our feature films 2014 catalogue.
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our feature films 2014 catalogue.
NORWEGIAN FILMS FEATURES 2014 Family adventures > Adapted classics > Masters return FRONT COVER 1001 GRAM / BulBul Film Director: Bent Hamer Photographer: John Christian Rosenlund D STINE OPPEGAARD Head of International Relations, feature films Cell: +47 908 59 638 Mail: so@nfi.no ASTRI DEHLI BLINDHEIM Head of Cultural Events Cell: +47 930 44 687 Mail: adb@nfi.no KNUT SKINNARMO Senior Advisor, International Relations feature films Mail: ks@nfi.no FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 RETURN OF THE MASTERS COULD BE A COINCIDENCE, but while Norway was last year marking the 100th anniversary of Norwegian animation, Norwegian director Rasmus A. Sivertsen’s fully-animated The Christmas of Solan and Ludvig became No. 1 on the 2013 charts, taking 854,395 admissions and supporting the 22.8% local market share. NORWEGIANS LIKE ADVENTURE for the whole family, and there is plenty in this year’s line-up, for instance when Captain Sabertooth – Norwegian singer-songwriter Terje Formoe’s 1989 pirate figure – is eying a new heist in Lisa Marie Gamlem and John Andreas Andersen’s Captain Sabertooth and the Lama Rama Treasure. IT IS DESTINED TO BECOME a blockbuster, most likely in the company of Arild Fröhlich’s adaption of Norwegian author Jo Nesbø’s children’s book Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder, not to mention Peter Flinth’s Beatles, taking Norwegian author Lars Saabye Christensen’s coming-of-age story from the 1960s to the screen. Having celebrated her 75th birthday, Norway’s leading international actress-director Liv Ullmann is ready with an English-language film from August Strindberg’s Miss Julie. Another screen veteran, Hans Petter Moland, has also worked with an international cast – Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz – for his 11th movie, the action comedy In Order of Disappearance, which will compete in Berlin. In 1001 Gram Bent Hamer, whose films have been launched in more than 40 countries, sends a woman scientist to a seminar in Paris discussing the actual weight of a kilo. A DIRECTOR GRADUATE from La Fémis in Paris, Eskil Vogt is best known for writing scripts with Joachim Trier – now he has signed his feature debut, Blind, which has been selected for both Sundance and Berlin. BOBBIE PEERS – Palme d’Or winner in Cannes for his short, Sniffer – has made his first feature, Dirk Ohm–The Illusionist, based on a real-life event. After their 2013 premieres, Erik Poppe and Erik Skjoldbjærg have also found subjects in history for their new films, Poppe’s The King’s Choice is a World War II drama, Skjoldbjærg’s Pyromaniac about an arsonist in the late 1970s. Sindre Guldvog CEO, Norwegian Film Institute Stine Helgeland Executive Director, Promotion and International Relations 3 CONTENTS Preface 3 Here is Harold 29 6 Hocus Pocus, Alfie Atkins! 30 1001 Gram 7 The Hunt for Berlusconi 31 A Thousand Times Good Night 8 I am Yours 32 All Kinds of Love 9 The Immoral 33 Amnesia 10 In Order of Disappearance 34 Beatles 11 It's Only Make Believe 35 Before Snowfall 12 Kick It 36 Blind 13 Kill Buljo 2 37 Børning 14 Kiss Me, You Fucking Moron! 38 Captain Sabertooth and the Lama Rama Treasure 15 Letter to the King 39 Casper and Emma – Best Friends 16 Love Me 40 Casper and Emma's Christmas 17 Miss Julie 41 Casper and Emma's Winter Vacation 18 Must Have Been Love 42 Chasing the Wind 19 One Night in Oslo 43 The Christmas of Solan and Ludvig 20 Operation Arctic 44 Crack, Back and Sack 21 Out of Nature 45 Dead Snow: Red vs Dead 22 Permafrost 46 Detective Downs 23 Pioneer 47 Dirk Ohm – The Illusionist Who Disappeared 24 Ploddy the Police Car on the Case 48 Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder 25 Ragnarok 49 Glass Dolls 26 The Sleepwalker 50 Granny & the Kids 27 The Tough Guys 51 Heart of Lightness 28 Veil of Twilight 52 > FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 4 53 Dukhtar – Neither the Veil nor the Four Walls 65 > IN PRODUCTIONS Victoria 54 Easy Money – Life deluxe 65 All the Beauty 55 Everything will be Fine 66 Casper and Emma on Safari 55 Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere 66 Doktor Proktors tidsbadekar 56 Gentlemen 66 Eye for an Eye 56 The German Doctor 67 Homesick 57 Hedi Schneider is Stuck 67 Julekongen 57 The Heirs 67 The King’s Choice 58 JerryMaya's Detective Agency – Von Broms' Secret 68 Knutsen & Ludvigsen 58 Lonelyland 68 The Last King 59 Nobody Owns Me 68 The Lion Woman 59 Palestine Stereo 69 Pyromaniac 60 Richard the Stork 69 Solan & Ludvig – Herfra til Flåklypa 60 The Serious Game 69 Staying Alive 61 The Shamer's Daughter 70 Things we won't do for Love 61 The Swimmer 70 Wait Blink 62 Tommy 70 The Wave 62 The Tourist 71 63 Two Lives 71 A Pigeon on a Branch Reflecting on Existence 64 Yvy Maraey 71 Algiers by Night 64 August Fools 64 Deshora 65 > CO-PRODUCTIONS > NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2004 – 2013 > NORWEGIAN CINEMA INSTITUTIONS Adresses 72 80 83 5 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 6 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 1001 GRAM 1001 GRAM 90 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 Bent Hamer SCREENPLAY Bent Hamer DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY John Christian Rosenlund PRODUCER Bent Hamer for BulBul Film CAST Ane Dahl Torp, Laurent Stocker, Stein Winge, Per Christian Ellefsen, Hildegunn Riise, Christian Erickson, Peter Hudson, Dinara Droukarova RELEASE DATE August 22, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Norsk filmdistribusjon AS SALES Les Films du Losange DRAMA DIRECTOR When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale. Finally Marie is forced to come to terms with how much a human life truly weighs and which measurements she intends to live by. Director, writer, producer and owner of the film production company BulBul Film, BENT HAMER was born in Sandefjord, Norway. He completed his education in Film Theory and Literature at the University of Stockholm and in film making at Stockholms Filmskola. His latest feature film Home for Christmas (2010) had its international premiere in Toronto, while O’Horten (2007) had its international premiere in “Un Certain Regard” in Cannes 2008. Bent’s feature films also include Factotum (2005), Kitchen Stories (2003) and Eggs (1995) which all had their international premiere at the “Director’s Fortnight” in Cannes. Bent’s films have been distributed in more than 40 countries. 7 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT TUSEN GANGER GOD NATT 117 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 Erik Poppe SCREENPLAY Harald Rosenløw Eeg DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY John Christian Rosenlund PRODUCERS Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae for Paradox Rettigheter AS CAST Juliette Binoche, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Larry Mullen jr., Mads Ousdal RELEASE DATE October 18, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Euforia Film SALES Global Screen DRAMA DIRECTOR Rebecca is one of the world’s top war photographers. On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, she gets too near, and gets badly hurt. Back home another bomb drops. Her husband and daughters can no longer bear the thought of her dying while at work. She is given an ultimatum: Her work, or her family life. The choice seems obvious. ERIK POPPE has won a number of awards for his feature films, including several Critics’ Awards for Best Film at various international festivals. He studied at the University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre in Stockholm. Prior to making feature films he directed commercials, short- and documentary films and worked as Director of Photography on Bent Hamer’s first feature film, Eggs (1995). He was named Scandinavian Director of the Year in 1994. He has directed the feature films Schpaa (1998), Hawaii, Oslo (2004) and Troubled Water (2008). 8 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 ALL KINDS OF LOVE TA MEG MED 100 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 Per-Olav Sørensen SCREENPLAY Per-Olav Sørensen based on songs by Jan Eggum and Halvdan Sivertsen DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Øystein Essén Lundstrøm PRODUCER Håkon Briseid for Monster Scripted CAST Marion Ravn, Frank Kjosås, Haddy Njie, Magnus Grønneberg, Kjersti Elvik RELEASE DATE March 7, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR SF Norge AS SALES TBA MUSICAL DIRECTOR The road to real love may prove unpredictable and painful. Sometimes only singer/songwriters like Jan Eggum and Halvdan Sivertsen are able to find the words to express the yearning, love and passion at work. With their evergreen songs, cinema musical All Kinds of Love is a romantic story about five lonely people in a quiet apartment building in Oslo. One day it turns out these neighbours have been harbouring passion for each other for years. Once the silence is broken, sweet panic breaks loose, and before the last summer night is over, the neighbours realize that five is one person too many. Director, dramatist, screenplay writer and producer PER-OLAV SØRENSEN has long experience in the fields of both film, TV, and theatre. He has directed TV series like The Half Brother, Six Like Us, The Honey Trap, Ali Reza and the Rezas, and the feature film People in the Sun. Several of his stage productions have had international success (TanGhost and KOM!), and have been staged at several international venues. During the autumn/winter of 2013/2014, he is shooting the new epic TV-series The Battle for Heavy Water. 9 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 AMNESIA AMNESIA 74 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO Nini Bull Robsahm SCREENPLAY Nini Bull Robsahm DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Axel Mustad and Håvard Byrkjeland PRODUCERS Kjetil Omberg and Terje Strømstad for Tappeluft Pictures CAST Pia Tjelta, Christian Rubeck RELEASE DATE January 10, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Actionfilm AS SALES TBA PSYCOLOGICAL THRILLER DIRECTOR NINI BULL ROBSAHM is a writer and was assistant director for Manhunt (2008) and You Said What! (2011). Amnesia is her debut as director. 10 The writers couple Kathrine and Thomas travel together to a west coast island for a weekend. Their intention is to relax, and the plan is for Kathrine to finish writing her book. Thomas who would like to have children, throws away Kathrine’s contraceptive pills which leads to a fierce quarrel in which Thomas’ violent and psychotic tendencies surface. It all ends in a physical fight in which Thomas falls and loses consciousness. When Thomas wakes up the next day and does not remember who he is, Kathrine jumps at the opportunity. Suddenly Thomas is no longer the person he had become – he is the man she got to know as they met for the first time. Will they get a new chance? But does Thomas really not recall anything – and what will happen to Kathrine if his memory returns? FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 BEATLES BEATLES 120 MIN COLOUR DCP 4K STEREO 5.1 Peter Flinth SCREENPLAY Axel Hellstenius based on the novel “Beatles” by Lars Saabye Christensen DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Philippe Kress PRODUCER Jørgen Storm Rosenberg for Storm Rosenberg CAST Ole Nicolai Myrvold Jørgensen, Halvor Tangen Schultz, Håvard Jackwitz, Louis Williams, Peter Gantzler, Jonathan Chedeville, Susanne Boucher, Karoline Petronella Ulfsdatter Schau, Tomas Borg Henriksen, Halvor Tangen Schultz RELEASE DATE August 28, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR SF Norge AS SALES TBA DRAMA DIRECTOR Beatles is the ultimate coming-of-age story. Four teenage boys are growing up in Oslo at the time when Beatlemania hits Norway. Kim, Gunnar, Ola and Seb each take on one of the Fab Four’s names, and they plan to start their own outfit, The Snafus. Like many teenage dreams, this one never comes to fruition, but the need to save up for instruments becomes the drive behind much of what they do as they blunder through their formative years, struggling with archaic textbooks and ancient teachers, discovering girls, being beaten up by rival gangs, experimenting with alcohol, and finding their footing as activists. PETER FLINTH graduated from the Danish Film School together with fellow director students Per Fly, Thomas Vinterberg, Ole Christian Madsen and Maria Sødahl. Director of short films, feature films, TV movies and commercials. First feature was the medieval action adventure Eye of the Eagle starring Norwegian actor Bjorn Floberg. Followed by the family adventures The Olsen Gang Jr. and The Fakir. Changed genre and location for the next movies, the thrillers Wallander and Bengtzon in Sweden – and the two-picture epic based on Jan Guillou’s best-selling novels about the medieval Knight Templar Arn. Beatles is Peter Flinth’s first movie in Norway. 11 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 BEFORE SNOWFALL FØR SNØEN FALLER 96 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 Hisham Zaman SCREENPLAY Kjell Ola Dahl and Hisham Zaman DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Marius Matzow Gulbrandsen PRODUCERS Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae for Paradox Rettigheter AS CAST Taher Abdullah Taher, Suzan Ilir, Bahar Ôzen, Nazmi Kirik, Zuirek Birol, Kirik Ahmed, Ünel Billey Demirtas, Mouafaq Rushdie RELEASE DATE January 15, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Scanbox Entertainment SALES New Morning Films DRAMA DIRECTOR Before Snowfall is an untraditional road movie about family, love, dignity and honor. Siyar is the eldest man in the family. When his sister escapes from her own wedding, he’s given the task to track her down and restore the family’s reputation. HISHAM ZAMAN (1975), graduated from The Norwegian Film School at Lillehammer in 2004. Arguably his breakthrough short film, Bawke (2005) became a hit on the international festival circuit, and has received more than 40 national and international awards. In 2007 he directed the comedic drama Winterland (2007), a warm and humorous diaspora-story about a Kurdish refugee settled in a godforsaken spot in Northern Norway, and his new wife recently arrived from their home country. In 2014 he will release his second feature film Letter to the King. 12 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 BLIND BLIND 96 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 Eskil Vogt SCREENPLAY Eskil Vogt DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Thimios Bakatakis PRODUCERS Hans-Jørgen Osnes and Sigve Endresen for Motlys AS CAST Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Vera Vitali, Marius Kolbenstvedt RELEASE DATE February 28, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Norsk filmdistribusjon AS SALES Versatile DRAMA DIRECTOR Having recently lost her sight, Ingrid retreats to the safety of her home – a place where she can feel in control, alone with her husband and her own thoughts. But Ingrid’s real problems lie within, not beyond the walls of her apartment, and her deepest fears and repressed fantasies soon take over. ESKIL VOGT (1974) is a directing graduate from La Fémis in Paris. He has directed several award-winning shorts, including An Embrace nominated for a European Film Award in 2003. Vogt has also had a successful screenwriting career, working with Joachim Trier on many films, including the features Reprise (2006) and Oslo, August 31st (2011, official selection in Cannes). Vogt’s most recent work as a director was for the groundbreaking, darkly comic and award-winning Norwegian TV-series Out in Our Garden. 13 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 BØRNING BØRNING TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 Hallvard Bræin SCREENPLAY Christopher Grøndahl and Linn-Jeanette Kyed DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Askild Vik Edvardsen PRODUCERS John M. Jacobsen and Sveinung Golimo for Filmkameratene AS CAST Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Ida Husøy, Trond Halbo, Otto Jespersen, Sven Nordin, Oskar Lundevold, Henrik Mestad, Jenny Skavlan RELEASE DATE August 13, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR SF Norge AS SALES AB Svensk Filmindustri DRAMA DIRECTOR For all those who remember The Cannonball Run, here is a modern twist on the subject. The longest, wildest and funniest car race, ever. From Oslo to the North Cape. The only rule is getting there first! HALLVARD BRÆIN has worked in the film business since 1985. Between 1995 and 1997, he studied at The American Film Institute. Beside his studies, he had internships on films like The Big Lebowski, Escape from L.A., and The Ice Storm. After his stay in the US, Hallvard Bræin has photographed and directed films. As director, he has made the cinema documentaries The Giant, Håkon Bleken, Painter, and Peer Gynt from the Streets. Børning is his debut as feature film director. 14 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 CAPTAIN SABERTOOTH AND THE LAMA RAMA TREASURE KAPTEIN SABELTANN OG SKATTEN I LAMA RAMA FAMILY FILM TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 DIRECTORS Lisa Marie Gamlem and John Andreas Andersen SCREENPLAY Lars Gudmestad DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY John Andreas Andersen PRODUCERS Fredrick Howard, Lars Hellebust and Fredrik Støbakk for Storm Films and Gudny Hummelvoll for Hummelfilm CAST Kyrre Haugen Sydness, Odd-Magnus Williamson, Vinjar Pettersen, Pia Tjelta, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Jon Øigarden, Sofie Bjerke, Tuva Novotny RELEASE DATE September 26, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR The Walt Disney Company Nordic SALES TBA Captain Sabertooth’s world sets the stage for stormy and magnificent adventures, in which the children demonstrate courage, shrewdness and vigour in their battle against evil. The audience will enter the pirate vessel The Black Lady and join the youngster Tiny and his girlfriend Raven on an adventurous voyage from the pirate alleys in Abra Harbour to the colourful and exotic Lama Rama. Together with Captain Sabertooth and his crew, they brave towering waves and travel through deep jungles in their search for King Rufus fabled treasure. The film is a thrilling story, in which we follow a young boy in tireless search for the truth about his missing father. This voyage evolves into an adventure which will change Tiny’s life forever. Captain Sabertooth and the Lama Rama Treasure will be a magnificent and humorous live action feature film for the whole family. LISA MARIE GAMLEM (1975) graduated as a director from the Norwegian Film School in June 2004. Her short film Cold (2011) was nominated for the Palme d’Or for Best Short Film in Cannes in 2011. She premiered her first feature film Granny & the Kids in 2013. JOHN ANDREAS ANDERSEN (1971) is one of Norway’s most used cinematographers. He made his directorial debut on the award-winning feature film Uno from 2004, co-directing with Aksel Hennie. 