The Nordic Council Film Prize is an annual film prize administered by the Nordic Council

Nordic Council

The Nordic Council is a geo-political, inter-parliamentary forum for co-operation between the Nordic countries. It was established following World War II and its first concrete result was the introduction in 1952 of a common labour market and free movement across borders without passports for the...

. The first award was handed outin 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

Nordic countries

The Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland...

. In 2008, the prize money of the Nordic Council Film Prize was €47,000. According to the Nordic Council, the prize is given for "the creation of an artistically original film that is rooted in Nordic cultural circles".

Prize winners and nominees

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Submitting country
2002	The Man Without a Past The Man Without a Past The Man Without a Past is a 2002 Finnish comedy-drama film directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen and Juhani Niemelä. It is the second installment in Kaurismäki's Finland trilogy, the other two films being Drifting Clouds and Lights in the Dusk...	Mies vailla menneisyyttä	Aki Kaurismäki Aki Kaurismäki -Career:After studying Media Studies at the University of Tampere, Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment , Dostoyevsky's famous crime story set in modern-day Helsinki...	Finland
2005	Manslaughter Manslaughter (2005 film) Manslaughter is a 2005 Danish film written and directed by Per Fly. The film stars Jesper Christensen and Pernilla August as well as Fly's wife Charlotte Fich....	Drabet	Per Fly Per Fly Per Fly Plejdrup is a Danish film director, generally credited simply as Per Fly. He is married to Danish actress Charlotte Fich. They have the children Anton and Aksel together.-Biography:...	Denmark
	Pusher II: With Blood on My Hands Pusher II Pusher II is a 2004 Danish crime film written and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. The film is the second film in the Pusher trilogy, portraying the lives of criminals in Copenhagen.-Plot:...		Nicolas Winding Refn	Denmark
	Frozen Land	Paha Maa	Aku Louhimies Aku Louhimies Aku Louhimies is a Finnish film director and screenwriter.-Education:He studied at the University of Helsinki and in University of Art and Design Helsinki.-Career:Louhimies has directed six feature-length films:...	Finland
	The 3 Rooms of Melancholia The 3 Rooms of Melancholia The 3 Rooms of Melancholia is a 2004 Finnish documentary film written, directed and co-produced by Pirjo Honkasalo...	Melancholian 3 huonetta	Pirjo Honkasalo Pirjo Honkasalo Pirjo Honkasalo is a Finnish film-maker. Although she has written and directed over a dozen films, Honkasalo is also an accomplished cinematographer, film editor, producer and actor. For her work in the film industry, Honkasalo has been recognized by winning 19 major film awards while being...	Finland
	Screaming Masterpiece Screaming Masterpiece Screaming Masterpiece is a 2005 documentary film directed and written by Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon about the music scene in Iceland...	Gargandi Snilld	Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon	Iceland
	Dís		Silja Hauksdóttir	Iceland
	Kissed by Winter	Vinterkyss	Sara Johnsen	Norway
	Hawaii, Oslo Hawaii, Oslo Hawaii, Oslo is a Norwegian film from 2004. It was directed by Erik Poppe after a script by Harald Rosenløw Eeg. The music was composed by John Erik Kaada and Bugge Wesseltoft. The film was well received by critics, and was awarded two Amanda Awards in 2005....		Erik Poppe Erik Poppe Erik Poppe is a Norwegian film director, screenwriter and former cinematographer and press photographer. Poppe started his career as a photographer for the newspaper Verdens Gang. He graduated as a cinematographer at the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden in 1989, and had great success as...	Norway
	The Guitar Mongoloid The Guitar Mongoloid The Guitar Mongoloid is a 2004 Swedish film directed by Ruben Östlund, about different people living outside the norms in the fictional city Jöteborg, strikingly similar to real-life Göteborg...	Gitarrmongot	Ruben Östlund Ruben Östlund Ruben Östlund is a Swedish film director. Originally a director of skiing film, he has directed three feature-length fiction films: The Guitar Mongoloid from 2004, Involuntary from 2008 and Play, scheduled to be released in 2011.-Career:Ruben Östlund started as a director of skiing films in the...	Sweden
	A Hole in My Heart A Hole in My Heart A Hole in My Heart is a 2004 Swedish drama film written and directed by Lukas Moodysson, starring Thorsten Flinck, Sanna Bråding, Björn Almroth and Goran Marjanovic...	Hål i mitt hjärta	Lukas Moodysson Lukas Moodysson - External links :*...	Sweden
