Runar Runarsson’s Icelandic characteristic When The Gentle Breaks headed the winners on the 48th Goteborg Movie Pageant, taking the Dragon Award for Greatest Nordic Movie.
Runarsson’s movie, which opened the Cannes Un Sure Regard sidebar in Might final yr, obtained 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 remedy 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 Protected Home, which had its world premiere because the competition’s opening movie, obtained the viewers award.
Andrea Braein Hovig received the Dragon Award for Greatest Performing, for her position in Dag Johan Haugerud’s Love, with the jury crediting “a most refined, advanced 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 offered in a ceremony in Goteborg this night (Saturday, February 1), with the 10-day competition 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 Pageant 2025 winners
Greatest Nordic Movie – When The Gentle Breaks, dir. Runar Runarsson
Particular point out – My Everlasting Summer time, dir. Sylvia Le Fanu
Viewers award – Protected Home, dir. Eirik Svensson
Greatest Performing – Andrea Braein Hovig for Love
Fipresci award – The Woman With The Needle, dir. Magnus von Horn
Greatest Nordic documentary – Trans Memoria, dir. Victoria Verseau
Worldwide Debut award – Hanami, dir. Denise Fernandes
Greatest worldwide movie – Memoir Of A Snail, dir. Adam Elliot