The Stockholm Film Festival was held from 5 to 16 nov. During those days, the festival was attended by filmmakers, producers, actress and actors and people who are working with the cinematography. During twelve days the festival showed 180 movies from ca 60 countries... Enligt the Stockholm Film Festival it was a record year.
"It has been a record breaking year for the Stockholm Film Festival - 201 films, 60 countries
and a grand total of 141 000 visitors throughout the year."
From Stockholm Film Festival website
On november 14 was the Award ceremony at Södra Teatern. Here it is a list with the winners. The Jury was composed of Daniel Espinosa (head of jury), Debra Granik,
Johannes Bah Kuhnke and Erika Wasserman.
Best film: Girlhood by Céline Sciamma
Justification: In this film’s energetic storytelling style, a young woman goes
through several epic transformations. Marieme charges forward through
snares and dead-ends, not knowing where to go, but determined to
survive. Girlhood fills a gap in the stories that get told about
Paris. As Marieme relates to the diverse characters in her world, the
acting and directing strike complex notes. Ultimately, we see this
young woman as a whole person, and we wonder and care about what will
happen to her next.
Best first film: A Girl at my Door by July Jung
Justification: In this debut, the filmmaker has brought a fresh eye to characters
and environments we have not seen before. There is an
existential excitement in seeing the intersection of basic human
needs, and in deciphering behaviors that we don’t understand fully,
which nevertheless has shocking consequences.
Best script: Nima Javidi for Melbourne
Justification: When a character makes choices that are hard to understand, the
challenge is to put ourselves in that character’s place. This film
compels us to reflect, reminding us to dwell on the ramifications of
our own actions. It is an affirmation of how complicated it is
to be a responsible human being.
Best actress: Jasna Zalica, These Are The Rules
Justification: Defying cliché, without exaggeration. Naked honesty.
This actor embodies soulful restraint, leading us to feel for and
with this character and her husband. Her work is a powerful testament
to how a good story and an unflinching performance bring us close to
the experience of an individual in an unfamiliar place and situation.
Best actor: Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, These Are The
Rules
Justification: The jury is celebrating the remarkably high calibre of acting in
this year’s selection, a feast of powerful performances. We
want to highlight the work of an actor who artfully draws on life
experience, with a strong, compassionate presence, using small
gestures acutely, and developing palpable on-screen chemistry with
his acting partner.
Best cinematography: Crystel Fournier for These
Are The Rules and Girlhood
Justification: In a time of technological bells and whistles, we are impressed
with the elegance of two films in which photography responds to and
enhances the story. The jury was torn between vivid depictions
of teenage women in Paris and the profundity of a stoic older couple
in Croatia. Amazingly, both films were the work of the same
brilliant cinematographer – Crystel Fournier for These Are The
Rules and Girlhood.
Honorable mention – best cinematography: Hooman
Behmanesh for Melbourne
Justification: Special mention to a cinematographer who worked tirelessly and
precisely to make one apartment a labyrinth of the psyche. This is
the cinematographer of Melbourne.
Best music: Luke Abbott for The Goob
Justification: The prize for music in film goes to a film that used music coming
from the culture in which it was set. It managed to use diverse
music in a way that respects us as viewers -- giving us space to
think our own thoughts and feel our own feelings.
Best short film: The Chicken by Una Gunjak
Justification: A film that manages to make the audience experience the complex
reality of war through the eyes of a 6-year old girl. The sensitive
direction gives space for the young actors to shine. A birthday, a
chicken, a window, a girl’s hands and face, sometimes the smallest
details says more than any grand explanation.
Telia Film Award: 10.000 Km av Carlos
Marques-Marcet
Justification: This year’s winner stands out as a result of its take on the
present moment, which is both original and moving. Through its
playful tone and raw narrative it tackles something unique about our
time, something it displays offering both opportunities and
difficulties.
FIPRESCI best film: Hungry Hearts by Saverio
Costanzo
Justification: For its use of unexpected imagery to tell a compelling arc of
paranoia and helplessness in a modern world. Thanks to excellent
performances and writing, this film is a devastating and fascinating
dissection of mutating basic human instincts and self-preservation.
Stockholm Rising Star: Julia Ragnarsson
Justification: With a liberating sense of fearlessness this year’s Rising Star
winner has delivered two completely different performances in two
features this year. With intelligence and a palpable sense of
pleasure for her work she turns the expected into the unexpected.
This year’s winner is Julia Ragnarsson.
Stockholm Achievement Award: Uma Thurman
Justification:Ever since her earliest roles, Uma Thurman has displayed an
ability to portray and project the perfect and fantastical, while
giving glimpses of the humanity that lies within. Every performance
is exciting, enthralling and ferocious and a gift to audiences
worldwide.
Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award: Mike Leigh
Justification: Every new Mike Leigh feature is an invitation to a glimpse into
lives so fully formed and vivid with a cast of actors who
portray not characters, but breathing, living people. This
year's Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to a filmmaker who
iscomfortable humanizing master artists, abortionists and people who
others would shy their gaze from. Mike Leigh is a true cinematic
humanist, an exceptional director of actors and a master of
improvisational filmmaking.
Stockholm Visionary Award: Roy Andersson
Justification: Ever since his breakthrough with A Swedish Love Story, Roy
Andersson has refined a distinctive cinematic expression he shares
with no other director. Roy Andersson’s films are characterized by
an insistent search for a perfect tone – every image, gesture and
line of dialogue mediates through humor and seriousness both
humanity’s greatness and fallibility.
1 km Film-scholarship: Hot Chicks by Ninja
Thyberg
Justification: This year's winner has demonstrated the ability to capture the
present in less than 15 minutes. The director refuses to give easy
answers and displays a willingness to challenge her audience.
In her next film she aims to visualize issues such as the creation of
identity, the need to be recognized and our uneasy longing to meet
societal norms.
Honorable mention – 1 km Film: Chat with Me by
Tia Kouvo
Justification: The jury would like to acknowledge a director who depicts
something we rarely get to see on the big screen; love and desire
that gets very little attention in Sweden today. A director who
depicts what we might do when our repressed emotions have to be
released and how we break away when our lives keep us
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS 2014!
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