2006	Zozo Zozo Zozo is a 2005 Swedish-Lebanese film about a Lebanese boy during the civil war, who gets separated from his family and ends up in Sweden. It was directed by Swedish-Lebanese director Josef Fares. The story is mostly inspired by Fares' real life immigration to Sweden during the war.The film was...		Josef Fares Josef Fares Josef Fares is a Crystal-Simorgh winning Swedish film director with Assyrian/Syriac origin. His brother is the actor Fares Fares, who has appeared in many of his films....	Sweden
	After the Wedding After the Wedding After the Wedding is a 2006 Danish drama directed by Susanne Bier, starring Mads Mikkelsen and Sidse Babett Knudsen. The film was a critical and popular success and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but lost out to The Lives of Others.In 2009 it was announced that...	Efter bryllupet	Susanne Bier Susanne Bier Susanne Bier is a Danish film director best known for her feature films Brothers, After the Wedding and the Academy-Award-winning In a Better World.-Life and work:Susanne Bier was born to Jewish parents in Copenhagen, Denmark...	Denmark
	Offscreen Offscreen Offscreen is a 2006 Danish film directed by Christoffer Boe, who also wrote the screenplay together with Knud Romer Jørgensen. With an odd mixture of fiction and reality, it tells the peculiar story of a man who films himself for a whole year in a quest for invisibility.-Cast:*Nicolas Bro --...		Christoffer Boe Christoffer Boe Christoffer Boe is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is an established and well-known not only in Denmark, but all through the world. Among his international awards there are FIPRESCI Director of the Year at San Sebastián International Film Festival and Golden Camera at Cannes Film...	Denmark
	Revolution		Jouko Aaltonen	Finland
	Mother of Mine Mother of Mine "Mother of Mine" is a song written by Bill Parkinson and made famous by a Scottish former child singing star Neil Reid who sang it on ITV's Opportunity Knocks and won the competition on 13 December 1971, singing his version of the song...	Äideistä parhain	Klaus Härö Klaus Härö Klaus Härö, born 31 March 1971 in Porvoo , Finland, Finland-Swedish film director. In 2004, Härö won Finland's State Prize for Art.-Films:*Letters to Father Jacob *The New Mankind *Mother of Mine...	Finland
	Thicker Than Water	Blóðbönd	Árni Ásgeirsson	Iceland
	A Little Trip to Heaven A Little Trip to Heaven A Little Trip to Heaven is an Icelandic/United States noir-inspired drama and thriller film from 2005, directed by Icelandic director of The Sea, Baltasar Kormákur. The film is set in the U.S. in 1985 but almost entirely shot in Iceland...		Baltasar Kormákur Baltasar Kormákur Baltasar Kormákur is an Icelandic actor, theater and film director, and film producer. He is best known for directing the films 101 Reykjavík, Hafið, A Little Trip to Heaven , and a film based on the book Mýrin by Arnaldur Indriðason...	Iceland
	Free Jimmy Free Jimmy Free Jimmy is a Norwegian/British computer animated feature film first released in Norwegian language in 2006, and later in English language in 2008. The film was written and directed by acclaimed Norwegian subculture comic book artist Christopher Nielsen...	Slipp Jimmy fri	Christopher Nielsen Christopher Nielsen Christopher Nielsen is a Norwegian comics artist. He is especially known for his subcultural depictions. Nielsen got his first comics printed in 1980 after entering a competition in the Norwegian anarchist magazine, Gateavisa. Only three years later he got his first album published...	Norway
	The Bothersome Man	Den brysomme mannen	Jens Lien Jens Lien Jens Lien is a Norwegian film director. He graduated from the London International Film School in 1993. His graduation project was the short film "Montana", that was featured at the short film festival in Grimstad that year. in 1995 he again participated in this festival, with the entry "Mitt...	Norway
	Mouth to Mouth	Mun mot mun	Björn Runge Björn Runge Björn Lennart Runge born 21 June 1961 in Lysekil is a Swedish director and author. He was nominated for The Nordic Council Film Prize in 2006 for "Mun mot mun".Björn Runge has worked in film since he was 20, and has worked with Roy Andersson, amongst others...	Sweden
2007	The Art of Crying The Art of Crying The Art of Crying , , is a Danish tragicomedy directed by Peter Schønau Fog. It stars Jannick Lorenzen and Jesper Asholt in a harsh tale about an 11-year-old boy's struggle to hold intact his bizarre family with its abusive father, mother in denial, and rebellious sister during the social unrest of...	Kunsten at Græde i Kor	Peter Schønau Fog	Denmark
	AFR AFR (film) AFR is a Danish fictional documentary released in 2007, directed by Danish filmmaker Morten Hartz Kaplers, who also appears in the movie...		Morten Hartz Kaplers	Denmark
