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Winners at Stockholm International Film Festival 2018

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 17 (Greenpost) -The winners of the 29th Stockholm International Film Festival where announced during an award ceremony at Social At Six in the Swedish capital. The festival’s big winner was the Canadian director Jasmin Mozaffari, whose feature debut Firecrackers was awarded the prestigious Bronze Horse for Best Film as well as the award for Best Actress. Vitaly Mansky’s documentary Putin’s Witnesses about the Russian president’s controversial rise to power received the Bronze Horse for Best Documentary. See all the winners below.

Best Film at Stockholm International Film Festival 2018: Firecrackers by Jasmin Mozaffari

The Brazilian director Beatriz Seigner was presented with this year’s Stockholm Impact Award for her supernatural refugee story Los Silencios. Stockholm International Film Festival and the City of Stockholm founded the award in 2015, and the winning director receives one million SEK and a unique statuette designed by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.

Actress Alba August was named 2018’s Stockholm Rising Star, and the director Julia Thelin won the short film scholarship 1 Km Film. Victor Polster won the award for Best Actor for his role in Girl, and Michaela Kurimsky won the award for Best Actress for her role in Firecrackers. The celebrated film Capernaum by Nadine Labaki won the award for Best Script.

Author and music journalist Ametist Azordegan hosted the awards ceremony, and the rapper Naod performed live on stage.

Winners at Stockholm International Film Festival 2018:

STOCKHOLM XXIX COMPETITION
Best Film: Firecrackers by Jasmin Mozaffari
Best Director: All good by Eva Trobisch
Best Debut: Skate Kitchen by Crystal Moselle
Best Script: Capernaum by Nadine Labaki, Jihad Hojeily, Michelle Keserwany, Georges Kabbaz and Khaled Mouzanar
Best Actor: Victor Polster for Girl
Best Actress: Michaela Kurimsky for Firecrackers
Best Cinematography: Hiroshi Okuyama for Jesus

STOCKHOLM XXIX DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Best Documentary: Putin’s Witnesses by Vitaly Mansky

Stockholm Impact AwardLos Silencios by Beatriz Seigner
Stockholm Rising Star: Alba August
Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award: Mary Harron
Stockholm Visionary Award: Asghar Farhadi
Stockholm Achievement Award: Gunnel Lindblom

STOCKHOLM XXIX SHORT FILM COMPETITION
Best Short Film: The Judgement by Raymund Ribay Gutierrez

1 KM FILM SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT: Julia Thelin
1 KM FILM HONORARY MENTION: Ernst De Geer

FIPRESCI Award for Best FilmCold War by Pawel Pawlikowski

Read more about this year’s jury members here: https://www.stockholmfilmfestival.se/sv/years-jury-members

Read all motivations here: https://bit.ly/2DHXOcL

This year’s Audience Award will be announced on Monday, November 19. In total, 17 awards have been presented during the 29th Stockholm International Film Festival.

Additional awards that have been presented during Stockholm International Film Festival are the Swedish Film Institute’s new initiative Wild Card, where Fanny Ovesen, Jerry Carlsson and Ernst De Geer have received 400 000 SEK each for the development of their first feature films. The Swedish Film Institute also presented the initiative Short Pitch, where filmmaker Disa Östrand won financial support for her next short film Badet.

Los Silencios, this year’s winner of the Stockholm Impact Award, will be screened on Saturday, November 17, at 7:00 pm at Klarabiografen. After the film, the press and public will have the opportunity to ask questions to the winning director, Beatriz Seigner.

The two-time winning film Firecrackers by Jasmin Mozaffari will be screened at Sture movie theater at 9:15 pm on Sunday, November 18.

2017 Stockholm International Film festival will be dedicated to late actor Michael Nyqvist

By Xuefei Chen Axelsson

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 21(Greenpost)–The 28th Stockholm Film Festival will be dedicated to Michael Nyqvist – one of Sweden’s greatest and most beloved actors, according to a press release from the festival press on Friday.

During the Stockholm International Film Festival, Nyqvist’s artistic legacy will be acknowledged with minute of silence as well as a show reel with highlights from his career together with members of Michael Nyqvist’s foundation that was started shortly after his passing.  As a part of the dedication, Denmark’s Oscar entry You Disappear by Peter Schønau Fog will have its Swedish premiere. The short film Vi by artist Ulf Rollof will be also be screened, both in which Michael Nyqvist act.

“Michael Nyqvist broke through in the early 2000’s with movies such as The Guy in the Grave Next DoorTogetherThe Millennium trilogy and We Can Be Heroes, which the Stockholm Film Festival screened in 2002″, according to the press release.

His career continued in Hollywood where he worked with prominent directors such as Brad Bird and Terrence Malick. Nyqvist was also an author and acted on stage.

” It’s just heartbreaking when an actor like Michael Nyqvist is no longer with us. We are eternally grateful for the film legacy he leaves ut with, that’s why we are dedicating this year’s festival to him,” said festival director Git Scheynius.

“Michael was a warm and curious person with an unshakable faith in the human spirit and the power of acting, we are incredibly thankful that The Stockholm Film Festival chooses to acknowledge Michael’s career by dedicating this year’s festival to him, ” said Thomas Perlmann who is the spokesperson for Michael Nyqvist’s Foundation.

The dedication will take place at Cinema Saga, Screen 1 on November 12th, 15:00, and is open to the festival’s audience.

The Stockholm International Film Festival takes place 8-19 November.

