Friday, November 18, 2022

The Winners at Stockholm International Film Festival

Today The Stockholm International Film Festival 2022 presented the 12 winners at the Stockholm film festival.  The film "Holy Spider" by the Swedish-Danish-Iranian director Ali Abbasi won two prizes: the Bronze Horse for Best Film and the actor Mehdi Bajestani won as Best Male Actor. 

Frances O'Connor was awarded as Best Director for her film Emily and Actress Anabelle Lengronne won the prize for Best Actress for her role in Mother and Son. 
Director Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson was awarded with the prize for Best Screenplay for his film Beautiful Beings.
The jury's motivation for best film reads:

– A groundbreaking film that is done not only with enormous courage but with mastery that leaves us breathless; our insides both speechless and wanting to cream. A punch in the gut for systematic belief systems that oppress rather than support. An eye opener and a most emotional cinematic experience that awakens internal revolutions in us. For its moving performances, raw and uncompromising direction, brilliant and poignant screenplay we would like to present one of the strongest films we've seen in a long time with the Bronze Horse for Best Film: Holy Spider directed by Ali Abbasi.


The winners at the Stockholm International Film Festival 2022:

STOCKHOLM XXXIII COMPETITION

Best Film:
Holy Spider by Ali Abbasi


Best Director: Emily by Frances O'Connor
Best Debut: Autobiography by Makbul Mubarak

Best screenplay: Beautiful Beings by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

Best Actress: Mother and Son for actress Annabelle Lengronne
Best Male Actor: Mehdi Bajestani in Holy Spider
Best Cinematography: Balthazar Lab for La Jauria

Honorary mention: Pilar Palomero for La Maternal

STOCKHOLM XXXIII DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Best Documentary: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed by Laura Poitras

STOCKHOLM XXXIII SHORT FILM COMPETITION
Best Short Film: File by Sonia K. Hadad

The international film critics award FIPRESCI
Best Film: World War III by Houman Seyyedi

Zalando Rising Star Award 2022
Actress Sara Shirpey

1KM FILM

1KM FILM winner: SaraKlara Hellström

1KM FILM honorary mention: André Vaara

NIKON SHORT FILM COMPETITION (60sec)
Trust of Mira Hilfon Liungman

Works in Progress
»Pride is not available in your region« by Maksym Nachonechnyi

Wild Card
Simone Norberg for the film »Till Lydia«
Tess Quatri for the film »Like There Is No Tomorrow«
Vangelis Kollias for the film »How to Say Goodbye«

This year's jury members for the Stockholm XXXIII Competition consist of the actor Alexej Manvelov, the film director and screenwriter Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, who has been awarded several times at the Guldbaggegala with the film Clara Sola (2021), including for best film, and the producer Erika Wasserman, who recently made her directorial debut with the film Året jag slutade prestera och började onanera ( 2022).

1KM FILM is a short film initiative aimed at promising filmmakers active in Sweden. The winner gets to make a short film that will be shown at next year's festival. 1KM FILM is a collaboration between the Stockholm Film Festival, the Swedish Film Institute, Filmtech, Chimney, Dagsljus, Terrassen Post and Scen & Film.

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