UFO Sweden

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UFO Sweden
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Teaser poster
Directed byVictor Danell
Written byVictor Danell
Jimmy Nivrén Olsson
Produced byAlbin Pettersson
Olle Tholén
StarringInez Dahl Torhaug
Jesper Barkselius
Eva Melande
Sara Shirpey
Oscar Töringe
CinematographyHannes Krantz
Edited byVictor Danell
Fredrik Morheden
Music byOskar Sollenberg
Gustaf Spetz
Production
company
Distributed by SF Studios
Release dates
  • 12 December 2022 (2022-12-12)(Norrköping)
  • 25 December 2022 (2022-12-25)(Sweden)
Running time
115 minutes [1]
CountrySweden [1]
LanguageSwedish [1]
Budget39 million kr
(€3.4 million) [2]
Box office$69,618 [3]

UFO Sweden (known as Watch the Skies in the United States and United Kingdom) [4] [5] [6] is a 2022 Swedish science fiction adventure film directed and written by Victor Danell. The film follows a teenager who believes her missing father was abducted by aliens joins forces with a UFO club of endearing misfits.

Contents

The film had its world premiere at Norrköping on 12 December 2022, and was released in Sweden on 25 December.

Cast

Production

Background

When members of the film collective Crazy Pictures around the 2018 premiere of The Unthinkable , saw Michael Cavanagh and Kerstin Übelacker's documentary Ghost Rockets, Victor Danell realized that he lived near the Archives for the Unexplained premises and contacted them and UFO-Sverige. [7] [8] It started an idea to make a science fiction film with the unknown as a theme. [8] According to the filmmakers, the film is "an adventure film for adults" and is inspired by films and TV series such as Stranger Things , True Detective , Arkiv X and Interstellar. [9] [10] [11] The working title was Project X. [1]

Filming

UFO Sweden began filming in Norrköping in August 2021. [9] Filming concluded in early 2022, with some additional scenes filmed during the summer. [11]

Release

UFO Sweden had its world premiere at Norrköping on 12 December 2022, [12] and was released in Sweden on 25 December. [2] An English dub of the film made using artificial intelligence was released in the United States on 9 May 2025 by XYZ Films under the title Watch the Skies. [4]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 83% of 23 critics' reviews are positive. [13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "UFO Sweden (2022)". Swedish Film Database . Retrieved 2025-07-06.
  2. 1 2 "Crazy Pictures' co-founder on UFO Sweden, working as a rock band on low cost sci-fi". Nordisk Film & TV Fond. Retrieved 2025-07-06.
  3. ↑ "Watch the Skies". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved 2025-07-06.
  4. 1 2 Spry, Jeff (2025-04-01). "New alien abduction film 'Watch the Skies' is giving us Swedish Spielberg vibes (video)". Space. Retrieved 2025-07-06.
  5. ↑ "Sci-fi film UFO Sweden is the first feature film dubbed with AI". Nordisk Film & TV Fond . Retrieved 2025-07-06.
  6. ↑ "Watch the Skies (12A)". British Board of Film Classification . 13 June 2025. Retrieved 5 July 2025.
  7. ↑ "ufosweden". www.ufo.se. Retrieved 2025-07-06.
  8. 1 2 "Crazy Pictures nya långfilm blir storfilms-äventyret "UFO Sweden"". MovieZine (in Swedish). 2021-06-08. Retrieved 2025-07-06.
  9. 1 2 "Crazy Pictures är officiellt igång med inspelningarna av "UFO Sweden"". MovieZine (in Swedish). 2021-08-30. Retrieved 2025-07-06.
  10. ↑ "Gåshudsnivå på första teaserklippet från storsatsningen "UFO Sweden"". MovieZine (in Swedish). 2021-12-14. Retrieved 2025-07-06.
  11. 1 2 "Ny poster och en exklusiv titt bakom kulisserna av "UFO Sweden"". MovieZine (in Swedish). 2022-06-10. Retrieved 2025-07-06.
  12. ↑ "Äntligen premiär för "UFO Sweden" - här är de första reaktionerna!". MovieZine (in Swedish). 2022-12-13. Retrieved 2025-07-06.
  13. ↑ "Watch the Skies". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved 2025-07-06.
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