Paola Cortellesi’s Italian comedy-drama There’s Nonetheless Tomorrow received two prizes on the Norwegian Worldwide Movie Competition Haugesund, which closes its 52nd version at present (Friday, August 23).
Cortellesi’s movie, which debuted at Rome Movie Competition final yr, took the Viewers Award, and the €30,000 Eurimages Audentia Award, which goals to advertise larger gender equality within the movie trade.
Scroll down for the complete checklist of Haugesund winners
Set in postwar Nineteen Forties Italy, There’s Nonetheless Tomorrow follows a lady breaking household traditions after receiving a mysterious letter. The movie was a field workplace smash hit in its residence nation, taking €37m and nonetheless in cinemas now after an preliminary October 2023 launch.
The Haugesund jury credited the “touching and intense” story, noting that “the opening scene takes maintain of you, each with humour and violence.”
The Ray of Sunshine Award, given to a movie that ‘excites and spreads essentially the most pleasure’ based on the pageant, was awarded to Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson’s The Final Journey, a documentary in regards to the famend Swedish TV duo’s journey to France in an effort to rekindle Filip’s father’s zest for all times.
Within the Nordic Co-production Market trade platform, Naima Mohamud’s Halima received the perfect challenge award, together with a €3,500 in-kind grant and invitation to take part within the Cannes Producers Community.
Produced by Jani Poso and Anita Hypponen for Finland’s It’s Alive Movies, Halima sees a 10-year-old Somali lady struggling to make mates in Nineteen Nineties Finland, as her household strikes too regularly.
An NOK 20,000 (€1,697) Subsequent Nordic Era Award was introduced to Candace Hui Wing Ki’s Tape as the perfect commencement movie from the Nordic movie colleges, with a particular point out for Tobias Klemeyer Smith’s No matter Metropolis.
The pageant will shut with Einar Ingebretsen’s mother-daughter drama Sufficient.
Norwegian Worldwide Movie Competition Haugesund 2024 winners
Viewers Award – There’s Nonetheless Tomorrow (It) dir. Paola Cortellesi
Ray of Sunshine Award – The Final Journey (Swe) dirs. Filip Hammar, Fredrik Wikingsson
Nordic Co-Manufacturing Market Greatest Mission Award – Halima (Fin) dir. Naima Mohamud
Audentia Award – There’s Nonetheless Tomorrow (It) dir. Paola Cortellesi
Subsequent Nordic Era Award – Tape, dir. Candace Hui Wing Ki; particular point out: No matter Metropolis, dir. Tobias Klemeyer Smith
