2006 Golden Beetle Award Winners

Writer-director Lena Einhorn’s Ninas resa / Nina’s Journey (right) was the surprise best film and best screenplay winner at Sweden’s 2006 Golden Beetle Awards, that country’s equivalent to the Oscars.
Shot on DV, the low-budget, World War II-set drama follows a young Jewish woman as she moves from Warsaw’s Jewish ghetto to a new life in Sweden. Nina’s Journey, which stars Agnieszka Grochowska, was based on Einhorn’s own book, which in turn was taken from her mother’s life story.
Björn Runge’s Mun mot mun / Mouth to Mouth (right), which received seven nods, including best film, best director, and best actor (Peter Andersson), ended up winning only one Golden Beetle: for best supporting actor Magnus Krepper.
Mouth to Mouth depicts the plight [...]

by Andre Soares | January 31, 2006   
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Golden Beetle Awards 2006

2006 Golden Beetle Awards
2006 Swedish Film Institute’s Golden Beetle (Guldbagge aka Golden Bug) award winners: January 30, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Agnieszka Grochowska in Nina’s Journey by Lena Einhorn
 

Best Film:
Mun mot mun / Mouth to Mouth Prod: Clas Gunnarsson
* Ninas resa / Nina’s Journey Prod: Kaska Krosny
Zozo Prod: Anna Anthony
Best Foreign Language Film:
* L’Enfant / The Child Dirs: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne / Belgium
Dare mo shiranai / Nobody Knows Dir: Hirokazu Koreeda / Japan
Caché / Hidden Dir: Michael Haneke / Austria
Best Documentary:
Brunnen / The Well Dir: Kristian Petri
Kinchen / The Kinch Dir: Måns Månsson
* Prostitution bakom slöjan / Prostitution Behind the Veil Dir: Nahid Persson
Best Director:
Josef Fares, for Zozo
* Ulf Malmros, for Tjenare Kungen [...]

by Andre Soares | January 30, 2006   
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