Rúnar Rúnarsson’s ‘When the Mild Breaks’ Triumphs at Göteborg

Outstanding Icelandic auteur Rúnar Rúnarsson who was Oscar-nominated in 2006 for his quick movie “The Final Farm,” was handed out the Göteborg Movie Pageant’s hefty SEK400,000 ($36,000) Dragon Award for Finest Nordic Movie for his fourth characteristic “When the Mild Breaks” at tonight’s closing gala of the pageant’s 48^th version.

Shot in 16mm, the delicate coming-of-age drama starring Elín Corridor (“Chilly”, “Let Me Fall”) world premiered final Might because the opening movie of the Cannes Movie Pageant’s Un Sure Regard part.

The story activates Una, a younger artwork pupil who encounters love, friendship, sorrow and wonder throughout on an extended summer season day in Iceland. The jury for Finest Nordic Movie together with filmmakers Ella Lemhagen, Philippe Lesage, Athina Rachel Tsangari, cinematographer JP Passi and actor Frida Gustavsson, mentioned the movie was awarded the pageant’s prime prize “for its masterfully calibrated mise en scène, its sensitivity and delicate lightness, its director’s unexpectedly uplifting remedy of grief, acutely portrayed by an ideal younger ensemble.”

The movie produced by Iceland’s Compass Movies, the Netherlands’ Revolver Amsterdam, Croatia’s MP Movie and France’s Jour de Fête was offered by The Occasion Movie Gross sales almost worldwide.

One other coming-of age drama about grieving, set throughout the summer season -“My Everlasting Summer season” by Sylvia Le Fanu was the second alternative from the Nordic Movie jury who praised the helmer for a enormously promising debut, a each private, delicate and superbly crafted movie that doesn’t pressure drama or impact.” Dealt with worldwide by TrustNordisk, the characteristic produced by Adomeit Movie screened earlier in San Sebastian.

The pageant’s opener “Protected Home” by Norway’s Eirik Svensson picked up the Viewers Dragon Award for Finest Nordic Movie. The suspense drama relies on the true occasions that unfolded throughout 15 tense hours at a Medical doctors With out Borders hospital in Bangui on Christmas Eve, 2013.
The gender-neutral appearing award went to Norway’s Andrea Bræin Hovig for her position as Marianne who explores her sexuality and informal intimacy in Dag Johan Haugerud’s “Love”.

Hovid was praised for her “most delicate, advanced efficiency, but so highly effective in its restraint; and for portraying an intricately layered, unapologetic feminine character.”

“Intercourse” which world premiere on the Venice Movie Pageant 2024 the place it received the critics’ Bisato d’oro award is a part of Haugerud’s trilogy movies “Intercourse, Desires, Love”.

The Oscar-nominated “The Lady with the Needle” by Magnus von Horn, first showcased in Cannes’ important competitors received over the jury if the Fipresci Award who mentioned: “The movie’s director demonstrates absolute mastery of the shape. We award this movie for its camerawork, the weird music, the compelling setting and manufacturing design that turns into a personality in itself, nice performances and dialogs.

This movie places into proof the feminine state of affairs and the need for feministic battle. It additionally reveals us stay an individual of integrity in devilish surrounding and darkness, emphasised by the black and white photos.”  The visually beautiful psychological drama starring Trine Dyrholm is the primary Danish pic for the Gothenburg-born von Horn.

Within the documentary part, the highest prize price SEK 250,000 ($22,500) award went to the Swedish/French “Trans Memoria” by Victoria Verseau, the director’s personal private expertise of transition achieved in Thailand. “The director tells a private and courageous story in an sudden and stylish manner,” mentioned the jury which praised Verseau’s “honesty, delicate method, and fascinating work with the characters from the very first moments. “The visible element doesn’t merely accompany the story however turns into an integral a part of it, reflecting the interior world of each the protagonists and the director. The movie is a poetic meditation, by which the director explores and re-enacts a traumatic expertise seeking love, a misplaced pal, and acceptance,” they mentioned.

Within the debut class, rising expertise Denise Fernandes was awarded the celebrated Ingmar Bergman Interntional Debut for “Hanami,” described as daring and delightful movie, that’s inconceivable to suit into the buildings of standard storytelling. It embraces the pure artistry of filmmaking and a singular cinematic language. With nuance and tenderness, this movie captures pleasure and sorrow of on a regular basis life—illuminated via performances that deliver forth the deep, unstated bonds between moms, daughters, and the communities they weave collectively,” mentioned the jury together with administrators Dea Kulumbegashvili, Kaltrina Krasniqi, and Silje Riise Næss, chair of the board of The Bergman Property, Norway. Fernandez first showcased her movie because the Locarno Movie pageant the place she received greatest rising director-Filmmakers of the Current and a particular point out from the primary characteristic competitors.

Amid a robust Worldwide competitors lineup, the Oscar-winning Australian cease movement animator took residence the SEK 50,000 prize for his tragicomedy “Memoir of a Snail”. “With nuance and tenderness, this movie captures pleasure and sorrow of on a regular basis life, illuminated via performances that deliver forth the deep, unstated bonds between moms, daughters, and the communities they weave collectively,” mentioned the jury.

Elsewhere, the Draken Movie Award went to Clara Vida’s quick movie “Household.”

Earlier accolades have been handed out to Julie Delpy, named Honorary Dragon Award recipient, and Thomas Vinterberg, Nordic Honorary Dragon Award winner.

The Startsladden greatest quick movie was awarded to Viktor Johansson for his movie ”True Artist”, the Startsladden Viewers Award to Cows by Jakob Márky and Kasper Häggström.

Additionally awarded earlier from the Swedish Church was Fanny Ovesen for her debut pic “Stay A Little”.

Commenting on the pageant, which had a rocky begin when Swedish Tradition Minister Parisa Liljestrand made a controversial speech as reported earlier, CEO Mirja Wester mentioned: “It’s been a rollercoaster for us. I used to be taken abruptly and we might reasonably have used our time to debate the movies, however speaking about movie politics can be crucial,” she mentioned.

First timer in her position as creative director Pia Lundberg added: “Sure our Tradition Minister’s speech disrupted the primary few days of the pageant because it was the speak of the city. However all in all, it’s been a unbelievable pageant and a beautiful expertise for me to introduce the movies to the devoted Göteborg movie viewers.”