| A Call from the Wild |
Filmmaker Asgeir Helgestad documents the state of nature in his home country, Norway, which he has photographed all his life. From the lives of bees at his farm to wild reindeer on the high mountains and puffins at the ocean's edge, he shows the beauty of threatened nature and tracks down human actions responsible for its decline. This is a personal story about our connection with the non-human world, the relations between the small and the big, and a reminder of nature's strength and vulnerability.
2024 80 min ORIGINAL TITLE Skal hilse fra Naturen DIRECTOR Asgeir Helgestad PRODUCTION Ageliki Lefkaditou and Asgeir Helgestad for Artic Light AS CO-PRODUCTION Britta Kiesewetter for Doclights GmbH (DE) RELEASE April 2024 SALES Albatross World Sales
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| A New Kind of Wilderness |
In a forest in Norway, a family leads an isolated lifestyle, aiming to be wild and free. However, a tragic event changes everything. When the mother in the family dies, the father and his children must leave their paradise and are forced to adapt to modern society.
A New Kind of Wilderness is an intimate story that issues on how we live our lives, care for our planet, our children, and navigate life after a significant loss.
2024 83 min ORIGINAL TITLE Ukjent landskap DIRECTOR Silje Evensmo Jacobsen PRODUCTION Mari Bakke Riise for A5 Film AS RELEASE January, 2024 SALES DR Sales
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| An Army of Women |
Two women in Austin, Texas join forces with 13 other survivors to build a movement legally challenging the system that allowed their rapists to walk free. Their groundbreaking class-action lawsuit is the first to argue that sexual assault isn’t prosecuted due to gender discrimination. This is the landmark story of women fighting to hold law enforcement accountable, with resounding relevance worldwide.
2024 80 min ORIGINAL TITLE An Army of Women DIRECTOR Julie Lunde Lillesæter PRODUCTION Natalya Sarch for Differ Media AS CO-PRODUCTION Maria Willer, Bernhard von Hülsen for 3B Produktion (DE), Jessica Wolfson (USA) IMPACT PPRODUCTION Together Films RELEASE March, 2024 SALES Together Films
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| An Inward Path |
As life crumbles, a has-been musician takes a big leap to find his true artistic expression. A life-changing process ensues with an unlikely source of inspiration.
2024 66 min ORIGINAL TITLE Innerst i tonen DIRECTOR Torstein Grude PRODUCTION Oddleiv Vik, Torstein Grude for Piraya Film RELEASE May 2024 SALES tbc
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| Behind the Mask |
Abduweli, a survivor of a Uyghur internment camp has an opportunity to confront a former guard from his camp but must consider the effect on his children, who witnessed his arrest.
2023 31 min ORIGINAL TITLE Behind the Mask DIRECTOR Håvard Bustnes PRODUCTION Håvard Bustnes for UpNorth Film AS RELEASE November 2023 SALES TBC
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| Being Ola |
30-year-old Ola lives in a small village in Norway with a very diverse group of people. They try to live life at a slower pace in harmony with nature, and their community is founded on values such as empathy, respect, and mutual interdependence. Ola generally enjoys his life and is engaged, witty, and sincere. However, there's one more thing; he has a mild intellectual disability. He reflects very openly about his condition but sometimes wonders if people see him mainly as a person with a diagnosis. Can't he just be himself - Ola, the person? When Ola loses an important aspect of his life, he reflects on his existence and considers how to become more self-reliant. Being Ola is a moving, heartwarming film that celebrates the significance of equality and belonging as a basis for daring to embrace the one you really are.
2023 70 min ORIGINAL TITLE Ola – En helt vanlig uvanlig fyr DIRECTOR Ragnhild Nøst Bergem PRODUCTION Eirin O. Høgetveit for EINAR Film Drama AS NATIONAL RELEASE January 2023 SALES TBC
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| Birds |
Exploring the bond between six children and nature through improvised dance and movements, Birds reveals the beauty of our world, advocating for a renewed comprehension of our environment.
Over six months, these third graders' school days were transformed into an interdisciplinary arts experiment. With the mentorship of five artists, the kids delved into nature and local avifauna, culminating in art installations and dances reflecting the eloquence of avian movements and their habitat. The film climaxes as their artistic endeavours converge with the forest, the source of their inspiration.
2023 10 min ORIGINAL TITLE Fugler DIRECTOR Liv Runesdatter PRODUCTION Joakim Hauge Vocke, Bjarte Mørner Tveit for Von Mørner AS INTERNATIONAL RELEASE August 2023 SALES TBC
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| The Block |
In central Oslo, Egil (78) and his neighbors in an apartment block are threatened with losing their rented flats to a billionaire raiding such old apartment blocks around Oslo, just as he has done all over Northern Europe. We face the harsh reality of living on the wrong side of the shiny welfare state in one of the world’s wealthiest countries. The film portrays what happens when a group of people constantly live in fear of being thrown out of their homes in an affluent society.
