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Dag Johan Haugerud's new feature film Beware of Children will get its world premiere in the Venice Days’ competition, taking place from August 28 to September 7, 2019.

The Norwegian Film Institute has awarded one million euros (ten million kroner) to eleven Norwegian computer game producers.

Funding awarded to Witzø, Olin and Halle in this round. 

Sørfond has this week granted 2, 66 million NOK in support for six international co-productions with Norwegian minority producers. This year the funding goes to projects from Georgia, Afghanistan, South-Africa, Nepal, China and Egypt. 

During the film festival in Cannes, five talented Norwegian directors were presented. Read about them and their upcoming projects here. 

Norway is experiencing a new wave of documentary production and distribution as well as a new breed of internationally ambitious filmmakers. During a Norwegian showcase at DOC corner in Cannes on Monday May 20th, four projects will be presented. Read about them here. 

Director, screenwriter and UP participant Johanna Pyykkö's short film The Manila Lover has been released to Critic’s week at Cannes Film Festival for its world premiere. In this interview, Pyykkö tells about the process towards the finished film and about her artistic work.

Each year at the Cannes Film Festival, 20 promising, up-and-coming producers from throughout Europe are selected to participate in Producers on the Move. Norway’s Dyveke Bjørkly Grave from Oslo Pictures is among this year’s partakers.

Barbosa Films’ “The Manila Lover”, directed by Johanna Pyykkö, has been selected for Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Critics’ Week (Semaine de la Critique). The film will have its world premiere at the festival in May.

The Norwegian Film Institute has backed five drama series with a combined total of 26m NOK (2,7 m EUR) in its latest funding round.