Norwegian director Erik Poppe’s latest feature, The King’s Choice [+lire aussi :
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interview : Erik Poppe
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Recently, The King’s Choice, which was last year’s number one in the Norwegian charts, taking 713,276 admissions, won the Norwegian film industry’s Canon Awards for Best Script (Harald Rosenløw Eeg, Jan Trygve Røyneland), Best Producers (Finn Gjerdrum, Stein B Kvae), Best Actor (Jesper Christensen) and Best Cinematography (John Christian Rosenlund), adding the Audience Award, as voted for by the users of the filmweb.no website (read the news).

Tjelta and 82-year-old Norwegian director Anja Brein gave the Award for Best Performance to Norwegian actress Bente Børsum for her 58th film role, the lead in Norwegian director Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken’s Late Summer [+lire aussi :
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interview : Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken
fiche film]. 

Norwegian professor of film studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Anne Gjelsvik was awarded the Messenger Prize in recognition of her being a real enthusiast and an indispensable resource for the Norwegian cinema-going public, who has enriched film culture by spreading knowledge, dedication and enthusiasm for film as art.