2023 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE Blokka DIRECTOR Aslaug Holm PRODUCTION Tore Buvarp for Fenris Film RELEASE 2023 SALES TBC
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| Diagnonsense |
A self-reflexive meta-documentary, Diagnonsense begins with filmmaker Ane-Martha Tamnes Hansgård who was diagnosed with multiple mental disorders over a fifteen-year period, and prescribed a staggering number of psychotropic medications. Ten years ago, she embarked on the first of many attempts to make a film about living with a mental disorder, but each effort was cut short due to new diagnoses, new medications, and new side effects. Now, having weaned herself off the drugs, and reaching a critical distance from her diagnoses, she is ready to tell her story, and to challenge the need for psychological labeling.
2024 75 min ORIGINAL TITLE Diagnonsense DIRECTOR Ane-Martha Tamnes Hansgard PRODUCTION Andrew Grant and Øyvind Gregersen for Mattima Films RELEASE January, 2024 SALES TBC
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| EX NIHILO |
EX NIHILO is a film about artistic processes - both in the world of painting and in the world of filmmaking. Through several meetings with one of Norway’s most prominent contemporary artists, Olav Christopher Jenssen, the director attempts to show an integral part of the artist’s creative foundation - the human perspective.
2023 27 min ORIGINAL TITLE EX NIHILO DIRECTOR Lars Erlend Tubaas Øymo PRODUCTION August B. Hanssen for Indie Film RELEASE October 2023 SALES TBC
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| The Final Chapter |
After 10 years of no contact with her parents on account of violence and neglect during her upbringing, Frøydis is confronted with the fact that her father is on his deathbed.
2023 14 min ORIGINAL TITLE Siste Kapittel DIRECTOR Frøydis Fossli Moe PRODUCTION Kristi Kjerpeset RELEASE September 2023 SALES TBC
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| Hiding Saddam Hussein |
During the Iraqi War, a simple farmer gets a visitor on his doorstep, a man he must hide from family, friends and 150.000 American soldiers. One of the biggest manhunts of the past decades has started. The guest is Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
2023 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE Hiding Saddam Hussein DIRECTOR Halkawt Mustafa PRODUCTION Halkawt Mustafa for Hene Films, Janne Hjeltnes for Storyline Studios, Anders Hereid for Screen Story RELEASE November 2023 SALES TBC
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| The Remarkable Life of Ibelin |
Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world. The film recreates Mats' adventurous online life as Ibelin. All dialogue and events are based on actual archives from roleplay in World of Warcraft.
2024 105 min ORIGINAL TITLE Ibelin DIRECTOR Benjamin Ree PRODUCTION Ingvil Giske for Medieoperatørene RELEASE January, 2024 SALES Autlook Filmsales
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| Life is Beautiful |
Living the diaspora wasn’t a choice. In forced exile, in the dark, arctic winter, Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly is fighting using his camera to feed hope for a better future.
2023 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE Al Haya Helwa / Livet er vakkert DIRECTOR Mohamed Jabaly PRODUCTION KriStine Ann Skaret for Stray Dog Production Oslo RELEASE November 2023 SALES First Hand Films
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| Lie To Me |
The Norwegian Bjørn Bjercke revealed the world's greatest crypto scam. But the scam continues, and people are still tricked into it. How is it possible?
2024 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE Lie To Me DIRECTOR Bår Tyrmi PRODUCTION Dag Mykland for Hacienda Film RELEASE March, 2024 SALES Java Films
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| Liv Ullmann - A Road Less Travelled |
Liv Ullmann - A Road Less Travelled explores Liv’s multifaceted life and her extraordinary international career spanning over 66 years. This is the story of an ever-evolving human being full of openness and curiosity, who embraces possibilities and uncertainties, demonstrates what it means to be a woman in a male-dominated world and shows how to find and use one’s voice without losing one’s integrity, sense of humour or friends. The film also delves deep into the core values underneath Liv’s universal appeal and longevity and celebrates one of Scandinavia’s biggest stars.
2023 135 min ORIGINAL TITLE Liv Ullmann - A Road Less Travelled DIRECTOR Dheeraj Akolkar PRODUCTION Kaare Hersoug, Hege Christensen for Teddy TV, Une Søreide for Viaplay Group CO-PRODUCTION Vardo Films (UK) RELEASE May 2023 SALES TBC
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| Maternity Ward Guerillas |
A group of 'guerilla' women decides to wear the traditional Norwegian bunad to protest the shutdown of delivery rooms at hospitals in rural Norway, starting in Kristiansund on the very northwest coast. They get little response from the authorities - even though almost 400 children in one the wealthiest countries in the world are born on the road every year- due to long traveling distances to hospitals.
2023 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE BUNADSGERILJAEN DIRECTOR Mari Nilsen Neira CO-DIRECTORS Helen Komini Knudsen, Aslaug Holm PRODUCTION Tore Buvarp for Fenris Film DOMESTIC RELEASE August 2023 SALES tbc
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| Mina and the Radio Bandits |
The Bandit Radio offers convicts a chance to tell their own stories, but for Mina – running a prison based radio show proves to be a bumpy ride.
2024 110 min ORIGINAL TITLE Mina og røverne DIRECTOR Kari Anne Moe PRODUCTION Gudmundur Gunnarsson for Fuglene RELEASE March, 2024 SALES tbc
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| Norwegian Democrazy |
Norwegian Democrazy is a documentary about the organization SIAN (Stop the Islamization of Norway) which challenges our perceptions of democratic dialogue and freedom of expression in a direct and violent way. We see how some of the most heated debates of our time play out at street level.
