Gothenburg Film Festival

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Göteborg Film Festival
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The Draken (Dragon) cinema, the main venue of the festival.
Location Gothenburg, Sweden
AwardsDragon Award Best Nordic Film, The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award, etc.
No. of filmscirca 450 films from 70 countries (in 2012), 10 theaters, and many other venues
Website https://goteborgfilmfestival.se/

Göteborg Film Festival (GFF), formerly Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF), known in English as the Gothenburg Film Festival, formerly Gothenburg International Film Festival, is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden and the largest film event in Scandinavia. When it was launched on February 8, 1979, it showed 17 films on 3 screens and had 3,000 visitors.

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Today, the film festival takes place over 10 days each year at the end of January and beginning of February. In recent years an estimated 450 films from 60 countries annually have been screened for 115,000 visitors. [1] The film festival is an important market place for contractors in the movie industry.

Awards

As of 2022 the following prizes were awarded: [2]

Dragon Awards

Other awards

Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film

The festival's main award is the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film, which can be won for feature film productions from the Nordic countries. The following films have received the award: [4] [5] [6]

YearEnglish titleOriginal titleDirectorCountryRef
1989David or GoliathDavid eller GoliathAnne WivelNorway
Directed by Andrei TarkovskyRegi: Andrej Tarkovskij Michal Leszczylowski Sweden
1990 A Handful of Time En håndfull tid Martin Asphaug Norway
1991Dolly and Her LoverRäpsy ja Dolly eli Pariisi odottaa Matti Ijäs Finland
1992 Freud's Leaving Home Freud flyttar hemifrån Susanne Bier Denmark
1993Russian Pizza BluesMichael Wikke and Steen RasmussenDenmark
1994 Spring of Joy Glädjekällan Richard Hobert Sweden
1995 Cross My Heart and Hope to Die Ti kniver i hjertet Marius Holst Norway
1996The AtlanticAtlantenKristian Petri, Jan Röed and Magnus EnquistSweden
1997 Body Troopers Jakten på nyresteinenVibeke IdsøeNorway
1998 Tic Tac Daniel Alfredson Sweden
1999Yearning for a LifeLusten till ett livChrister EngbergSweden
2000My Mother Had Fourteen ChildrenMin mamma hade 14 barn Lars-Lennart Forsberg Sweden
KnockoutAgneta Fagerström OlssonSweden
2001Cool and CrazyHeftig og begeistret Knut Erik Jensen Norway
2002The BricklayerMuraren Stefan Jarl Sweden
2003 Noi the Albino Nói albínói Dagur Kári Iceland
2004Med kameran som tröst, del 2 Carl Johan De Geer Sweden
2005 Frozen Land Paha maa Aku Louhimies Finland
2006 Dark Horse Voksne mennesker Dagur Kári Iceland
2007 Darling Darling Johan Kling Sweden
2008 Let the Right One In Låt den rätte komma in Tomas Alfredson Sweden
2009 The Visitor MuukalainenJukka-Pekka ValkeapääFinland
2010 R Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer Denmark
2011 She Monkeys Apflickorna Lisa Aschan Sweden
2012 The Orheim Company Kompani Orheim Arild Andresen Norway
2013 Before Snowfall Før snøen faller Hisham Zaman Norway
2014 Letter to the King Brev til KongenHisham ZamanNorway
2015In Your ArmsI dine hænderSamanou Acheche SahlstrømDenmark [7]
2016 Land of Mine Under sandet Martin Zandvliet Denmark [8]
2017 Sami Blood Sameblod Amanda Kernell Sweden [9]
2018AmateursAmatörer Gabriela Pichler Sweden [10]
2019 Queen of Hearts Dronningen May el-Toukhy Denmark [11]
2020 Beware of Children Barn Dag Johan Haugerud Norway [12]
2021 Tigers TigrarRonnie SandahlSweden
2022As in HeavenDu som er i himlenTea LindeburgDenmark
2023 Unruly UstyrligMalou ReymannDenmark
2024 Mother, Couch Mother, CouchNiclas LarssonSweden
2025 When the Light Breaks Ljósbrot Rúnar Rúnarsson Iceland [6]

