BIFF 2021

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An Affair

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Centerpiece

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Festivalgjest

Highschool sweethearts

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Woman at War

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Åpningsfilm

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Festivalgjest

Hell hath no fury

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The Favourite

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Avslutningsfilm

Her royal madness

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1997 Forever

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Musikk

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Spesialvisning

Snowboard film + live music

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Activist

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Klimafestival

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Festivalgjest

When nature calls

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Agave: The Spirit of a Nation

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Latinamerikansk

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Festivalgjest

Tequila sunrise or the end of mezcal as we know it?

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Amin

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Integrering

The Two Lives of Amin

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The Ancient Woods

An unforgettable walk in the woods

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Anote's Ark

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Klimafestival

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Integrering

An award-winning close-up on global warming

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Ayka

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Integrering

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Vinnerfilm

Moscow’s relentless underworld

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Battle

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Festivalgjest

East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet

Believer

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Musikk

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PropagandaNights

Mormonism, suicide & rock’n’roll

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The Bill Murray Stories

Close encounters of the Murray kind

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Boys Who Like Girls

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Festivalgjest

Toxic masculinity and hope in modern-day India

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Burning Memories

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Integrering

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Festivalgjest

How does war affect children?

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Buy Me a Gun

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Latinamerikansk

Field of nightmares

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Central Airport THF

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Integrering

A wise and beautiful film about people, architecture and history’s sense of irony

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Chef Flynn

Confessions of a culinary prodigy

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Cielo

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Latinamerikansk

Above us only sky

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Citizen Jane

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Byarkitekten

No expressways on our streets!

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The Cleaners

A thought-provoking docu-thriller about censorship, outsourcing and freedom of speech

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Cold War

The most beautiful love story of 2018

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Cornered in Molenbeek

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Integrering

Barber shop life in an infamous neighborhood

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Crystal Swan

The American dream meets the post-Soviet Belarus Blues

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The Devil We Know

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Klimafestival

Don’t drink the water

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Wars Don't End

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Festivalgjest

Children born of war

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Dream Away

Dreams from a cultural no man's land

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The Angel

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Midnatt

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Latinamerikansk

Exterminating angel

The End of Meat

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Spesialvisning

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Studentersamfunnet

A future without meat

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Faith, Hope, Love

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Festivalgjest

Mother Russia is vast, she contains multitudes

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First Reformed

42 years later, Paul Schrader returns with an thematic sequel to TAXI DRIVER

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Florianopolis Dream

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Latinamerikansk

What happens in Florianópolis stays in Florianópolis

Forever and Never

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Kortreist

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Festivalgjest

Abort mission

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The Men's Room

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Festivalgjest

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Vinnerfilm

Songs from Kampen Bistro

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Stories of Courage

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Integrering

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Festivalgjest

To hold a pen is to be at war

Phoenix

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Festivalgjest

Blood is thicker than water

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Garden II

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Musikk

Future illusions from a remote island

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The Gentle Indifference of the World

An exquisitely beautiful drama from the steppes of Kazakhstan

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Girl

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PropagandaNights

Dancing with myself

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The Green Lie

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Klimafestival

Humanity can’t brand itself out of the climate crisis

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Border

An award-winning fantasy drama from the author of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

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Grit

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Klimafestival

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Festivalgjest

A disaster you've never heard of. A heroine you'll never forget.

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Half the Picture

Equality starts behind the camera

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The Happy Prince

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PropagandaNights

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution

A woman’s place is in the kitchen

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I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Barbarians

Don’t mention the war!

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In Praise of Nothing

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Festivalgjest

The film about Nothing

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Into the Okavango

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Klimafestival

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Gulluglen

Delta Force

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Invasion

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Midnatt

Hands down the best Iranian dystopian one-take sci-fi thriller you will see this year

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Inventing Tomorrow

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Klimafestival

The kids are alright

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I WANT TO LIVE IN MY NAME

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Festivalgjest

A Portrait of the Artist as a Human Being

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Western Norwegian Short Films in Competition

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Festivalgjest

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Kortreist

BIFF is proud to present a competition programme for short films from Western Norway during the festival. The films will be screened with English subtitles. The programme is supported by Zefyr Media Fund.

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Curt Cool

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Festivalgjest

And the Oscar goes to… Kurt Olav Helle

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Laila at the Bridge

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Vinnerfilm

An inspiring portrait of Kabul’s one-woman rehabilitation program for drug addicts

Las Sandinistas!

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Latinamerikansk

Rebel Waltz

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Lemonade

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Integrering

A scathing Romanian look at Donald Trump’s America

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Letter from Masanjia

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Festivalgjest

21st century message in a bottle

Lords of Chaos

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Musikk

True Mayhem

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Los Silencios

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Integrering

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Latinamerikansk

A magical and profoundly gripping portrayal of life as a refugee

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Lykkelænder

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Integrering

Myth vs reality – a stalemate

Making Sense Together

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Festivalgjest

In treatment

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Mandy

Nicolas Cage’s most bonkers performance – eve

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Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.

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Musikk

Pop and politics

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Minding the Gap

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Vinnerfilm

Skate or Die!

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Mirai

Little sister from the future

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The Miseducation of Cameron Post

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PropagandaNights

Don’t pray the gay away

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The Most Unknown

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Gulluglen

Before you can know you must acknowledge what you don’t know

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A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot

Crime, punishment and parallel societies in modern-day Northern Ireland

Mug

Heavy rocker in giant Jesus accident

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mulm

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Musikk

Línt + Tommy Næss: mulm - a musical search for the core of human beings

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Netizens

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Festivalgjest

Does the internet hate women?