15 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 CASPER AND EMMA – BEST FRIENDS KARSTEN OG PETRA BLIR BESTEVENNER 74 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 Arne Lindtner Næss SCREENPLAY Line Fougner Christensen based on “Karsten og Petra” by Tor Åge Bringsværd and Anne G. Holt DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Daniel Gáras PRODUCERS Silje Hopland Eik and Tanya Badendyck for Cinenord Kidstory AS CAST Elias Søvold-Simonsen, Nora Amundsen, Thorbjørn Harr, Janne Formoe, Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen, Ivar Nørve, Hilde Lyrån, Markus Tønseth, Caren Remøy, Anna Celine Bredal RELEASE DATE February 15, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR SF Norge AS SALES AB Svensk Filmindustri CHILDREN FILM DIRECTOR has worked with all the Junior Olsen Gang films as well as the tv-series and films about Casper and Emma. In 2005, he directed Finding Friends, in 2008 SOS – Summer of Suspense and in 2011 Magic Silver 2. He is also a stage director and screenplay writer for tele vision series. ARNE LINDTNER NÆSS 16 In the film Casper and Emma – Best Friends, we meet Emma about to celebrate her fifth birthday. What she wants most of all is a dog. But Petra’s mum, who is a vet, says that one must be a little older to take care of a dog. Casper dreads to start a new daycare. But when he arrives in the kindergarden, he meets Emma. She also has a stuffed animal that comes alive, and from that day Casper and Emma are best friends. Casper is there when Emma meets the old and very cute dog, Bassa, for the first time. Petra falls in love with Bassa and wants to take her home immediately. Emma loses Miss Rabit on a visit to the firehouse with the kindergarden, and she believes that nothing can make her happy again. But on her birthday, Emma doesn’t only get one great surprise, she gets two! FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 CASPER AND EMMA’S CHRISTMAS KARSTEN OG PETRAS JULEFERIE 73 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K SDDS Arne Lindtner Næss SCREENPLAY Alexander Eik based on Tor Åge Bringsværd and Anne G. Holt’s universe DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Daniel Gáras PRODUCERS Silje Hopland Eik and Tanya Badendyck for Cinenord Kidstory AS CAST Elias Søvold-Simonsen, Nora Amundsen, Ivar Nørve, Sigrun Enge, Janne Formoe, Anna Celine Bredal, Hilde Lyrån, Markus Tønseth RELEASE DATE November 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR SF Norge AS SALES AB Svensk Filmindustri CHILDREN FILM DIRECTOR Karsten and Petra are looking forward to Christmas! But will Santa Claus visit Petra this year, or will he leave the presents outside her door, like he usually does...? has worked with all the Junior Olsen Gang films as well as the tv-series and films about Casper and Emma. In 2005, he directed Finding Friends, in 2008 SOS – Summer of Suspense and in 2011 Magic Silver 2. He is also a stage director and screenplay writer for tele vision series. ARNE LINDTNER NÆSS 17 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 CASPER AND EMMA’S WINTER VACATION KARSTEN OG PETRA PÅ VINTERFERIE 73 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K SDDS Arne Lindtner Næss SCREENPLAY Alexander Eik based on Tor Åge Bringsværd and Anne G. Holt’s universe DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Daniel Gáras PRODUCERS Silje Hopland Eik and Tanya Badendyck for Cinenord Kidstory AS CAST Elias Søvold-Simonsen, Nora Amundsen, Ivar Nørve, Sigrun Enge, Janne Formoe, Anna Celine Bredal, Hilde Lyrån, Markus Tønseth RELEASE DATE January 24, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR SF Norge AS SALES AB Svensk Filmindustri CHILDREN FILM DIRECTOR Casper is looking forward to the Winter Vacation bacause he’s going to Spain with his family! The planned vacation is cancelled when his parents starts arguing. Casper gets scared his parents are getting divorced, but Emma cheer him up by inviting him to her Grandfather and Esther’s cabin. At the cabin they play in the snow and have a really good time, and soon they make friends with Peter who’s super good at skiing. He’s actually good at everything! Soon Casper thinks Emma pays too much attention to Peter and decides to show her that he’s really good at stuff too. But is this the way to win Emma back? has worked with all the Junior Olsen Gang films as well as the tv-series and films about Casper and Emma. In 2005, he directed Finding Friends, in 2008 SOS – Summer of Suspense and in 2011 Magic Silver 2. He is also a stage director and screenplay writer for tele vision series. ARNE LINDTNER NÆSS 18 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 CHASING THE WIND JAG ETTER VIND 90 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 Rune Denstad Langlo SCREENPLAY Rune Denstad Langlo DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Philip Øgaard PRODUCERS Brede Hovland and Sigve Endresen for Motlys AS CAST Marie Blokhus, Sven-Bertil Taube, Tobias Santelmann, Frederik Meldal Nørgaard, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Marte Aunemo, Per Tofte RELEASE DATE March 15, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Norsk filmdistribusjon AS SALES Memento Films International DRAMA DIRECTOR Chasing the Wind is a humorous and melancholy love story that shows how communicating with your own family is the most difficult communication of all. The film’s humor emerges from the frustration and anger the characters feel when they can neither talk to nor understand each other. The melancholy is connected to their realization that the longer they wait to tell the truth to each other, the more painful it becomes. (1972) feature film debut, North (2009), won the international critics’ FIPRESCI prize at the Berlinale, and the Best New Narrative Filmmaker prize at Tribeca Film Festival. The film sold to over thirty territories. Langlo comes from a background in documentaries and has directed The Last Match (2011), 99% Honest (2008) and Too Much Norway (2005). RUNE DENSTAD LANGLO’S 19 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 THE CHRISTMAS OF SOLAN AND LUDVIG SOLAN OG LUDVIG – JUL I FLÅKLYPA 76 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 Rasmus A. Sivertsen SCREENPLAY Karsten Fullu based on Kjell Aukrust’s universe and the novel “Solan og Ludvigs jul” by Harald Sommerin Simonnæs DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Morten Skallerud and Janne Hansen PRODUCER Cornelia Boysen for Maipo Film AS RELEASE DATE November 8, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS FAMILY ANIMATION DIRECTOR Solan, Ludvig and Reodor Felgen are back. Christmas is right around the corner, and what Ludvig wants more than anything is snow. But when Reodor makes the world’s most powerful snow cannon, and it ends up in the hands of Frimand Pløsen, the editor of the Flåklypa Times, whose greatest wish is to set a new snow record, Solan and Ludvig have to take matters into their own hands. Alone. Because Reodor has disappeared and the blizzard outside is growing more powerful by the minute. Messing with nature can be dangerous. RASMUS A. SIVERTSEN (1972) is one of the leading animation directors in Norway. He has directed the animation films Kurt Turns Evil and Ploddy the Police Car Makes a Splash. In addition, he is behind successful short tv-series like Fanthomas. Rasmus is a partner in the animation company Qvisten Animation and he has produced well over 200 commercials. In 2013 he directed Ploddy the Police Car on the Case in addition to The Christmas of Solan and Ludvig. 20 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 CRACK, BACK AND SACK PORNOPUNG DRAMA 90 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 DIRECTOR Johan Kaos SCREENPLAY Johan Kaos, Mads Larsen and Harald Mæle jr. based on the novel “Pornopung” by Mads Larsen DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Peirik PRODUCERS Ravn Wikhaug and Johan Kaos for Feil Film AS CAST Ole Christoffer Ertvaag, Herbert Nordrum, Anders Rydning, Kristina Knaben Hennestad, Gitte Witt, Marte Sæteren RELEASE DATE July 29, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Norsk filmdistribusjon AS SALES LevelK The novice Christian discovers a new world when big-time pick up artists Karl and Leo decide to teach him the tricks of their trade and change him into the kind of guy girls want to sleep with. JOHAN KAOS (1986) has experience in all parts of film produc- tion. He has worked as scriptwriter, director and producer of several short films and music videos as well as producer of the feature film The Bambi Effect (2011). Crack, Back & Sack is his debut as feature film director. 21 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 DEAD SNOW: RED VS DEAD DØD SNØ 2 ZOMBIE/HORROR/SPLATTER 100 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 Tommy Wirkola Tommy Wirkola, Stig Frode Henriksen and Vegar Hoel DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Matt Weston PRODUCERS Kjetil Omberg and Terje Strømstad for Tappeluft Pictures CAST Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Martin Starr, Ingrid Haas, Jocelyn deBoer, Ørjan Gamst, Kristoffer Joner, Derek Mears, Amrita Acharia, Hallvard Holmen RELEASE DATE February 12, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES Elle Driver DIRECTOR SCREENPLAY In this sequel to the epic splatter zombie saga from 2009, Martin has to prove that there is more devilry in Northern Norway than even Nazi zombies are prepared for. And so far, the zombie war has only just begun in a film in which crushed bones and dead blood has no time to coagulate before it’s alive again. Old hatred never rusts. TOMMY WIRKOLA (1979) is a director and writer, known for Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), Dead Snow (2009) and Kill Buljo: The Movie (2007). 22 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 DETECTIVE DOWNS DETEKTIV DOWNS COMEDY 105 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K DTS DIRECTOR Bård Breien SCREENPLAY Bård Breien and Eske Troelstrup DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Gaute Gunnari PRODUCERS Asle Vatn and Pål Røed for Friland Produksjon AS CAST Svein André Hosø, Ida Elise Broch, Nils Jørgen Kaal- stad, Kari Simonsen, Sven Nordin, Liv Bernhoft Osa RELEASE DATE October 25, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS Robert runs his own detective office, but never gets any cases. It is hard to be a private investigator with Down’s Syndrome. But this time a case comes Robert’s way. The legendary skater Olav Starr is missing, and his family urgently needs an incompetent detective to pacify an affluent and senile grandmother. They’re in for a big surprise when Robert reveals his special investigation method, discovering hidden facts within the family. He soon senses the family’s despair, and gradually finds himself entangled in Olav’s misguided life. His assignment is not without danger, but eventually they all have to acknowledge that Robert is not as stupid as they assumed. (1971) studied history of ideas and literature prior to three years of film studies in Copenhagen. His first short film, Frank’s Prolapse (2003), about a torpedo with a back ache, was nominated for an Amanda Award. The Art of Negative Thinking (2006) marked his feature film debut, both as screenwriter and director. The film won several international awards and has been sold to many territories. BÅRD BREIEN 23 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 DIRK OHM – THE ILLUSIONIST DIRK OHM – ILLUSJONISTEN 98 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO Bobbie Peers SCREENPLAY Bjørn Olaf Johannessen DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Jakob Ingimundarson PRODUCER Maria Ekerhovd for Mer Film CAST August Diehl, Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Jørgen Langhelle, Alexandra Rapaport, Ingvar Sigurosson RELEASE DATE 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR SF Norge AS SALES Films Distribution DRAMA DIRECTOR In mid–winter the illusionist Dirk Ohm arrives in the small town of Grong, a place ridden by the disappearance of a young local woman – Maria. Dirk soon finds himself searching for Maria side by side with the villagers of Grong; and he slowly falls in love with the missing woman. This fictional story pays tribute to a real character, and to his mysterious disappearance in the winter of 2003. BOBBIE PEERS (1974) graduated from the London International Film School in 1999, and has since worked as a director, writer and illustrator. His first short film, Sniffer, received the Palme d’Or for Best Short Film in Cannes 2006. Peers has also directed the shorts Down Under (2007), Spandex Man (2007) and The Croquet Match (2008), as well as numerous commercials for the production companies Motion Blur and 4 1/2. 24 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 DOCTOR PROCTOR’S FART POWDER DOKTOR PROKTORS PROMPEPULVER FAMILY FILM 87 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 DIRECTOR Arild Fröhlich SCREENPLAY Johan Bogaeus based on the novel “Doktor Proktors prompepulver” by Jo Nesbø DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Askild Vik Edvardsen PRODUCERS Cornelia Boysen and Synnøve Hørsdal for Maipo Film AS CAST Emily Glaister, Eilif Hellum Noraker, Kristoffer Joner, Atle Antonsen, Arve Guddingsmo Bjørn, Even Guddingsmo Bjørn. Ingar Helge Gimle, Marian Saastad Ottesen RELEASE DATE March 7, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS The world described in this tale is not at all like our world. The dungeons are gloomier, the rich and their sons meaner, the parents much more self-centered, the crazy inventors’ inventions crazier. And the beast that lives in the sewer system, brooding on revenge, could easily be a giant anaconda. In this world, the friendship between two lonely children is perhaps even more important than it is in our world. Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder is the story about two lonely (and a bit weird) children, that finds friendship, by helping Doctor Proctor to get his recognition. ARILD FRÖHLICH is born in Norway in 1972 with a Norwegian mother and a German father. He earned a degree in Documentary Film Directing at Volda in 1997, and since then has worked as a freelance director on feature films, documentaries, TV series, short films, commercials and music videos. In 2005 Arild had his feature film debut with Pitbullterje, and in 2008 he directed his second feature film, Fatso. 25 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 GLASS DOLLS GLASSDUKKENE 95 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 Nils Gaup SCREENPLAY Stein Leikanger based on “Glassdukkene” by Jorun Thørring DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Peter Mokrosinski PRODUCER Tomas Backström for Eira Film AS and Red Squair Ventures AS CAST Stig Henrik Hoff, Lena Kristin Ellingsen, Gars Elvenes, Reidar Sørensen, Henrik Mestad, Anja Saiva B. Björnstad, Anders Dahlberg, Svein Harry S. Hauge RELEASE DATE April 4, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR SF Norge AS SALES AB Svensk Filmindustri THRILLER DIRECTOR NILS GAUP (1955) went to drama school from 1974 to 1978. After acting in several movies, his feature film debut came in 1987 with The Pathfinder. This movie earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1993 he shot Head Above Water which was remade in 1996 as an American movie with Cameron Diaz and Harvey Keitel in the leading roles. In 2008 he made The Kautokeino Rebellion which is based on a true story from 1852 of the riots of the Sami people against the church and state domination on alcohol sale. 26 A windy autumn day the body of the university student Lisa Beck is found in a lake on top of the Tromsø Island. It puzzles the police and the investigator Aslak Eira, of Sami heritage, that she has not drowned. To enhance the confusion, the body carries traces of having been in the sea. As the police seem to be fumbling along in the dark, yet another young female student disappears. The struggle to save this student’s life and to reveal the identity of the murderer becomes a race against the time. And for Aslak it becomes a matter of life and death as his 16-year-old son is dragged into the events. FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 GRANNY & THE KIDS MORMOR OG DE ÅTTE UNGENE CHILDREN MUSICAL 64 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1 DIRECTOR Lisa Mare Gamlem SCREENPLAY Birgitte Bratseth based on the novel “Åtte små, to store og en lastebil” by Anne Cath. Vestly DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Cecilie Semec PRODUCERS Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae for Paradox Rettigheter AS CAST Marit Opsahl Grefberg, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Thomas Bye, Petronella Nygaard, Steinar Sagen, Jarle Bernhoft RELEASE DATE August 16, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS Granny & the Kids is the story of 7-year-old Mona and her family, who get a surprise visit from Granny, who in all secrecy has left the old people’s home. Then the family’s lorry vanishes. Together, Mona and Granny go to town to track down the thief. (1975) studied fiction directing at the Norwegian Film School from 2001 to 2004. Her