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 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 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 36 37 38 39 40 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 IN PRODUCTION Fritt vilt III Knerten gifter seg 51 NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2000 – 2009 ADRESSES 52 55 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 feature films | 3 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? 4 | feature films 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. feature films | 5 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. 6 | feature films 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. feature films | 7 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. 8 | feature films 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. feature films | 9 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. 10 | feature films 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. feature films | 11 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. 12 | feature films 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. feature films | 13 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. 14 | feature films 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. feature films | 15 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. 16 | feature films 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. feature films | 17 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. 18 | feature films 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. feature films | 19 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. 20 | feature films 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 feature films | 21 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. 22 | feature films 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. feature films | 23 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. 24 | feature films 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! feature films | 25 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. 26 | feature films 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. feature films | 27 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. 28 | feature films 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. feature films | 29 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. 30 | feature films 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. feature films | 31 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. 32 | feature films 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. feature films | 33 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. 34 | feature films 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. feature films | 35 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. 36 | feature films 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. feature films | 37 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. 38 | feature films 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. feature films | 39 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. 40 | feature films norwegian films | documentary films feature films | 41 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. 42 | documentary films 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. documentary films | 43 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). 44 | documentary films 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. documentary films | 45 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. 46 | documentary films 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. documentary films | 47 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. 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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 56 | adresses 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. 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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. 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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 adresses | 57 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 58 | adresses 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. 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