Director Joachim Trier’s family drama has five nominations, including best actor for Skarsgård, while Oliver Laxe’s techno thriller Sirāt has four nominations
Norwegian director Joachim Trier is leading the race for a triumph at the European film awards, with five nominations in key categories for his family drama Sentimental Value.
The Cannes Grand Prix winner is nominated for best European film, best screenplay and best director, with further best actor and best actress nominations for Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve.
In the film, which comes to cinemas in the UK and other European territories this December, Skarsgård plays a once-famous film director trying to repair ties with his two estranged daughters.
Spanish director Oliver Laxe’s techno thriller Sirāt, set at a rave in the Moroccan desert, is another frontrunner with four nominations. German film-maker Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling, which explores cross-generational traumas at a farmhouse in the Brandenburg countryside, is nominated for three prizes, the same as Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, this year’s Palme d’Or winner.
