Border (2018 Swedish film)

Border
Theatrical release poster
SwedishGräns
Directed byAli Abbasi
Screenplay by
Based on"Border"
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Produced by
  • Nina Bisgaard
  • Peter Gustafsson
  • Petra Jonsson
Starring
CinematographyNadim Carlsen
Edited by
  • Olivia Neergaard-Holm
  • Anders Skov
Music by
  • Christoffer Berg
  • Martin Derkov
Production
companies
  • META Film
  • Black Spark Film & TV
  • Karnfilm
Distributed byTriArt Film
Release dates
  • 10 May 2018 (2018-05-10) (Cannes)
  • 31 August 2018 (2018-08-31) (Sweden)
Running time
110 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish
Box office$2.2 million[1][2]

Border (Swedish: Gräns) is a 2018 Swedish fantasy film directed by Ali Abbasi with a screenplay by Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf and John Ajvide Lindqvist based on the short story of the same name by Ajvide Lindqvist from his anthology Let the Old Dreams Die. It won the Un Certain Regard award at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival,[3] and was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards but was not nominated.[4] However, it was nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.[5]

  1. ^ "Border". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Gräns (2018) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  3. ^ Lodge, Guy (18 May 2018). "Cannes: 'Border' Leads Un Certain Regard Award Winners". Variety. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  4. ^ Roxborough, Scott (28 August 2018). "Oscars: Sweden Selects 'Border' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  5. ^ "Oscars 2019: The nominees in full". BBC News. 22 January 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2019.