2012 Norwegian Films
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2012 Norwegian Films
2012 norwegian films Front cover: Kon-Tiki Norwegian films on the move Norwegian films enter 2012 in a very privileged position with a record breaking 24,5% national market share in 2011, close to 40 new cinema releases and more than 2,8 million tickets sold. For the first time, the success was also reflected in international sales. No wonder we have high expectations for the upcoming year! Although there is a substantial reduction in new releases for 2012, the diversity in expressions and genre is great. The ambition of delivering documentaries on an international level has resulted in a particularly strong list in this area. The year opens with an international documentary, Back to the Square, about what happened after the Egyptian Revolution, directed by Petr Lom. Kari Anne Moe’s Bravehearts, a documentary about what happened to four politically engaged youth after the terror of 22nd July in Oslo and Utøya and Hans Petter Moland’s documentary When Bubbles Burst, about the globalized economy and present financial crisis should also have an international audience. The last few years, Norwegian genre films have made their mark internationally with Dead Snow, Cold Prey and The Troll Hunter leading the pack. This year the films go deeper into Norwegian mythology and history with tales of witch burnings, the Black Death, the Devil himself and other mythical creatures from the Norwegian wilderness. Expect the unexpected in Dunderland, directed by Finn-Erik Rognan and Nils J. Nesse, Veil of Twilight, directed by Paul Magnus Lundø, Escape by Cold Prey director Roar Uthaug and Thale, by Aleksander Nordaas. The Max Manus’ directors Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg will open the fall season with Kon-Tiki and the story about Thor Heyerdahl’s well known expedition across the Pacific Ocean on the primitive Kon-Tiki raft. After receiving critical acclaim for her films Kissed by Winter and Upperdog, Sara Johnsen also returns with a strong Nordic cast in the dramatic All That Matters is Past. In 90 Minutes, Cold Lunch director, Eva Sørhaug, reflects upon what happens the last minutes before a person commits murder. With their strong track record with short films, both Hisham Zaman and Dag Johan Haugerud are directing there first full length features with 5152 Kilometers to Heaven and I Belong. And finally, before Christmas, children can look forward to the spectacular remake of the Norwegian classic The Journey to the Christmas Star, a fairytale directed by Nils Gaup. And wishing upon that star, we can look forward to 2013, with exciting titles like Victoria, Torun Lian’s film based on the world famous novel by Knut Hamsun, two full length animated children’s films and much, much more. Norwegian films are definitely on the move! Nina Refseth CEO The Norwegian Film Institute Stine Helgeland Executive Director, Promotions and International Relations Norwegian nature also plays an important part in Petter Næss’ war drama Into the White, where German and British soldiers have to survive in the Norwegian mountains together in a small cottage. Family life can also be troublesome, as we will see in Company Orheim, the third and darker part of the story of Jarle Klepp, directed by Arild Andersen. preface 1 CONTENTS preface i 1 FEATURE FILMS 90 Minutes 5152 Kilometers to Heaven All That Matters is Past Company Orheim Escape I Belong Into the White Kon-Tiki The Journey to the Christmas Star Dunderland Fuck Up The Immoral Into the Dark Thale Varg Veum – Cold Hearts Varg Veum – The Dead Have it Easy Veil of Twilight 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 15 15 16 16 17 17 SELECTED FEATURE FILMS FROM 2011 Babycall The Bambi Effect Coming Home Headhunters I Travel Alone Jackpot King Curling Little Grey Fergie and his New Friend Clunky Magic Silver 2 The Mountain Oslo, August 31st Sons of Norway Totally True Love Turn Me On, Goddammit Twigson in Trouble 19 19 20 20 21 21 22 22 23 23 24 24 25 25 26 IN PRODUCTION Beatles Hocus Pocus, Alfie Atkins! 28 28 i Jealousy A Letter to the King Mormor og de åtte ungene Must Have Been Love Ploddy the Police Car on the Trail Solan & Ludvig’s Christmas in Pinchcliff Victoria 29 29 30 30 31 31 32 FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES Back to the Square Bravehearts Brothers The Exorcist – A Real Life Story Gulabi Liv and Ingmar Love City Nowhere Home The People by the Fjord Pushwagner Reunion – Ten Years After the War Shakespeare: The Hidden Truth Solace When Bubbles Burst 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 SHORT FILMS Alien Repair Guy Can You Talk? Dear Lisa Everything Will be OK Hands Levi’s Horse Lifelong Love A Marriage Premature Reloaded Shattered Apples Superdad and Pelé Towards the Sun Videoboy 49 49 50 50 51 51 52 52 53 53 54 54 55 55 TV-DRAMA Alfie Atkins Buzz Aldrin, What Ever Happened to You? Dag 2 Deathlings The Half Brother Hellfjord Lilyhammer The Unit COPRODUCTIONS Mercy Two Lives An Enemy to Die For Callgirl Carcass Dom over död man Dypet En annanstans i Sverige En duva satt på en gren och funderade över tilvaron Flimmer Gravity Lassemajas detektivbyrå – Von Broms hemmelighet Prosjekt Chopin Stella Days 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 66 66 67 67 67 67 67 67 67 67 67 67 67 67 NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2002 - 2011 68 FILM INSTITUTIONS Norwegian Film Institute Film & Kino Regional Film Institutions 75 76 77 ADRESSES 78 contents 3 feature films feature films 90 MINUTES 90 MINUTTER Drama Colour DCP 2k Director: Eva Sørhaug Screenplay: Eva Sørhaug Director of Photography: Harald Gunnar Paalgard Producer: Håkon Øverås for 4 ½ Film AS Cast: Bjørn Floberg, Annmari Kastrup, Aksel Hennie, Kaia Varjord, Mads Ousdal, Pia Tjelta Release date: October 19, 2012 Norwegian distributor: Euforia Film Contact: 4 ½ Film AS What happens in the last 90 minutes of a human life before they commit murder? In 90 Minutes we follow Johan who is making a lavish last meal for his wife, Fred who is on his weekly visit with the kids and Trond who completely has lost control of his use of violence towards his young wife who just gave birth to a child. Before the irretrievable act of murder happens, these men are still considered as human beings. 90 Minutes don’t try to give any answers or to find psychological explanations, but simply to follow these men’s perspective and stay with them and share the minutes just before it’s too late. Eva Sørhaug (1971) holds a Bachelor’s Degree in social sciences at the University of Oslo. She furthered her education at The San Francisco Academy of Art University, where she got her Master of Fine Arts degree in filmmaking in 1999. As part of completing her degree, she also attended the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts for one year. After completing her education, Sørhaug directed several short films before making her feature film debut with Cold Lunch in 2008. Sørhaug is also a skilled director of commercials, and is attached to the production company 4 ½. feature films 5 feature films 5152 KILOMETERS TO HEAVEN 5152 KM TIL HIMMELEN Drama 120 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo 5.1 Director: Hisham Zaman Screenplay: Kjell Ola Dahl and Hisham Zaman Director of Photography: Marius Matzow Gullbrandsen Producers: Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae for Paradox Cast: Taher Abdullah Taher, Bahar Ozen, Suzan Ilir, Billey Dimirtas, Hassan Demirca, Naseradeen Mohammed Kaheleel, Nazmi Kirik, Birol Unel Release date: September 21, 2012 Norwegian distributor: Scanbox Entertainment Norge AS Contact: Paradox AS A convoy of cars is approaching the house of 16-year-old Siyar, his Mother and his two sisters. The first car, a modern SUV, holds the Village principal and his son, who has come to ask Siyar’s big sister, Nermin, to marry him. Nermin is 18-years-old, and do not want this marriage. Later, she runs away. As the oldest man in the family, it is up to Siyar to regain the family honor. He goes after his sister, using hazardous refugee paths through Europe, to bring her back to the village. Hisham Zaman (1975) is an award winning director educated at the Norwegian Film School. He is born in Kerkok but lives in Norway. With the film Bawke he achieved an unprecedented debut at the short film festival in 2005, winning over 50 international awards. Bawke won the decade’s best short film in Norway. Zaman´s film Winterland opened the Tromsø International Film Festival in 2007. Zaman is now completing production of two feature films, 5152 Kilometers to Heaven (his feature film debut), and A Letter to the King. 6 feature films feature films ALL THAT MATTERS IS PAST DET VIKTIGSTE ER FORBI Drama approx. 100 min Colour DCP 2k Dolby SR Director: Sara Johnsen Screenplay: Sara Johnsen Director of Photography: John Andreas Andersen Producer: Turid Øversveen for 4 ½ Film AS Cast: Maria Bonnevie, Kristoffer Joner, David Dencik, Maria Keiskanen, Tea Sandanger, Åsmund Høeg, Trond Nilssen, Line B. Njølstad, Mads S. Pettersen Release date: Autumn 2012 Norwegian distributor: Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS Sales: TrustNordisk ApS Two brothers in their forties are found dead in the forest. By their side lies a woman, very weak, but still alive. All that Matters is Past is the story of how Janne meets William after many years of separation. She leaves her family to live with him in a cabin by the river. They recreate the feeling of love and lust that they had as children, being sweethearts playing in the woods. One day a Chinese baby girl is found floating down the river, and they realize that they are being haunted by William’s brother. William and Janne run further into the woods, trying to escape their nemesis. Sara Johnsen (1970) studied literature, photography and media before beginning at the Norwegian Film School in 1997. Since then she has directed several short films. Johnsen also debuted as an author with “He Knows Something She Should Try”, followed by “White Man” in 2008. She made her feature film debut in 2005 with Kissed by Winter. Her second feature, Upperdog (2009), also received rave reviews and won numerous awards nationally and internationally. feature films 7 feature films COMPANY ORHEIM KOMPANI ORHEIM Drama 105 min Colour DCP 2k Dolby SRD Director: Arild Andresen Screenplay: Arild Andresen and Lars Gudmestad based on the novel “Kompani Orheim” by Tore Renberg Director of Photography: Philip Øgaard Producer: Yngve Sæther and Sigve Endresen for Motlys AS Cast: Vebjørn Enger, Kristoffer Joner, Cecilie Mosli, Glenn André Viste Bø, Eili Harboe, Rolf Kristian Larsen, Tone Mostraum, Henrik Mestad Release date: March 2, 2012 Norwegian distributor: Norsk filmdistribusjon Sales: NonStop Sales Company Orheim tells the story of teenager Jarle and his parents struggling to live under the same roof in Stavanger, Norway, during the mid 1980s. The members of the Orheim family all have their hopes and dreams, but find it hard to cope with everyday life. Jarle finds his escape through music, political activism and chasing girls, but standing up for himself at home is a battle still to be fought. Years later, Jarle has to face the ghosts of his past and consider what his childhood was all about. Norwegian director and screenwriter Arild Andresen started out making short films and commercials. In 2006, he directed the youth drama miniseries Boys will be Boys, the first Norwegian production nominated for an EMMY. Andresen’s debut feature, The Liverpool Goalie (2010), won both the Chrystal Bear and a special mention at the Berlinale Generation 2011. It received critical acclaim as well as a big audience nationally, and has won lots of international festival awards. Company Orheim is his second feature. 8 feature films Company Orheim is a family drama and coming of age story about guilt and atonement, and the cost of independence. feature films ESCAPE FLUKT Action Colour 1:2,40 Dolby Surround Director: Roar Uthaug Screenplay: Thomas Moldestad Director of Photography: John Christian Rosenlund Producers: Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrøm for Fantefilm Fiksjon AS Cast: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Isabel Christine Andreasen, Milla Olin, Tobias Santelmann, Hans Jacob Sand, Martin Slaatto, Bjørn Moan, Hallvard Holmen, Iren Reppen, Richard Skog, Kristian Espedal, Eirik Holden, Clara Lien Sunde Release date: Autumn 2012 Norwegian distributor: Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS Sales: TrustNordisk ApS Ten years after the Black Death devastated the country, a poor family sets out on a journey to search for better living conditions. In a deserted mountain pass, they are attacked by a gang of ruthless killer thieves. The only one spared is 19 year old Signe. She is taken prisoner, and the gang brings her back to their camp. Here, she soon learns that they have a fate worse than death in store for her. Signe realizes that her only alternative is to run away. Roar Uthaug (1973) was educated at Mediefabrikken and The Norwegian Film School in Lillehammer. He was nominated for the Student Academy Awards (the Oscars for students) in 2003, with the short feature film The Martin Administration, his graduation film. After graduating, Roar was employed by Fantefilm as a director of commercials and music videos. The first full feature film he directed was Cold Prey, which premiered in 2006. Uthaug was a co-producer of Cold Prey II. His latest film is Magic Silver, which he directed in collaboration with Katharina Launing. feature films 9 feature films I BELONG SOM DU SER MEG Drama 117 min Colour DCP 2k Dolby Digital Director: Dag Johan Haugerud Screenplay: Dag Johan Haugerud Director of Photography: Kim Hiorthøy Producer: Yngve Sæther for Motlys AS Cast: Laila Goody, Birgitte Larsen, Trine Wiggen, Fridtjov Såheim, Ragnhild Hilt, Andrea Bræin Hovig, Henriette Steenstrup, Anne Marit Jacobsen, Ane Dahl Torp, Kari Onstad, Kai Remlov, Andrine Sæther Release date: tba Norwegian distributor: Norsk filmdistribusjon Contact: Motlys AS A nurse starts speaking English when she is nervous. A translator compromises her integrity when translating a bad novel. A woman turns down a million kroner because of pride. Three stories about the human factor. Dag Johan Haugerud (1964) is educated as a librarian, with additional courses in Film and Theatre Sciences from the University of Stockholm and Oslo, as well as studies in creative writing. He has worked as a journalist, and as dramatist for various dance and theatre companies. He has also published three novels. He made his debut as a film director with the short 16 Living Clichés in 1998, and has since directed numerous short films. This is his first feature film. 10 feature films feature films INTO THE WHITE INTO THE WHITE Drama 98 min Colour DCP 2k Dolby SRD Director: Petter Næss Screenplay: Ole Meldgaard, Petter Næss and Dave Mango Director of Photography: Daniel Voldheim Producers: Peter Aalbæk Jensen and Valerie Saunders for Zentropa International Norway AS Cast: Florian Lukas, Rupert Grint, Lachlan Nieboer, David Kross, Stig Henrik Hoff, Release date: March 9, 2012 Norwegian distributor: Scanbox Entertainment Norge AS Sales: TrustNordisk ApS Into the White is inspired by a true story. High above the harsh Norwegian wilderness, English and German pilots shoot each other to the ground after a violent chance encounter. Isolated, they must fight to survive the brutal winter. Though war has made them enemies, antagonism is hard to maintain as days go by. Through mutual need, unlikely friendships bloom. Somehow, they become comrades. War, after all, is absurd. Petter Næss (1960) has worked as an actor, screenplay writer and instructor within the film and theatre world. He directed his first feature film in 1999, the humorous Absolute Hangover. His second film was Elling, which was seen by 800,000 people in Norway, and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Feature. In 2005, he directed Love Me Tomorrow, the last film about Elling. In between those two films, he has also had the responsibility of directing these films: the youth film Just Bea, the Hollywood debut Mozart and the Whale, the Swedish children’s film Leaps and Bounds, Gone with the Woman and Shameless. feature films 11 feature films KON-TIKI KON-TIKI Drama Colour DCP 2k Director: Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg Screenplay: Petter Skavlan Director of Photography: Geir Hartly Andreassen Producer: Aage Aaberge for Nordisk Film Production AS and Recorded Picture Company Cast: Pål Hagen, Odd-Magnus Williamson, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Jakob Oftebro, Tobias Santelmann, Gustaf Skarsgård, Agnes Kittelsen Release date: August 24, 2012 Norwegian distributor: Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS Sales: HanWay Films Half a century ago, the world was gripped with excitement as young Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl embarked on a spectacular expedition - a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean on the primitive Kon-Tiki raft. The journey caught the public imagination and Thor and his crew reported home via radio transmitters as they drifted across the biggest ocean on planet Earth. In a way, it was like the world’s first reality show: Would they make it – or die trying… Joachim Roenning (1972) directs in tandem with his childhood friend, and film school alumnus, Espen Sandberg (1971). During their time at Stockholm Film School (1992 - 1994) they founded their production company Roenberg. They made their debut as feature film directors with Bandidas in 2006 – a western comedy starring Penélope Cruz and Salma Hayek, produced by Luc Besson and his EuropaCorp. In 2008 Roenning and Sandberg got to show their directorial skills with Max Manus. The movie turned out to be one of the greatest success stories of all time in Norwegian cinema. 