BIFF 2021

#ArtOffline

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Festivalgjest

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Verdenspremiere

Technology inserts itself between art and audience

Trailer

45 år

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BIFF+

The wound time did not heal

The 50 Year Argument

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Media

Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi tells the story of The New York Review of Books.

600 Miles

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Latinamerikansk

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Norgespremiere

Everything is going south

808

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Musikk

Rise of the drum machines

Above All Else

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SkandinaviskPremiere

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Klimafestival

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GreenScreen

David vs. Goliath in the treetops of Texas

Aferim!

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Norgespremiere

Once upon a time in Wallachia

Almost Friends

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Festivalgjest

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SkandinaviskPremiere

I don't want to play with your crowd

Always Together

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Festivalgjest

Bohemian rhapsody

Amour Fou

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Norgespremiere

Till death do us part

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Under kirsebærtrærne (An)

Sweet beans and cherry blossoms

Arabian Nights: Volume 1

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NordiskPremiere

A unique opportunity to see Miguel Gomes’ Cannes-favourite on the big screen

Arabian Nights: Volume 2

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NordiskPremiere

The most entertaining and accessible chapter of Gomes’ cinematic book of fables

Arabian Nights: Volume 3

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NordiskPremiere

The bizarre and inexplicably fascinating conclusion of Miguel Gomes’ ambitious opus

Arcade Fire: The Reflektor Tapes

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Norgespremiere

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Musikk

An audiovisual mixtape

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The Assassin

A mesmerizingly beautiful martial arts drama from 9th century China

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Backstreet Girls

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Festivalgjest

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Musikk

After 30 years of struggling, Backstreet Girls are finally ready for their time in the spotlight

Battles

A mysterious and absurd journey through physical and mental landscapes ravaged by war

Before the Last Curtain Falls

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Festivalgjest

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LGBTQ

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SkandinaviskPremiere

Rather 20 years as a woman, than 80 years as a man

Beginning With the End

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Verdighetsdagen

Through learning about death, the students at The Harley School learn about life

Best of Enemies

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SkandinaviskPremiere

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Media

"I'll sock you in the goddamn face and you'll stay plastered"

Besøk fra verdensrommet

A documentary hypothesis about extraterrestrial contact

BIFF EXPANDED: Another Africa, Rom 8

BIFF Expanded deals with the intersection between film, contemporary art and new technology

BIFF EXPANDED:

BIFF Expanded deals with the intersection between film, contemporary art and new technology

Bikes vs Cars

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Klimafestival

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GreenScreen

David and Goliath

Bit - Ballerina Bulldog

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Festivalgjest

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Kortreist

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Verdenspremiere

Rocking paper and scissors

Body

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Norgespremiere

When We Dead Awaken

Bounce

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Festivalgjest

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NordiskPremiere

This movie's got balls

Breaking a Monster

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Musikk

Young, gifted and black

Bridgend

Suicide village

Capitalism at Crossroad Street

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LifeInMotion

Don't worry, be happy now!

Cartel Land

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Latinamerikansk

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Norgespremiere

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Checkpointsåpning

Fear and loathing in Mexico

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Cemetery of Splendour

Meet you at the cemetery gates

Chasuke's Journey

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Norgespremiere

An lovesick angel with no time to lose

Chevalier

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NordiskPremiere

City of Gold

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EuropeiskPremiere

Counter intelligence

Trailer

The Club

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Latinamerikansk

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Isolasjon

Retired priests from hell

Crocodile Gennadiy

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Festivalgjest

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EuropeiskPremiere

Meet the pastor who's on a one-man crusade to save the lost children of Ukraine

Crossroad Street

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LifeInMotion

Glasnost and perestroika in 1980’s Latvia

Daniel's World

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NordiskPremiere

Young, single and pedophile

Deep Time

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SkandinaviskPremiere

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GreenScreen

Not everything that glitters is black gold

Demning

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Festivalgjest

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LGBTQ

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Kortreist

City of the damned

Democrats

House of Cards in Zimbabwe

Trailer

Dheepan

A Tamil Tiger in the urban jungle

Digging for Fire

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Am.Indie

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EuropeiskPremiere

Can you dig it?

Documentarian

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LifeInMotion

The ultimate guide to four-letter Latvian words

Dope

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Am.Indie

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NordiskPremiere

It's hard out here for a geek

Dreamcatcher

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Norgespremiere

Pimpin' ain't Breezy

Trailer

The Disappearance Act of Einar

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Festivalgjest

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Kortreist

The cancer victim's pilgrimage

Eisenstein in Guanajuato

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LGBTQ

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Latinamerikansk

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Norgespremiere

Potemkin goes to Mexico

Ekstra Bladet - Uden for Citat

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Festivalgjest

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Norgespremiere

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Media

The newspaper is dead, long live the newspaper

Embrace of the Serpent

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Latinamerikansk

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Norgespremiere

Journey to the center of the mind

Escaping Riga

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LifeInMotion

Impressive and entertaining about two great Latvians

A Flickering Truth

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SkandinaviskPremiere

Rediscovered film treasures from Afghanistan's forgotten past

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Den franske forbindelsen

The Frencher Connection

Generation Right

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SkandinaviskPremiere

Was The Iron Lady right after all?

