Gothenburg Film Festival

Göteborg Film Festival (GFF), formerly Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF), known in English as the Gothenburg Film Festival, formerly Gothenburg International Film Festival, is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden and the largest film event in Scandinavia. When it was launched in 1979, it showed 17 films on 3 screens and had 3,000 visitors.

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Göteborg Film Festival
The Draken (Dragon) cinema, the main venue of the festival.
LocationGothenburg, Sweden
AwardsDragon Award Best Nordic Film, The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award, etc.
No. of filmscirca 450 films from 70 countries (in 2012), 10 theaters, and many other venues
Websitehttps://goteborgfilmfestival.se/

Today, the film festival takes place over 10 days each year at the end of January and beginning of February. In recent years an estimated 450 films from 60 countries annually have been screened for 115,000 visitors.[1] The film festival is an important market place for contractors in the movie industry.

Awards

As of 2022 the following prizes were awarded:[2]

Dragon Awards
  • Dragon Award Best Nordic Film (Nordiska filmpriset)
  • Dragon Award Best Acting (since 2019)
  • Audience Dragon Award Best Nordic Film – (Nordiska Filmpriset – Publikens val)
  • Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary (since 2013)
  • Dragon Award Best International Film
  • Honorary Dragon Award
  • Nordic Honorary Dragon Award
  • Dragon Award Best Swedish Short

Other awards
  • FIPRESCI Award
  • Sven Nykvist Cinematography Award, named for Sven Nykvist
  • The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award, named for Ingmar Bergman
  • Draken Film Award (since 2022, for a Swedish short film)
  • Audience Choice Award for Best Swedish Short
  • Angelo Award, the Swedish Church's award
  • Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, awarded by the Nordisk Film & TV Fond, secretariat to the Nordic Council[3]

Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film

The festival's main award is the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film, which can be won for feature film productions from the Nordic countries. The following films have received the award:[4]

Year English title Original title Director Country Ref
1989David or GoliathDavid eller GoliathAnne WivelNorway
Directed by Andrei TarkovskyRegi: Andrej TarkovskijMichal LeszczylowskiSweden
1990A Handful of TimeEn håndfull tidMartin AsphaugNorway
1991Dolly and Her LoverRäpsy ja Dolly eli Pariisi odottaaMatti IjäsFinland
1992Freud's Leaving HomeFreud flyttar hemifrånSusanne BierDenmark
1993Russian Pizza BluesMichael Wikke and Steen RasmussenDenmark
1994Spring of JoyGlädjekällanRichard HobertSweden
1995Cross My Heart and Hope to DieTi kniver i hjertetMarius HolstNorway
1996The AtlanticAtlantenKristian Petri, Jan Röed and Magnus EnquistSweden
1997Body TroopersJakten på nyresteinenVibeke IdsøeNorway
1998Tic TacDaniel AlfredsonSweden
1999Yearning for a LifeLusten till ett livChrister EngbergSweden
2000My Mother Had Fourteen ChildrenMin mamma hade 14 barnLars-Lennart ForsbergSweden
KnockoutAgneta Fagerström OlssonSweden
2001Cool and CrazyHeftig og begeistretKnut Erik JensenNorway
2002The BricklayerMurarenStefan JarlSweden
2003Noi the AlbinoNói albínóiDagur KáriIceland
2004Med kameran som tröst, del 2Carl Johan De GeerSweden
2005Frozen LandPaha maaAku LouhimiesFinland
2006Dark HorseVoksne menneskerDagur KáriIceland
2007DarlingDarlingJohan KlingSweden
2008Let the Right One InLåt den rätte komma inTomas AlfredsonSweden
2009The VisitorMuukalainenJukka-Pekka ValkeapääFinland
2010RTobias Lindholm and Michael NoerDenmark
2011She MonkeysApflickornaLisa AschanSweden
2012The Orheim CompanyKompani OrheimArild AndresenNorway
2013Before SnowfallFør snøen fallerHisham ZamanNorway
2014Letter to the KingBrev til KongenHisham ZamanNorway
2015In Your ArmsI dine hænderSamanou Acheche SahlstrømDenmark[5]
2016Land of MineUnder sandetMartin ZandvlietDenmark[6]
2017Sami BloodSameblodAmanda KernellSweden[7]
2018AmateursAmatörerGabriela PichlerSweden[8]
2019Queen of HeartsDronningenMay el-ToukhyDenmark[9]
2020Beware of ChildrenBarnDag Johan HaugerudNorway[10]

Dragon Award for Best Nordic Documentary
Year English title Original title Director Country Ref
2013Finnish Blood Swedish HeartLaulu koti-ikävästäMika RonkainenFinland
2014Pine RidgePine RidgeAnna EbornDenmark
2015The Look of SilenceThe Look of SilenceJoshua Oppenheimer[5]
2016Don JuanJerzy SladkowskiSweden[11]
2017The War ShowObaidah Zytoon, Andreas DalsgaardDenmark/Finland/Syria[12]
2018The Distant Barking of DogsOlegs krigSimon Lereng WilmontSweden[13]
2019TransnistraAnna EbornDenmark[14]
2020Colombia in My ArmsJenni Kivistö, Jussi RastasFinland, Norway, Denmark, France[15]
2022A House Made of SplintersБудинок зі скалокSimon Lereng VilmontFinland, Denmark, Ukraine, Sweden[16]

Festival program

The festival is made up of several film sections. Films are chosen in each category with the advice of a committee of film experts. Categories have included:

Animation featuring short and long animated films.

Documentaries

Debuts where debutees can be discovered.

Focus featuring a region or theme in focus for that year. In 2012 focus was on Arab film and the Arab Spring.

Festival Favorites is a selection of the most liked and prized films that have been shown at festivals throughout the world during the past year.

Five Continents showing films from all categories and unconditionally traveling the globe to find the best films.

Gala featuring great films, great directors, red carpets and Oscar nominees.

HBTQ – a collection of various films that all depict untraditional love or non-heterosexual roles.

Nordic Competition focusing on new Nordic feature-films competing for the festival's Nordic Film Prize (100,000 SEK).

Nordic Light including the best of the Sweden's four Nordic neighboring countries.

Swedish World Premiers with feature-films and documentaries being shown to general audiences for the first time.

Swedish Pictures often including circa 100 Swedish short-films.

Notes
  1. Info on the Festival site Archived 2008-01-24 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Here are the winners at Göteborg Film Festival 2022!". Göteborg Film Festival. 5 February 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  3. "About us". Nordisk Film & TV Fond. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  4. "Previous winners of Dragon Award Best Nordic Film". giff.se. Gothenburg Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2011-03-19. Retrieved 2011-08-10.
  5. "Best Nordic Film går till In Your Arms | Göteborg Film Festival". Archived from the original on 2015-02-02.
  6. Dragon Award winners GIFF 2016
  7. "Dragon Award winners GIFF 2017". Archived from the original on 2017-02-17. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  8. "Amateurs Wins Dragon Award Best Nordic Film 2018!". Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  9. "Dragon Award Best Nordic Film". Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  10. "Barn (2019)". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  11. "Don Juan (2015)". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  12. "Sámi Blood bags the world's largest film award at Göteborg". Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  13. "Amateurs wins the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at Göteborg". Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  14. "Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary". Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  15. "Göteborg picks Beware of Children as its winner". Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  16. "Här är vinnarna på Göteborg Film Festival 2022!" [Here are the winners at the Gothenburg Film Festival 2022!]. Göteborg International Film Festival (in Swedish). 5 February 2022. Retrieved January 25, 2023.

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