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Series Mania winner A Better Man is among the titles set to battle it out for the Nordic Series Script Award this month.
Joining the Norwegian series in the category are Secrets We Keep from Denmark, Queen of Fucking Everything from Finland, Vigdis from Iceland and My Brother from Sweden.
The winner will received NOK200,000 ($20,000) and the prize at the The Nordic Series Awards, which are held as part of the Göteborg Film Festival’s annual TV Drama Vision event. The awards celebrate excellence in Nordic television drama and are financed presented by the Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
Different to previous years, the Nordic Series Script Award will go to the main writer or writers of each series, all which premiered in 2025. The writers comprise A Better Man‘s Thomas Seeberg Torjussen, Secrets We Keep‘s Ingeborg Topsøe, Queen of Fucking Everything‘s Tiina Lymi, Vigdis‘ Ágústa M. Ólafsdóttir and Björg Magnúsdóttir, and My Brother‘s Karin Arrhenius.
The winner will be announced at an award ceremony on January 27. The Nordic Series Script Award jury comprises Norwegain actress Agnes Kittelsen, Danish film and TV reviewer Nanna Frank Rasmussen and Henning Kamm, executive producer and Managing Director, Real Film from Germany.
“Since no productions happen without the visions and skills of Nordic creators and writers, each year we want to shed extra spotlight to the talents behind outstanding drama series – one from each Nordic country,” said Liselott Forsman, CEO at Nordisk Film & TV Fond. “I want to thank the selected writers for their inspiring work, Göteborg Film Festival for our good collaboration and our international jury for accepting the challenging task of selecting the Nordic winner.”
Here’s a rundown of the contenders.
A Better Man (Ølhunden Berit) – Series Mania 2025 Grand Prize winner
Norway, 4×50′
Nominated writer: Thomas Seeberg Torjussen
Broadcaster: NRK
Production company: Maipo Film
Producer: Christian Fredrik Martin and Synnøve Hørsdal
Director: Thomas Seeberg Torjussen
Co-Director: Gjyljeta Berisha
Sales: Beta Film
Premiere: November 9, 2025
Tom blames feminism for everything that is wrong with modern society. He works in his mother’s clothing store by day and trolls the internet by night. When hackers reveal his identity and expose it to the public, he is ridiculed, mocked, and threatened. Tom panics and hides in what he has closest at hand – women’s clothing. He becomes Berit, and the world opens up to him in surprising ways. The series was a triple winner at Series Mania 2025.
Secrets We Keep (Reservatet)
Denmark, 6×30-40′
Nominated writer: Ingeborg Topsøe
Co-writers: Ina Bruhn, Mads Tafdrup
Broadcaster: Netflix
Production company: Uma Film
Producer: Claudia Saginario
Director: Per Fly
Sales: Netflix
Premiere: May 15, 2025
When a neighbor’s au pair vanishes from her wealthy suburb, Cecilie seeks answers – and unravels secrets that shatter her seemingly perfect world.
Queen of Fucking Everything
Finland, 6×50′
Nominated writer: Tiina Lymi
Broadcaster: YLE
Production company: Rabbit Films
Producer: Minna Haapkylä
Director: Tiina Lymi
Sales: Rabbit Films
Premiere: January 1, 2025
Leading Helsinki real estate agent Linda wakes up to find her husband missing – likely dead – and herself saddled with millions in his debt. Refusing to lose her status, she turns to theft and slips into Helsinki’s criminal underworld. Using her business skills, Linda rises through shady business and money laundering, all while posing as a luxury realtor – becoming the Queen of Fucking Everything.
Vigdis (Vigdís)
Iceland, 4×60′
Nominated writers: Ágústa M. Ólafsdóttir and Björg Magnúsdóttir
Broadcaster: RÚV
Production company: Vesturport and Vigdís Production
Producer: Rakel Garðarsdóttir
Director: Björn Hlynur Haraldsson and Tinna Hrafnsdóttir
Sales: Reinvent Yellow International Sales
Premiere: January 1, 2025
Vigdis is based on the inspiring true story of Vigdís Finnbogadóttir who, in 1980, made history not only as Iceland’s first female president but as the world’s first democratically elected female head of state. The series tells Vigdis’ story from when she was a teenager in the late 1940s up until she decides to run for president against three male candidates in 1980.
My Brother (Jag for ner till bror)
Sweden, 4×45′
Nominated writer: Karin Arrhenius
Broadcaster: SVT
Production company: Filmlance International
Producer: Anna Wallmark
Director: Sanna Lenken
Sales: Nordisk Film Danmark and TrustNordisk
Premiere: December 26, 2025
When Jana Kippo returns to Smalånger to save her alcoholic brother, she falls in love with a man suspected of killing his wife – the same woman who was her brother’s great love. The more involved Jana becomes, the more she is forced to confront her past and her repressed memories.
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