The 2015 Stockholm International Film Festival (SIFF) takes place on November 11 – 22, screening more than 190 films from 70 countries, seminars, Work In Progress program, meetings with the festival΄s guests, film quizzes, parties and much more.

Mediterranea by Jonas Carpignano (LUX Prize 2015 nominee) will be SIFF 2015 opening film. Todd Haynes΄ last film Carol, will close the festival.

Some of the guests will be awarded with special prizes for their contribution to the art of cinema. Yorgos Lanthimos is one of them. The director will attend the festival with the Swedish premiere of The Lobster to receive the Stockholm Visionary Award 2015 and meet the audience during an exclusive Face2Face. Steven Frears will be granted the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award, while actress Elen Burstyn is honored with the Stockholm Achievement Award.

Four films from the Balkans compete in the Feature and Documentary Competition sections, with other six programed for the non-competitive section of SIFF 2015.

Mustang by Deniz Gamze Ergüven (France/Germany/Turkey/Qatar, 2015)

Sworn Virgin by Laura Bispuri (Italy/Switzerland/Germany/Albania/Kosovo*/France, 2015)

Chuck Norris VS. Communism by Ilinca Calugareanu (UK/Romania/Germany, 2015) 

North by Çayan Demirel & Ertugrul Mavioglu (Turkey, 2015)

 

Aferim! by Radu Jude (Romania/Bulgaria/Czech Republic, 2015)

The High Sun by Dalibor Matanic (Croatia/Slovenia/Serbia, 2015)

The Waiting Room by Igor Drljaca (Canada, 2015)

Baskin by Can Evrenol (Turkey, 2015)

The Lesson by Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov (Bulgaria/Greece, 2015)

The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos (Ireland/UK/Greece/France/Netherlands, 2015)