12 feature films feature films THE JOURNEY TO THE CHRISTMAS STAR REISEN TIL JULESTJERNEN Family film 85min Colour Stereo 5.1 Director: Nils Gaup Screenplay: Kamilla Krogsveen based on Sverre Brandt’s novel “Reisen til julestjernen” Director of Photography: Odd Reinhard Nicolaysen Producers: Sigurd Mikal Karoliussen and Jan Eirik Langøen for Moskus Film AS Cast: Vilde Zeiner, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Agnes Kittelsen, Stig Werner Moe, Knut Walle, Sofie Asplin, Eilif Hellum Noraker, Jarl Goli, Vera Rudi Release date: November 2012 Norwegian distributor: Buena Vista International Norway Sales: Sola Media GmbH It´s just before Christmas when kindhearted Sonja (14) arrives in a small village with a band of thieves that have been holding her captive. The village is cursed. Once, a long time ago, the King´s only daughter, Goldenhair, went into the forest to find the Christmas Star. She disappeared in the dark forest and never returned. The King subsequently cursed the Christmas Star, and darkness and sadness descended on his kingdom. One night an old wise man came to the castle. He told the King that if he could find the Christmas Star before ten years had passed, Goldenhair would return. Nine years have passed and this Christmas is the King´s last chance to find the Christmas Star. Sonja manages to elude the thieves by escaping into the castle. She overhears the King´s sad story just before she is discovered and captured. She begs for mercy as the evil Count tries to throw her into the dungeon. The King buys her free from the robbers and releases her. As thanks for his help, Sonja sets out to find the Christmas Star so the King can get his beloved daughter back. Nils Gaup got his breakthrough as a director with Pathfinder, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1997. This success led to many Hollywood offers, and his next project was Shipwrecked, with Walt Disney as co-producer. The remake rights for Nils Gaup’s film Head Above Water were sold to the USA, and the film was made with Harvey Keitel and Cameron Diaz in the leading roles. So far, Nils has directed more than 10 feature films. In addition, he has directed a number of TV-series and theatre performances both domestically and abroad. feature films 13 feature films DUNDERLAND DUNDERLAND FUCK UP FUCK UP In 1695, a young maiden is accused of witchcraft. Her persecutors end her life in the bottomless pits of Dunderland valley. In the years to follow, numerous horrendous events and tragedies strike the valley. In 2011, an ensamble of Norway’s premier actors will put up a play at an old, abandoned boy scout camp. They are soon made aware of Dunderland valley’s dark history. Then the star actor disappears. Jack is pleased with himself. He has just decided to stop fucking around and to cut back on his drug use. That same night his best friend crashes into a moose on the Swedish borderwith 3,8 kilos of cocaine in the trunk. Over the next 24 hours, Jack loses his house, his job, his girlfriend and their daughter and someone tries to kill him. And as he is about to find out: when you think you have hit rock bottom, it can always get worse. Thriller 100 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo 5.1 Directors: Finn-Erik Rognan and Nils J. Nesse Screenplay: Nils J. Nesse Producers: Martin Barth Bergholtz and Finn-Erik Rognan for Dunderland Filmkompani AS Cast: Miriam Prestøy Lie, Reidar Sørensen, Sven Henriksen, Marit Østbye, Hanne Marte Sørlie, Brage Bang, Ingar Helge Gimle, Kai Taule, Nils Utsi Release date: March 2012 Contact: Dunderland Filmkompani AS Finn-Erik Rognan has worked for the Norwegian TV channel TV2 for 14 years as a photographer and director. In 1997, he founded a film company together with his colleague Nils J. Nesse, and together they have produced a number of short films. They are also the men behind 17 documentary films for TV2, and have produced commercials. 14 feature films Drama 95 min Colour DCP 2k Digital 5.1 Director: Øystein Karlsen Screenplay: Øystein Karlsen Producers: Anders Tangen and Hillevil Råberg for Viafilm AS and Illusion Film AB Cast: Jon Øigarden, Tuva Novotny, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Atle Antonsen, Iben Hjejle, Lennart Jähkel, Rebecka Hemse, Sten Ljunggren Release date: March 16, 2012 Contact: Viafilm AS Øystein Karlsen has worked with commercials, short films and music videos as well as radio and TV. He is educated as actor at Arts Educational School in London. He has written, directed and produced Dag and Dag 2, and Fox Television Studios has bought the rights for remake. feature films THE IMMORAL DE UMORALSKE INTO THE DARK INN I MØRKET 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. An eight-year-old boy is hit by a car, and a deep rift develops between the two neighbouring couples involved. The boy’s father becomes convinced that it was no accident, and a strife between the two men leads both families towards a violent outcome, in which guilt and responsibility will finally be placed. Drama comedy 75 min Colour HD Stereo 5.1 Director: Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen Screenplay: Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen 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: Spring 2012 Contact: Viafilm AS Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen (1962) studied art history at the University of Oslo, and history of ideas and literature 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 has had experience as a program producer for the NRK, and 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. Drama 85 min Colour Digibeta Dolby SR Director: Thomas Wangsmo Screenplay: Thomas Wangsmo Producers: Daniel Henriksbø and Thomas Wangsmo for Vidvinkel Film Cast: Thorbjørn Harr, Fridtjov Såheim, Ellen Dorrit Pedersen, Laila Goody, Kåre Conradi, Fredrik Grøndahl, Fredrik M. Frafjord Release date: January 27, 2012 Contact: Star Media Entertainment Thomas Wangsmo (1980) is a film graduate from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He has written and directed more than 20 short films. His short film Amor was nominated for Best Short at The European Film Awards in 2010. In addition to writing and directing, Wangsmo has edited all his films, and often also works as cinematographer and producer. Into the Dark is his debut as a feature film director. feature films 15 feature films THALE THALE VARG VEUM – COLD HEARTS VARG VEUM – KALDE HJERTER Two crime scene cleaners discover a hidden cellar under a cabin. The cellar conceals a mysterious girl, a secret some would go far to keep. Vag Veum is going to be a father. In a way he could never imagine, life takes on a new direction while he is searching for a missing pair of siblings in the prostitution circles in Bergen. Varg realizes that life will never be the same when he has to make a decision: Let the criminals go free or expose Karin to mortal danger. Fantasy/thriller 75 min Colour DCP 2k SDDS Director: Aleksander Nordaas Screenplay: Aleksander Nordaas Producer: Bendik Heggen Strønstad for Yesbox Productions AS Cast: Silje Reinåmo, Jon Sigve Skard, Erlend Nervold, Morten Andresen, Roland Åstrand Release date: February 17, 2012 Contact: Yesbox Productions Aleksander Nordaas (1982) is a Norwegian writer/director. He got his feature film debut at the age of 22 with Circle in 2005, the same year he part-founded the Bergenbased production company Yesbox Productions. He directed commercials and corporate films for three years, before returning to the fiction genre in 2008 with the awardwinning short In Chambers. From 2008 to present he has written four feature film scripts, with two in the pipeline towards pre-production. 16 feature films Crime 90 min Colour Director: Trond Espen Seim Screenplay: Geir Meum Olsen and Trond Espen Seim based on Gunnar Staalesen’s novel “Kalde hjerter” Producers: Silje Hopland Eik, Tanya Badendyck, Jonas Allen and Peter Bose for Cinemiso AS Cast: Trond Espen Seim, Bjørn Floberg, Lene Nystrøm, Mads Ousdal, Gitte Witt, Ingrid Olava, Kim Sørensen Release date: March 30, 2012 Sales: TrustNordisk ApS Trond Espen Seim (1971) is a well known actor both on the stage, television and on the screen. He has played the lead in all of the films about Varg Veum, totally 12 films. He was educated at the Academy of Theater in 1996. This last film about Varg Veum will be his first as a director. feature films VARG VEUM – THE DEAD HAVE IT EASY VARG VEUM – DE DØDE HAR DET GODT VEIL OF TWILIGHT SKUMRINGSLANDET Varg Veum witnesses the death of a young asylum seeker girl. Together, Varg and Karin discover that the dead girl was deeply involved in operations in which young women at asylum reception centres are cynically exploited. Time works against Varg, who has to prove the identity of the people behind the ring, before more young girls lose their lives. 1349. A young lawyer, Vilhelm, returns home to Norway after several years in Paris. As a young boy he saw his little brother drown. After his return to Norway he learns that his elder brother has been accused for dealing with the devil and several grotesque murders. Vilhelm starts an investigation which forces him out on an adventure, opening wounds from his past and putting his life at risk. Crime 90 min Colour Director: Erik Richter Strand Screenplay: Lya Guerra and Erik Richter Strand based on Gunnar Staalesen’s characters Producers: Silje Hopland Eik, Tanya Badendyck, Jonas Allen and Peter Bose for Cinemiso AS Cast: Trond Espen Seim, Bjørn Floberg, Lene Nystrøm, Jørgen Langhelle, Eindride Eidsvoll, Bintu Sakor, Fumi Desalu-Vold Release date: January 20, 2012 Sales: TrustNordisk ApS Erik Richter Strand (1974) studied directing at the Norwegian Film School in Lillehammer, graduating in 2003 with the short Circus as his graduation film. His short films have participated at, and garnered awards from, several international festivals. He made his debut as a feature film director with the critically acclaimed Sons in 2006. Fantasy/thriller Colour Director: Paul Magnus Lundø Screenplay: Paul Magnus Lundø and Ronnie M.A.G. Larsen Producers: Daniel Henriksbø and Paul Magnus Lundø for Vidvinkel Film Cast: Leif Nygaard, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Ewen Bremner, Kim Bodnia, Jørgen Langhelle, Lisa Werlinder, Nils Utsi, Andreas Wilson Release date: September 20, 2012 Contact: Star Media Entertainment Paul Magnus Lundø (1979) has always been interested in film. In 1999 he started his own feature film project Mengaloth, a fairy tale film without a budget. He was educated at NISS in 2005, the same year he commenced the development of Veil of Twilight. This project was picked up by late Daniel Henriksbø in 2010. He has also worked as scenographer and production designer on commercials, feature films and television series. feature films 17 SELECTED FILMS FROM 2011 SELECTED FILMS FROM 2011 BABYCALL BABYCALL THE BAMBI EFFECT BAMBIEFFEKTEN How far would you go for the one you love? Anna and her eight-year-old son are on the run. They move to a secret address in a huge apartment building. Anna fears her ex-husband might find them and buys a babycall to protect her son while he sleeps. But strange noises echoe in the babycall from elsewhere in the building and Anna overhears what she believes is the murder of a child. Veronica and Cecilie met each other on the Internet, and have decided to commit suicide together. They travel to a cabin in a remote place in order to carry out their plan. Instead of leaving a suicide letter behind, the girls have brought along a camera in order to film the last days of their lives. However, they soon discover that their needs differ greatly. And to complicate it all, the boys in the next door cabin turn up. Thriller 96 min Colour 1:2,35 Dolby SRD Director: Pål Sletaune Screenplay: Pål Sletaune Producers: Turid Øversveen for 4 ½ Film AS Cast: Noomi Rapace, Kristoffer Joner, Vetle Qvenild Werring, Stig Amdam, Maria Bock, Torkil Johannes Høeg Swensen Release date: October 7, 2011 Sales: The Match Factory Drama 72 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo Director: Øystein Stene Screenplay: Øystein Stene and Linda Gabrielsen Producer: Ravn Wikhaug for Feil Film AS Cast: Viktoria Winge, Julia Schacht, Kim S. Falck-Jørgensen, Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp Release date: July 29, 2011 Contact: Feil Film AS Director and screenwriter Pål Sletaune (1960) has directed three feature films and several shorts. Babycall is his fourth feature. All his films have been chosen for major festivals like Cannes, Venice, Rome and Toronto. Babycall was selected for the main competition in Rome 2011, and Noomi Rapace won the Best Actress Award. Øystein Stene (1969) holds a Master’s degree in literature from the University of Oslo. He works as a teacher at the National Academy of Dramatic Art. In 2003, he published the novel “The Waiting Master”. This is his feature film debut. SELECTED FILMS FROM 2011 19 SELECTED FILMS FROM 2011 COMING HOME TIL SISTE HINDER HEADHUNTERS HODEJEGERNE 15-year old Ida is a fashion blogger and a city girl, and definitely unhappy about her mother’s decision to move to a small farm in Northern Norway. She is hating her new life from the first moment on arrival, and the locals prefer horses to clothes and make-up. Ida decides to run away, but a dramatic meeting with a horse named Kehilan changes everything… Roger is a man who seems to have it all: he is Norway’s most successful Headhunter, married to the beautiful Diana, owns a magnificent villa - but living larger than he should. To keep up he is stealing art on the side. At a gallery opening, his wife introduces him to Clas Greve who is in possession of a very valuable painting. Roger sees his chance to become financially independent, but is soon running into trouble – and it’s not financial problems. The headhunt has begun. Family film 81 min Colour 16:9 Director: Anders Øvergaard Screenplay: Kathrine Haugen Producers: Kathrine Haugen and Odd G. Iversen for Filimo Film and Atom Film Cast: Julie Nordhuus, Elise Strømberg Mælie, Marthe Vonheim, Hanne Øberg, Nina Pernille Marlow, Marianne Meløy Release date: August 26, 2011 sales: LevelK Anders Øvergaard (1988) started making films at the tender age of twelve. He then majored in media and film in high school, and, while still in school, designed and built his own steadycam; the ”WalKam”. The design proved to be so successful that Øvergaard started his own company. At 20 years of age Øvergaard turned to studies in directing at Nordland College of Art and Film. 20 SELECTED FILMS FROM 2011 Drama 98min Colour DCP 2k Stereo Director: Morten Tyldum Screenplay: Ulf Ryberg and Lars Gudmestad based on Jo Nesbø’s novel “Hodejegerne” Producers: Asle Vatn and Marianne Gray for Friland Produksjon and Yellow Bird Norway Cast: Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Synnøve Macody Lund, Julie Øigaard Release date: August 26, 2011 sales: TrustNordisk ApS Morten Tyldum (1967) was educated at the School of Visual Arts in New York. After graduating, he worked for several years at the Norwegian national public broadcaster NRK. He has also made several short films. In 2003 Tyldum made his feature film debut with Buddy, which won numerous awards. 