short film Cold was nominated for the Golden Palm in Cannes 2011, her series of drama Ping Pong (NRK) was nominated for the International Emmy Awards in 2008. Her film Benny’s Gym from 2007 was selected for the Berlin Film Festival. She has directed several short films and documentaries and has currently co-directed the film Captain Sabertooth and the Lama Rama Treasure. LISA MARIE GAMLEM 27 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 HEART OF LIGHTNESS LYSETS HJERTE TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K DOLBY Jan Vardøen SCREENPLAY Jan Vardøen based on Henrik Ibsen’s play “Fruen fra havet” DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Petter Holmern and Patrik Säfström PRODUCER Jan Vardøen for Beacon Isle Productions CAST Dominic Mafham, Laura Donnelly, Michael Colgan, Daisy Head, Rosie Day, Richard Lumsden, Matt Ryan, John Hodgkinston, Sam Heughan RELEASE DATE 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES TBA DRAMA DIRECTOR Heart of Lightness follows the progress of eight British actors who arrive in the far north of Norway to film a version of the Ibsen play “The Lady from the Sea”. Thinking it will be an easy task, they are soon overwhelmed by the lack of darkness and the surreal landscape that surrounds them. We follow them through their strife, joy and adventures to the culmination of what eventually turns into a great film and a personal success for everybody involved. is a prolific author and musician who has now moved into directing. Film biography: 2013 short Working Stiff, feature Heart of Lightness, post production for release spring 2014, feature Malecón, in production, release 2014/2015. JAN VARDØEN 28 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 HERE IS HAROLD HER ER HAROLD DRAMA 90 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO DIRECTOR Gunnar Vikene SCREENPLAY Gunnar Vikene based on the novel “I morgon er det måndag” by Frode Grytten DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Simon Pramsten PRODUCER Maria Ekerhovd for Mer Film CAST Bjørn Sundquist, Bjørn Granath, Fanny Ketter, Grethe Selius, Vidar Magnussen RELEASE DATE October 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR SF Norge AS SALES TBA For over forty years, Harold has been running a successful business, ”Lunde Furniture”, but now all that is over. IKEA has opened a vast new superstore at Åsane, right next door to Harold’s small furniture shop. Harold loses both shop and home. In mounting anger and desperation, Harold decides to exact revenge. He is going to kidnap his Nemesis – the founder of IKEA, Ingvar Kamprad. He arms himself with a pistol, gets into his old Saab, and sets off for Almhult, Sweden. The first person he meets in Sweden is Ebba, a lonely 16-year-old girl. She reckons the kidnapping is a brilliant idea, and this ill-assorted duo manage, through sheer coincidence, to abduct Ingvar Kamprad. Unfortunately, Kamprad is quite happy to be kidnapped, and sees the whole episode as an opportunity to buff up his own public image. GUNNAR VIKENE (1966) has made documentaries, short films, music videos and commercials, and has won several awards at both Norwegian and international festivals for his work. He directed his first feature film Falling Sky in 2002. He followed up with the family film Trigger in 2006, which was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007. Gunnar’s last film, Vegas, that he wrote and directed was a highly critically acclaimed and has won a lot of international and national awards. 29 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 HOCUS POCUS, ALFIE ATKINS! HOKUS POKUS, ALBERT ÅBERG CHILDREN ANIMATION 72 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 DIRECTOR Torill Kove SCREENPLAY Hans Åke Gabrielsson and Tora Berg based on “Hokus pokus, Albert Åberg!” by Gunilla Bergström PRODUCERS Kristin Ulseth and Cornelia Boysen for Maipo Film AS RELEASE DATE September 13, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS When he’s not playing at pirates with his friends, 7 year-old Alfie Atkins dreams of having a dog of his own. A playful terrier. Just like the one the old magician has. And since magic is all in the mind, Alfie is convinced he can use it to make his dream come true. But it is not as easy as he thinks... even if, in the end, his dream does come true, in the most unexpected manner. (1958) studied animation at the Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She works as a designer, illustrator, animator and scriptwriter, and has worked in a variety of roles on several National Film Board of Canada productions. Her first professional animation film as a director, My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts won numerous international awards and was nominated for the Academy Award. Kove has won the Kodak Award for her quirky films All You Can Eat, Fallen Angel and Squash and Stretch, and among numerous others – won the Academy Award for Best Short Film, Animated in 2007, for The Danish Poet (2006). TORILL KOVE 30 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 THE HUNT FOR BERLUSCONI JAKTEN PÅ BERLUSCONI COMEDY 90 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K DTS DIRECTOR Ole Endresen SCREENPLAY Ole Endresen DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Gaute Gunnari PRODUCER Håkon Øverås for 4 ½ Fiksjon AS CAST Edward Schultheiss, Veslemøy Mørkrid, Morten Ramm, Henriette Steenstrup, Atle Antonsen, Bjørn Floberg, Jon Øigarden, Odd-Magnus Williamson RELEASE DATE September 5, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Euforia Film SALES Films Boutique The slightly chubby harness racer Bjarte does not get the good horses anymore, and is forced to enter the criminal path in order to keep menacing creditors at bay. A fatal choice of partners ends up in a failed doping attempt, and a consequent kidnapping of the top horse Berlusconi. A bloodthirsty hunting party consisting of two eager financial crime investigators, an unscrupulous horse owner, two Finnish debt collectors, and a particularly unorthodox private investigator called “The Animal,” are scrambling to find the horse and those who have gone off with it. Bjarte’s alibi is falling apart like a rotten racer’s suit, and his wife’s bipolar fluctuations don’t help much. What are the odds that a chubby harness racer may outsmart them all? OLE ENDRESEN has for many years been an integral part of a new wave of Norwegian television comedy, both as a writer, producer and director. He has directed sketch-based comedy shows like Out in Our Garden, Team Antonsen, Good Evening, Dagfinn, and Three Brothers who aren’t Brothers, and is also an experienced director of commercials. His debut as a director of more dramatic fiction material came with the television series Etaten in 2006, while King Curling (2011) marks Endresen’s debut as a feature film director. 31 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 I AM YOURS JEG ER DIN DRAMA 96 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K DOLBY SR DIRECTOR Iram Haq SCREENPLAY Iram Haq DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Marek Septimus Wieser and Cecilie Semec PRODUCER Maria Ekerhovd for Mer Film CAST Amrita Acharia, Ola Rapace, Prince Singh, Rabia Noreen, Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Assad Siddique, Tobias Santelmann, Jesper Malm RELEASE DATE August 16, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR SF Norge AS SALES Premium Films Mina is a young single mother living in Oslo with her 6-year-old son Felix. She is Norwegian Pakistani with a troublesome relationship with her family. Mina is constantly looking for love and has relations to different men, however none of the relationships bearing any hope of lasting very long. So when Mina meets Jesper, a Swedish film director, she falls head over heels in love. is a Norwegian actress, writer and director. She has worked for many years as an actor, on stage and in feature and TV films. She also wrote and starred in the short film Old Faithful (2004) that was selected for the short film competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2004. She made her directorial debut with Little Miss Eyeflap in 2009, which premiered in Sundance. IRAM HAQ 32 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 THE IMMORAL DE UMORALSKE DRAMA /COMEDY 75 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 DIRECTOR Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen SCREENPLAY Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Trond Tønder and Rodrigo Stoicheff PRODUCERS Anders Tangen for Viafilm and Odd G. Iversen for Atomfilm CAST Hanne Bache Hansen, Kjetil Skrede, Daniel Gjerde, Torunn Meyer, Einar Schwenke, Harald Kolaas, Hege Åsvang, Even Rasmussen RELEASE DATE 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Viafilm and Margrethe Stang Lund SALES TBA Camilla and William are not able to adapt to the Norwegian welfare paradise. When the authorities want to take Camilla’s baby, the two drifters run away into the woods. There William suggests that Camilla becomes a prostitute, so they can buy themselves a camper and drive to Spain. But in order to sell sex, they need a house. And the lonely upperclass boy, Anders, needs friends. The Immoral is a partly humoristic, shabby and trashy portrait of Norway. A society not divided in classes, a paradise for the adaptable. LARS DANIEL KRUTZKOFF JACOBSEN (1962) studied at the Univer- sity of Oslo, and at The Norwegian Humanistic Academy in Lillehammer, in addition to also being a student of directing at the theater Oslo Nye Teater for several years. He is known for having brought so-called “trash-movies” to Norway, before he made his feature film debut with 5 Lies in 2007. His short film Precious Moments (2002) won the Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2003. The Immoral was selected for Toronto International Film Festival in 2013. 33 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE KRAFTIDIOTEN 115 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 Hans Petter Moland SCREENPLAY Kim Fupz Aakeson DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Philip Øgaard PRODUCERS Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae for Paradox Rettigheter AS CAST Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Hildegunn Riise, Jakob Oftebro, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gard Eidsvold, Kristoffer Hivju RELEASE DATE February 21, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS ACTION COMEDY DIRECTOR In Order of Disappearance is an action comedy. Nils drives a snow blower and lives a carefree life in a remote winter paradise. His son’s sudden death puts him in the middle of a drug war between Norwegian mafia and the Serbians. In this world he is a beginner – armed with heavy machinery and beginner’s luck. HANS PETTER MOLAND grew up on a family farm and in Oslo. He has directed 6 feature films; The Last Lieutenant (1993), Zero Kelvin (1995), Aberdeen (2000), The Beautiful Country (2004), Comrade Pedersen (2006) and A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010) – and he holds a BFA in Film from Emerson College (1978). Both The Beautiful Country and A Somewhat Gentle Man was in Berlin International Film Festival Competition in 2004 and 2011. Hans Petter was an exchange student in Grosse Pointe, Michigan as a sixteen year old, and returned to the US to study film. 34 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 IT’S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE EVENTYRLAND 93 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 Arild Østin Ommundsen SCREENPLAY Arild Østin Ommundsen DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Arild Østin Ommundsen PRODUCER Gary Cranner for Chezville AS CAST Silje Salomonsen, Tomas Alf Larsen, Egil Birkeland, Vegar Hoel, Fredrik S. Hana, Ole Romsdal, Iben Østin Hjelle RELEASE DATE March 22, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Actionfilm AS SALES TBA DRAMA DIRECTOR It’s Only Make Believe is the story of a murder that never should have happened, about friends that never should have been trusted and a debt that increases for every down payment. Even though Jenny has lost everything she still has everything to win: her daughter. After serving 10 years in prison for murder, Jenny dreams of resuming her responsibilities as a mother. Soon dark shadows from her past start to appear. ARILD ØSTIN OMMUNDSEN (1969) made his feature debut with Mongoland (2001), a hugely successful indie comedy. His second feature film was the surfing drama Monster Thursday (2004). Other films by Østin Ommundsen are the financial thriller Rat Nights (2009), nominated for Amanda Award Best Direction and Twigson in Trouble (2011), a majorly popular children’s film. It’s Only Make Believe was nominated for 5 Amanda Awards including Best Feature, and Arild himself won for Best Cinematography. 35 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 KICK IT KULE KIDZ GRÅTER IKKE CHILDREN/YOUTH FILM 94 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K SDDS Katarina Launing SCREENPLAY Linda May Kallestein based on the Dutch feature “Achtste Groepers Huilen Niet” directed by Dennis Bots based on a novel by Jacques Vriens DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Linus Eklund PRODUCERS Silje Hopland Eik and Tanya N. Badendyck for Cinenord Kidstory AS CAST Mia Helene Solberg Brekke, Victor Papadopoulos Jacobsen, Sigrid Welde, Ulrik William Græsli, Kristin Zachariassen, Jeppe Beck Laursen, Aslag Guttormsgaard, Ingjerd Egeberg RELEASE DATE January 10, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR SF Norge AS SALES TBA DIRECTOR Kick it! tells the story of Anja, a spirited young girl who loves soccer, even when her classmate Jonas think soccer is not meant for girls. Anja uses her humor to deal with Jonas’ bullying: not knowing that behind his hostility there hides a boy who is in love with her. When Anja is diagnosed with leukemia, she remains optimistic and full of energy. She even continues interfering with the school soccer tournament while she is in hospital. When Anja is no longer able to participate in the tournament, Jonas comes up with a really special plan. KATARINA LAUNING (1971) hails from Sweden, and studied di- recting at the Norwegian Film School, graduating in 2000. She has since directed several short films, and made her debut as a feature film director with the family adventure film Magic Silver (2009), co-directing with Roar Uthaug. 36 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 KILL BULJO 2 KILL BULJO 2 90 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 Vegar Hoel SCREENPLAY Tommy Wirkola and Stig Frode Henriksen DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Matt Weston PRODUCERS Kjetil Omberg and Terje Strømstad for Tappeluft Pictures CAST Stig Frode Henriksen, Tommy Wirkola, Jørn Tore Nilsen, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Kristian Figenschow jr., Triana Iglesias, Christian Rubeck, Vegar Hoel RELEASE DATE December 20, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Actionfilm AS SALES TBA COMEDY DIRECTOR Jorma Tormann, maybe more lucky than feared, is back. Five years have passed since his last revenge, but once again someone has done him wrong. He is presently off to Thailand, where everything is bigger, more chaotic, and even more bloody. Only the humour stays the same, possibly even drier. (1973) is an actor and director, known for his roles in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), It’s Only Make Believe (2013), Dead Snow (2009) and Monster Thursday (2004). Kill Bujo 2 is his debut as feature film director. VEGAR HOEL 37 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 KISS ME, YOU FUCKING MORON! KYSS MEG FOR FAEN I HELVETE 110 min COLOUR DCP 2K DOLBY SR Stian Kristiansen SCREENPLAY Stian Kristiansen and Kamilla Krogsveen DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHYY Trond Tønder PRODUCERS Yngve Sæther and Sigve Endresen for Motlys AS CAST Eili Harboe, Øyvind Larsen Runestad, Kristoffer Joner, Johanna Knudsen, Kim André Bjørkesett, Ruben Aamodt Rosbach, Marko Kanic RELEASE DATE August 9, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TBA YOUTH DRAMA DIRECTOR Tale (17) leads a theatre group of teenagers, who are planning to set up a play by the famous Norwegian writer Jon Fosse. A professional actor, in the middle of a life crisis, agrees to direct them. With certain conditions. He decides to cast the local hero, a great soccer player and a fucking moron, as the main male actor. The group soon discovers that the director’s ambitions make the teenagers’ lives a living hell. STIAN KRISTIANSEN (1972) started his career as an actor, and straight out of film school, he directed his feature film debut The Man Who Loved Yngve (2008), which was a huge box office success and won four Amanda Prizes (Norwegian Oscar). He has since directed the short feature The Video Boy (2011) and the sequel to his first film, I Travel Alone. Kiss Me, You Fucking Moron is a result of his great passion for theatre and soccer. 38 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 LETTER TO THE KING BREV TIL KONGEN DRAMA 75 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 DIRECTOR Hisham Zaman SCREENPLAY Hisham Zaman and Mehmet Aktas DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Marius Matzow Gulbrandsen PRODUCERS Alan Milligan and Hisham Zaman for Film Farms AS CAST Ivan Anderson, Ali Bag Salimi, Hassen Dimirci, Amin Senatorzade, Zeer Durhan, Nasmi Kirik RELEASE DATE January 17, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Storytelling Media SALES TBA Letter to the King portrays five people´s meeting with Norway outside the refugee camp. They are given permission to leave the snowy no man´s land and travel to Oslo, a welcome change in an otherwise monotonous life. But we soon realize that all of them have a purpose with this trip. All five will be confronted by their destinies as they discover happiness, suffer humiliation, find love and seek revenge. The five stories are bound together by a letter, written by eighty-three year old Mirza. Mirza wants to personally hand the letter to the King of Norway. HISHAM ZAMAN (1975), graduated from The Norwegian Film School at Lillehammer in 2004. His breakthrough film, Bawke (2005) became a hit on the international festival circuit, and has received more than 40 national and international awards. In 2007 he directed another noteworthy short film; the comedic drama Winterland. In 2013 came his debut feature film Before Snowfall – a road movie that becomes an odyssey from East to West for young Siyar, a village-boy from Iraqi-Kurdistan. 