WINNER – SPECIAL EVENT IN TORONTO 2025


 


WINNER – SPECIAL EVENT IN TORONTO 2025
September 11
The Rorschach Test
By Lena Mattsson
BEST EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST SPIRITUAL CINEMATOGRAPHY.
Not Without Gloves
By Lena Mattsson
BEST DIRECTOR & BEST ACTRESS (Category: Experimental Film).
Thank you very much to SPECIAL EVENT IN TORONTO
An event promoted in collaboration with WILD FILMMAKER, for awarding the film ”Not Without Gloves” the honors of BEST DIRECTOR & BEST ACTRESS (Category: Experimental Film). I am deeply grateful to the jury for also recognizing my new film ”The Rorschach Test” with awards for BEST EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST SPIRITUAL CINEMATOGRAPHY.
It is an honor.
I am profoundly proud and thankful. My heartfelt thanks go to the jury and everyone involved.
Special thanks for the incredible work you do to support us as filmmakers:
Conny Malmqvist for the outstanding music in Not Without Gloves and The Rorschach Test. Ebba Melber, the talented actor who participated in The Rorschach Test.
Best regards,
Lena Mattsson.
"Congratulations!
We are thrilled to announce that you have won the biggest international Indie film event held in Toronto!
Your victory at the Special Event in Toronto now gives you the opportunity to be part of the communication project Inside the – Official Guide of the Toronto International Days!
We will include your name and the title of your winning work in the Guide, which we will share starting Monday, September 15, with all the press attending the Toronto International Film Festival—from Variety to The Hollywood Reporter, from The Guardian to The New York Times!
Here are the results of the Toronto Special Event:
Thank you,
With warm regards,
Long live Independent Cinema!
Toronto International Days
In collaboration with WILD FILMMAKER, the Arthouse distribution company with the strongest presence in the international press."
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The Aesthetics of Failure. FLIGHT DECK Critique Analysis

The Aesthetics of Failure. FLIGHT DECK Critique Analysis




★★★★★

The Aesthetics of Failure

Critical Analysis

When I watched The Aesthetics of Failure, I felt as though I had stepped into a meditation rather than a film, a brief but powerful invocation that asked me to confront not only what it means to fail, but also how beauty itself can emerge from what is broken, unfinished, or incomplete. Lena Mattsson has always struck me as an artist who lives in that tension between what is seen and what is felt, and here, in just over a minute of black-and-white imagery, she managed to distill that philosophy into something that felt both deeply personal and universally resonant. 

The monochrome palette immediately drew me inward. It stripped away distraction and forced me to see texture, shadow, and nuance as if for the first time. Failure, in Mattsson’s hands, does not wear the bright colors of catastrophe; it breathes in shades of grey, in quiet fractures of light that remind me how fragile and transient human effort really is. Watching it, I felt the absence of color as a symbol of vulnerability, a way of reminding me that when stripped bare of artifice, imperfection becomes stark, undeniable, but also strangely beautiful. 

What captivated me most was the sense of courage embedded in the film’s silence. 

There is no loud collapse, no theatrical undoing, but rather a quiet acknowledgement that failure is woven into the human condition. It reminded me of the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi, the aesthetic that honors impermanence and imperfection. Each frame of Mattsson’s piece seemed to whisper that our cracks, our flaws, are not signs of weakness but of authenticity. I could not help but see her choice of brevity—only one minute and twelve seconds—as symbolic too. Failure, after all, is not always a grand narrative; sometimes it is a fleeting moment, a brief stumble, and yet it stays with us far longer than its duration. 

There is also a profound duality at play in this work, one I’ve noticed across Mattsson’s larger body of art. On one hand, she presents us with the fragility of human striving, on the other, she dares us to see resilience within that fragility. I found myself thinking about her statement that she identifies strongly with the most afflicted, drawing from her own experience. That intimacy is what makes this piece feel so alive. 

It is not failure observed from a distance, but failure embodied, touched, and ultimately embraced. In the context of her career—spanning painting, performance, video art, and curation—The Aesthetics of Failure feels like a crystallization of Mattsson’s enduring question: what is beyond the surface? Watching it, I felt I was seeing both the literal image and its echo, the reality of imperfection and the interpretation of it through my own cultural and personal lens. It left me unsettled in the best way, forcing me to examine how often I try to polish or disguise my own failures rather than face their raw beauty. By the time the film ended, I was left not with despair, but with a quiet, almost reverent sense of hope. To fail, Mattsson seems to tell us, is to live fully. To fall short is to be reminded of our humanity. 

And to see failure as beautiful is perhaps the deepest form of acceptance we can give ourselves. For me, this short experimental piece was not just a work of cinema but an act of grace—an invitation to look at the places in myself I once thought unworthy, and to see in them, maybe for the first time, a kind of truth.


