A Virtual Film Festival Wants to Send You to a Terrifying Lighthouse, Alone and Phone-less

Göteborg Film Festival created extreme socially distant movie experiences for its first virtual event

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Every industry has been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, but few were as quickly and thoroughly disrupted as the live events field—given that mass gatherings are ill advised and, in many countries, illegal.

In Sweden, the Göteborg Film Festival—which runs from Jan. 29 to Feb. 8, has found a novel way to make the most of the fact that it is going digital-only for the first time.

Event organizers are promoting the festival by sending a handful of lucky (or brave, depending on your aptitude for solitude), film fans to truly isolated venues.

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