Winners 2024
Best Nordic Feature - Elskling
Best Documentary Feature - The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Best Nordic Short - The Remaining Ones
Best Documentary Short - The League, a Future for Freeskiing
Best International Short - Trapped
Best Director - Isa Schieche, The Robbers
Best Cinematography - Simon Bendroth & Jonah Pinny, The League, a Future for Freeskiing
Best Lead Performance - Helga Guren, Elskling
Best Supporting Performance - Sarah Juel Werner, The Idiot
Honorable Mention - Evaleena Vuorenmaa, Fat Dance
Spirit of Positive Change - Fat Dance
Nordic Impact Award - Lasse Hallström
Sprit of Positive Change Award
Instated 2024 in collaboration between Presenting Partner Absolut and NIFF.
The Spirit of Positive Change Award recognizes filmmakers who strive for progression and positive change in the film industry by promoting diversity, highlighting underrepresented voices and challenging stereotypes.
“It’s an “Absolut” privilege to present Kirsikka Saari and Fat Dance with The Spirit of Positive Change Award, recognizing their bold strides in reshaping the film industry. At Absolut, we’ve always believed that the most inspired creations come from mixing – ideas, identities, perspectives, and, of course, drinks. When we mix, we make magic. The work at NIFF’s 10th anniversary festival brought a much-needed splash of diversity to the filmmaking canvas, and with our shared vision of driving inclusion and representation forward, this partnership wasn’t just natural – it was inevitable.”
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We are proud to be a film festival for filmmakers by filmmakers. We are renowned for our great programming, and active effort in supporting our participating filmmakers in furthering their career.
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NIFF was the first festival in the world to carbon compensate for all filmmakers flying in to attend the festival. Our products are made from exclusively recycled, or recyclable materials.
We serve only plant-based food and snacks, and we encourage a pre-loved look for our Red Carpet.
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NIFF follows its Official Selection statistics to make sure we can be a tipping scale towards any gendered under representation between male and female filmmakers.
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NIFF works actively to seek out filmmakers and stories from a diverse background to feature in its Official Selection. The Nordic region is not a monolith, and we strive to have our Official Selection be a true representation of that.
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NIFF is a place for everyone, and we want to host our events at accessible venues. We also keep statistics over our Official Selection to see how differently abled filmmakers are represented.
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Every year carries a silent theme that is connected to a situation that affects us globally.
Past themes:
The Nordic atmosphere - 2015
Women in Film - 2016
The Refugee Crisis - 2017
Breaking Boundaries - 2018
Climate Change - 2019
Black Lives Matters - 2020
Unity - 2021
Resilience - 2022
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