A German Youth

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SkandinaviskPremiere

How to make a Molotov Cocktail - on a student budget

The Great Invisible

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Norgespremiere

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Klimafestival

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GreenScreen

The whole story about the biggest oil spill in the history of the maritime petroleum industry

Gold Coast

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Festivalgjest

The Danish man’s burden

The Norwegian War Profiteers

Derailed from Norwegian history

Heaven Knows What

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Am.Indie

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Norgespremiere

Junkie pride

Trailer

The Brand New Testament

God’s not dead, just living in Belgium

The High Sun

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NordiskPremiere

Three tales of forbidden love

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Return to Ithaca

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Latinamerikansk

Requiem for a dream

How to Change the World

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Norgespremiere

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Klimafestival

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GreenScreen

Nature's warriors - the origins of Greenpeace

Human

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SkandinaviskPremiere

A spectacular journey into human nature

The Hunting Ground

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Norgespremiere

American colleges tried to silence them, but now the rape survivors are talking

I for Iran

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SkandinaviskPremiere

Persian for beginners

Trailer

I skyggen av kvinner

Shadows and (de)lights

Ice and the Sky

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Klimafestival

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GreenScreen

The story of climate science's pioneer unveiled.

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Idas dagbok

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Festivalgjest

Borderline rollercoaster ride

In the Basement

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Isolasjon

Notes from underground

Into the Clouds We Gaze

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Festivalgjest

Pimp my life

Iraqi Odyssey 3D

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Festivalgjest

An epic family chronicle which offers a unique insight into a hundred eventful years of Iraq's history - in 3D!

Ixcanul

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Latinamerikansk

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Norgespremiere

Maria Versus The Volcano

James White

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Am.Indie

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NordiskPremiere

Kitchen sink Peter Pan

Jenica & Perla

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Festivalgjest

Separated by circumstance, reunited by dance

Jihad

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Festivalgjest

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BTAllmenningen

The lives of Others

Kettling of the Voices

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Festivalgjest

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Verdenspremiere

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Media

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves

Trailer

Two Buddies and a Badger

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Festivalgjest

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Åpningsfilm

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Animasjon

The Norwegian family film of the year

Local Short Films

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Festivalgjest

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Kortreist

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Kortfilm

New short films from Western Norway

Koza

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SkandinaviskPremiere

Koza is fighting for his unborn child - one concussion at a time

Krisha

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Am.Indie

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SkandinaviskPremiere

Guess who's coming to dinner

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck

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Musikk

The man who mythologized himself

Land and Shade

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Latinamerikansk

The harsh life of the sugar farmer

Last Hijack

Somalian piracy through Somalian eyes

Licence to Krill

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Festivalgjest

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Norgespremiere

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Klimafestival

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GreenScreen

The act of krilling

Life is Sacred

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Festivalgjest

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Latinamerikansk

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Norgespremiere

Colombia's down-to-earth superhero

Live from New York

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NordiskPremiere

An oral history of the most important institution in American comedy

The Lobster

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NordiskPremiere

Not your typical absurdist dystopic pastoral science fiction romance

A Low-level Flight

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Festivalgjest

From Czechoslovakia with love

Trailer

Louder than Bombs

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Festivalgjest

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Centrepiece

A family portrait in the form of a puzzle

Love & Mercy

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Musikk

Life's a beach

Madina's Dream

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InternasjonalPremiere

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Festivalgjest

In the midst of one of the world's forgotten conflicts, Madina dreams of a better tomorrow

MAIKO - Dancing Child

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Festivalgjest

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Norgespremiere

Prima mamarina

Maputo

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Festivalgjest

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Verdenspremiere

Symphony of a split city

Trailer

Marnie - min hemmelige venninne

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Animasjon

What if your imaginary friend came to life?

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The Martian 3D

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NordiskPremiere

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Avslutningsfilm

Stranded on the Red Planet

The Mask You Live In

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NordiskPremiere

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Studentersamfunnet

Masculinity is only skin deep

Maryland

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NordiskPremiere

A European twist on an American staple

Masaan

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SkandinaviskPremiere

Not your typical Bollywood movie

Trailer

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

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Am.Indie

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NordiskPremiere

Cancer sucks

The Messenger

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Festivalgjest

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SkandinaviskPremiere

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Klimafestival

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GreenScreen

Canaries in the global coal mine

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Middelhavet

An epic journey towards the European dream

My skinny sister

Walking on thin ice

Misery Loves Comedy

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Norgespremiere

60 comedians walk into an interview setting...

