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Nordisk Panorama 2025

Nordisk Panorama is the most important film festival entirely dedicated to Nordic Short and Documentary films. The festival takes place in Malmö. In addition to the festival, Nordisk Panorama is also an important marketplace for financing and co-production in the Nordic countries.

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Best Nordic Documentary

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Teenage Life Interrupted

Directed by Åse Svenheim Drivenes
Documentary • Norwegian • 2025 • 90 min

Never before have so many children and young people suffered from unexplained symptoms. No medical conditions can explain their condition. Two doctors at the University Hospital in Tromsø specialize in treating the undiagnosable.

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The Gardener, the Buddhist & the Spy

Directed by Håvard Bustnes
Documentary • English • 2025 • 95 min

Rob Moore, a former candid-camera TV producer, is exposed as a cynical corporate spy. He claims to be a whistleblower exposing corruption and invites two journalists to investigate his allegations. It soon becomes a battle of who is deceiving whom.

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Best Nordic Short Film

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Ego

Directed by Vegard Dahle
Fiction • Norwegian • 2025 • 13 min 58 sec

Molecular gastronomy, pretentious self-realization, and the weird choice of having children are all ingredients in this semi-apocalyptic double date from hell.

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I Felt I Had To Be Here

Directed by Sara Selmer Moland
Fiction • Norwegian • 2024 • 29 min

In the film we meet Vera’s parents; Vibeke and Geir, the artist and recent closest friend, Edson, and childhood best friend Selma through the memorial ceremony for Vera.

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Ovary-Acting

Directed by Ida Melum
Animation • English • 2025 • 12 min 26 sec

A harried thirty-something woman is forced to decide whether she wants to be a mother after unexpectedly giving birth to her reproductive organs at her sister’s baby shower.

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Poor Me

Directed by Liv Joelle Barbosa Blad
Fiction • Norwegian • 2025 • 19 min 39 sec

Nora (15) is caught shoplifting, sparking a major argument with her parents about family values. When all blame falls on her, she pressures her younger sister, Amalie (11), to confess to her part in the stealing. But on Christmas Eve, they find out they aren’t the only thieves in the family.

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When The Snow Has Melted

Directed by Rasmus Sandager
Fiction • Norwegian • 2024 • 17 min

After Theo (10) loses his sister in an accident, he returns to school only to realize that something has changed: everyone is acting strangely around him.

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Shoot

Directed by Elida Helgeland
Fiction • Norwegian • 2025 • 13 min

By chance, Sigrun, a high school drama teacher, witnesses her colleague's inappropriate teaching methods. When one of the students shows signs of discomfort, she is faced with a dilemma.

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New Nordic Voice

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Click the Link Below

Directed by Audun Amundsen
Documentary • English, Norwegian • 2025 • 104 min

Click the Link Below is a film about the murky world of money-making gurus online. Some people live in extravagant luxury, while others are lost in broken dreams. The Norwegian filmmaker Audun Amundsen looks behind the facade of their business while he tries to escape the 9-5 and join the new online riches. He spends thousands of dollars on online programs. What does it take to succeed?

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Firefighter Goats

Directed by George McCann, Phoebe Dobey
Short documentary • English • 2024 • 11 min

Set amidst rapidly disappearing California landscapes, a herd of goats graze areas vulnerable to wildfires. Through their efforts, a lyrical portrait of the American West is painted, revealing the dangers of today’s crisis and unexpected tools for combating it.

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Those Who Wait

Directed by Embla Åslein
Fiction • Norwegian • 2024 • 18 min

A 19-year-old girl spends the entire day waiting in the apartment of the boy she likes, too obsessed with him to leave. But when he finally returns, he’s not alone. A film about limerence, longing and the waiting game.

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Young Nordic

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Sikoqqinngisaannassooq

Directed by Adam Sébire
Short documentary • Kalaallisut • 2025 • 16 min.

A small Inuit community in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) faces climate change's transformation of their sea ice. Iceberg-projected interviews are punctuated with Kalaallisut words describing their disappearing winter environment. Inscribed in the ice by the island's youth, they reflect dramatic environmental changes originating a world away.

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Brain Rot

Directed by Emil Engesnes Bråthen
Fiction • Norwegian • 2025 • 10 min

When two kids take on a social media challenge, they unwittingly face unimaginable consequences that threaten to destroy them. This film explores aspects of the role of social media in children's lives, while challenging the audience's perception of cruelty both on and off screen.

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Poor Me

Directed by Liv Joelle Barbosa Blad
Fiction • Norwegian • 2025 • 19 min 39 sec

Nora (15) is caught shoplifting, sparking a major argument with her parents about family values. When all blame falls on her, she pressures her younger sister, Amalie (11), to confess to her part in the stealing. But on Christmas Eve, they find out they aren’t the only thieves in the family.

