In between films…

We’re almost halfway through the festival but the best is yet to come.  The first couple of days there’s not a lot of choice when it comes to what you want to see but as the week progresses more and more film choices are introduced and during the weekend all theatres will be in full use and probably as packed as a good Broadway play, no, not Cats.

Today I will start off by seeing part nine of the international contenders for best film. There are films from countries like France, Israel, South Korea, Italy and Austria. There are a lot of films from Austria this year around and that’s only a good thing because they’ve all been great so far.

After that it looks like it’ll be about four hours of Swedish shorts, all competing for Best Of Sweden. I really hope one or a couple of them can affect me like some of the Swedish ones did yesterday. I am of course thinking about Wanted To Be Friends, which I talked about in my previous post but also a film that I didn’t mention. It’s called Caught Redhanded (På Bar Gärning) and it’s a very simple film about two friends who are sitting in a café studying, but the girl’s mind is elsewhere. It’s simple and has a great twist.

After my four hour film marathon I’m finally heading home to Stockholm but only over night to refuel my batteries and maybe bring some of that sugar I forgot at home. I’ll be back bright and early tomorrow morning to this great city. And if it hasn’t come across enough yet I highly recommend everyone to get out here for this festival. Not only for the films, but also the mood and people. It cost about 10 dollars to get from Stockholm to Uppsala so there’s really no excuse not to come.