NOR W E G IA N FILM S

NORWEGIAN
FILMS
SHORTS 2015
Animation with ambition > Calls from the wild > Compressed reality
AMBITIOUS ANIMATION AND EXPLORING SHORTS
NORWEGIAN ANIMATION HAS INTERNATIONAL AMBITIONS
and in 2015 our animators set out to conquer new territories. Rune
­Spaans will bring Dave Cooper’s Eddy Table to life for the first time
in the 3D-animated The Absence of Eddy Table. Kajsa Næss has
spent years bringing her narrative style to perfection (Deconstruc­
t­ion Workers, It’s Up to You) and in It Was Mine, based on Paul
­Auster’s short story, she again proves her international calibre.
STILL, OUR MOST ACCLAIMED ANIMATOR IS TORILL KOVE,
whose previous shorts My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts and
The Danish Poet were nominated and won an Oscar® respectively
(2000, 2007). Her new autobiographical film about her ­architect
family and her first bicycle, Me and My Moulton, was recently
­nominated for an Academy Award®.
FRONT COVER
From: Me and My Moulton
Dir. Torill Kove, Prod. Lise Fearnley,
Mikrofilm AS
Photo: Mikrofilm AS
STINE HELGELAND
Executive Director Promotion
and International Relations
Cell: + 47 957 44 173
Mail: [email protected]
ERLEND E. MOE AND VICTOR KOSSAKOVSKY have both
made ­documentaries for children – Dance for Life and Varicella –
­respectively, effectively proving that shorts do not always have to be
fictional.
TORIL SIMONSEN
Head of International Relations
Short and Documentary films
Cell: +47 900 38 086
Mail: [email protected]
ARNA MARIE BERSAAS
Senior Advisor International Relations
Short and Documentary films
Cell: + 47 928 13 088
Mail: [email protected]
KATHRINE HAAHEIM
Festival Manager International Relations
Short and Documentary Films
Cell: + 47 22 47 46 01
Mail: [email protected]
THE SÁMI FILM LAB, INSTIGATED BY THE SÁMI FILM INSTITUTE,
has produced a series of interesting films, with voices and stories
that will generate interest far beyond the Sámi community. Among
them we find The Afflicted Animal by Egil Pedersen, Edith & Aljosja
by Ann Holmgren, and Sámi Bojá by Elle Sofe Henriksen.
MANY VISUAL ARTISTS APPRECIATE THE POSSIBILITIES and
­limitations of the short format and several have chosen it as their
mode of expression, including Jorunn Myklebust, who in Cyrk shows
an alternative way to depict a circus, and Ane Hjort Guttu, who in
This Place is Every Place lets two women discuss the Arab Spring on
the background of very personal experiences.
FILMS REFLECT THE PEOPLE THEY DEPICT AND THE PEOPLE
WHO MAKE THEM. The short films in this catalogue are – like
most Norwegians – direct, playful and humorous, but do not avoid
­confrontation and explorations of the darker side of life. In short,
here you will find life as seen through Norwegian eyes.
Sindre Guldvog
CEO, Norwegian
Film Institute
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CONTENTS
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The Absence of Eddy Table
6
Cowboy Dream
21
Last Base
36
Six Brothers
51
The Afflicted Animal
7
Dancing for Life
22
Lea
37
Stories of the Sanatorium
52
Agg
8
Driving Lesson
23
The Little Death
38
Subtotal
53
Amazon
9
Earth Over Wind
24
Marathon Diaries
39
This is Kabul
54
Apophenia
10
Edith & Aljosja
25
Me and My Moulton
40
This Place is Every Place
55
Aurora Borealis
11
Escalator
26
Morningbird and Murmelton on Winter Holiday 41
Totem
56
Autumn Harvest
12
Eternal Playgrounds
27
My Mummy
42
Varicella
57
Ballerina Bulldog
13
Foul
28
The Outing
43
Victor
58
Bear
14
The Good Life - Over There
29
Part Time Norwegian
44
Yes We Love
59
Bendik & the Monster
15
Herman’s Heart
30
Pink Armageddon
45
Bonki
16
High Point
31
Polaroid
46
Buddy
17
Ice Handscape
32
Polaroid
47
The Captain, the Pilot and the Singer
18
In the Stream
33
Pontus and the Magic Wand
48
Circus
19
Internet Famous
34
Salt
49
Club 7
20
It Was Mine
35
Sámi Bojá
50
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THE ABSENCE OF EDDY TABLE
THE AFFLICTED ANIMAL
THE ABSENCE OF EDDY TABLE
GIKSAŠUVVON EALLI
10 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Rune Spaans
SCREENPLAY Dave Cooper
PRODUCER Eric Vogel for Tordenfilm AS
RELEASE DATE June 2015
15 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Egil Pedersen
SCREENPLAY Egil Pedersen
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Łukasz Zamaro
PRODUCER Mathis Ståle Mathisen for Rein Film AS
CAST Tina Elisabeth Susanne Mikalsen, Egil Pedersen,
Ingá Márjá Sarre
RELEASE DATE January 2015
ANIMATION
DRAMA
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
Director and designer RUNE SPAANS has more than 15 years of
experience from design, animation and visual effects. He has
served as Lead 3D artist at Funcom and Animation Director
at Toxic Design Studio. He has contributed to films such as
Monster Thursday (2004), The Bothersome Man (2006) and
Trollhunter (2010). His first feature film as director was Ploddy
the Police Car on the Case (2013, with Rasmus A. Sivertsen),
which won the Amanda award for best children’s feature.
His first short film The Absence of Eddy Table premieres
in 2014, and his second feature film Knutsen & Ludvigsen
arrives in 2015.
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The titular character Eddy Table, known from the comics of Dave Cooper, makes his screen
debut in The Absence of Eddy Table. One day, Eddy gets lost in a dark forest. There he
meets an alluring girl infected by a mysterious parasite. Love and violence ensues. The film
is ­collaboration between the internationally acclaimed comics creator and visual artist Dave
Cooper and 3D animation and graphic design veteran Rune Spaans.
A young girl seeks help for her afflicted dog, but other family members need more help.
Sámi director EGIL PEDERSEN (b. 1976) grew up in a small
village far up north in Norway. He made his first films,
Lego and clay animation, as an early teen with his father’s
Super 8 film camera. He graduated from the Norwegian
Film School in 2002. Since then he has been developing
different unique ways of eye-catching storytelling using
absurd humour, disturbing moods, visual effects, majestic
images and is still looking for the next twisted idea.
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AMAZON
AGG
AMASONE
AGG
11 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Marianne Ulrichsen
SCREENPLAY Marianne Ulrichsen, Eva Keuris
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Annika Summerson
PRODUCERS Ragna Nordhus Midtgard and Maria
­Ekerhovd for Mer Film AS
CAST Maria Wasseng-Isaksen, Kristin Braut Solheim,
Hege Aga Edelsteen, Marius Lien
RELEASE DATE June 2014
11 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Ståle Stein Berg
SCREENPLAY Ståle Stein Berg
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Odd Reinhardt Nicolaysen
PRODUCER Frode Søbstad for tenk.tv
CAST Alva Pauline Gjerde, Kyrre Haugen Sydness, Ines
Prange, Moa Nicolaysen, Ilia Elektra Berg Stojcevska,
Christina Lande
RELEASE DATE Spring 2015
DRAMA
DRAMA
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
When her mom gets ill, Maria becomes the family’s caretaker. But when she can’t cope any
more, her father seems to have given up.
STÅLE STEIN BERG (b. 1971) is an award-winning screenwriter
with three features and one TV series under his belt. His
latest feature is the 2012 premiered German-Norwegian
co-production Zwei Leben, starring Liv Ullmann, Juliane
Köhler and Ken Duken. The film was shortlisted for the
Oscars in 2013. Berg received the first ever artistic doctorate in screenwriting from The Norwegian Film School in
2009. He is a former board member of the Writer’s Guild
of Norway, and highly sought-after as industry mentor
and script editor.
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Eleven-year-old Ada’s father forgets to pick her up at the airport and she is invited to a
­neighbour’s house to wait for him. There she meets Julia, a girl her age. Julia disapproves of
being told to play with Ada. The two girls measure forces in the northern Norwegian nature.
Free from the adult gaze they approach each other and a new identity.
(b. 1968) is a graduate from The
National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, UK.
She has previously directed the award-winning shorts
Come (1995), Loveless Encounters (2001) and My Sister,
Myself (2003).
MARIANNE O ULRICHSEN
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APOPHENIA
AURORA BOREALIS
APOPHENIA
AURORA BOREALIS
HYBRID DOCUMENTARY
25 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Håvard Fossum
SCREENPLAY Håvard Fossum
DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Egil Håskjold Larsen, Håvard
Fossum
PRODUCERS Peter Bøe, Håvard Fossum for
­Medieoperatørene AS
CAST Sander De Heer
RELEASE DATE June 2014
CHILDREN / DRAMA
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
HÅVARD FOSSUM (b. 1985) is a director and cinematographer.
He has an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths,
University of London and a BA in journalism. Fossum’s
Over to You, Trygve (2011) and Secondhand Land (2012)
have been screened, among other places, in Tromsø and
at Sheffield Doc/Fest.
