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Norwegian films at IDFA 2020 |
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International Competition
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Radiography of a Family takes the viewer on a personal journey into the social genetics of modern Iranian society. As central metaphor and narrative frame for the story, we discover the lifeline and photo albums of an Iranian family, to relive and reconstruct the aftermath of the revolution, decoded and emphasized, to depict a deep and compelling story of the intriguing puzzle that constitutes modern Iranian identity.
2020 NORWAY/IRAN/SWITZERLAND 82 min ORIGINAL TITLE Radiograph of a Family DIRECTOR Firouzeh Khosrovani PRODUCTION Fabien Greenberg and Bård Kjøge Rønning for Antipode Films CO-PRODUCTION Rainy Pictures, DV Films, Storyline DOMESTIC RELEASE 11/2020 SALES Taskovski Films FESTIVALS Norwegian Film Institute
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A pig, two cows and a one-legged chicken. Familiar, even commonplace animals – they peck, graze, and roll in the mud, catching worms and brushing away the flies. With stunning black-and-white photography and a complete lack of humans and dialogue, Gunda is a remarkably intimate and empathetic depiction of farmlife from the perspective of the animals.
2020 NORWAY 93 min ORIGINAL TITLE Gunda DIRECTOR Viktor Kossakovsky PRODUCTION Anita Rehoff-Larsen for Sant & Usant CO-PRODUCTION Louverture Films, LLC DOMESTIC RELEASE 09/2020 SALES Cinephil FESTIVALS Norwegian Film Institute
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AL HAYA HELWA (LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL)
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AL HAYA HELWA (LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL)
Living the diaspora wasn’t a choice. In forced exile, in the dark, arctic winter, Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly is fighting using his camera to feed hope for a better future.
2021 NORWAY/PALESTINE DIRECTOR Mohamed Jabali PRODUCTION KriStine Ann Skaret for Stray Dog Productions AS (NO), Mohanad Yaqubi for Idioms Films (PS) DOMESTIC RELEASE TBA SALES TBA FESTIVALS Norwegian Film Institute
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Children's Documentary Pitch
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In Stay Home, we experience 2020 through the eyes of eleven children and teenagers from different countries around the world. They take us on their individual journeys with Covid-19 as a common backdrop. They all go through big changes when the pandemic hits them at the same point in history.
2021 NORWAY/SWEDEN ORIGINAL TITLE Vi blir hjemme DIRECTOR Maren Victoria Thingnæs PRODUCTION Gudmundur Gunnarsson, Kari Anne Moe for Fuglene DOMESTIC RELEASE TBA SALES TBA FESTIVALS Norwegian Film Institute
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Carl Christian Lein Størmer
Director/Artist | It's Gonna Happen
IDFAcademy is open to directors and producers making their first or second film, who have proven their talent on a national scale and would like to expand their career internationally. Carl Christian Lein Størmer is invited from Norway.
Lein Størmer started out making DIY music videos for fellow musicians, in between touring with his own hardcore punk bands sometime around 2011. Originally a trained medical physician, Lein Størmer is these days mostly occupied with making films, music videos and touring with his band Die a Legend.
He has recently received euro 140.000 in production grants from the Norwegian Film Institute for Before We Die, a documentary on the rock band Hangface. The band worked with big names in the US music industry in the early 2000s, releasing their debut album Freakshow in 2005, produced by Eddie Kramer, but then disappeared. The film tries to find out what happened to the band.
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Learn more about our short and feature length documentaries available from autumn 2020 till spring 2021.
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Norwegian Film Institute at IDFA
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Toril Simonsen
Manager International Relations, Documentary Films
Cell: +47 900 38 086
toril.simonsen@nfi.no
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Find more information about co-producing with Norway and Norwegian co-productions. Download the latest co-production catalogue.
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