5 February 2023 at 00:19 “Ellos Eatnu – Let the river live” won two awards at the film festival in Gothenburg The Norwegian film “Ellos Eatnu – Let the river live” received both the audience award and the critics’ award at the film festival in Gothenburg on Saturday evening. It was one of two Norwegian films that took part in the Nordic competition Nordic Dragon Award, and ended up being the film that the festival audience appreciated the most. The festival in Gothenburg is the Nordic region’s largest film festival. The Norwegian film about the Alta case, with artist Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen in the lead role, thus receives the prize of NOK 400,000. – It sets the agenda and gives a new understanding of a Sami perspective on Norwegian politics and power development, it is fantastic that both the audience and the critics value this so highly, says Kjersti Mo, director of the Norwegian Film Institute. The film won the International Film Critics Organization FIPRESCI’s prize. The jury’s reasoning states, among other things, that “The film masterfully conveys the grief caused by the threats of disappearing culture and loss of identity, language and family ties”. (NTB)
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