2010 Norwegian Films

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2010 Norwegian Films
norwegian films | 2010
PREFACE FEATURE FILMS
Appelsinpiken The Orange Girl Asfaltenglene East End Angels
Bastøy King of Devil’s Island
Bestevenner Rafiki
Død snø Dead Snow
Elias og jakten på havets gull
Elias and the Hunt for the Gold of the Sea En ganske snill mann A Somewhat Gentle Man
Engelen The Angel
En helt vanlig dag på jobben An Ordinary Day at Work
Hjem til jul Home for Christmas
Jernanger The Storm in my Heart
Julenatt i Blåfjell Magic Silver Keepern til Liverpool The Liverpool Goalie
Knerten Twigson
Kommandør Treholt og Ninjatroppen Norwegian Ninja
Limbo Limbo
Maskeblomstfamilien Shameless
NOKAS NOKAS
Nord North
Olsenbanden jr. - Det sorte gullet
The Junior Olsen Gang and the Black Gold
Olsenbanden jr. - Mestertyvens skatt
The Junior Olsen Gang and the Master Thief ORPS – The Movie ORPS – The Movie
PAX PAX
Pelle politibil går i vannet
Ploddy the Police Car Makes a Splash
Rottenetter Rat Nights
Sammen Together
Skjult Hidden
Snarveien Detour
Svik Betrayal
Sykt lykkelig Happy, Happy
Tomme tønner Smack!
Upperdog Upperdog
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Varg Veum – Skriften på veggen
Varg Veum: The Writing on the Wall
Vegas Vegas
Vetle Vetle
Yatzy Yahtzee
Yohan – barnevandreren Yohan – The Child Wanderer
DOCUMENTARIES
Gunnar Goes God Gunnar Goes God
Intwari – håpets helter Intwari – Heroes of Hope
Jakten på hukommelsen Hunting Down Memory
Moderne slaveri Modern Slavery
Robert Crumptons Shakespeare
Robert Crumpton’s Shakespeare
Sannhetsjegeren Nemesis
Strengt hemmelig Strictly Confidential
Tears of Gaza Tears of Gaza
To brødre Brothers
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IN PRODUCTION
Fritt vilt III
Knerten gifter seg
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NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2000 – 2009 ADRESSES
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A GREAT START TO A PROMISING YEAR
With Hans Petter Moland’s A Somewhat Gentle Man being selected for the
films in Norway and it has so far reached 350.000 admissions domestically.
Competition programme of the 60th Berlin International Festival, we could not
A little wooden guy called Twigson has also hit the target with 357.000
have asked for a better start to the new film year. Norwegian children’s films
admissions, and counting…
are also making a mark with both Rafiki and Twigson selected to compete in
Berlin’s Generation Kplus, in addition to the animated short Angry Man.
since the time of Roald Amundsen’s expedition films of the 20’s, and espe-
Norway has kept up a long and strong tradition of cinema documentaries
We also have high expectations when it comes to the great auteur of
cially after the Oscar winner Kon Tiki in 1950. Today we find some of the
Norwegian cinema Bent Hamer and his next movie Home for Christmas,
most original voices of Norwegian cinema in this genre, presenting to us
following his previous successes in the international marketplace with Kitchen
such powerful works as Hunting down Memory, Modern Slavery and the
Stories and O’Horten. Another one to look forward to is King of Devil’s Island
upcoming Strictly Confidential and Russian Lessons.
from Marius Holst (Cross my Heart and Hope to Die, Mirush), featuring our
favourite Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgaard. Erik Skjoldbjerg (Insomnia, Prozac
national marketplace. Eva Dahr’s The Orange Girl and Rune Denstad Langlo’s
Nation) will be ready with his heist movie Nokas in the fall and Hans Petter
North are both enjoying successful runs in German cinemas, with Max Manus
Entering 2010 Norwegian films are doing robust business in the inter-
Næss (Elling) will present his family drama Maskeblomstfamilien, based on a
and Erik Poppe’s Troubled Water next in line.
novel by one of Norway’s most celebrated authors, Lars Saabye Christensen).
2009 brought us both artistic successes and strong box office achieve-
genre films; with movies such as Dead Snow, Detour, Hidden, and the Cold
ments. Two strong female directors made their mark with the rare combina-
Prey sequel (number three coming up in 2010). These films have proven to
tion of existential drama and box office success. The harrowing drug drama
have an international cinema audience with a hunger for original stories
The Angel, by Margreth Olin, and the sophisticated tale of social structure
from the far North.
and class in Sara Johnsen’s Upperdog, both prove to us the power of the film
medium in its ability to define reality and reach out to people. Espen Sandberg
films looks set to reach new heights!
Norwegian directors and producers have also successfully entered into
We hope you share our joy and expectations in a year where Norwegian
and Joachim Roenning managed to reach out to 1.2 million Norwegians with
their Second World War drama Max Manus, which is extraordinary consider-
Oslo, January 25th, 2010
ing Norway’s total population of five million.
Nina Refseth
CEO
Norway has a long tradition of producing and distributing high quality
films for children. In 2009 Magic Silver set a new standard for CGI animated
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APPELSINPIKEN
THE ORANGE GIRL
Drama | 81 min | Colour | Scope | 5 reels | Dolby SR·D
Director: Eva Dahr
Screenplay: Andreas Markusson and Axel Helgeland
based on Jostein Gaarder’s novel «Appelsinpiken»
Director of Photography: Harald Gunnar Paalgard
Producer: Axel Helgeland for Helgeland Film AS in coproduction with Tradewind Pictures (DE) and Jaleo Films (E)
Cast: Mikkel Bratt Silset, Harald T. Rosenstrøm, Annie D.
Nygaard, Rebekka Karijord, Emilie K. Beck
Release date: February 27, 2009
Norwegian distributor: Sandrew Metronome Norge AS
Sales: Beta Cinema | Grünwalder Weg 28d | DE-82041
Oberhaching | Tel: +49 89 67 34 69 80 | Fax: +49 89 67
34 69 888 | Mail: [email protected] | www.betafilm.com
Eva Dahr is one of Norway’s
It could have been a perfectly normal day, if he had missed that streetcar...
most prolific filmmakers these
days. She was the conceptual
on that exact day, there she is. A beautiful girl in a red coat,holding a large bag of oranges in her arms.
director of the acclaimed TV
She smiles, and as their eyes meet she drops the bag and the oranges roll all over the streetcar.She gets
series Himmelblå, which set a
off at the next stop, but Jan Olav cannot forget her. Who is she, what if he never sees her again? The
ratings record for drama pro-
quest for the girl with the oranges leads him through winter-cold Oslo and all the way to colourful Seville,
ductions in Norway in 2008.
where the air is warm and the trees are full of oranges.
But Jan Olav just catches that streetcar, on a cold autumn day in Oslo. And on that exact streetcar,
She also co-wrote and directed the feature film
Mars & Venus. She has also directed a number of
the Orange Girl. But what can a father who is no longer alive have to tell his 16-year-old son? Georg
highly acclaimed short films for which she has
starts reading the letter on his way to ski in the Norwegian mountains. On this ski trip he meets Stella.
received a string of national and international
Through his father’s letter and a magical encounter under the starry Easter sky, Georg realizes that he
awards.
and his father have something in common – the dream of true love. Does Georg dare take the chance?
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Twenty years later Georg receives a letter from his father, Jan Olav, about a mysterious girl he calls
ASFALTENGLENE
EAST END ANGELS
Family film | 77 min | Colour | 1:1,85 | Dolby SR·D
Director: Lars Berg
Screenplay: Vibeke Idsøe, Mette M. Bølstad and Kjersti
Ugelstad based on an idea by Ellen Jacobsen
Director of Photography: Gaute Gunnari
Producer: Synnøve Hørsdal for Maipo AS
Cast: Emma Høgh Åslein, Nini Bakke Kristensen, Helene
Nybråten
Release date: February 26, 2010
Norwegian distributor: Nordisk filmdistribusjon
Sales: TrustNordisk ApS | Filmbyen 12 | DK-2650 Hvidovre
Tel: +45 3686 8788 | Fax: +45 3677 4448
Mail: [email protected] | www.trustnordisk.com
Lars Berg (1959) was educated
Vacation time. The 12-year-olds Maja, Rikke and Ohna are lazing around Ohna’s family restaurant
as a director at The American
Saigon House. They have great ambitions; they’re planning to not lift a finger this summer. But then
Film Institute and The San
the police come around, and find drugs hidden in the restaurant’s cold storage room. Saigon House is
Francisco
He
closed down, and Ohna’s elder brother is arrested. The girls know he is innocent, but he will not be
debuted as a film director in
released from prison before the drug ring is exposed. The East End Angels take on the case. They soon
1995 with Dangerous Waters.
find themselves in the middle of a drama involving human trafficking, car chases, karate kicks, romance
He has also had a number of
and spring rolls. They find secret basement rooms, illegal refugees, a priest who is no priest, a church
assignments for television. Berg received his first
which is no church, a police woman who refuses to listen, and a villain who never gives up. Maja is smart,
award at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival for his short
Ohna knows karate, Rikke sings like a lark. Together, they balance on top of high fences, and on the edge
film A Devil In The Closet. His children’s film Scars
of the law, in order to solve the case. They get a helping hand from Orpham – a devil on bicycle, grandma
has received over 20 international prizes, including
Noi – a devil behind the wheel, and Fredriksen – a devil of a dog who thinks he is human.
Art
Institute.
two First Prizes at the Berlin Film Festival.
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BASTØY
KING OF DEVIL’S ISLAND
Drama | 116 min | Colour | Scope | Dolby SR·D
Director: Marius Holst
Screenplay: Dennis Magnusson based on a story by Lars
Saabye Christensen and Mette Marit Bølstad
Director of Photography: John Andreas Andersen
Producer: Karin Julsrud for 4 ½ Film AS
Cast: Benjamin Helstad, Trond Nilsen, Kristoffer Joner,
Stellan Skarsgård
Release date: December 17, 2010
Norwegian distributor: Euforia Film
Sales: Les Films du Losange | 22 avenue Pierre 1er de
Serbe | FR-75016 Paris
Mail: [email protected] | www.filmsdulosange.fr
Marius Holst became interna-
Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the island Bastøy, in the fjord of Oslo, a group of young
tionally known with his feature
outcast boys live under a sadistic regime. Mental and physical abuse is used by the guards and the
film Cross my Heart and Hope
superintendent to straighten the boys. Instead of being educated, the boys are used as cheap manual
to Die, which was in Competition
labour. Aged from 11 to 18, the boys survive by adapting to these inhuman conditions. They are rough,
in Berlin 1995 and won the
they negotiate and they buy and sell.
Blaue Engel Award. Since then
he has made numerous com-
In self-defence, he has beaten to death a military police officer and will be transferred to an adult
mercials. In 2001 he returned to feature produc-
prison next spring, leading to his certain death. Time is running out for Erling, he must accomplish the
tion with Pål Sletaune within their joint company
impossible – to escape from Bastøy – Devil’s Island.
4 ½, with the film Dragonflies and in 2007 with
the film Mirush.
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One day, Erling, another young outcast arrives to the island, but he possesses a different agenda.
BESTEVENNER
RAFIKI
Family film | 79 min | Colour | 1:1,85 | 4 reels | Dolby SR•D
Director: Christian Lo
Screenplay: Morten Hovland
Director of Photography: Bjørn Ståle Bratberg
Producer: Trine Aadalen Lo for Filmbin AS
Cast: Live Marie Runde, Ado Johanna Girirpio, Regine
Stokkevåg Eide, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonathan Espolin Johnson,
Andrea Bræin Hovig, Terese Mungai
Release date: October 30, 2009
Norwegian distributor: SF Norge
sales: AB Svensk Filmindustri | SE-16986 Stockholm
Tel: +46 8 680 3500 | Fax: +46 8 680 3783
Mail: [email protected] | www.sfinternational.se
Julie, Mette and Naisha are best friends. They make snowball fights with the boys, race down steep
Christian Lo (1977) has directed
hills on a sledge, and are looking forward to Christmas.
four award-winning short films
One day, Naisha suddenly vanishes, and no one knows where she and her mother have ended up. With
for children; Punctured (2001),
no other clue than an address written in invisible ink, Julie and Mette sneak onto the night train bound
Iver (2004), Ramp (2005) and
for the big city.
Baluba Runa (2007). Rafiki is
his first feature film. He studied
Will they ever manage to get their best friend back?
film in England and now works
for the Lillehammer-based film production company
Filmbin, which is the only Norwegian company
dedicated entirely to the production of children’s
and youth films.
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DØD SNØ
DEAD SNOW
Black comedy | 91 min | Colour | 1:1,85 | 5 reels | Dolby
Digital
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Screenplay: Stig Frode Henriksen and Tommy Wirkola
Director of Photography: Matt Weston
Producers: Tomas Evjen and Terje Strømstad for Miho
Film
Cast: Charlotte Frogner, Stig Frode Henriksen, Vegar Hoel,
Jeppe Beck Laursen, Evy Kasseth Røsten, Jenny Skavlan,
Bjørn Sundquist, Ane Dahl Torp, Lasse Valdal
Release date: January 9, 2009
Sales: Elle Driver | 66 rue Miromesnil | F-75008 Paris |
Tel: +33 1 5643 4870 | Fax: +33 1 4561 4608
The group of friends had all they would need for a successful Easter vacation: cabin, skis, snowmobile,
Tommy Wirkola (1979) is the
toboggan, copious amounts of beer and a fertile mix of the sexes. Certainly, none of them had anticipated
director and scriptwriter of
not returning home alive! However, the Nazi-zombie battalion haunting the mountains surrounding
Dead Snow. From Alta, Northern
the aptly named Øksfjord (Axefjord) had other plans...
Norway. Student of media at the
Finnmark University College
and a student of Film Science at
the Lillehammer University
College. Bachelor in Film & Television at the Bond
University in Australia. Feature film debut as director/scriptwriter of Kill Buljo – the Movie in 2007
and has also made short films.
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ELIAS OG KAMPEN OM HAVETS GULL
ELIAS AND THE HUNT FOR THE
GOLD OF THE SEA (Tentative)
Children’s animation | 85 min | Colour | 1:1,85 | Dolby SR·D
Director: Lise I. Osvoll
Screenplay: Anne Elvedal and Lise I. Osvoll based on an
original concept by Alf Knutsen and Sigurd Slåttebrekk
Producers: John M. Jacobsen and Sveinung Golimo for
Filmkameratene AS
Release date: December 2010
Norwegian distributor: SF Norge
Sales: AB Svensk Filmindustri | SE-169 86 Stockholm
Tel: +46 8 680 3500 | Fax: +46 8 680 3783
Mail: [email protected] | www.sfinternational.se
Lise Osvoll was educated as a
In this new full length animated feature film about the little rescue boat Elias and his friends in the
graphic
coastal community Cozy Cove, the story takes place during winter time.
designer,
and
was
employed by Filmkameratene
AS in 2004. She gradually
It turns out that large industrial trawlers have emptied the ocean of fish, and it looks like ordinary
advanced to screenplay writer
little fishing boats will have a hard time surviving. The trawlers belong to a new, supermodern fishing
and co-director of the Elias TV
enterprise owned and run by the tough business vessel The Arctic Queen. Elias discovers what’s going
series 2. She was co-director of
on, and gathers all his power in order to save the future of his tiny coastal community. He succeeds,
the animation film Elias and the Royal Yacht. In
of course, but first we will take part in a story both thrilling and funny, including a hidden Viking
2003 and 2004, Lise Osvoll animated and directed
treasure, the most sinister villain boat of the year, a coup involving sending all the Cozy Cove fishing
the two short films One Second and A Newborn
boats as scrap iron to China, and the cute minisub Dippy, which becomes a new and important acquain-
Nightmare.
tance for Elias.
The annual winter fisheries are about to start, but the great catch never seems to come their way.