2008 saw Tyldum deliver Fallen Angels, part two about the private investigator Varg Veum. His third film Headhunters had its world premiere at The Festival del film Locarno in 2011. SELECTED FILMS FROM 2011 I TRAVEL ALONE JEG REISER ALENE JACKPOT ARME RIDDERE Jarle Klepp is a 25 year old student of literature with a passion for Adorno, Proust and grown-up women – and definitely not Tamagochis, Lady Di and small kids. The news that he is the father of a seven year old girl and that she will come visiting next week – enters his life like a nuclear bomb. I Travel Alone is an angry comedy about a young man who doesn’t want to grow up – and a touching story about a small girl discovering her father. Terrified, bloody, and gripping a shotgun, Oscar Svendsen wakes up in what used to be a respectable strip joint at Svinesund Scattered around him lie eight corpses, and in front of him stands detective Solør of the National Criminal Investigation Service, pointing his pistol at Oscar. Somewhat hesitant Oscar starts telling the incredible story of four guys who won the jackpot betting on football, suddenly landing them 1.739.361 kroner smack in their laps. An amount that should prove not to be easily divided by four... Drama 94 min Colour DCP 2k Dolby Digital Director: Stian Kristiansen Screenplay: Tore Renberg based on his own novel “Charlotte Isabel Hansen” Producers: Yngve Sæther for Motlys AS Cast: Rolf Kristian Larsen, Amina Eleonora Bergrem, Trine Wiggen, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Pål Hagen, Marte Aarseth, Henriette Steenstrup, Gustaf Hammarsten Release date: February 11, 2011 Sales: NonStop Sales Stian Kristiansen (1972) studied directing and television production at Stavanger University College before he was accepted for the directing programme at The Norwegian Film School, graduating in 2006. He directed several short films before he made his feature film debut with the youth drama The Man Who Loved Yngve in 2008. I travel Alone is the sequel to this film. Action comedy 90 min Colour DCP 2k Director: Magnus Martens Screenplay: Magnus Martens based on a story by Jo Nesbø Producers: Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrøm for Fantefilm Fiksjon AS Cast: Kyrre Hellum, Mads Ousdal, Arthur Berning, Andreas Cappelen, Henrik Mestad, Lena Kristin Ellingsen, Fridtjov Steenstrup Såheim Release date: December 2, 2011 Sales: TrustNordisk ApS Educated at London Film School (1993-1996), Magnus Martens has been working with comedy ever since. Beside a career in commercials, he has worked as a director and writer for television, making him one of the top comedy writers/directors working in Norway today. As a writer/ director, he has developed a unique sense of comedic sensibility – resulting in a clear and definite style and voice. His short films, and feature debut United (2003) did very well at international festivals. SELECTED FILMS FROM 2011 21 SELECTED FILMS FROM 2011 KING CURLING KONG CURLING Once a great curling star, Truls Paulsen is diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder and banned from competition. But when he learns that his old friend and coach Gordon is on his deathbed, Truls, heavily medicated decides to compete again, in the hopes of winning money for Gordon to have an operation. He tries to convince his old team mates that he is mentally stable enough to lead them to victory in the Norwegian Curling Championship. But, is it a good sign that he obsessively insists his teammates pull their zippers all the way up before they can play? LITTLE GREY FERGIE AND HIS NEW FRIEND CLUNKY GRÅTASS FÅR EN NY VENN Little Grey Fergie is thriving on the farm, but at times he feels lonely. Therefore, he gets Goggen to build the fully automatic Scarecrow Clunky. However, when Scarecrow surpasses him in popularity, Fergie becomes jealous and does some foolish things. As the scrap dealers Hubert and Hieronemus kidnap Scaregrow, he regrets what he did and sets out to get the scoundrels. Comedy 75 min Colour DCP 2k Director: Ole Endresen Screenplay: Ole Endresen and Atle Antonsen Producer: Håkon Øverås for 4 ½ Film AS Cast: Atle Antonsen, Linn Skåber, Kåre Conradi, Jon Øigarden, Steinar Sagen, Jan Sælid, Ane Dahl Torp, Ingar Helge Gimle Release date: September 23, 2011 Sales: Films Boutique Family film 89 min Colour 1:1,85 Director: Trond Jacobsen Screenplay: Morten Myklebust Producer: Anne Amalie Thowsen for Fantasi-Fabrikken AS Cast: Tiril Heide-Steen, Dan Robert Thorsen, Ole-Kristian Lima, Dag Vågsås, Heljar Berge, Joachim Berg Release date: February 18, 2011 Sales: NonStop Sales 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, God kveld Dagfinn, and Three brothers who aren’t brothers, and is also an experienced director of commercials. King Curling marks Endresen’s debut as a feature film director. Trond Jacobsen (1967) has studied TV directing at Lillehammer College. The past 15 years, he has worked as a director of films, TV series and animation for children. He is also a producer and photographer of international documentary films. He has both been nominated and won awards for his work in Norway and abroad. This is his second feature film. 22 SELECTED FILMS FROM 2011 SELECTED FILMS FROM 2011 MAGIC SILVER 2 BLÅFJELL 2 – JAKTEN PÅ DET MAGISKE HORN THE MOUNTAIN FJELLET The story is set high up in the Blue Mountain, where young queen Bluerose finds it more and more difficult to live within the boundaries of the Blue Gnome community. When she becomes aware that a dangerous glacier is threatening the Blue Mountain valley and the Red Gnomes living there, she sets out on a journey to find the Blue Horn, a magical instrument that can change the weather. With this instrument she might be able to save the Red Gnomes. Nora and Solveig are hiking through a snow covered, rough, but beautiful scenery on a tour of several days that will take the two young women to the top of a mountain. Solveig, three months pregnant, seems incapable of doing anything the way Nora wants her to. The further the women advance on their trip, the closer they come to the place where a tragic incident happened two years earlier; one that changed their lives completely… Family film 84 min Colour DCP 2k Dolby Digital Director: Arne Lindtner Næss Screenplay: Thomas Moldestad and Gudny Ingebjørg Hagen based on her characters Producers: Jørgen Storm Rosenberg and Lasse Greve Alsos for Storm Rosenberg AS Cast: Ane Viola Andreassen Semb, Johan Tinus Austad Lindgren, Toralv Maurstad, Per Christian Ellefsen, Knut Walle, Elsa Lystad, Geir Morstad, Lillian Lydersen Release date: November 18, 2011 Sales: NonStop Sales Drama 73 min Colour Scope Dolby SR Director: Ole Giæver Screenplay: Ole Giæver Producers: Ole Giæver for Ferdinand Films and Karin Julsrud for 4 ½ Film AS Cast: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Marte Magnusdotter Solem Release date: February 28, 2011 Sales: Bavaria Film International Arne Lindtner Næss has worked with all the Junior Olsen Gang films. In 2005, he directed Finding Friends and in 2008 SOS – Summer of Suspense. Lindtner Næss has worked as an actor on several Norwegian theater and cabaret stages, as well as in feature films and TV-series. He is also a stage director and screenplay writer for television series. 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, and the Amanda Award for Best Screenplay (Summers Past) in 2008. SELECTED FILMS FROM 2011 23 SELECTED FILMS FROM 2011 OSLO, AUGUST 31ST OSLO, 31. AUGUST SONS OF NORWAY SØNNER AV NORGE Anders will soon complete his drug rehabilitation in the countryside. As part of the program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview. Thirty-four-year-old Anders is smart, handsome and from a good family, but deeply haunted by all the opportunities he has wasted, all the people he has let down. For the remainder of the day and long into the night, the ghosts of past mistakes will wrestle with the chance of love, the possibility of a new life and the hope to see some future by morning. It’s not easy to rebel when your dad wants to join the party... One day (in 1979), Magnus and his son Nikolaj hit the wall in their new terrace house in Rykkinn. Sons of Norway is a film about rebellion, punk rock, suburban hell and the struggle between freaks and punks. But most of all, it’s the story of an unusual father-son relationship, and about the strength of the bonds we sometimes do our best to rip apart. Drama 96 min Colour 1:1,85 Dolby SRD Director: Joachim Trier Screenplay: Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier Producers: Hans-Jørgen Osnes, Yngve Sæther and Sigve Endresen for Motlys AS and Don’t Look Now AS Cast: Anders Danielsen Lie, Hans Olav Brenner, Ingrid Olava, Øystein Røger, Tone B. Mostraum, Kjærsti Odden Skjeldal, Johanne Kjellevik Ledang, Petter Width Kristiansen, Renate Reinsve, Anders Borchgrevink Release date: August 31, 2011 Sales: The Match Factory GmbH Joachim Trier (1974) had his feature film debut in 2006 with Reprise which has received a number of national and international awards. Joachim started film making in 1995, writing and directing several short films, which won him a good dozen of international prizes, while he was attending film school. He first attendend European Film College in Denmark and later went on to National Film and Television School Beaconsfield, England, where he graduated in 2000. 24 SELECTED FILMS FROM 2011 Drama 87 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo 5.1 Director: Jens Lien Screenplay: Nikolaj Frobenius based on his own partly autobiographical novel “Teori og praksis” Producer: Christian Fredrik Martin for Friland Produksjon AS Cast: Sven Nordin, Åsmund Høegh, Sonja Richter, John Lydon, Tony Veitsle Skarpsno, Camilla Friisk, Trond Nilssen Release date: September 9, 2011 Sales: Films Distribution Jens Lien (1967) was educated at the London International Film School in 1993. Lien made his living primarily directing commercials and documentaries for television, in addition to directing several short films. In 2003 he made his feature film debut with the comedic drama Jonny Vang, which premiered at the international film festival in Berlin. His next film was The Bothersome Man, which had its world premiere at the Critics’ Week in Cannes 2006. SELECTED FILMS FROM 2011 TOTALLY, TRUE LOVE JØRGEN + ANNE = SANT TURN ME ON, GODDAMMIT FÅ MEG PÅ FOR FAEN Anne, 10, is an energetic girl whose favorite activities are tree climbing and running. When the new boy in class, Jørgen, moves into the haunted house down the road, Anne’s world is turned upside down; she falls head over heels in love with him. All the girls in Anne’s class fall for Jørgen as well, including beautiful blonde pony-tailed Ellen. But that is of no hindrance to Anne; she is willing to go further than anyone to win him over. When done in the name of love, everything is allowed...isn’t it? Turn me on, Goddammit is a humorous, bittersweet and tender tale of teen angst and horniness set among the mountains and fjords of Norway. Alma, a teenage girl in small town Norway, is horny and on the lookout for love. She becomes an outcast after claiming to have had an encounter with the private parts of the school’s heartthrob Artur. Her world is turned upside down and she desperately wants to get out of town and on with her life. Family comedy 86 min Colour Scope Dolby SR·D Director: Anne Sewitsky Screenplay: Kamilla Krogsveen based on the novel “Jørgen + Anne er sant” by Vigdis Hiorth Producers: Teréz Hollo-Klausen, Tanya N. Badendyck and Silje Hopland Eik for Cinenord Kidstory AS Cast: Maria Annette Tanderø Berglyd, Aurora Bach Bodal, Vilde Fredriksen Verlo, Kristin Langsrud, Otto Garli, Peder Holene, Sigurd Sæthereng, Adrian Holte Kristiansen, Morten Faldaas, Birgitte Victoria Svendsen, Torkil Høeg Release date: February 25, 2011 Sales: AB Svensk Filmindustri Comedy 76 min Colour DCP 2k Dolby SRD Director: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen Screenplay: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen based on the novel “Få meg å for faen” by Olaug Nilssen Producers: Brede Hovland and Sigve Endresen for Motlys AS Cast: Helene Bergsholm, Malin Bjørhovde, Beate Støfring, Matias Myren, Lars Nordtvedt Listau, Henriette Steenstrup Såheim, Jon Bleiklie Devik, Julia Bache-Wiig, Julia Elise Schacht Release date: August 19, 2011 Sales: Celcius Entertainment Anne Sewitsky (1972) has previously directed short films; among them Oh, My God! which participated and won a prize in Berlin Generation K Plus in 2010. She has also worked for the drama division of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). She graduated from the Norwegian Film School in 2006 and her debut as feature film director was Happy, Happy which premiered in Norway in 2010 and is the Norwegian contribution to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film in 2012. Jannicke Systad Jacobsen (1975) studied film directing at FAMU (The National Filmschool of the Czech Republic) and London International Film School. She has also studied dramaturgy and drama, as well as social anthropology at the University of Oslo. She directed several documentaries and shorts with a great humorous flair, before her feature film debut Turn Me On, Goddammit. SELECTED FILMS FROM 2011 25 SELECTED FILMS FROM 2011 TWIGSON IN TROUBLE KNERTEN I KNIPE Twigson, Junior and his family has moved to Bessby. Twigson and Karoline have welcomed a son, Mini-Twigson, and the joy is palpable. But Mother and Father are worried about Junior. They have been living there for a couple of months, and he still hasn’t made any new friends. Junior doesn’t care. He doesn’t care much for the bully Gunnar and his friends on the street. And besides, he has Twigson. They make a pact to not have any other friends. Ever. Family film 71 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo 5.1 Director: Arild Østin Ommundsen Screenplay: Kristin Skogheim based on Anne Cath. Vestly’s novels about Twigson Producers: Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae for Paradox AS Cast: Adrian Grønnevik Smith, Petrus Andreas Christensen, Pernille Sørensen, Jan Gunnar Røise Release date: September 23, 2011 Sales: Sola Media GmbH Arild Østin Ommundsen (1969) studied directing at the University College in Stavanger. After making short films in the last half of the 1990s he made his debut as a feature film director with Mongoland in 2001. His second feature film, Monsterthursday, was selected as the first Norwegian film ever to participate in a competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Østin Ommundsen has since then directed his third feature, Rat Nights, in 2009, as well as made several short films, commercials and music videos. 26 SELECTED FILMS FROM 2011 IN PRODUCTION IN PRODUCTION BEATLES BEATLES HOCUS POCUS, ALFIE ATKINS! HOKUS POKUS, ALBERT ÅBERG! At long last, one of the most important novels in Norwegian history will be made into a film. Beatles relates the story of four Oslo boys born in 1951 and hooked on The Beatles, from the time they as seventh graders find themselves on the threshold of the adult world. The film is all about boyish pranks, hopes, disappointments, and of course about pretty girls, hopeless infatuations, drunkenness and parties. The world is changing, and so is the friendship between the boys. But the conclusion is, true friendship endures all - and no band in the world is better than The Beatles. When he’s not playing at pirates with his friends, seven-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. Directors: Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg Screenplay: Axel Hellstenius based on the novel “Beatles” by Lars Saabye Christensen Producer: Jørgen Storm Rosenberg for Storm Rosenberg Release date: Autumn 2013 Norwegian distributor: Norsk filmdistribusjon Contact: Storm Rosenberg 28 IN PRODUCTION Director: Torill Kove Director of Animation: Anders Sørensen Screenplay: Hans Åke Gabrielsson and Tora Berg based loosely on Gunilla Bergström’s “Hokus pokus, Albert Åberg!” Producers: Kristin Ulseth and Cornelia Boysen for Maipo Film AS Release date: September 20, 2013 Norwegian distributor: Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS Sales: TrustNordisk ApS IN PRODUCTION JEALOUSY (tbc) SJALUSI A LETTER TO THE KING BREV TIL KONGEN Jealousy is the story of a young woman and her longing to be loved and fear of being rejected – the jealousy, uncertainty and cowardice we usually prefer to keep to ourselves. A Letter to the King portrays six very different characters’ meeting with Norway outside the refugee camp. We follow their activities, joys and tragedies during a day, as they travel together on a bus from a snowy no man´s land to Oslo. On arrival, they are told to return to the bus within a few hours, otherwise they will be reported to the police. Their stories are bound together by a letter written by the 83-yearold Mirza, which he wants to deliver to the King personally. The letter takes us through the past, present and into the future of the six. We soon find out that on this day, each and every one of them has a special purpose with the trip and they will all be confronted by their destiny. Director: Hanne Myren Screenplay: Hanne Myren Director of Photography: Øystein Mamen Producer: Brede Hovland for Motlys AS Cast: Julia Wildschut, Ahmed Wasty Release date: 2012 Norwegian distributor: Norsk filmdistribusjon Contact: Motlys AS Director: Hisham Zaman Screenplay: Hisham Zaman and Mehmet Aktas Director of Photography: Marius Matzow Gulbrandsen Producers: Alan R. Milligan and Hisham Zaman for Film Farms and Zaman Film Cast: Ivan Anderson, Nazmi Kirik, Ali Bag Salimi, Raouf Saraj Release date: tba Norwegian distributor: tba Contact: Film Farms IN PRODUCTION 29 IN PRODUCTION MORMOR OG DE ÅTTE UNGENE English title tba MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE EN SOM DEG Mormor & de åtte ungene tells the story of Mona, who is slightly too small to be