48:e festivalen 24 jan - 2 feb, 2025
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Eight Films in the Nordic Competition

Dragon Award Best Nordic Film offers a prize sum of SEK 400 000.

48:e festivalen
24 Jan -
2 Feb, 2025

For the 34th time, Göteborg Film Festival will hand out the award for best Nordic film, Dragon Award Best Nordic Film. All in all, eight films are included in the competition, which offers a prize sum of SEK 400 000 (approx. 39 000 €) that is handed out in cooperation with Region Västra Götaland and the City of Gothenburg.

This year’s nominees are:

So Damn Easy Going

Christoffer Sandler

Teenager falls in love at first sight and saves in on her ADHD medication in imaginative drama comedy fully packed with passion and Göteborg romanticism.

Compartment No.6

Juho Kuosmanen

Recently dumped Finnish archaeology student on trip to Murmansk shares a compartment with a vodka-soused roughneck in an irresistible romantic drama.

Maya Nilo (Laura)

Lovisa Sirén

Lovisa Sirén makes her feature film debut with a delightfully messy road movie where two sisters and a teenager daughter fight their way from Stockholm through Europe to Portugal.

Excess Will Save Us

Morgane Dziurla-Petit

Eccentric family in the countryside spread chaos and conflict in nutty, humorous feature film debut, where dreams of becoming a film star in Clermont-Ferrand meet terrorist threats among tractors and chickens for slaughter.

The Innocents

Eskil Vogt

Harmless pranks transform into nightmarish cruelty in perfectly excuted thriller about rival playmates with paranormal abilities.

Heartbeast

Aino Suni

Throbbing teenage hearts and pulsating beats in alluring, hallucinatory psychological drama about love and obsession.

As In Heaven

Tea Lindeburg

Concentrated and award-winning drama that with visual punch portrays a fateful summer day and night in 19th century farming society.

Lamb

Valdimar Jóhannsson

Twisted imagery magic in modern fairy tale where Noomi Rapace’s sheep farmer longing for a child experiences a strange miracle.

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