Nordic Council Film Prize - All the Nominated films
by Labraxas | created - 04 Dec 2011 | updated - 04 Dec 2011 | PublicThe Nordic Council Film Prize is an annual film prize administered by the Nordic Council. The first award was handed out in 2002 to celebrate the Nordic Council's 50th anniversary.Since 2005 the prize has been annual. One winner is chosen from submissions from the five Nordic countries. This is a list of all the films that have been nominated to The Nordic Council Film Prize.
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1. The Man Without a Past (2002)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
M arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously attacked by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. He revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. He rebuilds his life from scratch, but the past inevitably catches up with him.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Annikki Tähti, Juhani Niemelä
Votes: 26,128 | Gross: $0.92M
2. Open Hearts (2002)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance
A Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident.
Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Sonja Richter, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen, Paprika Steen
Votes: 10,951 | Gross: $0.12M
3. Okay (2002)
97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A bittersweet comedy with dogma star Paprika Steen in the strong leading role.
Director: Jesper W. Nielsen | Stars: Paprika Steen, Troels Lyby, Ole Ernst, Nicolaj Kopernikus
Votes: 1,576
4. Cleaning Up! (2001)
78 min | Documentary, Music
Cleaning Women is unique Finnish band, which plays self-made instruments made from eg. drying rack and large tin cans. This documentary follows their Eastern Europe tour.
Director: Rostislav Aalto | Stars: Risto Puurunen, Timo Kinnunen, Tero Vänttinen, Cleaning Women
Votes: 47
5. The Sea (2002)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
A rich father in a fisher village plans to take on the project of writing his life story. But first he has to take on his own family, and everybody wants something...
Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Gunnar Eyjólfsson, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Hélène de Fougerolles, Kristbjörg Kjeld
Votes: 1,749 | Gross: $0.06M
6. The Seagull's Laughter (2001)
Unrated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or ... See full summary »
Director: Ágúst Guðmundsson | Stars: Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir, Ugla Egilsdóttir, Heino Ferch, Hilmir Snær Guðnason
Votes: 697
7. Alt om min far (2002)
75 min | Documentary, Biography
Young film director Even Benestad tells the story of his own mother Espen Benestad who is a transgender woman and seeks her son's acceptance.
Director: Even Benestad | Stars: Espen Benestad, Elsa Almås, Elisabeth Benestad, Liv
Votes: 438
8. Musikk for bryllup og begravelser (2002)
97 min | Drama
Sara, recently divorced and mourning the loss of her only child, rents her basement to Bogdan, a Serbian musician who brings the whole band along. As she learns more about her ex's ... See full summary »
Director: Unni Straume | Stars: Lena Endre, Bjørn Floberg, Rebecka Hemse, Petronella Barker
Votes: 269
9. Lilya 4-Ever (2002)
R | 109 min | Crime, Drama
Sixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Russia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.
Director: Lukas Moodysson | Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharskiy, Pavel Ponomaryov, Lyubov Agapova
Votes: 49,421 | Gross: $0.18M
10. Days Like This (2001)
95 min | Drama
The tenants in a building are constantly busy with straightening out their lives. In the midst of all a vacuum cleaner salesman appears that instead of selling his goods he start to listen ... See full summary »
Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: Kjell Bergqvist, Carina M. Johansson, Christian Fiedler, Ulla-Britt Norrman-Olsson
Votes: 547
11. Manslaughter (2005)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
A college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student radical accused of killing a policeman.
Director: Per Fly | Stars: Jesper Christensen, Pernilla August, Beate Bille, Charlotte Fich
Votes: 2,518
12. Pusher II (2004)
Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Leif Sylvester, Anne Sørensen, Øyvind Hagen-Traberg
Votes: 25,029
13. Frozen Land (2005)
130 min | Drama
One bad event begins a chain reaction of misery as problems transfer from one person to another. It starts when a schoolteacher is fired and projects his issues onto his teenage son.
Director: Aku Louhimies | Stars: Jasper Pääkkönen, Mikko Leppilampi, Pamela Tola, Petteri Summanen
Votes: 6,344
14. Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004)
Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary, War
A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.
Director: Pirjo Honkasalo | Star: Pirkko Saisio
Votes: 704
15. Gargandi snilld (2005)
87 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary about the bustling Icelandic musical scene. This documentary covers some of Iceland's most talented and well-known musicians.
