The 2024 Nordic Council Film Prize nominees. Photo: Grethe Nygaard
The nominees of this year’s Nordic Council Film Prize will be announced by Nordisk Film & TV Fond on Monday, August 18th, 2025, at noon. The prize is awarded annually to an artistically significant, Nordic-produced full-length feature film that has secured a distribution deal. The film must have had its premiere between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025. The DKK 300,000 prize will be shared equally among the screenwriter, director, and producer, underscoring how film, as an art form, is brought about through the close collaboration of these three main contributors.
Meet the NCFP nominees in Haugesund!
The nominated films will be presented during the Opening of NEW NORDIC FILMS at The Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund on Tuesday, August 19th. You can meet all the nominated filmmakers in a conversation about their film projects, moderated by Liselott Forsman, CEO at Nordisk Film & TV Fond, on Wednesday, August 20th at 17.30-18.30. After the talk, Nordisk Film & TV Fond and New Nordic Films will host a Nordic reception in the Festival tent by Edda Cinema.
Photo: Grethe Nygaard
The purpose: The purpose of the Film Prize is to promote the selection and circulation of Nordic films in the region to strengthen the Nordic cultural community and develop the Nordic region as a cultural domestic market. The nominated films are meant to benefit from the Film Prize, both culturally and commercially, in a Nordic and global perspective. The Nordic Council prizes aim to increase interest in culture and in collaboration on environmental issues, to recognise outstanding artistic and environmental initiatives, and to raise the profile and increase the visibility of Nordic co-operation.
The prize: The DKK 300,000 prize will be shared equally among the screenwriter, director, and producer.
Criteria for nomination: The nominated films must have deep roots in Nordic culture, be of high artistic quality, distinguish themselves by their artistic originality, and combine and elevate the many elements of film into a compelling and holistic work of art.The nominated films must have deep roots in Nordic culture, be of high artistic quality, distinguish themselves by their artistic originality, and combine and elevate the many elements of film into a compelling and holistic work of art.
National and Nordic jury: Each national jury consists of three members appointed by the Nordic Council of Ministers (Ministers of Culture). The members are selected from prominent figures whose work relates analytically and critically to film.
Each national jury has a three-year tenure, and the members of the national juries for 2025 are:
Denmark: Heidi Hilarius-Kalkau Philipsen*, Jacob Ludvigsen, Amalie Næsby Fick
Finland: Mikaela Westerlund*, Kalle Kinnunen, Kaisu Isto
Iceland: Jóna Finnsdóttir*, Guðrún Helga Jónasdóttir, Björn Þór Vilhjálmsson
Norway: Inger Merete Hobbelstad*, Emilio Sanhueza, Anne Gjelsvik
Sweden: Emma Gray-Munthe*, Caroline Cowan, Gunnar Bergdahl
The Nordic jury is made up of the chairs (*) of each of the national juries.
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