The Sundance Film Festival has begun unveiling its Jury and Audience Award winners for 2023.
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The Göteborg Film Festival has unveiled the competition titles selected for its 46th edition, which runs from January 27 – February 5. (Scroll down for the full list).
Göteborg is split into four competition strands. The main strand is the Nordic Competition, which features nine films from the Nordic region. The competition’s winner takes home the Dragon Award and a SEK 400 000 ($38,000) cash prize. The rest of the festival comprises the Nordic Documentary Competition, the Ingmar Bergman Competition for first-time filmmakers, and the International Competition.
Among the Nordic highlights is Swedish filmmaker Isabella Carbonell’s thriller Dogborn, starring Swedish rap star Silvana Imam. The pic debuted at Venice last year and follows two homeless twins and their struggle to survive. Hlynur Pálmason’s well-received period piece Godland also screens in competition. Set in the late 19th Century, the drama revolves around a young Danish priest who travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. The deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, mission, and morality.
Other stand-out titles include Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, which pops up in the International Competition, and Mia Engberg’s latest Hypernoon in the Documentary Competition. Engberg is best known internationally for her popular 2013 doc Belleville Baby.
Today it was also announced that Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell will receive this year’s Nordic Honorary Dragon Award. Troell is best known for his two major Swedish language works, The Emigrants (1971) and its sequel, The New Land (1972). The two films follow a farming family that leaves the barren Swedish countryside for America in the 19th
The Sundance Film Festival has begun unveiling its Jury and Audience Award winners for 2023.
GRAND JURY AWARDS – FEATURESNarrative Feature Grand Jury Prize: Waiting for the Light to Change (Dir. Linh Tran)Honorable Mention: Where the Road Leads (Dir. Nina Ognjanović)Documentary Feature Grand Jury Prize: Starring Jerry as Himself (Dir.
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