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Feature film Now it's Dark

When Lene seeks out her estranged husband in hope of a reconciliation, she finds him in bed with a new lover. In shock she rushes out into the night. A fortune teller tells her she will be dead before the sun rises. From there, Lene’s evening goes downhill rapidly, and her journey through the night takes her on an existential rollercoaster ride of dreamlike encounters and into some very dark places. Along the way, the truth about the tragic incident that tore Lene’s marriage apart surfaces, and she must fight to put her broken family back together before sunrise.

Production and distribution

Production Year:
2018
Production country:
Norway
Release date (national):
2018-03-02
Production company:
Chezville AS
Financing company:
Norwegian Film Institute
Mediefondet Zefyr
Filmkraft Rogaland
Storyline Studios
Executive producer:
Lars Leegaard Marøy
Associated producer:
Reidar Ewing
Producer:
Gary Cranner
Line producer:
Kristine Pollestad
Film consultant:
Wibecke Rønseth

Director

  • Arild Østin Ommundsen

    Arild Østin Ommundsen (b. 1969) studied directing at the University College in Stavanger. After making short films in the last half of the 1990s – amongst others Before Sunrise, for which he won the Golden Chair award at the Grimstad Short Film Festival in 1999 - he made his debut as a feature film director with the indipendent hit Mongoland in 2001, a film he also co-wrote. The low-budget indie comedy was a hit with critics and audiences alike, and won the honorary award The Golden Clapper of the National Film Award Amanda Committee in 2001.

    His second feature film, Monsterthursday, was selected as the first Norwegian film ever to participate in a competition at the Sundance Film Festival. It won the Audience Award at the Mannheim International Film Festival, and has been screened at numerous festivals around the world.

    Østin Ommundsen has since then directed his third feature, Rat Nights, in 2009 (a thriller from the Norwegian oil industry), as well as made several short films, commercials and music videos, before taking on new challenges in directing a childrens film; the third and final installment of the Twigson-trilogy – one of the most successful movie franchises in Norwegian cinema history – premiering fall 2011.

    Arild Østin Ommundsen

Cast

Egil Birkeland
Lene:
Silje Salomonsen
Nina Ellen Ødegård
Reidar Wayne Ewing
Pia Tjelta
Nils Jørgen Kaalstad
Kristoffer Joner
Tomas Alf Larsen
Per Kjerstad
Andreas Cappelen
Vegar Hoel
Henrik Bjelland
Johan Harstad
Adrian Dewangen
Ingrid Rusten
Alexandra Gjerpen
Ole Christoffer Ertvaag

Festivals

2019:
Scandinavian Film Festival Bonn
2019:
Prishtina International Film Festival

Crew

Director:
Arild Østin Ommundsen
Screenplay:
Arild Østin Ommundsen
Cinematographer:
Arild Østin Ommundsen
Editor:
Reidar Wayne Ewing
Arild Østin Ommundsen
Composer:
Thomas Dybdahl
Sound Design:
Gisle Tveito

Technical information

Genre:
Drama
Format:
DCP 2k
Screen ratio:
1:2,35
Colour:
Colour
Sound format:
Stereo 5.1
Length in min's:
125'
Language:
Norwegian
Subtitles:
English

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