Director: Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon | Stars: Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Barði Jóhannsson, Walter Durkacz, Úlfur Eldjárn
Votes: 464
16. Dís (2004)
82 min | Comedy
Dís, 23, is still to decide what to do with her life. Obsessed by the thought of being "abnormally normal", a mere photocopy of long lost original, she wanders from one odd job to another and tries out various cources at the University.
Director: Silja Hauksdóttir | Stars: Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir, Árni Tryggvason, Ylfa Edelstein
Votes: 103
17. Vinterkyss (2005)
R | 84 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After her son is hospitalized, a doctor cheats on her husband with a snow plow driver who is a suspect in her investigation of the recent death of a young Arab boy.
Director: Sara Johnsen | Stars: Annika Hallin, Kristoffer Joner, Fridtjov Såheim, Göran Ragnerstam
Votes: 805
18. Hawaii, Oslo (2004)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
"Hawaii, Oslo" is the story of a handful of people who cross one another's paths without necessarily knowing one another, during the hottest day of the year in Oslo. Frode and Milla are ... See full summary »
Director: Erik Poppe | Stars: Trond Espen Seim, Jan Gunnar Røise, Evy Kasseth Røsten, Stig Henrik Hoff
Votes: 4,882
19. The Guitar Mongoloid (2004)
89 min | Drama
A 12 year old boy making basic punk songs, grown up men playing with guns, a neurotic woman with euphoric happiness targeting self destruction. A Swedish everyday life you've never seen before.
Director: Ruben Östlund | Stars: Erik Rutström, Britt-Marie Andersson, Mikael Allu, Bjarne Gunnarsson
Votes: 1,446
20. A Hole in My Heart (2004)
Unrated | 98 min | Drama
In a decript apartment, a young man watches as his father and a friend shoot an amateur porn film. Issues of morality, reality TV and friendship are explored.
Director: Lukas Moodysson | Stars: Thorsten Flinck, Björn Almroth, Sanna Bråding, Goran Marjanovic
Votes: 5,071 | Gross: $0.00M
21. Zozo (2005)
105 min | Drama, Family, War
A Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.
Director: Josef Fares | Stars: Imad Creidi, Antoinette Turk, Elias Gergi, Carmen Lebbos
Votes: 3,378
22. After the Wedding (2006)
R | 120 min | Drama
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Rolf Lassgård, Neeral Mulchandani
Votes: 37,122 | Gross: $0.41M
23. Offscreen (2006)
93 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Actor Nicolas Bro reigns supreme in the role of Nicolas Bro # a man intent on making a film about himself. After his director friend Christoffer Boe lends him a camera, his selfmonitoring is so hair-raisingly private that it becomes impossible to separate fact from fiction.
Director: Christoffer Boe | Stars: Nicolas Bro, Lene Maria Christensen, Karen Margrethe Bjerre, Christoffer Boe
Votes: 712
24. Kenen joukoissa seisot (2006)
80 min | Documentary, Music
Director: Jouko Aaltonen | Stars: Tarmo Aaltonen, Pekka Aarnio, Kaj Chydenius, Charlotta Ericson
Votes: 122
25. Mother of Mine (2005)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, War
During World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. From the award-winning Klaus Härö (Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002)), "... See full summary »
Director: Klaus Härö | Stars: Topi Majaniemi, Marjaana Maijala, Maria Lundqvist, Michael Nyqvist
Votes: 4,609
26. Blóðbönd (2006)
90 min | Drama
A father finds out that his son is not actually his.
Director: Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson | Stars: Róbert Arnfinnsson, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Aaron Brink, Haukur Örn Brink
Votes: 179
27. A Little Trip to Heaven (2005)
R | 98 min | Drama, Thriller
A husband and wife tangle with an investigator over her dead brother's million-dollar insurance policy.
Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: María Fernández Ache, Kharl Anton Leigh, Peter Coyote, Forest Whitaker
Votes: 5,109
28. Free Jimmy (2006)
Not Rated | 86 min | Animation, Comedy
Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters, and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.
Director: Christopher Nielsen | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Simon Pegg, Phil Daniels, Jay Simpson
Votes: 6,946
29. The Bothersome Man (2006)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In a strange city where every person seems content beyond reason a new man arrives in town and stirs up trouble by asking too many questions.
Director: Jens Lien | Stars: Trond Fausa, Petronella Barker, Per Schaanning, Birgitte Larsen
Votes: 18,075
30. Mun mot mun (2005)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
The teenage girl Vera left her family after an incident at home, and is now living with a middle-aged drug addict, Morgan.He is using her as a prostitute to get money for drugs and debts by... See full summary »
Director: Björn Runge | Stars: Sofia Westberg, Peter Andersson, Marie Richardson, Magnus Krepper
Votes: 467
31. The Art of Crying (2006)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
Southern Jutland, DK, early 1970s: A dysfunctional family is burdened by an evil, self-righteous father, who manipulates his 11 y.o. son and 14 y.o. daughter with his repeated suicide threats.
