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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.