Amid Covid-19, Swedish film festival to screen on island for audience of one

Scandinavia’s biggest film festival, the 2021 Gothenburg Film Festival, is going ahead this year despite the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the festival, being hosted on an isolated island, will admit only one attendee. The chosen one is Swedish nurse and film fan Lisa Enroth, selected from 12,000 applicants. Enroth will spend a week on the remote island of Pater Noster watching film after film.

Amid Covid-19, Swedish film festival to screen on island for audience of one

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