big, and too big to be small. This is the classical underdog story, in which both she and Grandma feel pushed into the background. Mona feels she doesn’t quite fit in, and struggles to find her place in a family which suddenly consists of a lot of people. She has to prove her position, and she can do so by finding the lorry that has been stolen. She goes hunting for the lorry together with Grandma, who suddenly and unexpectedly appears for an inconvenient visit, simultaneously carrying a secret. Together they set out for a trip into town, at first slightly hesitant and anxious, then increasingly courageous, until they finally find the lorry. All problems are solved, and Mona and Grandma are heroes! Mormor og de 8 ungene is a story about getting back on your feet after having been down-and-out, related in a charming way, and with plenty of humour, excitement, song and dance. A Finnish-Norwegian love story with an unexpected shape and development. Shot in Oslo, Helsinki, Istanbul and Berlin. The film focuses on showing the actual moments that lead to getting to know one another, building a relationship and to breaking up. The film takes part in Kaisa’s attempt of getting involved with two different men that look almost exactly the same, questioning where the thin line is between someone potentially being the love of your life or not. Shooting the film with the approach of a workshop and closely involving the actors allows the film to take shape as a unique, unpredictable cinematic expression touching the basis and complexity of human behaviour. Director: Lisa Marie Gamlem Screenplay: Birgitte Bratseth Producers: Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae for Paradox AS Release date: August 16, 2013 Norwegian distributor: Nordisk Film Distribusjon Contact: Paradox AS 30 IN PRODUCTION Director: Eirik Svensson Screenplay: Jyrki Väisänen and Eirik Svensson Director of Photography: Martin Hogsnes Solvang Producers: Karin Julsrud and Linn Kirkenær for 4 ½ Film AS Cast: Pamela Tola, Espen Klouman Høiner, Mattis Herman Nyquist, Audun Hjort, Pål Hagen, Laura Birnin Esitykset, Pihla Viitala Release date: September 2012 Norwegian distributor: Euforia Film Contact: 4 ½ Film IN PRODUCTION PLODDY THE POLICE CAR ON THE TRAIL (tbc) PELLE POLITIBIL PÅ SPORET SOLAN & LUDVIG’S CHRISTMAS IN PINCHCLIFF SOLAN OG LUDVIG – JUL I FLÅKLYPA Ploddy the Police car is assigned to guard the biggest attraction in the brand new Eagle Park in Bodø; 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… Christmas is approaching, and what Lambert wants most of all is snow. But when Theodore invents the world’s most powerful snow gun, and it ends up in the hands of Pinchcliff editor Freeman Bloat, who most of all in the whole world wants to set a new snow record, Sonny and Lambert have to straighten things out. On their own. Because Theodore Rimspoke has vanished, and outside, the blizzard is getting worse. Because messing with nature - that’s dangerous stuff... Directors: Rasmus A. Sivertsen and Rune Spaans Screenplay: Arthur Johansen based on a character created by Åge Magnussen Producers: Aage Aaberge and Live Bonnevie for Neofilm AS Coproducers: Ove Heiborg and Alexandra Chauvin for Qvisten Animation Voices: Robert Stoltenberg, Pernille Sørensen, Hege Schøyen, Gard Eidsvold, Bjørn Sundquist, Lene Kongsvik Release date: Autumn 2013 Norwegian distributor: Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS Sales: TrustNordisk ApS Director: Rasmus A. Siversten Screenplay: Karsten Fullu based on the universe of Kjell Aukrust and “Solan og Ludvigs jul” by Harald Sommerin Simonnæs Producer: Cornelia Boysen for Maipo Film AS Release date: November 3, 2013 Norwegian distributor: Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS Sales: TrustNordisk ApS IN PRODUCTION 31 IN PRODUCTION VICTORIA VICTORIA Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun’s immortal 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. Director: Torun Lian Screenplay: Torun Lian based on Knut Hamsun’s novel “Victoria” Producers: John M. Jacobsen, Sveinung Golimo and Pancho Kohner for Filmkameratene AS Release date: February 2013 Norwegian distributor: SF Norge AS Sales: AB Svensk Filmindustri 32 IN PRODUCTION FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES BACK TO THE SQUARE BACK TO THE SQUARE 80 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo 5.1 Director: Petr Lom Screenplay: Torstein Grude and Petr Lom Director of Photography: Petr Lom Producer: Torstein Grude for Piraya Film AS Release date: January 2012 Norwegian distributor: Kudos Family AS Sales: Kudos Family Distribution AS A year after the euphoria of Tahrir Square and Mubarak’s fall, Egypt’s revolution remains incomplete: many continue to suffer from State inflicted cruelty. More than 12 000 protesters have been arrested by the army and secret police, sentenced by summary military tribunals, and often tortured. The film follows several different people who have suffered injustice at the hands of the current post-revolutionary military regime. It shows how the systematic use of violence and fear by Mubarak’s regime continues unchanged after the revolution. Petr Lom (1968) hails from Prague, Czechoslovakia, but grew up in Canada, and received his Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from Harvard University in 1997. He gave up his academic career in 2004 to pursue a full-time career as a documentary filmmaker, making his debut with Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan the same year. He has since written, directed and produced several documentary films and television series, and runs his own documentary production company Lom Films. 34 FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES BRAVEHEARTS TIL UNGDOMMEN 90 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo 5.1 Director: Kari Anne Moe Screenplay: Kari Anne Moe Director of Photography: Håvard Fossum Producer: Tone Grøttjord and Anita Rehoff Larsen for Sant & Usant AS Release date: August 31, 2012 Sales: Deckert Distribution GmbH Four young people want to change the world - then the world changes them. Sana, Henrik, Haakon and Johanne are members of various political youth parties. They are in the process of preparing for the election campaign, with intense debate training. Sana is looking forward to having her braces removed before school starts, Henrik is tired of having to defend himself against radical youths claiming that his party is racist, Haakon is looking forward to moving into his own apartment, and Johanne is about to withdraw from the debate-team, because she cannot deal with the pressure. On July 21, Johanne boards the ferry to Utøya Island. The subsequent events change everything forever. Oslo is hit by terror. A bomb rips through the government block, and a right-wing extremist mass murderer carries out a massacre at the AUF summer camp. The documentary Bravehearts portrays a generation marked for life by July 22, 2011. Kari Anne Moe (b. 1976) studied documentary directing at the Film and TV-Academy in Oslo, and at the documentary department at Volda University College. In 2005 she made the documentary film The Tambourine Man, which was screened at several festivals in Norway and abroad. She’s been working with Sant & Usant since 2007 as a director and producer. She released her latest film, Salesman 329 in April 2011 which won the award Short Documentary of the year at Bergen International filmfestival 2011. Bravehearts is her first feature length film. FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 35 FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES BROTHERS BRØDRE Colour 90 min DCP 2k Dolby A Director: Aslaug Holm Screenplay: Aslaug Holm Directors of Photography: Aslaug Holm and Kjell Vassdal Producer: Tore Buvarp for Fenris Film Release date: Spring 2012 Norwegian distributor: Euforia Film Contact: Fenris Film A documentary film about the close relationship between two brothers. Markus (13) and Lukas (10) live in an old, yellow townhouse in the middle of Oslo. The river runs close to their home. A paradise in the heart of a big city. Big trees growing into the sky, and the water dark and attractive beneath. Here the brothers grow up with their dreams and longings for the future. Markus loves soccer, and wants to be a professional. He has played soccer since he was five, and Liverpool is the only and best team. In the film we experience his struggle and passion for achieving his goals. Lukas is the philosophic one, and likes to think all kinds of thoughts. About the world, him self and what it all is about. “Mummy, what happens with my dreams after I`m dead, will they still be alive?” Aslaug Holm (1965) has directed about ten documentary films, and photographed more than 40 others. An example of these is the most successful documentary ever to be theatrically released in Norway, Cool & Crazy (2001), on which she worked as both cinematographer and editor. She also directed the film The Rich Country, premiering in 2006, following Jens Stoltenberg in the time leading up to him being elected Prime Minister in September of 2005. 36 FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES THE EXORCIST – A REAL LIFE STORY EKSORSISTEN 80 min Colour DCP 2k Dolby 5.1 Director: Fredrik Horn Akselsen Screenplay: Fredrik Horn Akselsen and Christian Falch Director of Photography: Ole Andreas Grøntvedt Producer: Christian Falch for Gammaglimt AS Release date: Spring 2012 Contact: Gammaglimt AS The Exorcist – A real life story takes the viewer into the unknown and sinister world of exorcism in the Catholic Church. We meet one of the few exorcists in Europe, the Vatican approved José Antonio Fortea. He travels around the world on a mission to enlighten the masses about demonic possession. Constanza, a Colombian woman, is desperately looking for Fr. Fortea’s help. She claims to have been possessed by demons for nearly 15 years and she goes through a ritual of exorcism before she sees the Spanish exorcist as a last hope for spiritual liberation. The film follows both their journeys and gives a unique insight into one of the world’s most secret and mystical rites – the catholic ritual of exorcism. Director and writer Fredrik Horn Akselsen (1982) has his education in film theory and film practise from NTNU in Norway and QUT in Australia. The Exorcist – A Real Life Story is his second documentary. His debut film Treason and Sabotage premiered at Kosmorama International Film Festival in March 2010. In addition to this, Akselsen is writing and directing three other projects, currently in development. FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 37 FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES GULABI GULABI 100 min Colour DCP 2k Director: Nishtha Jain Screenplay: Torstein Grude and Nishtha Jain Directors of Photography: Rakesh Haridas and Torstein Grude Producer: Torstein Grude for Piraya Film AS Release date: March 2012 Norwegian distributor: Kudos Family AS sales: Kudos Family AS Enter the badlands of Bundelkhand and you have entered a place of desolation, dust and despair. And yet it is hope that this film discovers, captures and celebrates. Sampat Pal, founder of the Gulabi Gang, has managed to inspire hope in the hearts of the very women who till yesterday were powerless participants in their own oppression. Not just does the Gulabi Gang take up women’s issues, it also fights other kinds of injustice like land-grabbing, and lobbies for welfare schemes that corrupt officials have failed to implement. Yet between the media-savvy Sampat and the rank and file cadre there is still a huge gap, and the struggle for empowerment is bound to be a long one. Nishtha Jain was born in New Delhi, India. She studied film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Since 2002 she’s been working as an independent filmmaker and is currently based in Mumbai. Her films have received several international awards and have been extensively shown in international film festivals and art/photo exhibitions. She has directed the following films Family Album (2010), At My Doorstep (2009), Lakshmi and Me (2008), Six yards to Democracy (2006), Call it Slut (2006) and City of Photos (2005). 38 FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES LIV AND INGMAR LIV OG INGMAR 75 min Colour and b/w 1:1,85 Stereo 5.1 Director: Dheeraj Akolkar Screenplay: Dheeraj Akolkar Director of Photography: Hallvard Bræin Producer: Rune H. Trondsen for Nordic Stories Release date: October 2012 Sales: AB Svensk filmindustri In the history of filmmaking, they were one of the great couples. Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman met in 1965. They lived together for five years, had a child together and they made 11 films together. Now, 46 years later, Ingmar is gone. But their love has never died. In the film we meet Liv Ullmann, spending some days with the film crew in Mr. Bergman’s famous house at Fårø, Sweden. In the interviews, she talks about all aspects of the life and work with him. What she reveals is being intercut with scenes from their films, showing how their personal relation affected the films they created. The life and work of Bergman and Ullmann has fascinated director Dheeraj Akolkar for many years. He comes from India, but works in his own company in London. He is at the moment also directing documentaries for National Geographic and BBC. FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 39 FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES LOVE CITY LOVE CITY 100 min Colour DCP 2k Directors: George Gittoes and Torstein Grude Screenplay: Torstein Grude and George Gittoes Directors of Photography: Ijaz Ahmad and George Gittoes Producer: Torstein Grude for Piraya Film AS Release date: November 2012 Norwegian distributor: Kudos Family AS Sales: Kudos Family AS The documentary film Love City shows how the progressive youth of Afghanistan are rejecting the use of armed force and see film production as an alternative means of bringing peace and social chance to their war torn and occupied country. George Gittoes is Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of NSW. Veteran frontline painter, photographer and journalist of many wars and 40 years of filmmaking. Torstein Grude is a multi award winning filmmaker who often produces in combination with writing and shooting. Grude has also directed and co-directed a number of films. 40 FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES NOWHERE HOME DE ANDRE 90 min Colour DCP 2k Director: Margreth Olin Screenplay: Margreth Olin Director of Photography: Øystein Mamen Producer: Margreth Olin for Speranza Film AS Release date: September 7, 2012 Norwegian distributor: Norsk filmdistribusjon Contact: Speranza Film AS Nowhere Home is a feature length documentary film about lone minor asylum seekers that get limited residence permits in Norway until they turn 18, and then are sent back to an uncertain future in Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq or other conflict areas. A close, touching and provoking encounter, Nowhere Home is a film that questions the management of the ethical basic principles of our time. Margreth Olin (1970) studied media and mass communication at the University of Bergen and the University of Oslo, and media, journalism and documentary filmmaking at Volda University College. Her first feature length documentary was In the House of Angels (1998). She has since written and directed several award-winning documentaries. Her first feature fiction film, The Angel, premiered in 2009 and was the Norwegian entry to the Academy Awards in 2011. Olin is also wellknown for her social commitment and has received many humanitarian awards for her work. FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 41 FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES THE PEOPLE BY THE FJORD FOLK VED FJORDEN 61 min Colour DCP 2k Dolby 5.1 Director: Øyvind Sandberg Screenplay: Øyvind Sandberg Director of Photography: Øyvind Sandberg Producers: Jorunn Botne and Øyvind Sandberg for Øy-Film Release date: October 28, 2011 Contact: Øy-Film In Osterfjorden, north of Bergen, we meet the farmers Ole Hjelmås and Magnhild Dyrdal who run their family farms in a traditional way. We follow them in their everyday activities – in the contact with the animals, through calving and slaughter, and in the practice of old food traditions. The People by the Fjord is a warm documentary about a west coast culture that may disappear, a culture based on the interaction with the landscape that surrounds them: the fjord. Øyvind Sandberg (1953) was educated in literature at the University of Bergen and filmmaking at the Volda University College. His hallmark as a documentarist has been to present intimate and warm portraits of persons that generally do not get any media attention, often depicting Norwegian people leading original and often ancient ways of life. Although having won numerous awards for his films (both cinematic and for television) over the years, his greatest successes in terms of cinema audiences have come during the last decade, with the documentaries Coastal Life (2001) and Hearts (2006). 