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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Tags: Catti Edfeldt, Eric Ericson, Falkenberg Farewell, Film Awards, Guldbagge, Gustaf Skarsgård, Jesper Ganslandt, Kidz in da Hood, Måns Mårlind, Storm