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15 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Dino Murselovic
SCREENPLAY Dino Murselovic
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY John-Erling Holmenes
­Fredriksen
PRODUCERS Turid Øversveen, Vigdis Roset for 4 1/2
Fiksjon AS
CAST Sara Vejzovic, Almin Bavric, Sadja Setic, Zlatko
Buric
RELEASE DATE June 2014
Apophenia is a satirical reflection on how we make representations. In an increasingly
­provocative manner, social debater Geert Smit preaches the downfall of European culture.
His dystopian documentary shows Serbian welfare cheats, Austrians lost in perversion and a
London left to immigrants, not to speak of the internal threat from jihad. The title of the film
can be defined as the human tendency to seek patterns in random information. What we
accept as reality is challenged in Apophenia.
Aurora Borealis is a story about Emina, a nine-year-old refugee from Bosnia who ends up in
Tromsø together with her mother and little brother. Her main goal is to find her father who
is missing in Bosnia, but after a meeting with Abdi, a 14-year-old refugee from Somalia, she
thinks she has become a drug addict! She sees things in the sky! Aurora Borealis is a charming
and humorous story set in a politically difficult backdrop.
DINO MURSELOVIC (b. 1982) graduated from The Norwegian
Film School in 2012. Dino came to Norway as a refugee
in 1993, 11 years old. His background is often reflected
in his work.
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AUTUMN HARVEST
BALLERINA BULLDOG
17 MIN B/W DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Fredrik S. Hana
SCREENPLAY Fredrik S. Hana and Marius K. Lunde
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Christer B. Runde
CAST Oliver Hohlbrugger, Eili Harboe, Helga Guren,
Tomas Alf Larsen, Thomas Aske Berg, Silje
Salomonsen, Michael Wallin, Magnus Rostad, Frikk
Hana
PRODUCER Gunhild Oddsen for GOfilm
RELEASE DATE September 2014
4 MIN COLOUR DCP 4K STEREO 5.1
Jøran Wærdahl
SCREENPLAY Magnus Aspli, based on Ballerina Bulldog by
Karen Bit Vejles
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Jøran Wærdahl
PRODUCER Jøran Wærdahl for Klipp og Lim Media AS
VOICE Martha Standal
RELEASE DATE June 2015
AUTUMN HARVEST
BALLERINA BULLDOG
FICTION
ANIMATION
DIRECTOR
(b. 1986) has churned out several music
videos and short films since he graduated from the Noroff
Institute in 2008. His work includes videos for Kvelertak,
Haust, Årabrot and Thomas Dybdahl. His short films,
Angst, Piss & Shit (2012) and Autumn Harvest (2014) have
been screened at festivals all over the world.
FREDRIK S. HANA
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DIRECTOR
A grieving fisherman attempts suicide after the recent loss of his wife. But before he can end
his life, he is interrupted by a mysterious creature from the sea. He is offered a chance to win
back his lost love and agrees to a Faustian bargain. But before he can claim his prize he must
perform a number of bloody deeds.
Ballerina Bulldog is a character in psaligraph Karen Bit Vejle’s universe. This universe is based
on Søren Kierkegaard’s philosophy, which states that all humans are masters in their own lives.
It will stay true to Vejle’s paper cut universe, where the ballerina dances on her path through
life and its dangers and pleasures. This film will use groundbreaking techniques, and will be
a mix of studio-filmed elements, projections, cutouts and CGI.
JØRAN WÆRDAHL (b. 1968) has worked with commissioned
films since 1991. In 1999 he established Klipp og Lim Media
AS, where he works as a producer and director.
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BEAR
BENDIK & THE MONSTER
14 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Bård Ivar Engelsås
SCREENPLAY Bård Ivar Engelsås
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Øystein Moe
PRODUCER Petter Schanke Olsen for Kindergarten Media
AS
CAST Ole Romsdal, Hege O. Enger
RELEASE DATE June 2014
MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Frank Mosvold
DIRECTOR OF ANIMATION Atle S. Blakseth
SCREENPLAY Thomas Seeberg Torjussen based on the
book by Arne Svingen
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Atle S. Blakseth
PRODUCER Frank Mosvold for Kool Produktion AS
CO-PRODUCER Torgeir Sanders for Gimpville AS
VOICES Adam Eftevaag, Anders Baasmo Christiansen,
Johannes Joner, Tori Wraanes
RELEASE DATE February 2014
BAMSE
BENDIK & MONSTERET
CHILDREN / ANIMATION 10
DRAMA
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
A solitary hunter struggles to stay alive in the brutal wilderness. When he encounters a teddy
bear left alone in the snow, he starts failing as a survivor. Soon both he and the bear are in
danger of being destroyed.
(b.1975) has made short films and
t­ elevision for approximately 10 years. He is at the moment also ­developing scripts for feature films. He lives in
his hometown Trondheim, where he also got his education. His daytime job is at NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting
Corporation).
BÅRD IVAR ENGELSÅS
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Bendik & the Monster is the story of a monster, who dreams of being a cabaret singer. Bendik
helps the Monster follow its dreams, while the Monster helps Bendik with his relationship to
his mom and her boyfriend.
FRANK MOSVOLD (b. 1965) has made several shorts, including the award-winning films – A Kiss in the Snow and
Waves. He was a co-director of the feature-length The 7
Deadly Sins. In 2005 he started working with animation
with the two short animated films; Christopher & Gordy
and Lonely 15. He has also created, produced and co-­
directed the animated TV-series Hubert (26 episodes)
and Ella Bella Bingo (104 episodes).
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BONKI
BUDDY
BONKI
KOMPIS
19 MIN COLOUR DCP 4K DOLBY SR
Siljá Somby
SCREENPLAY Siljá Somby
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Dan Jåma
PRODUCER Odd Levi Paulsen for Julev Film AS
CAST Nils Utsi, Elle Gaup, Maryon W. Eilertsen, Mahtis M.
Gaup (Fire Máhtte)
RELEASE DATE October 2014
11 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Mads Eriksen
SCREENPLAY Mads Eriksen
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Nils Petter Devold Midtun
PRODUCER Stian Einar Forgaard for Phantom Film AS
CAST Bjarne Fiskå-Andersen, Emma Aasland, Jone
Kalvig Egdetveit, Asbjørn Halsten
RELEASE DATE November 2014
DRAMA
DRAMA
DIRECTOR
(b. 1971) graduated from Lillehammer
­University College with a BA in directing. She has directed
short films for children for the Norwegian Broadcasting
Corporation, as well as educational documentaries. She is
also an experienced dubbing director for animation films
into Northern Sámi. She has been ­creatively ­managing
numerous film workshops for children and youth. Somby is
also active within film politics and holds board positions in
the Sámi Film Association and the North Norwegian Film
Centre. She created the programming of the Sámi Film
Festival with an extensive focus on i­­ndigenous storytel­
ling. Somby is currently writing and developing her first
feature film Sáráhkká as well as a TV series for children
and several shorts.
SILJÁ SOMBY
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DIRECTOR
The disoriented nursery home resident Nils creates a bond with the new substitute nurse
Karen, but is she able to help him with his last wish?
Kent only has his buddy Thomas, but that doesn’t mean he is a good friend for that reason.
But today something happens that will change their relationship forever.
(b. 1980) is an award-winning screenwriter.
Educated at The Norwegian Film School, Buddy is his third
short film as director.
MADS ERIKSEN
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THE CAPTAIN, THE PILOT
AND THE SINGER
CIRCUS
CYRK
KAPTEINEN, PILOTEN
OG SANGERINNEN
EXPERIMENTAL/HYBRID 20
MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Jorunn Myklebust Syversen
SCREENPLAY Jorunn Myklebust Syversen
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Marte Vold
PRODUCER Jorunn Myklebust Syversen
VOICE Piotr Nowak
RELEASE DATE June 2014
DIRECTOR
7 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Øyvind Tangseth
SCREENPLAY Øyvind Tangseth
ANIMATORS Øyvind Tangseth, Tuva Synnevåg, Trine V.
Håbjørg
PRODUCER Turid Rogne for Aldeles AS
CAST Helge Jordal, Vidar Magnussen, Heidi Lambach
RELEASE DATE September 2014
ANIMATION
DIRECTOR
The captain and the pilot are both deeply fascinated by the beautiful singer that performs in
the opera house. They compete to be her best friend, but then the competition gets out of
hand. Time to put rivalry aside?
(b.1968) has studied animation at Volda
College, Norway. He is an experienced animator/­director
who has worked on many projects with international
­distribution, for example Free Jimmy, Elias, City of Friends
and Sunshine Kathy. The Captain, the Pilot and the Singer
is the first cartoon he both has written and directed.
ØYVIND TANGSETH
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In Cyrk we meet Cirkus Arnardo and the people working there. The film shows a dark, wild
and beautiful stylization of circus life and its main character.
JORUNN MYKLEBUST SYVERSEN (b.
1978) graduated from
­ ergen National Academy of the Arts in 2005, after first
B
attending Mølla School of Fine Arts from 1999 to 2000.
She works as a pictorial and video artist from her base
in Oslo. She has received several grants and her work
has been displayed at a great number of exhibitions,
events, festivals and expositions, both nationally and
inter­nationally. Cyrk is her third short film.
