Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson’s feature debut wins the NDR Film Prize at Lübeck’s Nordic Film Days and the Politiken Audience Award in Copenhagen. 

The coming of age film produced by Iceland’s Joint Motion Pictures and Denmark’s SF Studios Production has picked up a total of ten international awards since its world premiere at Venice Days. The next stop for Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson’s film is Seville, Sao Paulo and Thessaloniki. Film Boutique handles world sales.

Other main Nordic awards handed out in Lübeck include; 

  • Audience award to The Day Will Come by Jesper W. Nielsen (DK) 
  • Baltic Film Prize to The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki by Juho Kuosmanen (FI) -
  • Interfilm Church Film Prize to Rosemari by Sara Johnsen (NO) 
  • Best Documentary Award to The Crossing by George Kurian (NO) 
  • Children’s Jury Prize to Gilbert's Grim Revenge by Hanne Larsen. The film also won an Honourable Mention from the Children and Youth Jury. 
  • Honourable Mentions from the Children’s Jury Prize were split between the Swedish film The Girl, The Mother and her Demons and the Danish film Iqbal Farooq and the Secret Recipe.
  • Documentary section, the second award went to the Norwegian film The Man Who Knew 75 Languages.

The winners from the CPHPIX Film festival also comprised: 

  • New Talent Grand Pix to Bulgaria’s Godless by Ralitza Petrova 
  • Nordisk Film Fond Best Children’s Film to Girls Lost by Alexandra-There Keining (SE) 
  • Politiken Best Short Film for Children to Amalie Næsby's Ztripes (DK).