“The Last Resort,” directed by Maria Sødahl, won the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at the Göteborg Film Festival on Saturday night.
The award comes with a whooping SEK 400,000 ($41,500) which, according to the organizers, makes it one of the world’s largest film prizes.
The jurors argued that Sødahl’s film, which is about a family who expects an exotic vacation but instead comes face-to-face with the harsh realities of a refugee crisis, “shows how the callousness bred by habitual cruelty diminishes us all, hollowing out our relationships – even with our partners and children.”
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