39 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 LOVE ME ELSK MEG 75 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 Hanne Myren SCREENPLAY Hanne Myren DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Øystein Mamen PRODUCERS Brede Hovland and Sigve Endresen for Motlys AS CAST Julia Wildschut, Ahmed Wasty, Petrus Wildschut RELEASE DATE March 28, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Norsk filmdistribusjon AS SALES TBA DRAMA DIRECTOR Twenty-year-old Maria is a troubled and lonely girl who falls in love with the grounded and patient Adam. He is the first boyfriend to treat her nicely, but Maria struggles with her past and the relationship with her dad, who left her when she was very young. When her dad reappears it makes Maria vulnerable to the fear of being rejected once again. (1973) is one of Norway’s most established documentarians. Her directorial debut, the feature length documentary Girls (2007), received an Amanda for both Best Documentary and Best Children and Youth film. Myren’s following project, the drama-documentary short Control, won the Terje Vigen award for Best Norwegian short film in 2009 and was nominated for an Amanda in the category Best Short Film. HANNE MYREN 40 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 MISS JULIE MISS JULIE DRAMA 130 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K DOLBY 5.1 DIRECTOR Liv Ullmann SCREENPLAY Liv Ullmann based on the play “Miss Julie” by August Strindberg DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Mikhail Krichman PRODUCER Synnøve Hørsdal for Maipo Film AS CAST Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Nora McMenamy RELEASE DATE Autum 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES Wild Bunch A country estate in Ireland in 1880s. Over the course of one midsummer night, in an atmosphere of wild revelry and loosened social constraints, Miss Julie and John, her father’s valet, dance and drink, charm and manipulate each other. She, all hauteur longing for abasement; he, polished but coarse – both united in mutual loathing and attraction. By turns seductive and bullying, savage and tender, their intimacy leads to desperate plans and vision of a life together… Unsure if the morning brings hope or hopelessness, Julie and John find their escape in a final act as sublime and horrific as anything in Greek tragedy. LIV ULLMANN (1938) is the most internationally recognized, respected and famous Norwegian actress. Ullmann has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role twice (1973 and 1977), and has received over 40 other awards and accolades. She was widely acclaimed for her roles in Ingmar Bergman’s films, which also opened the doors for her international career. Also as a director Ullmann has worked in both stage and film productions. She made her debut as a feature film director with the swedish production Sophie in 1992, and has since directed another four feature films and a documentary. 41 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE EN SOM DEG DRAMA 90 MIN COLOUR DCP DTS DIRECTOR Eirik Svensson SCREENPLAY Jyrki Väisänen and Eirik Svensson DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Martin Hogsnes Solvan PRODUCER Karin Julsrud for 4 ½ Fiksjon AS CAST Pamela Tola, Espen Klouman Høiner, Pihla Viitala, Laura Birnin Esitykset, Mattis Herman Nyquist, Audun Hjort, Pål Sverre Hagen RELEASE DATE February 1, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Norsk filmdistribusjon AS SALES TBA EIRIK SVENSSON (1983) is a Finnish-Norwegian director. He graduated from The Norwegian Film School at Lillehammer in 2010 with his graduation film Friday. He has also studied film in Finland. In 2013, he made his feature film debut with the romantic drama Must Have Been Love. Night to the 17th, his second feature film, will premiere in 2014. 42 On vacation in Istanbul Kaisa meets Jacob. The romance is intense and short-lived. The next morning, Jacob leaves and Kaisa does not even know his last name. Working in Oslo, she meets Andreas, which surprisingly resembles Jacob. Kaisa and Andreas gradually build up a relationship and together they move to Helsinki, but the journey is different than both of them had imagined. Must have been Love is about the tension that arises in the face of love, both the one you think you see coming and the one that catches you off guard. Where does the thin line between true love and the one that may turn out not to be? FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 ONE NIGHT IN OSLO NATT TIL 17. YOUTH DRAMA 98 MIN COLOUR DCP STEREO 5.1 DIRECTOR Eirik Svensson SCREENPLAY Eirik Svensson inspired by the novella film “Fredag” by Lene Haugsøen Frøyna DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Karl Erik Brøndbo PRODUCERS Moa Liljedahl and Synnøve Hørsdal for Maipo Film AS CAST Samakab Omar, Mohammed Alghoul, Burhan Ahmed, Kaan Kozanli, Torkel Dommersnes Soldal, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Cathrine L.M. Andreassen, Nora Tyldum Lunøe RELEASE DATE April 4, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS Sam loves his friends, and has stated he is ready to die for them. But lately he has spent more time with his new girlfriend. The problem is that Thea is Sam’s best friend’s ex-girlfriend. We follow the youths from early morning on, through the night, and into the morning hours of National Day, the 17th of May. 24 hours in which friendships are put to the test, and hate encounters love. EIRIK SVENSSON (1983) is a Finnish-Norwegian director. He graduated from The Norwegian Film School at Lillehammer in 2010 with his graduation film Friday. He has also studied film in Finland. In 2013, he made his feature film debut with the romantic drama Must Have Been Love. Night to the 17th, his second feature film, will premiere in 2014. 43 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 OPERATION ARCTIC OPERASJON ARKTIS TBA MIN COLOUR DCP Grethe Bøe-Wahl SCREENPLAY Grethe Bøe-Wahl based on the novel “Operasjon Arktis” by Leif Hamre DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Trond Tønder and Gaute Gunnari PRODUCERS John M. Jacobsen and Sveinung Golimo for Filmkameratene AS CAST Kaisa Gurine Antonsen, Ida Aurora Valestrand Eike, Leonard Valestrand Eike, Kristoffer Hivju, Line Verndal, Per Kjerstad, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Evy Kasseth Røsten RELEASE DATE September 19, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS FAMILY DRAMA DIRECTOR A modern day Robinson Crusoe adventure set in the Arctic. Through a tragic misunderstanding, 13-year-old Julia and her twin siblings Ida and Sindre (8) are left on a deserted island. No one knows they are there, and the children have to find ways to survive, battling the fierce winter weather, hungry polar bears and loneliness. Excitement for the whole family in an exotic setting. GRETHE BØE-WAHL earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film direction and philosophy at Ithaca College, New York. She has worked actively in theatre, and has pursued a career as an actress. Her list of direction assignments for television, commercial and information film is extensive. The Ten Lives of Titanic the Cat was her feature film debut. The film won awards as Best Children’s Film at a number of film festivals around the world. 44 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 OUT OF NATURE MOT NATUREN DRAMA 90 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO DIRECTORS Ole Giæver CO-DIRECTOR Marte Vold SCREENPLAY Ole Giæver DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Øystein Mamen PRODUCER Maria Ekerhovd for Mer Film CAST Ole Giæver, Marte Magnusdotter Solem, Trond Petter Stamsø Munch, Liv Bernhoft Osa, William Valle Bache-Wiig, Rebekka Nystabakk, Sivert Giæver Solem RELEASE DATE 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Mer Film SALES TBA Out of Nature is a journey inside Martin’s head. A family father in his 30’s living in a small town of Norway. He feels alienated in his own life and longs to get away. Away from his job, away from his family, into the woods, up to the mountains. While spending a weekend alone on a hiking trip, he is forced to confront the way he lives his life. Out of Nature is an original, funny and tender film about how to take part in your own life as a husband, father and son. OLE GIÆVER was born and raised in Tromsø. He graduated from the Nordland Art and Film School in Lofoten, and the Konstfack in Stockholm. He has been nominated for the European Film Awards for Best Short Film (Tommy) in 2007. In 2010 he wrote, directed and produced The Mountain. This feature film debut was selected for the Panorama program of the Berlinale 2011. 45 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 PERMAFROST PERMAFROST DRAMA 75 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K DIRECTOR John Sullivan SCREENPLAY John Sullivan based on a story by John Sullivan & Zac Tomaszewski DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Martin J. Edelsteen PRODUCER Martin J. Edelsteen for Permafrost Film AS CAST Hege Aga Edelsteen, Nicholas Hope, Benjamin Helstad, Maryon Eilertsen, Anders T. Andersen, Espen Mauno Johansen RELEASE DATE March 14, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Actionfilm AS SALES TBA Synnøve’s life is at a crossroads. She is in a desperate state, and flees her life in Oslo, abandoning both her boyfriend and her work. She embarks on the long journey home to Troms county in order to confront herself and the life she has led so far. JOHN SULLIVAN (1964) studied film at the San Francisco Art Institute, the School of Visual Arts in New York and in Rockport, Maine. He has worked as both director and screenwriter on several documentaries, short films, commercials, music videos and drama series’ for TV. He is perhaps best known for his documentaries, like Home of the Brave – Land of the Free from 2003 and the provocative Porn Star? from 2007. His last documentary was The Lost Children (2013). 46 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 PIONEER PIONER 100 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K DTS Erik Skjoldbjærg SCREENPLAY Hans Gunnarsson, Kathrina Valen Zeiner, Cathinka Nicolaysen, Nikolaj Frobenius and Erik Skjoldbjærg DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Jallo Faber PRODUCER Christian Fredrik Martin for Friland Produksjon AS CAST Aksel Hennie, Wes Bentley, Stephanie Sigman, Stephen Lang, Andre Eriksen, Jonathan Lapaglia, Ane Dahl Torp, Jørgen Langhelle RELEASE DATE August 30, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS DRAMA DIRECTOR Set in the early 80’s, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea, authorities aim to bring the oil ashore through a pipeline 500 meters deep. Petter, a professional diver, is obsessed with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea. Along with his brother Knut, he has the discipline, strength and courage to take on the world’s most dangerous mission. But a sudden, tragic accident changes everything. Petter is sent on a perilous journey where he loses sight of who is pulling the strings. Gradually, he realizes that he is in way over his head and that his life is at stake. (1964) attended the National Film and Television School in London (1990–94). His feature directing debut Insomnia was remade by Chistopher Nolan. He has also directed Prozac Nation in Hollywood. Erik has directed several tv-series, commercials and corporate promotion films as well as short films. His film Nokas, released in 2010, was a box office hit in Norway and awarded with an Amanda for Best Directing in 2011. ERIK SKJOLDBJÆRG 47 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 PLODDY THE POLICE CAR ON THE CASE PELLE POLITIBIL PÅ SPORET 72 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K DOLBY DIGITAL Rasmus A. Sivertsen and Rune Spaans SCREENPLAY Arthur Johansen based on characters created by Åge Magnussen PRODUCERS Aage Aaberge and Live Bonnevie for Neofilm AS RELEASE DATE May 3, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS FAMILY ANIMATION DIRECTORS Ploddy the Police Car is assigned to guard the biggest attraction in a brand new Eagle Park in a small town in Northern Norway; an endangered eagle mother and her egg. However, when two female thieves steal the eagle mother and Ploddy ends up hatching the egg under his hood, he gets a lot busier than planned. The fact that his policeman Richard falls in love with one of the thieves is not helping either. RASMUS A. SIVERTSEN (1972) is one of the leading animation directors in Norway. He has directed the animation films Kurt Turns Evil and Ploddy the Police Car Makes a Splash. In 2013 he released The Christmas of Solan and Ludvig in addition to Ploddy the Police Car on the Case. RUNE SPAANS (1974) has a background from the game industry, visual effects, and he has worked with animation, illustration and design. He has directed several award-winning commercials. Ploddy the Police Car on the Case is his first feature film. 48 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 RAGNAROK GÅTEN RAGNAROK ACTION ADVENTURE 100 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 DIRECTOR Mikkel Brænne Sandemose SCREENPLAY John Kåre Raake DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Daniel Voldheim PRODUCERS Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrøm for Fantefilm Fiksjon AS CAST Pål Sverre Hagen, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Sofia Helin, Bjørn Sundquist, Maria Anette Tanderød Berglyd, Julian Rasmussen Podolski RELEASE DATE October 4, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS Archeologist Sigurd Svendsen has for years been obsessed with the Oseberg Viking ship. The only inscription found on the ship is the enigmatic ´man knows little` written in runes. Sigurd is sure that the Oseberg ship contains the answer to the mystery of Ragnarok, the end of days in Norse mythology. When his friend Allan finds similar runes on a stone from the north of Norway, Sigurd becomes convinced that the runes are in fact a treasure map. Together they mount an expedition group and their adventure leads to “No man’s Land” between Norway and Russia, which has been deserted for decades. Here Sigurd learns the true meaning of the runes - a secret more terrifying than he could possibly imagine. MIKKEL BRÆNNE SANDEMOSE (1974), graduated from the direct- ing program at the Film and Television Academy in 1998. His first short film, I Killed a Cyclist (2001), travelled festivals in Europe. Sandemose has directed hundreds of commercials in Norway and abroad and has been shortlisted in Cannes for several commercials, and received honourable mentions at many festivals for both short films and music videos. Sandemose debuted as a feature film director with the horror Cold Prey (2010). Ragnarok is his second feature film. 49 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 THE SLEEPWALKER SØVNGJENGER 92 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Mona Fastvold SCREENPLAY Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Zachary Galler PRODUCERS Karin Julsrud and Turid Øversveen for 4 ½ Fiksjon AS CAST Gitte Witt, Brady Corbet, Stephanie Ellis, Christopher Abbott RELEASE DATE January 31, 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES LevelK PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA DIRECTOR Kaia and Andrew’s peaceful life is violently disrupted upon the unexpected arrival of Kaia’s sister, Christine, and her fiancé, Ira. Prior tensions and jealousies burgeon as new alliances form and childhood patterns resurface. When one of the four characters goes missing, the three left behind are flung into upheaval trying to fill in the blanks. MONA FASTVOLD is a 32-year-old Paris and Oslo based direc- tor/writer. Her previous credits include a wide variety of well-regarded music videos for Sondre Lerche and indiepop buzz bands such as Razika, Maribel, Chris Holm, JBN, The Megaphonic Thrift and Civiltwilight. In 2012, Fastvold received a production grant from The Norwegian Film Institute for her directorial debut, The Sleepwalker, which was co-written with Brady Corbet. The two of them are next set to shoot Corbet´s directorial debut, The Childhood of a Leader which they also wrote together. 