The Gteborg Film Festival, Swedens leading film fest, has unveiled its 2025 line-up, which features several award season contenders, including Brady Corbets Golden Globe winner The Brutalist, Magnus von Horns The Girl with the Needle, and Luca Guadagninos Queer.

The Brutalist picked up 3 Golden Globes this past Sunday, including for best picture, drama, best director for Corbet and best actor, drama for star Brody. In the historical epic, Brody plays Lszl Tth, a Jewish architect who arrives in America from Budapest after surviving World War 2. The film co-stars Felicity Jones as Lszls wife and Guy Pearce as billionaire Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr. Daniel Craig scored a best actor, drama nomination at the Globes for his starring role in Queer as William Lee, based on William S. Burroughs alter ego, following his journey through Mexico and South America with Drew Starkey as Gene. The Girl with the Needle, a major Oscar contender in the best international feature category, tells the story of 1920s Danish abortionist Dagmar Overbye, played by Trine Dyrholm, and the poor, and pregnant factory worker Karoline, portrayed by Vic Carmen Sonne. in 1920s Copenhagen.

The festival opens January 24 with Eirik Svenssons Safe House, centered on Norwegian aid worker Linn (Kristine Kujath Thorp) and her efforts to protect a Muslim refugee during the Central African Republics civil war. Mads Hedegaards Stranger, starring Angela Bundalovic and Danica Curcic, closes the festival on Feburary 2 with its world premiere.

Among the highlights of Gteborgs Nordic Competition are Maria Eriksson-Hechts debut Kevlar Soul, following two brothers living with their alcoholic father, and Fanny Ovesens Live a Little, about a womans experiences during a European trip. Ragnhild Ekners documentary Ultras examines global football supporter culture from Swedens Ullevi Stadium.

Oscar-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg will receive the festivals Nordic Honorary Award for his lifes work. The director of The Celebration, The Hunt, and Another Round, will take part in a directors talk following the award ceremony on Jan. 28.

The festival will screen Tomas Alfredsons Swedish TV series Faithless, an Ingmar Bergman-penned infidelity drama which frequent Bergman collaborator Liv Ullmann(Cries and Whispers) adapted as a feature film in 2000. The series stars Frida Gustavsson, Gustav Lindh, and August Wittgenstein.

Additional international premieres include Sofia Bohdanowiczs Measures for a Funeral, about violinist Kathleen Parlow, and Charles Williams prison drama Inside starring Guy Pearce. Joshua Oppenheimers musical The End, featuring Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon, receives its Swedish premiere, with Oppenheimer scheduled for a Directors Talk on January 26 at Stora Teatern.

The festival also presents Aster Urbeitas Pheasant Island, competing in the International Competition, which follows a Basque couples encounter with refugees, starring Jone Laspiur and Itziar Ituo from Money Heist.