2024 87 min ORIGINAL TITLE Norwegian Demnocrazy DIRECTORS Bård Kjøge Rønning, Fabien Greenberg PRODUCTION Bård Kjøge Rønning, Fabien Greenberg for Antipode Films AS RELEASE March, 2024 SALES tbc
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| Phantoms of the Sierra Madre |
A Danish writer embarks on a quest to locate a disappeared Apache tribe in Mexico but becomes entangled in ethical dilemmas, wrestling with the moral complexities of pursuing a tribe that ardently seeks obscurity. His journey takes an unexpected turn with a shocking discovery in Oslo, reshaping the entire narrative.
2024 100 min DIRECTOR Håvard Bustnes PRODUCTION Håvard Bustnes, Christian Aune Falch for UpNorth Film CO-PRODUCTION Napa Films (FI), Cactus Film (MX) RELEASE March, 2024 SALES DR Sales
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| Ping Pong Family |
At Schous plass in Oslo, people from totally different back grounds meet daily to play outdoor table tennis. Their motivation the get together and play table tennis varies: some is in it to win, some like to socialize and drink beers, some are lonely and need a place to hang out. What they have in common is that all of them like to play table tennis. When people from the municipality office want to move the tables away from Schous plass, the players join their forces to protect their meeting place.
2023 59 min ORIGINAL TITLE Ping Pong Family DIRECTOR Åsmund Hasli PRODUCTION Ingvil Giske for Medieoperatørene DOMESTIC RELEASE November 2023 SALES tbc
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| Project Dad |
A father-daughter story of love, frustration, and the complexity of loving someone who is your complete opposite.
2023 28 min ORIGINAL TITLE Prosjekt Pappa DIRECTOR Camilla Jämting PRODUCTION Camilla Jämting RELEASE January 2024 SALES tbc
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| Punishment |
Four inmates on maximum security have chosen to enter a three-week Jesuit silent retreat in prison. They are guided by two priests. The film slowly observes this paradoxical situation, while looking beyond the question of religious belief: How does ethical exercises, rituals and communal silence affect us? The setting evolves into a prism for gauging a portrait of the existential landscape of the convicted.
2023 100 min ORIGINAL TITLE Straff DIRECTOR Øystein Mamen PRODUCTION Ingvil Giske for Medieoperatørene AS RELEASE January, 2024 SALES tbc
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| The Recovery Channel |
Randi Isaksen, news-anchor at Recovery Channel, is confronted with the daunting realities of flawed mental health systems as she tries to navigate on behalf of her sister. In The Recovery Channel, filmmaker Ellen Ugelstad blends documentary and narrative storytelling to expose an oppressive system designed to control, not heal, the human condition. Informed by her own family experiences, Ugelstad breaks free from traditional documentary structure; explores the injustices faced by those with mental health challenges and exposes the use of coercion in contemporary therapy. Through a humanistic lens, she explores the negative impact of an oppressive system, while advocating for the recognition of mental health as a human right rather than an illness.
2023 103 min ORIGINAL TITLE The Recovery Channel DIRECTOR Ellen Ugelstad PRODUCTION Ellen Ugelstad and Tonje Alice Madsen for Twentyone Pictures DOMESTIC RELEASE October, 2023 SALES tbc
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| Sisters Forever |
Wilde (31) and Marin (28) are sisters and best friends. Marin suffers from bipolar disease and has had multiple suicide attempts in the past. After months in the psych ward, Marin has decided to end her life on her own birthday. The film follows Wilde's process after the loss of her sister. How does she move through the grief to take back her life? Sisters forever provides a unique perspective on suicide and sisterhood. The film tells Wilde's personal story with tenderness and humour. It treats its main characters with warmth and respect.
2024 103 min ORIGINAL TITLE Søstre elsker evig DIRECTOR Sigve Endresen PRODUCTION Ingvil Sæther Berger, Sigve Endresen for Motlys RELEASE Spring 2024 SALES TBC
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| The Takeover |
Filmed over a year as the Taliban retakes control of Afghanistan, this movie documents the country’s rapid transformation and the women who refuse to lose their rights. Starting as the US leave Afghanistan, it shows the women's experience, protests and daily life in the cities and countryside. We see how restrictions on women’s basic freedoms are enforced by The Taliban on all levels of society.
Oscar-nominated director Anders Hammer returns to his former home of Afghanistan, a country he has spent a large part of the last 15 years working in, to capture the development.
2023 33 min ORIGINAL TITLE The Takeover DIRECTOR Anders Hammer PRODUCTION Anders Hammer for Hammertime Anders Sømmer Hammer and Charlotte Cook for Field of Vision (US) RELEASE June 2023
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| Tax Wars |
Tax Wars takes viewers behind the scenes of a global effort to put people before profits, hold multinationals accountable, and demand the world’s most powerful corporations pay their fair share of taxes. Along with world-renowned experts such as Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty, Eva Joly, and activists, this film will question, put into perspective, and decipher the advances and limits of the international agreement on the taxation of multinationals announced in October 2021.
