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Bodil Awards to First Features

AWARDS. Two debuting feature directors took centre stage at the annual Bodil Awards: Christian Tafdrup's "Parents" received four prizes, while Rasmus Heisterberg's "In the Blood" was named Best Feature. Trine Dyrholm was awarded her sixth Bodil trophy for Best Actress at the ceremony held 4 March in Copenhagen.

7. March 2017 Danish Film Institute

"Parents" by Christian Tafdrup received four awards at the Bodil Awards on 4 March, including Best Script, Best Actor (Søren Malling), Best Cinematographer (Maria von Hausswolff) and the Production Designer award (Jette Lehmann). Tafdrup's debut feature also picked up three awards at the film industry's Robert Awards in February. 

Winner of Best Feature at the Danish film critics' prize event, this year celebrating its 70th anniversary, was "In the Blood" by Rasmus Heisterberg. The film, which made its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, also won for Best Supporting Actress (Victoria Carmen Sonne).

Trine Dyrholm won her sixth Bodil in the Best Actress category, this time for her performance in Thomas Vinterberg's "The Commune." Dyrholm won the same category in the Robert Awards 2017. 

The Best Documentary award went to "The War Show," Andreas Dalsgaard and Obaidah Zytoon's 2016 Venice Days winner.

See more at Bodilprisen.dk.

See winners of the Robert Awards 2017.

 

Bodil Awards / Winners 2017

Best Feature

  • In the Blood (dir. Rasmus Heisterberg)

Best Actress

  • Trine Dyrholm (The Commune)

Best Actor

  • Søren Malling (Parents)

Best Supporting Actress

  • Victoria Carmen Sonne (In the Blood)

Best Supporting Actor

  • Lars Mikkelsen (The Day Will Come)

Best Documentary

  • The War Show (dir. Andreas Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon)

Best Non-American Feature

  • Toni Erdmann (dir. Maren Ade)

Best American Feature

  • The Revenant (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)

Best Script

  • Christian Tafdrup (Parents)

Best Cinematographer

  • Maria von Hausswolff (Parents) 

Honorary Bodil

  • Actor Henning Jensen 

Special Bodil

  • Christina Rosendahl, head of Danish Directors

Henning Bahs Production Designer Award

  • Jette Lehmann (Parents)

Streaming Award

  • A Conspiracy of Faith (dir. Hans Petter Moland) nominated by Viaplay

Parents

Christian Tafdrup, 2016

When their son Esben moves out, Kjeld and Vibeke decide to relocate to a smaller home. They discover that the apartment they lived in back when they were students is up for sale and agree to buy it and make a new start. Kjeld furnishes the apartment the way it was back then, and for a while the two relive their sweet days of youth.

In the Blood

Rasmus Heisterberg, 2016

It’s summer in Copenhagen. A time of endless days and carefree nights. Simon goes to medical school with his best friend Knud and they share an apartment with Søren and Esben, the last two friends in the group.

The Commune

Thomas Vinterberg, 2016

Erik and Anna are a couple of academics with a dream. With their daughter Freja, they set up a commune in Erik's huge villa in an upmarket district of Copenhagen. With the family at the centre of the story, we are invited into their dream of a real commune.

The War Show

Andreas Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon, 2016

In March 2011, radio host Obaidah Zytoon and her circle of friends join the street protests against President Bashar al-Assad, as the Arab Spring reaches Syria. Knowing their country would be changed forever, this group of artists and activists begin filming their lives and the events around them. But as the regime’s violent response spirals the country into a bloody civil war, their hopes for a better future will be tested by violence, imprisonment and death.

The Day Will Come

Jesper W. Nielsen, 2016

Set in the blooming 1960s, the film centres around two young brothers who are instantly robbed of their lives when they are placed in a boy’s home forgotten by time. Armed only with a vivid imagination and a fickle hope the boys engage in the frightening battle against Headmaster Heck and his lethal tyranny.

A Conspiracy of Faith

Hans Petter Moland, 2016

Siblings Samuel and Magdalena who grew up in a religious community in Denmark suddenly disappear. Meanwhile, at Police Headquarters in Copenhagen, an eight year old message in a bottle turns up containing a cry for help from a boy in captivity. Carl Mørck and his assistant Assad from the department for cold cases, Department Q, discover a connection between the two cases.