| Göteborg Film Festival | |
| Location: | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Awards: | Dragon Award Best Nordic Film, The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award, etc. |
| Number: | circa 450 films from 70 countries (in 2012), 10 theaters, and many other venues |
| Website: | https://goteborgfilmfestival.se/ |
Göteborg Film Festival (GFF), formerly Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF), known in English as the Gothenburg Film Festival, formerly Gothenburg International Film Festival, is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden and the largest film event in Scandinavia. When it was launched on February 8, 1979, it showed 17 films on 3 screens and had 3,000 visitors.
Today, the film festival takes place over 10 days each year at the end of January and beginning of February. In recent years an estimated 450 films from 60 countries annually have been screened for 115,000 visitors.[1] The film festival is an important market place for contractors in the movie industry.
the following prizes were awarded:[2]
The festival's main award is the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film, which can be won for feature film productions from the Nordic countries. The following films have received the award:[4] [5]
| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | David or Goliath | David eller Goliath | Anne Wivel | Norway | ||
| Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky | Regi: Andrej Tarkovskij | Sweden | ||||
| 1990 | A Handful of Time | En håndfull tid | Norway | |||
| 1991 | Dolly and Her Lover | Räpsy ja Dolly eli Pariisi odottaa | Matti Ijäs | Finland | ||
| 1992 | Freud's Leaving Home | Freud flyttar hemifrån | Denmark | |||
| 1993 | Russian Pizza Blues | Michael Wikke and Steen Rasmussen | Denmark | |||
| 1994 | Spring of Joy | Glädjekällan | Sweden | |||
| 1995 | Cross My Heart and Hope to Die | Ti kniver i hjertet | Norway | |||
| 1996 | The Atlantic | Atlanten | Kristian Petri, Jan Röed and Magnus Enquist | Sweden | ||
| 1997 | Body Troopers | Jakten på nyresteinen | Vibeke Idsøe | Norway | ||
| 1998 | Tic Tac | Sweden | ||||
| 1999 | Yearning for a Life | Lusten till ett liv | Christer Engberg | Sweden | ||
| 2000 | My Mother Had Fourteen Children | Min mamma hade 14 barn | Lars-Lennart Forsberg | Sweden | ||
| Knockout | Agneta Fagerström Olsson | Sweden | ||||
| 2001 | Cool and Crazy | Heftig og begeistret | Norway | |||
| 2002 | The Bricklayer | Muraren | Sweden | |||
| 2003 | Noi the Albino | Nói albínói | Iceland | |||
| 2004 | Med kameran som tröst, del 2 | Sweden | ||||
| 2005 | Frozen Land | Paha maa | Finland | |||
| 2006 | Dark Horse | Voksne mennesker | Dagur Kári | Iceland | ||
| 2007 | Darling | Darling | Sweden | |||
| 2008 | Let the Right One In | Låt den rätte komma in | Sweden | |||
| 2009 | The Visitor | Muukalainen | Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää | Finland | ||
| 2010 | R | Denmark | ||||
| 2011 | She Monkeys | Apflickorna | Sweden | |||
| 2012 | The Orheim Company | Kompani Orheim | Norway | |||
| 2013 | Before Snowfall | Før snøen faller | Norway | |||
| 2014 | Letter to the King | Brev til Kongen | Hisham Zaman | Norway | ||
| 2015 | In Your Arms | I dine hænder | Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm | Denmark | [6] | |
| 2016 | Land of Mine | Under sandet | Martin Zandvliet | Denmark | [7] | |
| 2017 | Sami Blood | Sameblod | Sweden | [8] | ||
| 2018 | Amateurs | Amatörer | Sweden | [9] | ||
| 2019 | Queen of Hearts | Dronningen | Denmark | [10] | ||
| 2020 | Beware of Children | Barn | Norway | [11] | ||
| 2021 | Tigers (2020 film) | Tigrar | Ronnie Sandahl | Sweden | ||
| 2022 | As in Heaven | Du som er i himlen | Tea Lindeburg | Denmark | ||
| 2023 | Unruly | Ustyrlig | Malou Reymann | Denmark | ||
| 2024 | Mother, Couch | Mother, Couch | Niclas Larsson | Sweden |
| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Finnish Blood Swedish Heart | Laulu koti-ikävästä | Finland | |||
| 2014 | Pine Ridge | Pine Ridge | Denmark | |||
| 2015 | The Look of Silence | The Look of Silence | ||||
| 2016 | Don Juan | Jerzy Sladkowski | Sweden | [12] | ||
| 2017 | The War Show | Obaidah Zytoon, Andreas Dalsgaard | Denmark/Finland/Syria | [13] | ||
| 2018 | Olegs krig | Simon Lereng Wilmont | Sweden | [14] | ||
| 2019 | Transnistra | Anna Eborn | Denmark | [15] | ||
| 2020 | Colombia in My Arms | Jenni Kivistö, Jussi Rastas | Finland, Norway, Denmark, France | [16] | ||
| 2022 | A House Made of Splinters | Будинок зі скалок | Simon Lereng Vilmont | Finland, Denmark, Ukraine, Sweden | [17] | |
| 2023 | Apolonia, Apolonia | Lea Glob | Denmark, Poland, France | [18] | ||
The festival is made up of several film sections. Films are chosen in each category with the advice of a committee of film experts. Categories have included:
Animation featuring short and long animated films.
Documentaries
Debuts where debutees can be discovered.
Focus featuring a region or theme in focus for that year. In 2012 focus was on Arab film and the Arab Spring.
Festival Favorites is a selection of the most liked and prized films that have been shown at festivals throughout the world during the past year.
Five Continents showing films from all categories and unconditionally traveling the globe to find the best films.
Gala featuring great films, great directors, red carpets and Oscar nominees.
HBTQ – a collection of various films that all depict nontraditional love or non-heterosexual roles.
Nordic Competition focusing on new Nordic feature-films competing for the festival's Nordic Film Prize (100,000 SEK).
Nordic Light including the best of the Sweden's four Nordic neighboring countries.
Swedish World Premiers with feature-films and documentaries being shown to general audiences for the first time.
Swedish Pictures often including circa 100 Swedish short-films.