Sakaris Stora’s The Final Paradise On Earth has change into the primary Faroese movie to win the distinguished Nordic Council Movie Prize.
The Faroe Islands’ first-ever submission to the award receives the DKK 300,000 ($46,811) prize, shared between director, writers, and producer.
It was chosen by a jury of Heidi Hilarius-Kalkau Philipsen, Jan Berg Jorgensen, Marjo Pipinen, Klaus Georg Hansen, Jona Finnsdottir, Anne Gjeldsvik, and jury chair Jonas Holmberg.
The Final Paradise On Earth follows a person dwelling a easy life in a small village on an remoted island. When the fish manufacturing facility that gives the island’s solely supply of revenue faces closure, he decides to remain and face the challenges head-on.
The movie is written by Tommy Oksen, Mads Stegger and Stora, and produced by Jon Hammer, all of whom share the prize. Manufacturing firms are Adomeit Movie and Kykmyndir.
It was the primary movie ever shot on the distant Faroese island of Suduroy; and had its world premiere within the Nordic Mild strand at Goteborg Movie Competition in January.
The jury described The Final Particular person On Earth as “a movie that, past the query of staying or leaving one’s homeland, explores themes of private paralysis and ecological disaster. Advised with unsentimental authenticity, it captures frozen, quiet grief.”
The Movie Prize is one among a number of cultural awards from the Nordic Council that will probably be introduced on October 28 at Sweden’s Riksdag. The Faroe Islands are additionally represented by poet Vonbjort Vang, winner of the Literature Prize.
The opposite nominees for the 2025 Movie Prize had been My Everlasting Summer time, The Helsinki Impact, WALLS – Akinni Inuk, When The Mild Breaks, Desires and Israel Palestine On Swedish TV 1958-1989. This was the primary time within the two-decade historical past of the prize that it introduced seven nominees.
Final yr’s award went to Dag Johan Haugerud’s Intercourse.