Sweden’s Sami Blood won Best Nordic Film and Best Cinematography and Denmark’s The War Show Best Nordic Documentary. 

Kernell’s Sami Blood was awarded Göteborg Film Festival’s record SEK 1 million cash prize for its ‘universal theme told through a painfully topical portrait of a minority struggle’. 

Obaidah Zytoon and Andreas Dasgaard’s documentary The War Show about the Syrian conflict was awarded SEK 100,000 and described as a ‘monumental and uncompromising film that combines extremely strong material with a unique and persistent voice of a generation.”

Both films had already picked up major awards in Venice where they had their world premiere.

The War Show was backed by Nordisk Film & TV Fond, alongside the Finnish film Tom of Finland, winner of Göteborg’s FIPRESCI award. Dome Karukoski’s biopic about the gay icon and illustrator was also the festival’s opening film. The jury awarded Karukoski and his team for 'portraying the life of such an iconic character, balancing a well-done execution and story development, and taking us through the decades thanks to a clever use of music and production design.'     

The Swedish film Beyond Dreams by promising debut director Rojda Sekersöz won both the Audience Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film and the Angelo -Swedish Church Award.

Lone Scherfig - Nordic Honorary Dragon Award recipient - was bestowed the festival’s Audience Dragon award for Best feature Film with Their Finest.

The Ingmar Bergman Debut award went to Germany’s The Impossible Picture by Sandra Wollner and the Lorens Award to Anton Máni Svansson, Lise Orheim Stender, Jesper Morthorst and Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson, producers of the Icelandic/Danish film Heartstone.