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Feature films and documentaries

NFI provides grants for the production and launch of Norwegian films and documentaries. Here you will find an overview of productions that NFI has supported.

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Henki

  • Original title Henki
  • Director Erika Calmeyer, Thomas Seeberg Torjussen
  • Format Series
  • Genre Drama
  • Production Company Klynge & Scanbox on behalf of NRK
  • Screenplay Jan Trygve Røyneland, Harald Rosenløw Eeg, Flemming Klem

The year is 1985. Henki Hauge Karlsen is a 28-year-old gay bartender who is fired after disclosing that he is infected with HIV. Furious and humiliated, he decides to take legal action.

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Savage Mountain

  • Director Even Sigstad
  • Format Documentary films
  • Genre Documentary
  • Production Company Field Productions AS
  • World Premiere 11.06.2026
  • Producer Filip Christensen
  • Screenplay Even Sigstad

Kristin Harila risked everything to summit the world’s 14 highest peaks at record speed. When her final ascent sparked backlash, her greatest triumph became a reckoning.

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Low Expectations

  • Original title Lave forventninger
  • Production year 2025
  • Director Eivind Landsvik
  • Format Features
  • Genre Drama
  • Production Company Maipo Film AS
  • World Premiere Cannes Festival 19. May 2026
  • Producer Lotte Sandbu, Synnøve Hørsdal
  • Screenplay Eivind Landsvik
  • Main viewing platform Cinema
  • Sales agent Salaud

At the height of her music career, Maja falls apart and has to step away from her ambitions. Depressed and broke, she moves back home with her mother and works part-time at a local high school. Far from the spotlight, wrapped in everyday kindness, she slowly finds her way back to life.

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Elephants in the Fog

  • Original title Les eléphants dans la brume
  • Director Abinash Bikram Shah
  • Format Co-production
  • Genre Drama
  • Production Company Storm Films
  • World Premiere Cannes Festival May 20 2026
  • Producer Verona Meier
  • Screenplay Abinash Bikram Shah
  • Main viewing platform Cinema
  • Sales agent Best Friend Forever

In a small Nepalese village nestled in the heart of a forest populated by wild elephants, Pirati is the matriarch of a community of transgender women. She dreams of escaping to a «normal» life with the man she is in love with. But when one of her daughters disappears, she must investigate and choose between love and responsibility to her community.

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Ben’Imana

  • Director Marie-Clémentine Dusabejamo
  • Format Co-production
  • Genre Drama
  • Production Company DUO film
  • Screenplay Marie-Clémentine Dusabejamo, Delphine Agut
  • Main viewing platform Cinema
  • Sales agent MK2

Set in Rwanda in 2012, the film follows Vénéranda, a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, who is involved in community-led justice and reconciliation. As she faces mounting pressures in her work, a personal crisis within her family forces her to confront the limits of her beliefs.

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Butterfly

  • Director Itonje Søimer Guttormsen
  • Format Features
  • Genre Drama
  • Production Company Mer Film as
  • Producer Maria Ekerhovd
  • Screenplay Itonje Søimer Guttormsen
  • Sales agent Protagonist Pictures

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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Strangers and Stayers

  • Director Julia Dahr
  • Format Documentary films
  • Production Company Differ Media AS
  • Producer Natalya Sarch

What does it take to traverse the oceans between us? A tight-knit crabbing community in the U.S. fights to rescue their island from the sea. Despite not believing in man-made climate change, they engage in conversations with three climate activist filmmakers. Can they traverse the oceans between them?

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Suser avgårde (English title TBD)

  • Original title Suser avgårde
  • Director Rikke Gregersen
  • Format Features
  • Genre Drama
  • Production Company Motlys
  • Producer Ingvil Sæther Berger
  • Screenplay Rakel Kraft Biørnstad
  • Main viewing platform Kino

Agnes (29) clings to her youth in a world intent on growing up. The film follows Agnes and her friends through their late twenties—the ultimate afterparty.