Ali Abassis brilliant original trolldrama collect a total of 9 nominations, closely followed by Pernille Fischer Christensen’s subtle Astrid Lindgren-biography ”Young Astrid” with 7 chances to win and Peter Grönlunds describes socialrealistiska father-and-son-settlement ”Goliath” which receives 6 nominations. A completely logical outcome – it is just the same trio of films that ended up in the top when the DN listed last year’s best Swedish film.
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Naturally enough, all three nominees in the stjärnkategorin ”best film” – together with a small exclamation mark and a big question mark. The exclamation point is Hogir Hirori and Shinwar Kamals minröjardokumentär “The deminer” (learn to be Guldbaggehistoriens first film as both have been nominated for best film and best documentary).
in the battle of the best movie nomination, the action-packed apocalyptic doomsday movie “Den blomstertid nu kommer” created by filmkollektivet Crazy Pictures. It is a film that certainly impresses with its clever special effects, but that has too many pekorala dramascener to seriously be able to compete with last year’s toppfilmer. Instead, it would have been much more appropriate to Gabriella Pichlers ”Amateurs” or Jesper Ganslandts ”Jimmie” had been in the toppstriden.
Eva Melander teaches take home a ram, and for best actress in a leading role for his impressive game and förvandlingsnummer in the “Limit”, but gets competition by Alba August as the young Astrid Lindgren. Extra fun to the eccentric 70-plussaren Leonore Ekstrand is nominated for his wonderful aparta role in the overlooked “Top of nothing” which is also where the duo of Måns Månsson and Axel Petersén deservedly been nominated for best director.
tårtgeneral excuse, but in the male category should the ram go to the sensational amatörskådespelaren Joakim Sällkvist that makes an outstanding father figure in the powerful “Goliath”, which includes Sebastian Ljungblad been nominated for the role of the son.
“The deminer”, “the Raft” and the “Reconstruction of Russia” are three excellent choices in dokumentärklassen, but it still feels a bit ridiculous is that Jane Magnusson’s EFA-winning biography “Ingmar Bergman – a year, a life” was not in the launcher.
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