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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.
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CONTENTS
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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
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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
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IN PRODUCTION
Beatles
Hocus Pocus, Alfie Atkins!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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NORWEGIAN CINEMA RELEASES 2002 - 2011
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FILM INSTITUTIONS
Norwegian Film Institute
Film & Kino
Regional Film Institutions
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ADRESSES
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Company Orheim is a family drama and coming of age story about guilt and atonement, and
the cost of independence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ADRESSES
ASSOCIATIONS & INSTITUTIONS
Agicoa Norge
Dronningens gt 8 A
P.O. Box 629 Sentrum, N-0106 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 01 01 52
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Tom G Eilertsen
Den norske filmskolen
The Norwegian Film School
N-2626 Lillehammer
Tel: +47 61 28 74 68
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Det kongelige utenriksdepartement
Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs
P.O. Box 8114 Dep, N-0032 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 95 00 00
Mail: [email protected]
Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo
The Norwegian National Library, Oslo
Henrik Ibsensgt. 110
Box 2674 Solli, N-0203 Oslo
Tel: +47 81 00 13 00
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
www.nb.no
Contact: Lars Gaustad
Nordisk Film & TV Fond
Kristian Augusts gt. 13, N-0164 Oslo
Tel: +47 64 00 60 80
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
www.norwegianfilms.no
Fond for lyd og bilde
P.O. Box 8191 Dep, N-0034 N-Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 83 30
Mail: [email protected]
www.fondforlydogbilde.no
Norsk Filmklubbforbund
Norwegian Federation of Film Societies
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 46 80
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmklubb.no
Contact: Jon Iversen
Medietilsynet
Norwegian Media Authority
Nygata 4, N-1607 Fredrikstad
Tel: +47 69 30 12 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.medietilsynet.no
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Norsk Filmkritikerlag
The Norwegian Filmcritic’s Association
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 11 93 21
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmkritikerlaget.no
Contact: Dag Sødtholt
Norsk Filmvederlagsfond
Norwegian Film Foundation
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16,
N-0152 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 46 40
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmvederlagsfondet.no
Contact: Sverre Pedersen
Norsk Skuespillerforbund
Norwegian Actors’ Equity Association
Welhavensgt. 1, N-0166 Oslo
Tel: +47 21 02 71 90
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
www.produsentforeningen.no
Contact: Leif Holst Jensen
Norske Filmbyråers Forening
Norwegian Film Distributors’ Association
Øvre Slottsgt. 12, N-0157 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 42 48 44
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Contact: Siljá Somby
DISTRIBUTORS
Actionfilm AS
Vålerenggata 47, N-0658 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 70 90 50
Mail: [email protected]
www.actionfilm.no
Contact: Tore Erlandsen
Arthaus
Nedre gate 7, N-0551 Oslo
Tel: +47 21 42 00 86
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
www.disneystudios.no
Contact: Inger Warendorph
