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28 Jun 2003  |   Rebecka Liljeberg in a new role! Unfortunately this is late information, since her appearance in the TV series Vera med flera (Vera and others) has already been aired on Swedish television this spring. She has just a small role, playing a girl with the same name as herself, seen only for a few seconds in a theatre act. The youth series, made directly for TV by Catti Edfeldt (Eva & Adam), is also released on DVD. Here are some pictures from it, captured by Ole of oebfa.com. Click on the http://www.scangen.se/images/rebecka to get a larger view. Ole will most likely be able to help you get the DVD. Happy birthday Harry Teodor! One year ago today Rebecka gave birth to her firstborn child. Greetings and all the best wishes of course also to Alexander and Rebecka! | ||||||
| 13 Jun 2003 | Bear's Kiss may get cinema release in Germany in October, Kathrine Bergmann of Pandora Film says. Thanks to Peter for this information. There is still no news of any release (of any kind) in Rebecka's home country Sweden. This is very strange, to say the least. Meanwhile, the film has already been shown on TV... Australian cable channel Showtime picked it up and aired it recently. If you read this and live in Australia, sad to say, but it is not on their schedule any longer. | ||||||
| 9 Mar 2003 On TV: SVT1 (Sweden) June 5 at 20:00 Sherdil (Rebecka Liljeberg) Slovenian TV Eva & Adam series Mondays at 17:30 (currently running in April) | Unfortunately the DVD mentioned by me in the January 5 news was a bootleg! I am really sorry for passing on such information without properly checking the sources. Anyway, now it appears (fingers crossed) that Bear's Kiss is indeed released legally in Russia. This time the DVD also has English speech. There is even a legal VideoCD with the film in DivX (MPEG4) available. You can place your order at Rushall, Amalgama, CTB or oebdvd.tk.
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4 Feb 2003  |  More success for Lukas Moodysson and Lilja 4-ever! Yesterday the annual Swedish Film Awards took place in Stockholm, and, as most of us had expected, it became a huge success for Lilja 4-ever. The film won in 5 out of the 6 categories where it was nominated: Best Film, Best Director (Lukas Moodysson), Best Script (Lukas Moodysson), Best Lead Actress (Oksana Akinshina) and Best Photo (Ulf Brantås). The story (in Swedish): Aftonbladet | Svenska Dagbladet | Expressen | ||||||
| Not that good news however regarding Bear's Kiss. The theatre release in Spain and France have been pulled back, and no new dates have been set. Thanks to Anne for the clarification. | |||||||
| 14 Jan 2003 |
I have been informed of theatre release for Bear's Kiss in some countries. The film will open in Switzerland 23 January, Spain 30 January and in France 26 March. Still nothing on possible release in Sweden, from what I hear from my Memfis Film contact. Some of us had also hoped the film would be shown at the Gothenburg Film Festival, but that was not to happen unfortunately. If you live in Thailand however, you will be able to see Bear's Kiss at the Bangkok Film Festival. Screenings will be 17 January at 18:30 and 18 January at 11:00 local time. If it is the same film... The cast presented makes you wonder! Thanks to all contributors, none mentioned, none forgotten.  | ||||||
| 5 Jan 2003 NEW YEAR! | Surprising news arrive from Russia! Less than two months after the premiere in the theatres, Bear's Kiss is released on DVD and VHS. This is early by any standard, and one can only speculate about the reason for it. The DVD (PAL/no regional encoding, dubbed in Russian, no subtitles) was released by Premier Digital on Christmas Eve, December 24. You can order your copy from RBC Online (US based) or, if you live in Russia, from RusHall. Also, Ole in Norway will soon have it in stock and you can place your order at oebdvd.tk. Thanks to Nikolay and Ole for the news.