2024 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE Tax Wars DIRECTOR Hege Dehli PRODUCTION Hege Dehli for Mechanix Film AS CO-PRODUCTION Fabrice Estève for Yuzu Productions (FR) RELEASE March, 2024 SALES Java Films
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| Todd and Super-Stella |
We follow Stella from four (4) years old, looking up to her bigger brother Todd, 6, who is soon starting school. He talks to Stella about his worries and the fear of leaving kindergarten. But Stella is too little to understand his complicated words. In Todd’s eyes she seems carefree, but she soon misses him when he is not in kindergarten anymore. She wants to understand what he is talking about.
2023 80 min ORIGINAL TITLE Min søster Super-Stella DIRECTOR Mari Monrad Vistven PRODUCTION Ingvil Giske for Medieoperatørene RELEASE March, 2024 SALES TBC
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| Woolly |
The director follows her sister Rakel as she takes over the family farm; she will be the fourth generation to run the farm. With her wife Ida, she is packing up her life as a musician and heading north. Rakel is enthusiastic, but she is also aware that there is a lot she doesn’t know how to handle.
Woolly is a film about making important life choices, retiring when the time is right, being part of a long tradition, and it is about Sheep.
2024 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE Sau DIRECTOR Rebekka Nystabakk PRODUCTION Benedikte Bredesen for f(x) Produksjoner DOMESTIC RELEASE January 2024 SALES TBC
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| Adil |
In an auditorium full of teenagers. Adil shares the story of his upbringing in the 90s in a Muslim family, where he was subjected to extreme social control by his father. When Adil discovers breakdancing, he finds his refuge. Very soon an astonishing career starts, and from the outside everything looks good. But the consequences of his upbringing soon start to show, and he begins to lose control. Adil is the story of coming face to face with your inner self, believing in yourself, and managing to find your way back to who you really are.
2024 80 min ORIGINAL TITLE Adil DIRECTOR Adil Khan, Julian Nazario Vargas PRODUCTION Eirik Smidesang Slåen and Elisabeth Opdal for Imaginær Film RELEASE 2024 SALES DR Sales
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| Can You Stay |
What is it like to be young and take care of your sick loved ones? Anders (18), Thyra (30), and Nora (20) all cope with their role differently. They meet others in a similar situation through a writing course in Oslo. Can you stay? takes an intimate look into the everyday lives of three young adults and the challenges they meet as next to kin.
2024 59 min ORIGINAL TITLE Ikke slipp meg DIRECTOR Livirén Bratterud PRODUCTION Mari Monrad Vistven for Medieoperatørene RELEASE 2024 SALES TBC
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| Click The Link Below |
Click The Link Below is a film about the murky world of money-making gurus online. Some people live in extravagant luxury, while others are lost in broken dreams.
Filmmaker Audun Amundsen looks behind the facade of their business while he tries to escape the 9-5 and join the new online riches. He spends thousands of dollars on online programs. What does it take to succeed?
2024 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE Click The Link Below DIRECTOR Audun Amundsen PRODUCTION Audun Amundsen for GonzoDocs CO-PRODUCTION Alex Tondowski for Tondowski Films (DE), Derren Lawford (UK) RELEASE 2024 SALES TBC
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| Fatherhood |
Three men are expecting their first child. Kris, David and Sindre, all in their early thirties, are living in a steady polyamorous relationship. Kris will give birth to their baby. The film chronicles their pregnancy and the life that awaits them - and their child.
2025 75 min ORIGINAL TITLE Tre fedre DIRECTOR Even G Benestad, August B Hanssen PRODUCTION Carsten Aanonsen for Indie Film CO-PRODUCTION Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir for Krumma Film (IS) RELEASE 2025 SALES CAT&Docs
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| Flophouse America |
Mikal (12) is born and raised in the hotel room he shares with his parents, both struggling with alcohol addiction. Mikal’s biggest wish is for his mum and dad to stop drinking. But what does it take for someone to change their ways?
2024 80 min ORIGINAL TITLE Flophouse America DIRECTOR Monica Strømdahl PRODUCTION Beathe Hofseth and Siri Natvik for Fri Film RELEASE 2024 SALES TBC
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| The Golden Swan |
A young artist is kidnapped in Kashmir. Based on hidden letters, his sister shares a gripping story of how even your darkest fear can be conquered from within.
2023 80 min ORIGINAL TITLE The Golden Swan DIRECTOR Anette Ostrø PRODUCTION Beathe Hofseth for Fri Film CO-PRODUCTION Made in Copenhagen (DK), Halal (NL) RELEASE 2024 SALES Autlook Film Sales
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| I Follow Rivers |
Mariann Sæther (42) is one of the best whitewater kayakers in the world. Since she was a teenager, she has challenged many norms and expectations of the society. When she becomes a mother, she is determined she can both be an extreme sports athlete and have a family. But is the life on the river really worth the risk?
2024 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE I Follow Rivers DIRECTOR Barbora Hollan PRODUCTION Filip Christensen for Field Production RELEASE 2024 SALES tbc
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| Kyiv Soloists |
Thrown into the limbo of being war refugees, the 14 musicians in Kyiv Soloists try to navigate the road while advocating for peace with their powerfull music.