Dragon Award for Best Nordic Documentary

YearEnglish titleOriginal titleDirectorCountryRef
2013 Finnish Blood Swedish Heart Laulu koti-ikävästä Mika Ronkainen Finland
2014 Pine Ridge Pine Ridge Anna Eborn Denmark
2015 The Look of Silence The Look of Silence Joshua Oppenheimer [7]
2016Don JuanJerzy SladkowskiSweden [13]
2017 The War Show Obaidah Zytoon, Andreas DalsgaardDenmark/Finland/Syria [14]
2018 The Distant Barking of Dogs Olegs krigSimon Lereng WilmontSweden [15]
2019TransnistraAnna EbornDenmark [16]
2020Colombia in My ArmsJenni Kivistö, Jussi RastasFinland, Norway, Denmark, France [17]
2022 A House Made of Splinters Будинок зі скалокSimon Lereng VilmontFinland, Denmark, Ukraine, Sweden [18]
2023 Apolonia, Apolonia Lea GlobDenmark, Poland, France [19]

Festival program

The festival is made up of several film sections. Films are chosen in each category with the advice of a committee of film experts. Categories have included:

Animation featuring short and long animated films.

Documentaries

Debuts where debutees can be discovered.

Focus featuring a region or theme in focus for that year. In 2012 focus was on Arab film and the Arab Spring.

Festival Favorites is a selection of the most liked and prized films that have been shown at festivals throughout the world during the past year.

Five Continents showing films from all categories and unconditionally traveling the globe to find the best films.

Gala featuring great films, great directors, red carpets and Oscar nominees.

HBTQ – a collection of various films that all depict nontraditional love or non-heterosexual roles.

Nordic Competition focusing on new Nordic feature-films competing for the festival's Nordic Film Prize (100,000 SEK).

Nordic Light including the best of the Sweden's four Nordic neighboring countries.

Swedish World Premiers with feature-films and documentaries being shown to general audiences for the first time.

Swedish Pictures often including circa 100 Swedish short-films.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Göteborg International Film Festival". Filmfestival.org. Archived from the original on 2008-01-24. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  2. ↑ "Here are the winners at Göteborg Film Festival 2022!". Göteborg Film Festival. 5 February 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  3. ↑ "About us". Nordisk Film & TV Fond. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  4. ↑ "Previous winners of Dragon Award Best Nordic Film". giff.se. Gothenburg Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2011-03-19. Retrieved 2011-08-10.
  5. ↑ "Dragon Award Best Nordic Film". Göteborg Film Festival. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  6. 1 2 Ntim, Zac (2025-02-01). "Göteborg Film Festival: Rúnar Rúnarsson's 'When The Light Breaks' Wins Best Nordic Film". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 2025-03-15.
  7. 1 2 "Best Nordic Film går till In Your Arms | Göteborg Film Festival". Archived from the original on 2015-02-02.
  8. ↑ Dragon Award winners GIFF 2016
  9. ↑ "Dragon Award winners GIFF 2017". Archived from the original on 2017-02-17. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  10. ↑ "Amateurs Wins Dragon Award Best Nordic Film 2018!" . Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  11. ↑ "Dragon Award Best Nordic Film" . Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  12. ↑ "Barn (2019)". IMDb . Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  13. ↑ "Don Juan (2015)". IMDb . Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  14. ↑ "Sámi Blood bags the world's largest film award at Göteborg" . Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  15. ↑ "Amateurs wins the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at Göteborg" . Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  16. ↑ "Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary" . Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  17. ↑ "Göteborg picks Beware of Children as its winner" . Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  18. ↑ "Här är vinnarna på Göteborg Film Festival 2022!" [Here are the winners at the Gothenburg Film Festival 2022!]. Göteborg International Film Festival (in Swedish). 5 February 2022. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  19. ↑ "The winners at Göteborg Film Festival 2023". Göteborg International Film Festival. 5 February 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.

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