NFI provides grants for the production and launch of Norwegian films and documentaries. Here you will find an overview of productions that NFI has supported.
The year is 1985. Henki Hauge Karlsen is a 28-year-old gay bartender who is fired after disclosing that he is infected with HIV. Furious and humiliated, he decides to take legal action.
In this tender and enigmatic anti-love story, Ninh drifts through a life shaped by quiet regret while working as a decibel technician. As he measures the sounds around him, he encounters unexpected disturbances, from restless spirits to unruly monkeys, revealing a world where grief, memory, and longing quietly resonate.
Kristin Harila risked everything to summit the world’s 14 highest peaks at record speed. When her final ascent sparked backlash, her greatest triumph became a reckoning.
The Gheorghius – Catholic and Romanian - settle in a Norwegian village, the mother’s birthplace. They quickly bond with the Halbergs, who live in the neighbouring house near the bay. Despite their very different upbringings, the children of both families soon become close friends. Until the Gheorghius are suspected of hurting their own children.
At the height of her music career, Maja falls apart and has to step away from her ambitions. Depressed and broke, she moves back home with her mother and works part-time at a local high school. Far from the spotlight, wrapped in everyday kindness, she slowly finds her way back to life.
Blending documentary, poetry, and a detailed miniature universe, Take Care brings together survivors of terror attacks in Norway, and members of minority communities. Across real and constructed landscapes, they navigate grief, memory, and the search for safety.
In a small Nepalese village nestled in the heart of a forest populated by wild elephants, Pirati is the matriarch of a community of transgender women. She dreams of escaping to a «normal» life with the man she is in love with. But when one of her daughters disappears, she must investigate and choose between love and responsibility to her community.
Set in Rwanda in 2012, the film follows Vénéranda, a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, who is involved in community-led justice and reconciliation. As she faces mounting pressures in her work, a personal crisis within her family forces her to confront the limits of her beliefs.