2024 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE Kyiv Soloists PRODUCTION Karianne Berge for Indie Film AS CO-PRODUCTION Eugene Rachkovsky for Tabor Productions, Iris Lammertsma for Witfilm RELEASE Autumn 2024 SALES tbc
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| House of Winge |
A faded old genius alone in a big house, unable to care for himself. Out of love, and to guard her father's legacy, Viktoria (40) puts her life on hold to help. House of Winge follows the world-famous theatrical director Stein Winge and his daughter, singer, actor and model Victoria. Having worked in showbiz all their lives, Stein and Victoria have dealt professionally and artistically with life and death, but following the death of their wife and mother, actress Kari Onstad, they are forced to deal with it in private.
2024 68 min ORIGINAL TITLE Siste Wingeslag CONSEPTUAL DIRECTOR Terje Lind Bjørsvik CO-DIRECTOR Erland Edenholm PRODUCTION Benedikte Bredesen for f(x) produksjoner AS CO-PRODUCTION Ulrik Gutkin for Copenhagen Film Company RELEASE 2024 SALES TBC
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| Land for Sale |
Unique and vulnerable nature is traded for fast profit, but a group of unlikely activists are doing everything they can to reveal the true nature of the climate villains.
ORIGINAL TITLE Vi som solgte landet DIRECTOR Kieran Kolle PRODUCTION Elisabeth Kleppe for Aldeles RELEASE 2024 FESTIVALS Norwegian Film Institute
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| Momentum |
After a critical extreme sports accident, 21-year-old Bernt Marius embarks on a journey to rediscover life's joy, overcoming inner resistance and uncertainties about his future. How will he make the most of his second chance?
2024 75 min ORIGINAL TITLE Momentum DIRECTOR Matias Myklebbust PRODUCTION Filip Christensen for Field Prouctions RELEASE 2024 SALES TBC
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| Pet Farm |
Joachim chases his childhood dream of breeding pet foxes, but external forces threaten to euthanize his beloved fox pack. Pet Farm is a story of loneliness, emphasizing the irreplaceable value of human connections over bonds with animals.
2024 82 min DIRECTOR Finn Walther, Martin A. Walther PRODUCTION Martin A. Walther for Walther Bros RELEASE 2024 SALES TBC
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| Portrait of a Confused Father |
A macho middle-aged control freak of a father is trying to connect with his uncontrollable wild son. It does not go according to plan.
2024 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE Portrett av en forvirret far DIRECTOR Gunnar Hall Jensen PRODUCTION Christian Aune Falch, Ingrid Galadriel Aune Falch, Torstein Parelius for UpNorth Film RELEASE 2024 SALES DR Sales
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| Rosmary's Story |
Aslaug Holm’s third film in the trilogy from the Sagene district of Oslo (Brothers - 2016, The Block - 2023) is the story of Rosmary and her active and supportive neighborhood family. Their lives are turned upside down when Rosmary’s husband Carlos all of a sudden is expelled from Norway due to his lack of a legal residence permit. Rosemary, now caring for their four children on her own, starts to collect the money needed for Carlos to get a new permit. This turns out to have dramatic consequences for Rosmary.
2024 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE: Rosmarys historie DIRECTOR Aslaug Holm PRODUCTION Tore Buvarp for Fenris Film RELEASE 2024 SALES TBC
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| Sound of Ice |
Musician Terje Isungset’s artistic universe is purely made of ice, even though making music from ice is close to impossible. His beautifully crafted instruments are only used once, before they melt and disappear. Global warming has made ice music difficult and Terje's artistic project even more important. When he receives an unexpected invitation to play in Chinas greatest opera house, he decides to build an instrument from each of the worlds most endangered glaciers to bring to Beijing.
2025 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE Sound of Ice DIRECTOR Tommy Gulliksen PRODUCTION Bjarte Mørner Tveit and Peter Engel for Dox Division CO-PRODUCTION Road Movies GmbH (DE) RELEASE 2025 SALES Dogwoof
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| Stayers |
What does it take to traverse the oceans between us? A tight-knit crabbing community in the U.S. fights to rescue their island from the sea. Despite not believing in man-made climate change, they engage in conversations with three climate activist filmmakers. Can they traverse the oceans between them?
2024 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE Stayers DIRECTOR Julia Dahr CO-DIRECTORS Julie Lunde Lillesæter, Hannah Jayanti PRODUCTION Natalya Sarch, Julia Dahr for Differ Media CO-PPRODUCTION Darcy McKinnon for Gusto Moving Pictures (USA) RELEASE 2024 SALES TBC
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| The Corporate Spy |
The story of a double agent whose attempt to expose corruption backfires.
2024 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE The Corporate Spy DIRECTOR Håvard Bustnes PRODUCTION Carsten Aanonsen for Indie Film AS CO-PRODUCTION Gebrüder Beetz, Snowstorm Productions, FASAD AB RELEASE Autumn 2024 SALES Autlook Filmsales
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| The Curse of Kane |
We’ve all dreamed about making it big. About doing something that sets us apart and makes an indelible claim about who we are. Gunnar Ryan Wiik is a dreamer. But what makes him stand out is that he is seemingly willing to do anything to make his dreams come through. Yet somehow his dreams never see the light of day. But that is all about to change - or is it?
