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NFI grants three Norwegian production companies a total of  NOK 6.6 million to co-produce with a foreign delegate producer.

The Norwegian documentary iHuman, a political thriller about Artificial Intelligence, power and social control, will have its world premiere at the documentary film festival in Amsterdam. Also featured in the festival are Once Aurora and the short Karla and Nordahl.

Director Kajsa Næss and Mikrofilm AS will receive 460.000 euros in funding from Council of Europe’s Eurimages.

The largest Norwegian cultural initiative internationally ever culminates with Norway as a guest country at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Norwegian films are also an integral part of this presence.

On September 4, the Minister of Culture and Gender Equality presented a gaming strategy named Game Room. The scheme aims to elevate gaming into a self-sufficient cultural expression, art form, and industry and leisure activity.

After evaluating their commercial potential, NFI is awarding 22 million kroner in production grants to the feature films ‘When the Robbers Came to Cardamom Town’ and ‘The Viking Saint’.

The Ministry of Culture has appointed Kjersti Mo as the new director of the Norwegian Film Institute. Mo takes over the job after Sindre Guldvog. The position is for a six-year period, starting on November 1, 2019.

Hans Petter Molands feature film Out Stealing Horses will be Norway`s Candidate for the 2020 Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film.

Josefine Frida, currently best known as Noora in Skam, is, through her role in Disco, the first Norwegian actor to be invited to TIFF’s Rising Stars program, and in 2019 the only European Rising Stars.

Director Johanna Pyykkö will participate in Toronto Film Festival’s prestigious Filmmaker Lab with her upcoming feature film EBBA & THE LOVER. The director will also receive an award at this year’s festival.