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EN GANSKE SNILL MANN
A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN
Comedy | 103 min | Colour |1:1,85 | Dolby SR
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Screenplay: Kim Fupz Aakeson
Director of Photography: Philip Øgaard
Producers: Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae for Paradox
Produksjoner AS
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Jannike Kruse Jåtog, Bjørn
Floberg, Gard Eidsvold, Jan Gunnar Røise, Julia Bache Wiig,
Jorunn Kjellsby, Bjørn Sundquist, Jon Øigarden
Release date: March 19, 2010
Norwegian distributor: Nordisk filmdistribusjon
Sales: TrustNordisk ApS | Filmbyen 12 | DK-2650 Hvidovre
Tel: +45 3686 8788 | Fax: +45 3677 4448
Mail: [email protected] | www.trustnordisk.com
A film graduate from USA’s
Ulrik is a somewhat gentle man. He has killed some people and crippled a few. But this sort of stuff is
Emerson College, Norwegian
part of the job when working in the criminal world. Just like doing time in prison.
director Hans Petter Moland
made his feature debut in 1993
sional pride. He takes care of his people and is concerned with keeping things in order. It is important
with The Last Lieutenant. He
for the boss that Ulrik settles his account by shooting the guy who ratted him out.
followed up with Zero Kelvin
(1995), Aberdeen (1999), and
too much thought to what he does either. He just does it. If he’s given some food and a place to sleep, then
Now Ulrik is out again. Reluctantly… And Jensen is waiting on the outside. He’s a thug with profes-
Ulrik is a somewhat gentle man. He has no special wishes and makes no demands. He does not give
Beautiful Country (2004), which was selected for
he will give people what they want from him in return. Whether this be a little affection or a killing.
Competition in Berlin. His latest feature film was
Comrade Pedersen. He also directed the short film
girlfriend, and a future. But the son has a father who’s a murderer. His girlfriend doesn’t like it. Her
United We Stand, which has been awarded prizes
family is not into stuff like that, they’re more into nurseries and plants. They have principles.
at several major film festivals.
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Then he looks up his son who has now become a grown man. A good man with an education, a
Ulrik is a somewhat gentle man – but how gentle can he be?
ENGELEN
THE ANGEL
Drama | 97 min | Colour | 1:1,85 | 6 reels | Dolby Stereo
Director: Margreth Olin
Screenplay: Margreth Olin
Director of Photography: Kim Hiorthøy
Producer: Thomas Robsahm for Speranza Production AS
Cast: Maria Bonnevie | Gunilla Röör | Antti Reini | Börje
Ahlstedt | Helene Michaelsen | Milla Mykløen
Norwegian distributor: Sandrew Metronome Norge AS
Release date: October 10, 2009
Contact: TrustNordisk | Filmbyen 12 | DK-2650 Hvidovre
Tel: +45 3686 8788 | Fax: +45 3677 4448
Mail: [email protected] | www.trustnordisk.com
The Angel is a story about women. About carrying and inheriting Mummy’s traumas. When addiction
Margreth Olin graduated from
rules all your decisions.
Volda University College and the
Lea grows up in a home characterized by a lack of protection. From being a cheerful, curious little
Universities of Bergen and Oslo.
girl, Lea changes dramatically when her mother Madeleine returns to her ex-husband Ole. The death
She made her debut as documen-
dance between two adults harms the child growing up between them.
tary film maker with her gradua-
tion film In the House of Love in
Dope enables Lea to hold out everyday life with her family. Then Lea gives birth to her daughter
Sonja. She wishes to break with her family and start a new life. She wants to take care of her child and
1995. In 1998, her first full fea-
give her the protection she herself never got. But Lea soon realizes that she lacks the ability to do so.
ture documentary In the House of Angels premiered in
Consequently, she has to make an impossible decision.
Norwegian cinema theatres, and won a number of
prizes). Her breakthrough came with the film My Body
(2002). Her latest film Raw Youth has been seen by
almost 60,000 people in Norwegian cinema theatres.
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EN HELT VANLIG DAG PÅ JOBBEN
AN ORDiNARY DAY AT WORK
Drama | 82 min | Colour | Scope | 5 reels | Dolby SR
Director: Terje Rangnes
Screenplay: Erlend Loe based on Håvard Melnæs novel
«En helt vanlig dag på jobben»
Director of Photography: Philip Øgaard
Producer: Ørjan Karlsen for Folk Flest Film Produksjon AS
Cast: Jan Gunnar Røise, Ingar Helge Gimle, Jon Øigarden,
Jeppe Laursen, Nils Ole Oftebro
Release date: March 12, 2010
Norwegian distributor: SF Norge AS
Contact: Folk Flest Film Produksjon AS | Nedre Fløttenveg
5 | N-2054 Mogreina | Tel: +47 93 00 96 40 or +47 67 40
38 29 | Mail: [email protected] | www.folkflestfilm.no
Terje Rangnes (1966) has been
A young man dreams of becoming a journalist, in order to write stories which may change the world.
scriptwriter, actor and director
This does not turn out as planned, and instead he ends up as a reporter for the celebrity magazine «Se
for television series for almost
og Hør». We are observing a man who gradually loses all inhibitions in order to reach the top in the
two decades before his debut
country’s largest weekly magazine. He participates in the media’s intense chase on future Crown
as feature film director with
Princess Mette-Marit, and enters a close relationship with her father.
this film.
This friendship is exploited for all it’s worth, providing Se og Hør with the best and most contro-
versial source in the magazine’s history. Week after week, the young journalist is able to deliver unique
material for the front page, and he quickly becomes the great star among the editorial staff.
An Ordinary Day at Work will be a humorous film, but will also relate the story of the dirty methods,
fat cheques, and generous portions of false flattery behind the best stories. A film without great heroes,
in a reality the dimensions of which most of us do not grasp.
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HJEM TIL JUL
HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
Drama | 90 min | Colour | Scope | 5 reels | Dolby SR•D
Director: Bent Hamer
Screenplay: Bent Hamer based on the novel «Bare mjuke
pakker under treet» by Levi Henriksen
Director of Photography: John Christian Rosenlund
Producer: Bent Hamer for BulBul Film AS
Cast: Trond Fausa Aurvåg | Fridtjov Såheim | Reidar
Sørensen | Ingunn Beate Øyen | Nina Andresen-Borud |
Joachim Calmeyer | Sarah Vintu Sakor
Release date: May 2010
Sales: The Match Factory | Balthasarstr. 79 - 81 | DE-50670
Köln | Tel: +49 221 539 7090 | Fax: +49 221 539 70910
Mail: [email protected] | www.the-match-factory.com
Director, scriptwriter, producer,
Bent Hamer’s sixth feature film Home for Christmas is based on several stories from the Norwegian
and owner of the film produc-
writer Levi Henriksen’s collection of short stories «Bare mjuke pakker under treet». The plot unfolds
tion company BulBul Film as (est.
during a few afternoon hours on Christmas Eve. The individual stories, which at times intertwine, are
1994) Bent Hamer was educated
set in the small town Skogli. The characters in the stories cover a great range in age and life situations,
in Film Theory and Literature at
representing both reconciliation with their own lives and strong frustration. Some show the will to
Stockholms
understand and do something about their lives, while others have given up. Deeply tragic and melan-
Universitet
and
Stockholms Filmskola. His latest
choly aspects are mixed with humour and rather frivolous solutions.
feature film, O’Horten, had its international premiere
in «Un Certain Regard» in 2008. His other feature
films include Factotum (2005), Kitchen Stories (2003)
and Eggs (1995) Bent Hamer’s films have been distributed to more than 40 countries.
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JERNANGER
THE STORM IN MY HEART
Drama | 93 min | Colour | Scope | 5 reels | Dolby SR·D
Director: Pål Jackman
Screenplay: Pål Jackman, Eigil Jansen and Hans Erik Voktor
based on an idea by Pål Jackman and Marianne Kleven
Director of Photography: Jakob Ingimundarson
Producers: Maria Ekerhovd and Torleif Hauge for Kong
Film AS
Cast: Bjørn Sundquist | Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen | Mary
Sarre | Rikke Westerlund Lie | Nils Utsi | Magne Høyland
Release date: January 16, 2009
Norwegian distributor: SF Norge AS
Sales: NonStop Sales AB | Döbelnsgt. 24 | SE-113 52
Stockholm | Tel: +46 8 673 9980 | Fax: +46 8 673 9988
Mail: [email protected] | www.nonstopsales.net
The Storm in my Heart is a tale about the tempered Eivind who isn’t scared of anything- except love.
Pål Jackman (b.1967) made his
Eivind, lives aboard a boat in the South of Norway. The boat lies low and lopsided in the water. Thirty
feature debut with Detector in
years ago Eivind left his homestead and his teenage sweetheart behind, and he has not been back
2000. This was a huge success
since. He was meant to go back when everything was honky-dory- only that never happened. Then
both with the critics and at the
young Kris appears. He wants to travel the world but didn’t get any longer than to the lifeboat of
box office. It has been claimed
Jernanger. The two men finds one another and together they hatch a great plan.
that Detector created a new
wave in Norwegian film, a kind
of film that was embraced by the audience. In
addition to directing and acting, Jackman has
enjoyed great success with his orchestra,
Wunderkammer, who has released two critically
acclaimed albums.
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JULENATT I BLÅFJELL
MAGIC SILVER
Family film | 84 min | Colour | 5 reels | Dolby SR•D
Directors: Katarina Launing and Roar Uthaug
Screenplay: Gudny Ingeborg Hagen and Thomas
Moldestad based on the TV series «Jul i Blåfjell»
Director of Photography: Gaute Gunnari
Producers: Jørgen Storm Rosenberg and Lasse Greve
Alsos for Storm Rosenberg AS
Cast: Ane Viola Semb | Johan Tinus Austad Lindgren | Jan
Gunnar Røise | Finn Schau | Kari-Ann Grønsund
Release date: November 23, 2009
Norwegian distributor: Sandrew Metronome Norge
Sales: NonStop Sales | Döbelnsgt. 25 | SE-112 52
Stockholm | Tel: +46 8 673 9980 | Fax: +46 8 673 9988
Mail: [email protected] | www.nonstopsales.net
Katarina Launing (b. 1971) stud-
Princess Bluerose is a small gnome living deep in the Norwegian mountains. A small community of
ied directing at the Norwegian
gnomes is responsible for making the transition between daylight and night. This is called the magic
Film School and graduated in
hour, and is created by the magic silver which only these gnomes possess.
2000.
Roar Uthaug (b. 1973) graduated
on a remarkable journey to retrieve the silver and save the world from eternal darkness.
from the Norwegian Film School
in 2002. His feature debut Cold
på Månetoppen» (2002). They are considered classic Christmas calendar series, and are already firmly
Prey (2006) was a huge success.
When the silver is stolen, the world is transformed into eternal night. Princess Bluerose sets out
Magic Silver is based on the popular Norwegian television series «Jul i Blåfjell» (1999) and «Jul
entrenched in an entire generation’s old Christmas memories.
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KEEPERN TIL LIVERPOOL
THE LIVERPOOL GOALIE
Family film | 90 min | Colour | 1:1,85 | 5 reels | Dolby SR•D
Director: Arild Andresen
Screenplay: Lars Gudmestad based on the novel «Keepern
til Tunisia» by Lars Mæhle
Director of Photography: Gaute Gunnari
Producers: H. Øverås and K. Julsrud for 4 1/2 Fiksjon AS
Cast: Asle van der Hagen, Sussanne Boucher, Andrine
Sæther, Fridtjov Såheim
Release date: August 13, 2010
Norwegian distributor: Euforia Film
Contact: 4 1/2 Fiksjon AS | Krusesgt. 8 | N-0263 Oslo
Tel: +47 40 00 63 28 | Fax: +47 22 43 85 16
Mail: [email protected] | www.fourandahalf.no
Arild Andresen has repre-
The Liverpool Goalie is a warm comedy, in which both girls and boys play football, worship their idols,
sented Moland Film Company
and are frustrated by complicated friendships, young love, anxious mothers and overambitious football
as a director of commercials,
coaches. At the heart of the events, we find twelve year old Jo. Jo tries to avoid both potential girfriends,
and has since 1999 directed
mothers and football coaches, as he is hunting desperately for a rare football card which he believes
around 100 commercials. He
will solve all his problems.
has received many national
and international prizes for
a glance, and he acquires The Liverpool Goalie.
commercials and commissioned films. He has
directed the short films Mary (2000) and Sit Quiet
(2003) as well as the Emmy-nominated TV series
The Boys. The Liverpool Goalie is his first feature
film.
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Jo has a smart head, but a weak body. Even so, he gets by relatively well – until Mari throws him
KNERTEN
twigson
Family film | 75 min | Colour | 1:1,85 | Dolby SR
Director: Åsleik Engmark
Screenplay: Birgitte Bratseth based on the novels about
Lillebror and Knerten by Anne Cath. Vestly
Director of Photography: Ari Willey
Producers: Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae for Paradox
Produksjon AS
Cast: Adrian Grønnevik Smith, Petrus A. Christensen,
Pernille Sørensen, Jan Gunnar Røise
Release date: October 16, 2009
Norwegian distributor: Scanbox
sales: Sola Media GmbH | Osum Straße 17
DE-70599 Stuttgart | Tel: +49 71 14 79 36 66
Fax: +49 71 14 79 26 58 | Mail: [email protected]
www.sola-media.net
Åsleik Engmark makes his
Tough? Yes. Brave? Yes. A twig? Yes. Ordinary? No! Because twigs like Twigson don’t grow on trees.
debut as film director with
Twigs like Twigson exists in fantasies and play with you in the woods when you find everybody to be
Twigson. Engmark is known as
hard to be with. Twigs like Twigson don’t like to be left in an anthill, but will join you in the search for
an actor and stand-up come-
golden princesses. Twigs like Twigson don’t mind that Father sells underwear and stockings, or that
dian, and throughout the past
big brother cuts his hair to fit in. Twigs like Twigson aren’t worried to have to fit in. It’s actually a
20 years, he has been working
shame that there’s not many like Twigson.
in most fields within entertain-
Mother and Father are worried about how they are going to pay the bills, the roof is collapsing, and
ment - music, theatre, opera and film. He was one
Junior even falls through the roof. It’s not always easy. Luckily, most of the time Junior and Twigson find
of the driving forces behind establishing the show
the solutions. To earn some extra cash you can for example recycle the same bottles twice for money.
and cabaret group Lompelandslaget in 1987.
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KOMMANDØR TREHOLT &
NINJATROPPEN
NORWEGIAN NINJA
Action/thriller | 90 min | Colour | Scope | Dolby SR·D
Director: Thomas Cappelen Malling
Screenplay: Thomas Cappelen Malling based on his own
novel «Kommandør Arne Treholts Ninjateknikk II:
Usynlighet i Strid 1978»
Director of Photography: Trond Høines
Producer: Eric Vogel for Tordenfilm AS
Cast: Mads Ousdal, Jon Øigarden, Linn Stokke, Amund
Maarud, Dean Erik Andersen, Terje Strømdahl
Release date: August 13, 2010
Norwegian distributor: Euforia Film
Contact: Tordenfilm AS | Sandakervn. 52 | N-0477 Oslo
| Tel: +47 22 38 90 00 | Fax: +47 22 38 90 01
Mail: [email protected] | www.tordenfilm.no
Writer and director Thomas
Norwegian Ninja is the true story of how Commander Arne Treholt and his Ninja Force saved Norway
Cappelen Malling (b. 1970) comes
during the Cold War. In 1983 the Ninja Force discovers that the Shadow Government, who take charge
from Kongsvinger, Norway. His
in times of war and emergency, are planning a coup-d’état in peacetime. Treholt and the ninjas see
professional background is from
only one solution: a solid can of whoop-ass!
the communication industry and
he is the author of the cult book
«Kommandør Arne Treholts
Ninjateknikk II: Usynlighet i Strid 1978», published
by Oktober. Norwegian Ninja is his feature film
debut.
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LIMBO
LIMBO
Drama | 100 min | Colour | Scope | Dolby SR·D
Director: Maria Sødahl
Screenplay: Maria Sødahl
Director of Photography: Manuel Claro Alberto
Producer: Gudny Hummelvoll and Petter Borgli for SF
Norge Produksjon
Cast: Line Verndal,Henrik Rafaelsen, Lena Endre, Bryan
Brown
Release date: Autumn 2010
Norwegian distributor: SF Norge AS
Contact: SF Norge Produksjon | Dronningensgt. 8A | Box
639 Sentrum | N-0106 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 00 78 00 | Fax: +47 22 00 78 91
Mail: [email protected]
With expat circles in the Trinidad oil business as a backdrop, Limbo is a film about love, temptations,
Maria Sødahl was educated as
and deceit in an environment a long, long way from home. A young family arrives straight from the
a director at the Danish
Norwegian reality of the 70’s to an international milieu where men still keep lovers, servants take care
National Film School in 1993.
of house and children, while the housewives gather poolside for gin and tonics – like listless, rootless
She has directed TV-drama,
ticking bombs, distraught with frustration...
documentaries and numerous
short films. Maria has won
multiple national and international awards for her previous work. Limbo will
be her feature film debut as a writer/director.