80 Directors and actors attending Stockholm Film Festival 2015

Stockholm, Nov. 2(Stockholm)–

Over 80 directors and actors from the international film industry are attending the 26th edition of the Stockholm Film Festival. Nearly all competing directors, all jury members and many others will be in Stockholm.

The jury for the Stockholm Impact Award is the artist Ai Weiwei, Director Ida Panahandeh, and Theatre director Linus Tunström.

For the Stockholm XXVI Competition the jury members are Producer Mimmi Spång, Director Peter Grönlund, Director Christian Zübert, and Director Arab Nasser. The Stockholm Documentary Competition jury consists of Film Critic Stefan Nylén, Director Alexandra Dahlström, and Director Matias Meyer. And for the Stockholm XXVI Short Film Competition, Actor Saga Becker, Director Alejandro Guzman Alvarez, and Director Takeshi Fukunaga.

Italy *
Erik Gandini Director The Swedish Theory of Love Sweden All days
STOCKHOLM IMPACT
Ai Weiwei Chairman of Impact jury China *
Lisa Aschan Director Det Vita Folket Sweden All days
Erik Matti Director Honor Thy Father Philippines *
Matias Meyer Director Yo Mexico 12
Yuval Delshad Director Baba Joon Israel *
Sterlin Harjo Director Mekko USA 12
Cyril Dion Director Tomorrow France 17
Leena Yadav Director Parched India *
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Mikael Marcimain Director Gentlemen & Gangsters Sweden All days
Ninja Thyberg Director Hingsten Sweden All days
Fia-Stina Sandlund Director She’s Wild Again Tonight Sweden All days
Avi Lewis Director This Changes Everything USA, Canada *
Naomi Klein Writer This Changes Everything USA, Canada *
OPEN ZONE
Mai Masri Director 3000 nights Jordan 16
Daniel Dencik Director Gold Coast Denmark 16
Xavier Giannoli Director Marguerite France 14
Olivier Delbosc Producer Marguerite France 14
Matteo Garrone Director Tale of Tales Italy, France, Great Britain *
AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS
Bob Byington Director 7 Chinese Brothers USA *
Charles Hood Director Night Owls USA 19
Daniel Alfredsson Director Go with me USA *
ASIAN IMAGES
Di Phan Dang Director Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories Vietnam *
Rubaiyat Hossain Director Under Construction Bangladesh *
Arab Nasser Director Dégradé United Arab Emirates 19
LATIN VISIONS
Jorge Forero Director Violence Colombia 12 & 13
Alejandro Guzmán Alvarez Director Walking Distance Mexico 16
Mariana Monroyl Producer Walking Distance Mexico 16
Jacques Toulemonde Director Anna France 18
Joshua Gil Director Evilness Mexico *
SPOTLIGHT
Caroline Kernen och Tova Kurkiala Medbo Director I jakt på ett bättre liv Sweden All days
Takeshi Fukunaga Director Out of My Hand USA, Liberia 17
Simon Rouby Director Adama France 17
Jakob Brossmann Director Lampedusa in Winter Austria *
Migueltxo Molina Ayestarán Director Walls Spain *
Christian Zübert Director One breath Germany *
TWILIGHT ZONE
Can Evrenol Director Baskin Turkey 14
Dietrich Brüggeman Director Heil Germany 15
Daniel di Grado Director Alena Sweden All days
Sergio Uguet de Resayre Producer Crumbs Spain, Ethiopia *
Won-Chan Hong Director Office South Korea *
Carlos Osuna Director With The Lips Closed Colombia *
STOCKHOLM XXVI SHORT FILM COMPETITION
Gabriel Sanson Director The Sheep of Erwin S. Belgium *
Ashley McKenzie Director 4 Quarters Canada *
Ninja Thyberg Director Boys & Girls Sweden All days
Ahmed Abdullahi Director Francis Sweden All days
Stefan Constantinescu Director Prologen Sweden All days
Teresa Kuhn Director Isabel In Winter Germany *
Nelson MacDonald och Ashley McKenzie Director 4 Quarters Canada *
1 KM FILM
Christine Berglund & Sophie Vukovic Director 09:55-11:05 Ingrid Ekman, Bergsgatan 4B Sweden All days
Nathalie Alvarez Director Vi känner inget alls Sweden All days
Lovisa Sirén Director Audition Sweden All days
Caroline Ingvarsson Director Under Rymdskeppet Sweden All days
Bahar Pars Director Rinkebysvenska Sweden All days
Marcus Lindeen Director Dear Director Sweden All days
Johan Tappert Director Flykten från enplansvillorna Sweden All days
Oliver Guerpillon Director IN/UT Sweden All days
Lars Persson Director Radioamatören Sweden All days
Victor Lindgren Director Jag vill nå dig Sweden All days
iFESTIVAL
Derya Durmaz Director Mother Virgin No More Turkey *
Hanna Verboom Director Alice Netherlands *
Adrian Geyer Director Tisure Venezuela 16
Assaad Khoueiry Director The Drought Land Lebanon *
RISING STAR
Aliette Opheim Actor Det Vita Folket Sweden All days
Bianca Kronlöf Actor Svenskjävel Sweden All days
Josefin Asplund Actor Cirkeln Sweden All days
Marina Nyström Actor Aerobics – a Love story Sweden All days
Rasmus Luthander Actor Från djupet av mitt hjärta Sweden All days
Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs Actor Cirkeln Sweden All days