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CLUB 7
COWBOY DREAM
25 MIN COLOUR & B/W DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
August Baugstø Hanssen, Even G. Benestad
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Even G. Benestad
PRODUCER Carsten Aanonsen for Indie Film AS
RELEASE DATE June 2014
CHILDREN / ANIMATION 8
CLUB 7
COWBOYDRØM
MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Lars Hegdal
SCREENPLAY Ola Hegdal
PRODUCER Jøran Wærdahl for Klipp og Lim Media AS
VOICES Fridtjov Såheim, Janne Heltberg Haarseth, Rune
Nilson, Torfinn Borkhus, Hanne Løberg
RELEASE DATE June 2014
DOCUMENTARY
DIRECTORS
DIRECTOR
Club 7 was the undisputed centre of Oslo counter culture in the 1960s and had a lifespan of
more than 20 years. No other Norwegian club has had a greater cultural impact, been a more
creative intellectual melting pot or raised its banners higher in the battle against conformity.
Directors EVEN G. BENESTAD and AUGUST B. HANSSEN have
collaborated for many years, and Club 7 is their s­ econd
co-directed effort. In 2011 they directed the feature
­documentary Pushwagner. Even previously directed the
feature documentaries All About My Father (2002) and
Natural Born Star (2007). August was also involved in the
development of both these films.
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Club 7 is a symphonic and associative film that explores the life and times of an institution
that has been described as 20 years of continuous improvisation.
Bill Benson was known as the toughest and hardest hitting hero of the Wild West! But one
day he gets stuck in a moment he can’t get out of.
(b. 1970) is a Norwegian animator and
i­llustrator with 15 years of experience from commercial
work. Cowboy Dream is his first independent short film.
LARS HEGDAL
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DANCING FOR LIFE
DRIVING LESSON
DOCUMENTARY / CHILDREN 25
DRAMA
DANS FOR LIVET
ØVELSESKJØRING
MIN COLOUR HD STEREO 5.1
13 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Christian K. Norvalls
SCREENPLAY Christian K. Norvalls
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Åsmund Hasli
PRODUCER Line Dalheim for Folkefiender
CAST Marie Hafnor, Mads Ousdal, Mikkel Bratt Silset
RELEASE DATE June 2014
Erlend E. Mo
SCREENPLAY Erlend E. Mo
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Lars Reinholdt Siem, Tore
Vollan, Egil Håskjold Larsen
PRODUCER Anita Rehoff Larsen for Sant & Usant AS
SALES Autlook Filmsales GmbH
CAST Vilde Westeng
RELEASE DATE Spring 2015
(b. 1967) is a Norwegian director and
­ uthor. He has a degree in literary science, Nordic
a
­languages and literature, and was educated in film and
tv at MRDH Volda and NRK Oslo. Erlend has worked
as ­director and ­cinematographer since 1994. Amongst
others, he has received awards for Forbidden Love, Wel­
come to ­Denmark, Can You Die in Heaven and My Eyes, all
screened at international film festivals. Erlend’s film before
Dancing for Life was Four Letters Apart – Children in the
Age of ADHD from 2013.
ERLEND EIRIK MO
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Vilde is a 12-year-old girl that lives in the middle of a huge forest under high mountains in
Telemark, Norway. She wants something most boys and men say is impossible, to be the first
girl that can call herself Norwegian Champion of the special folkdance called “the halling”.
This dance demands great physical force and stamina and no girl has ever won the national
competition. But Vilde’s greatest wish is to see her beloved grandfather fight his cancer. She
is convinced that her show of strength will prolong his life.
A silver car cruises on a sunny meadow in the middle of nowhere. A dad has brought his sixteenyear-old daughter for a drive, both struggling to cope with a secret she just ­revealed to him.
C H R I S T I A N K . N O RVA L L S
( b .1 9 8 6 ) g r a d u ate d f ro m
­Roehampton University School of Arts in London, England
in 2010. His diploma film Heart and Lungs (2010) won a
student award at the university. He later returned to Oslo,
Norway, where he co-founded the production company
Folkefiender. This is where he now works as scriptwriter
and director. His low-budget short film Shower (2012) has
been screened at more than 30 national and international
festivals. His latest short Driving Lesson (2014) premiered
at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in June 2014.
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EARTH OVER WIND
EDITH & ALJOSJA
40 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Joern Utkilen
SCREENPLAY Joern Utkilen
DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Martin Radich, Julian
Schwanitz
PRODUCERS Ruben Thorkildsen and Isak Eymundsson for
Ape & Bjørn AS
CAST Ole Johan Skjelbred, Heidi Goldmann, Anders
Ravn-Nilsen, Maria Halseth, Adrian Williumsen, Thea
Johansen Nedrejord, Sonja Marie Larsen, Gholam Shirali
RELEASE DATE June 2014
9 MIN COLOUR / B&W DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Ann Holmgren
SCREENPLAY Ann Holmgren, inspired by Selma och
­Verner by Torgny Lindgren
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Karl Erik Brøndbo
PRODUCER Odd Levi Paulsen for Julev Film AS
CAST Inga Elisa Påve Idivuoma, Jonathan Johansson
RELEASE DATE Spring 2015
JORD OVER VIND
EDITH & ALJOSJA
DRAMA
DRAMA
DIRECTOR
(b. 1971), writer and director, is a graduate
from the Edinburgh College of Art and Screen Academy
Scotland. Utkilen has been based in the UK since 1995.
Utkilen has written and directed a number of short films,
among them Who’s My Favourite Girl which won him a
BAFTA in 2000.
JOERN UTKILEN
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DIRECTOR
A newly separated couple fights about who should take care of their 10-year-old son. A man
desperately hunts for someone to share his life with. A young woman fights for her mother’s
attention. In a unique and absurd way these stories tie in together. Earth Over Wind was made
through intuition, association and confidence - confidence in the intuitive process that it would
lead to an entertaining and meaningful project.
A woman and a man with a river that keeps them separated. They have to break the laws of
nature to come close to each other. A simple story about love that defies cultural differences.
grew up in Lapland in northern Sweden
with a Sámi mother and Swedish father. She worked as a
­photographer and published two novels before she started directing films. She graduated from the Norwegian Film
School in 2008. Since then she has made a feature-length
documentary – Hold on Hallelujah, art films, given birth to
two children and is looking forward to directing her first
feature fiction film. Edith & Aljosja is based on the same
main characters as her feature script, developed with the
support of Norwegian Film Institute and the International
Sámi Film Institute.
ANN HOLMGREN
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ESCALATOR
ETERNAL HUNTING GROUNDS
ANIMATION 10
ANIMATION
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
RULLETRAPPEN
EVIGE JAKTMARKER
MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Christopher Nielsen
SCREENPLAY Christopher Nielsen
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Are Austnes
PRODUCERS Fredrik Fottland and Ove Heiborg for
Qvisten Animation AS
CAST Anders T. Andersen, Marte Engebrigtsen, Trond
Fausa Aurvåg, Anders Mordal
RELEASE DATE June 2014
12 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Elin Grimstad
SCREENPLAY Elin Grimstad
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Urmas Jõemees
ANIMATORS Triin Sarapik-Kivi, Andres Tenusaar, Olga
Bulgakova
PRODUCER Ingvil Giske for Medieoperatørene AS
CO-PRODUCER Andrus Raudsalu for Nukufilm OÜ
RELEASE DATE June 2015
Three people are struggling upward on an escalator that is going down. Why? Is the goal to
fight their way to the top, or to relax and just go with the flow of the stairs to the bottom?
CHRISTOPHER NIELSEN (b. 1963) is a cartoonist, artist, ­author,
playwright and director. He is the man behind the ­comic
Two Wasted Wankers which also led to Norway’s first
3D animated TV series of the same name. After that, he
directed the animated film Free Jimmy, which won the
Amanda Award and the Crystal Award in Annecy. In recent
years he has had great success as a playwright at the
theater with sold-out performances and numerous awards
(The 2007 Oslo City Artist Award, The 2008 Hedda Award
and The 2009 Ibsen Award).
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Two children on a small island play an important game: they take death out of the world. The
children search intensively under stones, on the beach, in the mud and in the fields for dead
animals. The animals are taken to the children’s own private graveyard. Here the children
bury the animals, decorate the graves, sing songs and recite poems. By burying the animals,
the animals’ lives are renewed. They wake up in the beautiful, dynamic animal paradise; the
eternal hunting grounds.
ELIN GRIMSTAD moved
to Oslo in 2004, after graduating
from Bath Spa University in animation and creative
writing. She set up her own animation studio and started making quirky animation films and illustrations. She
­integrates animation, theatre and music to create a new,
unique expression. Elin has since worked on a wide range
of interdisciplinary projects. Elin is also active as a songwriter/lyricist in the indie-pop band Je suis Animal. Eternal
Hunting Grounds is her first animation film for the screen.
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FOUL
THE GOOD LIFE - OVER THERE
DRAMA /COMEDY
DRAMA
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
FOUL
DET GODE LIVET, DER BORTE
6 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Rune Denstad Langlo
SCREENPLAY Rune Denstad Langlo
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Øystein Mamen
PRODUCER Håvard Gossé Bergseth for Spætt Film AS
CAST Eiril Osen Wærdahl
RELEASE DATE June 2014
RUNE DENSTAD LANGLO (b.1972)
was born and raised in
Trondheim, Norway. He started working as a production
assistant in the film company Motlys in Oslo, Norway, and
eventually began directing documentaries. In 2009 he
directed his first feature film North, which won the price
“Berlin Europa Cinemas Label ex aequo” in Berlin Film
Festival. Rune also was celebrated as “Best Emerging
Filmmaker” at Tribeca Film Festival 2009.
