After 10 days and 123 feature films, the 2018 Sundance Film Festival drew to a close on Saturday, awarding Denmark's The Guilty (Den skyldige) and Iceland's And Breathe Normally (Andið eðlilega) major honours at the closing ceremony. The World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award was presented to The Guilty, directed by Gustav Möller and co-written with Emil Nygaard Albertsen, which unfolds as a crime thriller taking place in real time in a local emergency call centre. Gustav Möller, said: "This was our first
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Alicia Vikander Dragon Speech Praises Sisterhood
Alicia Vikander returned to her old home town on Friday to be presented with the 2018 Nordic Honorary Dragon Award during the opening ceremony of the 41st Göteborg Film Festival (26th January - 5th February), where she underlined the importance of the #metoo campaign. Vikander opened by saying: "Göteborg Film Festival, you both trained and introduced me to the world of film, and this art form today is my passion. And it really feels like coming home, being here today." She then
Ruben Östlund’s The Square Confirmed For Oscar Race
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that Ruben Östlund’s The Square is among the five films nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. An Oscar nomination is just the latest accolade for The Square, which began collecting major awards with the Palme d'Or at Cannes last May. Since then it has won a record six European Film Awards, two Guldbagge Awards, and was nominated for a Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award. Ruben Östlund
Five Guldbagge Wins For The Nile Hilton Incident
During a gala ceremony hosted by Petra Mede (Bonus Family) on Monday at Cirkus in Stockholm, The Nile Hilton Incident was the big winner on the night with five wins at the 2018 Guldbagge Awards. Tarik Saleh's The Nile Hilton Incident, about a hotel murder that some very important people don't want solved, picked up five wins from its eight nominations with Best Film, Best Actor, Best Costume, Best Sound Design, and Best Set Design. Meanwhile, Amanda Kernell's debut feature Sami Blood,
Love & Order Dominates At Golden Venla Awards
Three-part drama Love & Order (Myrskyn jälkeen) dominated the Golden Venla Awards at the Finnish National Opera House on Friday, with wins for Best Drama, Best Director (Leea Klemola) and Best Script (Leea Klemola, Kaarina Hazard). Love & Order (Myrskyn jälkeen) stars Kaarina Hazard as Inspector Rauni Kolehmainen, who tries to keep the world from falling apart six months after a gigantic storm devastated Finland. It is the second drama to be co-written by Hazard and Klemola, and their previous collaboration,