Nominees Dragon Award Best Nordic Film

Göteborg International Film Festival’s award for best Nordic film, Dragon Award Best Nordic Film, has a prize sum of one million SEK. The award is one of the biggest in the world and is distributed at the Dragon Awards Gala, on Saturday, 4 February. Here are the eight nominated films.

The acclaimed director Jessica Hausner will be leading the jury of the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film. Last year's winner of the Dragon Award Best Nordic Film and hence one million SEK was She Monkeys by Lisa Aschan.

Dragon Award Best Nordic Film is presented by Ernströmgruppen and is co-funded by Ernströmgruppen, Västra Götaland and the City of Gothenburg.

This year's nominated films are:

Avalon
Directed by: Axel Petersén (Sweden)

Either Way
Directed by Hafstein Gunnar Sigurdsson (Iceland)

The Orheim Company
Directed by: Arild Andresen (Norway)

Sons of Norway
Directed by Jens Lien (Norway)

Flicker
Director: Patrik Eklund (Sweden)

Teddy Bear
Director: Mads Matthiesen (Denmark)

Stars Above
Directed by Saara Cantell (Finland)

She Male Snails
Directed by Esther Martin Bergsmark (Sweden)