Sunday, February 16, 12:00 p.m. & Thursday, February 20, 8:30 p.m. | The distinguished and cantankerous septuagenarian professor Isak Borg (Swedish director and actor Victor Sjöström, in his magnificent final performance) travels from Stockholm to Lund with his pregnant daughter-in-law to receive an honorary degree. Along the way, through flashbacks and fantasies, reveries and remembrances, Borg is forced to face his past and come to terms with his loneliness and the emotional fractures within his family. A poignant and profound exploration of aging, death, and legacy, WILD STRAWBERRIES suggests that when we allow ourselves to remember the past, we can connect all the more deeply with the present.

Awards & Nominations

Winner - Golden Bear, Berlin Film Festival
Nominee - Best Original Screenplay, Academy Awards
Nominee - Best Foreign Actor (Victor Sjöström), BAFTA Awards
Winner - Pasinetti Award, Venice Film Festival

Persistence of Memory: Ten films (poetically, all quite memorable) that explore recollection, unreliable narrators and amnesiatic protagonists, ghosts real and imagined, the way others remember us (ouch), and the coming to terms with that, as much as we try to hold on to them, as time passes our memories shift and slip away. Read more

The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu