Film fra Nord / Films from the North

Films from the North

SHORT AND DOCumENTARY FILmS FROm THE bARENTS REgION AND OTHER POLAR AREAS

Film fra Nord presenterer de beste nye kort- og dokumentarfilmene fra det nordlige Norge, Sverige, Finland, Russland og Canada. Slik vi i de andre programmene viser perler fra hele verden, viser vi her det beste fra vår egen utvidede nærregion. Tromsøpalmen gis til beste film i konkurranse.

Films from the North presents the best new shorts and documentaries made in the Northern parts of Finland, Sweden, Norway, Russia and Canada. In our other sidebars we present highlights from all parts of the world; this sidebar showcases the best of the High North. The Tromsø Palm is awarded the best film in competition.

2013 PROgRAm

Opening Night Shorts in Competition Documentaries in Competition Special Screenings Young Directors / Student Films NN+ / Music Videos

Opening Night

FILmS FORm THE NORTH

The opening ceremonies will be followed by the premiere of FAMILIEBILDET by Yvonne Thomassen. The film highlights one of the most important aspects of the Films from the North section, namely the telling of stories specific for our Northern region.

FAmILIEbILDET (mY FAmILY PORTRAIT)

DIR: Yvonne Thomassen / Blink Film, Alligator AS, Pandora AS / Norway 2012 / 59m CONTACT: Yvonne Thomassen: yvonne.thomassen@gmail.com

When my grandmother was 26, she had an experience that left deep emotional scars. Finnmark was set on fire, and she and her husband and their three little children had to flee their home – or face death. For three weeks they were on the run, hiding in a small fishing boat. Taking care of the family was always an important part of my grandmother’s life, but today the family has fallen out of touch with each other. This film is about my attempt to gather the family once more to take one last family portrait – and to find out why things turned out the way they did.

THE DIRECTOR:

Yvonne Thomassen (b. 1977) from Alta, Norway studied journalism, TV production and directing at the University of Stavanger. Based in Bergen, she now works with film on a daily basis, and has contributed to several documentary films and fiction features. MY FAMILY PORTRAIT is her first feature documentary film.

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SHORT FILmS IN COmPETITION

bONDLuRKEN OCH THAILÄNDSKAN (LOOKINg FOR JOY)

DIR: Lars Persson/ Kalkontelevision / Sweden 2012 / 13m CAST: Rolf Degerlund, Nat Ung Koram CONTACT: Lars Persson: larspersson@hotmail.co.uk

Leif-Göran is a lonely farmer living in a small village in northern Sweden. He is afraid of being alone – and he has met a woman on thaiwife. Her name is Joy, and she is from Thailand. The atmosphere is tense, and the communication between them is not easy, as they do not understand each other. A film filled with culture clashes and firewood.

AmbIENCE

DIR: Daniel Felix Turrell / Nordland Kunst- og Filmfagskole / Norway 2012 / 11m CAST: Henning Lesteberg, Jørgen Langhelle CONTACT: Samir Zedan: samir.zedan@nfk.no

A film about a shy little boy who is afraid of his father. They are poor and depend on what little they have. One day his father finds out that someone has vandalized their barn. He suspects that his son is responsible for the damage.

THE WORKINg CAT’S guIDE TO THE KLONDIKE

DIR: Veronica Verkley / haywire / Canada 2012 / 10m CONTACT: Veronica Verkley: veronicaverkley@gmail.com

the working cat’s guide to the klondike is a

short documentary recalling the traditional practice of Cat Sledding, which was unique to Dawson City, in Canada’s far north. Consisting of archive photos, super 8 footage, and interviews with old-timers, First Nation storytellers, historians, local characters and modern mushers, the film offers a rare glimpse of a nearly forgotten method of transportation and way of life. It’s the greatest story never told about the wild and wonderful history of the Klondike!

THE TEmPTRESS

DIR: David Kinsella / David Kinsella productions AS / Norway/South Sudan/Romania/Israel/ Russia 2013 / 35m CONTACT: David Kinsella: davidmkinsella@gmail.com

the temptress – «A dramatized documentary». Three years ago during my research for the temptress, I met a beautiful, tall and dark lady. We began discussing how it is to be a foreigner in Norway. In her shy and thoughtful way, Victoria Wol told me a fable about our lives, a universal story that she was told when she was a little girl in a village in Africa. This magical story, set in South Sudan and Norway, highlights the fact that every advantage holds a disadvantage. the temptress is a filmed meditation on temptation. To be more alert is to be more alive.

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SHORT FILmS IN COmPETITION

YES

DIR: Per Hanefjord / Röde Orm Film AB / Sweden 2012 / 17m CAST: Jimmy Lindström CONTACT: Adel Kjellström: adel@rodeormfilm.se

yes is a story of being a child with a father who is an alcoholic, or perhaps primarily about that conversation that did not take place. It revolves around one moment that would be decisive in any person’s life, namely a father’s death. The story begins one week before his death and ends with his funeral. Interwoven are anecdotes about life and childhood.

66725

DIR: John-Erling Holmenes Fredriksen / John-Erling Holmenes Fredriksen / Norway 2012 / 5m CAST: Sulekha Ali Omar CONTACT: John-Erling Holmenes Fredriksen: post@johnerling.no

An exploration of architecture and human emotion through movement.

VAKTmÄSTAREN (THE CARETAKER)

DIR: Martin Åhlin / Blåfilm / Sweden 2012 / 13m CAST: Rolf Degerlund CONTACT: Martin Åhlin: martin@blafilm.se

A caretaker cares for an old abandoned school building. When he starts hearing strange noises in the presumably empty building, he realizes that something is not right.

SANO KIITOS JA TANSSI (SAY YES AND DANCE)

DIR: Antti Heikki Pesonen / Miia Haavisto / Finland 2012 / 8m CAST: Mikko Kouki, Ville Tiihonen CONTACT: Otto Suuronen: otto.suuronen@ses.fi

An unemployed man applies for a job that he does not want. The interviewer does not believe him, and he doesn’t believe the interviewer.

HILJAISEN TALVEN LAPSI (THE CHILD OF SILENT WINTER)

DIR: Iiris Härmä / Guerilla Films / Finland 2012 / 21m CONTACT: Iiris Härmä: info@guerillafilms.fi

Katja is a young retiree and frustrated. She’s only 24, but nonetheless living in a circle of solitude, spending her days walking her dog and looking out of the window. Her loneliness stems from years of being a victim of bullying in school. She is anxious and afraid. Should her life really be like this? If only she could find a friend.

Å ÅPNE, Å SE (TO OPEN, TO SEE)

DIR: Camilla Figenschou / Ape&Bjørn / Norway 2012 / 15m CAST: Ihne Lysvold, Sara Kaspersen, Simon Kaspersen, Øystein Aanes, Martin Hansen, Wanja Jakobsen CONTACT: Silja Espolin Johnson: siljaj@gmail.com

A group of children are taken on a trip to the beach. At one point, when they are out of the adults’ sight, they discover a stranded porpoise. It is dead. They open it up.

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SHORT FILmS IN COmPETITION

HERR NYFIKENHETEN OCH KATTEN (mR CuRIOSITY AND THE CAT)

DIR: Frida Hammar / HannaSofia / Sweden 2012 / 13m CONTACT: Hanna Westerlind: info@hannasofia.se

Mr. Curiosity dreams of death. Dreams that may come true. He hides in the land of loneliness, hoping never again to lose someone he loves. But one day, Mr. Curiosity meets Kadinka.

VTOROE DYHANIE (SECOND WIND)

DIR: Sergey Tsyss / Yulia Travnikova / Russia 2012 / 7m CAST: Artyom Parhomenko CONTACT: Yulia Travnikova: travnikova.yu@gmail.com

Every day he has to make a new flower of an aluminum can and put it onto dry land. This is the meaning of his existence, as the world has nothing left to offer except the rustling of metallic colors of the apocalypse.

SALTOmORTALE

DIR: Kristian Sønvisen Bye / Kristian Sønvisen Bye / Norway 2012 / 14m CONTACT: Kristian Sønvisen Bye: ksbye@hotmail.com

This film tells the story behind a couple of Youtube videos. We meet Stian Pedersen (26) who makes a living from doing stunts on his snowmobile, and dreams of winning the X-games. He performs in big shows in the USA in front of thousands of yelling spectators, but in this film we meet him and his friends in and around their little hometown. Stian does a show in Alta and tries to do a record breaking jump with his skidoo in the mountains of Finnmark.

TILLbAKA (RETuRNINg)

DIR: Karin Pennanen / KarMa Productions / Finland 2012 / 17m CAST: Maria Salomaa CONTACT: Karin Pennanen: kpennanen@gmail.com

It is autumn and Vera (30) is heading back to her childhood summer cottage, a place that has been in the family’s possession for generations. Now, it has been deserted for some time, and Vera plans to tidy up the place and sell it. But – the cottage starts addressing Vera in a surprising way, and memories of bygone summers seem to come alive.

KAFFETJEJEN (COFFEE gIRL)

DIR: Frida Spång/ AMT production / Sweden 2012 / 20m CAST: Maja Frykberg-Andersson, Maja Christensson, Rasmus Gisby, Leif Sandqvist CONTACT: Frida Spång: fridaspang@gmail.com

Malin, a young ambitious director-to-be, is working on the set of a new Swedish western movie – making coffee. But she soon realizes that her wild dreams of becoming a director, her enthusiasm, and her opinions are not appreciated. She is the victim of hierarchies of speech and of blame. The story is based on «unfortunately-oh-so-true-stories», from the so-called gender-equal Swedish film industry of today.

gOD NATT, gOD mORgEN (gOOD NIgHT, gOOD mORNINg)

DIR: Patrick Miles Widdop / Nordland Kunst- og Filmfagskole / Norway 2012 / 12m CAST: Kristine Glimsdal, Patrick Miles Widdop CONTACT: Samir Zedan: samir.zedan@nfk.no

He has got to go, she has to stay behind. The last few nights and days pass way too quickly. Days feel like hours, hours like seconds. How to say goodbye? During a farewell, can joyous and sad feelings be balanced? The two try to make the most of it and find pleasure in their bittersweet farewell.

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DOCumENTARIES IN COmPETITION

DR. FORSDAHLS KuRVE (DR. FORSDAHL’S CuRVE)

DIR: Ellen-Astri Lundby / Ellen-Astri Lundby / Norway 2011 / 15m CONTACT: Ellen-Astri Lundby: ellen@film.online.no

dr. forsdahl’s curve is a mini-portrait of the Norwegian physician and scientist Anders Forsdahl. He worked as a physician in the South-Varanger district in Finnmark county, and later a scientist and professor at the University of Tromsø. Forsdahl was shocked by the high mortality rate in Finnmark, in particular that so many men died from a heart condition. He was the first scientist to prove that poor living conditions may cause high late-life mortality rates.

KIRuNA – RYmDVÄgEN (KIRuNA – SPACE ROAD)

DIR: Liselotte Wajstedt / LittleBig Productions / Sweden 2012 / 52m CONTACT: Liselotte Wajstedt: lise@liselottewajstedt.com

«My Kiruna will be demolished and crushed to the ground.» When I first heard that they were going to relocate my hometown, I got scared, I panicked. What would happen to my memories? What would remain from the past? This is a film about my childhood neighborhood and the city I recall. It explores the city’s construction around a big mine, as well as the city as a monument over modern existence. The film also deals with reconciliation with one’s past, and the feeling of losing one’s security.

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DOCumENTARIES IN COmPETITION

FAmILIEbILDET (mY FAmILY PORTRAIT)

DIR: Yvonne Thomassen / Blink Film, Alligator AS, Pandora AS / Norway 2012 / 59m CONTACT: Yvonne Thomassen: yvonne.thomassen@gmail.com

When my grandmother was 26, she had an experience that left deep emotional scars. Finnmark was set on fire, and she and her husband and their three little children had to flee their home – or face death. For three weeks they were on the run, hiding in a small fishing boat. Taking care of the family was always an important part of my grandmother’s life, but today the family has fallen out of touch with each other. This film is about my attempt to gather the family once more to take one last family portrait – and to find out why things turned out the way they did.

bIEKKA FÁbmu (WIND POWER)

DIR: Stein Bjørn / Pomor Film / Norway 2012 / 51m CONTACT: Fredrik Mortensen: fredrik.mortensen@nfi.no

biekka fábmu is a film about the 20th anniversary of the Riddu Riđđu indigenous festival. Through interviews with the Norwegian Minister of Culture and former festival directors, it explores the festival’s importance as well as its values: tolerance, cultural diversity and generosity. During the making of the film, tragedy strikes, as a bomb goes off in Oslo and a massacre takes place at Utøya – an act committed against everything that Riddu Riđđu stands for. Will the festival be even more important after the massacre?

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DOCumENTARIES IN COmPETITION

VIRKELIgHETSFLYKTNINg (REALITY-REFugEE)

DIR: Trond Kvig Andreassen / Høgskolen i Lillehammer / Norway 2012 / 14m CONTACT: Trond Kvig Andreassen: trondkan@gmail.com

Magnus Eliassen is having success with his music project “Sirkus Eliassen” as well as with his solo career. But his off-stage life is far from glamorous. He lives in a small scrambled-together cabin in the woods, and eats food he finds in dumpsters outside of grocery stores. Why does he live like this, and what are his thoughts about the future?

bESTEmORS bANK (gRANDmOTHER’S bANK)

DIR: Karl Emil Rikardsen / Relation04 Media AS / Norway 2012 / 60m CONTACT: Karl Emil Rikardsen: kalle@relation04.com

Marit Mihle wants the world to be a better place. That´s why she spends half of her income on small micro-financing businesses for women in Palestine. Her dream is to visit Gaza, where most of her projects are situated. But so far, the political situation has prevented her from doing so. But in 2012, when Marit is to celebrate her 80th birthday, the Arab Spring and the Egyptian Revolution of 2012 changes the situation.

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DOCumENTARIES IN COmPETITION

SNORKLAREN FRÅN mALgOmAJ (THE SNORKELER FROm mALgOmAJ)

DIR: Linnea Sigurdson / Sigurdson Produktion, Film i Västerbotten / Sweden 2012 / 13m CONTACT: Linnea Sigurdson: linnea@sigurdsonproduktion.se

This film follows Nils Åslund, a 32 year-old man who lives and works in Saxnäs, in Southern Lapland in Sweden. We get to know him at his workplace, in his home and through his passion for snowboarding. Why did he choose to live in the depopulated northern part of Sweden when most people move to the big cities? What are the things that matter most in order for a person to be happy with his or her way of life?

DET LENgSTE LØPET (THE LONgEST RuN)

DIR: Trond Brede Andersen / Original Film AS / Norway 2012 / 52m CONTACT: Trond Brede Andersen: trond.brede@originalfilm.no

Two years ago, Roger Dahl (60) and Trine Lyrek (40) decided to make a plan for winning Europe’s longest and toughest dog-sledge race, Finnmarksløpet. To raise the stakes, they even planned to win two years in a row. Her reason: she hadn’t won it before. His reason: he wanted to win it one more time!

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DOCumENTARIES IN COmPETITION

THERE WILL bE SOmE WHO WILL NOT FEAR EVEN THAT VOID

DIR: Saeed Taji Farouky / Jabfilm, Tourist With A Typewriter / Norway, UK 2012 / 52m CONTACT: John Arvid Berger: john@jabfilm.no

Shot over two and a half weeks on a tall ship as it sails around Norway’s Arctic Svalbard Archipelago, this film chronicles the bizarre, surreal, beautiful and frightening work of 20 artists aboard the ship. Inspired by the other-worldliness of the location, the filmmaker’s narration imagines the artists being sent on a mission in the near future to recreate the Arctic environment after it has been destroyed by global warming.

gHOST RADIO HuNTER

DIR: Carl Christian Lein Størmer / Badlands Entertainment / Norway 2013 / 15m CONTACT: Carl Christian Lein Størmer: carl.christian.lein.stormer@ gmail.com

In 2011 the artist Frost received a package from a Russian radio amateur containing a recent radio broadcast supposedly originating in the Soviet mining town of Pyramiden, Svalbard. However, Pyramiden was abandoned fifteen years earlier... ghost radio hunter follows the artist Per Martinsen, member of the Norwegian experimental electro pop duo Frost, on his quest to locate the ghost radio signals.

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NORTHERN mEETINgS 1

DEN SISTE mARSJEN (VASSDAL)

DIR: Rune Nilsen, Gunnar Solberg Hagen / News On Request / Norway 2012 / 35m CONTACT: Cathrine T. Sørensen: cathrine@newson.no

On the 5th of March 1986, 31 soldiers and officers marched into Vassdalen in Northern Norway. Only 15 came out alive. 16 young soldiers died when the 2nd platoon of the Engineer Company was caught in an avalanche. In the years that followed, the survivors were haunted by this grueling experience. 25 years later, they do the same march over again. The conundrum they all try to solve is this: Is it possible to get rid of the ghosts from the past once and for all?

DET NYE RuSSLAND (THE NEW RuSSIA)

DIR: Erik Martiniussen / Virvel Film / Norway 2012 / 30m CONTACT: Erik Martiniussen: erik.martiniussen@gmail.com

In one of Russia’s most polluted areas, the young environmentalist Vitaliy Servetnik travels from town to town to recruit teenage activists. He is an acknowledged spokesperson for the environmental cause, and leads the biggest environmental NGO in the region. The film depicts the director’s meeting with Vitaliy, as well as with a new Russia where the authorities use all their imagination to try to stop young, enthusiastic people from having their say.

RIVER

DIR: Daniel Janke / Northern Town Films Inc. / Canada 2012 / 7m CONTACT: Daniel Janke: danieljanke@northwestel.net

river portrays the Yukon River as evolving against the trends of our times, from the turn of the last century when the population along the banks peaked, to the present day when forests and wildlife have returned and the only travelers one sees are a few adventure seekers – it is a river that flows from the future into the past.

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NORTHERN mEETINgS 2

EAgLE bOY

DIR: Gry Elisabeth Mortensen / Original Film AS / Norway 2012 / 27m CONTACT: Mona Steffensen: mona@originalfilm.no

It is summer at the Flathead Reservation in Montana. Eight year old Sage spends the sunny days playing with friends, swimming and fishing in the river. But one day his parents surprise him with some breaking news: They are moving to Northern Norway! Sage starts to go to school in Tromsø, but he is different from his schoolmates. Very different. He is the only boy with long hair and braids, and he doesn’t speak one word of Norwegian. But most important to the others – he’s a real Indian!

DE gODE HJELPERAN (THE SECRET HELPERS)

DIR: Harry Johansen, Torill Olsen / Govas Film & Mediaproduksjon as / Norway 2012 / 59m CONTACT: Harry Johansen: harry@govas.no

In the north there are people with special abilities. They are called helpers. According to the Sámi tradition, they have existed for centuries. They have healed, relieved pain, stopped bleeding and helped people in many ways – with love, in secret, without being payed. The good helpers are still here, in our modern world, they are hidden – but not gone. What kind of knowledge do they possess – is it a gift, or could anyone learn how to heal? The audience gets invited into the most secret spaces of Sámi culture, and we try to learn – on film – how bleeding is stopped.

FFN – Young Directors / Student Films

PARADOX

DIR: Rolv Lyssand Bjørø / Nordland Kunst- og Filmfagskole / Norway 2011 / 19m CAST: Nora G. Svalheim, Daniel Bianchini CONTACT: Rolv Lyssand Bjørø: enflittigmaur@gmail.com

A young girl finds out that she has to move. Out of desperation, she goes to see her boyfriend and convinces him to flee with her to the mountains. There she discovers something that completely changes her perception of life.

