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Nordic Council Film Prize 2009
 Welcome to the official site of the Nordic Council Film Prize 2009.
Oslo: October 21, 2009
The Nordic Council Film Prize 2009 is awarded to the Danish film director and scriptwriter Lars von Trier and producer Meta Louise Foldager for the film ANTICHRIST.
The film's producer Meta Foldager said "It is with a great sense of pride, pleasure and honour on behalf of the film that I thank the Nordic Council for this recognition for Antichrist."
The Nordic Council Film Prize is awarded to a feature film of cultural value produced in the Nordic countries and is divided equally between the film's director, scriptwriter and producer, which underlines that film as an art form is the result of close co-operation between these three main functions. The prize is worth DKK 350,000 and will be presented in conjunction with the Nordic Council's Session in Stockholm on 27 October.
Click below for full winner information about ANTICHRIST, followed by detailed information about all five 2009 nominated films.
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2009 WINNER - ANTICHRIST by Lars Von Trier
Located here are high res photos from winners lunch, full press releases and motivation statements by the jury in English and all Nordic languages. Read more |
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DENMARK - ANTICHRIST
ABOUT THE FILM: Lars von Trier's psychological horror film Antichrist about guilt, suffering and female evil, was filmed at a moment in the director's life where he suffered from severe depression. His long time friend/cinematographer, ... Read more |
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FINLAND - SAUNA
ABOUT THE FILM: Sauna is AJ Annila's second genre film after his Finnish/Chinese Kung Fu movie Jade Warrior. It is a horror film about sins and forgiveness, bathing in the Finnish sauna culture, in the no-zone between Christianity and pagan... Read more |
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ICELAND - THE AMAZING TRUTH ABOUT QUEEN RAQUELA
ABOUT THE FILM: After reading about transsexuals in newspaper articles, Olaf de Fleur Johannesson found the ‘ladyboy' Raquela on the internet and afterwards met her in the Philippines. Totally taken and inspired by her, he wrote a scr... Read more |
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NORWAY - NORTH
ABOUT THE FILM: Rune Denstad Langlo had the idea for North as he was going through a life crisis and asked the established Norwegian writer/scriptwriter Erlend Loe to make it into a feature film screenplay. The director used his experienc... Read more |
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SWEDEN - LIGHT YEAR
ABOUT THE FILM: Nature filmmaker Mikael Kristersson has spent almost two decades putting together his third feature length documentary Light Year which captures everyday life in his own garden, filmed in its natural rhythm, over the course of f... Read more |
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