Euforia Film
Nedregate 5, N-0551 Oslo
Tel: +47 21 37 99 99
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
www.europafilm.no
Contact: Egil Ødegård
Exposed Film AS
Nymansveien 105, N-4014 Stavanger
Tel: + 47 90 74 08 74
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Bjørn Eivind Aarskog
Fidalgo Filmdistribusjon AS
Gyldenløvesgate 75
P.O. Box 666, N-4666 Kristiansand
Tel: +47 38 02 40 04
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
www.foxfilm.no
Contact: Bjørn Jacobsen
Kudos Family AS
Kvitsøygata 25, N-4014 Stavanger
Tel: +47 51 12 31 72
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
www.scanbox.no
Contact: Jim Frazee
Agitator AS
Mediebygget, Bergenshus 13, N-5003
Bergen
Tel: +47 91 78 10 28
Mail: [email protected]
www.agitator.no
Contact: Elin Sander
Cinemiso AS
Akersbakken 33, N-0172 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 95 55 80
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
www.sf-film.no
Contact: Guttorm Petterson
Alert Film AS
Niels Juelsgt. 11 B, N-0272 Oslo
Tel: +47 90 07 64 56
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Elsa Kvamme
Cinenord AS
Akersbakken 33, N-0172 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 95 55 80
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
www.starmedia.no
Contact: Jørn Landbakk
Storytelling Media
Kjøpmannsgata 35, N-7011 Trondheim
Tel: +47 99 44 80 40
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected], 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: [email protected]
www.fourandahalf.no
Contact: Karin Julsrud
Alligator AS
Georgernes Verft 12, N-5011 Bergen
Tel: +47 55 21 40 50
Mail: [email protected]
www.alligator.no
Contact: Trude Refsahl
Annette S. Helland EF
Store Strandgate 27, N-1550 Hølen
Mail: [email protected]
www.lilledyret.no
Contact: Annette Saugestad Helland
Ape & Bjørn
Grønlandsleiret 25, N-0190 Oslo
Tel: +47 90 93 55 11
Mail: [email protected]
www.apeogbjorn.no
Contact: Ruben Thorkildsen
Atomfilm
Thomesheiveien 2, N-3770 Kragerø
Tel: +47 92 26 48 06
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Odd G. Iversen
Cinenord Kidstory AS
Akersbakken 33, N-0172 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 95 55 80
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
www.cylinder.no
Contact: Gaute Lid Larssen
Dalchows verden
Borger Withgate 12, N-0482 Oslo
Tel. +47 22 20 47 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.dalchowsverden.no
Contact: Jan Dalchow
Barentsfilm AS
Leikvollvn. 13, N-1387 Asker
Tel: +47 95 81 42 88
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Ingrid Lill Høgtun
Dunderland Filmkompani AS
Østerlisvingen 6, N-1153 Oslo
Tel: +47 90 61 59 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.dunderland.no
Contact: Martin Barth Bergholtz
BulBul Film A/S
Høyåsvn. 24, N-3216 Sandefjord
Tel: +47 33 46 48 95
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Bent Hamer
Exposed Film Production AS
Nymansveien 105, N-4014 Stavanger
Tel: + 47 90 74 08 74
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Bjørn Eivind Aarskog
ADRESSES 79
ADRESSES
Eyeworks Dinamo AS
P.O. Box 442, N-1327 Lysaker
Tel: +47 67 20 00 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.dinamo.no
Contact: Odd Arvid Strømstad
Faction Film
Kjøpmannsgata 40
Box 2093, N-7411 Trondheim
Tel: +47 98 22 13 41
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Håvard Bustnes
Fantasi-Fabrikken Film AS
Årfuglveien 2, N-3123 Tønsberg
Tel: +47 33 30 10 30
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
www.fenrisfilm.com
Contact: Tore Buvarp
Ferdinand Films
Brochmannsgate 12 A, N-0470 Oslo
Tel: +47 97 04 43 11
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Ole Giæver
Filbmagoahti AS
P.O. Box 350, N-9521 Kautokeino
Tel: +47 78 48 66 66
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Nils Thomas Utsi
80 ADRESSES
Filimo Film AS
