua struggles to find her place among her peers and within her changing body.

Showing from Wednesday 18 November 2026
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Enough is Enough

From the heart of the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, director Elisé Sawasawa offers a firsthand account from the ground, in a place where life itself becomes an act of resistance.

Showing from Friday 20 November 2026
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Everytime

A tragedy brings a mother, daughter, and teenage boy together. Struggling with blame and forgiveness, the unlikely trio take a trip to Tenerife for a family holiday that never happened. Under the glow of the sun, past and present quietly start to overlap.

Showing from Sunday 22 November 2026
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Gabin

Gabin, the youngest child of the Jourdel family, is set to take over his father’s butcher shop. Torn between family loyalty and a desire to break free, he has other dreams.

Showing from Friday
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Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an infatuation with the new instructor. She must face what comes next as sparks fly.

Showing from Wednesday 18 November 2026
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Hold Onto Me

11-year-old Iris learns her estranged father, Aris, is back in town for his own father’s funeral. Determined to know him, Iris tracks him down to a dilapidated shipyard, where he’s been keeping to himself. What begins as a stubborn attempt to reconnect slowly unfolds into a fragile bond.

Showing from Tuesday
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I Love Boosters

A fearless crew of inventive young women turn shoplifting into a radical act of defiance.

Showing from Saturday 21 November 2026
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Ink

A group of misfits and visionaries had an idea for a new kind of news - one that would give the people what they want, and would change the face of the world we live in today.

Showing from Friday 22 January 2027
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Jaripeo

Blending analogue Super 8 footage, raw documentary immediacy and dreamlike recollections, Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig portray a queer world that has always existed at the heart of the macho Mexican rodeo culture – hidden in plain sight.

Showing from Sunday

Josephine

After eight-year-old Josephine accidentally witnesses a brutal assault, she begins acting out violently to protect herself. This emotional trauma leads to conflicts between her parents as they search for justice and a way to feel safe again.

Showing from Friday 5 February 2027
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Low Expectations

At the height of her music career, Maja falls apart and has to step away from her ambitions. Depressed and broke, she moves back home with her mother and works part-time at a local high school. Far from the spotlight, wrapped in everyday kindness, she slowly finds her way back to life.

Showing from Friday 27 November 2026
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Night Nurse

As a series of perverse scam calls unsettles an idyllic retirement community, a starry-eyed nurse becomes entangled with her mysterious patient.

Showing from Thursday 19 November 2026
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Nuisance Bear

A polar bear is forced to navigate a human world of tourists, wildlife officers, and hunters as its ancient migration collides with modern life. When a sacred predator is branded a nuisance, it becomes unclear who truly belongs in this shared landscape.

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Of Womb

Evading the hard truth of their religious matriarch’s death, three sisters gestate dark ecstasies of faith and folk horror. Blessed be Mother.

Showing from Thursday 19 November 2026
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Onwards and Sideways

Tony Evans is the deputy head of a primary school. Emma Dretzin is a pianist and single mother. Neither knows the other until a startling encounter changes the course of their lives: on the same morning, they are both confronted with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s.

Showing from Saturday 21 November 2026
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Our Share of Sand

12-year-old Maya must face the dark truths beneath her family's legacy and the quiet complicity that binds her to it. Shalani Adnani’s debut won the Audience Award at Venice and marks the arrival of a formidable filmmaking talent.

Showing from tomorrow
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Parallella liv

English title: Parallell Tales
In search of inspiration for her new novel, a struggling writer begins spying on her neighbors across the street. Reality and fiction collide in this reimagining of Kieślowski’s A Short Film About Love, directed by Asghar Farhadi.

Showing from Sunday 22 November 2026
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Rehearsals for a Revolution

Through five portraits of relatives and mentors, five expressions of resistance, Pegah Ahangarani sketches her life story. Drawing from personal archives, home videos, and recorded voices, she retraces more than 40 years of Iran’s history.

Showing from Tuesday
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Sad Girlz

La Maestra and Paula are the best swimmers on their team and best friends, until an incident at a party changes everything. When the truth comes to light, the duo are faced with an impossible decision and their friendship, previously unbreakable, will be put to the test as never before.

Showing from Thursday 19 November 2026
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Soul Patrol

From deep behind enemy lines, a hidden chapter of American military history is uncovered, prompting the question of whether reckoning with the past can bring peace to those who lived it. The Vietnam War’s first Black special operations team reunites to tell their story.

Showing from Monday
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Surprisefilm

Do you dare to take a chance? Grab your tickets for this year’s Surprise Film and let yourself be surprised! The title will be revealed only when the lights go down and the curtain rises. Red Carpet Screening!

Showing from tomorrow
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The Blood Countess

Dressed in shimmering costumes, Isabelle Huppert slips effortlessly into the role of bloodthirsty countess Elisabeth Báthory in a feast for fashion lovers and the year’s most deliciously chilling dose of goth and camp.

Showing from Tuesday
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The Debut

When Mona Friedman is cast in a bit part at a small community theater, she transforms from a shy, unassuming housewife into a zealous method actor willing to do anything to protect the artistic integrity of her marginal role – even if it means waging war against the show’s domineering director.

Showing from Friday 15 January 2027
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The Leader

In 1997, thirty-nine members of the American cult known as “Heaven’s Gate” committed the largest mass suicide to ever take place on American soil. This is their story.

Showing from Friday
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The Remotes

A grieving detective finds himself increasingly ensnared while investigating a case involving a sinister navigation app causing physical and psychological debris.

Showing from Sunday 22 November 2026
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To Hold A Mountain

In the remote highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and daughter proudly defend their ancestral mountain from the threat of becoming a NATO military training ground, stirring memories of the violence that shattered their family.

Showing from tomorrow
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Too Much Sugar

In working-class Missouri, a charismatic father and his rapper best friend dream of making a film about fatherhood, but a turbulent year turns their project into a journey of accountability, healing, and self-discovery.

Showing from Friday
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Tristan Forever

For 30 years, a doctor from Paris has maintained a friendship with a fisherman on Tristan da Cunha, the most isolated inhabited island in the world. Now he travels back one more time, with the plan to stay there for good.

Showing from Friday 20 November 2026
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Union County

Assigned to a county-mandated drug court program, Cody Parsons embarks on the tenuous journey toward recovery amid the opioid epidemic in rural Ohio.

Showing from Friday 20 November 2026
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Vem dödade Alex Odeh?

English title: Who Killed Alex Odeh?
A Palestinian American activist's murder in Southern California sparks a 40-year search for justice, exposing the origins of a modern political movement's dangerous ideology.

Showing from Friday 11 December 2026
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Vintage Violence

An American urban exploration influencer (Cole Sprouse) stumbles upon a chest full of rare vintage jeans and is lured to Japan by a follower, hoping to make a fortune. Instead, forbidden love and severed fingers plunge him straight into Tokyo’s neon-lit underworld.

Showing from Sunday
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Wallander: Steget efter

Wallander: One Step Behind
The Ystad police force is shaken when a colleague is found brutally murdered. For Kurt Wallander (Gustaf Skarsgård), the investigation quickly becomes personal, and the hunt for the killer pushes him to his limits, both as a police officer and as a human being.

Showing from Saturday