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| 15 Dec 2002 On TV:  ZDF, Germany Dec 31 at 11.00 Sherdil (1999) (Rebecka Liljeberg, Sebastian Hulthén, Hanna Alström) | Still no further information about possible release of Bear's Kiss in many countries. Regarding Sweden a decision is likely to be made early next year, according to a reliable source. The official trailer for Bear's Kiss is now available. Check out the streaming video at the Fortissimo site, or click here to watch it instantly in your Media Player. No question about who the star of the film is, even though Sergei Bodrov do get some attention also! Wanna download this trailer and the Korean clip mentioned earlier? You're in luck! They will both be available shortly at oebfa.com in the Clips and Trailer sections of that site. Enjoy! Merry Moodysson Christmas in Swedish television
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| 30 Nov 2002 |  Did you know that Russian super pop duo Tatu are inspired by Fucking Åmål? Well, with the lesbian image and on-stage kissing act it's not a big surprise that Agnes and Elin would be great role models for Yulia and Lena! The girls actually have a song entitled Show Me Love on their new album, and they are said to have been very happy when Lukas Moodysson included Nas ne dagoniat on the Lilja 4-ever soundtrack. These songs and of course the mega hit All the things she said are on the album 200 km/h in the wrong lane that was released here in Sweden a month ago. <<<< Get the album and the single from cdon.com (ships to Scandinavia and the Netherlands) | ||||||
28 Nov 2002  | Today Bear's Kiss opens in the cinemas in Russia. The Russian co-producer CTB Film presents the film with related articles on their website (in Russian, translated here to English). Most thrilling are several new high resolution pictures from the film. Two of them you can also see on this page. Reviews in the Russian press (Russian links translated with Babelfish) Watch a video clip of Bear's Kiss at the Korean site Film 2.0, or use this direct link to see the streaming video (opens in your Media Player). The clip shows the first meeting between Lola and the human incarnation of the bear Misha.
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| 15 Nov 2002 |  Over a month and no update! Not much news around about Rebecka or the film Bear's Kiss, I'm afraid. I guess Rebecka is enjoying her time with little Teodor, soon five months old, and doesn't have any immediate plans for new film engagements. She also has her studies to think about. With so many areas of interest it must be difficult to choose university courses. Will it be medicine or something else? There are actually some small things to say about Bear's Kiss. Fortissimo now has information about distributors in a few countries: A-Films (The Netherlands), Cineart (Belgium, Luxemburg), Gaga Communications (Japan), Golden Scene (Hong Kong), Prooptiki S.A. (Greece) and Shapira Films (Israel). The previously set release date in Switzerland by Pathé Films has been taken back, and will be announced at a later date. Pathé also distributes Lilja 4-ever, which will open February 20 in the Alp country. Regarding festivals, Bear's Kiss will compete in the World Cinema section in Pusan, South Korea, 14 - 23 November. It is shown tomorrow (November 16) in the MegaBox5 theatre at 20:00 and on November 21 in the Busan1 theatre at 20:00 (local time). The film was also screened at the MIFED market 4 - 7 november. The reported (by Fortissimo and by me) participation in the Haifa Film Festival has however not been confirmed from the official Haifa site. Congratulations to my friend Peter and his Bear's Kiss site for becoming official website for the film! Yes, it's true. Check out the link from Fortissimo's site. Cool! This must give you a lot of money, right, Peter?  Off-topic as it is, but I must also mention that Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-ever will be the Swedish nominee for the Academy Awards prize for best foreign-language film! Let's keep all fingers crossed that it will make it into the final four (or is it five) contestants. Also something to look forward to for people able to watch Swedish SVT1 is Filmkrönikan in two weeks time on September 28 at 21:30. The program moves to London and follows Moodysson as Lilja 4-ever makes it grand premiere in Great Britain at the London Film Festival! | ||||||