P.O. Box 346, N-8901 Brønnøysund
Tel: +47 95 44 59 90
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Kathrine Haugen
Film Farms
Nordre Tasken Gård
Tasken 5, N-1580 Rygge
Mail: [email protected]
www.film-farms.com
Contact: Alan Milligan
Filmbin
Stortorget 1, N-2609 Lillehammer
Tel: +47 90 20 65 56
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Contact: John M. Jacobsen
Flimmer Film AS
Strandgaten 89, N-5004 Bergen
Tel: +47 55 23 15 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.flimmerfilm.no
Contact: Lars Løge
Fredrik Fiction AS
Kongensgate 2, N-0153 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 20 80 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.fredrikfiction.no
Contact: Fredrik Pryser
Friland AS
Torggt. 33, N-0183 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 17 47 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.friland.biz
Contact: Asle Vatn, Christian Fredrik Martin
Marieke Motiondesign
Haugevn. 17, N-5005 Bergen
Tel: +47 91 88 94 64
Mail: [email protected]
www.marieke.nu
Contact: Marieke Verbiesen
Gammaglimt AS
Orkdalsvn. 58, N-7300 Orkdal
Tel: +47 908 65 219
Mail: [email protected]
www.gammaglimt.no
Contact: Christian Falch
Medieoperatørene tv AS
Teglverksgata 2, N-0553 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 99 31 20
Mail: [email protected]
www.mop.no
Contact: Geir Bølstad
Helgeland Film AS
Øvre Storgt. 59, N-3018 Drammen
Tel: +47 32 89 17 90
Mail: [email protected]
www.helgeland-film.com
Contact: Axel Helgeland
Mer Film AS
Målselvgata 15, N-9007 Tromsø
Tel: +47 95 18 81 18
Mail: [email protected]
www.merfilm.no
Contact: Maria Ekerhovd
Helmet
Erling Skakkes gt. 4, N-7013 Trondheim
Mail: [email protected]
www.helmet.no
Contact: Øystein Moe, Alexander Somma
Merkur Film Produksjon AS
Sofiesgt. 60, N-0168 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 59 15 40
Mail: [email protected]
www.merkur.no
Contact: Petter Vennerød
Indie Film
Ostadalsv. 35, N-0753 Oslo
Tel: +47 90 86 52 03
Mail: [email protected]
www.indiefilm.no
Contact: Carsten Aanonsen
Kamerakameratene
Middeltuns gt. 15A, N-0368 Oslo
Tel. +47 90 16 28 40
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
www.maipo.no
Contact: Synnøve Hørsdal
Mica Film
Kapellvn. 51 A, N-0487 Oslo
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Hilde K. Kjøs, Karoline Grindaker
Mirmar Film Production AS
Nestoppen 21 B, N-1344 Haslum
Tel: +47 913 40 708
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
www.monstersite.no
Contact: Håkon Briseid
ADRESSES
Moskus Film AS
Grensen 8, N-0159 Oslo
Tel: + 47 91 61 05 61
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
www.rubicontv.no
Contact: Lasse Hallberg, Andreas Bakka Hjertø
Motlys A/S
Sagvn. 18, N-0459 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 80 83 70
Mail: [email protected]
www.motlys.com
Contact: Sigve Endresen
Original Film AS
Strandvn. 95, N-9006 Tromsø
Tel. +47 77 60 04 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.originalfilm.no
Contact: Mona Steffensen
Sant & Usant AS
Damstredet 8, N-0177 Oslo
Tel: +47 48 26 86 34
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
www.neofilm.no
Contact: Aage Aaberge
Orvung Film
Austtunleitet 1
N-4032 Stavanger
Tel: +47 92 40 03 43
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Tom Andre Edvindsen
Ingrid Skagestad
Skogforvalter Lies veg 17, N-2611 Lillehammer
Tel: +47 90 55 53 90
Mail: [email protected]
Nero Film
Hafrsfjordsgt. 5
N-0273 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 55 59 76
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Vibeke Løkkeberg, Terje
Kristiansen
Nordic Stories
Dronningensgt. 3, N-0152 Oslo
Tel: +47 90 57 58 69
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Contact: Aage Aaberge
Nordisk Film TV
Drammensveien 130 Inng. 4A, N-0277 Oslo
Tel: +47 21 04 28 10
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Vibeke Gillebo
