Clara Sola Best Film At 2022 Guldbagge Awards
Clara Sola, the debut feature by Costa Rican / Swedish filmmaker Nathalie Álvarez Mesen, was named Best Film at the 2022 Guldbagge Awards in Stockholm on Monday, celebrating outstanding achievements in the Swedish film industry.
With five wins, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Script, Clara Sola is a sensual tale about a withdrawn 40-year-old woman who experiences a sexual and mystical awakening as she begins a journey to free herself from the repressive religious and social conventions which have dominated her life.
Nathalie Álvarez Mesen said in her acceptance speech: “It’s wonderful that I get to be here among so many colleagues that I look up to. Thank you. I hope that this film encourages us to break this damn patriarchal legacy that we carry with us.”
“Thanks to everyone who read the script in the early stages and gave feedback. I feel that we have come a long way when it comes to diversity, but certain mechanisms have been required for this to happen and I hope that these will not disappear. Diversity is quality. Hurrah for Swedish Film!”
Here are the winnersof the 2022 Guldbagge Awards in full…
BEST FILM:
Clara Sola
Pleasure
Tigrar (Tigers)
Utvandrarna (The Emigrants)
Världens vackraste pojke (The Most Beautiful Boy In The World)
BEST DIRECTOR:
Nathalie Álvarez Mesén for Clara Sola
Gorki Glaser-Müller for Children of the Enemy
Ronnie Sandahl for Tigrar (Tigers)
Ninja Thyberg for Pleasure
BEST SCRIPT:
Nathalie Álvarez Mesén and Maria Camila Arias for Clara Sola
Manuel Concha for Suedi
Hogir Hirori for Sabaya
Jan Vierth for Apstjärnan (The Ape Star)
BEST ACTOR:
Mustapha Aarab for Vinterviken (JJ+E)
Erik Enge for Tigrar (Tigers)
Jonas Karlsson for Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton (A Christmas Tale)
Gustaf Skarsgård for Utvandrarna (The Emigrants)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Filip Berg for Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton (A Christmas Tale)
Daniel Castañeda Rincón for Clara Sola
Magnus Krepper for Vinterviken (JJ+E)
Jonay Pineda Skallak for Vinterviken (JJ+E)
BEST ACTRESS:
Lisa Carlehed for Utvandrarna (The Emigrants)
Wendy Chinchilla Araya for Clara Sola
Sofia Kappel for Pleasure
Cecilia Milocco for Knackningar (Knocking)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Sofia Helin for Utvandrarna (The Emigrants)
Liv Mjönes for Tigrar (Tigers)
Carla Sehn for Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton (A Christmas Tale)
Jennie Silfverhjelm for Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton (A Christmas Tale)
BEST EDITING:
Marie-Hélène Dozo for Clara Sola
Amalie Westerlin Tjellesen and Olivia Neergaard-Holm for Pleasure
Hanna Lejonqvist and Dino Jonsäter for Världens vackraste pojke
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Ellinor Hallin for Kören – en film om Tensta Gospel Choir
Marek Septimus Wieser for Tigrar
Sophie Winqvist Loggins for Clara Sola
BEST SOUND DESIGN:
Brian Dyrby and Kristoffer Salting for Världens vackraste pojke
Thomas Jæger for Knackningar
Erick Vargas Williams, Valène Leroy, Charles De Ville and Aline Gavroy for Clara Sola
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Anna von Hausswolff and Filip Leyman for Världens vackraste pojke
Lisa Nordström for Children of the Enemy
Johan Söderqvist for Utvandrarna
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
Alex Hansson and Torbjörn Olsson for Utvandrarna
Martin Malmqvist for Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton
Ronald Grauer for Clara Sola
BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Louize Nissen for Utvandrarna
Ingrid Sjögren for Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton
Amanda Wing Yee for Pleasure
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Elle Furudahl for Knackningar
Michael Higgins for Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton
Paula Loos for Pleasure
BEST MAKE-UP:
Eros Codinas and Love Larson for Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton
Therese Sandersson for Red Dot
Erica Spetzig for Pleasure