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When The Light Breaks, the latest film from Icelandic filmmaker Rúnar Rúnarsson, has won the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at this year’s Göteborg Film Festival. The award is the festival’s top competitive honor.

The award comes with a Sek 400,000 cash prize. The competition jury featured filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, cinematographer Jp Passi, filmmaker Ella Lemhagen, director Philippe Lesage, and actor Frida Gustavsson.

The jury said Rúnarsson’s film was chosen “for its masterfully calibrated mise en scène, its sensitivity and delicate lightness, its director’s unexpectedly uplifting treatment of grief, acutely portrayed by a perfect young ensemble.”

The flick debuted at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. The official synopsis reads: An accident plunges Iceland into national mourning, and for young art student Una, that fateful 24-hour day will change her life forever. She carries a secret, and while her friends find solace in community, Una...

“Honeytrap” will be like a skewed, tilted version of the more romantic films I’ve done before,” said the multi-awarded Danish writer-director Lone Scherfig to a packed audience of industry delegates Jan. 30, at the opening session of Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market Discovery program.

In an express on-stage interview, the triple Oscar-nominated helmer of “An Education,” said “Honeytrap” will be her first ever Swedish project, based on a script by Pelle Rådström, credited for Netflix’s “Black Crab” and the Swedish show “Pressure Point” which just picked up the Nordic Series Script Award in Göteborg.

“I felt the script (handed out to me by producer Rebecka Hamberger) had everything I love: a thriller element, love and humor. It’s set in the 60s, an era from my early childhood, that I’ve also portrayed in several works including in “An Education.” It’s super good and I’m very confident with it,...

Swedish screenwriter Pelle Rådström has won the first Nordic Series Script Award for his show Pressure Point.

The award, previously known as the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, was handed to Rådström this evening at the Göteborg Film Festival. The award comes with a Nok 200,000 cash prize.

The award jury featured Henriette Steenstrup, Actor and Screenwriter, Norway; Joanna Szymańska, Producer and CEO at SHIPsBOY, Poland; Linus Fremin, TV Critic and Creative Director at Make Your Mark, Sweden.

“In a time when authentic, brave storytelling is rare, Pressure Point stands out as a series that resonates with the intelligence of its audience,” the jury said in a statement. “Instead of simplifying complex human experiences, it delves deeply into themes of freedom of expression, criminal justice, and rehabilitation, presenting characters in a profoundly human way. Inspired by a real-life tragedy, it masterfully explores the consequences of good intentions going awry, challenging us...

Always a frontrunner, “Black Crab” scribe Pelle Rådström has won Göteborg’s Nordic Series Script Award for his screenplay of “Pressure Point,” a tense, involved and compelling three-part miniseries on the build up to murders which shook Sweden to its core.

The winner was announced at an awards ceremony on Jan. 28 during the Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision. Rådström’s Award comes with a cash prize of €17,000 ($), funded by the Nordisk Film & TV Fond.

The prize comes as relations between Sweden’s film-tv sector and its government have built to open hostility, with Göteborg Fest honorary president Ruben Östlund calling Sweden’s “culture policy” embarrassingly uneducated, after culture minister Parisa Liljestrand’s speech at Göteborg’s opening ceremony on Friday.

In such a context, the prize is also an endorsement of public broadcaster Svt’s support for a mini-series made with acute, nuanced intelligence which offers at...

What are the limits of art, of freedom of expression in the case of neo-Nazis expressing anti-democratic views? Can rehabilitation programs reduce crime?

Those are some of the pressing and relevant questions raised by the limited series “Pressure Point” (“Smärtpunkten”), for which Swedish scribe and creator Pelle Rådström is in the running for the Nordic region’s biggest screenwriter award – the Nordic Series Script Award. The three-part Svt series toplining David Dencik, Maria Sid (“All the Sins”), Martin Nick Alexandersson, Einar-Hugo Strömberg and Linus Gustafsson, is helmed by double Berlin Crystal Bear winner Sanna Lenken. Art & Bob produces with REinvent handling sales.

Famed for the Netflix thriller “Black Crab,” Rådström goes back in his series to true events that shook Sweden 26 years ago, when its legendary playwright Lars Norén and his producer Isa Stenberg staged the controversial play “7:3” in which the main characters were three long-term convicts, including two neo-Nazis.

The Göteborg Film Festival and Nordisk Film & TV Fond have announced the five inaugural Nordic Series Script Award nominees.

The nominated series are Families Like Ours, Money Shot, Pressure Point, Quisling, The School of Housewives.

The award was launched last year and comes with a Nok 200,000 cash prize. The jury for the Nordic Series Script Award is Henriette Steenstrup, Actor and Screenwriter, Norway; Joanna Szymańska, Producer and CEO at SHIPsBOY, Poland; Linus Fremin, TV Critic and Creative Director at Make Your Mark, Sweden.

This year the festival will also launch the Creative Courage Award to honor the producer and commissioner of a series that boldly pushes creative boundaries and embraces innovation.

Thomas Vinterberg’s “Families Like Ours,” “Pressure Point” from the writer of “Black Crab” and Erik Poppe’s “Quisling” count among nominations for a high-powered Göteborg Nordic Series Script Award, the biggest plaudit for TV screenwriting in Scandinavia.

Replacing the Göteborg Festival’s Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, the Script Award nominations also take in feminist porn comedy “Money Shot,” a Canneseries winner, and “The School of Housewives,” co-written and directed by Iceland’s Arnór Pálmi Arnarson, who helmed “The Minister,” starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson.

With regard to artistic ambition, ranging broadly in style from “Families'” near-future survival drama-thriller to “Pressure Point’s” nervy and compelling true-events recreation and “Quisling’s” boldly-told period drama, these three series explore modern-times horror.

“Families” charts an apocalypse that tears Denmark’s upper middle class apart across Europe and plunges them into a merciless and sometimes violent new world; “Pressure Point” plumbs neo-Nazism, “Quisling...

Noomi Rapace is a speed skater forced to take part in a civil war in an often tense yet mostly forgettable action film

There’s a civil war on in Sweden, and yet no one seems to know why. It’s gonna be a bad one, as imagined by the sporadically tense and consistently pointless Netflix thriller Black Crab, which sends the country into a state of dystopian devastation only five short years removed from the present. Brother has been pitted against brother, and yet the dividing lines between them remain hazy. At a glance, there’s no evident rift of class, race or ideology defining the sides in this conflict. No one mentions what they have got against those bastards in the opposition, or the way of life they’re willing to die to preserve. That doesn’t have to be a problem; many soldiers marching off to fight...

Black Crab Trailer — Adam Berg‘s Black Crab / Svart krabba (2022) movie trailer has been released by Netflix. The Black Crab trailer stars Noomi Rapace, Jakob Oftebro, Erik Enge, Dar Salim, Ardalan Esmaili, Aliette Opheim, and David Dencik. Crew Adam Berg and Pelle Rådström wrote the screenplay for Black Crab. Kristofer Nordin conducted the [...]

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