Paradox Rettigheter AS
Grønlandsleiret 25
N-0190 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 22 71 50
Mail: [email protected]
www.paradox.no
Contact: Finn Gjerdrum
Piraya Film AS
Kvitsøygt. 25, N-4014 Stavanger
Tel: +47 51 11 63 36
Mail: [email protected], [email protected]
www.piraya.no
Contact: Torstein Grude, Bjarte Mørner Tveit
Pomor Film AS
Langnesvn. 15, N-9012 Tromsø
Tel: +47 95 14 27 45
Mail: [email protected]
www.pomorfilm.no
Contact: Knut Skoglund
Qvisten Animation
Frimanns gt. 20, N-0165 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 99 22 90
Mail: [email protected], [email protected]
www.qvisten.no
Contact: Ove Heiborg
Speranza Film AS
Øvrefoss 14, N-0555 Oslo
Tel: +47 90 14 43 91
Mail: [email protected]
www.speranza.no
Contact: Margreth Olin
Storm Rosenberg AS
Maridalsvn. 87, N-0461 Oslo
Tel: +47 21 37 80 81
Mail: [email protected]
www.stormrosenberg.no
Contact: Jørgen Storm Rosenberg
Storm Studio
Nedre gate 5, N-0551 Oslo
Tel: +47 24 20 05 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.stormstudios.no
Contact: Kristin Hellebust,
Lars Andreas Hellebust
Sweet Films AS
Mellomveien 33, N-9007 Tromsø
Tel: +47 92 65 60 02
Mail: [email protected]
www.sweetfilms.no
Contact: Joachim Lyng
Tappeluft Pictures AS
Marstrandgt. 9, N-0566 Oslo
Tel: +47 97 15 79 23
Mail: [email protected]
www.tappeluft.com
Contact: Kjetil Omberg
Tordenfilm AS
Sandakervn. 52, N-0477 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 40 03 40
Mail: [email protected]
www.tordenfilm.no
Contact. Eric Vogel
Viafilm AS
Prost Christies vei 19 A, N-1362 Hosle
Tel: + 47 90 72 30 63
Mail: [email protected]
www.viafilm.no
Contact: Anders Tangen
AS Videomaker
Haugland, N-3528 Hedalen
Tel: +47 90 90 96 00
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Kjell Eriksen
Vidvinkel Film AS
Furuvegen 19, NO-4480 Kvinesdal
Tel: + 47 41 04 71 64
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Thomas Wangsmo
Yesbox Productions AS
Bergenhus 13, N-5003 Bergen
Tel: + 47 99 62 57 56
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Bendik Heggen Strønstad
Zentropa International Norway AS
c/o Zentropa
Filmbyen 22, DK-2650 Hvidovre
Tel: +45 36 86 87 88
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Peter Aalbæk Jensen
Øy-Film
N-5915 Hjelmås
Tel: + 47 56 35 33 72
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Øyvind Sandberg
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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: [email protected]
www.biff.no
Contact: Tor Fosse
Femmina International Film
Festival | October
Kjøpmannsgt. 51, N-7011 Trondheim
Tel: +47 98 63 00 60
Mail: [email protected]
www.femminafilm.no
Contact: Marit Bakken
Filmfest Oslo | March
Dronningensgt. 8a
N-0152 Oslo
Tel +47 91 17 89 79
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
www.filmfrasor.no
Contact: Lasse Skagen
Fredrikstad Animation Festival |
November
Kasernegt. 47, P.O. Box 1405,
N-1602 Fredrikstad
Tel: +47 69 32 00 75
Mail: [email protected]
www.animationfestival.no
Contact: Trond Ola Mevassvik
Kort på Kinokino | December
Postboks 583, N-4305 Sandnes
Tel +47 51 33 78 33
Mail: [email protected]
www.kinokino.no
Contact: Siw Angell-Olsen
82 ADRESSES
Kosmorama | April
Trondheim International Film Festival
Kjøpmannsgata 35, N-7011 Trondheim
Tel: +47 92 06 06 60
Mail: [email protected], [email protected]
www.kosmorama.no
Contact: Berit Vordal, Ola Lund Renolen
Oslo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival |
June
P.O. Box 954 Sentrum, N-0104 Oslo
Tel: +47 47 28 28 93
Mail: [email protected]
www.oglff.org
Contact: Bård Ydén
Kristiansand International
Children’s Film Festival | April
Kristiansand kino, P.O. Box 356,
N-4663 Kristiansand
Tel +47 38 10 42 05
Mail: [email protected]
www.kicff.no
Contact: Dankert Monrad-Krohn
Oslo International Film Festival |
November
Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 20 07 66
Mail: [email protected]
www.oslofilmfestival.com
Contact: Tommy Lørdahl
Minimalen Short Film Festival |
March
Kjøpmannsgata 35
P.O. Box 1083 Lademoen, N-7446 Trondheim
Tel +47 73 52 27 57
Mail: [email protected]
www.minimalen.no
Contact: Per Fikse
The Norwegian Documentary Film
Festival | April
Høgskulen i Volda
P.O. Box 500, N-6101 Volda
Tel: +47 48 12 65 13
Mail: [email protected]
www.dokfilm.no
Contact: Synnøve Horvei
The Norwegian International Film
Festival | August
Knut Knutsen O.A.S.gt. 4
P.O. Box 145, N-5501 Haugesund
Tel: +47 52 74 33 70
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmfestivalen.no
Contact: Gunnar Johan Løvvik, Tonje
Hardersen
The Norwegian Short Film Festival |
June
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16,
N-0152 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 46 46
Mail: [email protected]
www.kortfilmfestivalen.no
Contact: Anita Svingen
Z Filmtidsskrift
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16, N-0152 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 46 80
Mail: [email protected]
www.znett.com
Contact: Ingrid Rommetveit
PUBLICITY
Kulturmeglerne A/S
Kongensgate 23, N-0153 Oslo
Tel: +47 91 52 53 13
Mail: [email protected]
www.kulturmeglerne.no
Contact: Svanhild Sørensen
Tromsø International Film Festival |
January
Storgata 93 B, P.O. Box 285,
N-9253 Tromsø
Tel: +47 77 75 30 90
Mail: [email protected]
www.tiff.no
Contact: Martha Otte
ACTOR’S AGENTS
MAGAZINES
Hobbart & Hobbart AS
Middelthunsgt. 25 A, N-0368 Oslo
Tel: +47 66 91 25 77
Mail: [email protected]
www.hobbart.no
Contact: Martin Braathen
Cinema
P.O. Box 6794 St. Olavs plass, N-0130 Oslo
Tel: +47 90 02 02 74
Mail: [email protected]
Contact: Geir Kamsvåg
Actors Agent Norge AS
Kongens gate 15, N-0153 Oslo
Tel: +47 92 40 83 13
Mail: [email protected]
www.actorsagent.no
Contact: Christina A. Ulrichsen
FILM COMMISSIONS
FilmMagasinet AS
Gjerdrums vei 19
P.O. Box 5336 Majorstuen, N-0304 Oslo
Tel: +47 24 11 85 50
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmmagasinet.no
Contact: Einar Aarvig
Film Commission Norway
P.O. Box 428 Sentrum, N-0105 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 45 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.norwegianfilm.com
Contact: Truls Kontny
Rush Print
Filmens Hus, Dronningensgt. 16
N-0152 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 47 46 43
Mail: [email protected]
www.rushprint.no
Contact: Kjetil Lismoen
Filmkraft Rogaland AS
Rogaland Fylkeskommune
P.O.Box 130, N-4001 Stavanger
Tel: +47 51 51 69 72
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmkraft.no
Contact: Øyvind Hollo-Klausen
ADRESSES
Mid Nordic Film Commission
P.O.Box 964, N-7410 Trondheim
Tel: +47 41 60 18 88
Mail: [email protected]
www.midtnorskfilm.no
Contact: Stig Bech
Western Norway Film Commission
Georgernes Verft 12, N-5011 Bergen
Tel: + 47 55 55 36 46
Mail: [email protected]
www.wnfc.no
Contact: Sigmund Elias Holm
REGIONAL FILM FUNDS
Film3 AS
Stortorget 1, NO-2609 Lillehammer
Tel: + 47 92 80 52 50
Mail: [email protected]
www.film3.no
Contact: Inge Tenvik
FilmCamp AS
P.O. Box 144, N-9335 Øverbygd
Tel + 47 77 83 35 00
Cell: +47 47 89 94 80 / +47 90 15 25 06
Mail: [email protected], [email protected]
www.filmcamp.no
Comtact: Svein Andersen, Kjetil Jensberg
Filmfondet FUZZ AS
Georgernes verft 12, N-5011 Bergen
Tel: + 47 55 62 63 93
Mail: [email protected]
www.fuzz.no
Contact: Lars L. Marøy
Filmkraft Rogaland AS
Rogaland Fylkeskommune
P.O.Box 130, N-4001 Stavanger
Tel: +47 51 51 69 72
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmkraft.no
Contact:Jarle Bjørknes
Midtnorsk Film Fund
Box 964, N- 7410 Trondheim
Tel: +47 41 60 18 88
Mail: [email protected]
www.midtnorskfilm.no
Contact: Stig Bech
REGIONAL FILM CENTRES
SALES AGENTS
International Sami Film Centre
Buletjavri,N-9520 Kautokeino
