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Bill Skarsgård, Simon and the Oaks Best film Apflickorna / She Monkeys Producer: Helene Lindholm Play Producer: Erik Hemmendorff Simon och ekarna / Simon and the Oaks Producers: Christer Nilson, Per Holst Best Foreign Language Film Kynodontas / Dogtooth Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Jodaeiye Nader az Simin / A Separation Director: Asghar Farhadi Winter's Bone Director: Debra Granik Best Director Lisa Aschan for Apflickorna / She Monkeys Lisa Ohlin for Simon och ekarna / Simon and the Oaks Ruben Östlund for Play Best actress in a leading role Ann Petrén for her role as Jonna in Happy End Magdalena Poplawska for her role as Marta in Between 2 Fires Helen Sjöholm for her role as Karin Larsson in Simon och ekarna / Simon and the Oaks Best actor in a leading role Mikael Persbrandt for his role as Johan in Stockholm Östra / Stockholm East Sven-Bertil Taube for his role as George in En enkel till Antibes / A One-way to...

It takes a lot for a World War II movie to really set itself apart from the crowd, and Richard Holm's Beyond the Border (aka Gränsen) can't quite convince us armchair generals it's that different. The story of a group of Swedish soldiers behind enemy lines in Finland as the Germans prepare to invade their homeland, Beyond the Border manages some great moments but there's too much slavish adherence to type for it to be much more than very good overall. As a dry, savagely violent look at the messy business of war on a small scale, how human frailty leads people to make poor decisions and the terrible consequences those decisions lead to, it's fantastic. But Holm and star André Sjöberg (who co-wrote)...