Upcoming screenings with English subtitles:

Friday 24 January 19:45 (7:45 PM)

Safe House (Före mörkret)
Eirik Svensson, Norway 2024

Welcome to Fyrisbiografen’s local opening of the Göteborg Film Festival 2025!
The Göteborg Film Festival is the largest film festival in the Nordic region. Over ten days, hundreds of films from around the world are screened. On Friday, January 24, the 48th edition of the festival will be inaugurated with the world premiere of Safe House (Før mørket), directed by the acclaimed Norwegian filmmaker Eirik Svensson. The opening film will be shown at Fyrisbiografen simultaneously with the festival and at several other cinemas across the country. Before the film, a short opening greeting from the festival will be shown.
 

About the film:
Lives are at stake, and tough decisions must be made under extreme pressure in Eirik Svensson’s riveting thriller that strikes a deep emotional chord and opens this year’s festival.
Safe House is based on a true story that took place at a Doctors Without Borders field hospital in the Central African Republic on Christmas Eve, 2013. Civil war is raging, and Bangui is divided into a Muslim and a Christian section. Suddenly, a desperate man appears at the clinic in the Christian part of the city, where aid workers are struggling to save lives. He is Muslim, persecuted, and in imminent danger. Outside, an aggressive militia demands that the man be handed over, forcing Norwegian Linn, the clinic’s head of security, to confront profound moral dilemmas. Eirik Svensson (Harajuku, GFF 2019) and standout actors Kristine Kujath Thorp and Alexander Karim skillfully explore themes of courage and the value of human life in this powerful and thought-provoking drama.

In Norwegian, French, English and Sango with English subtitles.

Friday 31 January 19:45 (7:45 PM) - More screenings coming up!
No Other Land
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor, Norway/Palestine 2024

For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yattabeing destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israelijournalist who wants to join his fight.

In Arabic with English subtitles.

Thursday 6 February 17:30 (5:30 PM)
The Consent (Le Consentement)

Paris, 1985. Vanessa is thirteen when she meets Gabriel Matzneff. A very smart and manipulative man, the fifty-year-old renowned writer seduces the young girl. The adolescent becomes the lover and muse of a man celebrated by the cultural and political establishment. Losing herself in the relationship, she gradually starts to realize how destructive and anormal the situation is, until she finally sees Gabriel Matzneff for the predator he really is. Vanessa now has a long journey to free herself from his influence and heal from her suffering…

In French with English subtitles.

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We will update this list when we have more film screenings with English subtitles planned.