27/06/2007

With four nominations each, the award-winning directorial debuts of Joachim Trier (Reprise [+see also:
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Joachim Trier will go head on against Erik Richter Strand for Best Norwegian Film, Best Director, Best Script, and Best Supporting Actor/Actress (Victoria Winge in Reprise and Henrik Mestad in Sons). Uro will run for Best Film, Actor (Nicolai Cleve Broch), Actress, (Ane Dahl Torp) and Supporting Role (Ingar Helge Gimle).

The surprise comes from the Norwegian director of Kurdish origin Hisham Zaman whose 52 minutes feature debut Winterland has three nominations for Best Film, Script and Lead Actor (Raouf Saraj). Zaman won an Amanda in 2005 for his short film Bawke.

Four other Norwegian films have two nominations each: Marius Holst’s refugee drama Mirush [+see also:
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In the Best Foreign Film category, Olivier Dahan’s French film La vie en rose [+see also:
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The Amanda Award which ends the film year 2006/2007 is organised by the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund in cooperation with the Norwegian Film Institute. The Awards ceremony will take place on Friday August 17, 2007 at Haugesund’s Concert Hall.