Dutch-born filmmaker Malou Reymann picked up the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at the Göteborg Film Festival Saturday evening with her second feature Unruly.
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The Göteborg Film Festival has unveiled the 53 Nordic Films that will take part in the latest edition of the Nordic Film Market, running February 2 – 5. Scroll down for the list.
The line-up consists of 17 completed feature films, 15 works in progress, 11 films in development presented at the market’s co-financing platform Discovery, and another 10 features in development from up-and-coming Swedish creators at Talent to Watch.
The 2023 edition of Nordic Film Market will comprise a full on-site event in Göteborg alongside digital screenings on the festival’s dedicated industry platform. This year the festival has said close to 500 invited buyers, distributors, sales agents, producers, festival programmers, and other key industry delegates from 32 countries are expected to attend.
Elsewhere, the 17th edition of the TV Drama Vision summit will run February 1–2.
Göteborg will run January 27 – February 5. As previously announced, Holy Spider breakout Zar Amir Ebrahimi will head the jury of the festival’s Nordic Competition. Ebrahimi will be joined on the jury by Danish actress Sofie Gråbøl (The Killing), Ukrainian filmmaker Antonio Lukich (Luxembourg, Luxembourg), and composer Matti Bye.
Works in Progress 2023A Happy Day (Norway), directed and produced by Hisham Zaman, Snowfall CinemaB.O.Y. (Denmark), directed by Søren Green, produced by Pelle Folmer and Morten Holst, Asta FilmChildren of the Lowest Heaven (Denmark), directed by Birgitte Stærmose, produced by Lise LenseMøller, Magic Hour FilmsCold (Iceland), directed by Erlingur Thoroddsen, produced by Heather Millard and SigurjónSighvatsson, Compass Films, Eyjafjallajökull EntertainmentComeback (Finland), directed by Petri Kotwica, produced by Aleksi Bardy, Helsinki Filmi
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