Julie Delpy to Receive Lifetime Honor at Sweden’s Gotenborg Film Festival

The French multihyphenate will get the 2025 Honorary Dragon Award. 

The organisers of the 2025 Göteborg Film Festival revealed Thursday that Julie Delpy, a French multihyphenate, will receive the Honorary Dragon Award.

The seasoned actor and director will visit the Swedish festival to discuss her four-decade career on both sides of the camera onstage and to exhibit her most recent directorial endeavour, the farce Meet the Barbarians.

"Julie Delpy has a unique voice in the film business.  Her work appeals to audiences all across the world because it skilfully combines empathy, humour, and depth. 

We are incredibly honoured to present her with this year's Honorary Dragon Award since she is an inspiration and a trailblazer," said Pia Lundberg, artistic director of the Göteborg Film Festival.

The festival will show a four-film retrospective highlighting Delpy's transformation from renowned actor to writer-director. 

The program includes Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995), Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colours: White (1994), and two of her films, Lolo (2015) and 2 Days in Paris (2007).

Delpy initially became well-known throughout the world for her roles in European art house films, including those starring Kieslowski, Leos Carax (1986's Bad Blood), and Agnieszka Holland (1990's Europa Europa). 

However, it was Before Sunrise, the first film in Linklater's Before trilogy, that brought her to a broader audience. Later, she made the switch to directing, exhibiting her signature fusion of relationship dynamics and cultural satire in her movies.