Eight films are nominated for the Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary. The winner receives services from the post production company Chimney for a value of SEK 250 000 (approx. 24 000 €) which makes the award one of the largest in the Nordic countries for documentary film.
The nominees are:
Simon Lereng Wilmont
Delicate and up-close in a masterful portrayal of the children and life at a special orphanage in eastern Ukraine where the staff do everything they can to create the sense of security missing beyond the walls.
Thomas Jackson
Nature comes alive in a stunningly beautiful story about the Sámi worldview and mythology, but also about the acute challenges of today, portrayed through the artist Britta Marakatt-Labba’s work and life story.
Tania Anderson
Mormons on a mission, who in their zeal to get others to discover the Word of God, find themselves in a religious coming-of-age story from one of the world’s most hard-to-convert nations.
Jesper Dalgaard
Danish "dansband" king with family trauma acts as a personal savior in an emotional journey into a magical musical universe where heart always comes with heartache and music is better than therapy.
Marta Dauliute, Viktorija Šiaulyte
Visionary ideas for the future take shape in an exclusively neoliberal collective in central Stockholm where entrepreneurship has come to be something far more than the implementation of a business idea.
Maud Nycander
Maud Nycander (Citizen Schein, GFF 2017) explores life’s great relationship puzzles in a warmingly human documentary about two adults who have decided to get a divorce as the only way to continue feeling love.
Inka Achté
Finnish family returns to Somaliland to dig for riches on inherited land in a finely polished documentary about entrepreneurial dreams, cultural clashes, and how it really is to sit on a gold mine.
Håvard Bustnes
Multifaceted and reflective portrayal of the #MeToo-accused Norwegian top-politician, Trond Giske, trying to reestablish his political career.
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