The winners at Amandus Blikkfang 2025
Tonight, the award ceremony of the fifth edition of Amandus Blikkfang took place. Nine awards and six honourable mentions were presented. Here are this year’s winners.
Best Screenplay
Winner: Elida Helgeland for Shoot
The award for Best Screenplay goes to a film that explores significant themes in a mature manner through a condensed and engaging narrative. The theme and its portrayal through the characters’ dialogue are elegantly balanced. The film offers insight into how abuse of power within institutional structures can occur, and how it may be perceived and addressed from within. A compelling exploration that does not necessarily provide clear-cut answers.
Best Director
Winner: Hugo Francker for Adult Child
Through the director’s warm and compassionate gaze, this story is told in a way that gives us sympathy and understanding for its characters, without judgement. The director has balanced many creative responsibilities simultaneously while maintaining a keen eye for detail. With a confident command of the filmmaking process, they invite us into deeply personal situations whose outcomes remain unknown to both the filmmaker and the audience.
Honourable Mention: Victor Quach for Late Nights
This honourable mention goes to a film that has stayed with us—almost like a small mystery—long after it ended. A beautiful and lingering portrayal of a nocturnal encounter between two young women. The honourable mention goes to director Victor Quach for the short film En sen natt.
The Jury’s Craft Award (Outstanding Contribution in a Film Discipline)
Winner: My Dad is Dead – Sound Design
In this meticulously crafted, poetic, and cohesive film, the soundscape supports both the film’s perspective and the protagonist’s experiences. For its beautiful, subjective, and tactile use of sound, the Craft Award for Best Sound Design goes to My Dad is Dead (Min Pappa är död).
Best Animated Film
Winner: Confessions of Undecided Women
The award for Best Animated Film goes to a work that addresses a recognisable and highly relevant theme. The film approaches its subject from multiple perspectives, creating an understanding of what it feels like to face one of life’s defining choices—a choice most of us will encounter. Through precise and beautiful visual storytelling, it opens a space for reflection.
Best Documentary
Winner: Adult Child
The film opens with a bang. From its very first second, we are placed in an intimate and private situation and are invited deep into a personal story about identity and gender. Through a confident directorial voice, the audience is welcomed into a complex subject matter treated with warmth. This is a courageous film about a meeting between parents and their child as they attempt to find their way back to one another. It does not get more honest or intimate than this.
Honourable Mention: Jeg vil prinsesse Kristin speider være
This honourable mention goes to a film that, through observational scenes, portrays the magic found in community, friendship, nature, and scouting. The film we are speaking of is Jeg vil prinsesse Kristin speider være.
Honourable Mention: Recollecting with a Wish for More
Our second honourable mention in the Documentary category goes to a film that, through simple and effective means, brings us close to an intimate, honest, and vulnerable retelling—a story about a relationship that could have become something more. Our second honourable mention goes to Mimring med eit ønskje om noko meir.
Best Fiction Film
Winner: My Damn Assignment
The award for Best Fiction Film goes to a work that, through a simple premise, explores a family relationship centred on someone struggling with a seemingly simple task. We are given an honest glimpse behind a tough exterior in this beautifully acted film, whose cinematography strongly supports the story and portrays both a complicated family dynamic and the struggle of completing that damn school assignment.
Honourable Mention: Spermatheca
In this category, we would also like to present an Honourable Mention. It goes to a cohesive film that offers a humorous and unconventional take on masculinity—in outer space! The Honourable Mention goes to Spermateket.
The jury also selected Voksenbarn and Spermateket as this year’s Amanda Award-qualified films from Amandus Blikkfang.
Blikkfang PITCH
Throughout the festival, seven participants took part in a pitching workshop, culminating in a pitch presented to both the audience and the jury. The jury consisted of Tøri Gjendal, Kristoffer Fagernes, and Nicholas Sando.
Honourable Mention: Lasse Gellein – Interessekonflikt
Winner: Judit Østern Lien – Efterklang
The Youth Jury Award
No fewer than 16 students from the drama programme at Create – Lillehammer Creative Upper Secondary School participated in this year’s Youth Jury. They selected one Honourable Mention and one winner.
Honourable Mention: It’s hard to be Iben
Statement from the Jury:
Our Honourable Mention goes to a film that surprises, shocks, and leaves us speechless. The film is unlike anything we have seen before. It challenges expectations, raises questions, and makes us think. Both its cinematography and screenplay are impressive and fascinating—at times we have to look away, while at others our eyes are glued to the screen. This year’s Honourable Mention therefore goes to Det er tøft å være Iben.
Winner: Jeg vil prinsesse Kristin speider være
Statement from the Jury:
This year’s Youth Jury Award goes to a film that captures the energy of childhood. It contains elements that everyone can relate to, evoking nostalgia while its editing, cinematography, and above all the children’s playfulness create a wonderfully comic expression. We recognised the sibling love and the longing for belonging, while also feeling a profound sadness that the years of childhood have passed. The film challenges its genre in such a way that we can no longer distinguish between fantasy and reality. Therefore, this year’s Youth Jury Award goes to Jeg vil prinsesse Kristin speider være.
The winning film was produced at the TV School at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and is an environmental portrait of the scouting movement in Lillehammer. The film is directed by Hannah Nordanger.
Audience Award
We actually ended up in a situation where two films received exactly the same number of votes. There was nothing else to do but present two awards.
Winner 1: Parradox
Winner 2: Retrograd
