BIFF 2021

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The Square

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Festivalgjest

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Åpningsfilm

Winner of the Palme d'Or!

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What Will People Say

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Festivalgjest

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Centerpiece

The double life of Nisha

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer

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Avslutningsfilm

An eye for an eye

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120 Beats Per Minute

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LHBTQ

AIDS activism in 1990’s Paris

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78/52

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Cinemateket

Stab! Stab! Stab!

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A Ciambra

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Flukt

Roman Holiday meets Romani hustle

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Accidental Anarchist

"Democracy is the worst form of Government - except for all those other forms that have been tried"

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All Governments Lie

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Festivalgjest

Ignorance is everything but bliss: A look into the world of investigative journalism

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All This Panic

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Cinemateket

Quite possibly the most honest and insightful film about life as a teenage girl ever made

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The Allins

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Musikk

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

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AlphaGo

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Teknologi

Human Endeavor

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Ana, mon amour

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Cinemateket

All the feels. Every single one of them.

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April's Daughter

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Latinamerikansk

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Cinemateket

The hand that rocks the cradle

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Arrhythmia

A marriage in desperate need of first aid

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Ask the Sexpert

The country that gave the world the Kama Sutra now gets its sex advice from a 93-year-old doctor

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Ava

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Cinemateket

She came, she lost her sight, she conquered

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Axolotl Overkill

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LHBTQ

Sex, drugs and Mexican salamanders

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Band Aid

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AmericanIndie

Couples therapy core

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Becoming Bond

The name's Lazenby - George Lazenby

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Becoming Who I Was

One does not choose to be chosen

Bill Nye: Science Guy

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Festivalgjest

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Klimafestival

Soul-searching and popular science

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Boiling Point

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Festivalgjest

Heated discussions in the sauna

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

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Cinemateket

More than just the most beautiful woman in the world

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Brasília: Life After Design

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Latinamerikansk

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Gulluglen

How do you solve a problem like Brasilia?

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Brexitannia

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Gulluglen

(Who Is Going to) Rule Britannia?

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Burning Out

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Festivalgjest

Physician, heal thyself

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Pray

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Festivalgjest

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Vestlandskonkurranse

A God by any other name

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California Dreams

Where dreams go to die

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Call Me By Your Name

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LHBTQ

Hey I just met you, and this is crazy

Centaur

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Cinemateket

See a man about a horse

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Chavela

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Latinamerikansk

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Musikk

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LHBTQ

Lady sings the booze

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City of Ghosts

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Flukt

The truth is in there

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The Challenge

Fast cars, expensive falcons and pet leopards - welcome to Yuri Ancarani's Saudi Arabia

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Colours of the Alphabet

An ode to linguistic diversity

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Cries From Syria

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Festivalgjest

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Flukt

The ABCs of cruelty

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Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas

Import/export

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Dealt

The Stevie Wonder of magic

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Death of a Child

What kind of person forgets their baby in a car?

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The Departure

No cure for life

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Devil's Freedom

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Latinamerikansk

Victims and predators behind the same mask

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Directions

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Cinemateket

A jet black comedy from a country on the verge of societal collapse

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The Double Lover

Double trouble on the divan

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A Fantastic Woman

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Latinamerikansk

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LHBTQ

One man’s death and the other woman’s life

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An Inconvenient Sequel

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Klimafestival

Truth to Power

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The Farthest

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Teknologi

Now, Voyager

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Food Evolution

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Gulluglen

The future is genetically modified

Fountain of Youth

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Festivalgjest

Low-budget Zeitgeist

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Free Lunch Society

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Studentersamfunnet

There's no such thing as a free lunch - or is there?