50 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 THE TOUGH GUYS DE TØFFESTE GUTTA FAMILY COMEDY 74 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 DIRECTOR Christian Lo SCREENPLAY Nick Hegreberg in cooperation with Christian Lo and Arild Tryggestad based on the novel “De tøffeste gutta” by Arne Svingen DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Bjørn Ståle Bratberg PRODUCER Trine Aadalen Lo for Filmbin AS CAST Sondre Blakstad Henriksen, Regine Stokkevåg Eide, Lasse Sortland, Martin Røsjorde Lindstad, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Cecilie Mosli, Hallvard Holmen, Ingjerd Egeberg RELEASE DATE September 6, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES AB Svensk Filmindustri The Tough Guys is the story about 11-year-old Modulf who thinks he is a super hero. Every day he is bullied by the toughest guys at school. And that’s fine. Because if Modulf is the one being bullied – the other children won’t be. One day a new girl moves in next door, Lise. Lise does not agree with Modulf’s theories. She cares, and creates havoc in the ranks – and suddenly she is the one in the middle of the storm who must be saved. Modulf is forced to face his own situation – and do something about it. (1977) had his feature film debut Rafiki screened at the Berlinale in 2010. Previously, Christian has directed four award winning short films for children; Punctured (2001), Iver (2004), Ramp (2005) and Baluba Runa (2007). The Tough Guys is his second feature. Christian Lo studied film in England and now works for the Lillehammer based production company Filmbin – the only Norwegian film production company dedicated entirely to children’s and youth’ films. CHRISTIAN LO 51 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 VEIL OF TWILIGHT SKUMRINGSLANDET DRAMA THRILLER 80 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO DIRECTOR Paul Magnus Lundø SCREENPLAY Paul Magnus Lundø and Ronnie Larsen DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Henning Høifødt PRODUCERS Daniel Henriksbø and Paul Magnus Lundø for Vidvinkel Film Ltd and Skumringslandet AS CAST Leif Nygaard, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Kim Bodnia, Jørgen Langhelle, Ewen Bremner, Espen Hana, Andreas Wilson, Elisabeth Sand, Nils Utsi, Knut Husebø, Kristina Knaben Hennestad, Lars Mogens Aase RELEASE DATE 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Star Media Entertainment SALES TBA The year of our Lord 1348. Vilhelm returns to Norway to find his brother, Ansgar, whom has disappeared after being accused for a number of murders. The grotesque killing of townspeople is putting fear in everyone. Rumor has it that Ansgar is in lead with trolls and demons of the underworld. Vilhelm doesn’t believe in trolls and devils, and starts an investigation. PAUL MAGNUS LUNDØ (1979) started his film career with mak- ing an amateur feature, the fantasy Mengaltoh (2005), before attending NISS Film and Television Academy. He has worked in the art department on shorts and features, and was art director on Yohan – The Child Wanderer (2010). Veil of Twilight will be his feature film debut. 52 FEATURE FILMS 2013 – 2014 VICTORIA VICTORIA 106 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Torun Lian SCREENPLAY Torun Lian based on Knut Hamsun’s novel “Victoria” DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Harald Paalgard PRODUCERS John M. Jacobsen, Pancho Kohner and Sveinung Golimo for Filmkameratene AS CAST Iben Akerlie, Bill Skarsgård, Jakob Oftebro RELEASE DATE March 1, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR SF Norge AS SALES AB Svensk Filmindustri DRAMA DIRECTOR Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun’s novel “Victoria” from 1898 was the original love story. It has everything a filmmaker and a cinema audience could wish for, young love, class differences, success against all odds, costumes, glorious settings and in a heartbreaking ending when Victoria confesses her true love to the man she didn’t get and should have had – before she succumbs to tuberculosis. is one of Norway’s most recognized screenwriters and directors. She made her directorial debut with the short There is someone even smaller than Anna in 1992, and has directed the feature films Only Clouds Move the Stars (1998) and The Color of Milk (2004). In addition to a number of novels, her production as a dramatist includes Frida – Straight from the Heart (1992) as well as Falling Sky and Vegas, the latter two co-written with Gunnar Vikene. TORUN LIAN 53 IN PRODUCTION 54 IN PRODUCTION ALL THE BEAUTY CASPER AND EMMA ON SAFARI TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Aasne Vaa Greibrokk SCREENPLAY Aasne Vaa Greibrokk and Hilde Susan Jægtnes DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Torkel Riise Svenson PRODUCERS Hans-Jørgen Osnes and Yngve Sæther for Motlys AS CAST TBA RELEASE DATE Autumn 2015 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Norsk filmdistribusjon AS SALES TBA ca 75 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K SDDS Arne Lindtner Næss SCREENPLAY Alexander Eik based on Tor Åge Bringsværd and Anne G. Holt’s universe DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Daniel Gáras PRODUCERS Silje Hopland Eik and Tanya Badendyck for Cinenord Kidstory AS CAST Elias Søvold-Simonsen, Nora Amundsen, Ivar Nørve, Janne Formoe RELEASE DATE 2015 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR SF Norge AS SALES AB Svensk Filmindustri David (55) has lethal cancer, and decides to stay at his summer house with his ex-wife Sarah (55). In the course of two months, Sarah helps David completet his final play, “The Escape that never happened”. The play is a dramatization of their relationship told through the love stories of three seemingly different couples: Sarah and David (22), Sarah and David (33) and Sarah and David (44). A real lion cub which has lost its mummy, Grandpa being caught in a lion trap, and chasing a lion thief, demands everything of Casper and Emma on safari in Africa. ALT DET VAKRE DRAMA DIRECTOR AASNE VAA GREIBROKK (1982) is from Bodø, Norway. She studied three years at Nordland Collage of Art and Film, and has a bachelor’s degree in directing from the Norwegian Film School. All the Beauty (2015) is her debut as a feature film director. KARSTEN OG PETRAS PÅ SAFARI CHILDREN FILM DIRECTOR has worked with all the Junior Olsen Gang films as well as the tv-series and films about Casper and Emma. In 2005, he directed Finding Friends, in 2008 SOS – Summer of Suspense and in 2011 Magic Silver 2. He is also a stage director and screenplay writer for television series. ARNE LINDTNER NÆSS 55 IN PRODUCTION DOKTOR PROKTORS TIDSBADEKAR EYE FOR AN EYE TBA MIN COLOUR Arild Fröhlich SCREENPLAY Johan Bogaeus DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Askild Vik Edvardsen PRODUCERS Synnøve Hørsdal and Cornelia Boysen for Maipo Film AS CAST Emily Glaister, Eilif Hellum Noraker, Kristoffer Joner, Marie Blokhus, Atle Antonsen RELEASE DATE 2015 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TBA 90 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Kjersti G. Steinsbø SCREENPLAY Kjersti G. Steinsbø inspired by the novel “Dukken i taket” by Ingvar Ambjørnsen DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Anna Myking PRODUCER Kristine Knudsen for Den siste skilling AS CAST TBA RELEASE DATE 2014/2015 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES TBA This story takes place in a playful universe in which everything is permitted. Doctor Proctor is stuck in time after a desperate attempt to stop the wedding between his beloved Juliette and the ghastly Claude Cliché. Lisa and Bulle get on the case. Together they travel through time in Doctor Proctor’s time-travel bathtub. Together, could they save the world, and true love? Rebekka travels back to a hotel by the Norwegian fjords seeking revenge on the man who ruined her sister’s life. FAMILY FILM DIRECTOR was born in Norway in 1972, with a Norwegian mother and a German father. After spending his early childhood years in Germany, he moved back home to Norway. He earned a degree in Documentary Film Directing at Volda in 1997. Since then he has worked as a freelance director on projects including feature films, documentaries, TV series, short films, commercials and music videos. 2005 saw Arild’s feature film debut with Pitbullterje, and in 2008 he directed his second feature film: Fatso. He was also the director of the first Doctor Proktor film. ARILD FRÖHLICH 56 ØYE FOR ØYE DRAMA DIRECTOR KJERSTI G. STEINSBØ (screenwriter and director) studied film directing at FAMU 3F Program, Prague and holds a Cand mag. from the University of Bergen (Literature and theater studies, film- and TV-production). She has written and directed award-winning short films. She is co-founder of the film company MadMonkey and works as a lecturer in the film and television program ath the University of Bergen. IN PRODUCTION HOMESICK HJEMLENGSEL TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Anne Sewitsky SCREENPLAY Ragnhild Tronvoll in cooperation with Anne Sewitsky DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Daniel Voldheim PRODUCER Synnøve Hørsdal for Maipo Film AS CAST Ine Marie Wilmann RELEASE DATE TBA NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS JULEKONGEN TBA MIN COLOUR Thale Persen SCREENPLAY Harald Rosenløw Eeg DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Daniel Voldheim PRODUCERS Frederick Howard and Lars Hellebust for Storm Films AS CAST TBA RELEASE DATE November 2015 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TBA DRAMA FAMILY FILM DIRECTOR DIRECTOR At her father’s deathbed Charlotte (27) finds out that she has a brother, Henrik (40). Their first meeting releases strong emotions in them both, and they start a relationship that is doomed to fail. Homesick is a mesmerizing story about opening up to another person - and suddenly realizing that all your fantasies involve your own brother. About seeking a place to belong, and miss completely. Evil reigns in the Ridderdalen Valley, and Christmas is cancelled. Only the Gran family is capable of saving the holidays. Unfortunately. This is a full feature comedy based on the successful Christmas Calendar series. (1978) studied directing at the Norwegian Film School, graduating in 2006. Her first film after graduating, the short Oh, My God! was selected for 2009 Berlin International Film Festival. Her feature film debut came in 2010 with the comedy Happy, Happy, which was awarded the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in january 2011. Her second feature film followed shortly: the children’s drama Totally True Love premiered at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival. Sewitsky has also directed two drama series for television. ANNE SEWITSKY is a graduate from the Volda University College, the documentary film production course, and television studies. She has been employed at the Children and Youth Department/Super for long periods of the public broadcaster NRK since 1998, directing series for children and youth. In 2012, she directed the Christmas calendar series The King of Christmas. The present film is a sequel to this series. THALE PERSEN 57 IN PRODUCTION THE KING’S CHOICE KONGENS NEI HISTORICAL DRAMA TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K DIRECTOR Erik Poppe KNUTSEN & LUDVIGSEN KNUTSEN & LUDVIGSEN OG DEN FÆLE RASPUTIN 80 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Rasmus A. Sivertsen and Rune Spaans SCREENPLAY Øystein Dolmen and Thomas Moldestad PRODUCERS Eric Vogel and Ingunn Sundelin for Tordenfilm AS RELEASE DATE September 25, 2015 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Norsk filmdistribusjon AS SALES TBA SCREENPLAY Jan Trygve Røyneland and Harald Rosenlow Eeg FAMILY ANIMATION DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY John Christian Rosenlund DIRECTORS PRODUCERS Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae for Paradox Rettigheter AS CAST TBA RELEASE DATE 2015 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS On the 9th of April 1940, German troops invade Oslo. The king of Norway is faced with a choice which will change his nation forever. The King’s Choice is an epic film about the real events which turned a brave man into the people’s king. Two kind-hearted anarchists are minding their own business and playing their music like they always have. But everything changes when something goes bump in the night in their railway tunnel home. They embark on a cross-country adventure to save the world and get the girl. A feature animation starring the musical duo Knutsen & Ludvigsen, world famous in Norway! had his debut as a feature film director with Schpaa in 1998. The film was selected for the Panorama section at the Berlinale, and won several awards in numerous festivals. His second and third feature films, Hawaii, Oslo and Troubled Water both received huge attention, and several awards. Poppe received the Film Critics’ Choice Award for excellent achievement in 2005, and 2009. His latest film A Thousand Times Good Night, starring Juliette Binoche and Nicolai Koster-Waldau was released in 2013. Director RASMUS A. SIVERTSEN is a veteran in animation feature films. Last year he had two animations released. Director and designer RUNE SPAANS has more than 15 years of experience from design, animation and visual effects. He has contributed to films such as Monster Thursday (2004), The Bothersome Man (2006) and Trollhunter (2010). ERIK POPPE 58 IN PRODUCTION THE LAST KING THE LION WOMAN TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Nils Gaup SCREENPLAY Ravn Laneskog DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Peter Mokrosinski PRODUCERS Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae for Paradox Rettigheter CAST TBA RELEASE DATE 2015 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES TBA TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Vibeke Idsøe SCREENPLAY Vibeke Idsøe based on the novel “Løvekvinnen” by Erik Fosnes Hansen DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY TBA PRODUCER John M. Jacobsen for Filmkameratene AS CAST TBA RELEASE DATE 2015 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES TBA Norway is ravaged by civil war, and the prince Haakon Haakonsson is born in secrecy. A boy half the kingdom is out to kill, and whom two men have to protect with their own lives. The Last King is the story of the escape which changed the history of Norway forever. A gripping, magnificent European co-production based on Erik Fosnes Hansen’s bestselling novel about Eva, who is born with hair all over her body. The film relates a girl’s unusual childhood in Norway in the year of 1912, and her encounter with the big wide outside world. NILS GAUP (1955) went to drama school from 1974 to 1978. VIBEKE IDSØE was educated at the Tisch School of Arts (film After acting in several movies, his feature film debut came in 1987 with The Pathfinder. This movie earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1993 he shot Head Above Water which was remade in 1996 as an American movie with Cameron Diaz and Harvey Keitel in the leading roles. In 2008 he made The Kautokeino Rebellion which is based on a true story from 1852 of the riots of the Sami people against the church and state domination on alcohol sale. school) at New York University. She made her debut as director in 1996 with Body Troopers based on her own screenplay. She has directed the animation film Karlsson on the Roof based on Astrid Lindgren’s story, and has written the screenplay for the animated success film Gurin with the Fox Tail. In 2006, she wrote and directed the comedy 37 ½, about a woman on the verge of turning 40. BIRKEBEINERNE HISTORICAL ACTION DRAMA DIRECTOR LØVEKVINNEN DRAMA DIRECTOR 59 IN PRODUCTION PYROMANIAC SOLAN & LUDVIG – HERFRA TIL FLÅKLYPA DRAMA TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Erik Skjoldbjærg SCREENPLAY Bjørn Olaf Johannessen based on Gaute Heivoll’s novel “Før jeg brenner ned” DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY TBA PRODUCER Edward A. Dreyer for Pravda Film CAST TBA RELEASE DATE 2015 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES TBA FAMILY ANIMATION DIRECTOR DIRECTOR A flame lights up the darkness of a peaceful village. A pyromaniac ignites his first fire. More fires break out and the community panics. An inferno lurks under the surface as a local policeman uncovers the unthinkable truth, the pyromaniac isn´t a stranger, he´s a village fireman. Reodor Felgen’s home and workshop are in peril after Solan has boasted and gambled in drunken company. A nerve-wrecking race with various vessels across Flåklypa’s highest peak will decide if Solan, Ludvig and Reodor still retain their home at the end of the story. PYROMANEN ERIK SKJOLDBJÆRG (1964) is a Norwegian director and writer. He graduated from the National Film and Television School in London in 1997 and made his feature film debut with Insomnia in 1997, which he also co-wrote. The film attracted substantial international attention and was selected for the “Semaine de la Critique” at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997. The film was remade in 2002, with Christopher Nolan directing. His latest film Pioneer (2013), was selected by Toronto International Film Festival and pre-sold to amongst others UK, US and Japan. 60 ENGLISH TITLE TBA TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Rasmus A. Sivertsen SCREENPLAY Karsten Fullu inspired by Kjell Aukrust’s universe DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Morten Skallerud and Janne Hansen PRODUCER Cornelia Boysen for Maipo Film AS RELEASE DATE 2016 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS (1972) is our foremost animation director, and the co-owner of Qvisten Animation. He graduated from the Volda University College, the animation programme, in 1995. He has directed the films Kurt Turns Evil (2008) and Ploddy the Police Car makes a Splash (2010). 