Alexander Skarsgrd and Benny Safdie will be honored at this years Stockholm Film Festival, with the Swedish actor receiving Stockholms Achievement Award, and the New York director getting the festivals Visionary Award.

Skarsgrds latest Pillion, in which he stars as a domineering biker who begins a turbulent relationship with the submissive Colin, played by Harry Melling, will screen at Stockholm, as will Safdies The Smashing Machine, his first solo feature as a director. The film, which premiered in Venice, winning best director honors for Safdie, stars Dwayne Johnson as real-life MMA fighter Mark Kerr, with Emily Blunt as his partner Dawn Staples. The Smashing Machine recently opened to a disappointing $6 million in its North America bow, the lowest box office debut in Johnsons career. Stockholm unveiled the program for its 36th edition, running November 516, which will include a best-of-the-2025 festival season, including such Oscar contenders as Park Chan-wooks No Other Choice, Kleber Mendona Filhos The Secret Agent, Mascha Schillinskis The Sound of Falling, and Shih-Ching Tsous Left-Handed Girl.

The festival opens with Tarik Salehs Eagles of the Republic, the final installment in his Cairo trilogy starring Fares Fares, and closes with Lynne Ramsays Die, My Love, another hot awards contender, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. Other highlights include Ronan Day-Lewiss directorial debut Anemone, featuring dad Daniel Day-Lewis in his first screen role in years, and Richard Linklaters Blue Moon, about Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart, starring Ethan Hawke, which premiered in Berlin.

This years Spotlight section, Be Kind Rewind, explores nostalgia and the persistence of memory through films such as Videoheaven, Ross McElwees Remake, and Ira Sachss Peter Hujars Day, set in 1970s New York. The festival also honors the late David Lynch, who inaugurated Stockholms first edition in 1990, with screenings of Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive and a conversation with Blue Velvet star Isabella Rossellini.

Music figures prominently throughout the program, with new documentaries like Its Never Over, Jeff Buckley and the Swedish feature Egghead Republic, as well as Jennifer Lopezs reinterpretation of Kiss of the Spider Woman and the Catalan drama Forastera, featuring a score by Anna von Hausswolff and Filip Leyman.

Germany is this years Focus Country in Stockholm, represented by Schillinskis Sound of Falling and Christian Petzolds Miroirs No.3 alongside new works by Lauro Cress and Joscha Bongard.

The documentary lineup features new films from Werner Herzog, Laura Poitras, and Raoul Peck, while the Stockholm Series program will showcase new television projects, including Isabella Eklfs The Death of Bunny Munroe and Justin Kurzels The Narrow Road to the Deep North.