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MASKEBLOMSTFAMILIEN
shameless
Drama | Colour | Scope | Dolby SR•D
Director: Petter Næss
Screenplay: Lars Saabye Christensen and Åse Vikene
based on the novel «Maskeblomstfamilien» by Lars Saabye
Christensen
Director of Photography: Daniel Voldheim
Producer: Dag Alveberg for Maipo AS
Cast: Marcus Arnseth, Kjersti Holmen, Maria Bonnevie,
Eindride Eidsvold, Hallvard Holmen
Release date: September 3, 2010
Norwegian distributor: Nordisk filmdistribusjon
Sales: TrustNordisk ApS | Filmbyen 12 | DK-2650 Hvidovre
Tel. +45 3686 8788 | Fax: +45 36 77 4448 | Mail: info@
trustnordisk.com | www.trustnordisk.com
Petter Næss (1960) has worked
It is the summer of 1951. Lillian and Amund Wang have their first and only child. A boy. Or is it a girl?
as an actor, screenplay writer
Outside, there’s a solar eclipse. The birds stop singing. The parents refuse the surgery which could have
and instructor within the film
made Adrian a complete human being. The apartment in Oscarsgate turns into a hothouse where the
and theatre world. His first fea-
most horrible flowers grow. This is where the divided Adrian grows up, with simulation, silence, lies
ture was the humorous Absolute
and dying love. This is where he learns to know his shamelessness.
Hangover. His next was Elling
and in 2005, he directed Love
He does not choose the role of the victim, but that of the aggressor: He declares war on his parents,
Me Tomorrow, the last film about Elling. He has also
and gathers an energy which proves redeeming, but also perilous to everyone around him, as he
had the responsibility of directing these films: the
gradually loses control over it. Through the role of Oedipus in a school theatre performance, and his
youth film Just Bea, the Hollywood debut Mozart
encounter with Heidi, Adrian faces himself in a greater perspective, and he cannot avoid realizing his
and the Whale, the Swedish children’s film Leaps
own tragedy. He is confronted with his own sense of guilt and his shame, he realizes his responsibility,
and Bounds, and Gone With the Woman.
simultaneously redeeming and destructive, and he accepts his punishment.
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In the summer of 1966, Adrian overhears the conversation which will sum up and seal his fate.
NOKAS
NOKAS
Drama | Colour
Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg
Screenplay: Christopher Grøndahl
Producer: Jan Aksel Angeltvedt for Alligator Film
Cast: Frode Winther, Tov Sletta, Morten Larsen
Release date: August 2010
Norwegian distributor: Sandrew Metronome Norge AS
Contact: Alligator Film | Georgernes Verft 12 | N-5011
Bergen | Tel: +47 55 21 40 50 | Fax: +47 55 21 40 55 |
Mail: [email protected] | www.alligator.no
Erik Skjoldbjærg (1964) is both
In the morning of April 5, 2004, the greatest bank robbery in Norwegian history was carried out in Stavanger.
director and writer. His feature
Nokas is the story of this robbery, which took place at the central cash service in Stavanger. The film traces
debut was Insomnia (1997),
the development of the robbery from early morning on until the fatal shot that took police officer Klungland’s
which
by
life. The story is credibly narrated through details in an everyday manner. Routines and daily activities at
Christopher Nolan in 2002, star-
the police station and the cash service centre, the unaffected civilians at the Cathedral Square who politely
ring Al Pacino and Robin
ask the heavily armed robbers if they may pass with their pram, and the robbers who restlessly get dressed,
Williams. In 2001 Skjoldbjærg
take a leak, kid around, and wait for the great event. And when the robbery is carried out, it’s totally unreal
was
remade
directed the adaption of Elizabeth Wurztel’s novel
for everyone. Even if it’s actually taking place.
Prozac Nation in Hollywood, starring Jessica Lange
and Christina Ricci. His latest feature is An Enemy of
the course of the film, from the perspective of the police, the robbers, the central cash service personnel,
the People (2005), an adaption of Ibsen’s famous play.
and ordinary people. It’s a credible and realistic, but fictitious reconstruction, the way it could have
Skjoldbjærg has also directed several tv-series.
happened.
The robbery itself is the main character of the story, and it is illuminated from several angles in
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NORD
NORTH
Drama | 79 min | Colour | Scope | 5 reels | Dobly SR·D
Director: Rune Denstad Langlo
Screenplay: Erlend Loe
Director of Photography: Philip Øgaard
Producers: Sigve Endresen and Brede Hovland for Motlys AS
Cast: Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen,
Marte Aunemo
Release date: February 6, 2009
Norwegian distributor: Sandrew Metronome Norge AS
Sales: Memento Films | 6 Cité Paris | F-75010 Paris
Tel: +33 1 53 34 90 20 | Fax: +33 1 42 47 11 24
Mail: [email protected] | www.memento-films.com North is Rune Denstad Langlo’s
North is an antidepressive offroad film about the former athlete Jomar, who has isolated himself in a
first full feature film, but Rune
sad and lonely existence after a mental breakdown. On a snowmobile, with pills and moonshine as
made his cinema debut with
provisions, he embarks on a strange and poetic journey towards the north to meet his unknown son.
the documentary film Too
On this journey through amazing arctic landscapes, Jomar seems to do everything in his power to
Much Norway, and also pre-
avoid reaching his destination. On his way he meets other tender and confused souls, who all contribute
miered with his second cinema
to push Jomar further along his reluctant journey, and towards facing reality.
documentary 99% Honest in
2008. Through his documentaries, Langlo has
proved himself to be a skillfull storyteller, and has
shown that he is able to depict characters in a
credible manner.
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OLSENBANDEN JR. – DET
SORTE GULLET
THE JUNIOR OLSEN GANG AND
THE BLACK GOLD
Family film | 92 min | Colour | 1:1,85 | 5 reels | Dolby SR·D
Director: Arne Lindtner Næss
Screenplay: Peder Halmdahl Næss and Arne Lindtner Næss
Director of Photography: Kjell Vassdal
Producer: Roy Anderson for Nordisk Film og TV
Cast: Oscar Øiestad, Fridtjof Tangen, Jonas Hoff Oftebro,
Jan Grønli, Lina Sørlie Strand
Release date: January 30, 2009
Norwegian distributor: Nordisk filmdistribusjon
Sales: TrustNordisk ApS | Filmbyen 12 | DK-2650 Hvidovre
Tel: +45 3686 8788 | Fax: +45 3677 4448
Mail: [email protected] | www.trustnordisk.com
The story is set in the early 1960’s. Egon Olsen persuades his friends to buy oil shares in order to take
Arne
part in the approaching oil adventure. At the same time, Egon gets on the trail of some sinister crooks
worked with all the Junior
who try to intercept tests showing there is oil in the North Sea.
Olsen Gang films. In 2005, he
The Junior Olsen Gang want to convey the news to the authorities, but It doesn’t turn out quite as
directed Finding Friends, and
planned. Valborg is kidnapped and kept prisoner in the Cheops Pyramid. The Junior Olsen Gang travels
in the winter of 2008, he
to Egypt as stowaways on a ship in order to set Valborg free. But finding the way through the labyrinth
worked with the family suc-
in the pyramid proves to be a tough challenge. First, the gang has to solve the Sphinx’ riddle. And if
they manage, a major problem remains. The ghost of the Pharaoh…
Lindtner
Næss
has
cess SOS – Summer of Suspense.
Arne Lindtner Næss has worked as an actor on
several Norwegian theatre and cabaret stages, as
well as in feature films and TV-series. Since 1985,
he has been working as a stage director, and later
as screenplay writer for several TV-series.
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OLSENBANDEN JR. –
MESTERTYVENS SKATT
THE JUNIOR OLSEN GANG AND
THE MASTER THIEF
Family film | 86 min | Colour | 1:1,85 | 4 reels | Dolby SR•D
Director: Arne Lindtner Næss
Screenplay: Arne L. Næss and Peder Halmdahl Næss
Director of Photography: Kjell Vassdal
Producer: Roy Anderson for Nordisk Film & TV AS
Cast: Thomas Stene-Johansen, Fridtjof Tangen, Jonas Hoff
Oftebro, Torbjørn Harr, Hilde Lyrån, Jan Grønli
Release date: January 29, 2010
Norwegian distributor: Nordisk filmdistribusjon
Sales: TrustNordisk ApS | Filmbyen 12 | DK-2650 Hvidovre
Tel: +45 3686 8788 | Fax: +45 3677 4448
Mail: [email protected] | www.trustnordisk.com
The Junior Olsen Gang and the Master Thief is set in the early 1960’s. Egon Olsen gets on the track of
Arne
two sinister characters running an old people’s home, where a pensioner by the name of Eugen Olsen
worked with all the Junior
resides. The sinister blokes are convinced Eugen is loaded, and has hidden his fortune in a secret place.
Olsen Gang films. In 2005, he
They try to trick him into revealing where the money is, but are met with challenges. Eugen Olsen has
directed Finding Friends, and
started raving about a grandchild in Oslo, none other than Egon Olsen! Egon learns that the progenitor
in the winter of 2008, he
of his family was the master thief Ole Høiland, who robbed the National Bank of Norway in 1835. This
worked with the family suc-
Lindtner
Næss
has
makes a great impression on Egon. And when his grandfather tells him that not all the money Ole stole
cess SOS - Summer of Suspense.
at the time was found, and may be hidden somewhere waiting for them, Egon is willing to help him.
Arne Lindtner Næss has worked as an actor on
Egon, Kjell and Benny throw themselves into a thrilling treasure hunt. Everything is timed and prepared
several Norwegian theatre and cabaret stages, as
for a new adventure with The Junior Olsen Gang.
well as in feature films and TV series. Since 1985,
he has been working as a stage director, and later
as a screenplay writer for several TV series.
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ORPS – THE MOVIE
ORPS – THE MOVIE
Family film | 86 min | Colour | 1:1,66 | 5 reels | Dolby SR·D
Director: Atle Knudsen
Screenplay: Kjetil Indregard and Atle Knudsen
Director of Photography: Theodor Vogt Kristensen fnf
Cast: August Ekanger | Ann Kristin Sømme | Cecilie Mosli |
Henrik Mestad | Elisabeth Sifsdatter Larsen | Moin Deljou
Producer: Olav Øen for Monster Film AS
Norwegian distributor: SF Norge AS
Release date: March 6, 2009
Sales: Delphis Films Inc. | 225 Roy St. East, Suite 200|
Montreal | Quebec H2W 1M5 | Tel:+1 514-843-3355
Fax: +1 514-843-9574
Mail: [email protected] | www.delphisfilms.com
Director Atle Knudsen (1971) has
Orps is about the group of friends Ikko, Amalie, Babb, Murmel and Ling, who all play in the Gamle Tomter
directed several TV series for
Brass Band. The annual great event is approaching: The Norwegian Championships. The band is going travel-
children. ORPS was originally a
ling! And there’s a chance to get a sweetheart! At least this is the goal of the gabby, impatient and bubbling
TV series for children. This is
Amalie. Meanwhile, Ling hopes that her great talent will finally be discovered – and Ikko hopes that Ling
Knudsen’s feature film debut.
will discover HIM. Murmel will possibly manage to play one entire tune without fainting, and maybe the
Knudsen has alos worked a direc-
quiet, modest Babb will manage once and for all to tell everyone her opinion about bullying? But one great
tor for Teater Grimmsborken.
obstacle, or rather a person, stands in their way: Their conductor, the famous cornetist Elsebeth Bull. Elsebeth
is an extremely evil, manipulating lady, who in a treacherous way decides to push the gang out of the band.
She is determined to win the Championships, and she won’t let anything stand in her way.
The friends decide to start their own band, «Orps». Together with the tomboy Jannik and the band’s
former conductor – the eccentric Morris – they take up the fight for the Norwegian Champion title. And
despite great obstacles, the friends stick together – because this is what good brass band spirit is all about!
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PAX
PAX
Drama | Colour
Director: Annette Sjursen
Screenplay: Annette Sjursen and Lars Saabye Christensen
Director of Photography: Peter Mokrosinski
Producers: Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae for Paradox
Produksjon AS
Cast: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Samuel Fröhler, Ida Elise Broch,
Kyrre Sydness, Kristoffer Joner, Tomas von Brömssen
Release date: Winter 2010
Norwegian distributor: Scanbox
Contact: Paradox Produksjon AS | Grønlandsleiret 25
N-0190 Oslo | Tel: +47 23 22 71 50 | Fax: +47 23 22 71
51 | Mail: [email protected] | www.paradox.no
Director Annette Sjursen worked
In PAX seven people and a heart, on its way from one body to another, meet on an airplane where an
as a journalist and a film critic
engine explodes. We meet Jon, a photographer, hurt in Lebanon and married to journalist Kathrine who
before she started making her
just recently tried to commit suicide. Together they share the grief over their son who was killed in a
own movies. After her third
car accident, which they survived. Erik is a surgeon with divine self esteem, while Elise has been released
short film Dublin in Rain, which
from three years of praying in a convent. Anja is waiting for a new heart in Oslo, the heart that is in a
became renowned internation-
metal container on the airplane. Angelica is eleven years old, and her parents are divorced. She is on her
ally, she debuted with the fea-
way from her mother to her father. She meets Peter, an unfaithful publisher on his way home to his wife
ture film My Jealous Barber. It became a success
and child, from Rio. Andrew, the composer who is unable to compose, is also on the plane. And Susan,
among critics, and won several awards. With PAX
the air hostess with aerofobia, has to reassure and help everybody when the engine explodes.
Sjursen takes a leap from intimate comedy into epic
drama. She also wrote the original script for the
we celebrate that love is stronger than hate. It’s a testament to everyones endurance and to the joy
film.
of making it through tough times.
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This big picture in this film is that we all together on this planet celebrating something. And in PAX
PELLE POLITIBIL GÅR I VANNET
PLODDY THE POLICE CAR MAKES
A SPLASH
Children’s animation | 72 min | Colour | 1:1,85 | Dolby SR·D
Director: Rasmus Sivertsen
Screenplay: Arthur Johansen based on a character created by Åge Magnussen
Producer: Aage Aaberge for Neofilm
Release date: January 8, 2010
Norwegian distributor: Nordisk filmdistribusjon
Sales: TrustNordisk ApS | Filmbyen 12 | DK-2650 Hvidovre
Tel: +45 3686 8788 | Fax: +45 3677 4448
Mail: [email protected] | www.trustnordisk.com
Rasmus A. Sivertsen (born
In a powerful autumn storm, the power line providing Bodø town with electricity is cut off. Ploddy the
1972) studied animation at the
Police Car acts responsibly and pulls a new cable across the mountain against the wind, so that the
Volda College. Since he gradu-
town can have light and heating back again. But when the job is finished, Ploddy backs into the severed
ated in 1995, Rasmus has been
cable, and is jolted by a powerful electric shock. Everyone in Bodø fears that the strain was too much
an active figure in the Scan-
for little Ploddy, but once again a miracle occurs. Ploddy comes back to life – now as an electric car.
dinavian animation industry. He
Full of pure energy, Ploddy puts up a fight against the Badger brothers. The brothers bottle the
was a co-director on the ani-
water and sell it at a high price in the excruciating summer heat. In addition, they endanger the fauna
mated feature film Captain Sabertooth and his
when they build a huge, monstrous dam above the peaceful little town. Together with his little girl
director experience abroad includes the 26 episodes,
friend Oda Otter, Ploddy exposes their plan, but a long, hard battle is fought before Ploddy is finally
HBO TV-series, Lisa. As a co-owner of Qvisten
able to settle the score with the two environmental criminals.
Animation he has directed several commercials, of
one he has won a Bronze Lion in Cannes.
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ROTTENETTER
RAT NIGHTS
Action/Thriller | 90 min | Colour | Scope | 5 reels
Director: Arild Østin Ommundsen
Screenplay: Arild Rein and Arild Østin Ommundsen
Director of Photography: Trond Tønder
Producers: Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae for Paradox
Produksjon AS
Cast: Christian Rubeck, Fridtjov Såheim, Kristoffer Joner,
Silje Salomonsen
Release date: September 4, 2009
Norwegian distributor: Nordisk filmdistribusjon
Sales: TrustNordisk ApS | Filmbyen 12 | DK-2650 Hvidovre
Tel: +45 3686 8788 | Fax: +45 3677 4448
Mail: [email protected] | www.trustnordisk.com
Arild Østin Ommundsen’s first
When you sell your soul, someone has to pay. Jonny Kristiansen is willing to do whatever it takes to get to the
full feasture film was the audi-
top of Stavanger’s oil infected finance world. He wants to be the best, smartest and richest of them all. He enters
ence success Mongoland i
a world, where everything and everyone can be bought for money – with wide open greedy eyes.
