2005 Stockholm Film Festival Awards
2005 Stockholm Film Festival: November 17-27, 2005
The Bronze Horse for Best film at the 16th Stockholm International Film Festival was awarded to Juan Diego Solanas' Nordeste (Argentina / Spain / France / Belgium). Tackling child trafficking, poverty, and social injustice, Nordeste revolves around the meeting of two women from disparate backgrounds: a single mother from Argentina's impoverished northeast, and an affluent Parisian who arrives in Buenos Aires in order to adopt a baby. According to the festival jury, Nordeste was selected because it is "a film that is remarkably mature in everything from theme, vision and execution. It has the firm courage to ask difficult questions, without feeling the need to answer them for us, without ever straying from the path into cheap sentimentality or shock values." The film's two female stars, Carole Bouquet and Aymará Rovera, tied for the Best Actress Award. Vincent D'Onofrio was chosen Best Actor for the U.S.-made Thumbsucker, and Scotland's Annie Griffin won the Best Screenplay Award for Festival. Best First Film Award went to Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know.
Taika Waititi's Sons of Tû: The God of War was chosen the Best Short Film because "in eighteen minutes [the film] develops more story, builds more characters and creates more human emotion than most feature films ever hope to do in two hours." Canadian director David Cronenberg (A History of Violence) was given the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award, while American director Terry Gilliam received the Stockholm Visionary Award.
Best Film: Nordeste by Juan Diego Solanas
Best First Film: Me and You and Everyone We Know by Miranda July
Best Actor: Vincent D'Onofrio — Thumbsucker
Best Actress: Carole Bouquet and Aymará Rovera — Nordeste
Best Screenplay: Annie Griffin — Festival
Best Cinematography: Adrian Tan — Be With Me
Best Short Film: Sons of Tû: The God of War by Taika Waititi
Star! Audience Award: Storm by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein
1 km Film Scholarship: The Voice by Johan Söderberg
Made in Stockholm: Death by Heart by Malin Erixon
Jameson Short Film Awards 2005: Mebana by Daniel Wallentin
FIPRESCI (International Film Critics) Award: Be With Me by Eric Khoo
Northern Lights: Accused by Jacob Thuesen
Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award: David Cronenberg
Stockholm Visionary Award: Terry Gilliam
World Wide Winner Award: The Forest… and 7 Illustrations Around the Name of a Tree by Malin Erixon
Festival Jury: Daniel Alfredson (Director and Chief at SVT Fiction), Pelle Almqvist (Musician), Rodrigo Garcia (Director), Helena af Sandeberg (Actress), Orvar Säfström (Film Critic)
FIPRESCI Jury (Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique): Caroline M. Buck (Film Critic and Film Historian), Frédéric Ponsard (Journalist and Film Critic), Alf Kjetil Walgermo (Writer and Journalist)
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