Best Performance Award | TIFF

Best Performance Award

09.06.2013 19:22
The prize in amount of 1.000 Euro, offered by Vitrina Advertising, went to the amateur Danish actor Gustav Dyekjaer Giese, for his role in „Nordvest” (by Michael Noer, Denmark).

Synopsis:

Nordvest is one of the most impoverished multi-ethnic areas of Copenhagen. Living here with his mother, younger brother and little sister is 18-year-old Casper, who struggles to make ends meet based on selling stolen goods to one of the neighborhood pack leaders. When organized crime hits Nordvest, the hierarchy of the neighborhood shifts and Casper is offered a chance to climb the ranks. Soon he’s hurled into a world of drugs, violence and prostitution and as things escalate his childhood playground becomes a battlefield. Consequently Casper finds himself and his family dead center in a conflict that threatens to destroy them.