2013 saw the premiere of his animated film Ploddy the Police Car on the Case, as well as The Christmas of Solan and Ludvig. RASMUS A. SIVERTSEN IN PRODUCTION STAYING ALIVE THINGS WE WON’T DO FOR LOVE DRAMA TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Charlotte Blom SCREENPLAY Charlotte Blom DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY TBA PRODUCER Synnøve Hørsdal for Maipo Film AS CAST TBA RELEASE DATE 2015 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS DRAMA DIRECTOR DIRECTOR Staying Alive is a drama/comedy about modern divorce. About how everyday life is turned upside down, and the struggle to maintain normality. To make it through each day, to adjust, and to want the best in spite of all the chaos a divorce creates. We follow our main character Marianne through half a year; from when her safe and predictable life comes to an end, and on her winding, difficult path in search of a new existence. Director and screenwriter Sara Johnsen has the following poem as inspiration for her next feature Things we won’t do for Love: “I wish I was your mother, I wish I’d been your father And then I would have seen you, would have been you as a child Played houses with your sisters and wrestled with all your brothers And then who knows, I might have felt a family for a while.” Ian Hunter STAYING ALIVE CHARLOTTE BLOM (1972) has written the screenplays for and directed several short films (Sunday in Schweigaardsgate, Coco-Nuts and Dear Lisa). In the spring of 2013, she directed several episodes of the television series The Struggle, broadcast on NRK Super last autumn. She also directed sketches for the TV series Nårje, and fantasy sequences in the documentary Good Girl by Solveig Melkeraaen. GARTNERENS HEMMELIGHET 90 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Sara Johnsen SCREENPLAY Sara Johnsen DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY TBA PRODUCER Turid Øversveen for 4 ½ Fiksjon AS CAST TBA RELEASE DATE 2015 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS (1970) studied literature, photography and media before she entered the directing class of the Norwegian Film School in 1997. Since then Johnsen has directed several shorts, and two episodes of the drama series The Family for SVT. She has also written two novels. She made her feature film debut in 2005 with the drama Kissed by Winter. Her second feature, Upperdog (2009), also received rave reviews and won numerous awards – including a grand total of five Amanda-statuettes, the Norwegian National Film Award. SARA JOHNSEN 61 IN PRODUCTION WAIT BLINK THE WAVE DRAMA /COMEDY TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Yngvild Sve Flikke SCREENPLAY Gunnhild Øyehaug and Yngvild Sve Flikke based on the novel “Vente, Blinke” by Gunnhild Øyehaug DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Marianne Bakke PRODUCER Yngve Sæther for Motlys AS CAST TBA RELEASE DATE Autumn 2015 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Norsk filmdistribusjon AS SALES TBA ACTION DIRECTOR DIRECTOR The somewhat uptight literature student, Sigrid (23) falls head over heels in love with the famous writer, Kåre (43). Trine (33) is an inhibited performance artist in the midst of her big break; that’s why it’s highly inconvenient that she’s heavily pregnant to an absent curator. Luckily, Trine meets the stout timber worker Agnes (63), who thinks she’s about to die and wants to contact the son she once gave up for adoption before she does. The Wave is a film about a fictional slide. We follow a family during what turns out to be the most dramatic day of their lives. VENTE BLINKE (1974) has studied anthropology and media. She is known for her documentaries and mini drama series for youth and children. She has been working at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) since 1997. In 2005 she won Gullruten for her documentary DumDum Boys – 5 men, 5 songs. Wait Blink is her debut as a feature film director. YNGVILD SVE FLIKKE 62 THE WAVE 100 MIN COLOUR DCP 4K Roar Uthaug SCREENPLAY John Kåre Raake DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY John Christian Rosenlund PRODUCERS Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrøm for Fantefilm Fiksjon AS CAST TBA RELEASE DATE TBA NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS ROAR UTHAUG (1973) graduated from The Norwegian National Film School in 2002. His graduation film The Martin Administration was nominated for a Student Academy Award. Since graduating he has worked extensively as a commercial director. His debut feature film Cold Prey (2006) was a huge box office-hit in Norway, sold to more than 40 countries and spawned two sequels. In 2009 he co-directed the children’s adventure Magic Silver, which was an even bigger success, and in 2012 his third film Escape was released. All his films have travelled extensively on the international festival circuit. CO-PRODUCTIONS CO-PRODUCTION ALGIERS BY NIGHT ALGIERS BY NIGHT 90 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Yanis Koussim SCREENPLAY Yanis Koussim DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Jean-Marie Delorme PRODUCERS Tewfik Rays and Claire Mazeau-Karoum for Une Chambre a Soi, Algerie NORWEGIAN COPRODUCER Knut Skoglund for Pomor Film CAST Fatima Yagoubi, Lamine Nezzar, Zakaria Houfel, Mohamed Hireche, Zeineb Aramis, Mounir Saci, Meriem Medjkane, Sarah Layssac RELEASE DATE July 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES TBA DRAMA EXPERIMENT DIRECTOR When night falls on Algiers ‘la Blanche’, the city walls turn to grey ... grey as sadness, loneliness, vice, fear and insomnia, as the dull eyes of men and women of the night in Algiers, that Lilia, the photographer, captures for her exhibition: Algiers by night. This is a night time urban drama, using documentary process, to tell about these people. 64 A PIGEON ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE EN DUVA SATT PÅ EN GREN OCH FUNDERADE ÖVER TILVÄRON 90 MIN COLOUR DCP 4K Roy Andersson SCREENPLAY Roy Andersson PRODUCER Pernilla Sandström for Roy Andersson Filmproudction AB, Sweden NORWEGIAN COPRODUCER Håkon Øverås for 4 ½ Fiksjon CAST TBA RELEASE DATE Autumn 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR SF Norge AS SALES AB Svensk Filmindustri DRAMA DIRECTOR Two world-weary men on a sales trip selling joke items provide an insight into a chaotic world of the present, past and future; a world of dreams and fantasies. Diverse lives and circumstances are paraded before us, reminding us both of the grandeur of life and the vulnerability of man. AUGUST FOOLS MIELETÖN ELOKUU 103 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K DOLBY SR Taru Mäkelä SCREENPLAY Raija Talvio DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Jouko Seppälä PRODUCER Markku Flink for Kinosto Oy, Finland NORWEGIAN COPRODUCER Knut Skoglund for Pomor Film AS CAST Kati Outinen, Miroslav Etzler, Elena Leeve, Krystof Hadek, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen RELEASE DATE October 4, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES TBA ROMANTIC DRAMA DIRECTOR Elsa, a middle-aged milliner and part-time clairvoyant runs a smart little hat-shop in the heart of Helsinki 1962. She has total control of her life-until the man she once loved and lost suddenly reappears from the past – and from the dead. Jan is in town to perform at the Festival with his Czech dance orchestra. The intoxicating blend of hot August nights, music, dance and the ice-cold political paranoia of the Age of the Iron Curtain form the circumstances in which Elsa has to make her final choice. Will she yield to the wishes of the Finnish Police or will she opt for an entirely new life herself? CO-PRODUCTION DESHORA DUKHTAR (DAUGHTER) EASY MONEY – LIFE DELUXE DRAMA 102 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 Barbara Sarasola-Day SCREENPLAY Barbara Sarasola-Day DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Lucio Bonelli PRODUCERS Federico Eibuszyc, Barbara Sarasola-Day and Daniel A. Werner for Púcara Cine, Argentine NORWEGIAN COPRODUCER Dag Hoel for Faction Film CAST Luis Ziembrowski, Alejandro Buitrago, María Ucedo RELEASE DATE Berlinale 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR DHF AS SALES Rendez-Vous Pictures DRAMA/THRILLER DIRECTOR DIRECTOR TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Afia Nathaniel SCREENPLAY Afia Nathaniel PRODUCER Zambeel Films, Pakistan NORWEGIAN COPRODUCER Carsten Aanonsen for Indie Film AS RELEASE DATE Spring 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES TBA 120 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K DOLBY DIGITAL Jens Jonsson SCREENPLAY Maria Karlsson and Jens Jonsson based on “Life deluxe” by Jens Lapidus DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Askild Edvardsen PRODUCER Fredrik Wikström Nicastro for Tre Vänner Produktion, Sweden NORWEGIAN COPRODUCERS Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrøm for Fantefilm Fiksjon AS CAST Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dejan Cukic, Madeleine Martin, Malin Buska, Martin Wallström RELEASE DATE September 27, 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TrustNordisk ApS Forbidden feelings unfold in between cockfights and hunting. At an estate in the Argentine northwest, between tobacco fields and the high mountain jungle, live a married couple, Ernesto (45) and Helena (38). One day they receive Joaquin (25), her unknown cousin, who is been taken by his mother to spend some time after having been discharged from a drugs rehabilitation centre. Dukhtar is a road trip thriller inspired by true events in Pakistan. It is about a young mother who is on the run with her eight year old daughter to save her from an arranged marriage to a warlord. On the road, she meets an adventurous truck driver, Sohail, who helps them escape. A forbidden love is kindled between Sohail and Allah Rakhi. As Allah Rakhi reaches Lahore, the pursuers catch up with the absconding mother and a tragic sequence of events lead to her death. JW now lives in exile and is more than ever determined to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm. Jorge is about to do his last score – the largest robbery in Swedish history. But during the complicated preparations he meets a woman from his past – Nadja. Martin Hägerström is chosen to go undercover into the Serbian mafia, in order to get its notorious boss Radovan Krajnic behind bars. When an assassination attempt is made on Radovan, his daughter Natalie is pulled into the power struggle within the Serbian mafia. DESHORA DUKHTAR SNABBA CASH – LIVET DELUXE THRILLER DIRECTOR 65 CO-PRODUCTION EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE GENTLEMEN FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE GENTLEMEN DRAMA TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Wim Wenders SCREENPLAY Bjørn Olaf Johannessen DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Benoît Debie PRODUCER Gian-Piero Ringel for Neue Road Movies, Germany NORWEGIAN COPRODUCER Maria Ekerhovd for Mer Film CAST Rachel McAdams, James Franco, Marie-Josée Croze RELEASE DATE TBA NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES Hanway films EROTIC DRAMA DIRECTOR DIRECTOR 100 MIN COLOUR DCP 4K Nguyen Hoang Diep SCREENPLAY Nguyen Hoang Diep DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY TBA PRODUCER Nguyen Hoang Diep for VBlock, Vietnam NORWEGIAN COPRODUCER Alan Milligan for Film Farms CAST TBA RELEASE DATE 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES TBA 120 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Mikael Marcimain SCREENPLAY Klas Östergren based on his own novel DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Jallo Faber PRODUCERS Fredrik Heinig, Johannes Åhlund, Mattias Nohrborg for B-Reel Feature Films, Sweden NORWEGIAN COPRODUCERS Karin Julsrud and Linn Kirkenær for 4 ½ Fiksjon AS CAST David Dencik, David Fukamachi, Ruth Vega Fernandez, Sverrir Gudnasson, Sven Nordin, Hege Schöyen, Bjørn Andersson, Anders Beckman RELEASE DATE October 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR SF Norge AS SALES Wild Bunch Everything will be Fine tells the story of Tomas, a writer who loses control of his life after a car accident. Even though he is not directly at fault, his relationship with his girlfriend breaks down because of this event and his life and work suddenly set off in a completely new direction. The film follows Tomas over a period of 12 years and tells an intimate story of guilt and the search for forgiveness. Hanoi, Vietnam. A teenage girl has to grow up fast when she finds out about her pregnancy. She urgently needs money for an abortion. Ironically, the only man willing to give it to her has a fetish for pregnant women. Gentlemen, the story of the charismatic Morgan brothers, is half love story, half international thriller depicted in the postwar zeitgeist of jazz, poetry, love and espionage. 66 DRAMA DIRECTOR CO-PRODUCTION THE GERMAN DOCTOR HEDI SCHNEIDER IS STUCK THE HEIRS 93 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Lucia Puenzo SCREENPLAY Lucia Puenzo based on her novel “Wakolda! DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Nicolás Puenzo PRODUCER Historias Cinematográficas, Argentine NORWEGIAN COPRODUCER Gudny Hummelvoll for Hummelfilm CAST Álex Brendemül, Florencia Bado, Diego Peretti, Natalia Oreiro, Elena Roger, Gulliermo Pfening RELEASE DATE Festival de Cannes 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES Pyramide International TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Sonja Heiss SCREENPLAY Sonja Heiss DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Nikolai von Graevenitz PRODUCERS Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade for ZDF/Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, Germany NORWEGIAN COPRODUCERS Maria Ekerhovd for Mer Film CAST TBA RELEASE DATE 2014/2015 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES The Match Factory 85 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Jorge Hernandez Aldana SCREENPLAY Gabriel Nuncio and Jorge Hernandez Aldana PRODUCERS Lucia Films and Itaca Films, Mexico NORWEGIAN COPRODUCER Eric Vogel for Tordenfilm RELEASE DATE 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES TBA The true story of an Argentinean family who lived with Josef Mengele without knowing his true identity, and of the girl who fell in love with one of the biggest criminals of all times. Hedi Schneider steckt fest (WT) tells an imaginative and humourous story about how life can slip out of control. Uli, Hedi and Finn are a happy, loving family. They get by with various odd jobs, and Hedi particularly uses humour to deal with every unpleasant setback. But the moment she begins to suffer from panic attacks out of the clear blue, her everyday life suddenly comes unstuck. A build-up of well-meant advice, hysterical parents, bored therapists and unfulfilled wishes intensify, creating a tragicomedy about fear and the influence of love. Coyo is 15. He lives in a suburb of Mexico City set on bringing the American dream to Mexican soil. He meets Ruco, the son of a prominent politician, and leader of the kids in the neighborhood. Freedom, boredom, adrenaline and excess drive Coyo and Ruco into a journey of blood, tears, love and hate, to discover the secret dividing winners and losers in life. WAKOLDA DRAMA/HISTORIAL THRILLER DIRECTOR HEDI SCHNEIDER STECKT FEST TRAGICOMEDY DIRECTOR LOS HEREDEROS DRAMA DIRECTOR 67 CO-PRODUCTION JERRYMAYA’S DETECTIVE AGENCY – VON BROMS’ SECRET LASSEMAJAS DETEKTIVBYRÅ – VON BROMS HEMMELIGHET LONELYLAND NOBODY OWNS ME DRAMA TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 109 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 Kjell-Åke Andresson SCREENPLAY Pia Gradvall based on the novel “Mig äger ingen” by Åsa Linderborg DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Jonas Alarik PRODUCER Francy Suntinger for FIlmlance International AB NORWEGIAN CO-PRODUCER Synnøve Hørsdal for Maipo Film AS CAST Mikael Persbrandt, Ping Mon Wallén, Saga Samuelsson, Ida Engvoll, Tanja Lorentzon, Sten Ljunggren, Linn Skåber NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Arthaus RELEASE DATE January 24, 2014 SALES AB Svensk Filmindustri SVENSKJÆVEL 83 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 DIRECTORS Walter Söderlund and Pontus Klänge SCREENPLAY Malin Nevander based on an idea by Martin Widmark, Peter Arrhenius, Paolo Vacirca DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Mats Olofson PRODUCER Johanna Bergenstråhle for AB Svensk Filmindustri NORWEGIAN CO-PRODUCERS Silje Hopland Eik og Tanya Nanette Badendyck for Cinenord Kidstory CAST Amanda Pajus, Lukas Holgersson, Peter Magnusson, Kajsa Ernst, Adam Pålsson, Tomas Norström, Nassim Al Fakir, Sara Sommerfeld NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA RELEASE DATE October 18, 2013 SALES AB Svensk Filmindustri DIRECTOR Ronnie Sandahl Detective duo Jerry and Maya find a mysterious chest that has been hidden for 250 years and that seems impossible to open. They hope that interest in the chest will generate enough revenue to fund the long overdue renovation of the church, but instead it attracts the three remaining descendants of the man who hid the chest. The Von Broms family wants their inheritance. She went to Norway to get a job. She got something else. Burn Heart Burn is a timeless coming-of-age film about love, betrayal and sacrifice, about those defining choices – what kind of life to live, and with whom. And just below the surface lies a bigger story, one of the shifted power balance between two countries, with Norway – the former baby brother – suddenly calling the shots FAMILY FILM 68 SCREENPLAY Ronnie Sandahl DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Ita Zbroniec-Zajt PRODUCERS Annika Hellström and Martin Persson for Cinenic Film and Anagram Film NORWEGIAN COPRODUCER Gudny Hummelvoll for Hummelfilm CAST Bianca Kronlöf, Henrik Rafaelsen, Mona-Cecilie Kristiansen, Petronella Barker, Kyrre Hellum RELEASE DATE 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Norsk filmdistribusjon AS SALES TBA MIG ÄGER INGEN DRAMA DIRECTOR A story about a father-daughter relationship that grows strong despite the inability to handle an everyday situation with alcoholism. About a daughter’s longing and vulnerability in a battle against her father’s doom. One day, she must choose: leave him or perish. This is a unique story about love, betrayal and red banners in the 1970s Sweden. CO-PRODUCTION PALESTINE STEREO RICHARD THE STORK THE SERIOUS GAME 90 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Rashid Masharawi SCREENPLAY Rashid Masharawi PRODUCERS Habib Attia and for Cinepal Films, Palestine and Abed al Salam Abu Askar for Cinetelefilms, Tunisia NORWEGIAN COPRODUCERS Silja Espolin Johnsen and Ruben Thorkildsen for Ape&Bjørn CAST Mahmoud Abu Jazi, Salah Hannoun, Areen Omari, Mayssa Abdel Hadi RELEASE DATE TBA NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES TBA 85 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Toby Genkel and Reza Memari SCREENPLAY Reza Memari PRODUCER Kristine Knudsen for Knudsen & Streuber Medienmanufaktur,GmbH, Germany NORWEGIAN COPRODUCER Einar Loftesnes for Den siste skilling AS RELEASE DATE 2015/2016 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES Global Screen TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Pernilla August SCREENPLAY Lone Scherfig based on the novel “Den allvarsamma leken” by Hjalmar Söderberg DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Lone Scherfig PRODUCERS Patrik Andersson and Frida Jonason for B-Reel, Sweden NORWEGIAN COPRODUCERS Yngve Sæther and Sigve Endresen for Motlys AS CAST TBA RELEASE DATE 2015 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS SALES TBA Samy and his older brother “Stereo” are planning to emigrate from Palestine. In order to earn money