Kissed by Winter (Vinterkyss)

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Kissed by Winter
Original title	Vinterkyss
Alternate title	Gutten i snøen
Type	Features
Genre	Drama
Director	Sara Johnsen
Short summary	Victoria´s own past swirls to the surface, when a young man is found dead in a snowdrift. This is the story about two accidents. One is suspect, the other impossible to accept.
Summary	Kissed by Winter is a story about one of the efficient and successful people, Victoria, who one day is suddenly thrown out of her regular life for a period of time. The film tells the story of two deaths, one is suspicious, the other one unacceptable. Victoria starts a new life as a physician in a wintery Norwegian village. Here she absorbs herself in her job, in order to avoid her memories. Early one winter morning, a young man is found dead in the snow, and the local sheriff presumes he may have been hit by the plow of a snow truck. As Victoria gets entangled in the fate of the dead boy, she gets close to both his parents and the suspect, Kai. In the encounter with the dead man and the village inhabitants, the main character proves to be a greater mystery than the case under investigation. The truth about the boy in the snow, and Victoria's own past, is slowly but steadily whirled up to the surface.
Cast	Annika Hallin (Victoria), Kristoffer Joner (Kai), Fritjof Såheim (Stein), Göran Ragnerstam (Filip), Linn Skåber (Wibeke), Axel Zuber (Sune), Jade Francis Haj (Darjosh), Michalis Koutsonniannakis (Darjoshs' father), Mina Azarian (Darjoshs' mother), Trine Wiggen (Gerd), Klara Døving (Maja), Henrik Storsveen (Ben), Luis Engebrightsen Bye (Inge)
Screenplay	Sara Johnsen and Ståle Stein Berg
D.O.P	Odd Reinhardt Nicolaisen
Editor	Zaklina Stojcevska
Composer	Ståle Kaspersen
Sound	Svenn Jakobsen Dahle
Scenography	Billy Johansson
Producer	Christian Fredrik Martin and Asle Vatn
Line producer	Jeanette Sundby
Production company	Friland AS Torggt 33, 0183 Oslo Tel: +47 22 17 47 00, Fax. +47 22 17 47 01 Mail: kifrik@friland.biz, www.friland.biz
Country of origin	Norway
Release date (national)	2005-02-11
Technical information
Format	35mm
Screen ratio	1:1,85
Colour	Colour
Sound System	Dolby SRD
Length in min's	79:54
Length in meters	2186
No. of reels	5
International sales	NonStop Sales AS Döbelnsgatan 24, SE-113 52 Stockholm Tel: +46 8 673 9999, Fax: +46 8 673 9988 E-mail: info@nonstopsales.net, www.nonstopsales.net
Distributor (Norway only)	Sandrew Metronome AS
Festival participation	2005 Tromsø International Film Festival 2005 Gøteborg Film Festival, Sweden Nordic Competition 2005 Munich Film Festival 2005 Brussels Festival of European Film Competition 2005 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Varitey's Critics' Choise 2005 Melbourne International Film, Australia 2005 Norwegian International Film Festival, Haugesund 2005 Helsinki Film Festival 2005 Reykjavik International Film Festival 2005 Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada 2005 Haifa International Film Festival, Israel 2005 Canberra International Film Festival, Australia 2005 AFI Fest, Los Angeles, USA Competition 2005 Nordische Filmtage Lübeck Competition 2005 Sevilla Festival de Cine, Spain European Competition 2005 Scanorama, Lithuania 2005 A Luminous Century: Celebrating Norwegian Cinema, Lincoln Centre, NY 2005 Denver International Film Festival 2005 Barbican Centre, London 2005 International Film Festival Bratislava, Slovakia Competition 2006 Palm Springs International Film Festival 2006 Scandinavian Film Festival, Los Angeles 2006 Scandinavia House, New York 2006 Portland International Film Festival 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival 2006 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2006 Cinequest Film Festival 2006 Nordic Film Festival, Rouen, France Panorama 2006 Cleveland International Film Festival 2006 Nordic Film Week in Wien 2006 Philadelphia Film Festival 2006 Roma independent Film Festival 2006 Minneapolis Film Festival 2006 Seattle International Film Festival 2006 Alba Regia International Film Festival 2006 FestTroia, Portugal 2006 Longest Night Film Festival, Tasmania
Prizes received	2005 Brussels Festival of European Film: Best Actress Award to Annika Hallin 2005 Norwegian International Film Festival, Haugesund: Amanda for Best Actress to Annika Hallin 2005 Norwegian International Film Festival, Haugesund: Nordic Debut Amanda Award 2005 AFI Fest, Los Angeles, USA: Grand Jury Prize Jurors: Actress Tamlyn Tomita; DP Wally Pfister; Film Critic Jean Oppenheimer 2006 Cinequest - San Jose Film Festival: Global Vision Award 2006 Norwegian Film Critic's Award: 2006 Roma independent Film Festival: New Vision Award

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Director biography:
Sara Johnsen (1970), studied literature, photography and media before she started her directing studies at the Norwegian Film School, graduating in 2000. Her school films In Spite of Ourselves and Hormones and Other Demones, won several international awards. She has directed two episodes of the drama series The Family for SVT (Swedish Television) and participated as one of several directors in the feature film project Utopia - Nobody is perfect in the perfect country, as well as Houdini's Hound. The latter has received prizes at a number of international film festivals. Kissed by Winter is her feature film debut.

Kissed by Winter is Sara Johnsen's first feature film.

Filmography:
2000 Himmelstormeren (In Spite of Ourselves), short fiction
2001 Hormoner og andre demoner (Hormones and Other Demons), short fiction
2002 Grenseløs kjærlighet (Family), short fiction.
2003 Houdinis hund (Houdini's Hound), short fiction
2005 Vinterkyss (Kissed by Winter), feature