Nordisk Film & TV Fond announced August 20 the six nominations for this year’s Nordic Council Film Prize. These include two documentaries:
- Denmark: The Son and the Moon (Min arv bor i dig). Directed by Roja Pakari and Emilie Adelina Monies, written by Roja Pakari and Denniz Göl Bertelsen, produced bySara Stockmann for Sonntag Pictures. A Danish-Iranian filmmaker’s brave and honest journey through six years of cancer, love and a life project of mapping her family’s dramatic history.
- Greenland: Twice Colonized. Directed by Lin Alluna, written by Aaju Peter and Lin Alluna, produced by Emile Hertling Péronard for Ánorâk Film, Red Marrow Media and EyeSteelFilm. When the youngest son of renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter, who has led a lifelong fight for the rights of her people, unexpectedly passes away, Aaju embarks on a personal journey to bring her colonizers in both Canada and Denmark to justice.
The Nordic Council Film Prize recognizes a full-length feature film produced in the Nordic countries, and is valued at DKK 300,000 (EUR 41,000), which is shared equally among the film’s director, screenwriter and producer to reflect “the collaborative effort essential to the art of filmmaking.”
The four fiction nominees are: Fallen Leaves, directed and written by Aki Kaurismäki (Finland); Touch by Baltasar Kormákur (Iceland); Sex by Dag Johan Haugerud (Norway); Crossing by Levan Akin (Sweden).
All six films will be presented on Tuesday August 20 on stage at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund during a special tribute to Nordic films.
The Nordic Council Film Prize was first awarded to Aki Kaurismäki in 2002 for The Man Without a Past. In 2022 it was awarded to Jonas Poher Rasmussen for his animated documentary Flee.
A national jury from each of the six Nordic countries nominated one candidate per country. The winner of the Nordic Council Film Prize 2024 will be unveiled on Tuesday, October 22.