	A Man's Job A Man's Job A Man's Work , also known as Man's Job in the United States, is a 2007 Finnish film directed by Aleksi Salmenperä. It was Finland's submission to the 80th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.-See also:*Cinema of Finland*List of...	Miehen työ	Aleksi Salmenperä Aleksi Salmenperä Aleksi Salmenperä is a Finnish film director. He is a graduate of the University of Art and Design Helsinki; among his films are 2004's Producing Adults, 2007's A Man's Work and 2010 Bad Family.-References:...	Finland
	Children Children (film) Children is a 2006 Icelandic film. The film was very acclaimed and won several Edda Awards. The film was also submitted as Iceland's official entry to the Academy Awards foreign film section.- Plot :...	Börn	Ragnar Bragason Ragnar Bragason Ragnar Bragason is an Icelandic film director, screenwriter and producer.He is best known for his films Börn and Foreldrar and the popular TV series Næturvaktin , Dagvaktin , and Fangavaktin .Ragnar grew up in the village of Súðavik, in a family of...	Iceland
	Jar City Jar City (film) Jar City Jar City Jar City (Icelandic: Mýrin is a 2006 Icelandic film directed by Baltasar Kormákur. It is based on Mýrin, a novel written by Arnaldur Indriðason, released in English as Tainted Blood (also released in English as Jar City)....	Mýrin	Baltasar Kormákur Baltasar Kormákur Baltasar Kormákur is an Icelandic actor, theater and film director, and film producer. He is best known for directing the films 101 Reykjavík, Hafið, A Little Trip to Heaven , and a film based on the book Mýrin by Arnaldur Indriðason...	Iceland
	Reprise Reprise (film) Reprise is a Norwegian film directed by Joachim Trier. Co-written over the course of five years with Eskil Vogt, it is Trier's first feature-length film. The film was the Norwegian candidate for the Academy Award as best foreign language film in 2006....		Joachim Trier	Norway
	Sons Sons (2006 film) Sons is a Norwegian film from 2006. Sons focuses on the conflict between a pederastic man and the boys with whom he has had intimate relationships...	Sønner	Erik Richter Strand	Norway
	Falkenberg Farewell Falkenberg Farewell Falkenberg Farewell is a 2006 Swedish drama film, written and directed by Jesper Ganslandt. It was nominated for four Guldbagge Awards including Best Film as well as being selected as Sweden's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-Plot:The film presents five childhood...	Farväl Falkenberg	Jesper Ganslandt	Sweden
	Darling Darling (2007 film) Darling is a 2007 Swedish drama film directed by Johan Kling, about an irresponsible young woman in central Stockholm who befriends an older man...		Johan Kling Johan Kling Johan Kling is a Swedish film director, screenwriter, and novelist...	Sweden
2008	You, the Living You, the Living You, the Living is a 2007 Swedish film written and directed by Roy Andersson. The film is an exploration on the "grandeur of existence," centered around the lives of an overweight woman, a disgruntled psychiatrist, a heartbroken groupie, a carpenter, a business consultant, an elementary school...	Du levande	Roy Andersson Roy Andersson Roy Andersson is a Swedish film director, best known for his films A Swedish Love Story and Songs from the Second Floor. More than any other, Songs from the Second Floor succeeded in cementing his personal style — a style characterized by long takes, absurdist comedy, stiff caricaturing of...	Sweden
	The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1	De unge år - Erik Nietzsche Del 1	Jacob Thuesen	Denmark
	The Home of Dark Butterflies The Home of Dark Butterflies The Home of Dark Butterflies is a 2008 Finnish film directed by Dome Karukoski and starring Niilo Syväoja, Tommi Korpela, Kristiina Halttu and Kati Outinen...	Tummien perhosten koti	Dome Karukoski Dome Karukoski Thomas "Dome" Karukoski is a Finnish film director, His feature Beauty and the Bastard showed at the Berlin International Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival in 2006. The film, which stars Pamela Tola, concerns young people in Finland who are caught between conventional careers and more...	Finland
	White Night Wedding White Night Wedding White Night Wedding is a 2008 Icelandic film directed by Baltasar Kormákur. The bittersweet comedy, about the never-ending search for love and happiness, takes place in Flatey, Breiðafjörður, western Iceland. The film is loosely based on the play Ivanov by Anton Chekhov.-Plot:The film opens with...	Brúðguminn	Baltasar Kormákur Baltasar Kormákur Baltasar Kormákur is an Icelandic actor, theater and film director, and film producer. He is best known for directing the films 101 Reykjavík, Hafið, A Little Trip to Heaven , and a film based on the book Mýrin by Arnaldur Indriðason...	Iceland
	The Man Who Loved Yngve	Mannen som elsket Yngve	Stian Kristiansen	Norway
