WRITTEN BY: Annika Pham
Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s Costa-Rica set drama Clara Sola, the critically-acclaimed feature debut by Álvarez Mesén produced by Hobab’s Nima Yousefi, won Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Sound at Sweden's national film awards.
The awards ceremony was held in Stockholm last night.
Selected by Costa-Rica as its Oscar entry, the tale of female sexual awakening and mysticism, has travelled to numerous festivals since its world premiere at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight in July.
In a sign of generational shift and female empowerment, Ninja Tyberg’s debut film Pleasure was awarded for the performance of its leading actress Sofia Kappel, the costumes by Amanda Wing Yee Lee and make up by Erica Spetzig. The film set in L.A.’s adult industry was produced by Plattform Produktion.
A Christmas Tale by seasoned director Hannes Holm, also received three awards for leading actor Jonas Karlsson, supporting actress Jennie Silfverjhelm and production designer Michael Higgins. The heart-warming film produced by SF Studios was the second biggest Swedish film of 2021.
Documentaries were celebrated across different categories, with Sabaya by Hogir Hirori scooping Best Documentary, Children of the Enemy by Gorki Glaser-Müller Best Original Score, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World by Kristian Petri and Kristina Lindström Best Editing, and the Danish film Flee by Jonas Poher Rasmussen Best International Feature.
Meanwhile rising actor Jonay Pineda Skallak was voted Best Supporting Role for his performance in the youth romance JJ+E, produced by Filmlance International for Netflix and SVT
Nordisk Film & TV Fond was associated to eight Guldbagge awards for the films Pleasure, Children of the Enemy, Sabaya, The Emigrants, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World and Flee.
The 57th Guldbagge Awards gala was hosted by actress and comedian Gina Dirawi and broadcast live on SVT.
Full list of Guldbagge awards 2022:
- Best Film: Clara Sola produced by Nima Yousefi
- Best Director: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, Clara Sola
- Best Leading Actress: Sofia Kappel, Pleasure
- Best Leading Actor: Jonas Karlsson, A Christmas Tale
- Best Supporting Actress: Jennie Silfverhjelm, A Christmas Tale
- Best Supporting Actor: Jonay Pineda Skallak, JJ+E
- Best Screenplay: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén and Maria Camila Arias, Clara Sola
- Best Editing: Hanna Lejonqvist and Dino Jonsäter, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
- Best Cinematography: Sophie Winqvist Loggins, Clara Sola
- Best Sound Design: Erick Vargas Williams,Valène Leroy, Charles De Ville, Aline Gavroy, Clara Sola
- Best Original Score: Lisa Nordström, Children of the Enemy
- Best Visual Effects: Alex Hansson and Torbjörn Olsson, The Emigrants
- Best Costume Design: Amanda Wing Yee Lee, Pleasure
- Best Production Design: Michael Higgins, A Christmas Tale
- Best Make-Up: Erica Spetzig, Pleasure
- Best Short Film: Man with Doves by Lina Maria Mannheimer
- Best Documentary: Sabaya by Hogir Hirori
- Best International Film: Flee by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
- Gullspire-extraordinary contributions in children’s films: animation director/writer Johan Hagelbäck
- Honorary Award: writer/director Suzanne Osten
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