Tag: Scandinavia

Swedish film festival to be screened exclusively on a remote island for one health care worker

Scandinavia’s biggest film festival is going ahead this year despite the coronavirus pandemic but will be hosted on an isolated island and admit only one attendee – a healthcare worker, selected from 12,000 applicants. Swedish nurse and film fan Lisa Enroth was chosen to be the 2021 Gothenburg Film Festival’s castaway who will spend a week on the remote island of Pater Noster watching film after film. “In healthcare, I seem to have spent ages listening, testing and consoling. I feel like I’m drained of energy,” Enroth said. Pater Noster, on the boundary of a dense archipelago off Sweden’s west ... Read more