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\n\tMaria S\u00f8dahl\u2019s The Last Resort <\/em>has clinched the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at the 2026 G\u00f6teborg Film Festival, which encompasses a prize sum of SEK 400,000, or over $40,000. <\/p>\n \n\tThe jury \u2014 comprising head Joshua Oppenheimer (director, U.S.\/Denmark) and members Fabrice Aragno (cinematographer\/director, Switzerland), Lia Boysen (actor, Sweden), Sanna Lenken (director\/screenwriter, Sweden) and Gergely P\u00e1los (cinematographer, Hungary) \u2014 stated their reasoning: \u201cToday, as our world tips toward fascism and the power-hungry use storytelling to divide humanity into us and them \u2014 those worthy of our compassion and those not \u2014 cruelty toward the outsider is repeated until we come to see it as normal, then, to our shame, as legitimate \u2014 and finally we stop seeing it at all.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cOne film dared to examine, with unblinking honesty, this most important moral and political problem of our times, and to show how the callousness bred by habitual cruelty diminishes us all, hollowing out our relationships \u2014 even with our partners and children,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cWith pitch-perfect performances, a razor-sharp yet nuanced script, and not a trace of sentimentality, the film is a mirror in which we see ourselves with devastating clarity: If we refuse to confront our own complicity in the cruelty unfolding around us right now, the love we claim to live by cannot save us \u2014 because the compassion that underpins it is conditional.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tProducers Thomas Robsahm, Sigurd Mikal Karoliussen and Helena Danielsson shared the prize alongside S\u00f8dahl and actor Esben Smed.<\/p>\n \n\tRunning from Jan. 23 to Feb. 1, the fest\u2019s program lineup featured 266 films from 76 countries, including Kristen Stewart\u2019s directorial debut The Chronology of Water<\/em>, Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s Golden Globe-winning Hamnet <\/em>and Sophy Romvari\u2019s Locarno favorite Blue Heron<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tBelow are the additional G\u00f6teborg winners:<\/p>\n \n\tDragon Award for Best Acting<\/strong> \n\tSven Nykvist Cinematography Award<\/strong> \n\tFIPRESCI Award<\/strong> \n\tAudience Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film<\/strong> \n\tDragon Award for Best Nordic Documentary<\/strong> \n\tThe Ingmar Bergman Debut Award<\/strong> \n\tDragon Award for Best International Film<\/strong> \n\tYouth Jury Dragon Award\u00a0<\/strong> \n\tDraken Film Award\u00a0<\/strong> \n\tHonorary Dragon Award\u00a0<\/strong> \n\tNordic Honorary Dragon Award\u00a0<\/strong> \n\tStartsladden \u2014 Best Swedish Short<\/strong> \n\tStartsladden Cinematography Award\u00a0<\/strong> \n\tStartsladden \u2014 Audience Award\u00a0<\/strong> \n\tThe Church of Sweden Angelos Film Award<\/strong> \n\tThe Nordic Series Script Award\u00a0<\/strong> \n\tCreative Courage Award<\/strong>
Adam Lundgren, The Quiet Beekeeper<\/em><\/p>\n
Louise McLaughlin, Weightless<\/em> <\/p>\n
Weightless<\/em> (directed by Emilie Thalund)<\/p>\n
The Quiet Beekeeper<\/em> (directed by Marcus Carlsson)<\/p>\n
Malandro Moon<\/em> (directed by Iv\u00e1n Blanco)<\/p>\n
Bouchra<\/em> (directed by Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki)<\/p>\n
Calle Malaga<\/em> (directed by Maryam Touzani)<\/p>\n
My Father\u2019s Shadow<\/em> (directed by Akinola Davies Jr.)<\/p>\n
Uncle Ali and I<\/em> (directed by Shahab Mehrabi)<\/p>\n
Agnieszka Holland\u00a0<\/p>\n
Noomi Rapace\u00a0<\/p>\n
All That Remains of Me<\/em> (directed by Christer Wahlberg)<\/p>\n
Christine Leuhusen, Without Kelly<\/em><\/p>\n
All That Remains of Me<\/em><\/p>\n
The Patron<\/em> (directed by Julia Thelin)<\/p>\n
Ingeborg Tops\u00f8e, Secrets We Keep<\/em><\/p>\n
Blood Cruise<\/em> (produced by Alexander R\u00f6nnberg from Northern Fableand and Will Tennant from Imaginarium Productions, commissioned by Johanna G\u00e5rdare and Sonja Nilsson Hermele from SVT)<\/p>\n