10/01/2006

Björn Runge is for the second year in a row the Guldbagge (Swedish Oscars)’s favourite with seven nominations for his latest film Mun Mot Mun (Mouth to Mouth) against 8 last year for his acclaimed feature debut Daybreak.
Released by Sonet Film this Christmas, the family drama Mouth To Mouth produced by Zoyd Productions is nominated for Best Film, Best Director, Best Script (Runge), Best Actor (Peter Andersson), Best supporting actor (Magnus Krepper), Best supporting actress (Sofia Westberg) and Best Cinematography (Anders Bohman).

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The second most nominated film is Sweden’s Oscar contender this year for Best Foreign language film, Josef Fares’ Zozo [+see also:
trailer
film profile] produced by Memfis Film. Fares will compete against Runge as well as Ulf Malmros’ God save the King for Best Director, and against the surprise nominee: Nina’s Journey by Lena Einhorn for Best Film and Best Script.
A Swedish/Polish co-production between East of West Film, SVT Sweden, Storch & Storch, Svensk Filmindustri in Sweden and VILM Production in Poland, the film is documentary filmmaker Lena Einhorn’s first feature based on her own biography ‘Nina’s Journey, the story of a survival’ telling the moving story of her own mother’s experience at Warsaw’s ghetto during WW2.

Other Guldbagge nominees include this year’s Finnish entry for an Oscar Klaus Härö’s Mother of Mine for which Maria Lundqvist and Michael Nyqvist are nominated respectively for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, and the two Swedish films selected at Berlin 2006’s Kinderfilmfest: Percy, Buffalo Bill & I by Anders Gustafsson, nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Börje Ahlstedt) and Henry Meyer’s Four Weeks In June for which Tuva Novotny and Ghita Nørby are running for Best lead Actress and supporting Actress. Among the three films competing for Best Foreign language film are the Dardenne brothers’ L’enfant [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne
film profile] and Michael Haneke’s Hidden [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Margaret Menegoz
interview: Michael Haneke
film profile] . The 39th Guldbagge Awards ceremony will take place in Göteborg on January 30th.