“Lilja Ingolfsdottir’s” Lilja “won Big on Saturday evening at the Amanda Awards, the prices of the national film in Norway, finally picking up four applause, including the best Norwegian film.
The film, which was presented at first in Karlovy Vary, was congratulated in international festivals for its representation observing a relationship that will acidic.
“There are thousands of traditional love stories on couples,” said Ingolfsdottir. “We have high divorce rates, but before a person’s departure, something should happen. What is this? We have so much trouble trying to connect, “she said Variety.
Helga Guren – broken like Maria, who is shocked to discover that her husband wants to divorce – received the prize for best actor in a leading role. It was the first victory of Guren Amanda.
“I just wanted to have an imperfect and multilayer female character who is a human being like all of us. She is responsible by looking at her dysfunctionality and she is courageous enough to recognize her models. She does not need superpowers,” added Ingolfsdottir, opening onto the complex character of Guren. She also wrote the award -winning script.
“Armand” by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel was also recognized, Ellen Dorrit Petersen picked up her second trophy after “blind”, while Mats Lid Støten took the sound design and his DP Pål Ulvik Rokseth of the best cinematography. The film, with Renate Reinsve in the lead, has already won the Camera d’Or de Cannes for the best first feature film.
Lea Myren won her debut for her turn in the revelation of Sundance “The Ugly Stepsynd” by Emilie Blichfeldt, described by Variety‘S Peter Debruge as a “scary Scandinavian Cendinavian” with “broken nose, cut toes and other bloody details that suit the Grimm brothers”.
This year’s honor, Amanda was awarded to director Hans Petter Moland, known for his collaborations with Stellan Skarsgård, including “a somewhat sweet man”, “in order of disappearance” – whom he later redone as “cold” – or “steal horses”.
“It is an honorary price, it is therefore not the end of my achievements. I am making another film and I have five, six years of aligned projects, God wants. I have many colleagues who succeed in making films well in the 90s, so I have no reason to stop!”, He said after the ceremony.
And as for another film with Skarsgård?
“Each outing with Stellan is an exploration. It is based on our collective curiosity – we like to go to places that we have not been before. With the right project, we will return something.”
The golden valve of 2025 went to the duo of the composer Geir Bøhren and Bent Åserud; “The brutalist” by Brady Corbet was named best film in a foreign language.
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You can find the full list of rewards here:
Best movie
“Lovable” (director Lilja Ingolfsdottir, producer Thomas Robsahm)
Best director
Lilja Ingolfsdottir for “adorable”
Best actor in a leading role
Helga Guren for “Lovable”
Best actor in a support role
Ellen Dorrit Petersen for “Armand”
Best first performance
Lea Myren for “The Ugly Socthesher”
Best documentary film
“Stoltenberg: faceing war” (director Tommy Gulliksen, producers Anne Marte Blindheim and Danielle Turkov Wilson)
Best children’s movie
“The Polar Bear Prince” (director Mikkel Brenne Sandemose, producer Cornelia Boysen)
Best short film
“As we forgive” (director Hedda Mjøen, producers Oda Kruse and Stian Skjelstad)
Best foreign language film
“The brutalist” (United States, director Brady Corbet, Uip Norway distributor)
Best scenario
Lilja Ingolfsdottir for “adorable”
Best cinematography
Pål Ulvik Rokseth for “Armand”
Best editing
Jens Christian Foottad for “Dreams (Sex, Love)”
Best sound design
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Best original score
Thomas Dybdahl for “everything must go”
Best costume design
Karen Fabritius Gram and Ingjerd Meland for “Quisling – The last days”
Best makeup design
Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg for “The Ugly Stenshire”
Best design / production scenography
Kate Van der Merwe for “Safe House”
Best visual effects
Alf Martin Løvolt for “N ° 24”
The people’s Amanda:
“No. 24” (Director John Andreas Andersen, Producers Espen Horn, Kristian Strand Sinkerud, Terje Strømstad and John M. Jacobsen)
Honorary Amanda
Hans Petter Moland
The gold valve
Geir bøhren, bent Åserud
