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For the first time, the Norwegian Oscar Committee has selected a documentary film - Songs of Earth - as Norway's submission for the Best International Feature Film Academy Award. 

Oscar 2023: The Norwegian Oscar committee presents the shortlist for Norway’s submission to the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Selected for the shortlist are Hisham Zaman’s drama A Happy Day, Ole Giæver’s drama Let the River Flow, and Margreth Olin’s documentary Songs of Earth.

Songs of Earth, a full-length documentary by Margreth Olin about nature, experienced with the guidance of director Margreth Olin's 85-year-old father through Oldedalen in Northwest Norway, will be shown in the documentary sidebar in Toronto.  

New feature films from Joachim Trier, Itonje Søimer Guttormsen and Ida Sagmo Tvedte today received production support grants from the Norwegian Film Institute (NFI).  

The feature length documentary Liv Ullmann - A Road Less Travelled, by director Dheeraj Akolkar, tells the story of Liv Ullmann, the people she encountered, and the choices she made. The Cannes festival audience will be the first to experience this story. 

A new grant scheme designed to boost film exports and strengthen Norway’s position in international film markets is experiencing great demand.

The NFI has entered into an agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the Ministry of Culture (KUD) on renewed three-year funding for Sørfond. The annual fund budget has been increased to NOK 5 425 000, from NOK 3 000 000 previously.

At this year’s Berlinale, the scheduled gala screening of the Norwegian animated children's movie Just Super was cancelled at short notice, following inquiries by Anti-Racism Task Force for European Film (ARTEF), claiming the movie featured racist content.

Kristine Kujath Thorp is one of ten promising European actors to be presented internationally during the film festival in Berlin. 

As one of only seven series, the four-episode drama series The Architect, by Kerren Lumer-Klabbers and starring Eili Harboe, has been invited to the Berlinale Series during the Berlin Film Festival, where it could also win the Berlinale Series Award.