host cities: malmö, reykjavik, bergen, århus, oulu

Thank you all!

An entertaining gala awards show rounded off this years´ Nordisk Panorama in Malmö, Sweden.

**Welcome to the next Nordisk Panorama 5 Cities Film Festival in Reykjavik on Iceland 2009 where the festival will celebrate its´ 20th anniversary! 25.09. - 30.09. 2009**

During six intense days, 74 films have competed in the Competition Programme of Nordisk Panorama 5 Cities Film Festival 2008 which showcased the best new short films and documentaries from the five Nordic countries. Many of them were screened to an international audience for the first time. At Nordisk Panoramas Gala Awards Ceremony on Tuesday evening, films from Denmark and Norway dominated the stage.

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Best Nordic Short Film

The Award for Best Nordic Short Film went to the Danish director Martin de Thurah´s Young Man Falling (Ung man falder).

Honory Mention went to Johannes Nyholm for his film The Tale of Little Puppetboy (Den lille Dockpojken) in appreciation of the director´s artistic voice. Read more...

The Canal+ Prize, selected by the Canal+ representatives consists a purchase of the film for Canal+ broadcasting in France and Africa. The winner of this award are the Danish directors Thomas Glud and Lars Wass with the film Out of Spjald (Væk fra Spjald).

Best Nordic Documentary

The prize for best documentary film went to the film Big John (Blod & ære) directed by Håvard Bustnes (Norway).

The jury made two Honorary Mentions in this category: One to the film Lies (Lögner) directed by Jonas Odell (Sweden) and one to John Websters Recipes for Disaster. Read more...

Documentaries up to 30 mins also competed for the new award Sparbanksstiftelsen Skåne Award for Short Documentary and the award of 30.000 SEK, sponsored by Sparbanksstiftelsen Skåne. The winner is Statistics (Statistikk) directed by Solveig Melkeraaen (Norway).

New Nordic Voices

For the second year around new promising Nordic filmmakers competed in New Nordic Voices. This years winner is Nikolaj Viborg from Denmark, with his film 69.

The jury wanted to make two special mentions in this category. One to Alone, Together made by Annika Grof (Finland) and one to The Last Elephant by Antti Laakso (Finland).

Nordic Talent Pitch

This years´ winners of SF Nordic Talent Pitch is Lisa Bergström (Sweden) and her project The Undertaker Students. Read more...

Crossover Nordic Pitch

This years´ winner of av Crossover Nordic Pitch are Maria Ahlin and Andreas Öhman with their project Our Secret Society. Read more...

Winners of Nordisk Panorama Short Film Marathon

1st Prize: Panopticon by Sten Rosendahl, Stockholm

2nd Prize: Agruppen Drama, Norrängsskolan Hässleholm
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Nordisk Panorama - 5 Cities Film Festival

Nordisk Panorama is hosted by the City of Malmö in the south of Sweden between September 26th and October 1st 2008. During six eventful days, hundreds of international film professionals and thousands of movie lovers will gather at Nordisk Panorama to watch great films, learn new things, meet fantastic people and have a wonderful time.

The festival is held annually and rotates between the cultural cities of Malmö in Sweden, Reykjavik in Iceland, Bergen in Norway, Århus in Denmark and Oulu in Finland. Therefore it is also called Nordisk Panorama - 5 Cities Film Festival. Nordisk Panorama celebrates its 19th year on the arena and is the largest short & documentary film festival of the Nordic countries.