European Film Festival

The European Film Festival, organized by EUNIC Stockholm and The European Commission, gathers 16 films with an aim "to illustrate and inspire action for environmental sustainability and empowering women and girls." This weekend of cinema and discussions gathers films of great variety in formal approaches and formats, engaging in some of the crucial topics of our times: films sounding the alarm on the prevailing climate crisis, films asking acute questions concerning biodiversity and scarcity of water resources, but also films looking at the precarious and vulnerable conditions experienced by many women and girls.

EUNIC – European Union National Institutes for Culture – is the European network of organisations engaging in cultural relations from all EU member states.

Looking out over the contemporary landscape, we are constantly made aware of the challenges taking hold of us and the environmental turbulence surrounding us: the rising heat and the effects of global warming, but also increased inequalities and imbalances on local and planetary levels. The European Film Festival, organized by EUNIC Stockholm and The European Commission, gathers 16 films with an aim “to illustrate and inspire action for environmental sustainability and empowering women and girls.” This weekend of cinema and discussions gathers films of great variety in formal approaches and formats, engaging in some of the crucial topics of our times: films sounding the alarm on the prevailing climate crisis, films asking acute questions concerning biodiversity and scarcity of water resources, but also films looking at the precarious and vulnerable conditions experienced by many women and girls. Coming-of-age films, a re-enactment of an ancient Greek theater piece involving children as interpreters, historical portraits of heroes and resistance fighters during the Second World War, bittersweet dramas, dark comedies and activist documentaries all gather here. All this, one could say, as a plea to the power of films to not only enlighten and enthrall us, but as importantly, to function as catalysts for societal change, windows into new insights. 

Organized by:
The European Commission
EUNIC Stockholm:
Camões I.P./Embassy of Portugal
Czech Center
Delegation of Flanders
Embassy of Austria
Embassy of Bulgaria
Embassy of Greece
Embassy of Slovakia
Embassy of Slovenia
Embassy of Switzerland
Finnish Institute
French Institute in Sweden
Goethe Institute Schweden
Instituto Cervantes/Embassy of Spain
Polish Institute
Romanian Cultural Institute
Ukrainian Institute