FLICKAN & SIRENEN (THE gIRL & THE SIREN)

DIR: Jacob Petersson, Cristoffer Ålund / Arevarnfilm / Sweden 2011 / 17m CONTACT: Jakob Arevärn: jakob.arevarn@gmail.com

The film is set in an alternate turn of the century. It is about a little girl named May, who lives on an island working as a maid at a pirates’ inn. One day, three mysterious sailors arrive to the island, bringing with them a treasure map.

FØR HuN KOm, ETTER HAN DRO (bEFORE SHE CAmE, AFTER HE LEFT)

DIR: Marja Bål Nango / Nordland Kunst- og Filmfagskole / Norway 2012 / 24m CAST: Rune Løding, Johanna Mørck, Svein Birger Olsen, Yngvar Christensen, Sverre Iseli, Emre Kaspersen CONTACT: Samir Zedan: samir.zedan@nfk.no

Christian is visiting his home village with his fiancée allegedly to look at churches to get married in, after living in the south for many years. But what are the true reasons for the visit? This is the story about the time before she came, after he left and everything that is untold in between that.

SmEDEN I SuND (THE bLACKSmITH IN SuND)

DIR: Emilie Blichfeldt / Nordland Kunst- og Filmfagskole / Norway 2013 / 9m CONTACT: Samir Zedan: samir.zedan@nfk.no

A lonely blacksmith stands bent over the hearth. In the middle of the sparkles and whizzes from the red-hot coals lies a glowing piece of iron. What will it become?

mELLOm ROm (bETWEEN SPACES)

DIR: Vidar Wikran / Nordland Kunst- og Filmfagskole / Norway 2012 / 16m CAST: Kirsti Torhaug, Jonas Rand Haukeland CONTACT: Samir Zedan: samir.zedan@nfk.no

Vera (43) is in a relationship with Thomas (18). Thomas reveals the relationship to his parents against Vera’s wish. The situation gets more tense when Vera shows up at Thomas’ birthday party where all his friends are present. The pressure from the outside world is putting their relationship to the test.

TAKK FOR SIST (LONg TImE NO SEE)

DIR: Ivar Andreas Waage Johansen / Beerfish Motion Pictures / Norway 2012 / 5m CAST: Hallvard Holmen, Ståle Mikal Skaaden, Finn Arve Sørbøe, Hans Petter Hansen CONTACT: Ståle Mikal Skaaden: beerfishmp@gmail.com

Meet Ove, a worn-out policeman. One day at work, a routine mission takes an unexpected turn. How is Ove going to resolve the escalating problems, and make the right decisions, in a situation way more serious than he could ever imagine – and in spite of his relations to the man he has stopped?

Joining music and film

PRESENTINg FIVE NEW muSIC VIDEOS FROm THE NN+ PROJECT

Musikkvideoen har blitt en selvstendig kunstnerisk sjanger, og en form der filmskapere kan eksperimentere og jobbe fram nye uttrykk. Dette programmet byr på fem nordnorske verdenspremierer i sjangeren. Fem fremadstormende band og artister har fått lage videoer til sine låter, med produsenter og filmskapere som kan matche dem.

Videoene er blitt til gjennom prosjektet NN+ – et samarbeid mellom RYK, Introfondet, Nordnorsk Filmsenter og Tromsø internasjonale filmfestival. Det viser at den nordnorske filmbransjen er i stadig utvikling, og gir nye bidrag til mengden av uttrykksformer og sjangre i miljøet.

De fem utvalgte er:

Sirkus Eliassen / Arthur Arnesen Kråkesølv / Isak Gjertsen Ragnhild Furebotten / Arthur Arnesen Peter Estdahl / Viktor Enoksen Petter Carlsen / Mathis Ståle Mathisen

I tillegg har vi satt opp et ekstra program med nye musikkvideoer påmeldt til Film fra Nord. Til sammen viser vi det beste regionen har å by på akkurat nå!

