Brothers (To brødre)
Aslaug Holm is both a director and photographer, and wants to go in to the childrens authentic world and discover the truth and original life. Over a period of three years she films her boys, and the result will turn into a unique document about childhood and brotherhood - and life, for a grown up audience.
A film about the close relationship between two brothers. Markus (10) and Lukas (7) 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. 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 the all is about. "Mummy, what happens with my dreams after I`m dead, will they still be alive?" This close and personal documentary is filmed by their mother. Aslaug Holm is both a director and photographer, and wants to go in to the childrens authentic world and discover the truth and original life. In a period of three years she films her boys, and the result will turn into a unique document about childhood and brotherhood - and life, for a grown up audience.
Production and distribution
- Production Year
- 2013
- Country of origin
- Norway
- Release date (national)
- 2013-08
- Production Company
- Fenris Film AS
- Sagveien 23 A
- N-0459 Oslo
- Producer
- Tore Buvarp
Crew
- Director
- Aslaug Holm
- DoP
- Aslaug Holm
- Kjell Vassdal
- Editor
- Aslaug Holm
- Anders Teigen
- Composer
- Kaada
- Stills Photographer
- Margaret Lange
Technical information
- Genre
- Documentary
- Format
- DCP 4k
- Colour
- Colour
- Length in min's
- 90'
- Language
- Norwegian
- Subtitles
- English
Director
Aslaug Holm
Aslaug Holm (b. 1965) has directed about ten documentary films, and photographed more than 40 others, many of which have become award-winning. An example of one of the successful and acclaimed productions she has worked on 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. The film was awarded the FIPRESCI-award at the Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF), where it also had its premiere.