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Oscar-Nominated Rúnar Rúnarsson Wins Göteborg’s Best Nordic Film Award for ‘When the Light Breaks,’ as ’Memoir of a Snail’ Nabs Best International Film
Other accolades go to ‘The Girl With the Needle,’ a Fipresci winner. and Andrea Brœin Hovig, best actress for ‘Love.’
The Oscar-nominated “The Girl with the Needle” by Magnus von Horn, first showcased in Cannes’ main competition won over the jury if the Fipresci Award who said: “The film’s director demonstrates absolute mastery of the form. It also shows us how to remain a person of integrity in devilish surrounding and darkness, emphasized by the black and white images.” The visually stunning psychological drama starring Trine Dyrholm is the first Danish pic for the Gothenburg-born von Horn. With nuance and tenderness, this film captures joy and sorrow of everyday life—illuminated through performances that bring forth the deep, unspoken bonds between mothers, daughters, and the communities they weave together,” said the jury including directors Dea Kulumbegashvili, Kaltrina Krasniqi, and Silje Riise Næss, chair of the board of The Bergman Estate, Norway.
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