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Nar snoen har smeltet Foto Julie Honore

When The Snow Has Melted

Directed by Rasmus Sandager
Fiction • Norwegian • 2024 • 17 min

After Theo (10) loses his sister in an accident, he returns to school only to realize that something has changed: everyone is acting strangely around him.

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Nordic Documentary Producer Award

Nominated producers from Norway

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Producers Bård Kjøge Rønning (left) and Fabien Greenberg, Antipode Films. Photo: Victor Trofimenko

Nordic Documentary Producer Award is a pan-Nordic initiative acknowledging the invaluable role of the producer within documentary filmmaking. The award is given to a producer whose leadership, courage, and willingness to take risks have helped ensure the development of emerging talents and progress of documentary as an art form. The award is sponsored by five of the foremost member associations within the Nordic film industry, who each find their national candidate. The Directors Guild of Norway has nominated producers Bård Kjøge Rønning og Fabien Greenberg, Antipode Films for this year’s award. 

Antipode Films is a production company based in Norway, founded by Fabien Greenberg and Bård Kjøge Rønning. Greenberg and Kjøge Rønning write and produce independent and creative documentary films for a worldwide audience. Among their latest titles are No Other Land, Norwegian Democrazy and Radiograph of a Family.

Nordisk Panorama Forum

The Norwegian projects

Nordisk Panorama Forum is the annual meeting place and funding event for Nordic documentary professionals, looking to connect with a variety of Nordic and international stakeholders from TV, film institutes and regional film funds. 24 projects will be presented during the Forum, six of these are Norwegian projects.

In Flux – Julie Lunde Lillesæter/ Stéphanie Saxémard, Differ Media 
The Mystery Package – Silje Evensmo Jacobsen, A5 Film 
The Greatest Illusion – Benjamin Ree, Medieoperatørene 
Weeds – Dag Mykland/ Bård Tyrmi, Hacienda Film
This Too Shall Change – Natalja G B Jacobsen/ Dominica Harrison, True Stories Production 
Somewhere Over The Rainbow [Norwegian Wildcard] – Mary Nunpau Hasavari, Matches Films 

Projects selected for Observer+

Rehearsing for Justice - Dalia Al-Kury, Integral Film
The Sound of Success - Stian Vetle Dale, PictuRama
North of North - Mark Romanov, Speranza Film
King Annie - Benjamin Garciá Langeland, Indie Film Bergen
The Iron Women - Gry Winther, Graham Film

Work In Progress

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HEX

Some of the most exciting upcoming Nordic docs, almost ready to make it onto the world stage and looking for the final push to be finalized, a sales agent/distributor or festival premiere will present new material, following up on former pitches.

Like the project Hex. It take place in the heart of Norway's mighty black metal scene, a new force suddenly arises. It has been dangerously quiet for far too long. Three young women have made a three-year pact in which they will dedicate their entire lives to awakening the world, each other and themselves as witches.

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Nordic Short Film Pitch

The Norwegian projects

Nordic filmmakers present new projects in development looking for co-production and network. Twelve projects are pitched to an audience of industry professionals, such as funders, sales agents, buyers and distributors, as well as observing producers interested in co-production. There are two Norwegian projects in The Nordic Short Film Pitch this year.

Roots - Director: Alexander Kerekledis Turpin, Producer: Vincent Gustav Saunders

Bystanders - Director: Ivar Aase, Producer: Ivar Aase and Stephane Marchal

Immersive Media Day

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Finding Frida

Immersive Media Day is a new initiative at Nordisk Panorama. The event brings together stakeholders of the film industry and artists and creators of new forms of storytelling; artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and other immersive media. 

Three Nordic projects have been selected to present their works in development to fellow immersive artists and stakeholders. From Norway director Hilde Kjøs and RippleX will present Finding Frida. 

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Norwegian Titles in Special Programmes

Witch

2025 | 9 min | Director: Silje Baer 
Programme: Modern Witch

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Oslo Tales

2017 | 10 min | Director André Chocron 
Programme: Malmö in the making

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One Last Stand

2025 | 16 min | Director: Maren Køgel Mandt 
Programme: Library

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Blind Dancer

2018 | 22 min | Director: Maria Lloyd 
Programme: Malmö Konsthall

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The Proposal

2017 | 6min | Directors: Det Sporadiske Filmkollektivet 
Programme: Happily ever after?

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Superdupermegagigasingel

2022 | 29 min | Director: Håkon Anton Olafsen 
Programme: Happily ever after?

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Branch

2018 | 4min | Directors: Det Sporadiske Filmkolektivet 
Programme: Happily ever after?

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Sara’s Intimate Confessions

2018 | 22 min | Director: Emilie Blichfeldt 
Programme: Happily ever after?

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Attending from Norwegian Film Institute

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Elisabeth Aalmo

Manager International Relations, Documentaries

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Arna Marie Bersaas

Manager International Relations, Short Films and Drama Series

Co-production

Co-producing with Norway

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No Other Land. Photo: Antipode Films.

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