Swedish Film Institute

We are strengthening Swedish film

The Swedish Film Institute is a collective voice for film in Sweden, and a meeting-place for experiences and insights that elevate film on all levels. We preserve and make available Sweden’s film heritage, work to educate children and young people in film and moving images, support the production, distribution and screening of valuable film, and represent Swedish film internationally. Through a diversity of narratives discussions and insights are established, which strengthen the individual and our democracy. Together, we enable more people to create, experience and be enriched by film. You can find more information about our mission and organisation here.

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Swedish Film Institute – we promote film

Towards gender equality

The gender equality perspective permeates everything that is done at the Swedish Film Institute: from production funding to the choice of films to promote from the archive, from funding to the screening sector to the recruitment of new personnel.

History of the Film Institute

The Swedish Film Institute Foundation was founded in 1963, a brainchild of the film critic and businessman Harry Schein (1924-2006), who also became its first CEO.