Director: Peter Schønau Fog | Stars: Jannik Lorenzen, Jesper Asholt, Julie Kolbeck, Hanne Hedelund
Votes: 2,490
32. AFR (2007)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama
A mockumentary where reality and fiction are combine to create drama. The director has deceived and manipulated leading world politicians, as well as politicians in his own country, for satirical effect.
Director: Morten Hartz Kaplers | Stars: Rashid Aitouganov, Kofi Annan, Reimer Bo Christensen, Niels Jørgensen
Votes: 474
33. A Man's Job (2007)
104 min | Drama
Unemployed man forgets his dignity to support his family.
Director: Aleksi Salmenperä | Stars: Tommi Korpela, Maria Heiskanen, Jani Volanen, Stan Saanila
Votes: 2,338
34. Children (2006)
93 min | Drama
Karitas is a single mother of four who desperately tries to make ends meet. Fighting a losing battle with her ex-husband for custody over her three daughters, she's oblivious to what's ... See full summary »
Director: Ragnar Bragason | Stars: Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Andri Snær Magnason
Votes: 686
35. Jar City (2006)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.
Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir
Votes: 5,634
36. Reprise (2006)
R | 105 min | Drama
Fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, two competitive friends endure the pangs of love, depression, and burgeoning careers.
Director: Joachim Trier | Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Espen Klouman Høiner, Viktoria Winge, Odd-Magnus Williamson
Votes: 15,646 | Gross: $0.55M
37. Sønner (2006)
103 min | Drama
Trouble starts when Lars, a 25-year-old with few prospects for the future, discovers that an older man is fooling around with the teenage boys in his suburb. A terrible rage is triggered in... See full summary »
Director: Erik Richter Strand | Stars: Nils Jørgen Kaalstad, Mikkel Bratt Silset, Edward Schultheiss, Henrik Mestad
Votes: 1,512
38. Falkenberg Farewell (2006)
91 min | Drama
The last summer the five boys are together in Falkenberg. They are now grown up to be young men, on their way out into the world. At least most of them.
Director: Jesper Ganslandt | Stars: John Axel Eriksson, Holger Eriksson, David Johnson, Jesper Ganslandt
Votes: 2,953
39. Darling (I) (2007)
94 min | Drama
A tragic and comic tale about beautiful and self-absorbed Eva, who cheats on her boyfriend, which becomes the starting point of a slow but relentless descent down to the life of ordinary people and a surprising, but doomed friendship.
Director: Johan Kling | Stars: Michelle Meadows, Michael Segerström, Richard Ulfsäter, Michael Lindgren
Votes: 1,538
40. You, the Living (2007)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
You, the Living is a film about humankind, its greatness and its baseness, joy and sorrow, its self-confidence and anxiety, its desire to love and be loved.
Director: Roy Andersson | Stars: Elisabeth Helander, Jörgen Nohall, Jan Wikbladh, Björn Englund
Votes: 16,298 | Gross: $0.02M
41. De unge år: Erik Nietzsche sagaen del 1 (2007)
Not Rated | 91 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Erik wants to make films. He starts 1979 at the Danish Film School. The many written and unwritten rules give him difficulty fitting in.
Director: Jacob Thuesen | Stars: Jonatan Spang, David Dencik, Carl Martin Norén, Therese Damsgaard
Votes: 738
42. Tummien perhosten koti (2008)
108 min | Drama
A boy is sent to Saari, an isolated island and home to a home for troubled boys, where he falls in love with the daughter of the school's superintendent.
Director: Dome Karukoski | Stars: Niilo Syväoja, Tommi Korpela, Kristiina Halttu, Kati Outinen
Votes: 2,502
43. White Night Wedding (2008)
Unrated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
In less than twenty-four hours, a middle-aged academic and his nearly half his age fiancée will get married in Iceland's windswept island, Flatey, amid endless preparations and bitter second thoughts. Is this what they really want?
Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir, Laufey Elíasdóttir, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson
Votes: 1,443
44. The Man Who Loved Yngve (2008)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A teenage boy loses his footing when he finds himself drawn to the new boy in class.