2001. In 2005, his second
feature film Monster Thursday
his world. Jonny watches as his colleagues get backstabbed and sacrificed. He looks at their downfall,
was selected, as the first
as one step closer for him to the top. Until he finds himself the victim. At the blink of an eye, Jonny
Norwegian film ever, to par-
is a barrier, and is out in the cold. But Jonny isn’t one to give up. He takes up the fight against his own
ticipate in competition at the Sundance Film
powerful boss, Fredrik Sagen. Jonny knows Sagen’s shady past. The story of how he built his mighty
Festival. Arild Østin Ommundsen has also made
finance empire. Jonny decides to take Sagen down. He wants revenge, and he wants Sagen to pay. For
music videos, commercial films, and a number of
his own winning. But he isn’t prepared for the forces he is up against. Jonny is spunned deeper and
short films.
deeper into a game he can’t win without losing. Because if Sagen’s past is unveiled, he goes under and
Jonny loves it. And he’s good. He learns the simple rules of the game: To eat, or be eaten. This is
takes many others with him.
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SAMMEN
TOGETHER
Drama | 105 min | Colour | Scope | 6 reels | Dolby SR·D
Director: Matias Armand Jordal
Screenplay: Matias Armand Jordal
Director of Photography: Odd Reinhardt Nicolaysen
Producer: Tom Rysstad for Mirmar Film Production AS
Cast: Fridtjov Såheim, Odin Waage, Evy Kasseth Røsten,
Kristine Rui Slettebakken, Marianne Mørk Larsen
Release date: January 23, 2009
Norwegian distributor: Sandrew Metronome Norge AS
Sales: AB Svensk Filmindustri | SE-169 86 Stockholm
Tel: +46 8 680 3500 | Fax: +46 8 680 3783
Mail: [email protected] | www.sfinternational.se
A family of a father, a mother and their son is looking forward to go on vacation. On the way they
Matias Armand Jordal (b. 1970)
experience an accident, and their lives are suddenly and unexpectedly turned upside down.
He is educated at Dramatiska
This is a story about a father and his son’s journey through a landscape of sorrow, after they tragi-
Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
cally lose the one person they love the most. It’s about how they deal with their new everyday life
He has over the last 8 years
without her, and their strain to win control over the new situation. They realize that they haven’t spent
directed commercials and short
much time together, and have a hard time trying to communicate with each other. Even simple things
films and has won several
like making a meal becomes a challenge. The father experiences the loss of this woman so strongly
that he isn’t able to pull himself together and take responsibility of his own and his son’s life. In pure
awards for his films. Together
(Sammen) is his feature film debut.
desperation he meets with the children welfare service, and when his son is temporarily sent to an
orphanage, he isolates himself from his surroundings and rejects every attempt for contact, even from
his own son. But the son refuses to give up hope that they can become a family again, and fights
bravely to get his father back to life.
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SKJULT
HIDDEN
Action/thriller | 90 min | Colour | Scope | 5 reels | Dolby SR·D
Director: Pål Øie
Screenplay: Pål Øie
Director of Photography: Sjur Aarthun
Producer: Jan Aksel Angeltvedt for Alligator Film
Cast: Kristoffer Joner | Cecilie Mosli | Marco Kanic | Bjarte
Hjelmeland | Eivind Sander | Karin Park
Release date: April 3, 2009
Norwegian distributor: Sandrew Metronome Norge AS
Sales: NonStop Sales | Döbelnsgatan 24 | SE-113 52
Stockholm | Tel: +46 8 673 9471 | Fax: +46 8 673 9933
Mail: [email protected] | www.nonstopsales.net
A small boy races through the woods. Blinded by fear he crosses a desert road without noticing the
Pål Øie (1961) has extensive
truck that speeds along it. A series of events are thus set in motion, events that will deprive another
experience in film making, both
little boy of his entire family. As the boys’ eyes meet in the woods, their destinies part.
as script-writer and director. He
KK (Kristoffer Joner) returns to his hometown – a small, remote place with an enormous wild
has made several award-winning
waterfall, surrounded by a dense, dark forest – the place he ran away from years ago. Now the hated
shorts, but his great break-
mother he ran from is dead, and has left him a house deep in the forest. With his heritage comes a
through came with Dark Woods
burden of dark secrets, and his return to the sordid place of his past brings to life all the evils he has
spent years surpressing.
in 2003. Dark Woods was
recently elected the scariest Norwegian movie ever,
and positioned Øie as Norway’s leading horror director – a film maker with a strong sense of the dark
side of human nature, and a solid conveyor of disturbed emotions and ambiances.
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SNARVEIEN
DETOUR
Thriller | 77 min | Colour | Scope | 4 reels | Dolby SR·D
Director: Severin Eskeland
Screenplay: Severin Eskeland
Director of Photography: Bjørn Eivind Aarskog
Producer: Bjørn Eivind Aarskog for Exposed Films AS
Cast: Marte Germaine Christensen, Sondre Krogtoft Larsen,
Jens Hultén, Johan Hedenberg, Malin King, Jeppe Beck
Laursen, Mikkel Gaup, Inga Didong Harrie, Knut Walle
Release date: July 31, 2009
Norwegian distributor: SF Norge
Sales: AB Svensk Filmindustri | SE-169 86 Stockholm
Tel: +46 8 680 3500 | Fax: +46 8 680 3783
Mail: [email protected] | www.sfinternational.se
Lina and Martin are smuggling cheap booze from Sweden across the border to a wedding in Norway.
Detour is Severin Eskeland’s
At a roadblock, they are told to take a detour, due to an accident. Deep inside the Swedish woods, their
debut as a feature film direc-
car suddenly suffers a tire blowout, and they seek assistance at an abandoned gas station. Soon after,
tor, but he has previously
they encounter a girl screaming for help. They assist a policeman in returning the now unconscious
directed and edited several
girl to a spooky house in the middle of the woods, unaware that they are under constant video surveil-
short films and novella films,
lance. Without their knowledge they have landed leading roles in an Internet film...
among them The Cabin and The
Chamber. Eskeland was educated at the Norwegian Institute for Stage and
Studio (NISS), and at Westerdals School of
Communication.
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SVIK
BETRAYAL
Drama | 110 min | Colour
Director: Håkon Gundersen
Screenplay: Håkon Gundersen
Director of Photography: Hans Kristian Riise
Producer: Håkon Gundersen for Alphaville Productions
Cast: Lene Nystrøm | Götz Otto | Fridtjov Såheim | Kåre
Conradi | Jørgen Langhelle | Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
Release date: September 10, 2009
Norwegian distributor: SF Norge AS
Sales: AB Svensk Filmindustri | SE - 169 86 Stockholm
Tel: +46 8 680 3500 | Fax: +46 8 680 3783
Mail: [email protected] | www.sfinternational.se
Håkon Gundersen (b. 1954) has
A thriller based on true events in Norway during World War II. Tor Lindblom makes a fortune supplying
written several books on tele-
the Nazis with everything from liquor and cigarettes to cement and steel. He also owns the Club Havana,
communications, media and
a nightclub in Oslo frequented by the industrial elite of occupied Norway as well as Officers of the
energy. In the early 1980’s, he
Wehrmacht. At the Club Havana, the lair of German Nazi Officers in Oslo, Eva Karlsen sings her enchant-
started Vikingfilm and made his
ing cabaret tunes. She is also an agent for the resistance, and is romantically involved with the
debut as co-producer with the
Norwegian owner of the club, the Nazi collaborator and entrepreneur Tor Lindblom. His partner-in-crime
film Revolution (1985), with Al
in their lucrative but not entirely legit business is SS-Sturmbannführer Krüger.
Pacino in the lead role. He founded one of Norway’s
first animation studios, Animagicnet, and was the
away - a plant that will greatly increase the production capacity of German bomber planes. Tor and
initiator and the main producer of the animation
Krüger stand to make a lot of money from the project, together with a group of prominent Norwegian
feature Free Jimmy (2007). Betrayal is Gundersen’s
industrialists. But in London, the Allied Forces are planning a bombing raid to eliminate the plant.
feature film debut.
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It is the middle of the summer of 1943. The inauguration of a new aluminum plant is only weeks
SYKT LYKKELIG
happy, happy
Drama/comedy | Colour
Director: Anne Sewitsky
Screenplay: Ragnhild Trenvoll
Director of Photography: Anna Myking
Producer: Synnøve Hørsdal for Maipo AS
Cast: Agnes Kittelsen | Henrik Rafaelsen
Release date: October 2010
Norwegian distributor: Nordisk filmdistribusjon
Sales: TrustNordisk ApS | Filmbyen 12 | DK-2650 Hvidovre
Tel. +45 3686 8788 | Fax: +45 3677 4448
Mail: [email protected] | www.trustnordisk.com
Anne Sewitsky (1978) studied
Happy, Happy is a black comedy about adultery. Kaja is persistently positive and naïve, in spite of the
theology, theatre, arts and
fact that her marriage is dysfunctional, to put it mildly. However, when «the perfect couple» moves into
music at Lewis & Clark in
the neighbouring house, it becomes difficult to keep up appearances. The new neighbours not only sing
Portland, as well as philoso-
in a choir, they have also adopted, from Ethiopia. The new neighbour relationship awakens astonishing
phy, dramaturgy and music at
and strong emotions in Kaja, and has consequences for them all, including their two children. The boys
various universities in Norway,
are increasingly left to themselves, and without anyone noticing, the game turns extremely sadistic.
before graduating from the
Director’s course at The Norwegian Film School in
2000. Since then, she has been working as a
screenplay writer and director in NRK Drama. She
has also made the short film Oh My God!, which
participated at the Berlin Film Festival in 2009.
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TOMME TØNNER
smack! (tentative)
Gangster comedy | 87 min | Colour
Directors: Leon Bashir and Sebastian Dalén
Screenplay: Leon Bashir and Sebastian Dalén
Director of Photography:
Producers: Terje Strømstad and Kjetil Omberg for Tomme
Tønner AS
Cast: Leon Bashir, Anders Danielsen Lie, Farrakh Abbas,
Kim Bodnia, Kristoffer Joner, Jenny Skavlan
Release date: January 8, 2010
Norwegian distributor: Euforia Film
Contact: Tomme Tønner AS | Svaneveien 68 | N-9512 Alta
Tel: +47 971 57 923 | Tel: +47 917 08 373
Mail:[email protected] | www.tommetonner.no
The
artistically
responsible
gentlemen behind Tomme tønner
are Leon Bashir and Sebastian
Dalén. They have jointly written
the screenplay as well as directed
the film, and this is also their
joint debut as directors. In addition, Bashir plays the leading role in the film. This team is not entirely
inexperienced when it comes to gangster films; Bashir was one of the
writers behind the gangster drama Izzat.
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Three small-time criminals finally get the chance to climb the ladder - but
manage to mess it all up in royal manners...
UPPERDOG
UPPERDOG
Drama | 95 min | Colour | 1:1,85 | 5 reels | Dolby SR·D
Director: Sara Johnsen
Screenplay: Sara Johnsen
Director of Photography: John Andreas Andersen
Producers: Christian Fredrik Martin and Asle Vatn for
Friland AS
Cast: Mads Sjøgård Pettersen | Agnieszka Grochowska |
Hermann Sabado | Bang Chau | Ole Paus | Kjersti Holmen
Release date: September 18, 2009
Norwegian distributor: Sandrew Metronome Norge AS
Sales: AB Svensk Filmindustri | SE-169 86 Stockholm
Tel: +46 8 680 3500 | Fax: +46 8 680 3783
Mail: [email protected] | www.sfinternational.se
As young children, the half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival,
In 2005 Sara Johnsen made
he to material wealth on Oslo’s West side, she to an average family on the East side. In contrast to her
her feature film debut with
younger brother, Yanne remembers their journey to Norway, but she has no idea where he might be
Kissed by Winter. The film won
now. All this is about to change, however, as Yanne’s Polish friend Maria starts working as maid for Axel’s
many national and interna-
parents, there discovering av photograph of a young boy. Maria has seen the same picture on the wall
tional awards. In addition to
of Yanne’s flat. She decides to reunite them. But before having time to realise the consequences, she has
directing, Johnsen worked as
a teacher in dramaturgy, visual
set in motion a chain of events which involve the emotions of many others than just her own.
storytelling and in screen acting. She has also
written two novels published by Gyldendal. The
first one, in 2005, was titled He Knows Something
She Should Try, the second, White Man, was published in 2008.
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VARG VEUM – SKRIFTEN PÅ VEGGEN
the writing on the wall
Action | 90 min | Colour | Scope | Dolby SR
Director: Stefan Faldbakken
Screenplay: Gunnar Staalesen based on his own novel
«Skriften på veggen»
Director of Photography: Marek Wieser
Producers: Silje Hopland Eik, Tanya N. Badendyck, Peter
Bose and Jonas Allen for Cinemiso
Cast: Trond Espen Seim | Bjørn Floberg | Lene Nystrøm |
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Release date: August 27, 2010
Norwegian distributor: SF Norge AS
Sales: AB Svensk Filmindustri | SE - 169 86 Stockholm
Tel: +46 8 680 3500 | Fax: +46 8 680 3783
Mail: [email protected] | www.sfinternational.se
It is the year 2010. Varg Veum has finally gotten his life together. He has had a hair-cut, has got a
Stefan Faldbakken directed
steady job as a teacher, and has finally found a girlfriend who is good for him. Karin is harmonious,
the success Uro, which was
smart, and independent. They plan to move in together, and are looking for an apartment. Varg feels
also selected for Un Certain
happy. At the same time, Harry Hopsland, aka The Knife, is released from prison. He is the worst
Regard in Cannes. He gradu-
adversary Varg has ever had. Without inhibitions, mentally disturbed, a man who says things others
ated from the Dramatiska
do not even dare to think. The Knife was convicted of involuntary manslaughter of the young girl Eva
Institutet in Stockholm, and
Beate Skagestøl some time in the 1990’s. He is invalid after Varg battered him with his bare hands
has worked as a director and
when Eva Beate was found dead after an overdose. The Knife knows about Varg’s bleak background.
screenplay writer since 2002. Stefan has a distinct
He knows why Varg almost killed him back then. He also knows that Varg is struggling hard to stay
narrative voice mixed with great formal strength,
afloat in his new life. Now The Knife wants revenge. This pushes Varg towards a confrontation with
often mixed with humour. This renders Stefan a
the dark forces inside himself.
characteristic signature.
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VEGAS
VEGAS
Drama | 93 min | Colour | 1:1,85 | 5 reels | Dolby SR·D
Director: Gunnar Vikene
Screenplay: Gunnar Vikene and Torun Lian
Director of Photography: Marek Wieser
Producers: Tanja N. Badendyck, Silje Hopland Eik, Maria
Ekerhovd for Cinenord Spillefilm and Kong Film
Cast: Karoline Stemre, Jørgen Hausberg Nilsen, Sindre
Kvalvåg Jacobsen, Ellen Birgitte W. Johannessen, Kyrre
Haugen Sydness, Anders Baasmo Christiansen
Release date: September 25, 2009
Norwegian distributor: SF Norge AS
Sales: Levelk | Film & TV Distribution |
Mail: [email protected] | Tel: +45 20 10 85 80
Gunnar Vikene (1966) is one
You don’t choose your family. You choose your friends.
of the few Norwegian film-
Vegas is the story of Thomas, Marianne and Terje - three teenagers with nowhere to go.
makers who have succeeded
After witnessing his mother being beaten up, Thomas is sent to a young people’s refuge. No one
both as a scriptwriter and as a
will tell him where his brother is, and Thomas vows to find him.
director. He is well known for
the vibrant, warm stories of
another planet altogether. The three of them find they share a common dream, and together they
his previous films. In 2002 he
embark on a journey of love, hate and trust.
directed his first feature film Falling Sky. The film
At the refuge, he meets Marianne, who is always screwing up, and Terje, who seems like he’s from
No one ends up where they planned, but everyone finds a home.
was both a critically acclaimed film and a success
at the box-office. In 2006 Vikene directed Trigger.
The film was selceted for the Berlin International
Film Festival 2007.