42 FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES PUSHWAGNER PUSHWAGNER 73 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo 5.1 Directors: Even G. Benestad and August B. Hanssen Screenplay: Even G. Benestad and August B. Hanssen Director of Photography: Tonje Louise Finne Producer: Carsten Aanonsen for Indie Film AS Release date: September 2, 2011 Norwegian distributor: Euforia Film Contact: Indie Film AS Those who have had the pleasure of meeting Pushwagner know that hanging out with him is an unpredictable affair. We have spent more than three years with him. It has been frustrating, hilarious and rewarding. Based on the painter’s own imagery and the theme control, we have made a different portrait of an artist who refuses to be controlled. Pushwagner is Benestad’s third feature documentary. In 2002 he made his debut with the multi-award-winning All About My Father. The film chronicles his father’s transvestitism, and its impact on his family. In Natural Born Star (2007) he told the story of Fred Robsahm; a former film star of spaghetti-fame battling poverty and HIV in a small town in Norway. Benestad and Hanssen have collaborated on several projects before. Amongst these All About My Father and Natural Born Star. Pushwagner is Hanssen’s directorial debut. FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 43 FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES REUNION – TEN YEARS AFTER THE WAR REUNION 72 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo 5.1 Director: Jon Haukeland Screenplay: Jon Haukeland Director of Photography: Anna Myking Producer: Charlotte Røhder Tvedt for Medieoperatørene Release date: June 17, 2011 Norwegian distributor: Storytelling Media Sales: Autlook Filmsales GmbH The film explores the complex relationship between the suppressor and the suppressed during an emotional 10 years reunion of a dialogue-seminar with Serbs and Albanians from Kosovo. Jon Haukeland (1973) studied history at the University of Oslo, and directing at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He started working with documentaries as a reporter, journalist and director at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK. In 1997 he became part of the production company Medieoperatørene. He made his debut in fiction film with the short film Behind the House in 2007. Reunion is his second feature length documentary with theatrical release. 44 FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES SHAKESPEARE: THE HIDDEN TRUTH SHAKESPEARES SKJULTE SANNHET 105 min Colour DCP2k Stereo 5.1 Director: Jørgen Friberg Screenplay: Jørgen Friberg Director of Photography: Svend Even Hærra Producer: Kjell Eriksen for AS Videomaker Cast: Robert Crumpton, Petter Amundsen Release date: March 2012 Norwegian distributor: tba Contact: AS Videomaker Must world history be rewritten? Was William Shakespeare just a straw man for a secret brotherhood? Petter Amundsen claims he can prove this, but no Shakespeare experts will meet him until Robert Crumpton decides to come to Norway to tear Petter’s theory to pieces. Jørgen Friberg graduated from Lillehammer University College 2001, (Documentary – Directing). From 2001 until 2004 he participated on several productions in NRK, and has worked as a freelancer since. FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 45 FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES SOLACE SJU KAMMERS 68 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo 5.1 Directors: Karoline Grindaker and Hilde K. Kjøs Director of Photography: Hilde K. Kjøs Producers: Hilde K. Kjøs and Karoline Grindaker for Mica Film Release date: August 24, 2011 Contact: Mica Film In Purcell’s opera “Dido and Aenaes”, Dido ends her own life with the words “Remember me, but forget my faith”. Solace embodies this lament with six women traumatised by war, from serving as Red Cross nurses at the fronts of WWII. At the end of the road they finally reveal some of their deepest memories - a poetic journey into their long-time secret rooms. Karoline Grindaker (1974) Director. BA in Psychology, and Film Studies from Surrey Institute of Art & Design. Codirector of the documentary Harvesting the Wasteland, screened at Nordic Panorama 2008 and several international film festivals. Hilde K. Kjøs (1974) Director, photographer. History of Art at the University of Oslo and has a BA in Photography & Imaging from Manchester Metropolitan University. Co-director and co-cinematographer of Harvesting the Wasteland. Kjøs and Grindaker run Mica Film. 46 FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES WHEN BUBBELS BURST NÅR BOBLENE BRISTER 90 min Colour and b/w dcp 2k Stereo 5.1 Director: Hans Petter Moland Screenplay: Petter Skavlan Director of Photography: Philip Øgaard Producers: Jessica Paine-Torsnes and Odd Arvid Strømstad for Eyeworks Dinamo AS Release date: Spring 2012 Norwegian distributor: tba Contact: Eyeworks Dinamo AS When Bubbles Burst is the story behind the story: In a globalized economy it becomes increasingly difficult for nations, companies and individuals to protect themselves from today’s extreme financial volatility. The economic “butterfly effect” makes us all equally vulnerable. In this documentary we travel from Norway out into the world in order to examine the mechanics behind bubbles and crashes, and discuss trends and visions for the future. We meet Nobel laureates, world-class economists, players in the global economic casino and “the little man”. Together they give an unflinching account of today’s situation, draw fascinating historical parallels and provide insight needed to better understand the world’s present financial crisis. Hans Petter Moland (1955) got his education in film and theatre direction at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, graduating in 1978. He returned to Norway in 1985, and established Moland Film Co. in 1988. In 1993 he made his debut as a feature film director, with The Last Lieutenant. He followed up his debut with Zero Kelvin (1995), Aberdeen (1999), and The Beautiful Country (2004) which was selected for the main competition in Berlin. 2006 saw Moland premiering the 1970s-drama Comrade Pedersen before A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010), also in the main competition in Berlin. FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 47 SHORT FILMS SHORT FILMS ALIEN REPAIR GUY ALIEN REPAIR GUY CAN YOU TALK? KAN DU SNAKKE? Alien Repair Guy is a sci-fi story about where we come from, and about whose pawns we are - a film about what goes on above our heads. Earth´s control box gets broken. For the alien caretaker, what seems like just another day at work ends up something completely different. Jogging in a park, Morten witnesses his wife being attacked by a strange man. When he reacts, he’s immediately back at the beginning and everything restarts. Slowly, he realizes he’s in a loop, caught in a dream he can’t escape from. Sci-Fi 9 min Colour HDSR Stereo 5.1 Directors: Alexander Soma and Øystein Moe Screenplay: Alexander Soma and Øystein Moe Director of Photography: Øystein Moe Producers: Gisle Norman Mehus for Norman Fiction AS, Øystein Moe and Alexander Soma for Helmet Release date: January 2012 Thriller 15 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo 5.1 Director: Mirko Stopar Screenplay: Mirko Stopar Director of Photography: Øystein Mamen Producers: Helen Brislow and Christian Fredrik Martin for Friland AS Cast: Gard B. Eidsvold, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Ingar Helge Gimle, Rudi Simmons, Lars-Petter Iversen, Jesper Sundnes, Terje Jacobsen Release date: June 2011 Alexander Somma (1982) holds a master degree in architecture from The Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Øystein Moe (1981) is producing commercials and music videos with Somma within their own production company Helmet. Alien Repair Guy is their first short film. Mirko Stopar (1974) hails from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he also got his education in film, and worked as a writer and director in film, television and commercials for almost 10 years. Since 2001 he’s been based in Oslo, and made his “Norwegian debut” with the short film The Thread in 2004. Since then he has directed several other short films, as well as directed for television. He runs his own production company, Ferryman Film, and has also frequently worked with Friland Productions. SHORT FILMS 49 SHORT FILMS DEAR LISA KJÆRE LISA EVERYTHING WILL BE OK EVERYTHING WILL BE OK In Charlotte Blom’s humorous yet bitter-sweet short film, Dear Lisa, we start out with the speeches Lisa have received through life – from her father’s confirmation speech to her friend’s birthday speech, her husband’s words for her on their wedding day, and during her funeral. Two young guys decide to explore the land outside. Their journey will strengthen their friendship, but change their lives forever. Drama 10 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo 5.1 Director: Charlotte Blom Screenplay: Charlotte Blom Director of Photography: Øystein Mamen Producer: Gudrun Austli for Motlys AS Cast: Tone Beate Mostraum, Tiril Muri Krahn, Ågot Sendstad, Trond Høvik Release date: August 2011 Charlotte Blom (1972) was educated at the Oslo Academy of Photographic Art and Edinburgh College of Art. She works as a freelance photographer, and made her directorial debut with the short Twisted Sisters Goes Baccara in 1999. Her next short, A Sunday in Schweigaardsgate (2004), received the National Film Award Amanda for Best Short in 2004. Coco-Nuts (2006) was screened at over 30 international film festivals, and also received several awards and special mentions. 50 SHORT FILMS Drama 25 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo 5.1 Director: Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen Screenplay: Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen Director of Photography: Marius Matzow Gulbrandsen Producer: Alan R. Milligan for Film Farms AS Co-producers: Marte Blyseth Pedersen and Stine Blichfeldt for De jentene der AS Cast: Jedrzej Przysiecki, Bartosz Someart Cichorack, Jeanette Alexandra Sundt, Sondre Sløgedal, Åge Henriksen Release date: June 2011 Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen (1982) holds a bachelor’s degree in TV Journalism and is currently studying directing at the Polish National Film School in Łodz. Gulbrandsen both writes and directs his films, which are simple stories about people that he hopes will resonate universally. Jonas’ second year film at the National Film School in Poland, Darek, received the national film award Amanda for Best Short Film in 2009. SHORT FILMS HANDS HENDER LEVI’S HORSE LEVIS HEST A young woman brings some children on a trip to a desolate beach. While she plays with the youngest in the grass the others find a stranded porpoise. It is dead. Curious, they open it up to see. Fourteen-year-old Jonas is a lonely and alienated young boy living in a small village in Northern Norway. He feels a certain bond with the mentally disabled man Levi and his little horse. When Jonas wants to be accepted amongst his peers he is facing a moral dilemma: He must choose either to defend, or to throw a stone, on the weakest one. Drama 15 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo 5.1 Director: Camilla Figenschou Screenplay: Camilla Figenschou Director of Photography: Marte Vold Producer: Silja Espolin Johnson for Ape & Bjørn Cast: Anna Haukeland, Sara Kaspersen, Simon Kaspersen, Øystein Aanes, Martin Hansen, Wanja Jakobsen, Magnus Eriksen, Thea Edvardsen, Emil Edvardsen, Mathilde Hansen Release date: May 2012 Camilla Figenschou (1978) is a visual artist with a Master of Fine Arts from Konstfack in Stockholm, and Film Studies from Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires and Nordland College of Art and Film. Figenschou works in various media, but with an emphasis on video and photography. In the last years she has gradually moved towards narrative film. Her debut The beginning of no night (2010) won an early bird price at Tromsø International Film Festival. Hands is Figenschou’s second short film. Drama, Youth 11 min Colour DCP 2k Dolby SRD Director: Torfinn Iversen Screenplay: Torfinn Iversen Director of Photography: Marte Vold Producer: Mona Steffensen for Original Film AS Cast: Jørgen Langhelle, Henrik Carlyle, Markus Mortensen Abeler, Håvard K. Davidsen, Marius Platt Release date: August 2011 Torfinn Iversen (1985) holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Culture (film and television) from Lillehammer University College, and graduated from Nordland College of Art and Film in 2009. He participated in the regional young people’s film festival Laterna Magica for the first time at the tender age of eight, and even won 1st prize for best manuscript in his class (the script was presented through a cartoon). At the festival’s 20th anniversary in 2011, Iversen was also the recipient of the festivals first ever Honorary Award. SHORT FILMS 51 SHORT FILMS LIFELONG LOVE LIVSLANG KJÆRLIGHET A MARRIAGE ET EKTESKAP Lifelong Love is not for amateurs. Many of us strive for this, but few succeed to stay with the same person for a lifetime. Berta and Eilev, a couple who have now passed 80, are two who have managed this. They have been married for over 50 years when we first meet them. Geir is a Norwegian middle-aged bachelor waiting for his Russian wife to be. Tina is young and beautiful. Set as an exploration of their first few weeks together, A Marriage tells a tale of fragile love. Documentary 11 min Colour HDCAM Dolby SRD Director: Solveig Melkeraaen Screenplay: Solveig Melkeraaen Director of Photography: Marianne Bjelle Producer: Margreth Olin for Speranza Film as Release date: June 2011 Solveig S. Melkeraaen (1978) holds a Bachelor’s degree in directing for television from Lillehammer University College. Her best known film is arguably the award-winning The Fabulous Fiff and Fam (2009), but she has also directed numerous other documentaries, short fiction films and also commissioned films for various charitable and official organizations. Both her documentaries and short films have been screened at festivals all over Norway, as well as abroad. 52 SHORT FILMS Drama 16 min Colour DCP 2k Dolby SR Director: Henning Rosenlund Screenplay: Henning Rosenlund Director of Photography: Jakob Ingimundarson Producer: Maria Ekerhovd for Mer Film AS Cast: Jørgen Langhelle, Irina Potapenko Release date: June 2011 Henning Rosenlund (1975) holds a Master of Media Production degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. A Marriage is his debut film as a director. SHORT FILMS PREMATURE PREMATUR RELOADED RELOADED A young man visits his parents in Norway with his pregnant Spanish wife. Expectations run high, but in the short ride from the airport, it becomes clear that this won’t be the harmonious family occasion everyone hopes for. In this playful stop motion animated music video, monsters move to the beats and melody of the music. The characters come into existence after a failure in a laboratory, from which they manage to escape and find their way into the city, leaving a path of destruction behind. Drama 17 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo 5.1 Director: Gunhild Enger Screenplay: Gunhild Enger Director of Photography: Marte Vold Producer: Gudrun Austli for Motlys AS Cast: Christine Stoesen, Martin Bøhmer, Aina Huguet Estrada, Eilif Hartwigsen Release date: February 2012 Animation 4 min Colour Digibeta Stereo Director: Marieke Verbiesen Screenplay: Marieke Verbiesen Director of Photography: Steven Frederickx Producer: Marieke Verbiesen for Marieke Motiondesign Release date: June 2011 Gunhild Enger (1980) graduated from Edinburgh College of Art. She was nominated for a BAFTA with her graduation film Bargain, and has since then screened her films in festivals around the world. Her film Passion, won for best international short at Alcine, Madrid 2009. Marieke Maria Verbiesen (1978) is a Dutch artist based in Norway, working with projects in electronic arts and interactive design. Verbiesen has directed several music videos and short animations for MTV, Onedotzero and the Portland Animation Festival. Educated at the Royal Academy for Art & Design in s-Hertogenbosch & FMI Interactive Media Environments in Groningen. SHORT FILMS 53 SHORT FILMS SHATTERED APPLES SHATTERED APPLES SUPERDAD AND PELÉ SUPERPAPPA OG PELÉ Maria works at a factory where efficiency is more important than personal interaction. At home she tries to alleviate her pain and struggles to move on after a haunting experience. She has no one to talk to, until one day at work someone magically appears. Pelé has great fun during the weekend, but on Monday he tries to hang on to Daddy’s bike. But Daddy is very busy and has no time to listen to Pelé. Even though Pelé is quite small, he is tough enough to show that he does not like to have a stressed-out Dad. Even though he thinks dad is “Superdad” – almost … Drama, Experimental 9 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo 5.1 Director: Ina Therese Lerner Grevstad Screenplay: Ina Therese Lerner Grevstad Director of Photography: Sjur Pollen Producers: Meghan Beaton and Bendik Heggen Strønstad for Yesbox Productions AS Cast: Linn Monica Tverberg, Øyvind Gran, Anders Fikke Release date: December 2011 Ina Therese Lerner Grevstad (1981) has worked with several directors with great experience, such as Gunnar Vikene, Therese Jacobsen, Aksel Hennie, Petter Næss a.o. as director’s assistant, actor, and in other parts of production. She has directed theater which has toured in Norway and abroad. Shattered Apples is her first short as a director. 