2025 85 min ORIGINAL TITLE Forbannelsen Kane DIRECTOR Even G Benestad and August B Hanssen PRODUCTION Carsten Aanonsen for Indie Film AS CO-PRODUCTION Good Company Pictures, (DK), Mouka Filmi (FI) RELEASE Autumn 2025 SALES CAT&Docs
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| The Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
In 1975, the renowned Norwegian film director Arnljot Berg was arrested in Paris and charged with the murder of his third wife, Evelyne Zammit Berg. Forty years later his daughter Lene Berg is visited by the ghost of her now long-deceased father. He claims that she remembers everything wrong and that it’s time to ask the right questions, because soon she too will die. But what is it that he wants her to remember? And what are the right questions?
2025 100 min ORIGINAL TITLE Apokalyptens ryttere DIRECTOR Lene Berg PRODUCTION Ellen Ugelstad for Twentyone Pictures RELEASE 2025 SALES TBC
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| The Lions on the River Tigris |
Mosul, the promised Caliphate of ISIS/Daesh, was the most hated city in the world. And it paid the ultimate prize of liberation. Can people heal their broken souls?
Mosul, the city of forever spring, as its inhabitants like to call it, was the capital of ISIS/Daesh for three years. Today, 5 years after the liberation, most of the city is in ruins. In the Old Town, the stench of the human fat and remains of dead bodies reeks in the burning heat from the destroyed medieval houses. A high price for a city to free itself from the cruel grip of the Islamic State.
2025 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE Løvene ved elven Tigris DIRECTOR Zaradasht Ahmed PRODUCTION Thorvald Nilsen for Indie Film Bergen AS RELEASE 2025
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| The Renessance Prince |
15-year-old painter William Heimdal rejects the artistic trends of the 21st century - his aim is to recreate the figurative compositions made by the great masters of the past. But William has to go to school with his peers that are preoccupied with TikTok and climate change activism. Is there a place in the modern world for an old soul?
2024 80 min ORIGINAL TITLE: Renessanseprinsen DIRECTOR Emily Louisa Millan Eide PRODUCTION Thorvald Nilsen for Screen Story Film & TV RELEASE 2024 SALES Reservoir Docs
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| The Universe is My Selfie |
A director gets lost in the maze of representation when he turns the camera on himself in search of the ever-decreasing difference between life and the pictures we make of it. What follows is a hypnotic deconstruction of digital narcissism and the culture of the fake.
2024 110 min ORIGINAL TITLE The Universe is My Selfie DIRECTOR Amir Ajdinovic PRODUCTION Elin Sander for Aldeles RELEASE 2024 SALES TBC
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| Whose Daughter Are You? |
The animated documentary Whose Daughter Are You? portrays the childhood of the director and her mother in a village on the west coast of Norway. Her father died early, and the mother and daughter struggled to fit in. They become ostracized, and this puts a substantial mark on their relationship. It evolves into a troublesome mix of contempt, shame, loyalty, and love. Told in a humorous yet sensitive style, the director confronts herself, her mother, and the narrow-minded environment that affected them so profoundly.
2024 30 min ORIGINAL TITLE Kven si dotter er du? DIRECTOR Astrid Aakra PRODUCTION Turid Rogne, Astrid Aakra for Big Spoon Animation RELEASE 2024 SALES TBC
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| With Grace |
Grace is a playful girl from rural Kenya, always coming up with creative ideas to make her eight siblings laugh. Her dream is to become a comedian - and a farmer like her mum and dad. Her dad is an expert at telling jokes, and in the evening by the fire, Grace watches his every move to learn how to become even funnier. But when a terrible drought hits the village, Grace learns that many dads have to leave their families behind to search for a job in the city far away. She begins to worry that her dad, too, might have to leave. Grace and her family find hope in their shared humor and through planting trees that will help their crops adapt to the drought. But will their efforts be enough to keep her family together?
2024 28 min ORIGINAL TITLE With Grace DIRECTOR Julia Dahr, Dina Mwende PRODUCTION Natalya Sarch, Arne Dahr for Differ Media RELEASE Autumn 2024 SALES TBC
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| Baghdad on Fire |
With intimate access to Tiba and her friends, we join young Iraqi women and men who, side by side, are fighting for democracy in Iraq. Tiba's life changes dramatically while participating in the most significant youth movement in Iraq's history.
2023 65 min ORIGINAL TITLE Baghdad on Fire DIRECTOR Karrar Al-Azzawi PRODUCTION Jørgen Lorentzen and Nefise Özkal Lorentzen for Integral Film AS INTERNATIONAL RELEASE March 2023 SALES DR Sales
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| Bong Thom - The Brother |
Heng lives with his close-knit, deeply Buddhist family in rural Cambodia, who work hard struggling as farmers. At six, he lost both his arms in a landmine explosion. Now, as a teenager hanging with the wrong crowd and with no future at the farm, his mother sends him to his older brother, Chana, who makes romantic music videos in the bustling city of Phnom Penh. Here, with a bossy brother, amid a So-Me, “wanna-be” culture, Heng must make it. A film about a family living with the consequences of a war that ended decades ago.
