Celebrate what would have been Ingmar Bergman's 90th birthday on 14 July with a special screening of Smiles of a Summer Night at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Centre in Silver Spring, MD. The AFI Silver Gallery will also feature the exhibit "Ingmar Bergman: The Man Who Asked Hard Questions" from 14 July through mid-August.

The Kunstmuseum Thun in Switzerland holds a symposium and exhibition (5 July-7 September) which "makes visible and audible the variety of the complex dialogues undertaken by the contemporary artists with the œuvre of Ingmar Bergman." An exhibition catalogue has been published by Christoph Merian Verlag and is available for purchase at their website.

Stig Olin, who starred in six Bergman films in the 1940s and 1950s and went on to become a film and stage director, has died on 28 June at age 87.

The Shanghai International Film Festival (14-22 June 2008) features a 10-film tribute to Bergman with screenings of Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Magician, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, The Silence, Persona, Cries and Whispers and Autumn Sonata.

The fifth annual Bergman Week takes place on Fårö, 24-29 June 2008. Special guests include Gunnel Lindblom, Margarethe von Trotta and Jan Troell. Check here for details.

Summer with Monika, Wild Strawberries, The Silence, Cries and Whispers and Fanny and Alexander are screened at the Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa (24 February-22 March). Check here for the schedule.

Eva Dahlbeck, best remembered for her performances in Bergman comedies such as Smiles of a Summer Night, has died in Stockholm on 8 February at age 87. Read the Guardian and Washington Post obituaries.

The first installment of a multi-part Bergman retrospective runs from 8 February to 4 March at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Washington. The schedule is available here.

The Göteborg International Film Festival presents an extensive Bergman festival from 1 January to 4 February 2008. Check their website for more information.

Alexander Ahndoril's 2006 novel Regissören, on Bergman's filming of Winter Light, is published in English as The Director in January 2008. Read Paul Binding's review in The Independent.

Fanny and Alexander gets a limited run at the IFC Center (2-17 January), and the Harvard Film Archive presents a nine-film tribute (11-14 January).