Trailer

Mistress America

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Am.Indie

Noach Baumbach and Greta Gerwig are back with the hotly anticipated follow-up to FRANCES HA

Monsoon

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GreenScreen

For the people of India the monsoon is a bringer of both life and death

Most Likely to Succeed

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InternasjonalPremiere

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Gullugleåpning

School's out

Mountains May Depart

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Norgespremiere

Jia Zhangke is back with another insightful portrait of modern China

Necktie Youth

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Norgespremiere

Suicidal adventures in post-apartheid South Africa

New Times at Crossroad Street

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LifeInMotion

History at the crossroads

Ninas barn

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Festivalgjest

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Verdenspremiere

During WW2 an orphanage in Oslo saved many Jewish children from the Nazis

Norwegian Short Documentary Competition 2015

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Festivalgjest

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Kortfilm

Eight short documentaries in competition

Norwegian Short Film Competition 2015

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Festivalgjest

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Kortfilm

Nothing is Truer than Truth

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Verdenspremiere

Will the real William Shakespeare please stand up?

The Odelsrett

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Festivalgjest

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Verdenspremiere

Licenced to farm

The Other Side

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SkandinaviskPremiere

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Isolasjon

Southern (dis)comfort

Out of Norway + Imagining Emanuel

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Festivalgjest

Escape from the welfare state

Over the Years

Turn and face the strange, ch-ch-changes!

The Overnight

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Am.Indie

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NordiskPremiere

A night to remember/A night to repress

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Palio

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NordiskPremiere

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Isolasjon

Horse racing Italian style

Partisan

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NordiskPremiere

An eleven year old assassin discovers his moral compass

Paulina

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Latinamerikansk

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Norgespremiere

The aftershock of sexual assault

Peace Officer

Right to remain silent or duty to speak up?

The Pearl Button

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Latinamerikansk

A brief history of water, the Earth, Chile and the Pinochet regime

Pervert Park

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Isolasjon

Parked for good?

Poached

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SkandinaviskPremiere

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GreenScreen

Can't you take a yolk?

Queen of Earth

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Am.Indie

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Norgespremiere

Anatomy of a nervous breakdown

Racing Extinction

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SkandinaviskPremiere

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Klimafestival

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GreenScreen

Obliteration of the species

The Russian Woodpecker

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SkandinaviskPremiere

The untold truth about Chernobyl?

Sand Wars

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Studentersamfunnet

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GreenScreen

Selling sand in the Sahara

Trailer

Sangen fra havet

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Animasjon

Merseal or wereseal?

The Search for Freedom

An adrenaline-inducing history lesson in fear, fund and freedom

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Sicario

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Latinamerikansk

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Norgespremiere

An intense thriller from the front lines of America’s war on drugs

Silenced

The golden age of whistleblowing

Sleeping Giant

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NordiskPremiere

Boys of summer

Sleeping with Other People

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Am.Indie

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NordiskPremiere

Sex, love and other things that have nothing in common

Slow West

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NordiskPremiere

From the Scottish highlands to the Wild West

Steak (R)evolution

To beef or not to beef

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

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NordiskPremiere

The controversial truth about Steve Jobs

Strange & Familiar

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Festivalgjest

If you build it they will come

Trailer

Sunshine Superman

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Kortreist

If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space!

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The Survivalist

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NordiskPremiere

Locally sourced post-apocalyptics

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Søstre

The more the merrier!

Good Things Await

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Norgespremiere

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Studentersamfunnet

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GreenScreen

Looking to the past in order to find the future

Take Me to The River

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Festivalgjest

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Musikk

Bridging the gap

Trailer

Tale of Tales

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NordiskPremiere

Fairy tales for grownups

Taliban Oil

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Festivalgjest

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Verdenspremiere

As late as July 2001 - just two months before 9/11 - the US threatened to carpet-bomb Afghanistan unless the Taliban turned over Osama bin Laden

Trailer

Taxi Teheran

Not your parents’ Taxi Driver

Tell Spring Not to Come This Year

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Festivalgjest

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SkandinaviskPremiere

Inside the Afghan army

That Sugar Film

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SkandinaviskPremiere

The bitter truth about sugar

This Changes Everything

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GreenScreen

Can we seize the climate crisis to transform a failed economic system?

The Treasure

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NordiskPremiere

Possibly the most low-key comedy in film history

Under Electric Clouds

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SkandinaviskPremiere

A sci-fi fabel about a Russia trapped between its past and its future

We are Journalists

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Festivalgjest

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Norgespremiere

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Media

In Iran the pen is still mightier than the sword

Trailer

The Visit

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Midnatt

Terror from beyond the retirement age

Viva Cuba Libre: Rap is War

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Latinamerikansk

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Norgespremiere

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Musikk

Will the true revolutionaries please stand up

Voldtatt

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Festivalgjest

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Norgespremiere

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Kortreist

Let's talk about rape

Wacken 3D: The Movie

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Norgespremiere

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Musikk

A three dimensional pilgrimage for headbangers

Trailer

The Walk (3D)

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EuropeiskPremiere

You’ve seen the documentary, now get ready for the feature!

Welcome to Leith

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Isolasjon

All white is not all right

The Wolfpack

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NordiskPremiere

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Isolasjon

Reservoir Kids

Yallah! Underground

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SkandinaviskPremiere

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Musikk

Rocking the casbah - before and after the Arab Spring

The Yes Men are Revolting

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GreenScreen

The Yes Men are back