Tel: +47 90 75 55 74
Mail: [email protected]
www.isf.as
Contact: Anne Lajla Utsi
Autlook Filmsales GmbH
Trappelgasse 4/17,
1040 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43 720 34 69 34
Mail: [email protected]
www.autlookfilms.com
Contact: Peter Jaeger
Midtnorsk Filmsenter AS
P.O. Box 964, N-7410 Trondheim
Tel: +47 73 51 55 50
Mail: [email protected]
www.midtnorskfilm.no
Contact: Solvor Amdal
Nordnorsk Filmsenter A/S
Øvergata 1
P.O. Box 94, N-9751 Honningsvåg
Tel: +47 78 47 64 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.nnfs.no
Contact: Eva Ch. Nilsen
Sørnorsk Filmsenter
Alladin, Kongensgate 6
P.O. Box 112, N-4662 Kristiansand
Tel: +47 91 80 82 21
Mail: [email protected], Kirsten@
sornorskfilm.no
www.sornorskfilm.no
Contact: Kirsten Bonnén Rask
Vestnorsk filmsenter
Western Norway Film Centre
Georgernes Verft 12, N-5011 Bergen
Tel: +47 55 55 36 46
Mail: [email protected]
www.vestnorskfilm.no
Contact. Irmelin Nordahl
Viken Filmsenter AS
Box 2400, N-3003 Drammen
Tel: +47 91 34 07 08
Mail: [email protected]
www.vikenfilmsenter.no
Contact: Tom Rysstad
Østnorsk filmsenter
Stortorget 1, N-2609 Lillehammer
Tel: +47 90 75 90 12
Mail: [email protected]
www.ostnorsk.no
Contact: Arngrim Ytterhus
Beta Cinema
Gruenwalder Weg 28D
DE-82041 Oberhaching - Munich
Tel: +49 89 673 469 80
Mail: [email protected]
www.betacinema.com
Contcact: Andreas Rothbauer
Celsius Entertainment
249 Gray’s Inn Road, UK-London WC1X 8QZ
Tel: +44 20 71 93 78 01
Mail: [email protected]
www.celciusentertainment.com
Contact: Thierry Wase-Bailey
Deckert Distribution GmbH
Marienplatz 1, DE-04103 Leipzig
Tel: +49 34 12 15 66 38
Mail: [email protected]
www.deckert-distribution.com
Contact: Heino Deckert
Films Boutique
Skalitzer Strasse 54A, DE-10997 Berlin
Tel: +49 30 6953 7850
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmsboutique.com
Contact: Jean-Christophe Simon
Films Distribution
34, rue du Louvre, FR-75001 Paris
Tel: +33 1 53 10 33 99
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmsdistribution.com
Contact: Francois Yon
Les Films du Losange
22 avenue Pierre 1er de Serbe,
FR-75116 Paris
Tel: +331 44 43 87 28
Mail: [email protected]
www.filmsdulosange.fr
Contact: Agathe Valentin
Global Screen
Sonnenstrasse 21, DE-80 331 München
Tel. +49 89 24 41 295 500
Mail: [email protected]
www.globalscreen.de
Contact: Stefanie Zeitler
HanWay Films
24 Hanway Street, UK-London W1T 1UH
Tel: +44 207 290 0750
Mail: [email protected]
www.hanwayfilms.com
Contact: Thorsten Schumacher
Kudos Family AS
Kvitsøygata 25, N-4014 Stavanger
Tel: +47 51 12 31 72
Mail: [email protected]
www.kudosfamily.com
Contact: Bjarte Mørner Tveit
LevelK
Lg. Kongevej 137 B, 3rd Fl.
DK-1850 Frederiksberg
Tel: +45 48 44 30 72
Mail: [email protected]
www.levelk.dk
Contact: Tine Klint
Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing
49 West 27th, 7th fl., US-10001 New York
Tel: +1 212 924 6701
Mail: [email protected]
www.magpictures.com
The Match Factory GmbH
Balthasarstrasse 79-81, DE-50670 Cologne
Tel: +49 221 539 709-0
Mail: [email protected]
www.the-match-factory.com
Contact: Michael Weber
NonStop Sales
Östhammarsgatan 68
P.O.Box 271 34, SE-102 52 Stockholm
Tel: +46 8 400 100 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.nonstopsales.com
Contact: Michael Werner
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ADRESSES
Nordic World
Karl Johans gt. 14, N-0154 Oslo
Tel: +47 91 61 55 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.nordicworld.tv
Contact: Espen S. Huseby
The Factory Post Production AS
Sandakervn. 24D, bygg f3, N-0473 Oslo
Tel: +47 47 23 93 53
Mail: [email protected]
www.thefactory.no
Contact: Victor Engholmen
AB Svensk Filmindustri
SE-169 86 Stockholm
Tel: +46 8 680 3500
Mail: [email protected]
www.sfinternational.se
Contact: Ann-Kristin Westerberg, Anita
Simovic
Hinterland AS
Kvitsøygt. 25, N-4014 Stavanger
