Rúnar Rúnarsson’s ‘When the Light Breaks’ Triumphs at Göteborg

Outstanding Icelandic auteur Rúnar Rúnarsson who was Oscar-nominated in 2006 for his brief movie “The Final Farm,” was handed out the Göteborg Movie Pageant’s hefty SEK400,000 ($36,000) Dragon Award for Greatest Nordic Movie for his fourth characteristic “When the Gentle Breaks” at tonight’s closing gala of the competition’s forty eighth version.

Shot in 16mm, the delicate coming-of-age drama starring Elín Corridor (“Chilly”, “Let Me Fall”) world premiered final Could because the opening movie of the Cannes Movie Pageant’s Un Sure Regard part.

The story activates Una, a younger artwork scholar who encounters love, friendship, sorrow and sweetness throughout on an extended summer time day in Iceland. The jury for Greatest Nordic Movie together with filmmakers Ella Lemhagen, Philippe Lesage, Athina Rachel Tsangari, cinematographer JP Passi and actor Frida Gustavsson, mentioned the movie was awarded the competition’s high prize “for its masterfully calibrated mise en scène, its sensitivity and delicate lightness, its director’s unexpectedly uplifting remedy of grief, acutely portrayed by an ideal younger ensemble.”

The movie produced by Iceland’s Compass Movies, the Netherlands’ Revolver Amsterdam, Croatia’s MP Movie and France’s Jour de Fête was offered by The Occasion Movie Gross sales practically worldwide.

One other coming-of age drama about grieving, set in the course of the summer time -“My Everlasting Summer season” by Sylvia Le Fanu was the second alternative from the Nordic Movie jury who praised the helmer for a vastly promising debut, a each private, delicate and fantastically crafted movie that doesn’t pressure drama or impact.” Dealt with worldwide by TrustNordisk, the characteristic produced by Adomeit Movie screened earlier in San Sebastian.

The competition’s opener “Protected Home” by Norway’s Eirik Svensson picked up the Viewers Dragon Award for Greatest Nordic Movie. The suspense drama relies on the true occasions that unfolded throughout 15 tense hours at a Docs With out Borders hospital in Bangui on Christmas Eve, 2013.The gender-neutral appearing award went to Norway’s Andrea Bræin Hovig for her position as Marianne who explores her sexuality and informal intimacy in Dag Johan Haugerud’s “Love”.

Hovid was praised for her “most delicate, complicated efficiency, but so highly effective in its restraint; and for portraying an intricately layered, unapologetic feminine character.”

“Intercourse” which world premiere on the Venice Movie Pageant 2024 the place it gained the critics’ Bisato d’oro award is a part of Haugerud’s trilogy movies “Intercourse, Goals, Love”.

The Oscar-nominated “The Woman with the Needle” by Magnus von Horn, first showcased in Cannes’ essential competitors gained over the jury if the Fipresci Award who mentioned: “The movie’s director demonstrates absolute mastery of the shape. We award this movie for its camerawork, the bizarre music, the compelling setting and manufacturing design that turns into a personality in itself, nice performances and dialogs.

This movie places into proof the feminine scenario and the need for feministic battle. It additionally reveals us the way to stay an individual of integrity in devilish surrounding and darkness, emphasised by the black and white photos.”  The visually beautiful psychological drama starring Trine Dyrholm is the primary Danish pic for the Gothenburg-born von Horn.

Within the documentary part, the highest prize value SEK 250,000 ($22,500) award went to the Swedish/French “Trans Memoria” by Victoria Verseau, the director’s personal private expertise of transition achieved in Thailand. “The director tells a private and courageous story in an sudden and chic method,” mentioned the jury which praised Verseau’s “honesty, delicate method, and charming work with the characters from the very first moments. “The visible part doesn’t merely accompany the story however turns into an integral a part of it, reflecting the internal world of each the protagonists and the director. The movie is a poetic meditation, during which the director explores and re-enacts a traumatic expertise in quest of love, a misplaced buddy, and acceptance,” they mentioned.

Within the debut class, rising expertise Denise Fernandes was awarded the celebrated Ingmar Bergman Interntional Debut for “Hanami,” described as daring and exquisite movie, that’s unattainable to suit into the constructions of standard storytelling. It embraces the pure artistry of filmmaking and a singular cinematic language. With nuance and tenderness, this movie captures pleasure and sorrow of on a regular basis life—illuminated by means of performances that convey forth the deep, unstated bonds between moms, daughters, and the communities they weave collectively,” mentioned the jury together with administrators Dea Kulumbegashvili, Kaltrina Krasniqi, and Silje Riise Næss, chair of the board of The Bergman Property, Norway. Fernandez first showcased her movie because the Locarno Movie competition the place she gained greatest rising director-Filmmakers of the Current and a particular point out from the primary characteristic competitors.

Amid a sturdy Worldwide competitors lineup, the Oscar-winning Australian cease movement animator took dwelling the SEK 50,000 prize for his tragicomedy “Memoir of a Snail”. “With nuance and tenderness, this movie captures pleasure and sorrow of on a regular basis life, illuminated by means of performances that convey forth the deep, unstated bonds between moms, daughters, and the communities they weave collectively,” mentioned the jury.

Elsewhere, the Draken Movie Award went to Clara Vida’s brief movie “Household.”

Earlier accolades had been handed out to Julie Delpy, named Honorary Dragon Award recipient, and Thomas Vinterberg, Nordic Honorary Dragon Award winner.

The Startsladden greatest brief movie was awarded to Viktor Johansson for his movie ”True Artist”, the Startsladden Viewers Award to Cows by Jakob Márky and Kasper Häggström.

Additionally awarded earlier from the Swedish Church was Fanny Ovesen for her debut pic “Dwell A Little”.

Commenting on the competition, which had a rocky begin when Swedish Tradition Minister Parisa Liljestrand made a controversial speech as reported earlier, CEO Mirja Wester mentioned: “It’s been a rollercoaster for us. I used to be taken without warning and we might relatively have used our time to debate the movies, however speaking about movie politics can also be essential,” she mentioned.

First timer in her position as inventive director Pia Lundberg added: “Sure our Tradition Minister’s speech disrupted the primary few days of the competition because it was the speak of the city. However all in all, it’s been a incredible competition and a beautiful expertise for me to introduce the movies to the devoted Göteborg movie viewers.”