#The painter and the thief series#

Maria Bjørnnes Hermansen and Fie Baro for (“Prosjekt Z,” Norway) Ingjerd Meland, Marianne Stranger, Itonje Søimer Guttormsen, Birgitte Larsen, Nina Buer Brun, (“Gritt,” Norway) Thomas Dybdahl, (“Sisters: The Summer We Found Our Superpowers,” Norway) Robert Stengård, (“The Painter and the Thief”) Sætre (“Ninjababy)”Įgil Håskjold Larsen, Victor Kossakovsky (“Gunda,” Norway, U.S.) Johan Fasting, Yngvild Sve Flikke, Inga H. Yngvild Sve Flikke, (“Ninjababy,” Norway) “The Painter and the Thief,” (Benjamin Ree, Norway) Saturday’s Audience Award, called the People’s Amanda, was given to “Generasjon Utøya,” a documentary following four young women who survived the 2011 domestic terrorist attacks in Norway and continue their political activism ten years on, following events that rocked and dramatically changed the Nordic country. Tuhus went on to a second career heading as manager NRK Drama from 1994 to 2000.Īrt department mechanical specialist Horst Molkenbur won the Amanda’s Golden Clapper. The Amanda Committee Honorary Award was given to veteran Norwegian filmmaker Oddvar Bull Tuhus, a prominent film director in the 1970s who “Maria Marusjka” (1973) won the Norwegian Film Critics’ Prize, while 1974’s “Streik!” won a berth at the Cannes Festival. The first Norwegian feature to address the persecution of Jews in Norway during WWII in “Betrayed” won two acting prizes: Actor for Jakob Oftebro, one of the stars of Saturday’s affair after “Kon-Tiki,” “1864” and “Hamilton” and supporting actress for Nader Khademi (“Beforeigners”). “The Painter and the Thief” - Credit: Benjamin ReeĪnother notable winner at the 37th edition of the Norwegian industry’s top film awards, which were streamed live on Norwegian television, is “Betrayed.” It scored nine nominations, just behind “Ninjababy’s” top trawl of 11. That’s the word that comes to mind with Benjamin Ree’s ‘The Painter and the Thief,’ a stranger-than-fiction friendship story in which vérité techniques produce unbelievable results,” Variety’s Peter Debruge said in his review.

The film has been widely hailed as one of the best international documentaries in the last couple years for its original storytelling, and sticking to the facts which are, however, presented in a wholly inventive way, notably by making the film’s subjects active participants. The painter is Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova, who now resides in Sweden after spending some time in Oslo, where two huge works of hers were taken at her first solo show. Ree initially found the subject matter for the film after spending years researching the art heist world.

It also swept prizes for editing and documentary, adding to its successful fest circuit run taking in the Creative Storytelling Award at last year’s Sundance and best documentary feature at the BFI London Film Festival.ĭirected by Benjamin Ree and produced by Ingvil Giske, the Norwegian film documents the extraordinary but true tale of a painter befriending the thief who stole two of her paintings.

The night’s other standout winner proved to be “The Painter and the Thief,” which won best film – the first documentary to claim the Amanda Awards’ top kudo since 2002. I wanted to make that was as crazy as life can be.” “If I’m working on something knowing exactly where it’s going, I’ll get an itch in my back, telling me to change it up. “I’m a restless person,” the Nordic filmmaker told Variety.

#The painter and the thief series#

The film follows aspiring artist Rakel, 23, who unexpectedly discovers she is six months pregnant and that the father is not her boyfriend, The story then pursues a series of comedic, yet grounded, twists and turns. Flikke’s sophomore feature is based on the graphic novel by Sætre, The Art of Falling,” which itself won numerous youth literature awards in 2012 for the Norwegian illustrator.