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WINNER INDIE GOLDEN GLOBES – Summer Edition 2025


 




WINNER INDIE GOLDEN GLOBES – Summer Edition 2025
September 8
The Rorschach Test
By Lena Mattsson
BEST INTERNATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER.
The Aesthetics Of Failure
By Lena Mattsson
BEST INDIE DIRECTOR 2025.
Not Without Gloves
By Lena Mattsson
BEST POETRY FILM, BEST EUROPEAN ACTRESS & BEST ORIGINAL MOVIEMAKER.
Thank you very much to The INDIE GOLDEN GLOBES Team, an event promoted by Worldwide Film Promotion, in collaboration with WILD FILMMAKER for awarding my film "The Rorschach Test" with BEST INTERNATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER and ”Not Without Gloves” with the honors of BEST POETRY FILM, BEST EUROPEAN ACTRESS & BEST ORIGINAL MOVIEMAKER. I am deeply grateful to the jury for also recognizing my new film, "The Aesthetics of Failure", with award for BEST INDIE DIRECTOR 2025.
It is a tremendous honor.
I am profoundly proud and thankful. My heartfelt thanks go to the jury and everyone involved.
Special thanks for the incredible work you do to support us as filmmakers:
Conny Malmqvist for the outstanding music in "Not Without Gloves" and "The Rorschach Test". Ebba Melber, the talented actor who participated in "The Rorschach Test".
Best regards,
Lena Mattsson.
"Good morning!
We are pleased to announce that you have won the INDIE GOLDEN GLOBES 2025 – Summer Edition!
An event created by international critics to give independent filmmakers and screenwriters the opportunity to become part of the HOLLYWOOD ARTHOUSE Competition—you will receive your official invitation shortly!
In the meantime, here are the results of the INDIE GOLDEN GLOBES 2025 – Summer Edition:
Thank you,
Warm regards,
The INDIE GOLDEN GLOBES Team
An event promoted by Worldwide Film Promotion
In collaboration with WILD FILMMAKER"
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INTERNATIONAL GOLD AWARDS, Best Experimental THE AESTHETICS OF FAILURE by Lena Mattsson


A heartfelt thank you to INTERNATIONAL GOLD AWARDS for recognizing my film "THE AESTHETICS OF FAILURE" with the award for Best Experimental Film. 

It is a great honor, and I thank the jury and everyone involved.

"The Aesthetics of Failure" is a short, experimental, and deeply poetic film where Lena Mattsson explores universal human reflections on failure. In black and white, the film illuminates the quiet courage to embrace the beauty of the imperfect.

https://internationalgoldawards.com/august-2025

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MILAN GOLD AWARDS, WINNER - August 2025


A heartfelt thank you to the MILAN GOLD AWARDS for recognizing my film The Aesthetics of Failure with the Silver Award for Experimental Film.

WINNER - August 2025
Silver Award - Experimental Film
The Aesthetics of Failure
Lena Mattsson
Sweden

It is a great honor, and I express my deepest gratitude to the jury and everyone involved.

Warm regards,
Lena Mattsson.

"The Aesthetics of Failure" is a short, experimental, and deeply poetic film where Lena Mattsson explores universal human reflections on failure. In black and white, the film illuminates the quiet courage to embrace the beauty of the imperfect.

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PARIS FILM AWARDS Best Experimental THE AESTHETICS OF FAILURE by Lena Mattsson, Sweden


A big, warm thank you to PARIS FILM AWARDS for recognizing my film "THE AESTHETICS OF FAILURE" with the award for Best Experimental Film.
Best Experimental
THE AESTHETICS OF FAILURE
Lena Mattsson
It is a great honor, and I thank the jury and everyone involved from the bottom of my heart.
Warm regards from Lena Mattsson.
"The Aesthetics of Failure" is a short, experimental, and deeply poetic film where Lena Mattsson explores universal human reflections on failure. In black and white, the film illuminates the quiet courage to embrace the beauty of the imperfect.

WINNERS AUGUST 2025

https://parisfilmawards.net/august-2025



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WINNERS – BEST SCREENWRITER 2025


 


BEST ORIGINAL WRITING SYLE (Category: EXPERIMENTAL FILM).
By Lena Mattsson
BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER (Category: POETRY FILM).
Thank you very much to The BEST SCREENWRITER 2025 Team, NY - LA - Rome - Paris - Cannes
An event supported by WILD FILMMAKER, for awarding the film ”Not Without Gloves” the honors of BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER (Category: POETRY FILM). I am deeply grateful to the jury for also recognizing my new film ”The Rorschach Test” with awards for BEST ORIGINAL WRITING SYLE (Category: EXPERIMENTAL FILM).
It is an honor.
I am profoundly proud and thankful. My heartfelt thanks go to the jury and everyone involved.
Special thanks for the incredible work you do to support us as filmmakers:
Conny Malmqvist for the outstanding music in Not Without Gloves and The Rorschach Test. Ebba Melber, the talented actor who participated in The Rorschach Test.
Warm regards,
Lena Mattsson.
"Good morning from the BEST SCREENWRITER 2025 Team!
We are extremely pleased to inform you that the jury of international film and contemporary literature critics has just announced that you are the winner!
The BEST SCREENWRITER is one of the Special Event AMERICAN Film Market
Qualifying appointments, which is why, thanks to this victory, you have also gained access to the most exclusive annual event we will be organizing in Los Angeles during the AFM, from November 11 to 16: FROM VENICE TO AMERICAN FILM MARKET 2025, the best opportunity to reach audiences and media on a global scale!
You will shortly receive your exclusive invitation to participate.
In the meantime, here is the link to the list of winners of the BEST
Thank you.
With warm regards,
The BEST SCREENWRITER 2025 Team, NY - LA - Rome - Paris - Cannes
In collaboration with WILD FILMMAKER, the leading platform for the promotion of Indie cinema"
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