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VETLE
VETLE
Drama | 90 min | Colour | Scope | Dolby SR
Director: Ole Giæver
Screenplay: Ole Giæver
Director of Photography: Øystein Mamen
Producer: Ole Giæver for Ferdinand Films
Cast: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Marte Magnusdotter Solem
Release date: Autumn 2010
Contact: Ferdinand Films | Idunsgate 1a | N-0178 Oslo
Tel: +47 97 04 43 11 | Mail: [email protected]
Ole Giæver was born and raised
Nora and Solveig are back in the mountains where they lost their five year old son Vetle in an accident
in Tromsø. He graduated from
two years earlier. Nora was Vetle’s biological mother, and Solveig his adoptive mother, the way lesbian
the Nordland Art and Film
mothers normally arrange themselves. Nora has not dealt with her grief in a healthy way. Instead of
School in Lofoten, and the
sharing and being present in her sorrow together with Solveig, she has closed herself towards her, and
Konstfack in Stockholm. He has
keeps her pain at a distance. Now Solveig is pregnant, and afraid Nora is not ready to accept a new
been
child. Solveig has taken the initiative for this trip in the hope that it may help Nora get to the bottom
nominated
for
the
European Film Awards for Best
of, and accept, what happened, so that they can face the future together.
Short Film (Tommy)in 2007, and the Amanda Award
for Best Screenplay (Summers Past) in 2008.
enjoyable and beautiful trek through the spectacular mountain scenery. Through several days and
The film starts at the foot of the mountain, and we are led onto a painful and demanding, but also
nights, we become familiar with these complex women. This is both a journey through their inner
landscape, where closed and new rooms have to be opened, and an external, perceptual journey through
the Norwegian mountains.
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YATZY
YAHTZEE
Drama | 79 min | Colour | 1:1,85 | 5 reels | Dolby SR·D
Director: Katja Eyde Jacobsen
Screenplay: Harald Rosenløw Eeg
Director of Photography: Øystein Mamen
Producer: Karin Julsrud for 4 ½ Film AS
Cast: Kastriot Kastrati, Hanna Maria Khalid,
Fredrik Thorjussen
Release date: March 20, 2009
Norwegian distributor: Nordisk filmdistribusjon
Sales: TrustNordisk | Filmbyen 12 | DK-2650 Hvidovre
Tel: +45 3686 8788 | Fax: +45 3677 4448
Mail: [email protected] | www.trustnordisk.com
Katja Eyde Jacobsen makes
A newcomer in the world’s tiniest community. In love with the wrong woman. Persecuted by a past
her debut as a full feature film
which proves that however fast you’re running, you can never run away from yourself.
director with this project. She
was educated at the Norwegian
The problem is he has nowhere to go. Everything he came from is ruined. As he gets to know his
Film School, and has previ-
classmate Gloria, he is finally brought to see the possibility of a better life. But the secrets of his video
ously made a name for herself
camera, the memories no one is allowed to see, mess up everything. Whatever Daggi attempts to do,
within short film. To the Moon
Dennis always finds him. Little Gustav in Daggi’s new foster family has wanted an older brother for a
has won a number of international awards, and
long time, and Gloria dreams of extraordinary events. For both of them, Daggi represents a new
Interlude was nominated for the Amanda Award.
opportunity, but is he able to accept them?
Youth is the subject matter of both these films.
Daggi is sent away from Oslo to a tiny community in the countryside. All he wants is to escape.
Yahtzee is a film about being 15 and enduring everything – except oneself.
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YOHAN BARNEVANDRER
YOHAN – THE CHILD WANDERER
Family film | 125 min | Colour | Scope | 6 reels | Dolby SR·D
Director: Grete Salomonsen
Screenplay: Grete Salomonsen
Director of Photography: Odd Hynnekleiv
Producer: Odd Hynnekleiv for Penelope Film AS
Cast: Robin Daniel, Mathilde Berg, Adam Eftevaag, Dennis
Storhøi, Agnete Haaland, Alexander Rybak, Aylar Lie, Kris
Kristofferson
Release date: March 26, 2010
Norwegian distributor: Nordisk filmdistribusjon
Contact: Penelope Film AS | Kongensgt. 4B | N-4610
Kristiansand | Tel: +47 38 17 70 50 | Fax: +47 38 02 60 59
[email protected] | www.yohan.no | www.penelope.no
The child wanderer, ten year old Yohan, tackles life’s hardships with optimism and inventiveness. But
Writer and director Grete
is it enough to save the hard-working 8 year old Anna at the neighbouring farm? Yohan is challenged
Salomonsen and producer Odd
by the tough life in the Norway of a hundred years ago. He is sent away to work on a farm miles away
Hynnekleiv created the classic
from home, and finds himself in an adventure battling wolves and bears.
Kamilla and the Thief, and are
Yohan – The Child Wanderer tells the story about the period during which a lot of Norwegians
about to release an unforget-
emigrated to America, when a dream was a necessary incentive in order to survive. This is a story
table film about love, hard-
ships, struggles and family.
about never giving in.
This film is an exciting adventure through time
and history, featuring Kris Kristofferson as old
Yohan.
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norwegian films | documentary films
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GUNNAR GOES GOD
GUNNAR GOES GOD
85 min | Colour / BW | 1:1,66 | 4 reels | Dolby SR
Director: Gunnar Hall Jensen
Directors of Photography: Zulfikar Fahmy, Anders
Jørgensen, Gunnar Hall Jensen
Producer: Elin Sander for Agitator As
Release date: December 2010
Norwegian distributor: Kudos Family
Contact: Agitator as | Mediebygget | Bergenhus 13
N - 5003 Bergen | Tel: +47 917 81 028
Mail: [email protected] | www.agitator.no
Gunnar Hall Jensen majored in
The Scandinavian family man Gunnar feels that despite having everything he needs in his middleclass
cultural communications at the
life, something is missing. He longs for silence and spirituality, and decides to travel to the world’s first
University of Bergen. He has
Christian monastery in Egypt to find some answers. During the journey we take part in Gunnar’s associa-
made a number of advertising
tions, dreams and memories, questioning the way we organize our lives, but also the problematic
and commission films. He is also
potential in organized religion.
recognized as a maker of short
films and tv-documentaries, and
reality, solitude and death. Is their reality based on silence, prayers and meditation, something we in our
in 2003 his first feature documentary Gunnar Goes
Comfortable was released. The film was in competition at several festivals, amongst them IDFA and
Silverdocs.
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In the monastery, Gunnar takes part in the everyday life of the monks, asking them questions about
rational reality long for and maybe need? Is it possible to bring something of this into our lives?
INTWARI – HÅPETS HELTER
INTWARI – HEROES OF HOPE
85 min | Colour
Director: Karoline Frogner
Producer: Morten Daae for Integritet Film
Release date: May 2010
contact: Integritet Film
Thomas Heftyesgt. 54B | N-0267 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 82 24 35 | Fax: +47 22 82 24 22
Mail: [email protected]
Fifteen years ago Hutu women helped Tutsi women and children to hide from the Rwandan massacres.
Karoline Frogner (1961) was
This heritage of love and protection is the core of Save — the village of the widows.
educated as a photographer.
Most of the children of the 600 widows were killed. The women have adopted orphans into a
Frogner has worked with pho-
restarted society. The new generation refuses to accept what they say is the white man’s racist defini-
tography and has written sev-
tions of Hutu and Tutsi – the split that caused the Rwandan genocide.
eral books. She has been
working with film since the
Their lesson is simple: War and hate is contagious – but so is hope and love.
early 1980’s. She established
her own production company in the fall of 2003,
Integritet Film AS, under which a number of films
have been produced or are in the planning stage.
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JAKTEN PÅ HUKOMMELSEN
HUNTING DOWN MEMORY
80 min | Colour | 1:1,85 | 5 reels | Dolby SR
Director: Thomas Lien
Director of Photography: Patrik Säfström
Producer: Petter Vennerød for Merkur Film Produksjon AS
Release date: February 20, 2009
Norwegian distributor: CCV/Oro Film
Contact: Merkur Film Produksjon AS | Sofiesgt. 60
N-0168 Oslo | Tel: +47 22 59 50 40 | Fax: +47 22 59 15 49
Mail: [email protected] | www.merkur.no
Thomas Lien
(1971)
has
Who are you if you do not know yourself? Who am I if my whole past is gone? What is identity? In
worked in the film industry
which way is identity connected to memory?
since 1991 in various capaci-
ties (production and camera
without a background history, without recognizing those who know you. Imagine encountering the
assistant on a number of fea-
world as if it were for the first time. And finally, imagine this happening to you while travelling alone
ture films; assisting editor on
on a train in China.
two feature films and editor of
Imagine waking up tomorrow without recalling today. All recollections are deleted. Imagine living
Hunting Down Memory is a true story about Øyvind Aamodt, who suddenly lost 27 years of his
several short films and commercials). From 1996
memory. He remembered nothing from his life. NOTHING! For most people, this would have been a
to 2003 he was captain on a cruise around the
dreadful experience, an ominous and frightening event in their life. For Øyvind, it was an adventure.
world. He made his directorial debut in 1995, with
He is neither traumatized nor paralyzed, he is just curious. He wants to know what happened, but he
the shortfilm Depth Solitude (co-directed with
would also like to know what cottage cheese and blueberry pie taste like.
Joachim Solum).
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MODERNE SLAVERI
MODERN SLAVERY
115 MIN | Colour | Digibeta
Director: Thomas Robsahm and Tina Davis
Screenplay: Thomas Robsahm and Margreth Olin
Directors of Photography: Kim Hopkins, Joachim
Høge, Marianne Bakke
Producers: Thomas Robsahm and Margreth Olin
Release date: April 23, 2009
Contact: Speranza Film | Waldemar Thranesgt. 84C
N-0157 Oslo | Tel: +47 22 04 48 30
Mail: [email protected] | www.speranza.no
An encounter with people living under extremely restricted conditions, in Uganda, India, Moldova,
Thomas Robsahm (1964) made
Kambodia and France. The film is also a critical investigation of the negative consequences of neoliberal
his first feature film debut in
economical politics. The project examines the claim that it’s in the interest of certain economical and
1992 (Rebels with a Cause)and
social forces to preserve modern slavery, and that these forces are supported by corrupt authorities
has directed several feature
and indirect participation by multinational companies.
films, shorts and documenta-
ries. He is also a producer in
With a powerful political message and intense human portrayals, this may turn out to be an
important political film from two of our most distinguished documentary film makers.
his own company Speranza
Film. Tina Davis (born in Norway in 1970) has
worked as a director and producer since 1997.
She studied television and film at the University
of Westminster from 1993 – 1996.
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ROBERT CRUMPTONS SHAKESPEARE
ROBERT CRUMPTON’S SHAKESPEARE
Director: Jørgen Friberg
DirectorS of Photography: Svend Even Herra and
Thomas Løkkeberg
Producer: Kjell Eriksen for AS Videomaker
Cast: Robert Crumpton | Petter Amundsen
Release date: Autumn 2010
Contact: AS Videomaker | Maridalsvn. 87 | N-0461 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 80 96 20 | Fax: +47 22 80 96 21 | Mail: kjell@
videomaker.no
This is the film about the organist Petter Amundsen, who believes that he can prove that Francis Bacon
Jørgen Friberg graduated from
and not William Shakespeare wrote the greatest plays and sonnets in the English Language. The story
Lillehammer University Collage
will be told by a young ambitious actor and academic Robert Crumpton who in turn is a staunch
2001, (Documentary – Directing).
Stratfordian. Crumpton travels to Norway to confront Petter and together they embark on an extraor-
From 2001 untill 2004 he par-
dinary voyage of discovery. Robert Crumpton’s Shakespeare will be the definitive account of the
ticipated on several productions
centuries old debate – did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? In examining both the lives of William
in NRK, and has worked as a
Shakespeare and Francis Bacon it will delve into an exciting and dangerous period in our history.
freelancer since 2004.
Juxtaposing the historical story and driving the narrative forward are the two compelling characters
of Petter and Crumpton – their journey into the past becomes for both men a personal odyssey.
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SANNHETSJEGEREN
NEMESIS
80min | Colour | 1:1,85 | 4 reels | Dolby SR·D
Director: Erlend E. Mo
Directors of Photograhpy: Bjørn Eivind Aarskog, Ole
Andreas Grøntvedt, Gunnhild Magnor, Erlend E. Mo, Eirik
Wattengård, Caroline Woie
Producer: Bjørn Eivind Aarskog for Exposed Film
Production AS
Release date: March 7, 2009
Contact: Exposed Film Production AS | Møllergt. 28
N-0178 Oslo | Tel: +47 22 20 77 00 | Fax: +47 22 20 77 01
Mail: [email protected] | www.exposed.no
In the 70’s, the university city of Trondheim is shocked by the gruesome rape and murder of two young
Erlend E. Mo Born 1967,
female students. The young TV journalist Tore Sandberg reports on the investigation which ultimately
Norway. Studied literature and
leads to severely disabled Fritz Moen serving close to 19 years in prison.
Scandinavian languages at
30 years later: Tore Sandberg is now a successful private investigator, who specialises in solving
Oslo University 1986-90, and
miscarriages of justice. But this case has been nagging him for years. He digs ever deeper: exposing
film and TV at Volda University
lies and criminal negligence all the way up to the Supreme Court. But Fritz is a broken man. Can Tore
College 1990-92. Has pro-
clear his name before he dies?
duced and directed for NRK’s
Children and Youth Department and DR’s Children
and Youth Department.
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STRENGT HEMMELIG
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
111 min | Colour | 1:1,85 | 5 reels | Dolby SR·D
Director: Benedicte M. Orvung
Screenplay: Benedicte M. Orvung
Directors of Photography: Kjell Vassdal, Tom Andre
Edvindsen and others
Producer: Tom Andre Edvindsen for Orvung Film
Release date: February 8, 2010
Norwegian distributor: Coriander Film
Contact: Orvung Film | Austtunleitet 1 | N-4032 Stavanger
Tel: +47 924 00 343 | Mail: [email protected]
Benedicte Orvung grew up in
At the age of 30, director Benedicte Orvung discovers that her family is hiding a dark secret.
Paris, France, moved back to
The discovery leads her to a shocking story: Her grandfather’s brother, Karl Marthinsen, was one of
Norway in 1975. Since her
the most prominent Nazi collaborators and a Nazi Police leader during WWII.
childhood she has expressed a
great interest in both the the-
when Germany occupies Norway in April 1940, he co-operates with the Nazis.
atre and the moving pictures.
After working as a still photog-
Near the end of WWII the Norwegian exile government in London puts KM at the top of the list of
rapher for many years, she was educated in film
people the resistance should try to assassinate. The resistance succeeds, but the assassination ends
at Oslo Film & TV Akademi (Norway) 1992 – 1994.
with terrible consequences in the form of retaliations. After the war ended this story has been unknown
She graduated from the Dramatiska Institutet in
to most. But the family has lived with the shame. The resistance had to live with the decision they
Stockholm in 1998. Her films have received both
made. Not least, those who survived Karl Marthinsen’s cruelty have never forgotten.
national and international awards.
48 | documentary films
Karl Marthinsen´s military and national socialistic career builds up during the prewar years, and
In the last year of WWII, he becomes the most important partner of the Nazi occupants in Norway.
tears of gaza
tears of gaza
Director: Vibeke Løkkeberg
Screenplay: Vibeke Løkkeberg and Terje Kristiansen
Producer: Terje Kristiansen
realese date: September 15, 2010
Contact: Nero Media AS | Hafrsfjordsgt. 5 | N-0273 Oslo
In a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal consequences of modern wars are exposed. The
Vibeke Løkkeberg (1945) has
film also depicts the ability of women and children to handle their everyday life after a dramatic war
become one of Norway’s most
experience. Many of them live in tents or in ruins without walls or roofs. They are all in need of money,
well-known personalities and
food, water and electricity. Others have lost family members, or are left with seriously injured children.
leading feminist artists as
Can war solve conflicts or create peace? The film follows three children through the war and the period
actor, director, screenwriter
after the ceasefire.
and author. She has directed 5
features and written 5 novels.
She has starred in her own films as well as films
by Pål Løkkeberg.
documentary films | 49
TO BRØDRE
BROTHERS
90 min | Colour
Director: Aslaug Holm
Directors of Photography: Aslaug Holm and Kjell
Vassdal
Producer: Tore Buvarp for Fenris Film AS
Release date: Autumn 2010
Norwegian distributor: Euforia Film
Contact: Fenris Film AS | Sagvn. 23A | N-0459 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 12 17 10 | Fax: +47 23 12 17 11
Mail: [email protected] | www.fenrisfilm.com
A film about the close relationship between two brothers. Markus (10) and Lukas (7) live in an old,
Aslaug Holm
yellow townhouse in the middle of Oslo. The river runs close to their home. A paradise in the heart of
directed about ten documen-
(1965)
has
a big city. Big trees growing into the sky, and the water dark and attractive beneath. Here the brothers
tary films and photographed
grow up with their dreams and longings for the future. Markus loves soccer, and wants to be a profes-
approximately 30 films, of
sional. He has played soccer since he was five, and Liverpool is the only and best team. In the film we
which several have received
experience his struggle and passion for achieving his goals. Lukas is the philosophic one, and likes to
awards. She was documentary
think all kinds of thoughts. About the world, him self and what the all is about. «Mummy, what happens
film photographer and film
with my dreams after I`m dead, will they still be alive?» This close and personal documentary is filmed
editor for Norway’s fifth most successful theatri-
by their mother. Aslaug Holm is both a director and photographer, and wants to go in to the children’s
cally released film, Cool & Crazy. Her latest project
authentic world and discover the truth and original life. In a period of tree years she films her boys,
was the film The Rich Country about Jens
and the result will turn into a unique document about childhood and brotherhood – and life, for a
Stoltenberg before him being elected Prime
grown up audience.
