Our vision and strategy


The School of Film Directing is a state higher arts education institution at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg.

The school’s vision is to train filmmakers who express themselves in a personal film language and who are well aware of what their approach is with regard to artistic expression and artistic research.

Our goal is to higher the quality and to increase the breadth and diversity of the entire field of the moving image.

This means that we prioritise the development of filmic means of expression in both feature film and documentary film. In order for work to include visual experiments of artistic excellence as well as filmic projects of the everyday kind, students will be offered an abundance of varying approaches and methods.

The guiding principle of our programmes is to express the diversity and complexity of human beings and the world they live in.
Using film tradition and its relation to the development of modern society as our backdrop, teaching at our school is carried out in a critical and inquiring spirit.

One of the school’s strategic aims is to affirm and expand our students’ artistic ambitions, to stimulate participation in discussion and to be open to the wilful and the unexpected, to exert an influence on societal debate, and to widen people’s views of culture and film. We wish to provide our students with the knowledge and skills required in order for them to bring something new to cultural life and the labour market.

Another of the school’s strategic aims is to have an open and clear approach with regard to technological development, such as new digital tools, the Internet, new arenas, together with new screening possibilities and the new formation of theories that follows as a result of this development.

Our school’s core philosophy is to be part of the new position film and the moving image is taking in the development of our society, and work for equality and humanistic values in society.