The event opens on January 23 and includes a screening of Holland’s latest feature Franz, a personal portrait of writer Franz Kafka, as well as a retrospective of her output, including Screen Tests, The Secret Garden, Europa Europa and Green Border.
In a statement for the media, Pia Lundberg, artistic director of the Göteborg Film Festival, said: "Agnieszka Holland has repeatedly demonstrated how cinema can be both artistically groundbreaking and deeply rooted in the moral questions of our time. To welcome a filmmaker who for decades has explored the many layers of truth - the uncomfortable, the contradictory, and the profoundly human - is particularly meaningful this year, when the festival’s focus is precisely on truth.”
Holland’s presence at the Göteborg Film Festival will mark her return to the event after more than four decades. In 1979, she attended the festival’s inaugural edition, during which her early film Screen Tests was shown.
Holland’s credits also include In Darkness, Washington Square, The Third Miracle, Olivier, Olivier, To Kill a Priest, Total Eclipse, Copying Beethoven, Mr Jones and Spoor.
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