Crossing si aggiudica il primo premio ai Guldbagge Awards
di Jan Lumholdt
- Levan Akin ha ottenuto un'altra vittoria come miglior film, battendo il favorito del pubblico, The Last Journey di Filip Hammar e Fredrik Wikingsson

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Crossing [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Levan Akin
scheda film] is the story of a retired history teacher and a hapless teenager in a backwater Georgian town, who form an unlikely alliance and go off to Istanbul in search of a wayward (trans) niece, very probably caught in the web of prostitution. The film, written and directed by Levan Akin, already made a mark when it opened the 2024 Panorama section and went straight on to win the Teddy Award at the 74th Berlinale. It has since been sold to over 50 territories and performed handsomely on the MUBI streaming platform. On Monday night at the national Swedish film awards ceremony, it scored Best Film, Best Director and, in all, four Guldbagge (“Golden Beetle”) Awards, the same total as Akin’s previous outing five years ago, the lauded and equally well-performing And Then We Danced [+leggi anche:
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Akin’s classically crafted arthouse piece thus managed to beat out what’s become the Swedish box-office wonder of 2024, The Last Journey [+leggi anche:
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Other favoured works included Ernst De Geer’s Göteborg- and Karlovy Vary-playing The Hypnosis [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Asta Kamma August
intervista: Ernst De Geer
scheda film], a highly Rubenesque (as in Östlund, not the Flemish Baroque painter) exercise in awkward social studies, which picked up the Best Screenplay Award and the two male acting gongs. Frida Kempff’s Toronto-entered The Swedish Torpedo [+leggi anche:
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The 2025 Guldbagge ceremony marked the 60th anniversary of the event, highlighted by the presence of a number of previous winners, a special royal address by HRH Prince Daniel and, not least, a Lifetime Achievement Award for director Lasse Hallström, celebrating seven decades in the business and still running. Despite ignoring Ingmar Bergman’s warning about spending too much time at the Hollywood “meat factory” (where he’s had some notable success), the director of national gems like ABBA: The Movie and My Life as a Dog still retains the deep affection of the Swedish audience and industry alike.
Best Film
Crossing [+leggi anche:
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Best Director
Levan Akin – Crossing
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Bianca Kronlöf – Heartbeat (Sweden)
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Herbert Nordrum – The Hypnosis [+leggi anche:
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Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Eva Melander – Trouble (Sweden)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
David Fukamachi Regnfors – The Hypnosis
Best Screenplay
Ernst De Geer, Mads Stegger – The Hypnosis
Best Cinematography
Lisabi Fridell – Crossing
Best Editing
Orvar Anklew, Kalle Lindberg – Avicii – I'm Tim (Sweden/USA)
Best Costumes
Eugene Tamberg – The Swedish Torpedo [+leggi anche:
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Best Sound/Sound Design
Anne Gry Friis Kristensen, Sigrid DPA Jensen – Crossing
Best Make-up
Kaire Hendrikson – The Swedish Torpedo
Best Original Score
Lisa Montan - JerryMaya's Detective Agency – The Lost Mascot (Sweden)
Best Set Design
Elle Furudahl – The Swedish Torpedo
Best Visual Effects
Sami Haartemo, Mikko Löppönen, Teemu Pitkänen, Ville Pätsi, Jacob Danell – The Swedish Torpedo
Best Documentary Film
The Last Journey [+leggi anche:
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Best Short Film
The Building and Burning of a Refugee Camp – Dennis Harvey (Sweden)
Lifetime Achievement Award
Lasse Hallström
The Gullspira (for achievements in children’s film)
Johanna Bergenstråhle
The Guldpiga (for emerging talents)
Loran Batti, director of G - 21 Scenes from Gottsunda (Sweden/Denmark)
The Guldbagge Audience Award
The Last Journey - Filip Hammar, Fredrik Wikingsson
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