Price sprinkles for Norwegians in Gothenburg and Copenhagen
Photo: Sturla Brandth Grøvlen is awarded the Sven Nykvist Prize.
It was awarded a number of prizes to Norwegian filmmakers last night. In Copenhagen, Danes handed out their national film prize, Robert Prize. Hers got Eskil Vogt and The innocent the award for best foreign and non-English language film. The film competed with no one inferior yet Minari, Quo Vadis, Aida ?, Hand of God and The truffle hunters from Piedmont.
Not surprisingly, one of the big winners this evening was the Oscar nominee Escape. And that was for the movie Tormod Ringnes got a Robert along with Edward Björner for its sound design. Jakob Oftebro received the award for best supporting actor in Margrete the first which will soon have a Norwegian premiere.
On Gothenburg Film Festival also went several awards to Norwegian filmmakers. The innocent received this year’s Dragon Award as the audience voted. The award was received by Lizette Jonjic, co-producer of the Norwegian film.
The Sven Nykvist Prizewhich is awarded to a film photographer in the Nordic competition, went to Sturla Brandth Grøvlen to the movie photo in The innocent. The jury reasoned as follows:
«In this surprising film, the film photographer’s gaze takes us to the child’s world, with strong presence and intimacy. The success of the images evokes mysterious forces in the child and goes a step further to make demons visible to us in the audience as well. Impressive visual choices create excitement while the amazing light of midsummer explores the ominous emotions in the dark. “