Tel: +47 51 11 63 36
Mail: [email protected]
www.hinterlandpost.com
SevenOne International
Medienallee 7, DE-85774 Unterfoehring
Tel: +49 89 95 07 23 20
Mail: [email protected]
www.sevenoneinternational.com
Sola Media GmbH
Filderhauptsdtrasse 49, DE-50599 Stuttgart
Tel: +49 71 14 79 36 66
Mail: [email protected]
www.sola-media.com
Contact: Solveig Langeland
TrustNordisk ApS
Filmbyen 28, DK-2650 Hvidovre
Tel: +45 36 86 87 88
Mail: [email protected]
www.trustnordisk.com
Contact: Rikke Ennis
TECHNICAL FACILITIES
Drylab Research and Development
Langlia 13, N-0854 Oslo
Tel: +47 92 68 03 55
Mail: [email protected]
www.drylab.no
Contact: John Chr. Rosenlund
DVNOR - Digital Video Norge AS
Sagvn. 23 F, N-0459 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 71 03 93
Mail: [email protected]
www.dvnor.no
Contact: Arild Hansen
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Nordisk Film Shortcut Norway
Nedre gate 5, N-0551 Oslo
Tel: +47 21 42 10 30
Mail: [email protected]
www.stormstudios.no
Storm Studio
Nedre gate 5, N-0551 Oslo
Tel: +47 24 20 05 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.stormstudios.no
Contact: Kristin Hellebust
Storyline Studios AS
Drammensveien 130, N-0277 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 13 51 70
Mail: [email protected]
www.storyline.no
Contact: Knud Bjørne-Larsen
Zone 5 studios AS
Enebakkvn. 69, N-0192 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 19 48 40
Mail: [email protected]
www.zone5studios.no
TELEVISION BROADCASTERS
Canal +
C More Entertainment
P.O. Box 80 Bryn, N-0611 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 93 93 33
Mail: [email protected]
www.canalplus.no
NRK
Norwegian Broadcasting Corp.
N-0340 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 04 70 00
Drama department: +47 23 04 89 22
Contact: Hans Rossiné
TV 1000 Norge AS
Hammersborg Torg 1
P.O. Box 8864 Youngstorget, N-0028 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 99 01 30
TV 2 AS
Nøstegaten 72
P.O. Box 7222, N-5020 Bergen
Tel: +47 55 90 80 70
and:
Karl Johansgt. 14
P.O. Box 2 Sentrum, N-0101 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 31 47 00
TV3 AS
Hammersborg Torg 1, N-0179 Oslo
P.O. Box TV3 Youngstorget, N-0028 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 99 00 33
Mail: [email protected]
www.tv3.no
TVNorge AS / Broadcast Norge AS
Nydalen Allé 37
P.O.Box 4800 Nydalen, N-0422 Oslo
Tel: +47 21 02 20 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.tvnorge.no
Fredrikstad Kino
P.O. Box 1405, N-1602 Fredrikstad
Tel: +47 69 30 60 70
Mail: [email protected]
www.fredrikstadkino.no
Contact: Jørgen Søderberg Jansen
Kristiansand Kino
P.O. Box 356, N-4663 Kristiansand
Tel: +47 38 10 42 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.krskino.no
Contact: Petter Benestad
Oslo Kino AS
Fridtjof Nansensv. 6
P.O. Box 1584 Vika, N-0118 Oslo
Tel: +47 99 43 20 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.oslokino.no
Contact: Geir Bergkastet
PRINCIPAL CINEMAS
SF Kino, Stavanger/Sandnes AS
Sølvberggt. 2, P.O. Box 194, N-4001
Stavanger
Tel: +47 51 51 07 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.sfkino.no
Contact: Frode Nilsen
Aurora kino Fokus
Grønnegata 100, N-9299 Tromsø
Tel: +47 90 88 99 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.aurorakino.no
Contact: Geir Martin Jensen
Trondheim Kino
Prinsensgt. 2 B, N-7012 Trondheim
Tel: +47 73 80 88 00
Mail: [email protected]
www.trondheimkino.no
Contact: Egil Akselsen
Bergen Kino
Neumannsgt. 3
P.O.Box 6153 Postterminalen, N-5892
Bergen
Tel: +47 55 56 90 50
Mail: [email protected]
www.bergenkino.no
Contact: Elisabeth Halvorsen
Edda Kino, Haugesund
P.O. Box 488, N-5501 Haugesund
Tel: +47 52 71 90 07
Mail: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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 [email protected]
www.norwegianfilms.no