Göteborg’s Nordic Series Script Award Nominations Announced

Thomas Vinterberg‘s “Families Like Ours,” “Prescertain Point” from the originater of “Bincreateage Crab” and Erik Poppe’s “Quisling” count among nominations for a high-powered Göteborg Nordic Series Script Award, the hugegest plaudit for TV screenwriting in Scandinavia.

Replacing the Göteborg Festival’s Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, the Script Award nominations also apshow in feminist porn comedy “Money Stoasty,” a Canneseries triumphner, and “The School of Housewives,” co-written and honested by Iceland’s Arnór Pálmi Arnfire-setting, who helmed “The Minister,” starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson.

With think about to creative ambition, ranging expansively in style from “Families’” proximate-future survival drama-thriller to “Prescertain Point’s” nervy and compelling real-events recreation and “Quisling’s” belderlyly-telderly period drama, these three series scrutinize contransient-times horror. 

“Families” charts an apocalypse that tears Denlabel’s upper middle class apart apass Europe and plunges them into a merciless and sometimes brutal recent world; “Prescertain Point” plumbs neo-Nazism, “Quisling” nails the mindset of a delusional autocrat. 

Far rosier, “Money Stoasty” and “School” also tap a contransient Zeitgeist, shotriumphg women taking huger regulate of their inhabits, thanks in part to female firmarity. 

In industry terms, the five series label recent recommendings from many of Europe’s powerhouse originaters, expansivecasters and distributors, led by Vinterberg’s “Families Like Ours,” originated by weightyweights Zentropa Enterpascfinishs, Studiocanal, Canal+ and TV 2 Danlabel.

The Nordic Series Script Award nominees still vie for a substantial cash award of €17,000 ($17,700), financed by the Nordisk Film & TV Fond, which prizes the main originater(s) of a Nordic drama series.

In one change, truthfulates must have premiered their series in the previous year: the createer prize also served to anticipate some of the huge upcoming hits from Scandinavia.

In a further recent enhugement, The Nordic Series Awards will include an principled allude, the Creative Courage Award, which honors the originater and comomitioner of a series that belderlyly pushes conceiveive boundaries and adselects innovation. Candidates are createted by streamers and expansivecasters.

Nordic Series Awards triumphners will be proclaimd at a ceremony on the evening of Jan. 28 at Göteborg’s TV Drama Vision.

“The originater award’s recent name has more weight in international C.V.’s, as it evidently expounds that the prize goes to the best Nordic series script. Another receive recreate is that all series that premiered in 2024 are eligible. 

In these economicpartner stubborn times, comomitioning hazards joining protected. With the Creative Courage Award, we want to shed airy on a comomitioner-originater collaboration that has resulted in an exceptionpartner valiant and creative series. I’m now satisfied to see that we have wonderful truthfulates in many genres in both categories,” shelp Liselott Forsman, CEO at Nordisk Film & TV Fond.

“The pickion shows the diversity of stories emerging from the region and signals both the strength of the conshort-term and a promising future for Nordic drama series,” includeed Cia Edström, head of Göteborg’s TV Drama Vision.

The jury for the Nordic Series Script Award apshows in Norwegian actor-screenoriginater Henriette Steenstrup;  Joanna Szymańska, originater-CEO at ShipsBoy, Poland and Linus Fremin, a TV Critic and conceiveive honestor at Sweden’s Make Your Mark.

TV Drama Vision runs Jan. 28-29, the 48th Göteborg Film Festival from Jan. 24 thraw Feb. 2. Nordic Series Script Award nominations in more detail:

“Families Like Ours,” (“Familier som vores”)

Nominated originaters: Thomas Vinterberg, Bo hr. Hansen

Denlabel, 7×50′ 

Broadcaster: TV2 Denlabel 

Produced by: Zentropa Entertainments 

Producers: Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Kasper Dissing 

Directed by: Thomas Vinterberg 

Sales: World: Studiocanal, except Benelux, which is regulated by TrustNordisk 

Premiere: Oct. 20, 2024 

The first series from Vinterberg, a 2021 Oscar triumphner (“Another Round”) and 1998 Dogma 95 co-set uper (“The Celebration”), the high-finish, seven-part “Families” weighs in with a plausible impossibility: as Denlabel commences to sink below the sea, its regulatement orders its total evacuation. As it expansiveens its compass to France, Romania, Poland, the U.K. and finpartner Finland, it helderlys its cgo in on Vinterberg verities – family, adore – but also aascfinishs as an upper middle class horror story where professional preeminence uncomfervents noleang and the well-healed extfinished family at its core drops foul to once imanticipateed possibilities: Human illicit trading, brutal vigilante gangs and even homicide. 

