Cold Lunch (Lønsj)

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Cold Lunch
Original title	Lønsj
Type	Features
Genre	Drama
Director	Eva Sørhaug
Short summary	There is hope, but not for many of us.
Summary	Lønsj is a multi-plot drama about five people who all live in the same neighbourhood at Majorstua in Oslo. While Christer is down in the basement laundry room, he suddenly remember he's got his houserent money in the shirt pocket. In an attempt to save the money, he disconnects the main fuse in order to stop the washing machine. As the caretaker puts in a new fuse, an old man is fumbling with the fuses in a fusebox upstairs and dies instantly. His daughter, Leni is now alone for the first time in her life. As the fresh mother Heidi is in the washroom to get her laundry, she discovers that the machines have stopped. She is in a hurry, and has to bring with her the wet clothes. Without being aware of it, Christer has set unavoidable processes in motion.
Cast	Ane Dahl Torp, Aksel Hennie, Pia Tjelta, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Bjørn Floberg, Anneke von der Lippe, Jan Gunnar Røise, Ingar Helge Gimle, Kyrre Sydness, Birgitte Victoria Svendsen
Narrator
Screenplay	Per Schreiner
D.O.P	John Andreas Andersen fnf
Editor	Wibecke Rønseth and Sophie Hesselberg
Composer	Bugge Wesseltoft
Sound	Tormod Ringnes
Costume designer	Karen Fabritius Gram
Scenography	Siri Langdalen
Producer	Håkon Øverås and Aagot Skjeldal
Line producer	Carina Brattvik
Production company	Spillefilmkompaniet 4 1/2 \| Kruses gate 8 \| N-0263 Oslo
Country of origin	Norway
Release date (national)	2008-02-08
Release date (international)	2008-09
Technical information
Format	35mm
Screen ratio	1:2,35
Colour	Colour
Sound System	Dolby SRD
Length in min's	90
Length in meters	2452
No. of reels	6
International sales	TrustNordisk \| 12 Filmbyen \| DK-2650 Hvidovre tel: +45 36 86 87 88 \| info@trustnordisk.com
Distributor (Norway only)	Nordisk Filmdistribusjon
Festival participation	2008 Venice Critics' Week Opening film of Venice Critic's Week 2008 Toronto International Film Festival Discovery Section 2008 Reykjavik International Film Festival Competition 2008 London Film Festival 2008 Nordic Film Days, Lübeck, Germany Competition 2008 Nordic Film Forum Scanorama, Vilnius, Lithuania 2008 Stockholm International Film Festival, Sweden Competition 2008 Black Night Film Festival, Tallinn, Estonia Competition 2008 Bratislava International Film Festival, Slovenia Competition 2008 Bahamas International Film Festival Competition 2009 Würzburg Internationales Filmwochenende 2009 !f Istanbul 2009 Jameson Dublin International film Festival 2009 Belgrade International Film Festival 2009 Festival du Cinéma Nordique, Rouen 2009 Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexico 2009 Bermuda International Film Festival 2009 Hong Kong International Film Festival 2009 Febiofest, Prague 2009 International Women's Film Festival Seoul 2009 Shanghai International Film Festival 20009 Libertas Film Festival Dubrovnik 2009 Baltic Debut's Film Festival, Svetlogorsk 2009 Festroia International Film Festival 2009 Helsinki International Film Festival - Love Anarchy
Prizes received	Norwegian International Film Festival, Haugesund: Amanda: Best Supporting Actress 2008 Bratislava International Film Festival, Slovakia: The Slovak Television Award For the exceptional talent and enormous professional skills of its creators, who psychologically accurate and without pathos have pointed out the complexity of interpersonal relations. 2008 Bahamas International Film Festival: New Vision Award (Main Feature Film Award) 2009 Nordic Film Festival, Rouen, France: Grand Prix 2009 Baltic Debut's Film Festival, Svetlogorsk: Best Director
URL	http://www.nfi.no/film/coldlunch

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Director biography:
Eva Sørhaug is born in Oslo in 1971. After high school she got her BA in Social Science at Oslo University. A few years later she left Norway for studies abroad and enrolled at The San Francisco Academy of Art College where she got her MFA in filmmaking in 1999. She lived in the US for a total of 5 years. She moved to Stockholm and went to Stockholm Dramatic Institute for one year as a part of comleting her Master degree in Filmmaking.

Cold Lunch is her fist feature film after having directed several short films since 2000, many of them based on scripts from Per Schreiner who also wrote Cold Lunch.

She says about Cold Lunch: "My goal is that everyone who has ever dreamt about sailing around the world will sell their apartment and set sail after having seen the film."