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Goteborg Film Festival Unveils 2021 Awards

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Tigers, a Swedish sports drama based on the true story of teenage soccer talent Martin Bengtsson, has won the top prize, the Dragon Award, for Best Nordic Film at the 2021 Göteborg Film Festival, Scandinavia's top cinema event.

Ronnie Sandahl —the screenwriter on Janus Metz's 2017 tennis biopic Borg vs McEnroe—won over the Göteborg jury with his adaptation of Bengtsson's autobiography, in which he details his experiences as a young player drafted by top Italian team Inter Milan.

The prize comes with a $478,000 (SEK 400,000) cash bursary.Erik Enge, who plays Bengtsson in Tigers, took Göteborg's Best Actor honor. "Many of the films of this year’s Nordic competition had characters wanting to be the best versions of themselves while struggling.

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