The Norwegian director Jakob Hardeberg from the Norwegian Film School, was awarded the NOK 250,000 Pitch Prize 2026, for the documentary In Between (Brytningstid).
Jury motivation:
“The winner is a beautifully intimate film about friendship. The film is surprising, physical, funny, and wonderfully accidental. There is nothing self-conscious, but everything authentic. We love the narrowness of its focus. As a feature we believe it can develop further, while keeping that focus and purity. We want it to grow, not to change. You can’t make up these characters, and you didn’t.”
The industry conference M:brane also selected In Between to be pitched at the children and youth festival in Malmö.