| 10 Oct 2002 On TV:  SVT1, Sweden Oct 23 at 21.30 Där regnbågen slutar (1999) (Göran Stangertz, Camilla Lundén, Rolf Lassgård, Pernilla August, Rebecka Liljeberg) SVT1, Sweden Oct 26 at 21.15 Födelsedagen (2000) (Göran Stangertz, Camilla Lundén, Börje Ahlstedt, Pernilla August, Rebecka Liljeberg, Lena Endre) Both films are directed by Richard Hobert. | The screening of Bear's Kiss in Hamburg on September 28 became an emotional event with Sergei Bodrov addressing the festival audience with a speech in memory of his son, tragically killed in the glacier slide in the Caucasus. The film goes on to be shown at the film festivals in Haifa, Israel, in October and Pusan, South Korea, in November (source Fortissimo). Releases in the cinemas around Europe are still an uncertain issue. Following Italy and Russia (November), only Switzerland is yet confirmed. No distributor is yet assigned in Sweden, but Sonet or Sandrew/Metronome would be the likely choices, according to Memfis Film. Please also note that Delphi Film-Verleih is not distributor in Germany, as stated in the news on September 26. Incorrect information was given on the German Cinema website at the time. The Internet Movie Database has a recently updated biography of Rebecka Liljeberg, written by an anonymous person (not this webmaster!). | ||||||
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| These pictures were taken during a session with the public in Venice. There is also a video of this event available as a MPEG4 clip at www.rebecca-liljeberg.com or as a direct link here. Many thanks to Xooobaa from Italy for the pictures and the video. | |||||||
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| 26 Sep 2002 |  Filmfest Hamburg began September 23 and will continue until Sunday September 29. This Saturday at 19:45 local time Bear's Kiss (Der Kuss des Bären) is shown in the zeise 1 theatre, and on Sunday it is shown in the large Abaton theatre at 17:30. German distributor of Bear's Kiss is Delphi Film-Verleih GmbH & Co. KG, but when it will open in the cinemas is yet unknown. Source: German Cinema. [correction: see news on October 10!!] Lilja 4-ever is conquering the world and receives excellent reviews wherever it is shown! It premiered in Norway last Friday (September 20) and will open in Denmark and Finland tomorrow September 27. Other countries will soon follow. The festival in Vancouver, Canada, also shows it three times the coming days: tomorrow Friday September 27 1:00 pm in the Granville 7 Cinema 7, Sunday September 29 9:30 pm in the Visa Screening Room at the Vogue, and finally Friday October 4 3:00 pm in the Granville 7 Cinema 3. It is already sold to USA, England, Germany and many other countries. This is a film you should not miss! See it if you ever get the chance. Up-to-date information of when and where Lilja 4-ever will be released can be found at oebfa.com, the Norwegian Show Me Love site which also follow Lukas Moodysson closely. Rumours say it may even change into a Moodysson site. | ||||||
| 13 Sep 2002
|  Today Bear's Kiss was shown at the Toronto Film Festival. It did not receive much attention and was not even mentioned in the daily festival news magazine, except for screening times. Only director Sergei Bodrov attended the festival. Also today the film opened in the theatres in Italy as the first country in Europe. Thanks to Luca for his picture of the Italian street poster! Reviews in Italian are available at Gli Spietati and KW Cinema, where also a short video clip (Real Player), shot in Uddevalla and dubbed in Italian, can be found. | ||||||
| 8 Sep 2002 |    The final day of the Venice Festival! The award ceremony took place in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema, and the Golden Lion prize for Best Film was awarded to The Magdalene Sisters by Peter Mullan. In the Upstream section the San Marco prize went to Springtime in a Small Town by Xiao Cheng Zhi Chun. | ||||||
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| 5 Sep 2002
| The Venice film festival showing and world premiere of Bear's Kiss took place yesterday at Lido, and was followed by a press conference, interviews with director and actors, and a photocall session. In the picture we see the team posing for the cameras. Surrounding director Sergei Bodrov are, from left to right, the actors Maurizio Donadoni, Silvio Orlando, Ariadna Gil, Rebecka Liljeberg, Joachim Król and Keith Allen.  