Lemhagen's third feature won for Best Feature, Best Director, Best Script and Best Cinematography. The Egmont-Columbia TriStar release, which is handled internationally at the European Film Market by Nordisk Film International Sales, has taken 445,000 admissions domestically. The film follows an eight-year-old boy whose mother lives with a policeman and dreams of becoming a rock star.

Katarina Ewerlöf won Best Actress for Tomten Är Far Till Alla Barnen (In Bed With Santa) and Björn Kjellman took Best Actor for Vägen Ut (Breaking Out), which also garnered the prize for Best Supporting Actor (Shanti Roney). Pernilla August was named Best Supporting Actress for Där Regnbågen Slutar (Where The Rainbow Ends), while Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar's Todo Sobre Mi Madre (All About My Mother) went home as Best Foreign Feature. Håkan Lindhé's Clinch took the Best Short Film Award and photographer Jan Lindqvist secured a Life Achievement Bug.

The Ingmar Bergman Award, decided by Bergman and Swedish Film Institute md Åse Kleveland, went to Norwegian director Torun Lian for Bare Skyer Beveger Stjernene (Only Clouds Move The Stars).

Jorn Rossing Jensen