Full awards and nominations of The New Country
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Drama
A 15 year old Somalian boy meets a 40 year old Iranian man on a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them they decide to the take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.
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Guldbagge Awards 2001 (Sweden) - Swedish Film Institute
- nom. Best Direction (Geir Hansteen Jörgensen)
- nom. Best Actress (Lia Boysen)
- nom. Best Actor (Michalis Koutsogiannakis)
- nom. Best Screenplay (Peter Birro, Lukas Moodysson)
- winner Best Achievement (Fredrik Morheden (Editor))