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The festival launches new international competition
This year Göteborg Film Festival will launch its new International Competition. The section includes 20 international films and the festival audience will select the winner. Dragon Award Best International Film along with 50 000 SEK (approx. 5000 euros) is awarded to the winner. Dragon Award Best International FIlm is presented by newspaper Göteborgs-Posten.
The 20 films nominated for Dragon Award Best International Film are: Disobedience by Sebastián Lelio, The Death of Stalin by Armando Iannucci, Angels Wear White by Vivian Qu, Western by Valeska Grisebach, Nico, 1988 by Susanna Nicchiarelli, Mademoiselle Paradis by Barbara Albert, Pity by Babis Makridis, Over the Limit by Marta Prus, Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts by Mouly Surya, The Wound by John Trengove, Men Don't Cry by Alen Drljevic, Good Favour by Rebecca Daly, Sweet Country by Warwick Thornton, Pororoca by Constantin Popescu, Makala by Emmanuel Gras, The Other Side of Everything by Mila Turajlic, Outside In by Lynn Shelton, Israfil by Ida Panahandeh, Anna's War by Aleksei Fedorchenko and The Eternal Feminine by Natalia Beristáin.
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The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award
Ingmar Bergman was the honorary president of Göteborg Film Festival until his death in 2007. In cooperation with him, the festival established an international film award for “a debuting filmmaker who in their film treats an existential theme with a dynamic or experimental approach to the cinematic means of expression.”
The eight films nominated for the award, which will be handed out for the eleventh time: Dead Pigs by Cathy Yan (China/USA) Ava by Sadaf Foroughi (Iran/Canada/Qatar) Malila: The Farewell Flower by Anucha Boonyawatana (Thailand) Death of a Poetess by Dana Goldberg, co-director: Efrat Mishori (Israel) Microhabitat by Jeon Go-woon (South Korea) The Flower Shop by Ruben Desiere (Belgium/Slovakia) Menina by Cristina Pinheiro (France) The Blessed by Sofia Djama (Algeria/France/Qatar)
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