Jane Magnusson’s portrait of the Swedish master won Best European Documentary at Saturday night’s 31st European Film Awards in Seville. “Bergman was the first president of the European Film Awards and to win this award during the celebration of his centenary is fantastic,” said Magnusson in her acceptance speech.

The Swedish film which focuses on Bergman’s most productive year of 1957, was produced by B-Reel Films with support from Nordisk Film & TV Fond. Bergman-A Year in a Life had its world premiere in Cannes, alongside other top EFA winners 2018, such Pawel Pawlikoski’s Cold War, which converted four of its five top nominations into awards for Best European Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actress (Joanna Kulig).

At earlier EFA awards, the black and white epic love story picked up Best Editing (Jarosław Kamiński). Cold War was distributed by Finnkino in Finland, BíóParadís in Iceland, Norsk Film Distribusjon in Norway, and Scanbox in Denmark and Sweden.

In the Best Actor Category, Dogman’s Marcello Fonte beat the other strong contenders Sverrir Gudnason (Borg/McEnroe), Tomasz Kot (Cold War), Victor Polster (Girl), Jakob Cedergren (The Guilty) and Rupert Everett (The Happy Prince).

Belgium’s Lukas Dhont was bestowed the Discovery Award-Prix Fipresci for his debut film Girl, and the UK film The Death of Stalin by Armando Iannucci Best European Comedy.

Another EFA favourite, Sweden’s fantasy drama Border by Ali Abbasi won Best European Visual Effects Supervisor (Peter Hjorth). Martin Otterbeck picked up European Cinematographer of the year for his work on the Norwegian drama U-Utøya 22 by Erik Poppe.

For the full list of EFA award, check: www.europeanfilmacademy.org