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Free and Easy

The soap salesman cometh

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Future Baby

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Gulluglen

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Cinemateket

The baby industrial complex

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Gabriel and the Mountain

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Studentersamfunnet

See Africa and die

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Gemini

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AmericanIndie

Big Little Crimes

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A German Life

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Cinemateket

The right-hand maiden

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Ghost in the Mountains

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Cinemateket

Ghosts of the past, ghosts of the future

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A Ghost Story

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AmericanIndie

The ghost of our love

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God Knows Where I Am

Everyone dies alone but some die more lonely than others

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God's Own Country

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LHBTQ

Brokeback Moors

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Good Time

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AmericanIndie

One crazy night with Robert Pattinson

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The Good Postman

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Flukt

Ask not how the refugee crisis will affect you but how you can affect the world around you

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Golden Exits

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AmericanIndie

Another gem from one of America's most interesting young filmmakers

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Grab and Run

Why steal hearts when you can steal wives?

The Line

Borders are made to be crossed

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The Grown-Ups

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Latinamerikansk

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Verdighetsdagen

The 40-year-old pupil

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Hannah

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Cinemateket

Love makes you blind to evil

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Happy End

Classic Haneke

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House in the Fields

Isolated, but not insulated

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How to Meet a Mermaid

The sea giveth and the sea taketh away

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Human Flow

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Flukt

Glimpses from a shrinking world

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The Human Surge

Don't expect the unexpected - just sit back and enjoy the movie

I Am Not a Witch

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Cinemateket

Live at the witch trials

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If I Think of Germany at Night

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Musikk

A contemplative documentary about German techno

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In the Fade

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Filmpool

The need for justice vs the thirst for revenge

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Ingrid Goes West

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AmericanIndie

Ever wanted to be someone else?

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Sealers – One Last Hunt

The sun sets on the Norwegian seal hunters

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Jaha's Promise

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Festivalgjest

One strong woman versus a global taboo

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Jupiter's Moon

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Festivalgjest

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Flukt

You’ll believe a refugee can fly

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The Cat Returns

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Animasjon

Catnapped

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Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web

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Teknologi

Information wants to be free - and so does Kim Dotcom

L.A. Times

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AmericanIndie

Looking for love in lipstick city

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LA 92

Fear of a black planet

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La Familia

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Latinamerikansk

Things fall apart

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Let There Be Light

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Teknologi

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Gulluglen

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Klimafestival

Can a man-made sun save us from global warming?

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Let the Sunshine In

Romantic comedy à la Claire Denis

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Long Strange Trip

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Musikk

The only thing wrong with this four hour Grateful Dead documentary is that it's too short!

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Los Perros

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Latinamerikansk

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Cinemateket

Love's a Bitch

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Loving Vincent

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Animasjon

Still life, animated film

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Machines

Workin' 9 to 9, what a way to make a livin'!

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Falling Forward

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Festivalgjest

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Flukt

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Vestlandskonkurranse

When life gives you lemons

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Makala

Heart and coal

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A Man of Integrity

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Filmpool

You can’t fight city hall

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Manifesto

A tour de force from Cate Blanchett

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The Man Who Knew 75 Languages

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Festivalgjest

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Animasjon

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Vestlandskonkurranse

A thousand words for heartbreak

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Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts

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Cinemateket

Rape, revenge and mummified husbands

Between Us

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Festivalgjest

The most democratic Norwegian documentary of all time

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A Memory in Khaki

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Festivalgjest

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Flukt

Once upon a time in Damascus

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Men Don't Cry

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Cinemateket

Cabin fever and PTSD

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Moldovan Miracle

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Festivalgjest

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Vestlandskonkurranse

The Wizard of Os

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A Modern Man

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Musikk

Happiness, perfection and other delusions in the age of social media

Mogadishu Soldier

Embedded with AMISOM

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Montparnasse Bienvenue

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Cinemateket

The Life of a Young Woman

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More

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Flukt

The refugee crisis and inhuman humankind

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Mountain

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Festivalgjest

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Ekstremsport

Planet Earth meets Vertical Limit

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My Happy Family

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Cinemateket

Divorce Georgian style

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The Night

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Festivalgjest

Reconstructed memories

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Neruda

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Latinamerikansk

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Filmpool

A surrealist biopic about poetry and democracy

The New Radical

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Teknologi

The digital revolution is already under way

Norwegian Short Documentaries

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Festivalgjest

Norwegian Short Films

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Festivalgjest

Music Videos in Competition

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Festivalgjest

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Musikk

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The Nothing Factory

The Portuguese financial crisis - the musical!

