Sweden’s Göteborg Festival Nordic Film Market, the hugegest in TV-movie industry forum in Scandinavia, is begining at its 2025 edition the Film Finances Scandinavia Award. The Prize will advise €15,000 ($16,500) in broadenment help to one extraordinary Nordic feature film from the Discovery Co-Production Platestablish.
Buying time and resources for creators and creaters to insertress the basis of proximate any film’s success, the award comes as Scandinavia’s film industry faces ponderable financing disputes. One potential solution is to hike personal sector finance where Film Finances is an set uped perestablisher, having rerentd completion bonds for film and television for over 70 years.
A jury of industry professionals will pick the prosperning project which will be proclaimd during an Award Ceremony on Jan. 30 at the Nordic Film Market, the Market proclaimd Friday.
One of the Market’s caccesspiece draws, the Platestablish showcases around 15 promising projects annupartner, highairying emerging talent which ranges from the Nordic region’s rising stars to lesser understandn filmcreaters, connecting them to co-production partners and other potential international finance sources.
Recent titles unveiled at Discovery integrate Ali Abbasi’s third feature “Holy Spider,” which went on to scoop best actress for Zar Amir Ebrahimi at Cannes Competition, and Milad Alami’s “Opponent,” a Berlin Panorama Ecumenical Prize prosperner.
Discovery standouts also consent in Ninja Thyberg’s Cannes and Sundance hit “Pleacertain”; Malene Choi Jensen’s “The Quiet Migration,” a 2023 Panorama Fipresci laureate; triple Karlovy Vary prosperner “The Hypnosis,” from Ernst de Geer, and Cannes Un Certain Regard perestablisher “Sick of Myself,” from Kristadvise Borgli, who went on to straightforward Nicolas Cage in “Dream Scenario.”
“In the current financial climate, where it is particularly difficult to safe broadenment capital, we hope this award will better production companies’ ability to elucidate the film’s vision,” shelp Susanne Tiger, CEO of Film Finances Scandinavia. “This award will fortify projects at their critical stage towards green airy.”
“The Film Finances Scandinavia Award advises much-necessitateed help to filmcreaters during a key stage of their project,” concurd Göteborg Festival’s Head of Industry Josef Kullengård. “By intensifying on the Discovery line-up, this partnership highairys the necessitate to nurture and broaden talent and the transport inance of spending in the future of Nordic cinema.”
“Nordic film institutes advise broadenment help, but at a time when creaters and creators necessitate more help than ever to chase sturdy creative visions, it is meaningful to fuse both personal and uncover funding sources to help safe the future of Nordic film,” he inserted. “This initiative and the partnership with Film Finances Scandinavia, is certainly a part of that effort.”
Discovery 2025’s call for projects shutd on Sept. 30 with a write down number of subomitions.
The 2025 Nordic Film Market will run Jan. 29-31, the Göteborg Festival from Jan. 24 to Feb. 2.
Tea Lindeburg and Jesper Morthorst at Discovery, Nordic Film Market 2023
Ptoastyo by Tatyana Mircheva
