The Film Prize was first awarded in 2002 as a one-off to mark the 50th anniversary of the Nordic Council. It was made a permanent, annual prize in 2005 and is awarded along with the prizes for music, literature and the environment.
Meet the winners of the Nordic Council prizes 2024 when they are announced on a TV special, which will be broadcast on norden.org and TV channels in all the Nordic countries on 22 October.
The 2023 Nordic Council Film Prize goes to the Danish film “Empire” by director Frederikke Aspöck, screenwriter Anna Neye, and producers Pernille Munk Skydsgaard, Nina Leidersdorff, and M...
The 2022 Nordic Council Film Prize goes to the Icelandic film “Lamb” by director and screenwriter Valdimar Jóhannsson, screenwriter Sjón and producers Hrönn Kristinsdóttir and Sara Nassim...
The 2021 Nordic Council Film Prize goes to the Danish film “Flee” by screenwriter and director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, screenwriter Amin, and producers Monica Hellström, Charlotte de la Go...
The 2020 Nordic Council Film Prize goes to the Norwegian film “Beware of Children” by screenwriter and director Dag Johan Haugerud and producer Yngve Sæther.
The Nordic Council Film Prize 2017 has been awarded to Little Wing by the Finnish director and screenwriter Selma Vilhunen and producers Kaarle Aho and Kai Nordberg.
The Nordic Council Film Prize 2016 is awarded to “Louder Than Bombs” from Norway by Joachim Trier (director and screenwriter), Eskil Vogt (screenwriter), and Thomas Robsahm (producer) fro...
Den islandske instruktør og manuskriptforfatter Benedikt Erlingsson og producer Friðrik Þór Friðriksson modtog Nordisk Råds filmpris 2014 for filmen ”Om heste og mænd” ved Nordisk Råds pr...
Play is an astute observation based on real cases of bullying. In central Gothenburg, a group of 12-14 year-old boys, bullied other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. T...
The winner of the Nordic Council Film Prize 2011 is the Swedish film Svinalängorna (Beyond). The prize is shared between the film director and scriptwriters Pernilla August and Lolita Ray...
The Danish film director Thomas Vinterberg, scriptwriter Tobias Lindholm and film producer Morten Kaufmann win the Nordic Region’s most prestigious film prize.
The Nordic Council Film Prize 2008 this year goes to the Swedish film director Roy Andersson and producer Pernilla Sandstrom for the film 'Du Levande' ('You, the Living...
The feature film “The Edge of the Shadows” is nominated for the 2023 Nordic Council Film Prize. This is the first time that Greenland has put forward a candidate for the prestigious award...
Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs is a study of grief that centres around a father and his two sons three years after their mother has passed away. She has left behind a small, loving fam...
Sparrows is a story about growing up, and explores various coming-of-age themes – in particular the father-son relationship from the perspective of an abandoned child.
Do you want to be a world champion or the champion of your own life? On the surface, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki is a period piece based on a character from real life, but a...
Telling a compelling story about a person’s development is one thing. Recreating history and truly placing us in the middle of it is something else entirely. And it is still something els...
Svinalängorna er den prisvindende svenske skuespillerinde Pernilla Augusts instruktørdebut. Filmen er baseret på bestselleren Svinalängorna af Susanna Alakoski.
Efter den kritikerroste spillefilmsdebut Last Cowboy Standing har Zaida Bergroth valgt at instruere en smallere film, som stadig er karakterdrevet og gør det muligt for hende at udforske ...
Brim fortæller historien om en ung kvinde, som er blevet ansat som besætningsmedlem på et fiskefartøj, i selskab med en gruppe meget indspiste mænd. Langsomt viser det sig, at hendes job ...
Oslo, 31. august er en fri fortolkning af den franske roman ‘Le feu follet’ af Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. Joachim Trier og hans manuskriptforfatter Eskil Vogt blev inspireret af tidløshede...
Sandheden om mænd er et kærligt portræt af en generation af mænd, som kvier sig ved store forpligtelser, men som alligevel stiller store spørgsmål om livet og kærligheden.
After reading about transsexuals in newspaper articles, Olaf de Fleur Johannesson found the ‘ladyboy' Raquela on the internet and afterwards met her in the Philippines. Totally taken...
Rune Denstad Langlo had the idea for North as he was going through a life crisis and asked the established Norwegian writer/scriptwriter Erlend Loe to make it into a feature film screenpl...
Nature filmmaker Mikael Kristersson has spent almost two decades putting together his third feature length documentary Light Year which captures everyday life in his own garden, filmed in...
Lars von Trier's psychological horror film Antichrist about guilt, suffering and female evil, was filmed at a moment in the director's life where he suffered from severe depress...
Sauna is AJ Annila's second genre film after his Finnish/Chinese Kung Fu movie Jade Warrior. It is a horror film about sins and forgiveness, bathing in the Finnish sauna culture, in ...
The Nordic Council Film Prize 2008 this year goes to the Swedish film director Roy Andersson and producer Pernilla Sandstrom for the film 'Du Levande' ('You, the Living...
Johan Kling´s directorial debut had its first accolade at the Göteborg Film Festival last year where it won the Nordic Film Award. 'Darling' was described by the jury as "a...
'Falkenberg Farewell' which was Sweden´s entry for an Academy Award in 2006, is a very personal film about friendship, memories and a final farewell to Falkenberg, a charming li...
"As a filmmaker, I feel that if something makes me feel uncomfortable just talking about it, I know that I am onto a good subject matter. 'Sons' deals with the grey areas o...
'Reprise' has been on the world festivals' and critics´ list of top films since its successful launch at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in 2006. In just over a year, the fi...
'Jar City' is the fourth feature film by the established actor/filmmaker/ producer Baltasar Kormákur, and the second one he adapted from a novel. 'Mýrin' the crime nov...
This low budget film was born from Ragnar Bragason´s desire to make a film with Iceland´s most established and innovative theatre group Vesturport, totally based on improvisation, borrowi...
'A Man´s Job' is Aleksi Salmenperä´s second feature film after the award-winning 'Producing Adults' (2004). It tells the story of Juha, a father of three children, mar...
Co-winner of the top prize or VPRO Tiger Award at the last Rotterdam International Film Festival, 'AFR' was described by the jury as a "well-crafted polemical film, which u...
The Danish film 'The Art of Crying' won the Nordic Film Prize 2007. The prize was shared between Peter Schønau Fog, director, Bo hr. Hansen, scriptwriter and Thomas Stenderup, p...
When a million-dollar life insurance policy comes up for collection, the company always opens a case. When a million-dollar life insurance policy held by notorious con artist Kelvin Ander...
Peter (40) and Asta (35) are happily married and have a ten-year-old son Orn. They are expecting their second child when Peter discovers Orn isn’t his biological son. Peter confronts Asta...
Revolution is a documentary musical about the 1970s generation's fight for a better world and socialism. With songs and music, it paints a picture of a revolution that was lost. Musi...
A family lives on the verge of collapse since Vera, the eldest daughter, ran away from home a year ago. Each family member carries some responsibility, but the heaviest burden falls on Ma...
Well-known Danish actor Nicolas Bro reigns supreme in the role of Nicolas Bro. Bro’s marriage is on the rocks, his wife Lene has grown tired of their relationship, but instead of grabbing...
After the critically acclaimed and prizewinning film 'Brothers', Susanne Bier is now in the news again with the drama 'After the Wedding' - an intense story about fami...
On the surface Andreas has a perfect life. Wife, friends, and an apartment straight from the pages of a lifestyle magazine. But under the surface life is weird: Andreas has no memory of h...