“Making a film festival with the theme of exile is an excellent work, which exceeds the art
film frame and strengthens the friendship between our peoples. Your exile film festival is a
major cultural festival”

Legendary Latin American film director Fernando Solanas to the Exile Film Festival 2003

 

 

Exile Film Festival

 

The International Exile Film Festival started 1993 in Gothenburg. With the film festival, we wanted to create a forum for filmmakers who live in exile and makes films outside their home country to freely express themselves and reach their audience. Through the films that the Exile Film Festival shows are essentially offered opportunities to deepen knowledge about refugees and immigrants, which not only benefits the integration process, but also the diversity of society.

 

The Exile Film Festival is held every other year. For each new edition, the festival has grown and developed, and received considerable attention among both festival goers and exile filmmakers. In addition, the film festival has wandered out into the world. Nowadays exile film festivals takes place in Cologne, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Heidelberg, The Hague, Paris, Toronto, as well as in Malmö. All these film festivals are organized in collaboration with the Exile Film Festival in Gothenburg.