The Stockholm International Film Festival has unveiled its 2026 programme: 130 premieres from 60 countries across November 11–22. Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine will open the 37th edition. The festival describes it as a darkly comic CIA thriller set on Easter Island shortly before the 1973 military coup in Chile, with John Malkovich in the cast.
The closing selection is You Can See Everything, the documentary by Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder. James Gray’s Paper Tiger is the centrepiece. The main Stockholm Competition has 18 films, including Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva and Sandra Wollner’s Everytime. The documentary competition includes John Wilson’s The History of Concrete.
This year’s Spotlight, Daddy Issues, looks at changing ideas of fatherhood. The festival links the theme to films including Jordan Firstman’s Club Kid and Bassam Tariq’s Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother. Japan is the focus country, with selections that include Takashi Miike’s Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Sheep in the Box. The programme also contains eleven official national Oscar submissions, according to the festival.
Lena Olin will receive the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award, while John Turturro receives the Stockholm Achievement Award; he also appears in the festival selection The Only Living Pickpocket in New York. The two actors join a twelve-day programme spanning fiction, documentary and Japanese cinema.