The music video is an established artistic genre, and a vehicle for developing new forms of expressions in filmmaking. This sidebar presents five videos, made in Northern Norway – and they are all world premieres! Starring: Five bands or artists with great potential. Behind the camera: Five filmmakers and producers to match them.

These films are born out of NN+, a joint project between RYK, a network of music organizations; Introfondet, a local culture foundation; Nordnorsk Filmsenter, the regional film center for Northern Norway; and Tromsø International Film Festival.

In addition to the five films generated from the NN+ project we also present a set of new Arctic music videos.

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PREmIERE SCREENINgS OF THE muSIC VIDEOS FORm THE NN+ PROJECT

Du E FRI

DIR: Arthur Arnesen / Norway / 5m ARTIST: Sirkus Eliassen

This is a story about Sirkus Eliassen, our two super-heroes, who face the evil of this world under the motto «you are free». This time, they fight against a cruel circus director.

TImE TO LET gO

DIR: Mathis Ståle Mathisen / Norway / 5m ARTIST: Petter Carlsen

Shot during sunrise in Alta, August 25th, in one take, and with sound recorded in surround. Expect a unique experience!

HuSK AT LIVET gÅR FORT

DIR: Isak Gjertsen / Norway / 4m ARTIST: Kråkesølv

When life is dealt with in the course of four minutes, big questions arise, and not much time is left for thinking things through.

RENEgADE

DIR: Viktor Enoksen / Norway / 4m ARTIST: Peter Estdahl

How ironic that it is young artist Peter’s own hometown Tromsø that suffers, when the runaway in this video unleashes his rebellious rage. This might very well be Tromsø’s first disaster movie.

JAg KAN INTE FELA

DIR: Arthur Arnesen / Norway / 5m ARTIST: Ragnhild Furebotten

When Ragnhild Furebotten plays the fiddle, even the most hardcore rockers surrender to folk music! Together with the group Never on a Sunday, she has turned folk music into world music – for which they won the Norwegian national music award Spellemannprisen in 2012.

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WILL bE SCREENED TOgETHER WITH MUSIC VIDEO 1

VARDØgER

DIR: Reinert Kiil / Kiil Produksjon / Norway 2012 / 5m ARTIST: Mortiis

A vision centered on the imaginary self-torture of an author going deep inside his mind to create the perfect horror-manuscript.

OuTSIDE-IN

DIR: Tove Skeidsvoll, Petrus Sjövik / NorrlandsOperan / Sweden 2011 / 10m CONTACT: Tove Skeidsvoll: mail@toveskeidsvoll.com

Cecilia dances in a forest. She moves in front of a film crew who direct her movements. When the camera gets too close to Cecilia, they collide – and she’s had enough. She will no longer stick to the film team’s intrusive and artificial requirements. Cecilia decides to go her own way.

ELLE mÁRJÁ EIRA – guOÐOHIT (ELLE mÁRJÁ EIRA – TO HERD REINDEER)

DIR: Ken Are Bongo, Elle Márjá Eira / Kautokeino film AS/ Norway 2013 / 6m ARTIST: Elle Márja Eira

A unique encounter with a Sámi reindeer herding family. We follow the artist’s father and brother herding their family’s reindeer in the tundra, in Northern Norway. Both the music and the film capture the essence of this unique lifestyle in the coldest time of winter. Old traditions are passed on to the younger generation. The Sámi artist Elle Márjá is portrayed through her personal joik, performed by her father Per Henrik Eira.

THINgS FOLD INTO THEmSELVES

DIR: Arttu Nieminen / R2 productions / Finland 2012 / 5m CONTACT: Arttu Nieminen: hcnieminen@hotmail.com

Tripping in wilderness. Travelers sense the nature differently. At one point, we look out a cabin window and see a glorious night scene, then peek in from outside as something just as spectacular brightens up the house. Above, the sped-up northern lights mimic water, connecting earth and stars.