The Last Resort directed by Maria Sødahl has won the Dragon Award Best Nordic Film at the 2026 Göteborg Film Festival.
On their pick, the jury said, “Today, as our world tips toward fascism and the power-hungry use storytelling to divide humanity into us and them – those worthy of our compassion and those not – cruelty toward the outsider is repeated until we come to see it as normal, then, to our shame, as legitimate – and finally we stop seeing it at all. “
The Audience Dragon Award Best Nordic Film went to The Quiet Beekeeper by Marcus Carlsson, along with the gender-neutral Dragon Award Best Acting, which went to Adam Lundgren for his role in the film.
Weightless by Emilie Thalund won the FIPRESCI prize, awarded by the International Federation of Film Critics. The jury said, “At a health summer camp, 15-year-old Lea develops feelings for an adult coach, blurring the line between infatuation and exploitation. This empathetic debut feature tells a touching story of female body politics, friendship, and abuse.” The film also earned the Sven Nykvist Cinematography Award for Louise McLaughlin.
This year’s Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary went to Malandro Moon by Iván Blanco, the Ingmar Bergman Debut Award went to Bouchra by Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki, the Youth Jury Dragon Award went to My Father’s Shadow by Akinola Davies Jr.
The Dragon Award Best International Film, voted for by the audience, went to Calle Malaga by Maryam Touzani; and the Draken Film Award, presented to a Swedish short film, went to Uncle Ali and I by Shahab Mehrabi.
Winners of the 2026 Göteborg Film Festival
Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film
The Last Resort, directed by Maria Sødahl
Dragon Award Best Acting
Adam Lundgren for his role in The Quiet Beekeeper, directed by Marcus Carlsson
Sven Nykvist Cinematography Award
Louise McLaughlin for Weightless.
FIPRESCI
Weightless by Emilie Thalund
Audience Dragon Award Best Nordic Film
The Quiet Beekeeper by Marcus Carlsson
Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary
Malandro Moon by Iván Blanco
Ingmar Bergman Debut Award
Bouchra, by Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki
Dragon Award Best International Film
Calle Malaga by Maryam Touzani
Youth Jury Dragon Award
My Father’s Shadow by Akinola Davies Jr.
Draken Film Award 2026
Uncle Ali and I by Shahab Mehrabi
The Honorary Dragon Award was presented to Agnieszka Holland
The Nordic Honorary Dragon Award was awarded to Noomi Rapace
Startsladden – Best Swedish short, was presented to Christer Wahlberg
The Startsladden Cinematography Award was presented to Without Kelly and Director of Photography Christine Leuhusen
Startsladden – Audience Award was awarded to Christer Wahlberg for All That Remains of Me.
The Church of Sweden’s Angelos Film Award, was awarded to The Patron, directed by Julia Thelin.
The Nordic Series Script Award was presented by Nordisk Film & TV Fond as part of the Nordic Series Award
Ingeborg Topsøe, writer of Secrets We Keep
The Creative Courage Award, also part of Nordic Series Awards, went to the Swedish series Blood Cruise, produced by Alexander Rönnberg from Northern Fable and and Will Tennant from Imaginarium Productions and commissioned by Johanna Gårdare and Sonja Nilsson Hermele from SVT.
27th Nordic Film Market winners
Out of Athens, directed and written by Badrudin Ga’ur, received the €15,000 Film Finances Scandinavia Award, and Chentian, directed and written by Suha Arraf, was honored with the Tint Post-Production Award worth SEK 400,000 (approx. €35,000).
The Mai Zetterling Grant was awarded by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, and presented to animator and filmmaker Peter Larsson.
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