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25 MIN B/W DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Izer Aliu
SCREENPLAY Izer Aliu
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY John-Erling Holmenes
­Fredriksen
PRODUCER Yngve Sæther for Motlys AS
CAST Ridvan Mustafa, Arben Alim, Jonuz Emini
RELEASE DATE June 2014
It can be tough to be a kid, especially if you’re not part of the gang. Foul is a humorous and
melancholy everyday odyssey. It is a road movie that follows a ten-year-old girl through all
the resistance she experiences on a normal winter day in Norway. Based on the director’s
own memories from the 1980s.
Sami is an illegal worker in Oslo who minds his own business and breaks his back to support
a family in his home country. After being forced to babysit the son of a boss he admires and
aiming to become like him, Sami faces the choices we all try to balance on a daily basis – family
and work. Both require loyalty. Both want dedication. Both change us, but whichever we spend
most time with changes us in its own direction.
(b. 1982) graduated from the Norwegian Film
School in 2012. His graduation film To Guard a Mountain
dubbed him one of ten new Nordic directors to watch in
collaboration by the four largest Nordic film magazines.
To Guard a Mountain was nominated for the Student
Academy Award and has also won several high-end both ­national and international - awards. Following his
graduation he set out to shoot his first feature Hunting
Flies, and the short The Good Life - Over There set in the
cityscape of Oslo. He is currently writing his next feature.
IZER ALIU
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HERMAN’S HEART
HIGH POINT
CHILDREN / ANIMATION 8
/ COMEDY 25 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Emil Trier
SCREENPLAY Emil Trier, David Skaufjord
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Petter Holmern Halvorsen
PRODUCER Hans-Jørgen Osnes for Motlys AS
CAST Christian Rubeck, Glenn Erland Tosterud, Elisabeth
Sand, Louise Gabrielsen
RELEASE DATE June 2014
HERMANS HJERTE
HIGH POINT
MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Anne Kristin Berge
SCREENPLAY Wenche With
ANIMATORS Anne Kristin Berge, Erlend Dal Sakshaug
PRODUCER Anja Nicolas for AN-Imation
RELEASE DATE September 2014
DRAMA
DIRECTOR
ANNE KRISTIN BERGE (b. 1969) has worked as a freelance illu­
strator since 2003. Formerly employed at Storm ­Studios
as director, animator and art director (2005 - 2010).
­Modeller and animator on the award-winning feature Free
Jimmy (2006) directed by Christopher Nielsen. D
­ irected
and animated the music short William i parken (William in
the Park, 2008) for composer Erlend Skomsvoll. Script,
direction and animation for the short pl.ink! (2010). Anne
Kristin is currently working as a freelance animator and
art director in Oslo.
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DIRECTOR
Herman lives in peaceful harmony with his teddy bear inside a large tree surrounded by a
beautiful garden. One night an unexpected and (for Herman) unwelcomed visitor arrives.
When Herman throws the visitor out it gets stormy outside and he realizes that he has to go
out on a rescue mission. We follow Herman´s journey through thick fog before he eventually
understands that a heart can accommodate many and the fog clears.
Former childhood friends Christian and Erland, now in their late 20s, are confronted with
their own adolescence as they go searching for Christian’s estranged little brother in a scene
they’re not familiar with - contemporary youth culture.
EMIL TRIER (b. 1981) is a Norwegian/Danish film director who
grew up in Oslo in a family of filmmakers, so it was natural
to start making movies at an early age. He went to the
European Film College in Denmark and has a Bachelor in
Film and Aesthetics from The University of Oslo. Emil has
made several international award winning music videos
as well as documentaries. High Point is his first fictional
short film. He is currently developing a feature in Norway.
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ICE HANDSCAPE
IN THE STREAM
DOCUMENTARY
11 MIN COLOUR / B&W DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Are Pilskog, Sturla Pilskog
SCREENPLAY Are Pilskog, Sturla Pilskog
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Are Pilskog
PRODUCERS Are Pilskog, Sturla Pilskog
CAST Reidar Pilskog, Idar Kaldhol, Tore Nedrelid, Jetmund Voldnes
RELEASE DATE April 2014
DOCUMENTARY
DIRECTORS
DIRECTOR
ISHAVSHANDA
ARE PILSKOG (b. 1976) is educated in film and TV production;
he also holds a Master in Ecology and Animal Behaviour.
His films are characterized by an in-depth understanding
of the ecological processes and behaviours of the animals
he films. His film The Silver of the Sea (2012) won several
national and international awards, including a nomination
for the National Film Award Amanda for best documentary.
BEKKEN
10 MIN COLOUR / B&W DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Ida Kleppe
SCREENPLAY Ida Kleppe
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Vegard Dale Bergheim
PRODUCER Morten Offerdal for Pandora Film AS
CAST Ingrid Torp, Johannes Torp, Marit Adelsten Jensen
VOICE Rosemary Lund
RELEASE DATE April 2014
Harsh weather, water and ice shape our landscape. A long life shapes our hands. Hunters going
to the Arctic Ocean have experienced heavy labour in an environment that people waiting at
home could scarcely imagine. Could their handscape tell us something about the work and
environment, which has contributed so heavily to making the hunters who they are?
The stream at the historic farm of Havraa connects the mountains to the yard, and the yard
to the fjord. If the stream could talk, he would have spoken about the hard struggle of everyday life, about joyful days in beautiful sunshine, and about love so strong that it survives
thousands of rainy days.
IDA KLEPPE ,
born in Norway in 1979, has a degree in film
and TV production from ECU in Australia and Universidad Complutense Madrid in Spain and has worked with
documentary films since 2006. Kleppe has written and
directed international award-winning documentary films,
and since 2008, she has also produced and distributed
documentary films internationally. Since 2010 Kleppe has
been working for Pandora Film as a producer and director.
STURLA PILSKOG (b.1981) holds a Master in Visual Anthropol-
ogy. His debut film as a director is Urban Hunters (2011).
Together with his brother Are, Sturla produces films from
a small island off the west coast of Norway.
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INTERNET FAMOUS
IT WAS MINE
INTERNET FAMOUS
IT WAS MINE
11 MIN COLOUR DCP 4K STEREO 5.1
Kristoffer Borgli
SCREENPLAY Kristoffer Borgli
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Håvard Byrkjeland
PRODUCER Kristoffer Borgli for Bacon OSL
CAST Amir Asgharnejad, Ole Øyvind Sand Holth, Kaja
Storrøsten, Ed Raison
RELEASE DATE June 2014
7 MIN COLOUR DCP 4K STEREO 5.1
Kajsa Næss
SCREENPLAY Kajsa Næss, based on Story No. 6 from The
Red Notebook by Paul Auster
ANIMATORS Tuva Synnevåg, Julie Engaas, Inga Sætre,
Kajsa Næss
PRODUCERS Tonje Skar Reiersen, Lise Fearnley
RELEASE DATE February 2015
DRAMA
ANIMATION
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
Amir (27) becomes internet famous by his videos where he picks fights with strangers on the
street. He tries to justify his success in a portrait interview with a newspaper.
KRISTOFFER BORGLI (b. 1985) was born and raised in a small
suburb outside of Oslo. A skateboard and a videocamera
dominated his youth. He went on to film school and is now
directing full time. His music videos have screened at festivals
all over the world, earning him awards from the Canadian
International Film Festival and the Norwegian Grammy
(“Spellemann”), to name a few. His short film collaboration
with The Golden Filter screened at the SXSW short film competition. A lot of his work has a combination of visual poetry
and a daring story, always interesting to watch.
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Is there really such a thing as coincidence?
R. is scouring bookstore after bookstore in search of a remarkable book that he yearns to
read. He finally finds it in the most unexpected way.
A playful and offbeat reflection on the surprising moments where you get the feeling that
everything is somehow connected. Based on a short story by Paul Auster.
KAJSA NÆSS (b. 1970) studied animation at Volda University
College. On graduating in 1996, she founded Mikrofilm
AS with Lise Fearnley. She is an established director and
her films have won several prestigious awards, both in
Norway and abroad. Her previous films include Leonid
Shower (2004), Deconstruction Workers (2008) and It’s
Up To You (2013). Kajsa is now developing new short films
and an animated feature film.
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LAST BASE
LEA
LAST BASE
LEA
11 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Aslak Danbolt
SCREENPLAY Aslak Danbolt
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Stian Thilert
PRODUCER Pål Nordås for The London Film School
CAST Petter Width Kristiansen, Kenneth Åkerland Berg,
Edda Grjotheim, Tov Sletta, Tov Sletta
RELEASE DATE November 2014
25 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Erika Calmeyer
SCREENPLAY Sofia Lersol Lund
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Mads Sæther Juul
PRODUCER Ingrid Skagestad for Den norske filmskolen
CAST Maria Boda, Thomas W. Gabrielsson, Trond Espen
Seim, Marika Enstad, Morten Faldaas, Simen Sand,
Johanne Fossheim
RELEASE DATE August 2014
DRAMA / THRILLER
DRAMA
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
ASLAK DANBOLT (b.1980)
has two BAs, one in Film Studies
and one in Documentary Directing, both from Lillehammer University College. His graduation film Martin - the
Ghost (2009) was screened at numerous international film
festivals and won several awards. He graduated with an
MA from The London Film School in 2014 with the thesis
film Last Base. He is now living in Oslo, working on turning
Last Base into a feature.