54 SHORT FILMS Animation, Children 4 min Colour HDSR Stereo Director: Annette Saugestad Helland Screenplay: Annette Saugestad Helland Director of Photography: Marianne Lind Producer: Annette Saugestad Helland for Annette S. Helland EF Release date: June 2011 Annette Saugestad Helland (1975) was educated at Bergen National Academy of the Arts and studied animation at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. She has written and illustrated three children’s books, participated in several collective exhibitions and is currently working on animation and book projects for children. SHORT FILMS THE VIDEOBOY VIDEOGUTTEN TOWARDS THE SUN Å SNU SEG MOT SOLEN The Videoboy is loosely based on a short novel written by the well known Norwegian writer Tore Renberg. The story takes place in the late 1980s. The relationship between 13-year-old Hasse and Pål is tested the day they accept an offer to visit a boy who is famous for his collection of video films. The journey they take gets darker and darker, and the young boys are forced to meet boundaries that they never have been even close to. Nothing will ever be the same. Lennart is bullied at school until the beautiful Julia moves in next door. She teaches him how to fight back, but what will happen when Julia’s dark past comes between them? Drama, Youth 33 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo 5.1 Director: Stian Kristiansen Screenplay: Ravn Lanesskog based on “Videogutten” by Tore Renberg Director of Photography: Trond Tønder Producers: Yngve Sæther and Sigve Endresen for Motlys AS Cast: Ruben Rosbach, Andreas S. Samuelsen, Stian Aase, Reno-Marée Muren, Marko Kanic Release date: November 2011 Stian Kristiansen (1972) studied directing and television production at Stavanger University College before he was accepted for the directing programme at The Norwegian Film School, graduating in 2006. He directed several short films before he made his feature film debut with the youth drama The Man Who Loved Yngve in 2008, followed by the sequel I Travel Alone in 2011. Drama, Youth 27 min Colour HDSR Stereo Director: Nina Knag Screenplay: Nina Knag and Ingrid Skagestad Director of Photography: Magnus Flåto Producer: Ingrid Skagestad for Westerdals School of Communication Cast: Sebastian Warholm, Hedda Marie Bay, Svein Roger Karlsen, Agnete G. Haaland, Øystein Røger, Anna Bache-Wiig, Kyrre Hellum, Marianne Krogness, Kari-Ann Grønsund, Katrine Lie-Jensen, Simon Sandbakken Release date: February 2012 Nina Knag (1984) holds a degree in Visual Culture from The University of Bergen (2004-2007), and studied film production at Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo (2007-2010). She has written and directed several documentaries and short films, including The Secret Country (2009), which has been screened at several international film festivals. SHORT FILMS 55 TV-DRAMA TV-DRAMA ALFIE ATKINS ALBERT ÅBERG Children 13x13 min Colour HDCAM Stereo 5.1 NRK Directors: Liller Møller and Karsten Killerich Screenplay: Hans Åke Gabrielsson, Tora Berg and Kathrine Valen based on books by Gunilla Bergström Producer: Kristin Ulseth for Maipo Film AS Release date: December 22, 2012 Norwegian distributor: NRK, Nordisk Film Distribusjon Sales: TrustNordisk ApS Alfie Atkins is one of our most well-known children’s book character, known for generations through a number of books and short films which celebrate the reflective child - the creative and ingenious six-year-old Alfie. Coming soon is a brand new TV series in 13 episodes, based on books which have not yet been filmed. The individual episodes are all about little children’s everyday life. Alfie may find new friends or quarrel with Daddy. He may be babysitting or making birthday surprises. He may learn something about war, or daydream about his own kingdom. He may build a new world on the living room floor, or explore the mysteries of the universe by observing his own breathing. Alfie makes use of impressive strategies which show the young viewers how to be creative, imaginative and innovative in one’s interaction with the world. Liller Møller (1952) is a Danish director, animator, illustrator and author. She started out as a trick film photographer. Since the 1970’s until the present, she has worked as director and animator for a number of short film productions. Karsten Kiilerich is a Danish director who started out as an animator and has worked in the animation industry for about 30 years. He has worked as a director on a number of animation series for television. He co-wrote the feature film Help! I’m a Fish (2000), and directed the feature of The Ugly Duckling & Me. He received an Academy Award nomination in 1999 for his short film When Life Departs. TV-DRAMA 57 TV-DRAMA BUZZ ALDRIN, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO YOU? BUZZ ALDRIN, HVOR BLE DET AV DEG I ALT MYLDERET? Drama 4x58 min Colour HDCAM SR Stereo NRK Director: Geir Henning Hopland Screenplay: Geir Henning Hopland based on ”Buzz Aldrin hvor ble det av deg i alt mylderet” by Johan Harstad Director of Photography: Jakob Ingimundarson Producers: Yngve Sæther, Brede Hovland, Sigve Endresen and Rune Denstad Langlo for Motlys AS Cast: Pål Hagen, Bjarne Henriksen, Annfinnur Heinesen, Annika Johannessen, Chad Coleman, Helle Fagralid, Kristine Rui Slettebakken Release date: November 27, 2011 Contact: Motlys AS Buzz Aldrin, What Ever Happened to You? is the story of Mattias, who, in contrast to apparently everyone in the coming generation, does not wish to stand out in the crowd. In spite of his fantastic singing voice, he would prefer a secluded existence, and to remain as anonymous as possible. But it’s not easy. His parents, girlfriend, friends and environment expect something more from him. Mattias finds solace in and derives inspiration for his lifestyle from the astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who in 1969, incidentally on the day Mattias was born, was the second human being to set foot on the moon. And was subsequently forgotten. It’s okay to be number two, Mattias reflects. Geir Henning Hopland (1970) is a writer, director and producer, with a background from the youth department at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, where he’s made numerous short films, music videos and documentaries for over a decade. Hopland was also responsible for the black comedy series House of Singles (2005), and the TV film Nora (2006) which is part of the series Echoes of Ibsen. Hopland has also directed several episodes of the ambitious series Lilyhammer (2011), starring Steve “Little Steven” Van Zandt. 58 TV-DRAMA TV-DRAMA DAG 2 DAG 2 Drama comedy 10x23 min Colour HD Stereo 5.1 TV2 Director: Øystein Karlsen Screenplay: Øystein Karlsen and Kristopher Schau Director of Photography: Pål Bugge Haagenrud Producers: Anders Tangen, Pål Bugge Haagenrud and Øystein Karlsen for Kamerakameratene and Viafilm Cast: Atle Antonsen, Tuva Novotny, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Agnes Kittelsen, Rolf Lassgård, Iben Hjejle, Kaja Varjord, Ine Hansen Release date: Autumn 2011 Sales: Nordic World AS Dag 2 is second season of the 10 episode half hour TV2 drama series Dag. Season two continues the story of the couples therapist who believes everyone should live by themselves. Humanity’s worst enemy is itself - and nothing is more harmful than an intelligent honest man with selfinsight, an eclectic taste for music and a quart of hard liquor. Øystein Karlsen has worked with commercials, short films and music videos as well as radio and TV. He is educated as actor at Arts Educational School in London. He has written, directed and produced Dag and Dag 2, and Fox Television Studios has bought the rights for remake. He has also directed the feature film Fuck Up. TV-DRAMA 59 TV-DRAMA DEATHLINGS DAUINGER Children 8x25 min Colour HDCAM SR Stereo 5.1 NRK Directors: Margret Bergheim and Arne Berggren Screenplay: Arne Berggren based on his own novel “Dauinger” Director of Photography: Patrick Säfström Producers: Agnete Thuland and Arne Berggren for Rubicon TV Cast: Ruben Utaker, Felix C. Øverlie, Maren Melby, Gard Eidsvold, Hanne Kariin Dahle, Jannik Bonnevie, Espen Reboli Bjerke, Evy Kasseth Røsten Release date: 2012 Contact: Rubicon TV A boy with very special abilities moves into the twilight zone between life and death in order to help confused souls find their way - back to life or into the realm of death. Arne Berggren has written novels, books for children and youth, and essays. He made his literary debut in 1991. He has written five books about Aldo Monrad, the teenager from hell. His theatre plays have been performed on stages in Oslo and Bergen, and he has written screenplays for TV series and films. In 2009, he was the originator, co-producer and main writer of the TV series Hvaler for TV2 as well as director of three of the episodes. Margret Bergheim is an experienced film and TV-director since 1999 with more than a hundred hours of TV-drama on the record sheet. 60 TV-DRAMA TV-DRAMA THE HALF BROTHER HALVBROREN Drama 8x45 min Colour DCP 4k Stereo NRK Director: Per Olav Sørensen Screenplay: Mette M. Bølstad based on the novel “Halvbroren” by Lars Saabye Christensen Directors of Photography: John Christian Rosenlund and Lars Vestergaard Producer: Olav Øen for Monster Film Cast: Nicolai Cleve Broch, Frank Kjosås, Agnes Kittelsen, Ghita Nørby, Marianne Nielsen, Mariann Hole, Ola G. Furuseth, Jon Øigarden Release date: Winter 2013 Norwegian distributor: SF Norge AS Sales: AB Svensk Filmindustri The Half Brother is a dramatic family saga that offers an historical parable of 20th century Europe. On V Day, May 1945, as a continent emerges from war, Barnum’s mother Vera is raped in her attic in Oslo by an unknown man, leading to the birth of Barnum’s half brother, Fred. When Barnum is born five years later, to the man that Vera has since met and married, the Nilsen family, like Europe, is already splitting in two. Growing up together during the Cold War – Barnum with his father, Fred searching for his – the half brothers become estranged and Fred eventually disappears. At the film festival in Berlin in 1990, as the Wall is still coming down, Barnum learns that Fred has returned. Finally, as the true identity of Fred’s father comes to light, the two half brothers may once again be reunited. Per-Olav Sørensen (1963) is a director, playwright, screenwriter and producer, with experience from both theatre, television and film. Since 1992 he has directed numerous successful plays on international and Norwegian theater stages alike. Since 2004 Sørensen has worked increasingly with motion pictures, and starting with television drama production. He made his debut as a feature film director with the “apocalypse-comedy” People in the Sun in 2011. TV-DRAMA 61 TV-DRAMA HELLFJORD HELLFJORD Comedy 7x29 min Colour 16:9 NRK Directors: Tommy Wirkola, Patrik Syversen, Kenneth Olaf Hjellum, Ole Giæver, Sebastian Dalén, Vegar Hoel, Roar Uthaug Screenplay: Tommy Wirkola, Zahid Ali, Stig Frode Henriksen Director of Photography: Matt Weston Producers: Terje Strømstad, Anne Bergseng and Kjetil Omberg for Tappeluft Pictures Cast: Zahid Ali, Stig Frode Henriksen, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Pihla Viitala, Thomas Hanzon, Maria Bock Release date: Autumn 2012 Norwegian distributor: NRK Contact: Tappeluft Pictures The director of cult hit Dead Snow and Paramount’s upcoming blockbuster Hansel and Gretel – Witch Hunters joins forces with the best Norwegian directors and Top-Notch Scandinavian actors to give you a TV-series unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Hellfjord is the story of the urban police officer Salmander – a second generation Pakistani immigrant – who after somewhat accidentally killing his police horse in front of thousands of children, gets relocated to the location farthest north in Norway; Hellfjord. Hellfjord is populated by typical Norwegians, simple-minded people keenly interested in keeping to themselves. But when Salmander scratches the surface, he discovers a secret that will turn Hellfjord upside down. Maybe even inside out. 7 episodes – 7 directors: Tommy Wirkola, Patrik Syversen, Kenneth Olaf Hjellum, Ole Giæver, Sebastian Dalén, Vegar Hoel, Roar Uthaug. 62 TV-DRAMA TV-DRAMA LILYHAMMER LILYHAMMER Action comedy 8x46 min Colour HD 16:9 Stereo 5.1 NRK Directors: Simen Alsvik, Geir Henning Hopland, Lisa Marie Gamlem Screenplay: Anne Bjørnstad and Eilif Skodvin Directors of Photography: Johan-Fredrik Bødtker and Jakob Ingimundarson Producers: Agnete Thuland and Trond Berg-Nilssen for Rubicon TV Cast: Steven Van Zandt, Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Mariann Saastad Ottesen, Steinar Sagen, Kyrre Hellum, Anne Krigsvoll, Sven Nordin, Fridtjof Såheim Release date: 2012 Sales: SevenOne International After Frank “The Fixer” Tagliano testifies against his Mafia boss in New York, he enters the Witness Protection Program and makes an unusual demand: he wants to be set up with a new life in a small town in the Norwegian countryside called Lillehammer. Simen Alsvik is educated at Volda Documentary Film School. He has worked as a director since 1996 making commercials, short films, documentaries and TV comedy series. Geir Henning Hopland started his career in NRK. He has directed the black humour-series House of Singles (2005) and the highly acclaimed tv-drama Buzz Aldrin, What Ever Happened to You? (2010). Lisa Marie Gamlem graduated as a director from the Norwegian Film School in June 2004. Her TV mini-series Ping Pong was nominated for an International Emmy in the Children & Young category in 2008. Her short film Cold (2011) was selected for Cannes Int. Film Festival in 2011. TV-DRAMA 63 TV-DRAMA THE UNIT SPESIALENHETEN Crime 12x43min Colour HD 16:9 Stereo 5.1 NRK Directors: Margret Bergheim, Janic Heen, Trond Berg-Nilssen Screenplay: Kjersti Ugelstad, Linn-Jeanethe Kyed, Christopher Haug, Øyvind Rune Stålen, Anne Elvestad Directors of Photography: Knut Aas, Hans Krsitian Riise, Øystein Essén Lundstrøm, Patrik Säfström, Odd Helge Haugsnes, Raymond Aasen Producers: Mimi Cejka and Trond Berg-Nilssen for Rubicon TV Cast: Marte Germaine Christensen, Christian Skolmen, Bjørn Sundquist, Yasmine Garbi, Nils Jørgen Kaalstad, Dennis Storhøi, Øystein Roger Release date: September 2011 Sales: SevenOne International The Unit is a specialized task force within the Norwegian police specialized for working with serious crimes against children. The five extraordinary members of the team are experts in the fields of pathology, technical forensics, traditional police investigation and psychological profiling. Each episode ends with them solving a case except for the unwinding backstory of the female investigator’s traumatic secret past that goes as a red line through the series reaching its climax in episode 12. Margret Bergheim, the conceptual director of the series is an experienced film and TV-director since 1999 with more than a hundred hours of TV-drama on the record sheet. Janic Heen is is educated from the Norwegian Film School at Lillehammer and made the series Brothers for NRK, screened in 2011. He is also a talented director of commercials. Trond Berg-Nilssen is also one of the producers of the series. For several years he has been the head producer of Scandinavia’s longest running soap; Hotel Caesar. 64 TV-DRAMA COPRODUCTIONS COPRODUCTIONS MERCY NÅDE | GNADE TWO LIVES (tbc) TO LIV | ZWEI LEBEN Polarnight on the brink of the arctic ocean. A German family emigrates to start anew, in the most Northern city in the world, Hammerfest. Instead, a horrible accident questions everything. What role does guilt play in regard to our happiness? Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a “war child”; the result of a love relationship between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. She enjoys a happy family life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. 