The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award

Ingmar Bergman was the honorary president of Göteborg Film Festival until his death in 2007. In cooperation with him, the festival established an international film award for “a debuting filmmaker who in their film treats an existential theme with a dynamic or experimental approach to the cinematic means of expression.” The presenting partners of the award are The Bergman Foundations, i.e. the Bergman Center on Fårö, the Ingmar Bergman Foundation and the Bergman Estate.

Previous winners

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Runner

Director: Marian Mathias

2023

Vera Dreams of the Sea

Director: Kaltrina Krasniqi

2022

Mama

Director: Li Dongmei

2021

Workforce

Director: David Zonana

2020

A Family Submerged

Director: Maria Alché

2019

Menina

Director: Cristina Pinheiro

2018

The Impossible Picture

Director: Sandra Wollner

2017

Lost And Beautiful

Director: Pietro Marcello

2016

The Lesson

Directors: Petar Valchanov, Kristina Grozeva

2015

A Street In Palermo

Director: Emma Dante

2014

Dog Flesh

Director: Fernando Guzzoni

2013

Corpo Celeste

Director: Alice Rohrwacher

2012

Blue Valentine

Director: Derek Cianfrance

2011

Can Go Through Skin

Director: Esther Roths

2010

Parque vía

Director: Enrique Rivero

2009

Solitary Fragments

Director: Jaime Rosales

2008

Red Road

Director: Andrea Arnold

2007

Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others

Director: Farshad Hashemi

2024