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Joachim is retiring from base jumping to become a father for the first time, but first he goes
on one last adventure with his best friend Øyvind. When a storm approaches their friendship
is put to the test; Øyvind wants to turn back, but Joachim will apparently stop at nothing to
pull off his very last jump.
Lea lives a protected life, travelling alongside her father on his business trips. During one night in
Oslo their tightly knit bond is tested, when her father’s business associate takes interest in her.
ERIKA CALMEYER (b.
1990) directed her first film as a tenyear-old, and is now one of Norway’s big new directing
talents. She graduated from the Norwegian Film School in
spring 2014. Her graduation film Lea has received critical
acclaim and participated in the Next Nordic Generation
program of the Norwegian Film Festival. Erika has previously studied film at the Victorian College of Arts in
Melbourne, Australia and recently won the prestigious
Nordic Talent competition in Copenhagen.
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THE LITTLE DEATH
THE MARATHON DIARY
MARATONDAGBOKEN
DEN LILLE DØDEN
20 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Simon Tillaas
SCREENPLAY Johan Fasting
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Runar Sørheim
PRODUCER Vilje Kathrine Hagen for Den norske filmskolen
CAST Mia Rudfloen, Endre Hellestveit, Maria Erwolter,
Otto Garli
RELEASE DATE August 2014
8 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Hanne Berkaak
SCREENPLAY Hanne Berkaak
ANIMATORS Josefine Hannibal, Ole Christian Løken,
Adam Boklund, Narissa Schander
PRODUCERS Lise Fearnley and Tonje Skar Reiersen for
Mikrofilm as
RELEASE DATE Spring 2015
DRAMA
ANIMATION
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
12-year-old Julia is on a budget weekend cruise with her father. Late at night Julia gets her
first period and her father has disappeared. Making her way through the ship’s nightlife, Julia
sees an adult world she’s never known about.
(b. 1985) graduated from the Norwegian
Film School in 2014 as a director, with the film The Little
Death.
SIMON TILLAAS
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Always Last embarks on an adventurous marathon through the cold and mythic landscape of
Lapland. But she soon discovers that the run is not going to be a straight line between start
and finish. In the end, it is not about winning or losing. The risk is losing yourself.
is a freelance illustrator and animator
c­ urrently based in Oslo, Norway. She has a Masters in
Communication Art & Design from Royal College of Art,
London and a BA in animation from Parson’s School of
Design, New York. Berkaak has directed animations for
­clients such as Playstation, Channel 4, Yo Gabba ­Gabba
and Save the Children. As a child, Berkaak spent her
summers with her family in Lapland. With her short film
debut, The Marathon Diary, she has been inspired by the
landscapes and memories of these childhood summers.
HANNE BERKAAK
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ME AND MY MOULTON
MORNINGBIRD AND MURMELTON ON WINTER HOLIDAY
MOULTON OG MEG
MORGENFUGL OG MURMELDYR
PÅ VINTERFERIE
12 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
DIRECTOR Torill Kove
SCREENPLAY Torill Kove
ANIMATORS Magnhild Winsnes, Bjarte Agdestein, Morten
Pedersen, Torill Kove, Jens Hahn, Yin Ko Lee, Linda
Manouan
PRODUCER Lise Fearnley for Mikrofilm AS
CO-PRODUCER Marcy Page for National Film Board Canada
SALES KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg e.V. (Europe), National
Film Board Canada (Rest of the world)
RELEASE DATE June 2014
ANIMATION
TORILL KOVE (b.
1958) studied animation at the Concordia
University in Montreal, Canada, where she’s lived since
the early eighties. Her first professional animation film
as a director, My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts
(co-­p roduced by the National Film Board of Canada
and Studio Magica of Oslo) won numerous international
awards and was nominated for the Academy Awards®.
Kove has won the Kodak Award for her quirky films All
You Can Eat, Fallen Angel and Squash and Stretch, and among numerous others - the Academy Award® for Best
Short Film, Animated in 2007 for The Danish Poet (2006).
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9 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Annette Saugestad Helland
SCREENPLAY Annette Saugestad Helland
DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Harald Fossen, Derek Bateman
ANIMATORS Cathinka Tanberg, Annette Saugestad Helland, Andreas Paleologos, Magnhild Winsnes
PRODUCERS Lise Fearnley og Tonje Skar Reiersen for
Mikrofilm AS
VOICES Kaia Varjord, Thorbjørn Harr, Mathild Matre
Rusten
RELEASE DATE October 2014
ANIMATION/CHILDREN
DIRECTOR
One summer in 1960s Norway, a seven-year-old girl asks her hopelessly out-of-touch parents
for a bicycle, but the unconventional ways of these modernist architects soon prove to be a
source of quiet embarrassment and anxiety for the young girl. This witty and colourful ­animated
short by Torill Kove, director of the Academy Award®-winning The Danish Poet, views the
creativity and forward-thinking attitudes of the parents through the eyes of their ­introspective
young daughter, who envies other normal families—and whose sensitive nature makes it
difficult for her to be completely honest with those she loves most.
It is summer, but the rain is pouring down. Mathilde is bored. Had it been winter, it would be
snowing instead. Mathilde wants to go on winter holiday right away. Morningbird and Murmelton are tiny enough to go on winter holiday in the freezer. It becomes quite the adventure.
A short film for a young audience.
(b. 1975) was educated at
Bergen National Academy of the Arts and studied animation at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
(Konstfack) in Stockholm. She has written and illustrated
four children’s books, participated in several collective exhibitions and is currently working on animation and book
projects for children. She was part of the design team on
the feature film Hocus Pocus, Alfie Atkins.
ANNETTE SAUGESTAD HELLAND
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MY MUMMY
THE OUTING
15 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
FALCK
SCREENPLAY FALCK
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Audun B. Magnæs
PRODUCERS Elisabeth Kvithyll og FALCK for Revolt Film
CAST Signe Martha Tosterud, Aud Steinsbekk
RELEASE DATE June 2014
LIVE ACTION/ANIMATION 11 MIN COLOUR & B/W DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
MAMMAEN MIN
THE OUTING
DOCUMENTARY
Helene M. Kjeldsen
Helene M. Kjeldsen
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Casper Høyberg
PRODUCER Ulrik Gutkin for CFC Norge AS
CAST Heidi Elise Kvale, Ulrik Gutkin, Charlotte Eide-Olsen
RELEASE DATE January 2015
DIRECTOR
FALCK (b. 1981) is a Norwegian filmmaker, actor, artist and
curator. He is ashamed of himself, and afraid not to be
good enough.
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DIRECTOR
SCREENPLAY
I feel ashamed.
I hate myself.
I don´t deserve to be liked.
I have made a film about my mommy.
The film is part of the project SHAME.
A film telling the story of a man forced to make an existential choice by the deep dark forces
battling inside his mind. Real film mixed with animation display his emotional universe and
his torn state of mind. Music as part of the sound landscape: Hallelujah by Nick Cave and
the Bad Seeds.
HELENE MAGNHILD KJELDSEN , born April 1963 in Holland, grew
up in Italy, Kenya, Norway and Denmark. Kjeldsen is a
visual artist and an autodidact in the art of filmmaking.
She has worked with textiles, sculptures and paintings.
Previous films include Oasis and the 77 puppets (1999)
and Blå himlen Blues (2005). The latter received the
­Norwegian Film Critics Award at the Norwegian Short
Film Festival in Grimstad.
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PART TIME NORWEGIAN
PINK ARMAGEDDON
18 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Wajid Malik
SCREENPLAY Wajid Malik
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Petter Holmern Halvorsen
PRODUCERS Gudrun Austli and Agnethe Sophie Buus
Jensen for Revenka AS
CAST Assad Arif, Ali Abdi, Sajid Malik, Emir Mulaosmanovic
RELEASE DATE November 2014
7 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund
SCREENPLAY Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Paul René Roestad
PRODUCER Emil Stang Lund for Parabel Film AS
CAST Adina Bjerke Dyvik, Marie Blokhus, Robert Skjærstad, Kristian Gislefoss, Emil Stang Lund
RELEASE DATE September 2014
DELTIDSNORSK
ROSA ARMAGEDDON
DRAMA
CHILDREN / DRAMA
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
In an attempt to get back together again, four old friends decide on a trekking trip to the
famous Preachers Pulpit. Their relation to Norwegian culture become more apparent now in
the choices they have made, and as adults they find it harder to hide behind humour and irony.
WAJID MALIK (b.
1978) has a background as an illustrator
and multimedia designer. He graduated from London Film
School in December 2005, with the short film Horizon as
his graduation film. Malik has for a long time been interested in telling stories using sound and pictures, and has
found in the film medium the perfect form of expression
to convey the thoughts and ideas bubbling inside his head.
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Filippa’s obsession with the color pink turns worlds upside down.