The official festival site has streaming videos of the photocall and the "catwalk" later the same day. RaiSat has videos of the press conferences. The official photos are taken by Photomovie, and a few of the shots of the people of Bear's Kiss can be found on their site. The film got a mixed reception by the critics. It is a sweet and quite entertaining film, but lacks the artistic qualities that would make it a hot contender for the Golden Lion prize, one critic said. It is also much more conventional than many other contributions. The performance of the actors were however praised and especially the performance by Rebecka Liljeberg as Lola. Reviews: Filmfestivals.com (in English) | Spiegel Online (in German) | Robert Mattheis (in German) | Estrella Digital (in Spanish) | Cinefestival (in Italian) | Domenico Barone (in Italian) There were also other news that would interest visitors of rebeckaliljeberg.tk. Rebecka came to Venice with her two months old son Teodor and her boyfriend since one and a half year, web designer and artist Alexander Skepp. She now has a busy schedule in Venice giving interviews, but will then return to her maternal leave and hope in a year to resume her studies with the goal to become a medical doctor. She has no plans to pursue an acting career, but, as she put it, "anything can happen" and "if a director would call...". The door is not shut for future films. Even a project with Lukas Moodysson is not out of the question, from what it appeared when the two reunited in front of the press yesterday. She also made clear that having a small child is no obstacle for taking a role in a future film. "The film companies always arrange so the children can come along to the shootings", she says.  Cuddling with the bears was not the funniest part of the film, Rebecka says. Luckily the trainers were present all of the time. Even harder were the nude love scenes with Sergei Bodrov jr. "It was very difficult to be relaxed, it is a very uncomfortable situation to be naked with another person", she says. In all fairness, the director and the photographer also had to be naked! Director Sergei Bodrov has described the film as "a very emotional and erotic love story". This was a summary of several interviews and articles: Svenska Dagbladet (interview with Rebecka by Karoline Eriksson) | Aftonbladet (interview with Lukas and Rebecka) | TT Spektra Peter has translated these articles into English on his Bear's Kiss site. The videos of the photocall and the catwalk are available for download at www2.megamars.org. | ||||||
| 29 Aug 2002 |  Tonight at 7.30 pm in the Sala Grande, the 59th Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica - the Film Biennale of Venice - will be opened by Director Moritz de Hadeln and Biennale President Franco Bernabè. The screening of Julie Taymor's Frida will follow.
The screening of Bear's Kiss in Toronto will be September 13 at 6.15 pm and September 14 at 8.45 am (for the early birds). Details about the cinema releases around Europe are beginning to turn up. So far it is said the film may open already in September in Italy (not yet confirmed). More trustworthy is the information about release in Russia in the middle of November, and in Switzerland a release date of January 23 2003 has been set by the distributor Monopole Pathé Films AG. | ||||||
| On TV: Cine Faz, France Aug 30 at 10.29 pm Fucking Åmål | |||||||
| 21 Aug 2002 Lilja 4-ever soundtrack out now - buy it on CDON (ships to Scandinavia and the Netherlands) | Newsflash! Bear's Kiss and Lilja 4-ever both are among the films to be shown at the Toronto Film Festival between September 5 and 14. This means Bear's Kiss will follow up the world premiere in Venice on September 4 immediately with the Toronto festival, where it enters in the Contempory World Cinema programme. Lilja 4-ever enters in the Visions programme.
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| 16 Aug 2002 |
Photographer Bernd Spauke has released 28 of his official shots from Bear's Kiss on his website. Here are five of them. Please visit Bernd's site to see the rest and get a feel of what we can expect from this enchanting film! | ||||||
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 Rebecka Liljeberg and Sergei Bodrov jr
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Rebecka Liljeberg and Ariadna Gil
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| 2 Aug 2002 |
The world premiere of Bear's Kiss will take place in the Lido theatre in Venice on September 4. Here are some links with comments about the film and the festival from around the globe: Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westphalen | ScreenDaily.com | Giornale.it | FilmStew.com | ||||||
| 30 Jul 2002 | 
Today the official Venice program was released and as expected both Bear's Kiss and Lilja 4-ever are in the lineup. Bear's Kiss compete in the main event The Golden Lion and Lilja 4-ever in the San Marco competition. Another Scandinavian entry in that category is the Norwegian film Music for weddings and funerals with Swedish actress Lena Endre in the lead role. Read more about the Swedish invasion in Aftonbladet (in English here).
