Scandinavian filmmakers Olga Krussenberg and Balder Ljunggren have acquired the Swedish Movie Institute’s Wild Card prize, of SEK 800,000 (£57,337) shared equally between them.
Wild Card helps not too long ago graduated administrators with growth funding for his or her debut function movie.
Krussenberg is chosen along with her challenge Late Blue Winter, wherein a person is pressured to decide on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard after being denied a European visa. Krussenberg has beforehand directed brief documentaries Slowly I Transfer in Your Route and Isblink, and graduated from the Royal Institute of Arts and Biskops Arno.
HDK-Valand graduate Ljunggren is chosen for Worldbuilding, a couple of development employee, nonetheless in love along with his ex-wife, who begins to see unusual figures and unexplained patterns on this planet. Ljunggren’s earlier work consists of brief movies That’s Amore and Rift, the latter of which competed at Gothenburg Movie Competition this yr.
The jury praised Krussenberg for “a visually gorgeous, charming and wistful story about one man’s battle to search out belonging in a spot the place the longer term has by no means been extra unsure”; whereas crediting Ljunggren for “a world as mysterious as life itself. It’s courageous. It’s stunning. It’s putting.”
The filmmakers have been introduced with their prizes at Stockholm Movie Competition’s Trade Days.
Earlier winners embrace Lisa Forslund, Andre Vaara and Angelica Ruffier in 2023; and Tess Quatri, Vangelis Kollias and Simone Norberg in 2022.
