The juries of the 36th Göteborg International Film Festival!

On Saturday February 2 at Stora Teatern, Göteborg International Film Festival will host the annual Dragon Award Gala. During the night eight awards is handed out, amongst them one of the biggest film awards in the world - Dragon Award Best Nordic Film with a prize sum of 1 000 000 SEK (110 000 EUR)

Dragon Award Best Nordic Film

Eight films compete for the Dragon Award Best Nordic Film. The award is 1.000.000 SEK (110 000 EUR) and a Dragon Award statuette. The Award is sponsored by the Region of Västra Götaland, City of Gothenburg and Ernströmgruppen. This year’s nominated films.

Members of the jury

Samira Makhmalbaf
Chairwoman of the jury. At age 17 she became the youngest director ever to be chosen for Cannes film festival with her debut, The Apple. GIFF has previously screened her films Blackboards (2000) At five in the afternoon (2003) and Two-Legged Horse (2008).

Manuel AlbertoClaro
Danish cinematographer. Has shot a number of features, among them Dark Horse (winner of GIFF’s Best Nordic Film in 2006), Limbo, Melancholia and Lars von Trier’s new feature film Nymphomaniac.

Thor Sigurjonsson
Producer from Iceland. Co-founder of Zik Zak Filmworks in Iceland and Profile Picture in Denmark. Has produced more than 20 movies. Resents projects includes the Icelandic box office hit Black game.

Andrea Östlund
Swedish director. Directed several shorts and TV series. As appointed consultant for the Rookie programme for first time filmmakers, she made a special call for women directors, resulting in She Monkeys (Apflickorna), winner of Best Nordic Film 2011.

Timo Malmi
Programme director of Midnight Sun Film Festival, ”The Kaurismäki brothers’ festival”. Film critic since the 1970’s.

Christin Berg
Director of programming Oslo Kino AS, the largest Cinema Company in Norway.

The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award

Light nominated films. The award goes to ”a director making his or her debut with a film dealing with, in a broad sense, existential issues and displaying a dynamic or experimental awareness of the cinematic means of expression”. The award consists of one week’s stay at the Bergman Week at Fårö during the summer of 2013. Nominees 2013.

Members of the jury

Jannike Åhlund
Artistic Director of The Bergman Week. 2001-2007 she was the Artistic Director of Göteborg International Film Festival. She has been awarded the Swedish Grand Journalism Prize and the Ingmar Bergman Prize.

Maxine Williamson
Maxine is the creative head of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. She has over 10 years of experience in distribution and exhibition of foreign and independent films.

Volker Schlöndorff
Volker was one of the leading filmmakers behind the New German Cinema in the 1970s. Among many important films, he has directed The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (with Margarethe von Trotta) and The Tin Drum, the film won both Palm d’Or and an Oscar for best foreign language film in 1979.

Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary

Eight brand new Nordic documentarys are nominated for the new Dragon Award for Best Nordic Documentary. The nominees.

Members of the jury

Lena Einhorn
Author and director from Sweden. For her book Nina’s Journey, she received the prestigious August Prize in 2005. The film with the same name was awarded two National Guldbagge awards.

Mikel Cee Carlsson
Mikel has directed numerous award-winning short films and music videos as well as two feature length documentaries Greetings from the woods and The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of José González.

Katrine Kilgaard
Managing Director of Filmkontakt Nord and Head of nordisk Panorama, the annual festival and industry platform for Nordic shorts and documentaries.

The FIPRESCI prize

The international federation of film critics FIPRESCI gives its prestigious award to a Nordic film in competition.

Members of the jury

Alison Frank
She is a free lance film critic with a PhD from the University of Oxford. She is also associate editor of the journal Wide Screen.

Oscar Peyrou
Writer and film critic, who published four collections of shorts stories. Currently he is the president of the Spanish Association of Film Critics.

Katja Cicigoj
Free lance writer in the fields of film, contemporary visual and performing arts and theory. She regularly contributes to film magazines and radio stations.

Kodak Nordic Vision Award, Lorens Award and Audience Awards

Kodak Nordic Vision Award

Raw film at a value of SEK 50 000 (5 500 EUR), for best cinematography in a film competing for the Nordic Film Prize.

The Lorens Award
Stockholm Postproduction – Stopp – gives the producer award Lorens to one of the producers behind a Swedish production from 2012. The prize consists of free developing of the film for the winning producer's next production and is worth approximately SEK 500 000 (55 500 EUR).

The Audience Awards

Two additional prizes are awarded on Saturday evening, The Audience Award Best Nordic Film and Audience Award Best Feature Film.

More information
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