TETYANA KRYVYTSKA STANG LUND (b. 1973) was educated as
a director in Kiev. She has an extensive background as
television director, actress, screenwriter, editor and format developer. She is a Berlinale Talent Campus alumni.
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POLAROID
POLAROID
POLAROID
POLAROID
11 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Julia Elise Schacht
SCREENPLAY Julia Elise Schacht
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Nils Petter Lotherington
PRODUCER Bent Rognlien for Norsk Filmproduskjon AS
CAST Viktoria Winge, Jan Gunnar Røise, Per Tofte
RELEASE DATE November 2014
11 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Lars Klevberg
SCREENPLAY Lars Klevberg
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Pål Ulvik Rokseth
PRODUCERS Petter Onstad Løkke, John Einar Hagen for
Eldorado Film AS
CAST Annika Witt, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Anne Cloetta
RELEASE DATE January 2015
DRAMA
DRAMA
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
Polaroid is the poetic tale of a brief, nocturnal encounter between a man and a woman, an
encounter that remains a mystery to the man for the rest of his life.
JULIA SCHACHT (b.
1982) was born and raised on a little island in Lake Mjøsa and now lives in Oslo. She trained as
an actress at the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre and has acted in a number of theatrical, television
and film roles. These include Pål Sletaune’s Next Door,
Betrayal and The Bambi Effect. Polaroid is her debut as
scriptwriter and director.
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Sarah and Linda discover an old Polaroid camera in the clearing of Sarah’s house. In their own
selfishness they exploit the camera, only to discover what horrible past it hides.
After graduating with a bachelor in filmmaking, LARS
KLEVBERG (b. 1980) started out directing extreme sport
films. In 2012 Klevberg wrote and directed The Wall, a
post-apocalyptic short film drama. The Wall screened
at Palm Springs in 2013 and got an Honourable Mention. Klevberg has recently completed two short films,
preparing for a 2015 festival release. He aims to create
a debate about the world we live in regardless of the
genre. Klevberg is currently developing a science fiction
feature film.
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PONTUS AND THE MAGIC WAND
SALT
PONTUS OG TRYLLESTAVEN
SALT
14 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Morten Evelid
SCREENPLAY Morten Evelid
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Sjur Aarthun
PRODUCERS Linda Bolstad, Marie Fuglestein for DUOfilm AS
CAST Julian S. Søreide, Hermine Oen, Terje Torkildsen,
Egil Hegerberg
RELEASE DATE September 2014
12 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Maria Lloyd
SCREENPLAY Maria Lloyd
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Harald Gunnar Paalgard
PRODUCER Ingvil Giske for Medieoperatørene AS
CO-PRODUCERS Plesnar & Krauss Films (PL), Aurora Film
(NO) and Sentrifugal Films (UK)
CAST Ingvild Rognmo, Octavia Alexandru, Sian Webber,
Colin Maclean, Sean Myatt
RELEASE DATE May 2014
CHILDREN / DRAMA
DRAMA
DIRECTOR
(b. 1967) is a writer/director educated
in film at New York University. He wrote the novel Den
store ­Varmen. He also wrote and directed several documentaries and short films. One of them, Blue Java, was
nominated for the National Film Award Amanda for Best
Short Film. His short film Strong Hold has won awards in
South Korea, Germany, Norway and the USA, as well as
the Audience Award at Chicago International Children’s
Film Festival.
MORTEN EVELID
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DIRECTOR
Pontus, 5 years old, dreams of being an admired magician. The other kids don’t want to play
with him, because he never gets the magic right anyway. Pontus is clumsy and all the other
kids are tired of his hassle with magic. But one day, Lily (5) moves into the house next door,
and Pontus feels he gets a second chance. When a circus comes to town, Pontus sneaks into
the magicians caravan and steals his magic wand. Suddenly he can do anything, and Lily
thinks he ‘s so clever! But soon, Pontus realizes that too much of a good thing is a bad thing.
“When you shatter your fantasies the pain may be crippling or transformative. You will want
to go back to the fantasies because you will never be sure whether you have really broken
free.” The film mixes stop-frame animation with dance, puppetry and live action. It is filmed
in the amazing underworld of Wieliczka salt mines outside Krakow in Poland, and in Scottish
sand dunes.
MARIA LLOYD (b. 1973) trained at the International School of
Theatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Since then she has been
creating dance animation films. Her experience of ­working
extensively with teams of artists has led her to find a p
­ ersonal
film language where art forms meet and ­challenge each other. Living in England for 13 years her films were ­commissioned
and distributed by South East Dance Agency in the UK and
Euroarts in Berlin. She was part of starting The Nightingale
Theatre, which has become known as a cutting edge inter­
disciplinary art center in the UK. Maria is now based in Oslo
and works with Medieoperatørene. She is working on a new
documentary project, Mapping the Air, about a blind dancer.
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SÁMI BOJÁ
SIX BROTHERS
SÁMI BOJÁ
SEKS BRØDRE
9 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K 5.1 SURROUND
Elle Sofe Henriksen
SCREENPLAY Elle Sofe Henriksen
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Ken Are Bongo
CAST Andte Gaup-Juuso, Juan Dante Murillo
PRODUCER Elle Márjá Eira for Kautokeino Film AS
RELEASE DATE January 2015
FICTION
12 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K DOLBY SR
Matias Rygh, Mathias Eriksen
SCREENPLAY Matias Rygh, Mathias Eriksen
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Matias Rygh
PRODUCER Linn Kirkenær for 4 ½ Fiksjon AS
CAST Yousef Hadaoui, Yousef Hadaoui, Cathrine
­Borkenhagen, Raza Younis, Cathrine Borkenhagen,
Helge Winther Larsen, Birk Refsum, Birk Refsum
RELEASE DATE September 2014
DIRECTOR
DRAMA
DIRECTORS
Mikkel is a reindeer herder and has the entire responsibility for the herd of his family. He has
a tough shell like a sámi bojá should have. But on the inside there is chaos.
ELLE SOFE HENRIKSEN (b. 1984) is from Kautokeino, ­Norway.
Elle Sofe Henriksen works with choreography and film. She
­graduated with a master’s degree in choreography from
Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2010. Since then she
has been developing her unique style in film and dance.
Themes in her work often relate to traditional Sámi ­culture,
told in an experimental, authentic and original way.
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After a break-up with his girlfriend, Samir (28) has moved back to his childhood home and
the room he shares with his younger brother Karim (22). The dynamics have changed since
he moved out years ago. The brothers have grown apart and Karim no longer looks up to him,
but straight at him. In an effort to reach out and reconnect, Samir joins Karim and his friends
to play basketball. Hanging out at the basketball court he learns, by chance, something that
crystallizes the gulf between him and his brother and confirms his suspicions that Karim is
headed down a dangerous path.
MATIAS RYGH (b.
1988) and MATHIAS ERIKSEN (b. 1989) have
been working inseparably ever since they were two kids
making skateboarding videos. Today they work from
their little office in Oslo, Norway – writing scripts and
­developing their film projects.
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STORIES OF THE SANATORIUM
SUBTOTAL
15 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Therese Jacobsen
SCREENPLAY Therese Jacobsen
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Jørgen Nordby
PRODUCERS Ragna Nordhus Midtgard og Maria Ekerhovd
for Mer Film As
RELEASE DATE April 2014
COMEDY/DRAMA
SANATORIET
SUBTOTAL
19 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Gunhild Enger
SCREENPLAY Gunhild Enger
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Peter Ask
PRODUCERS Gudrun Austli and Agnethe Sophie Buus
Jensen for Revenka AS
CAST Leif Edlund, Hanne Tangen, Kurt Zickfeldt
SALES KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg e.V.
RELEASE DATE June 2014
DOCUMENTARY
DIRECTOR
has worked with experimental short
films intended for the big screen in the artistic fellowship
The Apecosmonauts (a.k.a. Apecosmonautene) with Erik
Vang since 1993. Their films have been recognized in Norway as well as abroad. Since 2002, Jacobsen has made
numerous award winning short films, among them Peel
OFF (2002), Fear LESS (2003) and Naïn (2007). Stories
of the Sanatorium is her first documentary.
THERESE JACOBSEN
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DIRECTOR
A majestic sanatorium looms at the top of a mountain ledge by the beautiful Lustrafjord in
Sogn og Fjordane. The isolated building is on the verge of falling apart and is under threat of
demolition. The building’s past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, psychiatric hospital and refugee
centre is portrayed in this visually stunning documentary – through the exciting and emotional
portrayals of those who have lived in the building – like the seriously ill tuberculosis patient who
falls in love with the beautiful nurse, a patient-nurse relationship that was strictly forbidden.
What is the true cost of a bargain? Subtotal is a story of an untraditional encounter between
a Swedish salesman and a Norwegian couple on their monthly bargain hunting at the border
between Norway and Sweden.
GUNHILD ENGER (b. 1980) graduated from Edinburg College
of Art, and The School of Film Directing in Gothenburg.
She was nominated for a BAFTA with her graduation film
Bargain, and has since then screened her films in festivals
around the world. Her film Premature has won awards
for best short film at several festivals in 2012 and 2013.