Director: Stian Kristiansen | Stars: Rolf Kristian Larsen, Arthur Berning, Ida Elise Broch, Ole Christoffer Ertvaag
Votes: 5,031
45. Antichrist (2009)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
Votes: 136,606 | Gross: $0.40M
46. Sauna (2008)
Unrated | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
As a 25-year war between Russia and Sweden concludes, two brothers who are part of an effort to outline new border accords become undone by their actions, and their mistreatment of a young woman during their journey.
Director: Antti-Jussi Annila | Stars: Ville Virtanen, Tommi Eronen, Viktor Klimenko, Rain Tolk
Votes: 7,489
47. The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela (2008)
R | 80 min | Biography, Drama
Raquela, a transsexual from the Philippines, dreams of escaping the streets of Cebu City for a fairy tale life in Paris.
Director: Olaf de Fleur Johannesson | Stars: Raquela Rios, Stefan C. Schaefer, Olivia Galudo, Brax Villa
Votes: 256 | Gross: $0.01M
48. Nord (2009)
79 min | Comedy, Drama
NORTH Following a nervous breakdown, ski athlete Jomar has isolated himself in a lonely existence as the guard of a ski park. When he learns that he might be the father of a child way up ... See full summary »
Director: Rune Denstad Langlo | Stars: Anders Baasmo, Kyrre Hellum, Marte Aunemo, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen
Votes: 3,155
49. Ljusår (2008)
Not Rated | 101 min | Documentary
In a dazzling sequence of shots Mikael Kristersson explores the greatness of the small objects in his own garden in Falsterbo, an old Swedish village. We see the real world from other ... See full summary »
Director: Mikael Kristersson | Star: Erenice Lohan
Votes: 41
50. Submarino (2010)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
Two brothers meet at their mother's funeral, each in his way on a path of self-destruction, both haunted by a tragedy in their youth.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Gustav Fischer Kjærulff, Sebastian Bull, Mads Broe Andersen, Jakob Cedergren
Votes: 11,596
51. Miesten vuoro (2010)
81 min | Documentary
Finnish men in sauna, speaking straight from the heart.
Directors: Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen | Stars: Timo Aalto, Pekka Ahonen, Aarne Aksila, Mauno Alasuutari
Votes: 2,687
52. The Good Heart (2009)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama
A cantankerous but ailing bartender takes a kindly young homeless man in under his wing.
Director: Dagur Kári | Stars: Paul Dano, Brian Cox, Bill Buell, Boði
Votes: 5,175 | Gross: $0.02M
53. Upperdog (2009)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, he to material wealth on Oslo's west side, she to an average family on the east side. ... See full summary »
Director: Sara Johnsen | Stars: Hermann Sabado, Agnieszka Grochowska, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen, Bang Chau
Votes: 1,524
54. Metropia (2009)
TV-14 | 86 min | Animation, Drama, Mystery
A complex story of a misaligned man, though good intent, creating a nightmarish Dystopian existence.
Director: Tarik Saleh | Stars: Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgård
Votes: 8,122
55. Beyond (2010)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
A drama set in 1970s Sweden and centered on a young woman's experiences growing up in a home riddled with abuse and alcoholism.
Director: Pernilla August | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Ola Rapace, Outi Mäenpää, Ville Virtanen
Votes: 4,408
56. Truth About Men (2010)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mads, a 34-year-old scriptwriter, goes through a life crisis when a close friend has a stroke and ends up in a coma. Mads breaks up with his girlfriend of 10 years and tries to find a ... See full summary »
Director: Nikolaj Arcel | Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Tuva Novotny, Rosalinde Mynster, Signe Egholm Olsen
Votes: 1,456
57. The Good Son (2011)
88 min | Drama
When his mother takes a shine to a man at a party, a young man begins to lose his grip on reality. Initial release: March 25, 2011 (Finland) Director: Zaida Bergroth Editor: Jan Forsström ... See full summary »
Director: Zaida Bergroth | Stars: Samuli Niittymäki, Elina Knihtilä, Eero Aho, Anna Paavilainen
Votes: 403
58. Brim (2010)
95 min | Drama
The crew on board the fishing vessel Undercurrent RE 29 has become uncomfortably numb with its never ending routine of week long tours at sea. Then, during one dark and dreary night this ... See full summary »
Director: Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson | Stars: Ingvar Sigurdsson, Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Gísli Örn Garðarsson
Votes: 384
59. Oslo, August 31st (2011)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.
Director: Joachim Trier | Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Hans Olav Brenner, Ingrid Olava, Malin Crépin
Votes: 29,664 | Gross: $0.10M
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