Expressen publishes the first pictures from Lilja 4-ever today. The film will open in the cinemas in Sweden on August 23. An English translation of the article can be found here. | ||||||
| 21 Jul 2002 |
Now we learn that also Lukas Moodysson's new film Lilja 4-ever will be in competition in Venice! Still not officially confirmed, we have to wait for the press conference in Rome July 23 (changed to July 30), but according to the news agency TT Spektra it is clear that Lilja 4-ever will be the first Swedish film for many years to compete in this prestigous festival.
 Read the article in Swedish from Svenska Dagbladet's net edition July 15. I have posted an English translation on Sebastian Lukaszyk's discussion forum.
Rebecka Liljeberg on TV in USA and Germany: Fucking Åmål can be seen July 27 on German channel Premiere World at 22:05 CET. Starting August 7 KIKA will again show the series Eva & Adam, one episode each Wednesday at 16:30 CET. It is the episodes with Rebecka in a major role. Thanks to Frank for the information. In the States, HBO will air Show Me Love (as Fucking Åmål is called there) between August 5 and 26. Exact times and other details can be found at HBO.com or at Sebastian's forum. | ||||||
| 12 Jul 2002 | 
Newsflash! Bear's Kiss will be in competition in Venice! Pandora Film has now confirmed this. I will return with more details later.
The July issue of the French film magazine Studio has a small interview with Sergei Bodrov sr, the director of Bear's Kiss. It deals mainly with a film of his from six years back that is finally getting its French theatre release, but the participation in Venice is also mentioned. Thanks to Anne for the information.
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| 2002-06-27 |
It's two months until the release of Bear's Kiss. How about a preview of one the scenes? :-) Picture yourself a camp fire late at night. An old woman speaking a strange language is sitting by the fire together with Lola (Rebecka Liljeberg) and Misha (Sergei Bodrov jr), the boy transformed from a bear. Lola translates to him what the woman is saying: She says you are a shapeshifter. You're changing from two worlds. Soon you will be able to see the scene!
More Rebecka news! The Swedish-dubbed version of T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous features Rebecka Liljeberg as the voice of Ally. Ally is like her father fascinated by the world of the dinosaurs that once ruled the earth. By accident she finds herself face to face with a live Tyrannosaurus Rex! If you live in Scandinavia or Holland you can order the Swedish version DVD from cdon.com. Click on the cover picture.
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2002-06-23 | The Bear's Kiss soundtrack will include local music from most of the countries involved. The team recorded much of it in Georgia (in former Soviet Union, not USA). The sad Malagueña (flamenco from Malaga) was however recorded in Jerez in Spain (where part of the film also was shot) and sung by a 22 year old girl called Rocío Fernández from a gypsy background, and only accompanied by a single guitar. Rocío participated in the Jerez festival in March 2002. I hope to return to the soundtrack when I learn some more. For instance, there is also said to be an Icelandic connection to the soundtrack.
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| 2002-06-14 | I have received some fresh Bear's Kiss information. Two days ago my contact spoke to director Sergei Bodrov. The film is now ready, and Sergei says everybody is very pleased with it. He also mentioned the soundtrack CD, which he thinks is great. At least some of the songs were recorded earlier this year in Spain and include a Flamenco (Malagueña), which is fantastic! The premiere may be at the festival in Venice early September, but that is not yet settled. The release in other countries might take a few more months.