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THIS IS KABUL
THIS PLACE IS EVERY PLACE
DOCUMENTARY
26 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Sadaf Fetrat, Sahar Fetrat, Nargis Azaryun,
Anders Sømme Hammer, Christoffer Næss
SCREENPLAY Sadaf Fetrat, Sahar Fetrat, Nargis Azaryun,
Anders Sømme Hammer, Christoffer Næss
DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Sadaf Fetrat, Sahar Fetrat,
Nargis Azaryun
PRODUCERS Christoffer Næss, Anders Sømme Hammer
for Bakkenivåfilm
RELEASE DATE September 2014
DRAMA
DIRECTORS
DIRECTOR
DETTE ER KABUL
ADAF FETRAT (b.1992)
is 23 years old and she is studying
music. This is Kabul is her first documentary.
SAHAR FETRAT (b.1996) is 19 years old and she is studying
at The University of Kabul. This is Kabul is her first documentary.
NARGIS AZARYUN (b.1993) is 22 years old and she is ­studying
law. This is Kabul is her first documentary.
A N D E R S S Ø M M E H A M M E R ( b . 1 97 7 ) is a N o r we gia n
­d ocumentarist and journalist who has worked in
­Afghanistan for seven years.
CHRISTOFFER NÆSS (b. 1982) has extensive experience with
hand-held camera projects, which he calls partici­patory
documentaries. Next to running Munin Film, he is also
founder and CEO of Global Video Letters.
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DETTE ER ALLE STEDER
17 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Ane Hjort Guttu
SCREENPLAY Ane Hjort Guttu
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Cecilie Semec
PRODUCER Ane Hjort Guttu
CAST Damla Kilickiran, Gülay Killickiran
RELEASE DATE January 2015
In Kabul, Afghanistan a small group of young women are fighting for equality. They are pioneers
in one of the world’s most conservative countries. By doing all the recordings themselves,
they are giving us close portraits of young Afghan women trying to change the society they
live in. They show that there is hope in a way that would be difficult to tell if they were not
making the documentary themselves. But like everyone else who lives in Afghanistan, they
are also affected by the ongoing war. This comes to light when they are close to attacks and
when they talk about fear in everyday life and their concerns for the future.
This Place is Every Place consists of a dialogue between two women in the suburb Tensta in
Stockholm. The Arab spring is a backdrop for their conversation, and the film puts forward
a connection between the global protest movements of the past three years and the riots
in Swedish suburbs. This Place is Every Place studies the relationship between political and
personal crises, pointing to the slow dismantling of the welfare state and a widespread lost
faith in alternative social organization.
ANE HJORT GUTTU (b. 1971) is an artist, filmmaker and writer
based in Oslo. During the last few years she has been
working with issues of power and freedom in the Scandinavian post-welfare state through film, picture collections,
sculpture and photography. Guttu also writes analytical as
well as poetical texts, and several of her projects discuss
art and architecture history. Latest projects and exhibitions include: Sydney Biennale, Australia, 2014; In These
Great Times, Kunstnernes hus, Oslo; Bergen Assembly,
Bergen, 2013; Learning for Life, Henie Onstad kunstsenter
2012-2013; The Rich Should be Richer, Kunsthall Oslo 2012.
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TOTEM
VARICELLA
DRAMA
20 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Marte Vold
SCREENPLAY Marte Vold
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Øystein Mamen
PRODUCER Marte Vold for Filmmart Marte Vold
CAST Marte Magnusdotter Solem, Ole Giæver, Vera Vold
Øgaard
RELEASE DATE June 2015
DOCUMENTARY / CHILDREN 25 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
DIRECTOR
Victor Kossakovsky
Victor Kossakovsky
DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Victor Kossakovsky, Ben
Bernhard
PRODUCERS Anita Rehoff Larsen and Tone Grøttjord for
Sant & Usant AS
SALES Autlook Filmsales GmbH
CAST Polina & Nastia Sosimova
RELEASE DATE Spring 2015
TOTEM
VARICELLA
DIRECTOR
SCREENPLAY
Through five mundane scenes from the life of a thirty-something hipster couple in the ­suburbs
of Oslo, Totem explores the vulnerabilities and relentless discomforts of togetherness.
MARTE VOLD (b. 1978) was educated at Nordland College of
Art and Film, Oslo National Academy of the Arts and The
Norwegian Film School in Lillehammer, from which she
graduated as a cinematographer in 2008. Rooted in the
discipline of visual art as well as traditional ­filmmaking,
Vold’s work as a director has been screened in both galle­
ries and film venues. In 2013, Vold co-directed the feature
Out of Nature with Ole Giæver, which premiered at the
­Toronto International Film Festival 2014 and screened
at the Berlinale in 2015. Vold is currently working on her
feature debut, set to go into production in the summer
of 2015.
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The sisters, Nastia and Polina, are students of a ballet academy in St. Petersburg in Russia.
Nastia, 13, has a special gift to dance. She is one of the best students of the academy and
therefore she will perform the soloist role at the end of the year’s performance. But not
everything is smooth in the path of becoming a professional dancer. Her back and legs have
not developed strong muscles and are not powerful enough; that could represent a threat in
the future. The harsh classic teacher punishes her frequently for this reason. But Nastia, is the
toughest judge of herself. She obviously is born to dance! Her little sister, Polina, 7, admires
and follows Nastia. She is still trying to figure out the role of the ballet in her life. What does
it mean to dance with an open soul, she wonders. Nastia has the answer. Varicella portraits
the tender and trustful relationship of two sisters who share one dream.
is born in 1961 and is a Russian film­
maker. He began his career in motion pictures at the
­Leningrad studio of Documentaries as assistant cameraman,
assistant director and editor in 1978. In many of his films,
Kossakovsky plays the role of editor, cinematographer, writer,
and director. He graduated from the Higher Courses of Film
Writers and Directors in Moscow in 1988. In 1993, his feature
Belovy (The Belovs) won both the VPRO Joris Ivens Award
and the Audience Award at IDFA. Kossakovsky’s films have
since then won over 100 awards and prizes. His latest films
where Vivan Las Antipodas! (2011) and Demonstration (2013).
VICTOR KOSSAKOVSKY
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VICTOR
YES WE LOVE
VICTOR
JA VI ELSKER
25 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K DTS
Kaveh Tehrani
SCREENPLAY Kaveh Tehrani, Hilde Susan Jægtnes
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Annika Summerson
PRODUCERS Magnus Castracane and Jonas Røyem Ny for
4 1/2 Fiksjon AS
CAST Trond Nilssen, Kristine Thorp, Martin Furulund,
Frederik Balthazar Hauff, Jonas Strand Gravli, Kristen
Ørbeck, Otto Tangstad, Bojan Celise Farag, Caroline
Westvang Andreassen
RELEASE DATE Mai 2014
15 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1
Hallvar Witzø
SCREENPLAY Hallvar Witzø
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Audun Gjelsvik Magnæs
PRODUCERS Gudny Hummelvoll and Elisabeth Kvithyll for
Hummelfilm AS
SALES New Europe Film Sales
CAST Edvard Hægstad, Terje Ranes, Hanne Skille Reitan,
Johan Fredrik Bergflødt-Johannessen
RELEASE DATE May 2014
DRAMA
DRAMA
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
After a long absence Victor reunites with his girlfriend and goes on holiday, but he soon
discovers that he is unable to cope with his recent experiences. His friends arrive for a night
of partying - during that night something happens that leaves Victor with a difficult decision.
(b. 1978) holds a Bachelor’s Degree in film
and literary sciences from the University of Oslo, in addition to one year of studies at the European Film College in
Denmark. He started his career making music videos for
some of Norway’s biggest artists, like The National Bank
(Home, 2008) and Shining (Winterreise, 2007). He made
his fiction film debut with the short 1994 in 2010, which
has been screened at numerous international festivals,
on NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation), BBC and
also received several awards, including the Norwegian
National Film Award - Amanda for Best Short Film in 2011.
KAVEH TEHRANI
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8363 Norwegian soldiers have fought in the war in Afghanistan. Victor is a film about one
of them.
Four generations, each with a personal crisis, set in four different parts of Norway on the
Norwegian Independence Day.
HALLVAR WITZØ (b.1984) has a degree in directing from The
Norwegian Film School. He won the Student Academy
Award for best foreign film for his graduation film, Tuba
Atlantic, in 2011.