2023 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE Bong Thom - The Brother DIRECTOR Zaradasht Ahmed PRODUCTION Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas for Ten Thousand Images INTERNATIONAL RELEASE February 2023 SALES East Village Entertainment
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| Bluestown Rising |
Out of nowhere “Little Steven” Van Zandt, one of the most charismatic figures in rock history, rolls into the town of Notodden. He discovers a music festival that has risen from the ruins of an industrial heritage that tragically fell into rubble overnight. He finds a town that regained its lost identity and created something completely on its own without the help of anyone other than its own inhabitants. Together, they slowly create a festival that has built itself into one of the largest and most distinctive blues festivals in Europe.
2023 75 min ORIGINAL TITLE Bluestown Rising DIRECTOR Jørn Stenersen PRODUCTION Jørn Stenersen for KingsMountain Productions AS INTERNATIONAL RELEASE 2023 SALES TBC
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| Does Your Hand Shake, Vladimir? |
On March 14, 2022, Norwegian poet and filmmaker Odveig Klyve wrote the poem Does Your Hand Shake, Vladimir, as a reaction to the Russian war in Ukraine.
Immediately published on social media, it got shared several thousand times. Spontaneously, people began to translate the poem. Now it has been translated into 100 different languages and dialects from around the world. Several of the translator’s voices are featured in the film.
2022 13 min ORIGINAL TITLE Skjelv du på handa, Vladimir DIRECTOR Odveig Klyve PRODUCTION Odveig Klyve for Fakkelfilm RELEASE Winter 2023 SALES TBC
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| Fighters |
Fighters is a film about identity, togetherness, and the difference one person can make.
In the film, we follow the youth worker Berat, tasked with rescuing the youngster Mamo from a criminal network. The two develop a close relationship that helps Mamo in a new direction. Still, when Berat takes Mamo's side in a police case, the police begin digging into Berat's upbringing in Hallingdal. There they find conditions that they believe are incompatible with his position as a youth worker.
2022 85 min ORIGINAL TITLE Krigere DIRECTOR Jon Haukeland PRODUCTION Ingvil Giske for Medieoperatørene AS INTERNATIONAL RELEASE March 2023 SALES Taskovski Films
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| I Got Words |
I Got Words is a musical and humorous rap documentary where rhymes are much more than similar sounds. The film tells the personal story of the Norwegian rapper, writer, and filmmaker Runar Gudnason and his journey back in time to find out why he became a rapper. The journey takes him via Denmark, where he discovered the rap genre, further to a deeper encounter with his late artist father, and finally to his own son and his relationship with rap. It is a story of the magic of words and rhymes, the sound of words, the meaning of words, and everything that happens in between.
2023 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE Eg har ord DIRECTOR Runar Gudnason PRODUCTION Turid Rogne for Aldeles INTERNATIONAL RELEASE March 2023 SALES TBC
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| Johansen Brothers |
On an island far north, within a fjord, lies Kråkrøhamn. The once populous village, now counting merely 25 inhabitants, is home to the Johansen family. Five brothers have shared sunny and rainy days at the family farm with their mom and dad for nearly half a century. Johansen Brothers is a film about brotherhood and belongingness. A tender and somewhat alternative coming-of-age story, where countrymen bloom by breaking and maintaining old traditions.
2023 80 min ORIGINAL TITLE Brødrene Johansen DIRECTOR Trude Berge Ottersen PRODUCTION Trude Berge Ottersen for Koko Film NATIONAL RELEASE Winter 2023 SALES TBC
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| Matthew |
In the fall of 2016, Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti with all its force. It crushed everything that came in its way; the consequences were worst for those who had the least.
Matthew is an animated short documentary based on interviews with Haitians, primarily young people on the threshold of adulthood. They talk about their experiences when the hurricane hit the country and about the future in light of the climate challenges. It is a story about belonging and strength but also about vulnerable people's encounters with climate-induced disasters.
2023 10 min ORIGINAL TITLE Matthew DIRECTOR Trine Vallevik Håbjørg PRODUCTION Elin Sander for Råsalt AS and Aldeles AS RELEASE May 2023 SALES TBC
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| Phoenix |
A Norwegian woman with a death sentence. A stray dog from Tennessee. On Manhattan they meet and get another chance at life.
Phoenix is a true story about Elisabeth who receives a death sentence at the hospital in Norway. With the help of friends, she gets to a hospital in New York to attempt saving her life. Here she meets a stray dog whom she adopts. In the chaos of cancer treatment, Covid 19 starts. Phoenix is a short documentary about daring to believe that things can go well, even when it looks like all hope is lost.
2023 31 min ORIGINAL TITLE Phoenix DIRECTOR Elisabeth Rasmussen PRODUCTION Elisabeth Rasmussen for Wonderline AS CO-PRODUCTION Inge Wegge for Lofoten Film Collective RELEASE June 2023 SALES Wonderline AS
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| Praying for Armageddon |
The Countdown to Armageddon has begun. As biblical prophecy fuels political power, American Evangelicals threaten U.S. democracy and push for the Apocalypse in the Middle East.
Praying for Armageddon is a political thriller that reveals the power and influence of U.S. fundamentalist Evangelicals, as they aim to fulfill the Armageddon prophecy. With close quarters journalism, this feature documentary embeds with American believers who prepare for The Holy War and exposes how powerful megachurch pastors call for the 'final battle' that they believe will trigger the Second Coming of Christ. A deep dive into power and policy, this film unveils how politicians driven by faith embrace Israel as the key to their prophetic vision for the end of days. At any cost.