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| 2002-06-06 | As Fucking Åmål is shown in more and more countries on television, new fans discover the acting of Rebecka Liljeberg. Two new fansites have popped up, one Slovenian site at http://users.volja.net/agnes/ and Sydney's Dutch site at http://www.fucking-amal.ch.vu/. Both very nice sites. | ||||||
| 2002-05-20 | 
An update on Lukas Moodysson: his new film Lilja 4-ever will be released August 23 in Sweden, it is of course produced by Memfis Film and the distributor is Sonet Film. Not much has been revealed about the story, but it is about two Russian teenagers called Lilja and Volodja, and a theme in the film is religion and God. Basic facts are given by Sonet and in the IMDB.
An interview with Lukas can be found in the latest issue of Månadsjournalen. It is not on the web, but apparantly he is talking about his new film as well as his latest book Vad gör jag här? (What am I doing here?). More on Lukas as a writer in the Books section. More Fucking Åmål (Show Me Love) on TV: between May 24 and June 29 there are several opportunities to see the film on US channel HBO. Danish DR2 is showing the film on Sunday May 26 at 20:25. In the Netherlands, the NED3 channel will air the film on May 30 at 20:30. As always, check your local listings. | ||||||
| 2002-05-13 | Finally some Bear's Kiss news! Sources involved in the production say the film is scheduled for the Venice film festival between August 29 and September 8 this year. It will hit the cinemas in several European countries during the fall. | ||||||
| 2002-05-13 | *** Happy birthday! 21 today. *** | ||||||
| 2002-04-24 | Talk about disappointment. No Bear's Kiss and no Rebecka Liljeberg in Cannes! I guess the answer to one of the questions I wrote on April 16 is NO. I will try to dig up some information about what the problem is.
Anyway, even if the film had been selected for the festival, it would have been unlikely that Rebecka had participated. She has publicly stated that she never would return to Cannes! That was in her own article after the 1999 festival, which didn't make a very good impression on her... You find the link to the article in yesterday's news item. | ||||||
 Proudly presenting... The Official Selection for the 2002 Cannes International Film Festival.... | |||||||
| 2002-04-23 | Italian TV channel Rai 2 is airing Fucking Åmål on Saturday May 4. Check your newspaper for the time. Thanks to Laura for this information.
Ole in Norway has collected some articles and texts written by Rebecka Liljeberg. Most of them have been published in the daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet between 1999 and 2001. Your webmaster has helped finding the articles and also ventured the delicate task of translating the words of Rebecka into English. I hope she is not too mad at me. ;) Check out Ole's news page at oebfa.com or go directly to the articles! | ||||||
2002-04-16 | Just eight days to go! April 24 the lineup for this year's Cannes festival will be announced. Will Bear's Kiss be one of the contestants? Is it good enough? Is it even finished? Is Sergei Bodrov pleased enough with it? Questions and more questions.
One disappointment so far for Scandinavian film is that Thomas Vinterberg's It's all about love starring wonderful Claire Danes (My So-Called Life) will not take part. This Danish film was supposed to be the big Scandinavian hope this year... but that was not to be. Finally a new Fucking Åmål website to announce. Check out www.pmlubov.narod.ru. It's all in Russian so I can't really give an opinion about it. Thanks to Alex Smirnov for telling me about his site. | ||||||
| 2002-04-09 | Fucking Åmål is being shown on Film Four channel in the UK at 20:20 on Friday April 12. Thanks to Jason for the information. Meanwhile, back in Sweden, the film is now seen as a turning point for domestic as well as European film. Now only 62% of the films seen on cinemas in Sweden are Hollywood productions, compared to 75% before FÅ. You can read more of this story in yesterday's Svenska Dagbladet, if you handle Swedish, that is. If not, you can always have a look at the nice photo of our three heroes that followed with the article. | ||||||
