The festival, running until Jan 31, will feature mostly premieres focusing on female characters involved in intriguing, complex and sometimes provocative stories.
On show will be John Olsson's Viskan Miracles, Young Sophie Bell by Amanda Adolfsson, Levan Akin's The Circle, Lukas Moodysson's We Are the Best!, and The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Felix Herngren.
The only documentary to be shown will be Astrid, about the Pippi Longstocking author Astrid Lindgren.