2023 94 min ORIGINAL TITLE Praying for Armageddon DIRECTOR Tonje Hessen Schei PRODUCTION Christian Aune Falch, Torstein Parelius, Ingrid Aune Falch for UpNorth Film AS CO-PRODUCTION Auto Images AB (SE), Ventana-Films GmbH (DE), Making Movies OY (FI) INTERNATIONAL RELEASE March 2023 SALES DR Sales
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| Rahčan – Ella’s Riot |
The Norwegian Sámi singer Ella is torn between city life in Oslo and her roots in Northern Norway. When a mining company threatens Sámi land and water, she decides to leave the city to save her home. Rahčan – Ella’s Riot is both a portrait of an extraordinary voice and an inspiring story of how far music, love and solidarity can take you.
2022 72 min ORIGINAL TITLE Rahčan – Ellas opprør DIRECTOR Anne Marte Blindheim PRODUCTION Eirin O. Høgetveit for Einar Film Drama AS INTERNATIONAL RELEASE March 2023 SALES First Hand Films
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| Show Me Your Face when You Look at a Stranger |
What would the world look like if we saw at each other the way these strangers do?
2023 7 min ORIGINAL TITLE Show Me Your Face When You Look at a Stranger DIRECTOR Nora Nivedita Tvedt PRODUCTION Lillian Løvseth for Smallville Films RELEASE Summer 2023 SALES TBC
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| Songs of Earth |
Songs of Earth is a majestic symphony for the big screen.
With Olin's 85-year-old father as a guide, we experience Norway's most scenic valley, Oldedalen in Nordfjord. This is where he grew up and where generations before him have lived in balance with nature. Majestic images of wild mountains, calving glaciers, and bustling wildlife go side by side with the parents' stories about the generations who trod the trails, the relationship we have with nature, and what is valuable in life. The music is composed of unique sound recordings – nature's own melodies, translated and performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra.
Songs of Earth is Norway's Academy Award Submission.
2023 90 min ORIGINAL TITLE Fedrelandet DIRECTOR Margreth Olin PRODUCTION Margreth Olin for Speranza Film CO-PRODUCTION BBC Storyville (UK) INTERNATIONAL RELEASE March 2023 SALES Cinephil
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| The Last Movie |
Filmmaker Petter Vennerød wants to take us on one last film journey. He was one half of Norway's most prominent film-making duo in the 80s and 90s; Wam & Vennerød. They constantly questioned the status quo, and both the bourgeoisie and «the socialist realist hell» were characterized in unflattering ways through their colourful and engaging filmography. When Petter is diagnosed with atypical Parkinson's, the hourglass turns. The disease that ravages Petter's brain is in a hurry, and Petter has limited time to tell one last story on the film screen.
2023 83 min ORIGINAL TITLE Den siste filmen DIRECTORS Olaug Spissøy Kyvik and Karianne Førland Vennerød PRODUCTION Karianne Førland Vennerød and Olaug Spissøy Kyvik for Merkur Film Produksjon NATIONAL RELEASE Winter 2023 SALES TBC
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| The Mum in Me |
The Mum in Me is a touching, brave and hyper relevant documentary about a taboo topic: What happens to a woman’s mind, her emotional life and her identity when she is hit by involuntary childlessness? The director is the storyteller taking the audience on a challenging, but also humorous and heartwarming journey, together with three other childless women, showing that 15-25% of the population is childless. The documentary tells us why the need for children is so immense for so many, and how it shapes us as human beings when it does not materialize. Sorrow, desperation, and isolation is part of the everyday life for the involuntary childless. At the same time, this documentary is about reconciliation, alternative motherhood and newfound zest for life. Not many filmmakers dare to invite into such a vulnerable state of mind.
2022 83 min ORIGINAL TITLE Mammaen i meg DIRECTOR Hilde Merete Haug PRODUCTION Tore Killingland for Haugtussa Film RELEASE November 2022 SALES TBC
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| Voice |
Who has the right to tell the stories of others?
A documentary filmmaker faces critical questions about representation and co-participation when she starts portraying young activists in the film workshop Voice.
2023 91 min ORIGINAL TITLE Voice DIRECTOR Ane Hjort Guttu PRODUCTION Elisabeth Kleppe for Ane Hjort Guttu AS INTERNATIONAL RELEASE March 2023 SALES TBC
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| We Are Still Here |
The film follows a group of Sámi artists from an art collective, Mázejoavku, as they rebel against cultural stereotypes and explore themes of Sámi identity. Soon they are dragged into the Alta Conflict, a turning point in Sámi political and cultural life.
2023 75 min ORIGINAL TITLE Mii leat ain dás DIRECTOR Gunilla Bresky PRODUCTION Aleksander Olai Korsnes for Rein Film Finmark CO-PRODUCTION Andreas Emanuelson for Iris film (SE), Ken Are Bongo for Davás film (NO) RELEASE 2023 SALES TBC
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Feature Films and Drama Series
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Animations - In Development and Production
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Elisabeth Aalmo
Manager International Relations, Documentary Films
Cell: +47 932 66 554
elisabeth.aalmo@nfi.no
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