Church of Sweden Film Award

At the Göteborg International Film Festival 2013 the Angelos, the Church of Sweden Film Award, has been given to

Godheten/The Goodness
by Stefan Jarl, Sweden 2012

Motivation: With convincing earnestness and sense of humor Stefan Jarl in The Goodness /Godheten depicts our money driven society where the value of man and life is marginalized. The Goodness makes us see what we loose.

Synopsis: Well-renowned Swedish director Stefan Jarl is back, taking the pulse of our time. In this new movie he outlines what he calls “the loss of the shared”—which has been taken over by greed, selfishness, the worship of Mammon, the return of the upper class, bonuses, venture capitalists and privatisation of the public sphere, the emergence of a new class society with growing inequality, exclusion and increasing violence. Is everything for sale? The Goodness is an implacable indictment of today’s social climate. (Festival information)

The Award carries a prize money of 50.000.- SEK, donated by the Church of Sweden.

Members of the Jury:
Mikael Ringlander (chair), minister, Göteborg
Monika Tunbäck-Hanson, film critic, Göteborg
Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson, Dr theol., Stockholm School of Theology