| 2002-04-05 | Tomorrow, Saturday April 6 at 23:15, Norwegian TV channel NRK1 is showing Fucking Åmål. Also Slovak STV1 will air the film on Tuesday April 9 at 22:30. Welcome all new fans! | ||||||
| 2002-03-05 |  Fucking Film is the title of a recently published book on the new wave in Swedish film, with successes like Jalla, Jalla! by Josef Fares and Fucking Åmål and Tillsammans (Together) by Lukas Moodysson. Reviews in Swedish: Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet | ||||||
2002-03-02 | About a year ago Rebecka Liljeberg gave an interview with the educational radio network Utbildningsradion (UR). Cool and relaxed she talks about her school experiences and plans for the future. Of course her career as actress also receives a lot of attention. Peter managed to get a copy of the interview and you can now find his transcript and translation on his Bear's Kiss website. You can also download Real Audio files and listen to the interview. | ||||||
| Talking about this site, don't miss the interesting article First position please! with the story of an actual close encounter with Rebecka! | |||||||
| 2002-02-27 | While Rebecka is enjoying a timely break in media attention, here is some news about Alexandra Dahlström! She is making an appearance on the new CD by Swedish pop ensemble The Bear Quartet. Alexandra is reciting a text in an otherwise instrumental piece called Tuna. The title of the album is Ny våg. Picked up on Swedish radio (Musikjournalen) by Peter. | ||||||
| 2002-02-25 | The release date of Bear's Kiss is still uncertain. Contacts in the German production company Pandora Film have given Sebastian in Germany diverging information ranging from spring to summer 2002. We just have to wait and see. From Sebastian's online forum. | ||||||
| 2002-02-25 | Fucking Åmål will be shown on Slovenian TV channel Slovenja 1 this Wednesday Feb 27 at 20:00 (8 PM). It will be the original Swedish version with subtitles. Thanks to fairy for the information. | ||||||
| 2002-02-10 |  The short movie Närkontakt (Close Encounter) (1997) is now available in DivX with English subtitles. Nina (Rebecka Liljeberg) is living with her father (Samuel Fröler), but they don't connect. It takes a dramatic event for them to find each other. In this nice little story Rebecka with her impressive acting paved the way for her part in Show Me Love. You can download it in the Media Gallery at showmelove.cjb.net. | ||||||
| 2002-02-10 | Fucking Åmål (Show Me Love) is showing on American TV channel HBO between Feb 11 and 26. Check the link for details. Thanks to Angel and Ole for the information. | ||||||
| 2002 feb-mar | Plenty of chances to see Sherdil with Rebecka Liljeberg for those lucky in Scandinavia with access to the film channel TV1000. See link for details on times and channels. | ||||||
| 2002-01-31 | This Saturday, February 2, people in Sweden will have the opportunity to see Russian director Sergei Bodrov's Oscar-nominated Prisoner of the mountains (Kavkazskij plennik, in Sweden Bergens fånge) from 1996 on SVT2 at 21:15, as an appetizer of his forthcoming Bear's Kiss. A group of Russian soldiers is ambushed in the Kaukasian mountains, and the only survivors, sergeant Sacha and private Vanya, are taken captives. The cast include Oleg Menshikov, Dzhemal Sikharulidze, Susanna Mekhraliyeva and Sergei Bodrov Jr, the director's son, also taking part in Bear's Kiss. | ||||||
| 2002-01-29 | German children's channel KI.KA is again making Rebecka fans happy! They are currently airing both seasons of Eva & Adam, one episode each day at 3:55 PM CET. Watch episode 7 of season 1 with a small cameo by Rebecka today, but her major appearance as Frida, the girlfriend of Eva's brother, will be in episodes 6 through 8 of season 2. Don't miss it. Vielen spaß!
