Get an overview of the Norwegian titles at Berlin International Film Festival, screenings at the European Film Market, co-producing with Norway, Norwegian talents and much more.
In the wake of the American Civil War, veteran Jacob Hansen’s dream of a new life in Friendship, Wisconsin becomes a nightmare. As an epidemic spreads chaos, Jacob – sheriff, undertaker and pastor – must fight to save his town, his family and his soul.
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Sami reindeer herder Maia fights to protect her ancestral lands from a looming mining project. Amid the growing protests, she is also confronted with deeply buried family traumas. Maia is forced to make a decision.
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Berlinale Special Gala
Naru (25), the only camerawoman at Kabul TV, is convinced there are no good men in Afghanistan. But when a reporter takes her on an assignment just before the Taliban’s return, sparks fly between them – and she begins to question this belief.
Director: Shahrbanoo Sadat
Norwegian co-producer: Motlys AS
Market Screening: Sat, Feb 14 | 17:00 | CinemaxX 9
Retrospective
A drama as sensual as it is transcendent. Weronika, a young singer in Poland, feels a close connection to her doppelganger in France. After Weronika dies, the French woman Véronique also develops an inexplicable sense of their mystical relationship.
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
Norwegian co-producer: Norsk Film AS
Two sisters with a great distance from each other, reunite to deal with their mother's macabre death in the Gran Canary mountains. The reunion offers both a feared journey into the past and present.
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Mikal (12) is born and raised in the hotel room he shares with his parents, both struggling with alcohol addiction. Mikal’s biggest wish is for his mum and dad to stop drinking. But what does it take for someone to change their ways?
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Each Christmas a mystery package arrives. Now young detectives Edle and Brage are on the case to uncover the secret sender once and for all.
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Johanne is a marine biologist who is doing research on a fish farm in Vangsnes, a rural community located by the fjord, when she encounters several strange occurrences.
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Three best friends have to win the rally from Paris to the Pyramids with their self-invented gadget-packed racecar to be able to return to their hometown.
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Over a decade on Svalbard, the fastest warming place on earth, Norwegian filmmaker Asgeir witnesses the extraordinary life of polar bear named Frost – a mother struggling to raise her cubs in a rapidly changing Arctic.
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Kaya has always wanted to be like all the other cells in her part of the body. She meets a grumpy General Abel and a friendship begins. Kaya discovers that what sets her apart might just be what makes her truly special.
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In an upscale neighborhood, a woman is found drowned in a pool. Suspicion falls on her boyfriend, Tom, a notorious con artist and Tinder-swindler. When he unexpectedly turns himself in, he admits to fraud, but insists her death was an accident. The experienced investigator Morten Stark is convinced he’s lying – and, lacking hard evidence, plays a risky game to expose him.
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Norwegian actress Sofia Tjelta Sydness is one of ten promising European actors who will be presented internationally during the Berlin Film Festival in February.
Shooting Star is an initiative by European Film Promotion (EFP) to promote young acting talents at one of the world’s largest film festivals
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Great talents, experienced professionals, studio facilities, and the most modern technical equipment available.
Spectacular scenery with deep fjords and steep mountains, midnight sun and northern lights – as well as vibrant cities and modern architecture.
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Norwegian Film Institute provides grants for the production and launch of Norwegian films.
Have a look at the great selection of new and upcoming films and get insight into films in production.
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Funding is available for different formats with a Norwegian minority co-producer.
Sørfond grants top financing for co-production of fiction and documentary films where the main producer is located in a DAC-country.
This scheme is designed to stimulate increased exports of Norwegian films by providing grants for the marketing and distribution of Norwegian films abroad.
You may apply for funding of collective launch events and financing initiatives held in international arenas.
The film production incentive grants return on costs spent in Norway to international films and series produced entirely or partly in Norway.
