When The Light Breaks, the most recent movie from Icelandic filmmaker , has received the Dragon Award for Greatest Nordic Movie at this 12 months’s Göteborg Movie Competition. The award is the competition’s prime aggressive honor.
The award comes with a SEK 400,000 ($36,000) money prize. The competitors jury featured filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, cinematographer JP Passi, filmmaker Ella Lemhagen, director Philippe Lesage, and actor Frida Gustavsson.
The jury stated Rúnarsson’s movie was chosen “for its masterfully calibrated mise en scène, its sensitivity and delicate lightness, its director’s unexpectedly uplifting therapy of grief, acutely portrayed by an ideal younger ensemble.”
The flick debuted finally 12 months’s Cannes Movie Competition. The official synopsis reads: An accident plunges Iceland into nationwide mourning, and for younger artwork scholar Una, that fateful 24-hour day will change her life ceaselessly. She carries a secret, and whereas her associates discover solace in neighborhood, Una should take care of her grief alone.
The competition’s gender-neutral appearing award was handed to Andrea Brœin Hovig for her position in Love, directed by Dag Johan Haugerud. The competition’s Ingmar Bergman Worldwide Debut Award was handed to Hanami by Denise Fernandes.
The Bergman award jury featured filmmakers Dea Kulumbegashvili, Kaltrina Krasniqi, and Silje Riise Næss, Chair of the Board of The Bergman Property. Discussing the movie they stated: “With nuance and tenderness, this movie captures pleasure and sorrow of on a regular basis life—illuminated by performances that carry forth the deep, unstated bonds between moms, daughters, and the communities they weave collectively.”
Memoir of a Snail by Adam Elliot received the Dragon Award for Greatest Worldwide Movie whereas Household by Clara Vida took the Draken Movie Award and Eirik Svensson’s Protected Home received the Viewers Dragon Award for Greatest Nordic Movie. Awards handed out earlier in the course of the competition embody honorary awards for Julie Delpy and Thomas Vinterberg and the Nordic Sequence Script Award was handed to Pelle Rådström, screenwriter of Strain Level.
