'FLEE' NOMINATED FOR THE NORDIC COUNCIL FILM PRIZE AND SELECTED FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS SHORTLIST

Flee by Jonas Poher Rasmussen has been nominated for the Nordic Council Film Prize 2021 and is among the 15 shortlisted documentaries for the European Film Awards.

The Nordic Council Film Prize is awarded this year for the 18th time and is one of the most prestigious film awards in the Nordic region (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). The winner will be announced on November 2nd, 2021 at the Awards Ceremony in Copenhagen in conjunction with the Session of the Nordic Council.

Click here to read more about the prize and the five nominees

The European Film Awards have been presented annually since 1988 by the European Film Academy to recognize excellence in European cinematic achievements. Nominations will be made public on November 9th and the 34th European Film Awards will take place in Berlin on December 11th, 2021.

Click here to see the full selection of shortlisted documentaries.

'OUR MEMORY BELONGS TO US' WINS HUMAN RIGHTS DOX AWARD AT DOKUFEST

We are happy to announce that Our Memory Belongs to Us by Rami Farah and co-directed by Signe Byrge Sørensen has won the Human Rights DOX award at the 20th jubilee edition of DokuFest in Kosovo. 

The jury stated that they “decided to recognize a film that spoke to the documentary relevance of personal and collective remembrance when marked by enactment of defiance to state violence. […] Through both a staged screening and reconstruction of events the retelling and performance of memory we are invited to ask questions about the documentary film as a vehicle of remembrance.”

Click here to read more about the announced winners of the 8 categories

'RAISING A SCHOOL SHOOTER' & 'FLEE' NOMINATED FOR BEST NORDIC DOCUMENTARY AT NORDISK PANORAMA

Raising and School Shooter by Frida & Lasse Barkfors and Flee, by Jonas Poher Rasmussen are among the 14 Nordic films selected to compete for the Best Nordic Documentary Award at Nordisk Panorama 2021. The festival takes place 16. - 21. September in Malmö, Sweden, and is a major event for the Nordic documentary industry.

Flee was selected for Cannes 2020, and premiered at Sundance in January 2021, where it won the Grand Jury Prize, and has since then won several awards.

Raising and School Shooter premiered at CPH:DOX in April 2021, and is the third film in Frida & Lasse Barkfors’ trilogy on social stigma, following “Pervert Park” and “Death of a Child”.

Click here to read more about the festival and to see the full programme.