2009	Antichrist Antichrist (film) Antichrist is a 2009 arthouse-horror film written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. It follows horror film conventions and tells the story of a couple who, after the death of their child, retreat to a cabin in the woods where the man experiences strange...		Lars von Trier Lars von Trier Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....	Denmark
	Sauna Sauna (film) Sauna, also known as Filth or Evil Rising, is a 2008 Finnish horror film directed by Antti-Jussi Annila.- Plot :In 1595, after the long war between Sweden and Russia, brothers Knut and Eerik are marking the border between Finland and Russia. When they are crossing a swamp, a young girl, whom they...		Antti-Jussi Annila	Finland
	The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela is a 2008 drama film directed by Olaf de Fleur Johannesson.-Plot:Raquela, a Filipino transsexual prostitute dreams of making a new life in Paris...		Olaf de Fleur Johannesson Olaf de Fleur Olaf de Fleur is an Icelandic film director and producer.He studied physics in Reykjavík, graduating in 1995. Since then he has participated in many film projects, including both feature and documentary films...	Iceland
	North North (2009 film) Nord is a Norwegian film from 2009 written by Erlend Loe and directed by Rune Denstad Langlo.Nord was nominated for the 2009 Nordic Council Film Prize....	Nord	Stian Kristiansen	Norway
	Light Year	Ljusår	Mikael Kristersson	Sweden
2010	Submarino Submarino Submarino is a 2010 Danish drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg, starring Jakob Cedergren and Peter Plaugborg. It is based on the 2007 novel Submarino by Jonas T. Bengtsson, and focuses on two brothers on the bottom of Danish society, with lives marked by violence and drug addiction. The film...		Thomas Vinterberg Thomas Vinterberg Thomas Vinterberg is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production....	Denmark
	Steam of Life Steam of Life Steam of Life is a Finnish documentary film directed by Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen. The movie was produced by Joonas Berghäll. It opened theatrically in New York City on July 30th, 2010 and opened in Los Angeles on August 6th, 2010 at the 14th Annual DocuWeeks.It was selected as the...	Miesten vuoro	Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen	Finland
	The Good Heart The Good Heart The Good Heart is a Icelandic independent film written and directed by Dagur Kári, starring Brian Cox and Paul Dano. It debuted at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.-Plot:...		Dagur Kári Dagur Kári Dagur Kári is an Icelandic film director.He was born in Paris, France to Icelandic parents and returned to Iceland when he was 3 years old. Dagur graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1999, with art house short movie Lost Weekend...	Iceland
	Upperdog		Sara Johnsen	Norway
	Metropia Metropia (film) Metropia is a 2009 Swedish adult animated science-fiction film directed by Tarik Saleh. The screenplay was written by Fredrik Edin, Stieg Larsson, and Tarik Saleh after a story by Tarik Saleh, Fredrik Edin and Martin Hultman. The film uses a technique where actual photographs have been altered and...		Tarik Saleh Tarik Saleh Tarik Saleh is Swedish television producer, animator, publisher, journalist and film director of Egyptian descent, who in early 90s was one of Sweden's most prominent graffiti artists...	Sweden
2011	Beyond Beyond (film) Beyond is a 2010 Swedish drama film directed by Pernilla August, starring Noomi Rapace, Ola Rapace, Tehilla Blad, Outi Mäenpää and Ville Virtanen. The original Swedish title is Svinalängorna, which means "The swine rows" and refers to the housing project where parts of the story are set. The film...	Svinalängorna	Pernilla August Pernilla August Pernilla August is a Swedish actress, director and script-writer. Being one of Sweden's leading actresses and a long time collaborator with director Ingmar Bergman, she won the Best Actress Award at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival for her role in his The Best Intentions...	Sweden
	Truth About Men	Sandheden om mænd	Nikolaj Arcel	Denmark
	The Good Son	Hyvä poika	Zaida Bergroth	Finland
	Undercurrent Undercurrent (2010 film) Undercurrent is a 2010 Icelandic drama film, based on a play by the same name, and produced by the acclaimed theatre group Vesturport. The film won the Best Picture award at the 2011 Edda Awards in Iceland....	Brim	Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson	Iceland
	Oslo, August 31st Oslo, August 31st Oslo, August 31st is a 2011 Norwegian drama film directed by Joachim Trier. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. It won the prizes for Best Film and Best Cinematography at the 2011 Stockholm International Film Festival; jury president Whit Stillman...	Oslo, 31. August	Joachim Trier	Norway

External links

• The Nordic Council Film Prize