for the travel, they work providing sound services for all kinds of events throughout the West Bank: weddings, funerals, demonstrations and political meetings. As they move on, the film portrays with derision but no complacency, the absurdity of life in Palestine through a wide range of situations both comical and desperate. Richard is a sparrow who believes he is a stork as he was raised by a stork family. When they migrate to Africa they must reveal his true identity and leave him behind. But he ventures south on his own to prove he is a stork after all, joined by an eccentric owl and a disco-singing parakeet. Once Lydia was the innocent girl that young journalist Arvid fell in love with out in the archipelago. Or did he fall in love with the idea of what love could be? The beauty of love, the love at first sight. But the social structures of Oscarian Stockholm restrain them to take the full step into marriage. And the love slips away. A decade later they are both married. They meet again and end up having an affair, that forces the couple to reflect upon how different they both have become and how far away from each other they actually are. The consequences of their affair are unforeseeable. FALASTEEN STEREO DRAMA DIRECTOR STORKEN RICHARD (TBC) FAMILY ANIMATION DIRECTORS DEN ALLVARSAMMA LEKEN DRAMA DIRECTOR 69 CO-PRODUCTION THE SHAMER’S DAUGHTER THE SWIMMER TOMMY 90 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Kenneth Kainz SCREENPLAY Anders Thomas Jensen DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY TBA PRODUCER Nepenthe Film, Denmark NORWEGIAN COPRODUCERS Lars Hellebust and Fredrik Støbakk for Storm Films CAST Maria Bonnevie, Jakob Oftebro, Søren Malling, Laura Bro, Stina Ekblad, Peter Plauborg, Allan Hyde RELEASE DATE 2015 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES TBA DRAMA TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Richard L. Fox SCREENPLAY Bård Engelsås DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY TBA PRODUCERS Lisa g. Black for Senza Pictures Inc. and Brandi Savitt for Garnet Girl LLC NORWEGIAN COPRODUCERS Joachim Lyng and Magnus Ramsdalen for Sweet Films AS CAST Ben McKenzie, Agnes Kittelsen, Kristoffer Joner RELEASE DATE February 13, 2015 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES TBA CRIME THRILLER DIRECTOR DIRECTOR In a semi realistic fantasy world with Dragons and Witchcraft, Dina and her family are thrown into the adventure of a lifetime when Nico, the rightful heir to the Kingdom of Dunark, is wrongfully accused of a number of horrible murders. Using Dina as a weapon, Drakan, leader of the Order of the Dragons, has Nico arrested and plots to sentence him to death and thus take control of the Kingdom. But Dina and Nico create an immediate bond and both are now on the run from Drakan, his army and his terrible dragons. A film about an American extreme swimmer who discovers that his real challenge is not to conquer major Norwegian water falls, but to confront his innermost demons and be reconciled with them. Along the way, he meets an old Norwegian farmer who is also struggling with inner demons. It turns out the two of them share a common fate in many ways. Their encounter contributes to changes in their lives achieved through insight, forgiveness and reconciliation. Estelle returns to Stockholm. She brings her daughter with her, and the promise that Tommy is coming home. A year earlier they had fled head over heels after one of the biggest robberies in Swedish history. Estelle starts to pressure Tommy’s old cronies for the loot, and when things don’t go her way she takes a dangerous gamble. Tommy is the story of the woman behind the man behind the headlines. A modern myth about when the Queen returned and the city burned. About two sisters, two mothers, three daughters and their men. SKAMMERENS DATTER DRAMA DIRECTOR 70 THE SWIMMER TOMMY TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Tarik Saleh SCREENPLAY Anton Hagwall DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Carl Nilsson PRODUCER Atmo, Sweden NORWEGIAN COPRODUCER Eric Vogel for Tordenfilm CAST Moa Gammel, Lykke-Li Zachrisson, Ola Rapace, Johan Rebaeus, Alexej Manvelov, Amanda Ooms, Ewa Fröling RELEASE DATE 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES AB Svensk Filmindustri CO-PRODUCTION TOURIST TWO LIVES YVY MARAEY DRAMA /COMEDY TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K DOLBY SR Ruben Östlund SCREENPLAY Ruben Östlund DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Fredrik Wenzel PRODUCER Erik Hemmendorff for Plattform Produktion NORWEGIAN COPRODUCERS Yngve Sæther and Sigve Endresen for Motlys AS CAST Lisa Loven, Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Kristoffer Hivju RELEASE DATE Autumn 2014 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Arthaus SALES Co-Production Office DRAMA 97 MIN COLOUR 1:2,35 STEREO 5.1 Georg Maas SCREENPLAY Georg Maas, Christoph Tölle, Ståle Stein Berg and Judith Kaufmann based on “Eiszeiten” by Hannelore Hippe DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Judith Kaufmann PRODUCERS Dieter Zeppenfeld and Rudi Teichmann for Zinnober Film and B&T Film, Germany NORWEGIAN PRODUCER Axel Helgeland for Helgeland Film AS CAST Juliane Köhler, Liv Ullmann, Sven Nordin, Julia Bache-Wiig, Ken Duken, Rainer Bock, Vicky Krieps, Dennis Storhøi NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Norsk FilmdistribusjonAS RELEASE DATE Autumn 2013 SALES Beta Cinema DRAMA DIRECTOR DIRECTOR Well-to-do tourists lose their dignity. Through a “state of emergency”, a family on holiday come into contact with human mechanisms that they have never confronted before. They are now forced to ascribe to themselves urges and instincts they’d learned to despise and credit only to others. Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, now living in Norway since more than 20 years, is a “war child”, the result of a love relationship between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier. Katrine enjoys a happy family life in Norway. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to witness in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealments and secrets is unveiled, and her loved ones are forced to take a stand: What carries more weight, the life they have lived together, or the lie it is based on? The film is set in the Guarani Indians’ unexplored forest areas in Bolivia, where we follow the Spanish filmmaker Andres in his search for the circumstances surrounding a Swedish documentary film made in the area a hundred years earlier. The result is a mystical, existential journey into the lives of both the Indians and the filmmaker. TURIST DIRECTOR ZWEI LEBEN TIERRA SIN MAL TBA MIN COLOUR DCP 2K Juan Carlos Valdivia SCREENPLAY Juan Carlos Valdivia and Elio Ortiz PRODUCER Cinenomada, Bolivia NORWEGIAN COPRODUCER Petter Borgli for PJB Picture Company RELEASE DATE October 2013 NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR TBA SALES TBA 71 CO-PRODUCTION NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2003–2013 72 NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2003–2013 Documentaries in italic TITLE 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 Mother’s Elling Play United Wolf Summer The Woman of My Life 2004 A Cry in the Woods Arctic Cabaret Beautiful Country Chlorox, Ammonia and Coffee The Color of Milk The Crossing Hawaii, Oslo Just Bea Little Grey Fergie – the Secret on the Farm MonsterThursday My Jealous Barber Raw Youth The Junior Olsen Gang Rocks It The Man Who Loved Haugesund This is the Song You Need Tradra Uno DIRECTOR PRODUCTION COMPANY RELEASE DATE Steffan Strandberg Lars Göran Petterson Hilde Heier Erik Smith Meyer Morten Tyldum Stig Bergqvist Pål Øie Jo Strømgren/Runar Hodne Benedicte M. Orvung Elsa Kvamme Gunnar Hall Jensen Arne Lindtner Næss Jens Lien Bent Hamer Eva Isaksen John Sullivan Magnus Martens Peder Norlund Alexander Eik Exposed Film Production AS Filbmagoahti AS Paradox AS Filmfalken AS Happy Endings AS Seven Seas Production Spleis AS Nordisk Film Production AS Benedicte Orvung Film Dinamo Story AS Agitator AS Nordisk Film Production AS Maipo Film &TV Prouksjon BulBul Film AS Maipo Film & TV Produksjon Dinamo Story AS 4 ½ AS Nordisk Film Production AS Filmkameratene AS 21.02 12.09 12.09 11.04 29.08 26.12 21.02 19.09 23.06 24.10 31.10 07.02 14.02 17.01 10.10 25.07 20.08 28.02 24.09 Erich Hörtnagl Knut Erik Jensen Hans Petter Moland Mona J. Hoel Torun Lian Martin Asphaug Erik Poppe Petter Næss Trond Jacobsen Arild Østin Ommundsen Annette Sjursen Margreth Olin Arne Lindtner Næss Jon Haukeland, Tore Vollan Tore Rygh Karoline Frogner Aksel Hennie Paradox Rettigheter AS Barentsfilm AS Dinamo Story AS Freedom from Fear Painswick Film Dinamo Story AS Paradox Rettigheter AS Maipo Film & TV Produksjon Fantasi-Fabrikken Muz Film Maipo Film & TV Produksjon Speranza AS Nordisk Film Production AS Medieoperatørene Motlys AS Integritet Film Tordenfilm 02.04 16.01 12.03 06.08 27.08 22.10 24.09 23.01 24.09 15.10 03.09 19.11 06.02 30.01 20.08 12.03 10.09 73 NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2003–2013 TITLE 2005 37 and a Half 100% Human An Enemy of the People Factotum Finding Friends The Giant Grandpa is a Raisin Import – Export Izzat Kissed by Winter Le Regard Loop Love Me Tomorrow Next Door Pitbullterje The Professor and the Story of the Origami Girl Sinus Tommy’s Inferno Too Much Norway 2006 The Art of Negative Thinking The Bothersome Man Comrade Pedersen Cold Feet Cold Prey Free Jimmy The Junior Olsen Gang at the Circus Hearts It’s Hard to be a Rock’n Roller The Lion – Henrik Ibsen Long Flat Balls Lullaby Maria’s Men Miracle Ole Bull Prirechnyy Reprise 74 DIRECTOR PRODUCTION COMPANY RELEASE DATE Vibeke Idsøe Trond Winterkjær/Jan Dalchow Erik Skjoldbjærg Bent Hamer Arne Lindtner Næss Hallvard Bræin/Arne B. Rostad Pjotr Sapegin Khalid Hussain Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen Sara Johnsen Nour-Eddine Lakhmari Sjur Paulsen Petter Næss Pål Sletaune Arild Fröhlich Dag Johan Haugerud Jeremy Robøle Ove Raymond Gyldenås Rune Denstad Langlo/Sigve Endresen Filmkameratene Dalchows Verden Nordisk Film & TV AS BulBul Film/Stark Sales Nordisk Film & TV AS Paradox Rettigheter AS Kinopravda Filmhuset Produksjoner AS Filmkameratene AS Friland AS Filmhuset Produksjoner AS Sub Productions Maipo Film & TV Produksjon AS Spillefilmkompaniet 4 ½ AS Paradox Rettigheter AS Mikrofilm AS Bastard Film Friland AS Motlys AS 28.01 04.02 21.01 29.04 18.02 02.09 11.03 09.09 07.10 11.02 18.03 18.02 23.09 11.03 04.11 10.06 26.12 19.08 28.01 Bård Breien Jens Lien Hans Petter Moland Alexander Eik Roar Uthaug Christopher Nielsen Arne Lindtner Næss Øyvind Sandberg Gunhild Asting Alexander Wisting Bjørn Fast Nagell Margreth Olin Vibeke Ringen Thomas Kaiser Aslak Aarhus Tone Grøttjord Joachim Trier Maipo Film & TV-produksjon AS Tordenfilm AS Motlys AS You Are Here/Nordisk Film Fantefilm AS Storm Studio Nordisk Film Øy-Film AS Speranza Film AS Tellus Works Zwart Arbeid AS Speranza Maipo Film & TV-produksjon AS Nordisk Film Visions AS Motlys AS 4 ½ AS 03.11 26.05 24.02 27.10 13.10 21.04 10.02 18.08 01.09 20.10 31.03 01.12 30.09 26.12 27.10 15.06 08.09 NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2003–2013 TITLE DIRECTOR PRODUCTION COMPANY RELEASE DATE The Rich Country Sons Svein and the Rat Trigger Uro 2007 5 Lies Elias and the Royal Yacht Girls Gone with the Woman The Junior Olsen Gang – The Silvermine Mystery Kill Buljo Man Woman Coffee Mars & Venus Mirush Natural Born Star O’Horten On a Tightrope Pining for the Fjords Porn Star? The Radio Pirates Second Half Svein and the Rat and the UFO-Mystery Switch The Ten Lives of Titanic the Cat USA vs Al-Arian Varg Veum – Bitter Flowers Winterland 2008 99% Honest Big John Cold Lunch Cold Prey II Fatso House of Fools Ice Kiss The Kautokeino Rebellion Kurt Turns Evil Aslaug Holm Erik Richter Strand Gunnar Vikene Stefan Faldbakken Fenris Film AS Tordenfilm AS Maipo Film & TV-produksjon AS Cinenord Friland AS 27.01 15.09 03.03 11.08 08.09 Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen Espen Fyksen/Lise I. Osvoll Hanne Myren Petter Næss Arne Lindtner Næss Tommy Wirkola Carl Eugen Johannessen Eva Dahr Marius Holst Even Benestad Bent Hamer Petr Lom Are Syvertsen/Jon Martin Førland John Sullivan Stig Svendsen Hilde Heier Vibeke Ringen Ole Martin Hafsmo Grethe Bøe Line Halvorsen Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen Hisham Zaman Viafilm AS Filmkameratene AS Medieoperatørene| Monster Film Nordisk Film AS Yellow Bastard Productions Filmkollektivet AS Cinenord AS Spillefilmkompaniet 4 ½ AS Fredrik Fiction AS BulBul Film Piraya Film AS Incakola Productions Navillus Film Spillefilmkompaniet 4 ½ AS Paradox Rettigheter AS Maipo Film- og TV-produksjon AS Rubicon Film AS Nordisk Film AS Dalchows verden SF Norge/Miso Film Spillefilmkompaniet 4 ½ AS 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 14.09 19.01 09.03 26.10 31.10 23.02 28.09 19.01 Rune Denstad Langlo Håvard Bustnes Eva Sørhaug Mats Stenberg Arild Fröhlich Eva Isaksen Knut Erik Jensen Nils Gaup Rasmus Sivertsen Motlys AS Faction Film AS Spillefilmkompaniet 4 ½ AS Fantefilm AS Paradox Rettigehter AS Norsk filmproduksjon AS Filmhuset produksjoner AS Rubicon TV AS Nordisk Film and Qvisten Animation 12.09 22.08 01.02 10.10 24.10 12.09 03.10 18.01 31.10 75 NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2003–2013 TITLE DIRECTOR PRODUCTION COMPANY RELEASE DATE The Last Joint Venture Long Flat Balls II The Man Who Loved Yngve Manhunt Max Manus Night of the Wolf Respect SOS – Summer of Suspense Summers Past Through a Glass, Darkly Troubled Water Trying Freedom Varg Veum - Fallen Angels 2009 The Angel Betrayal Dead Snow Detour The Junior Olsen Gang and the Black Gold Hidden Hunting Down Memory Magic Silver Nemesis North The Orange Girl ORPS – The Movie Rafiki Rat Nights The Storm in my Heart Together Twigson Upperdog Vegas Yatzy Yodok Stories 2010 A Somewhat Gentle Man Brødrene Dal og vikingsverdets forbannelse Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen Harald Zwart Stian Kristiansen Patrik Syversen Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning Kjell Sundvall Johannes Joner Arne Lindtner Næss Ole Giæver Jesper W. Nielsen Erik Poppe Thor Bekkavik Morten Tyldum Maipo Film- og TV-produksjon AS Zwart Arbeid AS Motlys AS Fender Film AS Filmkameratene AS Nordisk Film Nordisk Film Nordisk Film Spillefilmkompaniet 4 ½ AS Spillefilmkompaniet 4 ½ AS Paradox Rettigheter AS Indiefilm SF Norge and Miso Film 29.08 14.03 15.02 11.01 19.12 29.02 07.03 15.02 22.02 17.10 26.09 03.10 04.04 Margreth Olin Håkon Gundersen Tommy Wirkola Severin Eskeland Arne Lindtner Næss Pål Øie Thomas Lien Roar Uthaug and Katarina Launing Erlend E. Mo Rune Denstad Langlo Eva Dahr Atle Knudsen Christian Lo Arild Østin Ommundsen Pål Jackman Matias Armand Jordal Åsleik Engmark Sara Johnsen Gunnar Vikene Katja Eyde Jacobsen Andrzej Fidyk Speranza Production AS Alphaville Productions Miho Film Exposed Film Prods AS Nordisk Film & TV Alligator Film Merkur Film Produksjon AS Storm Rosenberg AS Exposed Film Prods AS Motlys AS Helgeland Film AS Monster Film AS Filmbin Paradox Rettigheter AS Kong Film AS Mirmar Production AS Paradox Rettigheter AS Friland AS Cinenord Spillefilm and Kong Film 4 ½ AS Piraya Film AS 02.10 09.10 09.01 31.07 30.01 03.04 20.02 13.11 13.03 06.02 27.02 06.03 30.10 04.09 16.01 23.01 16.10 28.08 25.09 20.03 16.10 Hans Petter Moland Mikkel Magnus Paradox Rettigheter AS MagCat Produksjoner AS 19.03 10.09 76 NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2003–2013 TITLE DIRECTOR PRODUCTION COMPANY RELEASE DATE Cold Prey III East End Angels Elias and the Treasure of the Sea Happy, Happy Home for Christmas The Junior Olsen Gang and the Master Thief Just Another Day at the Office King of Devil's Island Kurt Josef Wagle og legenden om Fjordheksa Limbo The Liverpool Goalie Modern Slavery Nokas Norwegian Ninja Ploddy the Police Car Makes a Splash Shameless Smack! The Snow Cave Man Strictly Confidential Tears of Gaza The Troll Hunter Twigson Ties the Knot Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall Yohan – The Child Wanderer 2011 Babycall The Bambi Effect Coming Home Cupid’s Balls Dark Souls Exteriors Graduates Gunnar Goes God Headhunters I Travel Alone Jackpot King Curling Mikkel Brænne Sandemose Lars Berg Lise I. Osvoll Anne Sewitsky Bent Hamer Arne Lindtner Næss Terje Rangnes Marius Holst Tommy Wirkola Maria Sødahl Arild Andresen Tina Davis and Thomas Robsahm Erik Skjoldbjærg Thomas Cappelen Malling Rasmus Sivertsen Petter Næss Leon Bashir and Sebastian Dalén Fridtjof Kjæreng Benedicte Maria Orvung Vibeke Løkkeberg André Øvredal Martin Lund Stefan Faldbakken Grete Salomonsen Fantefilm Fikjson AS Maipo AS Filmkameratene AS Maipo AS BulBul Film AS Nordisk Film AS Folk Flest Film Produksjon AS 4 1/2 Fiksjon AS Tappeluft Production SF Norge Produksjon 4 ½ AS Speranza Film Alligator Film Tordenfilm AS Neofilm Maipo AS Tomme Tønner AS f(x) produksjoner AS Orvung Film Nero Film Filmkameratene AS Paradox Rettigehter AS Cinemiso Penelope Film AS 15.10 26.02 10.12 05.11 12.11 29.01 12.03 17.12 05.03 10.09 22.10 28.01 01.10 13.08 08.01 08.10 08.01 12.03 08.02 05.11 29.10 24.09 27.08 26.03 Pål Sletaune Øystein Stene Aleksander Nordaas Kristoffer Metcalfe César Ducasse, Mathieu Peteul Marie Kristiansen and Patrik Syversen Kenneth Olav Hjellum Gunnar Hall Jensen Morten Tyldum Stian Kristiansen Magnus Martens Ole Endresen 4 ½ Fiksjon AS Feil Film Atomfilm and Filmimo SF Norge AS Addict Films AS Fredrik Fiction AS Tappeluft Pictures AS Agitator Friland Film / Yellow Bird Norway Motlys AS Fantefilm Fiksjon AS 4 ½ Fiksjon AS 07.10 29.07 26.08 25.03 14.01 25.03 15.04 11.02 26.08 11.02 25.11 23.09 77 NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2003–2013 TITLE DIRECTOR PRODUCTION COMPANY RELEASE DATE Kings of Oslo Little Grey Fergie and his New Friend Clunky Magic Silver 2 The Mountain Oslo, August 31st Pax People by the Fjord People in the Sun Pushwagner Red Heart Reunion – Ten Years After the War Sons of Norway Tomme tønner II Totally True Love Turn Me On, Goddammit Twigson in Trouble Tying the Knot Umeå4ever Varg Veum – At Night All Wolves are Grey