21/11/2011

Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st [+see also:
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Nominated for this year’s Nordic Council Film Prize, Oslo, August 31st was launched in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, received the Critics’ Award at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund and has since been presented, among others, in Toronto. Scripted by Eskil Vogt, and starring Anders Danielsen Lie as a man in a deep existential crisis, the Sigve Endresen-Hans Jørgen Otnes production follows ”one man, in one city, for 24 hours”.

Swedish director Lisa Aschan and producer Anna Maria Kantarius left with the festival’s largest hand-out, the €500,000 scholarship for the next feature from a female director at the beginning of her career. Aschan (She Monkeys [+see also:
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”A bold and original vision for a mind-bending and stunningly current film that begs to be made now, now, now,” said the jury. Scripted by the playwrights, the result will open in next year’s festival and be distributed in Scandinavia and the Baltics by Sweden’s NonStop Entertainment. – Festival director Git Scheynius’ programme for the 22nd edition of the Stockholm fest included 173 films from 44 countries.

FULL LIST OF AWARDS

Best Feature: Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st

Best Directorial Debut: UK director Paddy Considine (for Tyrannosaur [+see also:
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Best Original Screenplay: Nadine Labaki, Thomas Bidegain, Jihad Hojeily, Rodney Al Haddi (for Lebanese director Nadine Balaki’s Where Do We Go Now?

Best Actress: Yohanna Idha (for Swedish director Levan Akin’s Certain People)

Best Actor: Sergei Boriskov (for Russian director Angelina Nikonova’s Twilight Portrait)

Best Cinematography: Jakob Ihre (for Oslo, August 31st)

Best Musical Score: Khaled Mouzannar (for Where Do We Go Now?)

Best Short: Hungarian director Attila Till’s Beast

The FIPRESCI Prize: Swedish director Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy [+see also:
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The Stockholm Film Fund - €500,000 for Swedish director Lisa Aschan and producer Anna Maria Kantarius (for The Deposit)

The Telia Film Award: UK director Simon Arthur’s Silver Tongues

The Stockholm Silver Audience Award: US director Jonathan Levine’s 50/50 [+see also:
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The 1km Film Award: Swedish director Gustav Danielsson’s The Twin

The Jameson ifestival/First Prize: Canadian director Stephanie Dudley’s Little Theatres: Homage to the Mineral of Cabbage

Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award 2011: French actress Isabelle Huppert

Stockholm Visionary Award 2011: Mexican director Gonzáles Iñárritu

L’Oréal Paris Rising Star 2011: Swedish actress Malin Buska