Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival, the biggest film-TV event in the Nordic countries, is introducing a lie detector test, to point up the event’s central 2026 debating point: Truth.
Inside an interrogation room built for the occasion, members of the public will undergo a polygraph examination conducted by a real-life specialist, Ørjan Hesjedal, the festival announced Monday.
The “high-pressure scenario inspired by investigative environments – complete with cameras, lighting and physiological monitoring” – is voluntary, though likely to prove very popular.
It’s also in the vein of other live-event simulations which are weirdly of the moment and turn on high human-stake issues. Most memorably, in 2021, as
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