Nordisk Panorama winners include ‘Nelly & Nadine,’ ‘A House Made Of Splinters’

Magnus Gertten’s Nelly & Nadine has taken the top prize, best Nordic documentary, at Nordisk Panorama Film Festival, which ran September 22-27 in Malmo, Sweden. 

The Swedish co-production with Belgium and Norway is about the lifelong love story of two women who met at a concentration camp.

The jury said the film is “opening gradually layers of love, memory, identity and friendship, so the voices from the past speak to us in the context of today’s challenges.”

The New Nordic Voice award went to Moosa Lane by Anita M. Hopland from Denmark and Norway, about the director following her Pakistani relatives for 15 years.

The City of Malmo’s audience award went to Simon Lereng Wilmont’s A House Made of Splinters (Den-Fin-Ukr-Swe), about an orphanage in Ukraine.

Best Nordic short film went to Fredrik Sundsteigen Hana’s From.Beyond from Norway, with an honourable mention to The Diamond by Vedran Rupic from Sweden; the Young Nordic award went to Inside the Aquarium by Lina Berger from Sweden.

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