INTERVIEW WITH VALENTIN D. IVANOV– CRISTIAN TAMAȘ
CRISTIAN TAMAȘ: As someone working at the European Southern Observatory, you operate in one of the most international scientific environments in Europe. Why do you think European science fiction — unlike European science — remains so fragmented along national lines?
Valentin D. Ivanov: A great aspects of working at the large international institution is that one does not feel...
2026 VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: VENICE IMMERSIVE ACHIEVEMENT PRIZE
There are moments in cinema when the screen stops being a window and becomes a portal.
"Empire at Sea", Peter Flaherty’s twenty‑two‑minute SF solarpunk odyssey, doesn’t just invite you to watch—it drags you, salt‑sprayed and blinking, into its shimmering world of steel, algae, and ghosts of the mainland.
The film opens on the Aurora rig, a floating sanctuary...
"The Circle" (Cirkeln) is a Swedish fantasy film produced and scored by Benny Andersson (ABBA) and directed and co-written by Levan Akin based on the best selling novel The...
The 15th Fantastiknovelltävlingen ("The Fantastic Short Story Competition") organised by Sweden's oldest mailing list for writers, SKRIVA (founded in 1997), received ca 100 entries,...
The race for the European Presidency
On Monday 28th of April 7 pm CET we had the "First European Presidential Debate", i.e. the "European president"...
Yesterday, a part of a Swedish "fanfilm", named "Gatekeeper", was shot in Uppsala's old "anatomical theatre" (in a scene involving Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang...
8-9th of March the Comics Library (Serieteket) of the Stockholm Culture House (Kulturhuset) arranged French Language Comics Days, with support from embassies and cultural...
Umeå (Sweden)
The EU selects "Culture Capitals" of Europe every year, often two cities.
In 2014 it is Riga, capital of Latvia, and the northern Swedish...
Ahrvid Engholm
I have at different times the last decade attended cultural events in Stockholm sponsored by culture institutions of the governments of Finland, Germany,...