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, until Katrine is finally stripped of everything, 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? Drama 131 min Colour DCP 2k Stereo 5.1 Director: Matthias Glasner Screenplay: Kim Fupz Aakeson Director of Photography: Jakub Bejnarowicz Producers: Kristine Knudsen, Matthias Glasner and Andreas Born for Schwarzweiss Filmproduktion GmbH, Knudsen & Streuber Medienmanufaktur and Ophir film GmbH Norwegian coproducer: Aage Aaberge for Neofilm AS Cast: Jürgen Vogel, Birgit Minichmayr, Henry Stange, Ane Dahl Torp, Maria Bock, Stig Henrik Hoff, Iren Reppen Release date: tba Contact: Neofilm 66 COPRODUCTIONS Drama 95 min Colour Scope Dolby 5.1 Director: Georg Maas Screenplay: Georg Maas, Ståle Stein Berg, Christoph Tölle and Judith Kaufmann Director of Photography: Judith Kaufmann Producers: Dieter Zeppenfeld for Zinnober Film and Rudi Teichmann B&T Film, Germany Norwegian producer: Axel Helgeland for Helgeland Film Cast: Juliane Köhler, Liv Ullmann, Sven Nordin, Julia Bache-Wiig, Ken Duken Release date: October 19, 2012 Sales: Beta Cinema COPRODUCTIONS DYPET GRAVITY Director: Taru Mekala Producer: Kinosto Oy, Finland Norwegian coproducer: Knut Skoglund for Pomor Film AS Norwegian release date: tba Director: Baltasar Kormakur Producer: Agnes Johansen for Blueeyes Production, Iceland Norwegian coproducer: Egil Ødegård for Filmhuset AS Norwegian release date: September 2012 Director: Marah Strauch Producer: Eric Bruggeman for Gravity Film LLC, USA Norwegian coproducer: Lars Løge for Flimmer Film AS Norwegian release date: May 1, 2013 AN ENEMY TO DIE FOR EN ANNANSTANS I SVERIGE AUGUST FOOLS Director: Peter Dalle Producer: Patrick Ryborn for Fladen Film, Sweden Norwegian coproducer: Synnøve Hørsdal for Maipo AS Norwegian release date: February, 2012 CALLGIRL Director: Mikael Marcimain Producer: Mimmi Spång for Garage Film Int., Sweden Norwegian coproducer: Christian Fredrik Martin and Therese Bøhn for Friland Produksjon AS Norwegian release date: December 14, 2012 CARCASS Director: Marko and Matti Jatkola Producer: Petri Rossi for Cine Works Koskinen and Rossi Oy, Finland Norwegian coproducer: Knut Skoglund for Pomor Film AS Norwegian release date: December 7, 2012 DOM ÖVER DÖD MANN Director: Kjell-Åke Andersson Producer: Anna Bjørk for Tur med vädret AB, Sweden Norwegian coproducer: Knut Skoglund for Pomor Film AS Norwegian release date: January 20,2012 EN DUVA SATT PÅ EN GREN OCH FUNDERADE ÖVER TILVÄRON LASSEMAJAS DETEKTIVBYRÅ – VON BROMS HEMMELIGHET Director: Walter Söderlund Producer: Moa Westeson for AB Svensk Filmindustri, Sweden Norwegian coproducer: Silje Hopland Eik for Cinenord Kidstory AS Norwegian release date: December 14, 2012 PROSJEKT CHOPIN Director: Roy Andersson Producer: Roy Anderssson for Roy Andersson Filmproduktion, Sweden Norwegian coproducer: Håkon Øverås for 4 ½ Film AS Norwegian release date: May 17, 2014 Directors: Martin Leslie Clapp and Adam Wyrwas Producer: Hugh Welchman for Break Thru Film Ltd Norwegian coproducer: Kristin Hellebust for Storm Studios AS Norwegian release date: February, 2012 FLIMMER STELLA DAYS Director: Patrik Eklund Producer: Jan Blomgren for Bob Film, Sweden Norwegian coproducer: Turid Øversveen for 4 ½ Film AS Norwegian release date: September 7, 2012 Director: Thaddeus O’Sullivan Producer: Lesley KcKinn and Jackie Larkin for Newgrange Pictures, Ireland Norwegian coproducer: Stein B. Kvae for Paradox AS Norwegian release date: February 17, 2012 Director: Jan Troell Producer: Francy Suntinger for Filmlance AB, Sweden Norwegian coproducer: Synnøve Hørsdal for Maipo AS Norwegian release date: September 28, 2012 COPRODUCTIONS 67 NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2002-2011 (Documentaries in italic) Title DirectorProduction Company 2002 All About my Father Even Benestad Coastal Life Øyvind Sandberg Cool & Crazy on the Road Knut Erik Jensen Falling Sky Gunnar Vikene Hold my Heart Trygve Allister Diesen I am Dina Ole Bornedal Karlsson on the Roof Vibeke Idsøe Music for Weddings and Funerals Unni Straume My Body Margreth Olin Ploddy the Police Car Thomas Kaiser Scars Lars Berg The Smile in the Eye Piotr Kuzinski Utopia – Nobody is perfect in Martin Asphaug, Arild Frølich, the perfect country Sara Johnsen, Magnus Martens, Hans Petter Moland, Terje Rangnes, Thomas Robsahm, Ingebjørg Torgersen, Morten Tyldum Weightless Sigve Endresen Welcome Home Trond Kvist 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 68 NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2002-2011 Release date Exposed Film Productions AS Øy-Film Barentsfilm AS Motlys AS, Alligator Film, Final Cut Norsk Filmproudksjon AS Northern Lights AS, Nordisk Film AS, Felicia Film AB, Germini Film & Televisjon, Mandarin Film, Apollo media Filmkameratene AS, AB Svensk Filmindustri Christiania Film AS Speranza Film Yellow Cottage AS Paradox AS Frameline Film AS Motlys AS 22.02 18.01 05.04 18.10 22.03 08.03 27.09 23.08 15.06 26.12 15.02 06.09 07.06 Motlys AS Piraya Film 23.08 25.10 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 Exposed Film Production AS Filbmagoahti AS Paradox 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 21.02 12.09 12.09 11.04 29.08 26.12 21.02 19.09 23.06 24.10 31.10 07.02 Jens Lien Bent Hamer Eva Isaksen John Sullivan Magnus Martens Peder Norlund Alexander Eik Maipo Film &TV Prouksjon BulBul Film AS Maipo Film & TV Produksjon Dinamo Story AS 4 ½ AS Nordisk Film Production AS Filmkameratene AS 14.02 17.01 10.10 25.07 20.08 28.02 24.09 Title 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 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 DirectorProduction Company Release date Erich Hörtnagl Knut Erik Jensen Hans Petter Moland Mona J. Hoel Torun Lian Martin Asphaug Erik Poppe Petter Næss Trond Jacobsen Paradox Barentsfilm AS Dinamo Story AS Freedom from Fear Painswick Film Dinamo Story AS Paradox Maipo Film & TV Produksjon Fantasi-Fabrikken 02.04 16.01 12.03 06.08 27.08 22.10 24.09 23.01 24.09 Arild Østin Ommundsen Annette Sjursen Margreth Olin Arne Lindtner Næss Jon Haukeland, Tore Vollan Tore Rygh Karoline Frogner Aksel Hennie Muz Film Maipo Film & TV Produksjon Speranza AS Nordisk Film Production AS Medieoperatørene Motlys AS Integritet Film Tordenfilm 15.10 03.09 19.11 06.02 30.01 20.08 12.03 10.09 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 Filmkameratene Dalchows Verden Nordisk Film & TV AS BulBul Film/Stark Sales Nordisk Film & TV AS Paradox AS Kinopravda Filmhuset Produksjoner AS Filmkameratene AS Friland AS Filmhuset Produksjoner AS Sub Productions Maipo Film & TV Produksjon AS 4 ½ AS Paradox AS Mikrofilm 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 Jeremy Robøle Ove Raymond Gyldenås Rune Denstad Langlo/Sigve Endresen Bastard Film Friland AS Motlys AS 26.12 19.08 28.01 NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2002-2011 69 Title DirectorProduction Company 2006 The Art of Negative Thinking Bård Breien The Bothersome Man Jens Lien Comrade Pedersen Hans Petter Moland Cold Feet Alexander Eik Cold Prey Roar Uthaug Free Jimmy Christopher Nielsen The Junior Olsen Gang at the Circus Arne Lindtner Næss Hearts Øyvind Sandberg It’s Hard to be a Rock’n Roller Gunhild Asting The Lion – Henrik Ibsen Alexander Wisting Long Flat Balls Bjørn Fast Nagell Maria’s Men Vibeke Ringen Miracle Thomas Kaiser Ole Bull Aslak Aarhus Prirechnyy Tone Grøttjord Reprise Joachim Trier The Rich Country Aslaug Holm Sons Erik Richter Strand Svein and the Rat Trigger Gunnar Vikene Uro Stefan Faldbakken Lullaby Margreth Olin 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 70 NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2002-2011 Release date 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 Maipo Film & TV-produksjon AS Nordisk Film Visions AS Motlys AS 4 ½ AS Fenris Film AS Tordenfilm AS Maipo Film & TV-produksjon AS Cinenord Friland AS Speranza 03.11 26.05 24.02 27.10 13.10 21.04 10.02 18.08 01.09 20.10 31.03 30.09 26.12 27.10 15.06 08.09 27.01 15.09 03.03 11.08 08.09 01.12 Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen Espen Fyksen/Lise I. Osvoll Hanne Myren Petter Næss Arne Lindtner Næss Viafilm AS Filmkameratene AS Medieoperatørene| Monster Film Nordisk Film AS 17.08 23.02 02.02 07.09 02.02 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 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 AS Maipo Film- og TV-produksjon AS 23.03 09.11 14.02 02.03 26.10 26.12 30.03 09.03 27.04 14.09 19.01 09.03 Ole Martin Hafsmo Rubicon Film AS 26.10 Title DirectorProduction Company Release date The Ten Lives of Titanic the Cat USA vs Al-Arian Varg Veum – Bitter Flowers Winterland Grethe Bøe Line Halvorsen Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen Hisham Zaman 31.10 23.02 28.09 19.01 2008 99% Honest Big John Cold Lunch Cold Prey II Fatso House of Fools Ice Kiss The Kautokeino Rebellion Kurt Turns Evil 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 Rune Denstad Langlo Motlys AS Håvard Bustnes Faction Film AS Eva Sørhaug 4 ½ AS Mats Stenberg Fantefilm AS Arild Fröhlich Paradox AS Eva Isaksen Norsk filmproduksjon AS Knut Erik Jensen Filmhuset produksjoner AS Nils Gaup Rubicon TV AS Rasmus Sivertsen Nordisk Film and Qvisten Animation Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen Maipo Film- og TV-produksjon AS Harald Zwart Zwart Arbeid AS Stian Kristiansen Motlys AS Patrik Syversen Fender Film AS Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg Filmkameratene AS Kjell Sundvall Nordisk Film Johannes Joner Nordisk Film Arne Lindtner Næss Nordisk Film Ole Giæver 4 ½ AS Jesper W. Nielsen 4 ½ AS Erik Poppe Paradox AS Thor Bekkavik Indiefilm Morten Tyldum SF Norge and Miso Film 12.09 22.08 01.02 10.10 24.10 12.09 03.10 18.01 31.10 29.08 14.03 15.02 11.01 19.12 29.02 07.03 15.02 22.02 17.10 26.09 03.10 04.04 Margreth Olin Håkon Gundersen Tommy Wirkola Severin Eskeland Arne Lindtner Næss Speranza AS Alphaville Productions Miho Film Exposed Film Prods AS Nordisk Film & TV 02.10 09.10 09.01 31.07 30.01 Pål Øie Thomas Lien Roar Uthaug and Katharina Launing Erlend E. Mo Rune Denstad Langlo Eva Dahr Atle Knudsen Christian Lo Alligator Film Merkur Film Produksjon AS Storm Rosenberg AS Exposed Film Prods AS Motlys AS Helgeland Film AS Monster Film AS Filmbin 03.04 20.02 13.11 13.03 06.02 27.02 06.03 30.10 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 Nordisk Film AS Dalchows verden SF Norge/Miso Film Spillefilmkompaniet 4 ½ AS NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2002-2011 71 Title DirectorProduction Company Release date Rat Nights The Storm in my Heart Together Twigson Upperdog Vegas Yatzy Yodok Stories Arild Østin Ommundsen Pål Jackman Matias Armand Jordal Åsleik Engmark Sara Johnsen Gunnar Vikene Katja Eyde Jacobsen Andrzej Fidyk Paradox AS Kong Film AS Mirmar Production AS Paradox AS Friland AS Cinenord and Kong Film 4 ½ AS Piraya Film AS 04.09 16.01 23.01 16.10 28.08 25.09 20.03 16.10 Hans Petter Moland Mikkel Magnus Paradox AS MagCat Produksjoner AS 19.03 10.09 Mikkel Brænne Sandemose Lars Berg Lise I. Osvoll Fantefilm Fikjson AS Maipo AS Filmkameratene AS 15.10 26.02 10.12 Anne Sewitsky Bent Hamer Marius Holst Arne Lindtner Næss Maipo AS BulBul Film AS 4 1/2 Film AS Nordisk Film AS 05.11 12.11 17.12 29.01 Terje Rangnes Tommy Wirkola Folk Flest Film Produksjon AS Tappeluft Production 12.03 05.03 Maria Sødahl Arild Andresen Erik Skjoldbjærg Thomas Cappelen Malling Rasmus Sivertsen SF Norge Produksjon 4 1/2 Film AS Alligator Film Tordenfilm AS Neofilm 10.09 22.10 01.10 13.08 08.01 Petter Næss Leon Bashir and Sebastian Dalén Benedicte Maria Orvung Vibeke Løkkeberg André Øvredal Martin Lund Stefan Faldbakken Maipo AS Tomme Tønner AS Orvung Film Nero Film Filmkameratene AS Paradox AS Cinemiso 08.10 08.01 08.02 05.11 29.10 24.09 27.08 Grete Salomonsen Fridtjof Kjæreng Tina Davis and Thomas Robsahm Penelope Film AS f(x) produksjoner AS Speranza Film 26.03 12.03 28.01 2010 A Somewhat Gentle Man Brødrene Dal og vikingsverdets forbannelse Cold Prey III East End Angels Elias and the treasure of the Sea Happy, happy Home for Christmas King of Devil’s Island The Junior Olsen Gang and the Master Thief Just Another Day at the Office Kurt Josef Wagle og legenden om Fjordheksa Limbo The Liverpool Goalie Nokas Norwegian Ninja Ploddy the Police Car Makes a Splash Shameless Smack! Strictly Confidential Tears of Gaza The Troll Hunter Twigson Ties the Knot Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall Yohan – The Child Wanderer Snøhulemannen Modern Slavery 72 NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2002-2011 Title 2011 Babycall The Bambi Effect Coming Home Cupid’s Balls Dark Souls Exteriors Graduates Gunnar Goes God Headhunters I Travel Alone Jackpot King Curling Kings of Oslo Little Grey Fergie and his New Friend Clunky Magic Silver 2 The Mountain My Beloved 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 You Said What! DirectorProduction Company Release date 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 Elsa Kvamme Morten Myklebust 4 1/2 Film AS Feil Film Atom Film 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 1/2 Film AS Alert Film Fantasi-Fabrikken 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 08.02 18.02 Arne Lindtner Næss Ole Giæver Hilde Korsæth 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 Storm Rosenberg AS Ferdinand Films / 4 ½ Fiksjon AS JAB Film Motlyas AS Paradox AS Øy-Film AS Maipo AS Indiefilm AS Filmhuset AS / Hene Film Medieoperatørene Friland AS Tappeluft Production Cinenord Kidstory AS Motlys AS Paradox AS Nordås Film Snurr Film Cinemiso 18.11 28.02 09.12 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 Stephan Apelgren Cinemiso Stephan Apelgren Cinemiso Nini Bull Robsahm and Patrik Syversen Tappeluft Pictures AS 21.01 08.04 22.07 NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2002-2011 73 FILM INSTITUTIONS FILM INSTITUTIONS About the Norwegian Film Institute The Norwegian Film Institute (NFI) 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. Film Institute CEO is Mrs Nina Refseth. The 2012 budget is NOK 529 million (approx. EUR 68,7 million), of which NOK 423 million (approx. EUR 54,9 million) is earmarked for audiovisual development, production and marketing. It also offers grants, training and talent development for the film industry. The NFI informs about Norwegian cinema nationally and abroad and represents and promotes Norwegian feature films, shorts, documentaries, games and TV-series at festivals and film cultural events. The NFI represents Norway at the Council of Europe’s fund for co-production of films, Eurimages, as well as at the European Audiovisual Observatory. The NFI also participates in a number of other 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 NFI is the Norwegian member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). Film professionals and international audiences can find more information on Norwegian films through www.norwegianfilms.no and the Norwegian Film database. The institute is located in the Film House in Oslo, and is in charge of the Film Museum and the Cinemateque of Oslo. Through www.nfi.no and exhibitions, the NFI is maintaining and providing knowledge and understanding of the Norwegian film heritage. The NFI is also responsible for facilitating and promoting Norway as an attractive shooting location for foreign producers. FILM INSTITUTIONS 75 FILM INSTITUTIONS FILM & KINO 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 and S-Kino. Around the world, cinemas are usually owned by private companies. In Norway, however, most cinemas are owned by the municipalities. As a member organisation 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 organisation is governed by a national convention with delegates from both the municipalities and the cinema and video industries. 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. 76 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 • The official financing of 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. In addition, Film & Kino offers programming assistance for small cinemas without resources to maintain such a function. This arrangement is called S-Kino. FILM INSTITUTIONS REGIONAL FILM FUNDS AND FILM CENTRES By the end of 2011 all districts in Norway are covered by regional, public resourse centres for film, apart from Oslo, the capital. These are ‘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 in all corners of the country. There are 8 film centres, 4 regional film funds and 3 regional film commissions, of whom some are co-located regionally. Furthermore FilmCamp function as film fund, film commission and production centre serving productions from all over, also internationally. International Sami Film Centre serves the Sami population all over Norway as well as those living in Sweden, Finland and Russia. The Film Commissions are based on trade grounds, and offer facilitation for foreign productions coming to their region. They are often involved in investments in other productions and in building the regional film industry. The Film Commissions collaborate with Norwegian Film Institute where Film Commission Norway (FCN) is an integral part of the Department for Promotion and International Relations. FCN aims to encourage and aid international film productions in Norway, and acts as a link between the national and the international film and television industry. 