Nordisk Panorama Film Festival 2020 in Review
The 31st edition of Nordisk Panorama Film Festival gathered more than 40.000 spectators and 800 accredited filmmakers and decision-makers from all over the world, who met online to participate in industry sessions, masterclasses, market & forum activities, and to watch films on our custom-built streaming platform!
The hybrid festival mixed online exclusives with select in-person events in Malmö and for the first time ever audiences in all five Nordic countries had access to free streaming of the films during the ten day extended festival. Watch the recap video.
Winners of Nordisk Panorama Film Festival 2020
Of the 67 nominated Nordic documentaries and shorts, seven films were awarded in five different categories. The award ceremony was broadcast live on Facebook from Malmö City Hall and the audience was invited to participate from their couches.
Best Nordic Documentary The Painter and the Thief by Benjamin Ree
Honourable Mention The Last Autumn by Yrsa Roca Fannberg
Best Nordic Short Film The Affected by Rikke Gregersen
New Nordic Voice Award Documentary Colombia In My Arms by Jenni Kivistö & Jussi Rastas
New Nordic Voice Award Short Film Fucking Adopted by Nora Nivedita Tvedt
Young Nordic – Children’s Choice Award Yes-People by Gísli Darri Halldórsson
The City of Malmö’s Audience Award The Nannies by Signe Barvild Stæhr
Press release 24 September: Nordisk Panorama Film Festival Winners 2020
Opening Films & Competition Titles
Opening films this year are the documentary Lady Time (Neiti Aika) by Elina Talvensaari and animated short film Something to Remember (Något att minnas) by Niki Lindroth von Bahr.
Press release 13 August: Opening Films at Nordisk Panorama Film Festival 2020
Out of 541 submitted films 67 were selected to compete for the Nordisk Panorama Film Festival Awards in four competition programmes.
Press release 20 August: The Official Competition Programme of Nordisk Panorama Film Festival 2020
Press release 2 September: Full programme of the Nordisk Panorama Film Festival 2020
Juries 2020
Best Nordic Documentary
Pierre-Alexis Chevit Head of Cannes Docs at the Marché du Film (France)
Benjamin Langeland Director & Winner of Best Nordic Documentary 2019 (Norway)
Madeline Robert Head of Industry at Visions du Réel (Switzerland)
Best Nordic Short Film
Wouter Jansen Sales Agent & Distributor at Square Eyes (Austria)
Julia Thelin Director & Winner of Best Nordic Short 2019 (Sweden)
Alexandra Gramatke Managing Director of the Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg (Germany)
New Nordic Voice
Ida Persson Lännerberg Director & Winner of New Nordic Voice Award 2019 (Sweden)
Tapio Riihimäki Executive Director of DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival (Finland)
Tina í Dali Wagner Head of the Faroese Film Institute (Faroe Islands)
Programming Team 2020
Documentary
Martijn te Pas Previous Senior Programmer at IDFA
Cecilia Lidin Documentary Consultant at the Danish Film Institute
Short Film
Lucile Bourliaud Flatpack Festival
Sam Groves Flatpack Festival
Revisit the Masterclasses
You can still watch the two masterclasses with Niki Lindroth von Bahr and Hubert Sauper on our Youtube channel. Enjoy the journey through Hubert Sauper’s full body of work with clips from Darwin’s Nightmare, We Come As Friends and Epicentro and the on-set talk with artist and animation director Niki Lindroth von Bahr about her career to date, creative processes, and what makes her tick.
Watch Hubert Sauper
Watch Niki Lindroth von Bahr
The In-person Events
17–27 Sep the festival hosted several small scale in-person events around the City of Malmö. There were special film programmes with Jan Ijäs, Pilvi Takala and Ikram Abdulkadir running at Malmö City Library, Malmö Konsthall and Inter Arts Center. Film screenings, talks and concerts were arranged at Cinema Spegeln, Cinema Panora and Plan B, and more.
Nordisk Panorama Forum 2020
More than 340 film professionals attended this year’s 27th edition of Nordisk Panorama Forum online! 20 projects pitched to 93 decision-makers and a total of 39 projects were presented in one-to-one meetings. Close to 600 meetings took place during the online forum. We are looking forward to following the projects, seeing the results and hopefully welcoming back the finished films at Nordisk Panorama Film Festival!
37 producers attended the yearly networking event “Producers Meet Producers” focussed on co-production and sharing experiences. The day included a presentation by the Nordic Film Institutes and an introduction to our specially invited guests from the Baltic delegation.
For the 2020 online edition NP Forum was also offering an extra “Doc Expert Day” focused on different aspects of the European and international documentary landscape. The day consisted of 7 presentations and individual meetings between the experts and forum participants.
Nordisk Panorama Market 2020
Nordisk Panorama Market was bustling with meetings, seminars and industry events. 254 films in the market catalogue with 19 Nordic shorts and docs screened as Closed Market Screenings. The Nordic Short Film Pitch presented 10 new short film projects and 132 meetings were held.
Work-in-Progress presented 6 new documentary projects nearing the finish line to more than 60+ decision makers followed by 40 pre-booked meetings.
Three Expert Round tables were organized with 15 decision makers and 39 one-to-one meetings.
