Valeska Grisebach’s multi-award-winning drama Western [+lee también:
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entrevista: Jonas Dornbach
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Grisebach, who was a guest at Norway’s biggest festival, received her award from the jury, comprising Ingrid Dokka (Nordnorsk Film Center), Cato Fossum (Oslo Pix), Ingrid Stensen (film and art educator) and honorary member Steven Jianhua Gao. According to the jury, “Western breathes new life into an old film genre to tell a story from a present-day Europe divided by borders between countries, as well as by the borders within ourselves.”

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Western was one of the 12 films participating in the Aurora competition programme, which all had their Norwegian premieres at Tromsø IFF. The two remaining awards were handed to the well-travelled drama Angels Wear White [+lee también:
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entrevista: Dawid Ogrodnik
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Norwegian director Erik Poppe’s documentary Per Fugelli – Siste Resept [+lee también:
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In the popular Films from the North programme, which presents short and documentary films from the Nordic countries, I Will Always Love You, Conny by Swedish director Amanda Kernell was awarded with the Tromsø Palm for Best Film. The Un Certain Regard Prize winner A Man of Integrity by Mohammad Rasoulof received the Norwegian Peace Film Prize.

Finally, Japanese director Naoko Ogigami, who was this year’s honorary guest at Tromsø and was celebrated through a retrospective of her work, was voted for by local festival-goers and thus bagged the Tromsø Audience Award for her latest film, Close-Knit.

Here is the full list of award winners at the 28^th Tromsø International Film Festival:

Tromsø Aurora Prize
Western [+lee también:
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entrevista: Jonas Dornbach
entrevista: Valeska Grisebach
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FIPRESCI Award
Angels Wear White [+lee también:
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Don Quijote Award
Soldiers. Story from Ferentari [+lee también:
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entrevista: Dawid Ogrodnik
entrevista: Ivana Mladenovic
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Norwegian Peace Film Award
A Man of Integrity – Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran)

Faith in Film Award
Per Fugelli – Siste Resept [+lee también:
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Tromsø Palm
I Will Always Love You, Conny – Amanda Kernell (Sweden)

Tromsø Audience Award
Close-Knit – Naoko Ogigami (Japan)