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PRODUCTION COMPANIES
4 1/2 Fiksjon AS
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Aldeles AS
Christian Michelsens gate 7,
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Ane Hjort Guttu
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Toftes gt 48 B, N-0556 Oslo
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Ivan Bjørndalsgate 9,
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www.blaastfilm.no
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Fredensborgveien 24D, N-0177
Oslo
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www.cphfilmcompany.dk
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Jon P. Erliens vei 7, N-0858 Oslo
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Torvmyrveien 2a, N-4326
Sandnes
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www.gofilm.no
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Bredalsmarken 15 – 17, N-5006
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11 32
Mail: [email protected] / marie@
duofilm.no
www.duofilm.no
Contact: Linda Bolstad / Marie
Fuglestein
Eldorado Film AS
Narums vei 3, N-3430 Spikkestad
Tel: +47 41 92 71 27
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Contact: Petter Onstad Løkke
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Lørenveien 10, N-0585 Oslo
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Indie Film AS
Kongens gate 2, N-0153 Oslo
Tel: +47 908 65 203
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www.indiefilm.no
Contact: Carsten Aanonsen
Jorunn Myklebust Syversen
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Syversen
Julev Film AS
P.O. Box 32, N-8271 Drag
Tel: +47 98 40 76 76
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Odd Levi Paulsen
Kautokeino Film as
P.O. Box 81, N-9521 Kautokeino
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Kindergarten Media AS
Prinsens Gate 10a, N-7080
Heimdal
Tel: +47 92 41 11 47
Mail: [email protected]
www.kindergarten.no
Contact: Petter Schanke Olsen
Klipp og Lim Media AS
Innherredsveien 7, N-7014
­Trondheim
Tel: +47 73 53 55 84
Mail: [email protected]
www.klippoglim.no
Contact: Jøran Wærdahl
Motlys AS
Sagveien 18, N-0459 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 80 83 70
Mail: [email protected]
www.motlys.net
Contact: Yngve Sæther
Norsk Filmproduksjon AS
Wedel Jarlsbergsvei 36, N-1358
Jar
Tel: +47 67 52 54 20
Mail: [email protected]
www.norskfilmproduksjon.no
Contact: Hilde Berg
Dronningens gate 23, N-0154
Oslo
Tel: +47 22 41 71 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.koolkids.no
Contact: Frank Mosvold
Pandora Film AS
Sandvikeboder 1B, N-5035
Bergen
Tel: +47 47 33 15 90
Mail: [email protected]
www.pandorafilm.no
Contact: Ida Kleppe
Medieoperatørene AS
Parabel Film AS
Kool Produktion AS
Grønlandsleiret 23, N-0190 Oslo
Tel: +47 45 18 10 36
Mail: [email protected]
www.mop.no
Contakt: Geir Bølstad
Mer Film AS
Mellomveien 33, N-9007 Tromsø
Tel: +47 951 88 118
Mail: [email protected]
www.merfilm.no
Contact: Maria Ekerhovd
Mikrofilm AS
Sagveien 23 F, N-0459 Oslo
Tel: +47 21 38 54 80
Mail: [email protected]
www.mikrofilm.no
Bygdøylund 53, N-0286 Oslo
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Contact: Emil Stang Lund
Rein Film AS
Ensjøveien 10D, N-0655 Oslo
Tel: +47 97 52 31 36
Mail: [email protected]
www.reinfilm.no
Contact: Mathis Ståle Mathisen
Tordenfilm AS
Revenka AS
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Contact: Gudrun Austli
Revolt Film AS
Frydenlundgata 6A, N-0169 Oslo
Tel: +47 46 93 24 89
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Contact: Falck
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St. Olavsgt. 9, P.O. Box 6654 St.
Olavs plass
N-0129 Oslo
Tel: +47 450 33 305
Mail: [email protected],
[email protected]
www.santogusant.no
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Phantom Film AS
P.O. Box 1521 Kjelvene, N-4093
Stavanger
Tel: +47 97 54 58 27
Mail: [email protected]
www.phantomfilm.no
Contact: Stian Einar Forgaard
Spætt Film AS
Qvisten AS
Tenk.tv
Frimanns Gate 20, N-0165 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 99 22 90
Mail: [email protected]
www.qvisten.no
Contact: Ove Heiborg
Beddingen 14, N-7014 Trondheim
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Contact: Håvard Gossé Bergseth
Wedel Jarlsbergsvei 36, N-1358
Jar
Tel: +47 95 72 02 34
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www.tenk.tv
Contact: Frode Søbstad
Sandakerveien 52, N- 0477 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 40 03 40
Mail: [email protected]
www.tordenfilm.no
Contact: Eric Vogel
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check our website.
Fredrikstad Animation Festival |
November
Dammyr 12,
N-1605 Fredrikstad
Tel: +47 951 09 697
Mail: [email protected]
www.animationfestival.no
Contact: Anders Narverud Moen
KORT | November
Olav Kyrres gt. 5, N-4307
Sandnes
www.kinokino/kort
Minimalen Short Film Festival |
April
Kjøpmannsgata 35, N-7011­
Trondheim
Tel +47 73 52 27 57
Mail: [email protected]
www.minimalen.com
Contact: Per Fikse
The Norwegian Short Film Festival
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Sørnorsk Filmsenter
REGIONAL FILM CENTRES
Vestnorsk filmsenter
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16,
N-0152 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 46 48
Mail: [email protected]
www.kortfilmfestivalen.no
Contact: Anita Svingen
Filmkraft Rogaland AS
Rogaland Fylkeskommune
P.O. Box 130, N-4001 Stavanger
Tel: +47 51 51 69 7 / 51 51 68 41
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmkraft.no
Contact: Elisabeth Dahl
International Sami Film Institute
Buletjavri, N-9520 Kautokeino
Tel: +47 90 75 55 74
Mail: [email protected]
www.isf.as
Contact: Anne Lajla Utsi
Midtnorsk Filmsenter AS
P.O. Box 964, N-7410 Trondheim
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Mail: [email protected]
www.midtnorskfilm.no
Contact: Solvor Amdal
Kongensgate 6
N-4662 Kristiansand
Tel: +47 91 80 82 21
Mail: [email protected],
[email protected]
www.sornorskfilm.no Contact:
Kirsten Bonnén Rask
Western Norway Film Centre
Georgernes Verft 12, N-5011
Bergen
Tel: +47 55 55 36 46
Mail: [email protected]
www.vestnorskfilm.no
Contact. Stine Tveten
Viken Filmsenter AS
Box 2400, N-3003 Drammen
Tel: +47 90 25 88 88
Mail: [email protected]
www.vikenfilmsenter.no
Contact: Ånund Austenå
Østnorsk Filmsenter AS
Stortorget 1, N-2609 Lillehammer
Tel: +47 61 25 56 68
Mail: [email protected]
www.ostnorskfilm.no
Contact: Arngrim Ytterhus
Nordnorsk Filmsenter A/S
Søndre Tollbodgate 8
P.O.Box 114, N-9252 Tromsø
Tel: +47 78 47 64 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.nnfs.no
Contact: Tor Vadseth
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NORWEGIAN FILM INSTITUTE
REGIONAL FILM FUNDS AND FILM CENTRES
The Norwegian Film Institute operates under the authority of the
­Norwegian Ministry of Culture and is the Norwegian government’s
administrative body for the film sector and advisor on film policy issues.
The Board of the Film Institute is appointed by the Ministry. The CEO is Mr
Sindre Guldvog.
By the end of 2011 all districts in Norway, apart from Oslo, the capital, have
‘film centres’, ‘film funds’ and/or ‘film commissions’. They all have regional
as well as governmental support. The national goals are to stimulate
strengthened production infrastructure, professionalism and continuity in
all parts of the production – and increased talent development.
The Norwegian Film Institute represents and promotes Norwegian feature
films, shorts, documentaries, games and TV-series at festivals and film cultural events nationally and abroad, and provides statistics and facts about
Norwegian films and theatrical releases. The Norwegian Film Institute facilitates and promotes Norway as an attractive location for foreign producers.
There are eight film centres, six regional film funds and three regional film
commissions, of whom some are co-located regionally. In addition, there
is a national film commission.
Public funding in 2015 for audio-visual development, production and
­marketing is approx. € 50 million. The Film Institute also offers grants,
training and talent development for the film industry.
The Norwegian Film Institute is located in the Film House in Oslo and is in
charge of the Film Museum and the Cinemateque of Oslo. Through our work,
we provide knowledge and understanding of the Norwegian film heritage.
The Norwegian Film Institute represents Norway at the Council of
­Europe’s fund for co-production of film, Eurimages, as well as at the
­European Audiovisual Observatory. The Institute participates in a
number of international co-operative efforts for the audiovisual sector,
including the International Council for Educational Media, the European
Film A
­ cademy, European Film Promotion, the International Short Film
Conference, Filmkontakt Nord and Scandinavian Films. Together with the
­National Library, the Norwegian Film Institute is a member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF).
Read more about Norwegian films at www.norwegianfilms.no and the
Norwegian Film database.
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International Sami Film Institute serves the Sami population all over
­Norway as well as those living in Sweden, Finland and Russia.
The Film Centres are based on cultural grounds. Their main mission is to
support development and production of short films and documentaries
and to raise competence among professionals and spot, cultivate and
support young talents.
The Film Funds can support audiovisual productions of all genres and
formats, including international co-productions and video games.
They are not allowed (by the government) to contribute financially to
the p
­ roduction of feature films for cinema that are supported by the
­Norwegian Film Institute. Governmental support requires regional contribution with at least the same amount of money to the fund. Furthermore,
the governmental support cannot be spent on managing the organisation.
The Film Commissions are based on trade grounds and offer facilitation
for foreign productions in their region. The Regional Film Commissions
collaborate with the national film commission – Film Commission Norway
(FCN) – who is an integral part of Norwegian Film Institute. FCN strives
to encourage and facilitate international film productions all over Norway
and acts as a link between the national and the international film and
television industry.
PUBLISHER Norwegian Film Institute
EDITOR Toril Simonsen
DESIGN Fete Typer as
PUBLISHED BY Norwegian Film Institute
Department of Promotion and International Relations
P.O. Box 482 Sentrum
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ISBN: 978-82-8025-037-7
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