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 Norwegian Film Institute. The allotment from the government is given on condition that the region contributes with at least the same amount of money to the fund. Furthermore the governmental support cannot be spent on managing the organisation. FILM INSTITUTIONS 77 ADRESSES ASSOCIATIONS & INSTITUTIONS Agicoa Norge Dronningens gt 8 A P.O. Box 629 Sentrum, N-0106 Oslo Tel: +47 23 01 01 52 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.hil.no/den_norske_filmskolen Contact: Thomas Stenderup Det kongelige kulturdepartement Royal Ministry of Cultural Affairs P.O. Box 8030 Dep, N-0030 Oslo Tel: +47 22 24 90 90 Mail: postmottak@kud.dep.no Det kongelige utenriksdepartement Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs P.O. Box 8114 Dep, N-0032 Oslo Tel: +47 23 95 00 00 Mail: post@mfa.no Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo The Norwegian National Library, Oslo Henrik Ibsensgt. 110 Box 2674 Solli, N-0203 Oslo Tel: +47 81 00 13 00 Mail: nb@nb.no www.nb.no Contact: Vigdis Moe Skarstein Nasjonalbiblioteket, Rana The Norwegian National Library, Rana Finsetveien 2, N-8624 Mo i Rana Tel: +47 75 12 11 11 Mail: nb@nb.no www.nb.no Contact: Lars Gaustad 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: Hanne Palmquist Norsk Filmforbund Norwegian Film Makers’ Association Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152 Oslo Tel: +47 22 47 46 40 Mail: sverre@filmforbundet.no www.filmforbundet.no Contact: Sverre Pedersen FILM&KINO Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152 Oslo P.O. Box 446 Sentrum, N-0104 Oslo Tel: +47 22 47 46 10 Mail: post@kino.no www.kino.no Contact: Lene Løken 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 Fond for lyd og bilde P.O. Box 8191 Dep, N-0034 N-Oslo Tel: +47 22 47 83 30 Mail: post@kulturrad.no www.fondforlydogbilde.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 Medietilsynet Norwegian Media Authority Nygata 4, N-1607 Fredrikstad Tel: +47 69 30 12 00 Mail: post@medietilsynet.no www.medietilsynet.no 78 ADRESSES Norsk Filmkritikerlag The Norwegian Filmcritic’s Association Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152 Oslo Tel: +47 23 11 93 21 Mail: filmkritikerlaget@gmail.com www.filmkritikerlaget.no Contact: Dag Sødtholt Norsk Filmvederlagsfond Norwegian Film Foundation Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152 Oslo Tel: +47 22 47 46 40 Mail: post@filmforbundet.no www.filmvederlagsfondet.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 Contact: Hauk Heyerdahl Norske Dramatikeres Forbund Writers’ Guild of Norway Rådhusgt. 7, P.O. Box 579 Sentrum, N-0105 Oslo Tel: +47 22 47 89 50 Mail: post@dramatiker.no www.dramatiker.no Contact: Pål Giørtz Norske film- og TV produsenters forening Norwegian Film- and TV Producers Association Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152 Oslo Tel: +47 23 11 93 11 Mail: pf@produsentforeningen.no www.produsentforeningen.no Contact: Leif Holst Jensen Norske Filmbyråers Forening Norwegian Film Distributors’ Association Øvre Slottsgt. 12, N-0157 Oslo Tel: +47 22 42 48 44 Mail: kristin.hoenvoll@norskefilmbyraaersforening.no Contact: Kristin Hoenvoll Norske filmregissører Directors Guild of Norway Filmparken, Wedel Jarlsbergs vei 36 P.O. Box 275, N-1319 Bekkestua Tel: +47 67 52 51 58 Mail: nfr@filmdir.no www.filmdir.no Contact: Lars Berg Sámi Filbmabargiid Searvi Sami Film Association Buletjávri, N-9520 Kautokeino Tel: +47 99 45 38 24 / +47 91 77 71 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: Tore Erlandsen Arthaus Nedre gate 7, N-0551 Oslo Tel: +47 21 42 00 86 Mail: arthaus@arthaus.no www.arthaus.no Contact: Svend B. Jensen Buena Vista International Norway/ 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.disneystudios.no Contact: Inger Warendorph Euforia Film Nedregate 5, N-0551 Oslo Tel: +47 21 37 99 99 Mail: tore.fredrik@euforia.no www.euforia.no Contact: Tore Fredrik Dreyer ADRESSES Europafilm AS Peder Claussøns gt 2 P.O.Box 6812 St. Olavs plass N-0130 Oslo Tel: +47 22 98 85 80 Mail: post@europafilm.no www.europafilm.no Contact: Egil Ødegård Exposed Film AS Nymansveien 105, N-4014 Stavanger Tel: + 47 90 74 08 74 Mail: bjorn@exposed.no Contact: Bjørn Eivind Aarskog Fidalgo Filmdistribusjon AS Gyldenløvesgate 75 P.O. Box 666, N-4666 Kristiansand Tel: +47 38 02 40 04 Mail: fidalgo@broadpark.no www.filmweb.no/fidalgo Contact: Frank Stavik Fox Film 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: Bjørn Jacobsen 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 Sandakervn. 118 P.O. Box 4884 Nydalen, N-0422 Oslo Tel: +47 21 54 47 00 Mail: morten.cristoffersen@nordiskfilm.com www.filmweb.no/nordiskfilm Contact: Morten Christoffersen Norsk filmdistribusjon AS Nedre gate 5 P.O. Box 753 Sentrum, N-0106 Oslo Tel: +47 23 35 82 00 Mail: frida@norskfilmdistribusjon.no www.norskfilmdistribusjon.no Contact: Frida Ohrvik Scanbox Entertainment Norway AS Dronningensgt. 16 P.O. Box 1097 Sentrum, N-0104 Oslo Tel: +47 22 39 62 62 Mail: jimf@scanbox.com www.scanbox.no Contact: Jim Frazee Agitator AS Mediebygget, Bergenshus 13, N-5003 Bergen Tel: +47 91 78 10 28 Mail: post@agitator.no www.agitator.no Contact: Elin Sander Cinemiso AS Akersbakken 33, N-0172 Oslo Tel: +47 22 95 55 80 Mail: spillefilm@cinenord.no www.cinenord.no Contact: Silje Hopland Eik, Tanya Nanette Badendyck 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 Alert Film AS Niels Juelsgt. 11 B, N-0272 Oslo Tel: +47 90 07 64 56 Mail: elkvamme@online.no Contact: Elsa Kvamme Cinenord AS Akersbakken 33, N-0172 Oslo Tel: +47 22 95 55 80 Mail: spillefilm@cinenord.no www.cinenord.no Contact: Silje Hopland Eik, Tanya Nanette Badendyck 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 Kjøpmannsgata 35, N-7011 Trondheim Tel: +47 99 44 80 40 Mail: ola@storytelling.no www.storytelling.no Contact: Ola Lund Renolen 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 United International Pictures AS Hegdehaugsvn. 27 P.O. Box 7134 Majorstuen, N-0307 Oslo Tel: +47 22 85 37 37 Mail: liv_jacobsen@uip.com, www.uip.no Contact: Liv Jacobsen PRODUCTION COMPANIES 4 1/2 Film AS Krusesgt. 8, N-0263 Oslo Tel: +47 40 00 63 28 Mail: mailbox@fourandahalf.no www.fourandahalf.no Contact: Karin Julsrud Alligator AS Georgernes Verft 12, N-5011 Bergen Tel: +47 55 21 40 50 Mail: post@alligator.no www.alligator.no Contact: Trude Refsahl Annette S. Helland EF Store Strandgate 27, N-1550 Hølen Mail: annettesaugenstad@gmail.com www.lilledyret.no Contact: Annette Saugestad Helland Ape & Bjørn Grønlandsleiret 25, N-0190 Oslo Tel: +47 90 93 55 11 Mail: ruben@apeogbjorn.no www.apeogbjorn.no Contact: Ruben Thorkildsen Atomfilm Thomesheiveien 2, N-3770 Kragerø Tel: +47 92 26 48 06 Mail: oddgiver@online.no Contact: Odd G. Iversen Cinenord Kidstory AS Akersbakken 33, N-0172 Oslo Tel: +47 22 95 55 80 Mail: spillefilm@cinenord.no www.cinenord.no Contact: Silje Hopland Eik, Tanya Nanette Badendyck Cylinder Produksjon AS Majorstuveien 17 P.O.Box 1052, N-0367 Oslo Tel. +47 92 22 66 00 Mail: post@cylinder.no www.cylinder.no Contact: Gaute Lid Larssen Dalchows verden Borger Withgate 12, N-0482 Oslo Tel. +47 22 20 47 00 Mail: info@dalchowsverden.no www.dalchowsverden.no Contact: Jan Dalchow Barentsfilm AS Leikvollvn. 13, N-1387 Asker Tel: +47 95 81 42 88 Mail: ingridlh@online.no Contact: Ingrid Lill Høgtun Dunderland Filmkompani AS Østerlisvingen 6, N-1153 Oslo Tel: +47 90 61 59 00 Mail: post@dunderland.no www.dunderland.no Contact: Martin Barth Bergholtz BulBul Film A/S Høyåsvn. 24, N-3216 Sandefjord Tel: +47 33 46 48 95 Mail: odysse@online.no Contact: Bent Hamer Exposed Film Production AS Nymansveien 105, N-4014 Stavanger Tel: + 47 90 74 08 74 Mail: bjorn@exposed.no Contact: Bjørn Eivind Aarskog ADRESSES 79 ADRESSES Eyeworks Dinamo AS P.O. Box 442, N-1327 Lysaker Tel: +47 67 20 00 00 Mail: post@dinamo.no www.dinamo.no Contact: Odd Arvid Strømstad Faction Film Kjøpmannsgata 40 Box 2093, N-7411 Trondheim Tel: +47 98 22 13 41 Mail: post@factionfilm.no Contact: Håvard Bustnes Fantasi-Fabrikken Film AS Årfuglveien 2, N-3123 Tønsberg Tel: +47 33 30 10 30 Mail: anne@fantasi-fabrikken.no www.fantasi-fabrikken.no Contact: Anne Amalie Thowsen Fantefilm Fiksjon AS Henrik Ibsens gate 28, N-0255 Oslo Tel: +47 22 59 39 00 Mail: martin@fantefilm.no www.fantefilm.no Contact: Martin Sundland Feil Film AS Hausmannsgt. 39, N-0182 Oslo Tel: +47 45 80 52 29 / +47 45 47 27 97 Mail: post@feilfilm.no www.feilfilm.no Contact: Ravn Wikhaug, Johan Kaos Fenris Film as Sagvn. 23A, N-0459 Oslo Tel: +47 23 12 17 10 Fax: +47 23 12 17 11 Mail: fenris@fenrisfilm.com www.fenrisfilm.com Contact: Tore Buvarp Ferdinand Films Brochmannsgate 12 A, N-0470 Oslo Tel: +47 97 04 43 11 Mail: ole.giaever@gmail.com Contact: Ole Giæver Filbmagoahti AS P.O. Box 350, N-9521 Kautokeino Tel: +47 78 48 66 66 Mail: film@filbmagoahti.no Contact: Nils Thomas Utsi 80 ADRESSES Filimo Film AS P.O. Box 346, N-8901 Brønnøysund Tel: +47 95 44 59 90 Mail: kathrinehaugen@hotmail.com Contact: Kathrine Haugen Film Farms Nordre Tasken Gård Tasken 5, N-1580 Rygge Mail: alan@film-farms.com www.film-farms.com Contact: Alan Milligan Filmbin Stortorget 1, N-2609 Lillehammer Tel: +47 90 20 65 56 Mail: trine@filmbin.no www.filmbin.no Contact: Trine Aadalen Lo Filmhuset AS Peder Claussøns gt. 2 P.O. Box 6812 St. Olavs plass N- 0130 Oslo Tel: +47 22 98 85 80 Mail: info@filmhuset.no www.filmhuset.no Contact: Egil Ødegård Filmkameratene AS Dronningensgt. 8 A P.O. Box 629 Sentrum, N-0106 Oslo Tel: +47 23 35 53 00 Mail: film@filmkameratene.no Contact: John M. Jacobsen Flimmer Film AS Strandgaten 89, N-5004 Bergen Tel: +47 55 23 15 00 Mail: lars@flimmerfilm.no www.flimmerfilm.no Contact: Lars Løge Fredrik Fiction AS Kongensgate 2, N-0153 Oslo Tel: +47 22 20 80 00 Mail: fredrik@fredrikfiction.no www.fredrikfiction.no Contact: Fredrik Pryser Friland AS Torggt. 33, N-0183 Oslo Tel: +47 22 17 47 00 Mail: friland@friland.biz www.friland.biz Contact: Asle Vatn, Christian Fredrik Martin Marieke Motiondesign Haugevn. 17, N-5005 Bergen Tel: +47 91 88 94 64 Mail: marieke@marieke.nu www.marieke.nu Contact: Marieke Verbiesen Gammaglimt AS Orkdalsvn. 58, N-7300 Orkdal Tel: +47 908 65 219 Mail: christian@gammaglimt.no www.gammaglimt.no Contact: Christian Falch Medieoperatørene tv AS Teglverksgata 2, N-0553 Oslo Tel: +47 22 99 31 20 Mail: geir@mop.no www.mop.no Contact: Geir Bølstad Helgeland Film AS Øvre Storgt. 59, N-3018 Drammen Tel: +47 32 89 17 90 Mail: axelhelg@online.no www.helgeland-film.com Contact: Axel Helgeland Mer Film AS Målselvgata 15, N-9007 Tromsø Tel: +47 95 18 81 18 Mail: maria@merfilm.no www.merfilm.no Contact: Maria Ekerhovd Helmet Erling Skakkes gt. 4, N-7013 Trondheim Mail: theboys@helmet.no www.helmet.no Contact: Øystein Moe, Alexander Somma Merkur Film Produksjon AS Sofiesgt. 60, N-0168 Oslo Tel: +47 22 59 15 40 Mail: merkur@merkur.no www.merkur.no Contact: Petter Vennerød Indie Film Ostadalsv. 35, N-0753 Oslo Tel: +47 90 86 52 03 Mail: carsten@indiefilm.no www.indiefilm.no Contact: Carsten Aanonsen Kamerakameratene Middeltuns gt. 15A, N-0368 Oslo Tel. +47 90 16 28 40 Mail: paal@kamerakameratene.no www.kamerakameratene.no Contact: Pål Bugge Haagenrud Maipo Film AS Wedel Jarlsbergsvei 36, P.O. Box 275, N-1319 Bekkestua Tel: +47 67 52 51 90 Mail: maipo@maipo.no www.maipo.no Contact: Synnøve Hørsdal Mica Film Kapellvn. 51 A, N-0487 Oslo Mail: post@micafilm.no Contact: Hilde K. Kjøs, Karoline Grindaker Mirmar Film Production AS Nestoppen 21 B, N-1344 Haslum Tel: +47 913 40 708 Mail: tom@mirmar.no www.mirmar.no Contact: Tom Rysstad Monster Film Tullinsgt. 4C P.O. Box 7143 St. Olavs Plass, N-0130 Oslo Tel: +47 21 06 30 00 Mail: post@monstermail.no www.monstersite.no Contact: Håkon Briseid ADRESSES Moskus Film AS Grensen 8, N-0159 Oslo Tel: + 47 91 61 05 61 Mail: smk@moskusfilm.no www.moskusfilm.no Contact: Sigurd Mikal Karolinussen, Jan Eirik Langøen Norsk Filmproduksjon AS Wedel Jarlsbergsvei 36 P.O. Box 275, N-1319 Bekkestua Tel: +47 67 52 54 20/21 Mail: post@norskfilmproduksjon.no www.norskfilmproduksjon.no Contact: Hilde Berg, Bent Rognlien Rubicon TV Sandakervn. 24C, inng. C3 P.O.Box 414 Nydalen, N-0403 Oslo Tel: +47 23 23 45 00 Mail: mail@rubicontv.no www.rubicontv.no Contact: Lasse Hallberg, Andreas Bakka Hjertø Motlys A/S Sagvn. 18, N-0459 Oslo Tel: +47 22 80 83 70 Mail: motlys@motlys.com www.motlys.com Contact: Sigve Endresen Original Film AS Strandvn. 95, N-9006 Tromsø Tel. +47 77 60 04 00 Mail: originalfilm@originalfilm.no www.originalfilm.no Contact: Mona Steffensen Sant & Usant AS Damstredet 8, N-0177 Oslo Tel: +47 48 26 86 34 Mail: tone@santogusant.no www.santogusant.no Contact: Tone Grøttjord Neofilm AS Wedel Jarlsbergsvei 36 P.O. Box 272, N-1319 Bekkestua Tel: +47 67 52 53 26 Mail: post@neofilm.no www.neofilm.no Contact: Aage Aaberge Orvung Film Austtunleitet 1 N-4032 Stavanger Tel: +47 92 40 03 43 Mail: orvungfilm@lyse.net Contact: Tom Andre Edvindsen Ingrid Skagestad Skogforvalter Lies veg 17, N-2611 Lillehammer Tel: +47 90 55 53 90 Mail: ingrid.skagestad@gmail.com Nero Film Hafrsfjordsgt. 5 N-0273 Oslo Tel: +47 22 55 59 76 Mail: vibeke@neroas.no Contact: Vibeke Løkkeberg, Terje Kristiansen Nordic Stories Dronningensgt. 3, N-0152 Oslo Tel: +47 90 57 58 69 Mail: rune.trondsen@nordicstories.no www.nordicstories.no Contact: Rune H. Trondsen Nordisk Film Production AS P.O. Box 4753 Nydalen, N-0421 Oslo Tel: +47 92 02 65 29 Mail: aage@neofilm.no Contact: Aage Aaberge Nordisk Film TV Drammensveien 130 Inng. 4A, N-0277 Oslo Tel: +47 21 04 28 10 Mail: vibeke.gillebo@nordiskfilmtv.com Contact: Vibeke Gillebo Paradox Rettigheter AS Grønlandsleiret 25 N-0190 Oslo Tel: +47 23 22 71 50 Mail: firmapost@paradox.no www.paradox.no Contact: Finn Gjerdrum Piraya Film AS Kvitsøygt. 25, N-4014 Stavanger Tel: +47 51 11 63 36 Mail: torstein@piraya.no, bjarte@piraya.no www.piraya.no Contact: Torstein Grude, Bjarte Mørner Tveit Pomor Film AS Langnesvn. 15, N-9012 Tromsø Tel: +47 95 14 27 45 Mail: knut.skoglund@gmail.com www.pomorfilm.no Contact: Knut Skoglund Qvisten Animation Frimanns gt. 20, N-0165 Oslo Tel: +47 22 99 22 90 Mail: qvisten@qvisten.no, ove@qvisten.no www.qvisten.no Contact: Ove Heiborg Speranza Film AS Øvrefoss 14, N-0555 Oslo Tel: +47 90 14 43 91 Mail: speranza@speranza.no www.speranza.no Contact: Margreth Olin Storm Rosenberg AS Maridalsvn. 87, N-0461 Oslo Tel: +47 21 37 80 81 Mail: jorgen@stormrosenberg.no www.stormrosenberg.no Contact: Jørgen Storm Rosenberg Storm Studio Nedre gate 5, N-0551 Oslo Tel: +47 24 20 05 00 Mail: kristin@stormstudios.no www.stormstudios.no Contact: Kristin Hellebust, Lars Andreas Hellebust Sweet Films AS Mellomveien 33, N-9007 Tromsø Tel: +47 92 65 60 02 Mail: joachim@sweetfilms.no www.sweetfilms.no Contact: Joachim Lyng Tappeluft Pictures AS Marstrandgt. 9, N-0566 Oslo Tel: +47 97 15 79 23 Mail: kjetil@tappeluft.com www.tappeluft.com Contact: Kjetil Omberg Tordenfilm AS Sandakervn. 52, N-0477 Oslo Tel: +47 23 40 03 40 Mail: info@tordenfilm.no www.tordenfilm.no Contact. Eric Vogel Viafilm AS Prost Christies vei 19 A, N-1362 Hosle Tel: + 47 90 72 30 63 Mail: anders@viafilm.no www.viafilm.no Contact: Anders Tangen AS Videomaker Haugland, N-3528 Hedalen Tel: +47 90 90 96 00 Mail: kjell@videomaker.no Contact: Kjell Eriksen Vidvinkel Film AS Furuvegen 19, NO-4480 Kvinesdal Tel: + 47 41 04 71 64 Mail: post@thomaswangsmo.com Contact: Thomas Wangsmo Yesbox Productions AS Bergenhus 13, N-5003 Bergen Tel: + 47 99 62 57 56 Mail: bendik@yesbox.no Contact: Bendik Heggen Strønstad Zentropa International Norway AS c/o Zentropa Filmbyen 22, DK-2650 Hvidovre Tel: +45 36 86 87 88 Mail: svinet@filmbyen.dk Contact: Peter Aalbæk Jensen Øy-Film N-5915 Hjelmås Tel: + 47 56 35 33 72 Mail: oyfilm@online.no Contact: Øyvind Sandberg ADRESSES 81 ADRESSES FESTIVALS Bergen International Film Festival | October Georgernes Verft 12, N-5011 Bergen Tel: +47 55 30 08 40 / +47 41 14 11 40 Mail: biff@biff.no www.biff.no Contact: Tor Fosse Femmina International Film Festival | October Kjøpmannsgt. 51, N-7011 Trondheim Tel: +47 98 63 00 60 Mail: marit@movingimage.no www.femminafilm.no Contact: Marit Bakken Filmfest Oslo | March Dronningensgt. 8a N-0152 Oslo Tel +47 91 17 89 79 Mail: arild@filmfest.no www.filmfest.no Contact: Arild Støfring Films from the South | October Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152 Oslo Tel +47 22 82 24 80 Mail: mail@filmfrasor.no www.filmfrasor.no Contact: Lasse Skagen Fredrikstad Animation Festival | November Kasernegt. 47, P.O. 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Box 488, N-5501 Haugesund Tel: +47 52 71 90 07 Mail: marit.saetre@haugesund.kommune.no www.edda-kino.no Contact: Marit Sætre Publisher: Norwegian Film Institute Editor: Astri Dehli Blindheim Design: Lise Kihle Design Studio Translation: Bjørn Giertsen and others Printer: Zoom Grafisk AS Published by: Norwegian Film Institute Department of Promotion and International Relations P.O.Box 482 Sentrum, N-0105 Oslo Tel: +47 22 47 45 79/00 Mail: int@nfi.no www.norwegianfilms.no ISBN 978-82-8025-030-8 Norwegian film institute Dronningens gate 16 P.O. Box 482 Sentrum N-0105 Oslo Tel +47 22 47 45 00 Fax +47 22 47 45 97 mail int@nfi.no www.norwegianfilms.no