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| 2002-01-13 | Unfortunately many of the invited guests did not show up at yesterday's party. Sources Aftonbladet and Expressen. | ||||||
| 2002-01-12 | Today Film i Väst is celebrating 10 years in Swedish film business, with a party in Trollhättan with 1000 specially invited guests and an open house for the public. Invited are names like actors Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Chloë Sevigny, Siobhan Fallon, Ben Gazzara, Jeremy Davies, Rebecka Liljeberg and Helena Bergström, not to mention directors like Lars von Trier, Lukas Moodysson, Thomas Vinterberg and Colin Nutley. Just to name a few. Source Expressen. | ||||||
| 2002-01-01 |  Bear's Kiss now has an unofficial homepage. You can check it out at welcome.to/bearskiss. | ||||||
2001-12-19 | Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to everyone visiting this site! Let's all work for a year with no more senseless violence, hungry children and homeless people. Give something for a good cause this Christmas. I'm sure I speak for all of us when I wish Rebecka the very very best for 2002. May the new year bring much success and happiness to you, be it awards for Bear's Kiss, be it new film projects or just something else you decide to do. And good luck with the university studies! | ||||||
| Thanks also to all of you keeping this page alive with contributions to People's Voice and the poll. Updates will come whenever there are any news or when I have some new web design trick I wish to test... :) | |||||||
| 2001-12-11 | Photographer Dan Uneken, living in Jerez, Spain, caught some of the action in Bear's Kiss with his camera, while the team shot the final scenes of the film in August. His homepage includes pictures of director Sergei Bodrov, the crew and of course the one and only Rebecka Liljeberg. But what about that red wig... Ouch! :) Thanks to Peter for this link. | ||||||
2001-11-22 | The coming days people in Germany and USA will have the opportunity to see two films on TV featuring Rebecka Liljeberg. On Saturday November 24 the German channel KIKA will show Sherdil (1999) at noon 12:00. Rebecka plays Sanna, a school girl who rescues an Arabian stallion from slaughter. Not an exceptional film by any means, but if you like Rebecka or if you like horses it is a must. | ||||||
| Two days later, in the early morning of November 26, the American channel MMAX will air Show Me Love at 4:10 AM. I'm not sure what time zone this is, so check your local program listings. Thanks to Ole in Norway for this information. | |||||||
| 2001-11-19 |  Bully won the Bronze Horse prize for best film at the Stockholm Film Festival. With "fervent intensity and classic drama" this film by American Larry Clark (Kids) tells the story of young people in a less than flattering way. It is based on an actual event in 1993, when a group of teenagers killed another teen after years of bullying them. Rachel Miner of Bully also won the prize for best female actress. Best male actor became Paul Franklin Dano in L.I.E. Best script went to the Norwegian film Elling. | ||||||
| 2001-11-12 | Between November 8th and 18th the Stockholm International Film Festival takes place. 18 films hope to win the Bronze Horse (Bronshästen) prize for best film. The deciding jury includes among others Rebecka Liljeberg. | ||||||
2001-11-12 | Lukas Moodysson's new film, called Lilja 4-ever, is currently being shot in Estonia and shooting will continue in Trollhättan, Sweden. Not much is revealed about the story, but two young Russians play the leading characters, 16-year old Lilja (Oksana Akinshina) and 11-year old Vladimir (Artiom Bogucharskij). There will also be Swedish actors, but they are not yet disclosed. Any involvement by Rebecka Liljeberg in this production is pure speculation, but fellow Show Me Love-star Alexandra Dahlström works as Moodysson's assistant as well as interpreter (her mother is Russian). Oksana Akinshina played in Sergei Bodrov jr's film Sisters, which was shown at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals, and since Bodrov himself plays in Bear's Kiss there is a possible connection with Rebecka. But again, pure speculation! :) | ||||||
| 2001-11-12 | Bear's Kiss is scheduled for Cannes 2002 and will hit the cinemas some time mid or late 2002. | ||||||
September 4 at 6.30 pm in Sala Grande the world premiere of Bear's Kiss will take place. 
In Sweden the premiere of Lilja 4-ever now on Friday August 23 is getting closer. The film has already been shown to the press and the reactions are unanimously very positive! Evidently it is a strong and also very dark film about the life of a teenage girl somewhere in former Soviet Union with dreams of a better life in west, dreams that brutally come to shame as she is forced by her "boyfriend" to work as a prostitute in Sweden. In the interviews Lukas Moodysson says he wants to open people's eyes for this degrading traffic so often ignored. He says he wish the film to be seen by the young girl in Moldavia before she accepts that offer to come to the west, and that she then will have the strength to turn it down. You can download the trailer 