Minister in 2005.
50 | documentary films
in production
FRITT VILT III
ENGLISH TITLE TBA
Fritt Vilt III is the sequel to the thrillers Cold Prey and Cold Prey II, which both became great box office
Thriller | Colour
successes. This film relates the astonishing, dramatic and frightening previous history of the Stehøe
Director: Mikkel Brænne Sandemose
mountain hotel during the years before the events taking place in the first film.
Screenplay: Lars Gudmestad and Peder Fuglerud
Director of Photography: Ari Willey
Producers: Martin Sundland, Kristian Sinkerud and Are
Heidenstrøm for Fantefilm Fiksjon AS
Cast: Ida Marie Bakkerud | Kim S. Falck Jørgensen | Pål Stokka
Release date: October 15, 2010
Norwegian distributor: Nordisk filmdistribusjon
Sales: TrustNordisk ApS | Filmbyen 12 | DK-2650 Hvidovre
Tel: +45 3686 8788 | Fax: +45 36 77 44 48
Mail: [email protected], www.trustnordisk.com
KNERTEN GIFTER SEG
ENGLISH TITLE TBA
Family film | Colour
Adventurous? Yes. Extraordinary? Yes. In love? Yes.
Director: Martin Lund
Screenplay: Birgitte Bratseth based on the novels about
like Twigson. Because twigs like Twigson do not grow on trees.
Lillebror and Knerten by Anne Cath. Vestly
Director of Photography: Morten Halfstad Forsberg
bees with a great interest in his love life. Vesla sells waffles, and the Crown Prince gets married. In addition,
Producers: Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae for Paradox
Junior and Twigson solve a crime, a new boy arrives in the village, and Twigson learns how to fly.
Produksjoner AS
Cast: Adrian Grønnevik Smith | Petrus A. Christensen |
a whole lot about being in love. This is a humorous film with fantastic animation, directed by feature
Pernille Sørensen | Jan Gunnar Røise
film debutant Martin Lund. The film is based on Anne Cath. Vestly’s books about Lillebror and Knerten.
Twigson meets Karoline. A one-of-a-kind birch twig. It takes an extraordinary girl to match a twig
Junior is dreaming of a bicycle of his own. Mum is involved in an accident. Twigson meets a couple of
Knerten gifter seg is a story which is partly about two bees, a good deal about solving a crime, and
Release date: Fall 2010
Contact: Paradox Produksjoner AS | Grønlandsleiret 25
N-0190 Oslo | Tel: +47 23 22 71 50 | Fax: +47 23 22 71
51 | Mail: [email protected] | www.paradox.no
in production | 51
norwegian cinema releases 1999-2009
Title:
Director:
Production company:
2000
Aberdeen
Hans Petter Moland
Norsk Film AS
Cabin Fever
Mona Hoel
Dis Film AS
Detector
Pål Jackman
Christiania Film AS
Eye Ball
Catrine Telle
Norsk Film AS
Get Ready to be Espen Eckbo, Nordisk Film &TV
Boyzvoiced
Henrik Elvestad,
Mathis Fürst
Gifted Beauties
Anne Kjersti Bjørn
Ragg Film
Odd Little Man
Stein Leikanger
Nordic Screen AS
Passing Darkness
Knut Erik Jensen
Barentsfilm AS
The Seven Deadly Sins Lars Gudmestad, Kool Productions AS
Dag Johan Haugerud, Medieoperatørene AS
Ørjan Karlsen, Frank Motlys AS
Mosvold, Margreth Olin, Speranza AS
Maria Sødahl,
Marit Åslein
The Wedding
Leidulv Risan
NRKDrama
2001
Cool & Crazy
Knut Erik Jensen
Dragonflies
Marius Holst
Elling
Petter Næss
Lime
Nathilde Overrein Rapp
Mongoland
Arild Østin Ommundsen
The Greatest Thing
Thomas Robsahm
You Really Got Me
Pål Sletaune
Norsk Film AS
Motllys AS, 4 ½ , Final Cut
Maipo Film- og TV-produksjon
Norsk Film AS
Muz AS, Deadline Film, Tres Cojones
Norsk Film AS
4½
2002
All About my Father
Even Benestad
Exposed Film Productions AS
Coastal Life
Øyvind Sandberg
Øy-Film
Cool & Crazy Knut Erik Jensen
Barentsfilm AS
on the Road
Falling Sky
Gunnar Vikene
Motlys AS, Alligator Film, Final Cut
Hold my Heart
Trygve Allister Diesen Norsk Filmproduksjon AS
I am Dina
Ole Bornedal
Northern Lights AS,
Nordisk Film AS,
Felicia Film AB, Germini
Film & Televisjon, Mandarin
Film, Apollo media
Karlsson on the Roof Vibeke IdsøeFilmkameratene AS, AB Svensk Filmindustri
52 | feature films
Release: 29.09
24.11
26.08
18.02
30.10
25.09
01.09
28.01
13.08
Title:
Director:
Production company:
Music for Weddings Unni Straume Christiania Film AS
and Funerals
My Body
Margreth Olin
Speranza Film
Pelle the Police Car
Thomas Kaiser
Yellow Cottage AS
Scars
Lars Berg
Paradox AS
The Smile in the Eye Piotr KuzinskiFrameline Film AS
Utopia – Nobody is Martin Asphaug, Arild Motlys AS
perfect in the perfect Frølich, Sara Johnsen,
country
Magnus Martens,
Hans Petter Moland,
Terje Rangnes, Thomas
Robsahm, Ingebjørg
Torgersen, Morten Tyldum
Weightless
Sigve Endresen
Motlys AS
Welcome Home
Trond Kvist
Piraya Film
Release:
23.08
15.06
26.12
15.02
06.09
07.06
23.08
25.10
22.03
08.03
2003
7th Heaven
Bázo
Beast of Beauty
The Black Lapp
Buddy
Captain Sabertooth
Dark Woods
Destination Moscow
Disa Moves to Japan
Fia!
Gunnar Goes Comfortable
The Junior Olsen Gang goes Submarine
Jonny Vang
Kitchen Stories
The Man Who Loved Haugesund
Mother’s Elling
Play
United Wolf Summer
The Woman of My Life
Jens Lien
Maipo Film- & TV-produksjon14.02
Bent Hamer
BulBul Film AS
17.01
Jon Haukeland, Medieoperatørene
19.08
Tore Vollan
Eva Isaksen
Maipo Film- & TV-produksjon10.10
John Sullivan
Dinamo Story AS
25.07
Magnus Martens
4 ½ AS
20.08
Peder Norlund
Nordisk Film Production AS 28.02
Alexander EikFilmkameratene AS
24.09
27.09
2004
A Cry in the Woods
Arctic Cabaret
Beautiful Country
Erich Hörtnagl
Knut Erik Jensen
Hans Petter Moland
06.04
19.01
14.09
16.03
09.02
26.01
31.08
02.03
22.02
18.01
05.04
18.10
Steffan Strandberg
Exposed Film Production AS 21.02
Lars Göran PettersonFilbmagoahti AS
12.09
Hilde Heier
Paradox Produksjon
12.09
Erik Smith MeyerFilmfalken AS
11.04
Morten Tyldum
Happy Endings AS
29.08
Stig Bergqvist
Seven Seas Production
26.12
Pål Øie
Spleis AS
21.02
Jo Strømgren/
Nordisk Film Production AS 19.09
Runar Hodne
Benedicte M. Orvung Benedicte Orvung Film
23.06
Elsa Kvamme
Dinamo Story AS
24.10
Gunnar Hall Jensen
Agitator AS 31.10
Arne Lindtner Næss
Nordisk Film Production AS 06.02
Paradox Film AS
Barentsfilm AS
Dinamo Story AS
02.04
16.01
12.03
Title:
Director:
Production company:
Chlorox, Ammonia and Coffee
The Color of Milk
The Crossing
Hawaii, Oslo
Just Bea
Just Working
Little Grey Fergie – the Secret on the Farm
MonsterThursday
My Jealous Barber
Raw Youth
The Junior Olsen Gang Rocks It
This is the Song You Need
Tradra
Uno
Mona J. HoelFreedom from Fear
Release:
Title:
06.08
2006
The Art of Negative Bård Breien
Maipo Film- & TV-produksjon 03.11
Thinking
The Bothersome Man Jens Lien
Tordenfilm AS
26.05
Comrade Pedersen
Hans Petter Moland
Motlys AS
24.02
Cold Feet
Alexander Eik
You Are Here/Nordisk Film 27.10
Cold Prey
Roar UthaugFantefilm AS
13.10
Free Jimmy
Christopher Nielsen
Storm Studio 21.04
The Junior Olsen Arne Lindtner Næss
Nordisk Film
10.02
Gang at the Circus
Hearts
Øyvind Sandberg
Øy-Film AS
18.08
It’s Hard to be a Gunhild Asting
Speranza Film AS
01.09
Rock’n Roller
The Lion – Henrik Ibsen Alexander Wisting
Tellus Works
20.10
Long Flat Balls
Bjørn Fast Nagell
Zwart Arbeid AS
31.03
Maria’s Men
Vibeke Ringen
Maipo Film & 29.09
TV-produksjon AS
Miracle
Thomas Kaiser
Nordisk Film
26.12
Ole Bull
Aslak Aarhus
Visions AS
27.10
Prirechnyy
Tone Grøttjord
Motlys AS
15.06
Reprise
Joachim Trier
4 ½ AS
08.09
The Rich Country
Aslaug HolmFenris Film AS
27.01
Sons
Erik Richter Strand
Tordenfilm AS
14.09
Svein and the Rat
Maipo Film & 03.03
TV-produksjon AS
Trigger
Gunnar Vikene
Cinenord 11.08
Uro
Stefan Faldbakken Friland AS
08.09
Torun Lian
Painswick Film
27.08
Martin Asphaug
Dinamo Story AS
22.10
Erik Poppe
Paradox Film AS
24.09
Petter Næss
Maipo Film- & TV-produksjon23.01
Kjell Hammerø
Dreamfactory AS
23.01
Trond JacobsenFantasi-Fabrikken
24.09
Arild Østin Ommundsen
Annette Sjursen
Margreth Olin
Arne Lindtner Næss
Muz Film
15.10
Maipo Film- & TV-produksjon03.09
Speranza AS
19.11
Nordisk Film Production AS 06.02
Tore Rygh
Motlys AS
20.08
Karoline Frogner
Aksel Hennie
Integritet Film
Tordenfilm
12.03
10.09
2005
37 and a Half
Vibeke IdsøeFilmkameratene
28.01
100% Human
Trond Winterkjær/
Dalchows Verden
04.02
Jan Dalchow
An Enemy of the People Erik Skjoldbjærg
Nordisk Film & TV 21.01
Produksjon
Factotum
Bent Hamer
BulBul Film/Stark Sales
29.04
Finding Friends
Arne Lindtner Næss
Nordisk Film & TV 18.02
Produksjon
The Giant
Hallvard Bræin/ Paradox AS
02.09
Arne B. Rostad
Grandpa is a Raisin
Pjotr Sapegin
Kinopravda
11.03
Import – Export
Khalid HussainFilmhuset Produksjoner AS 09.09
Izzat
Ulrik Imtiaz RolfsenFilmkameratene AS
30.09
Kissed by Winter
Sara JohnsenFriland AS
11.02
Le Regard
Nour-Eddine LakhmariFilmhuset Produksjoner AS 18.03
Loop
Sjur Paulsen
Sub Productions
18.02
Love Me Tomorrow
Petter Næss
Maipo Film- & TV-produksjon 23.09
Next Door
Pål Sletaune
4 ½ AS
11.03
Pitbullterje
Arild Fröhlich
Paradox AS
04.11
The Professor and Dag Johan Haugerud Mikrofilm AS
10.06
the Story of the
Origami Girl
Sinus
Jeremy Robøle
Bastard Film
26.12
Tommy’s Inferno
Ove Raymond GyldenåsFriland AS
19.08
Too Much Norway
Rune Denstad Langlo/ Motlys AS
28.01
Sigve Endresen
Director:
Production company:
2007
5 Lies
Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Viafilm AS
Jacobsen
Elias and the Espen Fyksen/ Filmkameratene AS
Royal Yacht
Lise I. Osvoll
Girls
Hanne Myren
Medieoperatørene|
Gone with the Woman Petter Næss
Monster Film
The Junior Olsen Gang Arne Lindtner Næss
Nordisk Film
– The Silvermine
Mystery
Kill Buljo Tommy Wirkola
Yellow Bastard Productions
Man Woman Coffee
Carl Eugen JohannessenFilmkollektivet AS
Mars & Venus
Eva Dahr
Cinenord AS
Mirush
Marius Holst
4 ½ AS
Natural Born Star
Even BenestadFredrik Fiction AS
O’Horten
Bent Hamer
BulBul Film
On a Tightrope
Petr Lom
Piraya Film AS
Pining for the Fjords Are Syvertsen/ Incakola Productions
Jon Martin Førland
Porn Star?
