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Documentary film Backbone

Backbone is a visual and poetic portrait documentary about inner strength, darkness and hope in humans, set in an exotic and wild landscape in arctic Norway. The film portrays four different women following their dreams and hopes, accepting who they are, taking care of someone they love, and their relationship to nature. 

Production and distribution

Production Year:
2019
Production country:
Norway
Release date (national):
2019-01-18
Financing company:
Nordnorsk filmsenter
Tvibit
Producer:
Eilif Bremer Landsend
Film consultant:
Ingrid Dokka

Director

  • Eilif Bremer Landsend

    Eilif Bremer Landsend (born 20.01.1990) is a filmmaker from Tromsø, Norway. He has written and directed several short films, including Last stop and Kiki, music videos for Violet Road, Hekla Stålstrenga, Robaat and Anneli Drecker. Eilif’s films have been shot worldwide: on the wild coast of Finnmark, at a boxing club in Uganda, in Namibian desert. He has written, directed and co-produced the feature film Stup, that premiered at Tromsø International Film Festival in 2015 and sold out.     

    In addition to making films, Eilif is inspiring young people to make movies by facilitating film workshops in Northern Norway, Murmansk, Russia, South Africa, the Mathare slum in Nairobi and in Ramallah, Palestine.   

    Eilif is educated from the Kaospilot school in Aarhus, Denmark. 

    Eilif Bremer Landsend

Cast

Mariam Tartusy
Rikke Reedtz
Mary-Ann Mikkelsen
Karen Anna Logje Gaup

Awards

2020:
Nordic/Docs
Honorable Mention
2020:
Northern Character Film & TV Festival
Best Documentary Under 60 Minutes
Special Prize Best Director

Festivals

2019:
TIFF - Tromsø International Film Festival
2019:
The Norwegian Short Film Festival
2020:
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
2020:
Nordic/Docs
2020:
Northern Character Film & TV Festival

Crew

Director:
Eilif Bremer Landsend
Screenplay:
Eilif Bremer Landsend
Sound Recording:
Eilif Bremer Landsend
Cinematographer:
Snorre Fuglesang Ruhe
Editor:
Tanya Fallenius
Composer:
Jakop Janssønn
Ville Langfeldt
Sound Design:
Adrian Souyris Straumse
Nathanaël Gustin
Choreographer:
Silje Solheim Johnson

Technical information

Genre:
Portrait
Format:
DCP 2k
Screen ratio:
1:2,39
Colour:
Colour
Length in min's:
28'
Language:
Norwegian
Sami
Subtitles:
English

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