Noomi Rapace will be honored at Göteborg Film Festival with the Nordic Honorary Dragon Award and present the Nordic premiere of Mother, along with director Teona Strugar Mitevska.
In Mother, Rapace portays Mother Teresa in a fascinating and provocative interpretation. It follows seven days in Mother Teresa’s life when she decides to leave her convent in Kolkata, India, to establish her own religious order.
The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and will have its Nordic premiere at Göteborg Film Festival on January 27, before its release in Swedish cinemas in February 2026.
Rapace will also be celebrated with a retrospective highlighting some of her most significant roles, including The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) directed by Niels Arden Oplev, Beyond (2010) directed by Pernilla August, and Lamb (2021) directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson.
“It feels both natural and deeply meaningful to present this year’s Nordic Honorary Award to Noomi Rapace. She captivates audiences around the world with her uncompromising presence and fearless expressive power. Her ability to find and portray what burns, unsettles, and moves us cuts straight through the screen”, says Pia Lundberg, Artistic Director of Göteborg Film Festival.
Noomi Rapace is known for breakthrough role as hacker Lisbeth Salander in the screen adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy that earned her a Guldbagge Award and catapulted her onto the international stage. Since then, she has starred in films ranging from epic science fiction in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus to Icelandic folklore in Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb.
Göteborg Film Festival 2026 takes place from January 23 to February 1, 2026.
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