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Nothingwood

Get ready to meet your new favourite director

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Novitiate

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LHBTQ

Married to Jesus

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Nowhere to Hide

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Festivalgjest

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Flukt

I, refugee

Raga Rockers

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Musikk

Shit Happens

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Oklahoma City

Angry white men?

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On Body and Soul

The deer of my life

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Plastic China

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Klimafestival

Little Yi-Jie in the plastic sea

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Pork Pie

Road trippin'

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Power to Change

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Klimafestival

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

Pre-Crime

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Teknologi

The real-life MINORITY REPORT

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Promised Land

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Musikk

The rise of a King. The fall of an Empire.

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Radio Kobani

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Flukt

A voice of hope from Syria

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Ramen Heads

Warning: Don't watch this film on an empty stomach!

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Raving Iran

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Musikk

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Flukt

Rebels in Iran, heroes in Zürich

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The Reagan Show

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Cinemateket

Make America great again - again

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Resurrecting Hassan

A blind family and a vision of the hereafter

The Return

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Festivalgjest

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Vestlandskonkurranse

Georgia – from Hamsun to Manana

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The Rider

Whatever happened to the American cowboy?

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Risk

Up close and personal with Julian Assange

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A River Below

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Festivalgjest

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Latinamerikansk

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Klimafestival

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Studentersamfunnet

Moto vs. boto: Ethics and animal welfare in the Amazon

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Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

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Musikk

"Be proud to be an indian, but be careful who you tell."

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The Sanatorium

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Festivalgjest

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Vestlandskonkurranse

Extreme makeover – Sanatorium Edition

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School Life

The school where the pupils never want the school day to end

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Schumann's Bar Talks

A beer a day keeps the doctor away

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Score

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Musikk

A symbiosis made in heaven

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Scream for Me Sarajevo

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Musikk

Music during wartime

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Sea Sorrow

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Flukt

A crisis on your doorstep

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Seeing Voices

German and sign language, side by side

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Stranger in Paradise

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Flukt

When reality met fiction

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The Summit

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Cinemateket

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Latinamerikansk

"House of Cards" in the Chilean Andes

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Take Every Wave

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Ekstremsport

Cowabunga dude, let's shred some gnarly waves!

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Thank You for the Rain

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Festivalgjest

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Klimafestival

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Cinemateket

I can't stand the rain

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The Third Industrial Revolution

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Gulluglen

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Klimafestival

Are you ready for the future?

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To End a War

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Latinamerikansk

How do you end a civil war when you've never known peace?

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Tom of Finland

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LHBTQ

Pocket full of bananas

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Trophy

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Klimafestival

Hunting high and low

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Unrest

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Gulluglen

The Bedroom Diaries

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Untitled

The film that never stands still

Expired

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Festivalgjest

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Vestlandskonkurranse

Waste not, want not

Western Norwegian Short Films

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Festivalgjest

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Vestlandskonkurranse

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The Villainess

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Midnatt

Good old fashioned South Korean fun

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Water & Power

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Klimafestival

An investigative documentary about a man-made natural crisis

What We Started

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Musikk

Untz, untz, untz

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...When You Look Away

Coincidence versus quantum consciousness

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The Work

Folsom Prison Blues

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The Wound

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LHBTQ

Boys become men, but at what cost?

Work in Progress

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Cinemateket

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Workinprogress

After Solitary

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Expanded

Years in solitary confinement

Blindfold

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Expanded

If you silence a journalist, you blindfold the world.

Deathtolls

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Expanded

Walk among the dead

The Enemy

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Expanded

Face to face with the enemy

Geist

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Expanded

Meet Mahatma Gandhi's spirit

Horizons

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Expanded

You control the music – the music controls the world

Nothing Happens

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Expanded

Everyone waits for something to happen

Sea Prayer

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Expanded

A 360 film by Khaled Hosseini

Unrest VR

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Expanded

When you’re too sick to leave your bed, where do you go?