Gothenburg Film Festival

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Göteborg Film Festival, earlier Göteborg International Film Festival, shortened GIFF) is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden and the largest film event in Scandinavia. When it was launched in 1979 it showed 17 films on 3 screens and had 3,000 visitors. Today, the film festival takes place over 10 days each year at the end of January and beginning of February. In later years around 450 films from 60 countries are screened for 115,000 visitors. The film festival is also an important market place for the contractors in the movie industry.

Awards

Dragon Awards

• Dragon Award Best Nordic Film (Nordiska filmpriset)
• Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary Film (since 2013)
• The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award
• Dragon Award Best Nordic Film – Audience Choice (Nordiska Filmpriset – Publikens val)
• Dragon Award Best Swedish Documentary
• Dragon Award Best Feature Film - Audience Choice
• Dragon Award New Talent

Other Awards at the Göteborg International Film Festival

• Best Swedish Short Award (Startsladden, kortfilmspris)
• Best Swedish Short Award - Audience Award (Publikens val – Kortfilm)
• The Lorens Award
• Kodac Nordic Vision Award
• Best Swedish Feature - The Church Of Sweden Film Award (Svenska Kyrkans filmpris)
• Fipresci Award
• Best Swedish Novella Film Award (Novellfilmstävlingen)
• Best Swedish Novella Film - Audience Award (Publikens val - Novellfilm)
• Best Swedish Feature - The City Of Gothenburg Award (Göteborgs Stora Filmpris)
• The Mai Zetterling Grant (Mai Zetterling-stipendiet)
• Nordic Film Prize (Nordiska Filmmusikpriset SKAP Musikdramatikpris)
• The Golden Dragon (Gyllene draken)
• Lars Molin Grant

Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film

The festival's main award is the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film, which can be won for feature film productions from the Nordic countries. The following films have received the award:

Year	English title	Original title	Director	Country	Ref
1989	David or Goliath	David eller Goliath	Anne Wivel	Norway
	Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky	Regi: Andrej Tarkovskij	Michal Leszczylowski	Poland
1990	A Handful of Time	En håndfull tid	Martin Asphaug	Norway
1991	Dolly and Her Lover	Räpsy ja Dolly eli Pariisi odottaa	Matti Ijäs	Finland
1992	Freud's Leaving Home	Freud flyttar hemifrån	Susanne Bier	Denmark
1993	Russian Pizza Blues		Michael Wikke and Steen Rasmussen	Denmark
1994	Spring of Joy	Glädjekällan	Richard Hobert	Sweden
1995	Cross My Heart and Hope to Die	Ti kniver i hjertet	Marius Holst	Norway
1996	The Atlantic	Atlanten	Kristian Petri, Jan Röed and Magnus Enquist	Sweden
1997	Body Troopers	Jakten på nyresteinen	Vibeke Idsøe	Norway
1998	Tic Tac		Daniel Alfredson	Sweden
1999	Yearning for a Life	Lusten till ett liv	Christer Engberg	Sweden
2000	My Mother Had Fourteen Children	Min mamma hade 14 barn	Lars-Lennart Forsberg	Sweden
	Knockout		Agneta Fagerström Olsson	Sweden
2001	Cool and Crazy	Heftig og begeistret	Knut Erik Jensen	Norway
2002	The Bricklayer	Muraren	Stefan Jarl	Sweden
2003	Noi the Albino	Nóialbínói	Dagur Kári	Iceland
2004	Med kameran som tröst, del 2		Carl Johan De Geer	Sweden
2005	Frozen Land	Paha maa	Aku Louhimies	Finland
2006	Dark Horse	Voksne mennesker	Dagur Kári	Iceland
2007	Darling	Darling	Johan Kling	Sweden
2008	Let the Right One In	Låt den rätte komma in	Tomas Alfredson	Sweden
2009	The Visitor	Muukalainen	Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää	Finland
2010	R		Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer	Denmark
2011	She Monkeys	Apflickorna	Lisa Aschan	Sweden
2012	The Company Orheim	Kompani Orheim	Arild Andresen	Norway
2013	Before Snowfall	Før snøen faller	Hisham Zaman	Norway
2014	Letter to the King		Hisham Zaman	Norway
2015	In Your Arms	I dina hænder	Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm	Denmark

Dragon Award for Best Nordic Documentary

Year	English title	Original title	Director	Country	Ref
2013	Finnish Blood Swedish Heart	Laulu koti-ikävästä	Mika Ronkainen	Finland
2014	Pine Ridge	Pine Ridge	Anna Eborn	Denmark
2015	The Look of Silence	The Look of Silence	Joshua Oppenheimer

Festival program

The festival is made up of several film sections. Films are chosen in each category with the advice of a committee of film experts. Categories have included:

Animation featuring short and long animated films.

Documentaries

Debuts where debutees can be discovered.

Focus featuring a region or theme in focus for that year. In 2012 focus was on Arab film and the Arab Spring.

Festival Favorites is a selection of the most liked and prized films that have been shown at festivals throughout the world during the past year.

Five Continents showing films from all categories and unconditionally traveling the globe to find the best films.

Gala featuring great films, great directors, red carpets and Oscar nominees.

HBTQ - a collection of various films that all depict untraditional love or non-heterosexual roles.

Nordic Competition focusing on new Nordic feature-films competing for the festival's Nordic Film Prize (100,000 SEK).

Nordic Light including the best of the Sweden's four Nordic neighboring countries.

Swedish World Premiers with feature-films and documentaries being shown to general audiences for the first time.

Swedish Pictures often including circa 100 Swedish short-films.

External links

• Official web page
• English-language podcast (Radio Sweden)