Varg Veum – Black Sheep Varg Veum – Consorts of Death Wide Blue Yonder You Said What! 2012 90 Minutes All That Matters is Past The Almost Man Bravehearts Company Orheim Diary from the Revolution Escape The Exorcist in the 21st Century Fuck Up I Belong Into the Dark Into the White Journey to the Christmas Star Elsa Kvamme Morten Myklebust Arne Lindtner Næss Ole Giæver Joachim Trier Annette Sjursen Øyvind Sandberg Per-Olav Sørensen Even Benestad , August Baugstø Hanssen Halkawt Mustafa Jon Haukeland Jens Lien Leon Bashir and Sebastian Dalén Anne Sewitsky Jannicke Systad Jacobsen Arild Østin Ommundsen Frode N. Nordås Geir Greni Alexander Eik Stephan Apelgren Stephan Apelgren Robert William Young Nini Bull Robsahm and Patrik Syversen Alert Film Fantasi-Fabrikken AS Storm Rosenberg AS Ferdinand Films / 4 ½ Fiksjon AS Motlyas AS Paradox Rettigheter AS Øy-Film AS Maipo AS Indiefilm AS Filmhuset AS / Hene Film Medieoperatørene Friland AS Tappeluft Production Cinenord Kidstory AS Motlys AS Paradox Rettigheter AS Nordås Film Snurr Film Cinemiso Cinemiso Cinemiso Euromax Film Production Tappeluft Pictures AS 08.02 18.02 18.11 28.02 31.08 18.03 28.10 04.03 02.09 29.04 17.06 09.09 07.01 25.02 19.08 23.09 08.04 01.04 04.11 21.01 08.04 31.12 22.07 Eva Sørhaug Sara Johnsen Martin Lund Kari Anne Moe Arild Andresen Nizam Najar Roar Uthaug Fredrik Horn Akselsen Øystein Karlsen Dag Johan Haugerud Thomas Wangsmo Petter Næss Nils Gaup 4 ½ Film 4 ½ Film Ape & Bjørn Sant & Usant Motlys AS Medieoperatørene Fantefilm Fiksjon AS Gammaglimt AS Viafilm AS Motlys AS Wangsmo Film Zentropa Int. Norway AS Moskus Film AS 21.09 02.11 14.09 31.08 02.03 08.10 28.09 19.10 16.03 14.09 27.01 09.03 09.11 78 NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2003–2013 TITLE DIRECTOR PRODUCTION COMPANY RELEASE DATE Kon-Tiki Liv & Ingmar Nowhere Home Squeeze Shakespeare: The Hidden Truth Thale Tina & Bettina – The Movie Varg Veum – Cold Hearts Varg Veum – The Dead Have it Easy When Bubbles Burst 2013 A Thousand Times Good Night Before Snowfall Casper and Emma – Best Friends Chasing the Wind Crack, Back & Sack The Christmas of Solan & Ludvig Detective Downs Granny & the Kids Gulabi Gang Hocus, Pocus, Alfie Atkins! I am Yours It's Only Make Believe Kill Buljo 2 Kiss Me, You Fucking Moron! Mercy Must Have Been Love The Optimists Pioneer Ploddy the Police Car on the Case Ragnarok Siblings are Forever Supervention The Tough Guys The Tram to Auschwitz Two Lives Victoria Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg Dheeraj Akolkar Margreth Olin Kathrine Haugen Jørgen Friberg Alexander Nordaas Simen Alsvik Trond Espen Seim Erik Richter Strand Hans Petter Moland Nordisk Film Production Nordic Stories Speranza Film AS Filimo Film AS Videomaker Yesbox Productions Tappeluft Pictures AS Cinemiso AS Cinemiso AS EyeworksDinamo 24.08 28.09 07.09 05.10 13.04 12.02 07.09 30.03 20.01 23.03 Erik Poppe Hisham Zaman Arne Lindtner Næss Rune Denstad Langlo Johan Kaos Rasmus A. Sivertsen Bård Breien Lisa Marie Gamlem Nishta Jain Torill Kove Iram Haq Arild Østin Ommundsen Vegar Hoel Stian Kristiansen Mathias Glasner Eirik Svensson Gunhild Westhagen Magnor Erik Skjoldbjærg Rasmus A. Sivertsen/Rune Spaans Mikkel Brænne Sandemose Frode Fimland Filip Christensen, Even Sigstad Christian Lo Elsa Kvamme Georg Maas Torun Lian Paradox Rettigehter AS Paradox AS Cinenord Kidstory AS Motlys AS Feil Film AS Maipo Film AS Friland Produksjon AS Paradox Rettigheter AS Piraya Film AS Maipo Film AS Mer Film AS Chezville AS Tappeluft Production Motlys AS Neofilm 4 ½ Fiksjon AS Skofteland Film Friland Produksjon AS Neofilm AS Fantefilm Fiksjon AS Fim Video AS Field Productions Filmbin AS Hummelfilm AS Helgeland Films Filmkameratene AS 20.09 15.01 15.02 15.03 19.07 08.11 25.10 16.08 18.01 13.09 16.08 22.03 20.12 09.08 18.01 01.02 27.09 30.08 03.05 04.10 01.11 25.10 06.09 26.01 19.10 01.03 79 NORWEGIAN FILM INSTITUTIONS 80 80 NORWEGIAN FILM INSTITUTIONS Norwegian Film Institute Film & Kino The Norwegian Film Institute operates under the authority of the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and is the Norwegian government’s administrative body for the film sector and advisor on film policy issues. The Board of the Film Institute is appointed by the Ministry. The CEO is Mr Sindre Guldvog. Film & Kino is a combination of a member organisation for Norwegian municipalities and an industry organisation for the cinema and video industries. The organisation, which was established in 1917, administers the Norwegian Cinema and Film Foundation and also runs the Mobile Cinema. The Norwegian Film Institute represents and promotes Norwegian feature films, shorts, documentaries, games and TV-series at festivals and films cultural events nationally and abroad, and provides statistics and facts about Norwegian films and theatrical releases. The Norwegian Film Institute facilitates and promote Norway as an attractive location for foreign producers. Around the world, cinemas are usually owned by private companies. In Norway, however, most cinemas are owned by the municipalities. As a member organization for the municipalities, Film & Kino is looking after their interests concerning film, the running of cinemas and video activities. Membership is open to all municipalities. The organization is governed by a national convention with delegates from both the municipalities and the cinema and video industries. As of 2013 the privately owned cinemas are emerging, and they hold almost 60 per cent of the marked share. Due to this development, Film & Kino will experience changes in the owner structure in the coming years. Public funding in 2014 for audiovisual development, production and marketing is approx. EUR 49 million. The Film Institute also offers grants, training and talent development for the film industry. The Norwegian Film Institute is located in the Film House in Oslo, and is in charge of the Film Museum and the Cinemateque of Oslo. Through our work, we provide knowledge and understanding of the Norwegian film heritage. The Norwegian Film Institute represents Norway at the Council of Europe’s fund for co-production of film, Eurimages, as well as at the European Audiovisual Observatory. The Institute participates in a number of international co-operative efforts for the audiovisual sector, including the International Council for Educational Media, the European Film Academy, European Film Promotion, Filmkontakt Nord and Scandinavian Films. Together with the National Library, the Norwegian Filminsitute is a member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). Read more about Norwegian films at www.norwegianfilms.no and the Norwegian Film database. Helps ensure public access to new and relevant films Film & Kino’s mission is to ensure the public of the entire country access to new and relevant films, either through regular theatrical releases, at festivals or through DVD. The organisation shall further both the big movie theatre experience and a purposeful use of the DVD format, as well as being a guarantor of quality and diversity. Film & Kino administers a number of support initiatives for films. About 30 per cent of the films in regular theatrical release in Norway receive support from these initiatives. In 2011 all Norwegian movie theatres became digital. During the next few years, the following up of the digitalising of Norwegian movie theatres will be one of the most important tasks for the organisation. 81 NORWEGIAN FILM INSTITUTIONS Film & Kino’s fields of operations are: • Following up the digitalisation of Norwegian movie theatres • Support the import and distribution of films •Main executive responsibility for the government’s film culture and educational programmes for children and youth • Administrating and partially financing Norwegian film festivals • Developing the cinema and video industries • Give advice and develop know-how • Information and contact point for the public Norwegian Cinema and Film Foundation Film & Kino administers the Norwegian Cinema and Film Foundation, which was established in 1970. Norwegian law instructs this foundation to charge a certain percentage of cinema ticket sales as well as a levy on video sales and rentals. Film & Kino’s activities for the cinema and video industries are then financed by this foundation. The Mobile Cinema The Mobile Cinema is Film & Kino’s arrangement for the screening of films in locations without a regular movie theatre. The Mobile Cinema brings all necessary equipment and can screen films on all kinds of premises all over the country. Regional film funds and film centres By the end of 2011 all districts in Norway, apart from Oslo, the capital, have ‘film centres’, ‘film funds’ and/or ‘film commissions’. They all have regional as well as governmental support. The national goals are to stimulate strengthened production infrastructure, professionality and continuity in all parts of the production – and increased talent development. 82 There are eight film centres, six regional film funds and three regional film commissions, of whom some are co-located regionally. In addition there is a national film commission. International Sami Film Centre serves the Sami population all over Norway as well as those living in Sweden, Finland and Russia. The Film Centres are based on cultural grounds. Their main mission is to support development and production of short films and documentaries, and to raise competence among professionals and spot, cultivate and support young talents. The Film Funds can support audiovisual productions of all genres and formats, including international co-productions and video games. They are not allowed (by the government) to contribute financially to the production of feature films for cinema that are supported by the Norwegian Film Institute. Governmental support requires regional contribution with at least the same amount of money to the fund. Furthermore the governmental support cannot be spent on managing the organisation. The Film Commissions are based on trade grounds, and offer facilitation for foreign productions in their region. The Regional Film Commissions collaborate with the national film commission – Film Commission Norway (FCN)– who is an integral part of Norwegian Film Institute. FCN generate to encourage and facilitate international film productions all over Norway, and acts as a link between the national and the international film and television industry. ADRESSES ASSOCIATIONS & INSTITUTIONS Agicoa Norge Dronningens gt 8 A P.O. Box 629 Sentrum, N-0106 Oslo Tel: +47 23 01 01 52/907 92 550 Mail: te@bullco.no Contact: Tom G Eilertsen Den norske filmskolen The Norwegian Film School N-2626 Lillehammer Tel: +47 61 28 74 68 Mail: filmskolen@hil.no www.filmskolen.no Contact: Thomas Stenderup Det kongelige kulturdepartement Norwegian Ministry of Culture P.O. Box 8030 Dep, N-0030 Oslo Tel: +47 22 24 90 90 Mail: postmottak@kud.dep.no Utenriksdepartementet Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs P.O. Box 8114 Dep, N-0032 Oslo Tel: +47 23 95 00 00 Mail: post@mfa.no Film & Kino Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152 Oslo P.O. Box 446 Sentrum, N-0104 Oslo Tel: +47 22 47 45 00 Mail: post@kino.no www.kino.no Contact: Lene Løken Fond for lyd og bilde P.O. Box 8191 Dep, N-0034 N-Oslo Tel: +47 21 04 58 00 Mail: post@fondforlydogbilde.no www.kulturrad.no Medietilsynet Norwegian Media Authority Nygata 4, N-1607 Fredrikstad Tel: +47 69 30 12 00 Mail: post@medietilsynet.no www.medietilsynet.no Contact: Tom Thoresen Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo The National Library of Norway Henrik Ibsensgt. 110 Box 2674 Solli, N-0203 Oslo/ Finsetveien 2, Mo i Rana Tel: +47 81 00 13 00 Mail: nb@nb.no www.nb.no Contact: Jon Arild Olsen Nordisk Film & TV Fond Kristian Augusts gt. 13, N-0164 Oslo Tel: +47 64 00 60 80 Mail: info@nordiskfilmogtvfond.com www.nordiskfilmogtvfond.com Contact: Petri Kemppinen Norsk Filmforbund Norwegian Film Makers’ Association Dronningensgt. 13, N-0152 Oslo Tel: +47 21 52 33 80 Mail: post@filmforbundet.no www.filmforbundet.no Contact: Sverre Pedersen Norsk filminstitutt Norwegian Film Institute Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16 P.O. Box 482 Sentrum, N-0105 Oslo Tel: +47 22 47 45 00 Mail: int@nfi.no www.norwegianfilms.no Norsk Filmklubbforbund Norwegian Federation of Film Societies Filmens Hus Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152 Oslo Tel: +47 22 47 46 80 Mail: nfk@filmklubb.no www.filmklubb.no Contact: Jon Iversen Norske film, TV og spill produsenters forening | Norwegian Film-, TV and Game Producers Association Wergelandsveien 21 B, N-0167 Oslo Tel: +47 23 11 93 11 Mail: pf@produsentforeningen.no www.produsentforeningen.no Contact: Leif Holst Jensen Norsk Filmkritikerlag The Norwegian Filmcritic’s Association Filmens Hus Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152 Oslo Tel: +47 92 24 67 76 Mail: filmkritikerlaget@gmail.com www.filmkritikerlaget.no Contact: Dag Sødtholt Norske Filmbyråers Forening Norwegian Film Distributors’ Association Øvre Slottsgt. 12, N-0157 Oslo Tel: +47 22 42 48 44 Mail: kristin.hoenvoll@norskefilmbyraaersforening.no Contact: Kristin Hoenvoll Norsk Filmvederlagsfond Norwegian Film Foundation Dronningensgt. 13, N-0152 Oslo Tel: +47 21 52 33 80 Mail: post@filmforbundet.no www.filmforbundet.no Contact: Sverre Pedersen Norsk Skuespillerforbund Norwegian Actors’ Equity Association Welhavensgt. 1, N-0166 Oslo Tel: +47 21 02 71 90 Mail: nsf@skuespillerforbund.no www.skuespillerforbund.no Norske Dramatikeres Forbund Writers’ Guild of Norway Tel: +47 22 47 89 50 Mail: post@dramatiker.no www.dramatiker.no Norske filmregissører Directors Guild of Norway Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152 Oslo Tel: +47 922 49 290 Mail: nfr@filmdir.no www.filmdir.no Contact: Marianne Kleven Samisk filmforbund Sami Film Workers’ Association Buletjávri, N-9520 Kautokeino Tel: +47 91 77 17 12 Mail: samifilbma@gmail.com Contact: Siljá Somby DISTRIBUTORS Actionfilm AS Vålerenggata 47, N-0658 Oslo Tel: +47 22 70 90 50 Mail: film@actionfilm.no www.actionfilm.no Contact: Halvor Skree 83 ADRESSES Arthaus Nedre gate 7, N-0551 Oslo Tel: +47 21 42 00 86 Mail: arthaus@arthaus.no www.arthaus.no Contact: Svend B. Jensen Euforia Film Nedregate 7, N-0551 Oslo Tel: +47 943 41 615 Mail: vibeke@euforia.no www.euforia.no Contact: Vibeke Skistad Europafilm AS Peder Claussøns gt 2 P.O.Box 6812 St. Olavs plass N-0130 Oslo Tel: +47 472 07 600 Mail: europafilm@europafilm.no www.europafilm.no Contact: Frank Johnsen AS Fidalgo Filmdistribusjon Dronningensgt. 30 P.O. Box 666, N-4666 Kristiansand Tel: +47 38 02 40 04 Mail: fidalgo@broadpark.no www.filmweb.no/fidalgo Contact: Frank L. Stavik Kudos Family AS Kvitsøygata 25, N-4014 Stavanger Tel: +47 51 12 31 72 Mail: mail@kudosfamily.com www.kudosfamily.com Contact: Bjarte Mørner Tveit Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS Nydalsvn. 12 A, P.O. Box 4753 Nydalen, N-0421 Oslo Tel: +47 22 77 20 00 Mail: morten.christoffersen@nordiskfilm.com www.filmweb.no/nordiskfilm Contact: Morten Christoffersen 84 Norsk filmdistribusjon AS Nedre gate 5 P.O. Box 753 Sentrum, N-0106 Oslo Tel: +47 23 35 82 00 Mail: frida.ohrvik@norskfilmdistribusjon.no www.norskfilmdistribusjon.no Contact: Frida Ohrvik United International Pictures AS Hegdehaugsvn. 27 P.O. Box 7134 Majorstuen, N-0307 Oslo Tel: +47 22 85 37 37 Mail: simen_rognerud@uip.com www.uip.no Contact: Simen Rognerud SF Norge AS Dronningensgt. 8 A P.O. Box 639 Sentrum, N-0106 Oslo Tel: +47 22 00 78 00 Mail: post@sfnorge.no www.sf-film.no Contact: Guttorm Petterson The Walt Disney Company Nordic Sjølyst plass 4 P.O. Box 154 Skøyen, N-0212 Oslo Tel: +47 24 11 73 10 Mail: Inger.Warendorph@disney.com www.facebook.com/disneynorge Contact: Inger Warendorph Star Media Entertainment Morteveien 6, N-1481 Hagan Tel: +47 67 06 40 20 Mail: jorn@starmedia.no www.starmedia.no Contact: Jørn Landbakk Storytelling Media Kjøpmannsgt. 31, N-7011 Trondheim Tel: +47 900 81 146 Mail: egil.akselsen@tku.no www.storytelling.no Contact: Egil Akselsen Tour de Force Georgernes Verft 12, N-5011 Bergen Tel: +47 55 30 08 40 / +47 41 14 11 40 Mail: post@tourdeforce.no www.tourdeforce.no Contact: Tor Fosse Twentieth Century Fox Norway AS Dronningensgate 8 A P.O. Box 719 Sentrum, N-0106 Oslo Tel: +47 22 00 78 00 Mail: fox@foxfilm.no www.foxfilm.no Contact: Tore Fredrik Dreyer PRODUCTION COMPANIES 4 1/2 Fiksjon AS Mølleparken 4, N-0459 Oslo Tel: +47 40 00 63 28 Mail: mailbox@fourandahalf.no www.fourandahalf.no Contact: Karin Julsrud Ape&Bjørn Grønlandsleiret 25, N-0190 Oslo Tel: +47 90 93 55 11 Mail: post@apeogbjorn.no www.apeogbjorn.no Contact: Ruben Thorkildsen Atomfilm AS Thomesheiveien 2,N-3770 Kragerø Tel: +47 922 64 806 Mail: oddgiver@online.no Contact: Odd G. Iversen Beacon Isle Productions AS Blylageveien 89, N-1450 Nesoddtangen Tel: +47 95 18 51 23 Mail: j-vard@online.no Contact: Jan Vardøen www.janvardoen.com BulBul Film A/S Høyåsvn. 24, N-3216 Sandefjord Tel: +47 91 64 71 72 Mail: odysse@online.no Contact: Bent Hamer Chezville AS Pedersgata 110, N-4014 Stavanger Tel: +47 91 83 46 41 Mail: gary@chezville.no www.chezville.no Contact: Gary Cranner Cinenord AS Akersbakken 33, N-0172 Oslo Tel: +47907 58 198 Mail: spillefilm@cinenord.no www.cinenord.no Contact: Silje Hopland Eik, Tanya Nanette Badendyck Cinenord Kidstory AS Akersbakken 33, N-0172 Oslo Tel: +47907 58 198 Mail: spillefilm@cinenord.no www.cinenord.no Contact: Silje Hopland Eik, Tanya Nanette Badendyck Den siste Skilling AS Munkebotn 11, N-5036 Bergen Tel: +47 483 51 638 Tel: +49 151 62 80 46 81 Mail: post@densisteskilling.no www.densisteskilling.no Contact: Kristine Knudsen Faction Film Kjøpmannsgata 40 Box 2093, N-7411 Trondheim Tel: +47 907 81 999 Mail: post@factionfilm.no Contact: Havard Bustnes ADRESSES Fantefilm Fiksjon AS Henrik Ibsens gate 28, N-0255 Oslo Tel: +47 22 59 39 00 Mail: martin@fantefilm.no, are@fantefilm.no www.fantefilm.no Contact: Martin Sundland, Are Heidenstrøm Friland Produksjon AS Torggt. 33, N-0183 Oslo Tel: +47 22 17 47 00 Mail: friland@friland.no www.friland.no Contact: Asle Vatn, Christian Fredrik Martin Feil Film AS Th. 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