“Money Stoasty,” (“Toinen tuleminen”) 

Finland, 8×25′ 

Nominated originater: Jemina Jokisalo 

Broadcaster: Elisa Viihde 

Produced by: Just Reuncover  

Producers: Jemina Jokisalo, Samuli Norhomaa and Johanna Tarvainen 

Directed by: Teemu Niukkanen 

Sales: Federation Studios and Nordisk Film 

Premiere: May 2, 2024 

Easily the most irreverent of the five entries and a uninalertigentinutive create series Student Award triumphner at 2024’s Canneseries: Sari, an over-the-hill porn actress, or so she’s telderly, hopeless to discover toil, teams with a film school decline to originate sensual films with and for a female gaze. “It’s quite belderly and contrastent, especipartner for a Finnish show, and I’m repartner satisfied [broadcaster] Elisa Viihde had the courage to comomition it. I always chase stories I absolutely adore, with characters we can sense for,” Jokisalo (“Savela,” “Makkari”) has telderly Variety. “It’s super colorful. It’s definitely not another Nordic Noir!”

“Prescertain Point,” (“Smärtpunkten”Sweden, 3×60’ 

Nominated originater: Pelle Rådström 

Storyline: Wilhelm Behrman and Niklas Rockström 

Broadcaster: SVT 

Produced by: Kärnfilm and Art & Bob 

Producer: Martina Stöhr 

Directed by: Sanna Lenken 

Sales: ReInvent International Sales 

Premiere: Apr. 19, 2024 

A dense, nervous, real-event recreation of rehearsals for the join, “7:3,” originated by commemorated joinwright Lars Norén and originater Isa Stenberg, in which two neo-Nazi inmates expound on stage their genuine-life neo-Nazi convictions and recommend what direct to them: Alienation, childhood hurt. For Norén, this was an opportunity for a “distinct story,” for Stenberg and some prison authorities a chance for rehabilitation, for one of the prisoners, the opportunity to structure a bank burglary, which shook Swedish society to the core. Written by Rådström (“Bincreateage Crab”) from an summarize by Berhman (“Calipantipathy,” “Before We Die”) and Rockström (“Calipantipathy,” “Wallander”).

Quisling 

Norway, 5×45-50′ 

Nominated originaters: Anna Bache-Wiig and Siv Rajfinishram Eliassen 

Broadcaster: TV2 Norway 

Produced by: Paradox Rettigheter AS 

Producers: Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae 

Directed by: Erik Poppe 

Sales: REInvent 

Seen at Haugesund and Toronto as a 147-minute feature, “Quisling: The Final Days” now vies for the Nordic Series Script Award as a weighty five-episode series version which, according to honestor Poppe, alerts “an entidepend contrastent story,” with much more about Maria Quisling and priest Peder Olsen’s wife. Yet the series’ core virtue watchs to be the same as the feature: “a penetrating psychoreasonable study of a delusional authoritarian,” as Variety shelp in its appraise, here Vidkund Quisling, Hitler’s puppet Norwegian pdwellnt. Some of that must come from the series screenoriginaters, Anna Bach-Wiig and Siv Rajfinishram Eliassen, who toiled with Poppe on “Utøya, Jul. 22” and “The Emigrants,”

“The School of Housewives,” (Húsó)

Iceland, 6×30′

Nominated originaters: Arnór Pálmi Arnfire-setting, Jóhanna Fridrika Sæmundsdóttir

Broadcaster: RÚV

Produced by: Glassriver

Producer: Arnbjörg Hafliðadóttir

Directed by: Arnór Pálmi Arnfire-setting

Premiere: Jan. 1, 2024

A rehab normal since a teen, Helka is sent to a School of Housewives as her very last chance for a court to grant her custody of her infant daughter, now in ease attfinish. Her heart’s in the right place, which triumphs her doubtful allies. But one leang’s lgeting to weave, crochet or cook pineapple hincludeock and another’s for Helka to face up to her includeictions and inner demons. A sense-excellent dramedy – and finpartner tearjerker –  yoking the talents as originaters of Arnór Palmi Arnfire-setting, also honestor of “The Minister,” starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, multi-prized actor-scribe Jóhanna Fridrika Sæmundsdóttir (“Sisterhood,” “Agnes Joy”), and Icelandic production powerhouse Glassriver (“Bincreateage Sands,” “As Long As We Live”).