Golden Beetle Swedish Film Awards - 2006 Nominations
by Andre Soares
The Swedish Film Institute has announced the nominees for its 42nd Guldbagge (Golden Beetle) Awards.
All three best film nominees are their respective directors’ feature-film debuts:
Farväl Falkenberg / Falkenberg Farewell (top), is Jesper Ganslandt’s touching and more than little disturbing coming-of-age comedy-drama. Shot in semi-documentary style, Farväl Falkenberg follows five childhood friends in the small beach town of Falkenberg as they do drugs, fool around, and eventually come face to face with the reality of death.
Catti Edfeldt’s and Ylva Gustavsson’s Förortsungar / Kidz in da Hood tells the story of an undocumented immigrant who, after the death of her grandfather, finds a foster parent in the figure of a tattooed, pierced musician. Gustaf Skarsgård, Stellan’s son, was nominated in the best actor category.
Set in Stockholm, Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein’s Storm (above) is a sci-fi thriller about a young man (Eric Ericson) whose life is turned upside down after he meets a mysterious woman (Eva Röse).
Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel, and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Das Leben der Anderen were the three best foreign films nominees.
The Guldbagge ceremony will be held on Monday, January22, at Cirkus in Stockholm. Swedish Television (SVT) will be broadcasting the event live. The statuette itself, in the form of a beetle, was designed by Karl Axel Pehrson.
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