“The Final Resort,” directed by Maria Sødahl, gained the Dragon Award for Finest Nordic Movie on the Göteborg Movie Competition on Saturday night time.
The award comes with a whooping SEK 400,000 ($41,500) which, in line with the organizers, makes it one of many world’s largest movie prizes.
The jurors argued that Sødahl’s movie, which is a few household who expects an unique trip however as an alternative comes face-to-face with the cruel realities of a refugee disaster, “reveals how the callousness bred by ordinary cruelty diminishes us all, hollowing out {our relationships} – even with our companions and youngsters.”
The jury, headed by “The Act of Killing” director Joshua Oppenheimer and together with Fabrice Aragno, Lia Boysen, Sanna Lenken, and Gergely Pálos, added: “With pitch-perfect performances, a razor-sharp but nuanced script, and never a hint of sentimentality, the movie is a mirror wherein we see ourselves with devastating readability. If we refuse to confront our personal complicity within the cruelty unfolding round us proper now, the love we declare to stay by can’t save us – as a result of the compassion that underpins it’s conditional.”
The movie is bought by TrustNordisk. Sødahl, who’s Norwegian, beforehand directed Stellan Skarsgård and Andrea Bræin Hovig in well-received “Hope,” based mostly on a private story.
“My earlier movies are shamelessly autobiographical,” Sødahl informed Selection, arguing that her newest opens as much as a “extra complicated universe.”
“[It’s] a narrative the place our Scandinavian protagonists begin out as diplomatic humanists, till xenophobia leads them to behave with primal violence and paranoia. The suspense is powerful, and the gaze is unsentimental, in a narrative about us, for us and by us.”
Sweden’s Adam Lundgren – not too long ago noticed within the arthouse hit “The Ugly Stepsister” – gained a gender-neutral Finest Appearing award for “The Quiet Beekeeper,” which additionally opened the fest.
The jurors known as it a “brave, melancholic portrait of a life illuminated by longing and shadowed by loss – wherein the unstated carries extra weight than phrases. When vulnerability lastly dissolves the quiet façade, we’re supplied a fragile but profound catharsis: love, and grief.”
The movie additionally resonated with the viewers, claiming the Viewers Award.
Emilie Thalund’s “Weightless” gained the Fipresci Award and the Sven Nykvist Cinematography Award for Louise McLaughlin. In the meantime, Iván Blanco’s “Malandro Moon” gained Finest Nordic Documentary.
In the course of the occasion, the competition additionally spotlighted Noomi Rapace, who picked up the Nordic Honorary Dragon Award, and Polish director Agnieszka Holland (Honorary Dragon Award).
Rapace devoted the award to her son. “This award is a lot larger than me. There’re so many individuals behind me: My lecturers, my mentors, the folks round me,” she mentioned throughout the ceremony.
“I can’t talk about everybody, so I made a decision to talk about one particular person right now: my son Lev, who has been my closest witness and my truth-teller. Who has grounded me and guided me, and who has been the particular person I learnt from probably the most. He at all times holds me accountable, makes me wish to be braver and go additional.”
Yow will discover a full listing of awards right here:
Dragon Award Finest Nordic Movie
“The Final Resort” by Maria Sødahl
Dragon Award Finest Appearing
Adam Lundgren for “The Quiet Beekeeper”
Sven Nykvist Cinematography Award
Louise McLaughlin for “Weightless”
FIPRESCI Award
“Weightless” by Emilie Thalund
Viewers Dragon Award Finest Nordic Movie
“The Quiet Beekeeper” by Marcus Carlsson
Dragon Award Finest Nordic Documentary
“Malandro Moon” by Iván Blanco
The Ingmar Bergman Debut Award
“Bouchra” by Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki
Dragon Award Finest Worldwide Movie
“Calle Malaga” by Maryam Touzani
Youth Jury Dragon Award
“My Father’s Shadow” by Akinola Davies Jr.
Draken Movie Award
“Uncle Ali and I” by Shahab Mehrabi
Honorary Dragon Award
Agnieszka Holland
Nordic Honorary Dragon Award
Noomi Rapace
Startsladden – Finest Swedish Brief
“All That Stays of Me” by Christer Wahlberg
Startsladden Cinematography Award
Christine Leuhusen for “With out Kelly”
Startsladden – Viewers Award
“All That Stays of Me”
The Church of Sweden Angelos Movie Award
“The Patron” by Julia Thelin.
The Nordic Collection Script Award
Ingeborg Topsøe, author of “Secrets and techniques We Preserve”
Inventive Braveness Award
“Blood Cruise,” produced by Alexander Rönnberg from Northern Fableand and Will Tennant from Imaginarium Productions and commissioned by Johanna Gårdare and Sonja Nilsson Hermele from SVT.
Nordic Movie Market Awards
“Out of Athens” by Badrudin Ga’ur
“Chentian” by Suha Arraf