John Sullivan
Navillus Film
Release:
17.08
23.02
02.02
07.09
02.02
23.03
09.11
14.02
02.03
26.10
26.12
30.03
09.03
27.04
feature films | 53
Title:
Director:
The Radio Pirates
Stig Svendsen
Second Half
Hilde Heier
Svein and the Rat and Vibeke Ringen
the UFO-Mystery
Switch
Ole Martin Hafsmo
The Ten Lives of Grethe Bøe
Titanic the Cat
USA vs Al-Arian
Line Halvorsen
Varg Veum Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen
– Bitter Flowers
Winterland
Hisham Zaman
Production company:
Release: Title:
4 ½ AS
Paradox AS
Maipo Film- og
TV-produksjon AS
Rubicon Film AS
Nordisk Film
14.09
19.01
09.03
26.10
31.10
Dalchows verden
SF Norge/Miso Film
23.02
21.09
4 ½ AS
19.01
2009
The Angel
Margreth Olin
Speranza AS
02.10
Dead Snow
Tommy Wirkola
Miho Film
09.01
Detour
Severin Eskeland
Exposed Film Prods AS
31.07
The Junior Olsen Gang Arne Lindtner Næss
Nordisk Film 30.01
and the Black Gold
Hidden
Pål Øie
Alligator Film
03.04
Hunting Down MemoryThomas Lien
Merkur Film Produksjon AS 20.02
Knerten
Åsleik Engmark
Paradox AS
16.10
Modern Slavery
Tina Davis and Speranza AS
23.04
Thomas Robsahm
Nemesis
Erlend E. Mo
Exposed Film Prods AS
13.03
North
Rune Denstad Langlo Motlys AS
06.02
The Orange Girl
Eva Dahr
Helgeland Film AS
22.02
ORPS – The Movie
Atle Knudsen
Monster Film AS
06.03
Rafiki
Christian LoFilmbin 30.10
Rat Nights
Arild Østin Ommundsen Paradox AS
04.09
The Storm in my Heart Pål Jackman
Kong Film AS
16.01
Together
Matias Armand Jordal Mirmar Production AS
23.01
Upperdog
Sara JohnsenFriland AS
18.09
Vegas
Gunnar Vikene
Cinenord Spillefilm 25.09
and Kong Film
Yatzy
Katja Eyde Jacobsen 4 ½ AS
20.03
2008
99% Honest
Rune Denstad Langlo Motlys AS
Big John
Håvard BustnesFaction Film AS
Cold Lunch
Eva Sørhaug
4 ½ AS
Cold Prey II
Mats StenbergFantefilm AS
Fallen Angels
Morten Tyldum
SF Norge and Miso Film
Fatso
Arild Fröhlich
Paradox Films AS
House of Fools
Eva Isaksen
Norsk filmproduksjon AS
Ice Kiss
Knut Erik JensenFilmhuset produksjoner AS
The Kautokeino Nils Gaup
Rubicon TV AS
Rebellion
Kurt Turns Evil
Rasmus Sivertsen
Nordisk Film and Qvisten Animation
The Last Joint Venture Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen
Maipo Film- og TV-produksjon AS
Long Flat Balls II
Harald Zwart Zwart Arbeid AS
The Man Who Loved Stian Kristiansen
Motlys AS
Yngve
Manhunt
Patrik SyversenFender Film AS
Max Manus
Espen Sandberg and Filmkameratene AS
Joachim Roenning
Night of the Wolf
Kjell Sundvall
Nordisk Film
Respect
Johannes Joner
Nordisk Film
SOS – Summer
Arne Lindtner Næss
Nordisk Film
of Suspense
Summers Past
Ole Giæver
4 ½ AS
Through a Glass, Darkly Jesper W. Nielsen
4 ½ AS
Troubled Water
Erik Poppe
Paradox AS
Trying Freedom
Thor Bekkavik
Indiefilm
54 | feature films
12.09
22.08
01.02
10.10
04.04
17.10
12.09
03.10
18.01
31.10
29.08
14.03
15.02
11.01
19.12
29.02
07.03
15.02
22.02
24.10
26.09
03.10
Director:
Production company:
Release: adresses
ASSOCIATIONS & INSTITUTIONS
Agicoa Norge
Dronningens gt 8 A
P.O. Box 629 Sentrum, N-0106 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 01 01 52
Fax: +47 23 01 01 11
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Tom G Eilertsen
Den norske filmskolen
The Norwegian Film School
N-2626 Lillehammer
Tel: +47 61 28 74 68
Fax: +47 61 28 81 10
Mail: [email protected]
www.hil.no/den_norske_filmskolen
Contact: Thomas Stendrup
Det kongelige kulturdepartement
Royal Ministry of Cultural Affairs
P.O. Box 8030 Dep, N-0030 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 24 90 90
Fax: +47 22 24 95 50
Mail: [email protected]
Det kongelige utenriksdepartement
Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs
P.O. Box 8114 Dep, N-0032 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 24 36 00
Fax: +47 22 24 95 80/81
Mail: [email protected]
FILM&KINO
National Association of Municipal
Cinemas
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152 Oslo
P.O. Box 446 Sentrum, N-0104 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 46 10
Fax: +47 22 47 46 99
Mail: [email protected]
www.kino.no
Contact: Lene Løken
Fond for lyd og bilde
Norsk kulturråd, Grev Wedels plass 1
P.O. Box 984 Sentrum, N-0151 N-Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 83 30
Fax: +47 22 33 40 42
Mail: [email protected]
www.fondforlydogbilde.no
Medietilsynet
Norwegian Media Authority
Nygata 4, N-1607 Fredrikstad
Tel: +47 69 30 12 00
Fax: +47 69 30 12 01
Mail: [email protected]
www.medietilsynet.no
Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo
Henrik Ibsensgt. 110
Box 2674 Solli
0203 Oslo
Tel: +47 810 01 300
Fax: +47 75 12 12 22
Mail: [email protected]
www.nb.no
Contact: Vigdis Moe Skarstein
Nasjonalbiblioteket, Rana
The Norwegian National Library, Rana
Sound and Image Archive/Media
Laboratory
Finsetveien 2, N-8624 Mo i Rana
Tel: +47 75 12 11 11
Fax: +47 75 12 12 22
Mail: [email protected]
www.nb.no
Contact: Lars Gaustad
Nordisk Film & TV-Fond
Nordic Film & TV-Fund
Wedel Jarlsbergsvei 36
P.O. Box 275, N-1319 Bekkestua
Tel: +47 64 00 60 80
Fax: +47 64 00 60 87
Mail: [email protected]
www.nordiskfilmogtvfond.com
Contact: Hanne Palmquist
Norsk Filmforbund
Norwegian Film Workers’ Association
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152
Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 46 40
Fax: +47 22 47 46 89
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmforbundet.no
Contact: Sverre Pedersen
Norsk filminstitutt
Norwegian Film Institute
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16
P.O. Box 482 Sentrum, N-0105 Oslo
Tel. switchboard: +47 22 47 45 00
International Department:
Tel: + 47 22 47 45 79
Fax: + 47 22 47 45 97
Mail: [email protected]
www.nfi.no/english
Norsk Filmklubbforbund
Norwegian Federation of Film Societies
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152
Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 46 80
Fax: +47 22 47 46 92
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmklubb.no
Contact: Jon Iversen
Norsk Filmkritikerlag
The Norwegian Filmcritic’s Association
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152
Oslo
Tel: +47 23 11 93 21
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmkritikerlaget.no
Contact: Dag Sødtholt
Norsk Filmvederlagsfond
Norwegian Film Foundation
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152
Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 46 40
Fax: +47 22 47 46 89
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmforbundet.no
Contact: Sverre Pedersen
Norsk Skuespillerforbund
Norwegian Actor’s Equity Association
Welhavensgt. 1, N-0166 Oslo
Tel: +47 21 02 71 90
Fax: +47 21 02 71 91
Mail: [email protected]
www.skuespillerforbund.no
Contact: Agnete Haaland
Norske Dramatikeres Forbund
Norwegian Playwrights’ Association
Rådhusgt. 7,
P.O. Box 579 Sentrum, N-0105 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 89 50
Fax: +47 22 42 03 56
Mail: [email protected]
www.dramatiker.no
Contact: Eva Sevaldson
Norske film- og TV produsenters
forening
Norwegian Film- and TV Producers’
Association
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16,
N-0152 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 11 93 11
Fax: +47 23 11 93 16
Mail: [email protected]
www.produsentforeningen.no
Contact: Leif Holst Jensen
Norske Filmbyråers Forening
Norwegian Film Distributors Association
Øvre Slottsgt. 12, N-0157 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 42 48 44
Fax: +47 22 42 30 93
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Kristin Hoenvoll
Norske filmregissører
Norwegian Film Director’s Guild
Filmparken, Wedel Jarlsbergs vei 36
P.O. Box 275, N-1319 Bekkestua
Tel: +47 67 52 51 58
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmdir.no
Contact: Lars Berg
Samisk filmforbund
Sami Film Workers’ Association
Ersfjordveien 32, N-9100 Kvaløysletta
Tel: +47 95 92 62 91
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Bjarne Store-Jakobsen
adresses | 55
DISTRIBUTORS
Actionfilm AS
Vålerenggata 47, N-0658 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 70 90 50
Fax: +47 22 70 90 55
Mail: [email protected]
www.actionfilm.no
Contact: Tore Erlandsen
Fidalgo Filmdistribusjon AS
Henrik Wergelandsgt. 52
P.O. Box 666, N-4666 Kristiansand
Tel: +47 38 02 40 04
Fax: +47 38 02 23 54
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmweb.no/fidalgo
Contact: Arild Frøyseth, Frank Stavik
Scanbox Entertainment Norway AS
Dronningensgt. 10-14, P.O. Box 1097
Sentrum, N-0104 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 39 62 62
Fax: +47 22 39 62 82
E-mail: [email protected]
www.scanbox.no
Contact: Jim Frazee
Arthaus
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152
Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 46 85
Fax: +47 22 47 46 92
Mail: [email protected]
www.arthaus.no
Contact: Svend B. Jensen
Filmoptimistene
Kringsjåvn. 25B, N-7032 Trondheim
Tel: +47 99 44 80 40
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmoptimistene.no
Contact: Ola Lund Renolen
SF Norge AS
Dronningensgt. 8 A
P.O. Box 639 Sentrum, N-0106 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 00 78 00
Fax: +47 22 00 78 01
Mail: [email protected], www.sfnorge.no
Contact: Guttorm Petterson
Corianderfilm AS
Georgernes Verft 12 USF
N-5011 Bergen
Tel: +47 55 90 01 09
Fax: +47 55 36 50 44
Mail: [email protected]
www.corianderfilm.no
Contact: Eli Stangeland
Euforia Film
Nedregate 5, N-0551 Oslo
Tel: +47 21 37 99 92
Fax: +47 24 20 05 01
Mail: [email protected]
www.euforia.no
Contact: Kjetil Omberg
Europafilm AS
Peder Claussøns gt 2
Postboks 6812 St. Olavs plass
N-0130 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 98 85 80
Fax : +47 22 98 85 81
E-post: [email protected]
www.europafilm.no
Contact: Egil Ødegård
Exposed Film AS
Møllergata 28, N-0179 Oslo
Tel: + 47 22 20 77 00
Fax: + 47 22 20 77 01
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Bjørn Eivind Aarskog
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Fox Film AS
Dronningensgate 8 A
P.O. Box 719 Sentrum, N-0106 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 00 78 00
Fax: +47 22 00 78 01
Mail: [email protected]
www.foxfilm.no
Contact: Bjørn Jacobsen
Tour de Force
Georgernes Verft 12, N-5011 Bergen
Tel: +47 55 30 08 40
Fax: +47 55 30 08 41
Mail: [email protected]
www.tourdeforce.no
Contact: Tor Fosse
Nordisk Filmdistribusjon
Sandakervn. 118
P.O. Box 4884 Nydalen, N-0422 Oslo
Tel: +47 21 54 47 00
Fax: +47 21 54 47 01
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmweb.no/nordiskfilm
Contact: Bjørn Hoenvoll
United International Pictures AS
Hegdehaugsvn. 27
P.O. Box 7134 Majorstuen, N-0307 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 85 37 37
Fax: +47 22 85 37 38
E-mail: [email protected]
www.uip.no
Contact: Liv Jacobsen
Oro Film AS
Øvre Vollgt. 6, N-0158 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 10 30 80
Fax: +47 23 10 30 99
Mail: [email protected]
www.orofilm.no
Contact: Pål Kreim
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Sjølyst plass 4, P.O. Box 456 Skøyen,
N-0213 Oslo
Tel: +47 24 11 73 50
Fax: +47 24 11 73 51
Mail: [email protected]
www.bvi.no
Contact: Inger Warendorph
Sandrew Metronome Norge AS
Stortorget 2, P.O. Box 753 Sentrum,
N-0106 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 35 82 00
Fax: +47 23 35 82 10
Mail: [email protected]
www.sandrewmetronome.no
Contact: Frida Ohrvik
FEATURE FILM PRODUCTION COMPANIES
4 1/2 AS
Krusesgt. 8, N-0263 Oslo
Tel: +47 40 00 63 28
Fax: +47 22 85 43 16
Mail: [email protected]
www.fourandahalf.no
Contact: Karin Julsrud
Agitator AS
Mediebygget, Bergenshus 13
N-5003 Bergen
Tel: +47 91 78 10 28
Mail: [email protected]
www.agitator.no
Contact: Elin Sander
Alligator AS
Georgernes Verft 12, N-5011 Bergen
Tel: +47 55 21 40 50
Fax: +47 55 21 40 55
Mail: [email protected]
www.alligator.no
Contact: Jan Aksel Angeltvedt
Barentsfilm AS
Welding Olsens v. 50, N-0694 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 28 06 70
Fax: +47 22 28 06 70
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Jan-Erik Gammleng
BulBul Film A/S
Høyåsvn. 24, N-3216 Sandefjord
Tel: +47 33 46 48 95
Fax: +47 33 46 48 95
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Bent Hamer
Cinenord AS
Akersbakken 33, N-0172 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 95 55 80
Fax: +47 22 95 55 81
Mail: [email protected]
www.cinenord.no
Contact: Silje Hopland Eik, Tanya Nanette
Badendyck
Dalchows verden
Møllergata 28, N-0179 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 20 47 00
Fax: +47 22 20 47 01
Mail: [email protected]
www.dalchowsverden.no
Contact: Jan Dalchow
Exposed Film Production AS
Møllergata 28, N-0179 Oslo
Tel: + 47 22 20 77 00
Fax: + 47 22 20 77 01
Mail: [email protected]
www.exposed.no
Contact: Bjørn Eivind Aarskog
Faction Film
Kjøpmannsgata 40, Box 2093
N-7411 Trondheim
Tel: +47 98 22 13 41
Mail: [email protected]
www.factionfilm.no
Contact: Håvard Bustnes
Fantefilm AS
Parkvn. 5, N-0350 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 59 39 00
Fax: +47 22 59 39 01
Mail: [email protected]
www.fantefilm.no
Contact: Martin Sundland
Fender Film AS
Konglevn. 18, N-0875 Oslo
Tel: +47 90 10 80 80
Mail: [email protected]
www.fenderfilm.no
Contact: Torleif Hauge
Fenris Film & TV Produksjon
Sagvn. 23A, N-0459 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 12 17 10
Fax: +47 23 12 17 11
Mail: [email protected]
www.fenrisfilm.com
Contact: Tore Buvarp
Ferdinand Films
Idunsgt. 1A, N-0178 Oslo
Tel: +47 97 04 43 11
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Ole Giæver
Filbmagoahti AS
P.O. Box 350, N-9521 Kautokeino
Tel: +47 78 48 66 66
Fax: +47 78 48 65 66
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Nils Thomas Utsi
Filmbin
Sliperivegen 2, N-2609 Lillehammer
Tel: +47 90 20 65 56
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmbin.no
Contacy: Trine Aadalen Lo
Helgeland Film AS
Øvre Storgt. 59, N-3018 Drammen
Tel: +47 32 89 17 90
Mail: [email protected]
www.helgeland-film.com
Contact: Axel Helgeland
Filmhuset AS
Peder Claussøns gt. 2
Box 6812 St. Olavs plass
N- 0130 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 98 85 80
Fax: +47 22 98 85 81
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmhuset.no
Contact: Egil Ødegård
Indiefilm
Ostadalsv. 35, N-0753 Oslo
Tel: +47 90 86 52 03
Fax: +47 22 73 44 03
Mail: [email protected]
www.indiefilm.no
Contact: Carsten Aanonsen
Filmkameratene AS
Dronningensgt. 8 A
P.O. Box 629 Sentrum, N-0106 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 35 53 00
Fax: +47 23 35 53 01
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: John M. Jacobsen
Folk Flest Filmproduksjon AS
Nedre Fløttenveg 5, N-2054 Mogreina
Tel: +47 67 40 25 02
Fax: +47 67 40 38 29
Mail: [email protected]
www.folkflestfilm.no
Contact: Ørjan Karlsen
Fredrik Fiction AS
Akershusstranda skur 35, N-0155 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 20 80 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.fredrikfiction.no
Contact: Fredrik Pryser
Friland AS
Torggt. 33, N-0183 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 17 47 00
