Runar Runarsson’s Icelandic function When The Mild Breaks headed the winners on the 48th Goteborg Movie Competition, taking the Dragon Award for Finest Nordic Movie.
Runarsson’s movie, which opened the Cannes Un Sure Regard sidebar in Could final yr, acquired the 400,000 SEK ($36,046) Goteborg prize.
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The jury awarded the movie “for its masterfully calibrated mise-en-scene, its sensitivity and delicate lightness, its director’s unexpectedly uplifting therapy of grief, acutely portrayed by an ideal younger ensemble.”
A particular point out went to Sylvia Le Fanu’s My Everlasting Summer time.
Eirik Svensson’s Secure Home, which had its world premiere because the pageant’s opening movie, acquired the viewers award.
Andrea Braein Hovig received the Dragon Award for Finest Performing, for her function in Dag Johan Haugerud’s Love, with the jury crediting “a most refined, complicated efficiency, but so highly effective in its restraint; and for portraying an intricately layered, unapologetic feminine character.”
Additional Goteborg awards included the 250,000 SEK ($22,529) finest documentary prize, to Victoria Verseau’s Trans Memoria; and the Ingmar Bergman Worldwide Debut Award, to Denise Fernandes’ Swiss-Portuguese drama Hanami, a Locarno 2024 premiere.
Adam Elliot’s stop-motion animation Memoir Of A Snail received one of the best worldwide movie prize.
The awards have been introduced in a ceremony in Goteborg this night (Saturday, February 1), with the 10-day pageant closing on Sunday.
Beforehand introduced awards embody honorary prizes to Julie Delpy and Thomas Vinterberg; plus Nordic Movie Market trade prizes to Zar Amir Ebrahimi’s Honor Of Persia and Miia Tervo’s You Loopy Factor.
Goteborg Movie Competition 2025 winners
Finest Nordic Movie – When The Mild Breaks, dir. Runar Runarsson
Particular point out – My Everlasting Summer time, dir. Sylvia Le Fanu
Viewers award – Secure Home, dir. Eirik Svensson
Finest Performing – Andrea Braein Hovig for Love
Fipresci award – The Lady With The Needle, dir. Magnus von Horn
Finest Nordic documentary – Trans Memoria, dir. Victoria Verseau
Worldwide Debut award – Hanami, dir. Denise Fernandes
Finest worldwide movie – Memoir Of A Snail, dir. Adam Elliot
