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Armed with chocolate cake and knitting needles, Birgit (54) challenges both her husband and windmills to an unexpected duel.

Production and distribution

Production Year:
2021
Production country:
Norway
Release date (national):
2021-11-06
Production company:
Blaane Film AS
Producer:
Vegard Dahle
Bente Maalen

Director

  • Jon Vatne

    Jon Vatne (b. 1984) is primarily a director, but also a cinematographer and producer. He earned a Master’s degree as a documentary director at the TV School in Lillehammer and has studied documentary production at The New School University in New York. He works almost exclusively with independent documentaries, but is also finishing his first fiction short film, Wolf: He is developing the feature fiction film Wolf, Wolf with producer Gudrun Austli - the project won the pitch contests Vårstigen at the Kosmorama Festival and the Scandinavian Debut Pitch during New Nordic Films in Haugesund 2018.   

    Jon Vatne

Cast

Birgit:
Elisabeth Matheson
Trond-Ove Skrødal

Awards

2021:
The Norwegian Short Film Festival
The Writers Guild of Norway's Award for Best Screenplay: Timeglasset - The Hourglass
2022:
Minimalen Short Film Festival
Best Prerunner

Festivals

2021:
The Norwegian Short Film Festival
2021:
Show Me Shorts Film Festival
2021:
Evolution! Mallorca International Film Festival
2022:
Minimalen Short Film Festival
2022:
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
2022:
Ischia Film Festival

Crew

Director:
Jon Vatne
Screenplay:
Anna Lian
Editor:
Jon Vatne
Cinematographer:
Øystein Moe

Technical information

Format:
DCP 2k
Screen ratio:
16:9
Colour:
Colour
Length in min's:
13'
Language:
Norwegian
Subtitles:
English

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