Fax: +47 22 17 47 01
Mail: [email protected]
www.friland.biz
Contact: Asle Vatn, Christian Fredrik
Martin
Integritet Film
Thomas Heftyes gt. 54B
N-0267 Oslo
Tel. +47 22 82 24 35
Fax: +47 22 82 24 22
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Karoline Frogner
Kongfilm AS
Tollbodallmenningen 1B, N-5004 Bergen
Tel: +47 91 61 41 61
Fax: +47 53 51 80 81
Mail: [email protected]
www.kongfilm.no
Contact: Lars Erik Ørgersen
Maipo Film- og TV-Produksjon
Wedel Jarlsbergsvei 36,
P.O. Box 275, N-1319 Bekkestua
Tel: +47 67 52 51 90
Fax: +47 67 52 51 96
Mail: [email protected]
www.maipo.no
Contact: Synnøve Hørsdal
Medieoperatørene AS
Nedre Vaskegang 6, N-0186 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 99 31 20
Fax: +47 22 99 31 21
Mail: [email protected]
www.mop.no
Contact: Hanne Myren
Merkur Film Produksjon AS
Sofiesgt. 60, N-0168 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 59 15 40
Fax: +47 22 59 15 49
Mail: [email protected]
www.merkur.no
Contact: Petter Vennerød
Mirmar Film Production AS
Wedel Jarlsbergsvei 36
Nestoppen 21 B, N-1344 Haslum
Tel: +47 67 52 53 25
Fax: +47 67 52 53 24
Mail: [email protected]
www.mirmar.no
Contact: Tom Rysstad
Monster Film
Tullinsgt. 4C
P.O. Box 7143 St. Olavs Plass, N-0130
Oslo
Tell: +47 21 06 30 00
Fax: +47 21 06 30 01
Mail: [email protected]
www.monstersite.no
Contact: Olav Øen
Motlys A/S
Sagvn. 18, N-0459 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 80 83 70
Fax: +47 22 80 83 71
Mail: [email protected]
www.motlys.com
Contact: Sigve Endresen
Neofilm AS
Wedel Jarlsbergsvei 36
Box 272, N-1319 Bekkestua
Tel: +47 67 52 53 26
Mail: [email protected]
www.neofilm.no
Contact: Aage Aaberge
Nero Media AS
Hafrsfjordsgt. 5
N-0273 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 55 59 76
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Vibeke Løkkeberg, Terje
Kristiansen
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Nordisk Film & TV AS
Sandakervn. 118
P.O. Box 4884 Nydalen, N-0422 Oslo
Tel: +47 21 54 47 00
Fax: +47 21 54 48 10
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Stein Roger Bull
Norsk filmproduksjon AS
Wedel Jarlsbergsvei 36
P.O. Box 275, N-1319 Bekkestua
Tel: +47 67 52 54 20/21
Fax: +47 67 52 54 44
Mail: [email protected]
www.norskfilmproduksjon.no
Contact: Hilde Berg, Bent Rognlien
Original Film AS
Strandvn. 95, N-9006 Tromsø
Tel. +47 77 60 04 00
Fax: +47 77 60 04 20
Mail: [email protected]
www.originalfilm.no
Contact: Mona Steffensen
Orvung Film
Austtunleitet 1
N-4032 Stavanger
Tel: +47 92 40 03 43
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Tom Andre Edvindsen
Paradox Film A/S
Grønlandsleiret 25
N-0190 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 22 71 50
Fax: +47 23 22 71 51
Mail: [email protected]
www.paradox.no
Contact: Finn Gjerdrum
Penelope Film AS
Kongensgt. 4 B
P.O. Box 618, N-4665 Kristiansand
Tel: +47 38 17 70 50
Fax: +47 38 02 60 59
Mail: [email protected]
www.penelope.no, www.yohan.no
Contact: Odd Hynnekleiv
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Piraya Film AS - Bergen
Olav Kyrresgate 28
P.O. Box 926 Sentrum, N-5808 Bergen
Tel: + 47 55 32 55 10
Fax: +47 55 32 85 69
Mail: [email protected]
www.piraya.no
Contact: Stian Indrevoll
Tordenfilm AS
Sandakervn. 52, N-0477 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 38 90 00
Fax: +47 22 38 90 01
E-mail: [email protected]
www.tordenfilm.no
Contact. Eric Vogel, Kari Moen
Kristiansen
Qvisten Animation
Frimanns gt. 20, N-0165 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 20 97 40
Fax: +47 22 20 97 39
Mail: [email protected]
www.qvisten.no
Contact: Ove Heiborg
Videomaker AS
Maridalsvn. 87, N-0461 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 80 96 20
Fax: +47 22 89 96 21
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Kjell Eriksen
SF Norge AS
Dronningensgt. 8 A
P.O. Box 639 Sentrum, N-0106 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 00 78 00
Fax: +47 22 00 78 01
Mail: [email protected]
www.sfnorge.no
Contact: Gudnmy Hummelvoll
Speranza Film as
Waldemar Thranesgt. 84C, N-0175 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 04 48 30
Fax: +47 22 04 48 31
Mail: [email protected]
www.speranza.no
Contact: Margreth Olin
Storm Rosenberg AS
Maridalsvn. 87, N-0461 Oslo
Tel: +47 21 37 80 81
Mail: [email protected]
www.stormrosenberg.no
Contact: Jørgen Storm Rosenberg
Storm Studio
Nedre gate 5, N-0551 Oslo
Tel: +47 24 20 05 00
Fax: +47 24 20 05 01
Mail: [email protected]
www.stormstudio.no
Contact: Kristin Hellebust, Lars Andreas
Hellebust
Øy-Film
N-5915 Hjelmås
Tel: + 47 56 35 33 72
E-mail: [email protected]
Contact: Øyvind Sandberg
FESTIVALS
Bergen International Film Festival |
October
Georgernes Verft 12, N-5011 Bergen
Tel: +47 55 30 08 40
Fax: +47 55 30 08 41
E-mail: [email protected]
www.biff.no
Contact: Tor Fosse
Fredrikstad Animation Festival |
November
Kasernegt. 47, P.O. Box 1405, N-1602
Fredrikstad
Tel: +47 69 32 00 75
Fax: +47 69 32 00 77
E-mail: [email protected]
www.animationfestival.no
Contact: Trond Ola Mevassvik
Kosmorama | April
Trondheim International Film Festival
Prinsensgt. 2 B, N-7012 Trondheim
Tel: +47 73 19 89 70
Fax: +47 73 19 89 71
E-mail: [email protected]
www.kosmorama.no
Contact: Nina Steen
Kristiansand International Children’s
Film Festival | April
Kristiansand kino, P.O. Box 356, N-4663
Kristiansand
Tel +47 38 10 42 05
Fax: +47 38 10 42 01
Mail: [email protected]
www.kicff.no
Contact: Dankert Monrad-Krohn
Femmina International Film Festival |
October
Kjøpmannsgt. 51, N-7011 Trondheim
Tel: +47 98 63 00 60
Mail: [email protected]
www.femminafilm.no
Contact: Marit Bakken
Minimalen Short Film Festival | March
Filmhuset Rosendal, Innherredsveien 73
P.O. Box 1083 Lademoen, N-7446
Trondheim
Tel +47 73 52 27 57
Fax: +47 73 53 57 40
E-mail: [email protected]
www.minimalen.no
Contact: Per Fikse
Films from the South | October
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152
Oslo
Telephone +47 22 82 24 80/81
Fax: +47 22 82 24 89
E-mail: [email protected]
www.filmfrasor.no
Contact: Lasse Skagen
The Norwegian Documentary Film
Festival | April
Høgskulen i Volda, P.O. Box 500,
N-6101Volda
Tel: +47 40 48 46 36
E-mail: [email protected]
www.dokfilm.no
Contact: Åge Andre Breivik
The Norwegian International Film
Festival | August
Knut Knutsen O.A.S.gt. 4
P.O. Box 145, N-5501 Haugesund
Tel: +47 52 74 33 70
Fax: +47 52 74 33 71
E-mail: [email protected]
www.filmfestivalen.no
Contact: Gunnar Johan Løvvik, Håkon
Skogrand
The Norwegian Short Film Festival | June
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152
Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 46 46
Fax: +47 22 47 46 90
E-mail: [email protected]
www.kortfilmfestivalen.no
Contact: Torunn Nyen
Oslo International Film Festival |
November
Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 20 07 66
E-mail: [email protected]
www.oslofilmfestival.com
Contact: Tommy Lørdahl
Oslo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival | June
P.O. Box 954 Sentrum, N-0104 Oslo
Tel: +47 47 28 28 93
E-mail: [email protected]
www.oglff.org
Contact: Bård Ydén
Tromsø Internasjonale Filmfestival |
January
Tromsø International Film Festival
Storgata 93 B, P.O. Box 285, N-9253 Tromsø
Tel: +47 77 75 30 90
Fax: +47 77 75 30 99
E-mail: [email protected], www.tiff.no
Contact: Martha Otte
FILM COMMISSIONS
Film Commission Norway
Box 428 Sentrum, N-0105 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 45 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.norwegianfilm.com
Contact: Truls Kontny
Mid Nordic Film Commission
Box 964, N-7410 Trondheim
Tel: +47 91 58 98 98
Mail: [email protected]
www.midnordicfilm.com
Contact: Eskil Røkke
Western Norway Film Commission
Georgernes Verft 12, N-5011 Bergen
Tel: + 47 55 56 05 10
Fax: + 47 55 56 03 55
E-post: [email protected]
www.wnfc.no
Contact: Sigmund Elias Holm
MAGAZINES
FilmMagasinet AS
Gjerdrums vei 19
P.O. Box 5336 Majorstuen, N-0304 Oslo
Tel: +47 24 11 85 50
Fax: +47 24 11 85 04
E-mail: [email protected]
www.filmmagasinet.no
Contact: Einar Aarvig
Film & Kino
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16
P.O. Box 446 sentrum, N-0104 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 46 28
Fax: +47 22 47 46 98
E-mail: [email protected]
Contact: Geir Kamsvåg
Rush Print
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16
N-0152 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 46 43
Fax: +47 22 47 46 93
E-mail: [email protected]
www.rushprint.no
Contact: Kjetil Lismoen
Z Filmtidsskrift
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152
Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 46 80
Fax: +47 22 47 46 92
E-mail: [email protected]
www.znett.com
Contact: Ingrid Rommetveit
PUBLICITY
Kulturmeglerne A/S
Stortingsgt. 12, N-0164 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 40 59 90
Fax: +47 22 40 59 96
E-mail: [email protected]
www.kulturmeglerne.no
Contact: Svanhild Sørensen
ACTOR’S AGENTS
Actors Agent Norge AS
Kongens gate 15, N-0153 Oslo
Tel: +47 92 40 83 13
Fax: +47 22 42 18 55
Mail: [email protected]
www.actorsagent.no
Contact: Christina A. Ulrichsen
Hobbart & Hobbart AS
Munkedamsveien 35
PB 2048 Vika, N-0250 Oslo
Tel: +47 46 55 27
Mail: [email protected]
www.hobbart.no
Contact: Martin Braathen
REGIONAL FILM FUNDS
Film3 AS
Fabrikken
Løkkegata 9, N-2615 Lillehammer
Tel: + 47 92 80 52 50
Mail: [email protected], www.film3.no
Contact: Inge Tenvik
FilmCamp AS
Postboks 144, N-9335 Øverbygd
Tel + 47 77 83 35 00
e-mail: [email protected]
www.filmcamp.no
Comtact: Svein Andersen
Filmfondet FUZZ AS
Georgernes verft 12, N-5011 Bergen
Tel: + 47 55 62 63 93
Fax: + 47 55 62 63 39
Mail: [email protected]
www.fuzz.no
Contact: Lars L. Marøy
Filmkraft Rogaland AS
Rogaland Fylkeskommune
P.O. Box 130, N-4001 Stavanger
Tel: +47 51 51 69 72
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmkraft.no
Contact: Hans Erik Voktor, Sjur Paulsen
Midtnorsk Film Fund
Box 964 Sentrum, N- 7410 Trondheim
Tel: +47 41 60 18 88
Mail: [email protected]
www.midtnorskfilm.no
Contact: Stig Bech
Midtnorsk Filmsenter AS
P.O. Box 964 Sentrum, N-7410
Trondheim
Tel: +47 73 51 55 50
Mail: [email protected]
www.midtnorskfilm.no
Contact: Solvor Amdal
Nordnorsk Filmsenter A/S
Øvergata 1
P.O. Box 94, N-9751 Honningsvåg
Tel: +47 78 47 64 00
Fax: +47 78 47 64 10
E-mail: [email protected]
www.nnfs.no
Contact: Hans Eirik Voktor
Sørnorsk Filmsenter
Box 112, N-4662 Kristiansand
Tel: +47 38 02 68 80
Mail: [email protected]
www.sornorskfilm.no
Contact: Åse Meyer
Vestnorsk Filmsenter
Western Norwegian Film Centre
Georgernes Verft 12, N-5011 Bergen
Tel: +47 55 56 09 05
Fax: +47 55 56 03 55
Mail: [email protected]
www.vestnorskfilm.no
Contact. Irmelin Nordahl
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TECHNICAL FACILITIES
Chimney Pot
Drammensvn. 130, N-0277 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 13 51 70
Fax: +47 22 13 51 71
Mail: [email protected]
www.chimney.no
Contact: Martin Thorkildsen
Norsk Filmstudio AS
Wedel Jarlsbergsvei 36
P.O. Box 272, N-1319 Bekkestua
Tel: +47 67 52 54 00
Fax: +47 67 52 54 11
Mail: [email protected]
www.norskfilmstudio.no
Contact: Knud Bjørne-Larsen
Drylab
Drammensvn. 130, N-0277 Oslo
Tel: +47 24 11 62 00
Fax: +47 22 13 51 71
Mail: [email protected]
www.drylab.no
Contact: Morten Nagel
Novio
Nes terrasse 45, N-1394 Nesbru
Tel: +47 66 77 81 80
Fax: +47 66 98 15 55
Mail: [email protected]
www.novio.no
Contact: Michael Simonsen
Digital Video Norge AS
Sagvn. 23 F, N-0459 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 71 03 93
Fax: 98 99 11 84
Mail: [email protected]
www.dvnor.no
Contact: Arild Hansen
Royal Filmservice A/S
Hedmarksgt. 15, N-0658 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 68 51 40
Fax: +47 22 19 73 93
Contact: Dag Petersen
Eurolab
Gladengvn.14, N-0661 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 12 22 50
Fax: +47 23 12 22 51
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Ellen Tobiassen
Medieparken AS
K. G. Meldalsvei 9
P.O. Box 908, N-1670 Kråkerøy
Tel: + 47 99 56 06 06
Mail: [email protected]
www.medieparken.no
Contact: Stein Georg Lillemoen
Nordisk Film Post Production AS
Gullhaugvn. 12
P.O. Box 4264 Nydalen, N-0401 Oslo
Tel: +47 92 89 81 00
Fax: +47 22 95 12 70
Mail: [email protected]
www.nordiskfilm-postproduction.com
Contact: Espen Skjetne, Åge Paulsen
60 | adresses
Soundfactory AS
Riddervoldsgt. 10, N-0258 Oslo
Tel: +47 47 22 54 33 20
Fax: +47 22 54 33 51
Mail: [email protected]
www.soundfactory.no
Zone 5 studios AS
Enebakkvn. 69, N-0192 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 19 48 40
Fax: +47 22 19 49 41
Mail: [email protected]
www.zone5studios.no
TELEVISION BROADCASTERS
Canal +
C More Entertainment
P.O. Box 80 Bryn, N-0611 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 93 93 33
Fax: +47 22 65 72 52
www.canalplus.no
NRK
Norwegian Broadcasting Corp. N-0340 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 04 70 00/
Drama department: +47 23 04 89 22
Fax: +47 23 04 74 35
Contact: Hans Rossiné
TV 1000 Norge A/S
Hammersborg Torg 1
P.O. Box 8864 Youngstorget, N-0028
Oslo
Tel: +47 22 99 01 30
Fax: +47 22 99 01 35
TV 2 A/S
Nøstegaten 72
P.O. Box 7222, N-5020 Bergen
Tel: +47 55 90 80 70
Fax: +47 55 90 80 90
and:
Karl Johansgt. 14
P.O. Box 2 Sentrum, N-0101 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 31 47 00
Fax: +47 22 31 47 01
TV3 A/S
Hammersborg Torg 1, N-0179 Oslo
P.O. Box TV3 Youngstorget, N-0028 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 99 00 33
Fax: +47 22 99 00 19
TVNorge A/S
Biskop Gunnerusgt. 6, N-0155 Oslo
Tel: +47 21 02 20 00
Fax: +47 22 05 10 00
PRINCIPAL CINEMAS
Aurora kino Fokus
Grønnegata 100, N-9299 Tromsø
Tel: +47 77 75 63 00
Fax: +47 77 75 63 01
E-mail: [email protected]
www.aurorakino.no
Contact: Geir Martin Jensen
Bergen Kino
Neumannsgt. 4
P.O.Box 6153 Postterminalen, N-5892
Bergen
Tel: +47 55 56 90 50
Fax: +47 55 56 90 56
E-mail: [email protected]
www.bergenkino.no
Contact: Stein Sandvik
Edda Kino, Haugesund
P.O. Box 488, N-5501 Haugesund
Tel: +47 52 71 90 07
Fax: +47 52 71 90 00
E-mail: grethe.grinde@haugesund.
kommune.no
www.edda-kino.no
Contact: Grete Grinde
Fredrikstad Kino
P.O. Box 1405, N-1602 Fredrikstad
Tel: +47 69 30 60 70
E-mail: [email protected]
www.fredrikstadkino.no
Contact: Olav Kjeldsen
Kino 1, Stavanger
Sølvberggt. 2, P.O. Box 194, N-4001
Stavanger
Tel: +47 51 51 07 00
Fax: +47 51 51 07 01
E-mail: [email protected]
www.kino1-stavanger.no
Contact: Frode Nilsen
Kristiansand Kino
P.O. Box 356, N-4663 Kristiansand
Tel: +47 38 10 42 00
Fax: +47 38 10 42 01
E-mail: [email protected]
www.krskino.no
Contact: Petter Benestad
Oslo Kino AS
Roald Amundsensgt. 6, P.O. Box 1584
Vika, N-0118 Oslo
Tel: +47 99 43 20 00
Fax: +47 22 42 48 80
E-mail: [email protected]
www.oslokino.no
Contact: Geir Bergkastet
Trondheim Kino
Prinsensgt. 2 B, N-7012 Trondheim
Tel: +47 73 80 88 00
Fax: +47 73 80 88 01
Mail: [email protected]
www.trondheimkino.no
Contact: Egil Akselsen