Golden Beetle 2007

2007 Golden Beetle
Swedish Film Institute’s 2007 Golden Beetle (Guldbagge) nominations: January 10, 2007
2007 Golden Beetle winners: Cirkus in Stockholm on January 22, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

Best Film
Farväl Falkenberg / Falkenberg Farewell – Producer: Anna Anthony
* Förortsungar / Kidz in da Hood – Producers: Peter Holthausen, Pontus Sjöman
Storm – Producer: Karl Fredrik Ulfung
Best Foreign Language Film
Volver – Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Babel – Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
*Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others – Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Best Documentary Film
Alice och jag / Alice and Me – Directors: Rebecka Rasmusson
Jag minns Håkan Alexandersson / I Remember Håkan Alexandersson – Director: Carl Johan De Geer
* Vikarien / The Substitute – Directors: Åsa Blanck and Johan Palmgren
Best Director
Jesper Ganslandt [...]

by Andre Soares | January 22, 2007   
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Golden Beetle 2007: Nominations

The Swedish Film Institute has announced the nominees for its 2007 Golden Beetle (Guldbagge) awards.
All three best film nominees are their respective directors’ feature-film debuts:
Farväl Falkenberg / Falkenberg Farewell (above) is Jesper Ganslandt’s touching — and more than little disturbing — coming-of-age comedy-drama. Shot in semi-documentary style, Falkenberg Farewell follows five childhood friends in the small beach town of Falkenberg, where 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. As the surrogate father, Gustaf [...]

by Andre Soares | January 10, 2007   
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