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The Night Eats the World

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Midnatt

The only living boy in Paris

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The Night of All Nights

Til death do us part

Short Documentaries in Competition Part 1

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Festivalgjest

Short Documentaries in Competition Part 2

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Festivalgjest

Norwegian short films in competition

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Festivalgjest

Norwegian Music Video Competition

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Musikk

Music videos+concerts!

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Our Time

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Latinamerikansk

Bull breeding, open relationships and an uncommonly introspective Carlos Reygadas

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Obey

London’s Burning

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Obscuro Barocco

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PropagandaNights

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Latinamerikansk

Carnival politics

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Of Fathers and Sons

Papa do preach

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On Her Shoulders

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Integrering

The voice of the voiceless

The rebellion school

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Festivalgjest

Yesterday’s school of tomorrow

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Our New President

Fake news, you lose

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Over the Limit

Pressure is a privilege

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Panic Attack

Poles on the verge of a nervous breakdown

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Pause

Suppressed women in Cyprus

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People's Republic of Desire

All the world’s a screen

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Petra

A non-chronological Greek tragedy in the Spanish countryside

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Pick of the Litter

Four-legged superhero

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Picture Perfect

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Festivalgjest

The invention of Morel

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Prospect

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Midnatt

An intergalactic sci-fi-western gem

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Putin's Witnesses

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Festivalgjest

Putin Begins

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Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution

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PropagandaNights

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Musikk

When punk came out

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Rafiki

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PropagandaNights

Juliet and Juliet

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The Raft

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Gulluglen

A social experiment in international waters

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RBG

The Notorious RBG

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The Real Thing

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Byarkitekten

Architecture déjà vu

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Reconstructing Utøya

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Festivalgjest

Return to Utøya

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Samouni Road

Life and death on the Gaza Strip

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Say Her Name

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Festivalgjest

Black deaths matter

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The School in the Cloud

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Gulluglen

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Studentersamfunnet

School’s out forever

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The Serengeti Rules

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Gulluglen

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Klimafestival

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Vinnerfilm

Can nature heal itself?

Silas

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Klimafestival

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Festivalgjest

Something is rotten in the state of Liberia

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Silent Night

A very Polish Christmas

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Silvana

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Musikk

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Integrering

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PropagandaNights

My favourite imam

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The Charmer

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Integrering

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Festivalgjest

Between pro forma love and a hard place

Sofia

The politics of sex in modern-day Morocco

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Sorry to bother you

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BIFFsnadder

Destiny is calling

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Stella Polaris Ulloriarsuaq

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Klimafestival

Nostalgia for the Ice Age

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Suleiman Mountain

Modern Family

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Sunset

The calm before the storm

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Taste of Cement

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Integrering

Life is a construction site

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The Trial

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Latinamerikansk

An old-school political do-coup d’etat-mentary

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There's Always Next Season

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Festivalgjest

Stand by me, on a snowboard

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Three Identical Strangers

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Studentersamfunnet

Nature vs nurture cubed

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Time Trial

Uneasy Rider

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Touch Me Not

Outside the comfort zone

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The Tower

A animated outline of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Under the Silver Lake

A surrealistic detective story from the director of IT FOLLOWS

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Under the Wire

War, journalism and truth

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Volcano

Lost in Crimea

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Welcome to Sodom

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Klimafestival

The most shocking and astonishing film you’ve ever seen about recycling

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Dear Son

My son, my son, what have ye done?

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Whispering Truth to Power

Corruption, democracy and tribalism in post-apartheid South Africa

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White Tide

Truth is stranger than fiction – not to mention much more entertaining

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Wild Relatives

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Festivalgjest

Doomsday prepping on a global scale

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Wildlife

Carey Mulligan shines in Paul Dano’s directorial debut

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A Woman Captured

Occupation: Slave

The World Before Your Feet

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Byarkitekten

The only walking boy in New York

HANS BØRLI IN VR

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Expanded

A journey through a poet's connection with nature

HOME AFTER WAR

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Expanded

Inside a home in Falluja

MY CHILD LEBENSBORN

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Expanded

Experience the fates of children born of war

SONGBIRD

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Expanded

A virtual moment of extinction

SUMMATION OF FORCE

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Expanded

A mythic game of cricket

THE SUN

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Expanded

Edvard Munch and the sun

THE VEGA ISLANDS

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Expanded

Life at Vega

VESTIGE

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Expanded

A journey through memories. A story of lost love.

An Affair

An Affair

Woman at War

Woman at War

The Favourite

The Favourite

3 Faces

3 Faces

1997 Forever

1997 Forever

Activist

Activist

Agave: The Spirit of a Nation

Agave: The Spirit of a Nation

American Animals

American Animals

Amin

Amin

The Ancient Woods

The Ancient Woods

And Breathe Normally

And Breathe Normally

Anote's Ark

Anote's Ark

Arctic

Arctic

Ayka

Ayka

Battle

Battle

Bauta+Odda

Bauta+Odda

Believer

Believer

The Bill Murray Stories

The Bill Murray Stories

Boys Who Like Girls

Boys Who Like Girls

Burning Memories

Burning Memories

Burning

Burning

Buy Me a Gun

Buy Me a Gun

Central Airport THF

Central Airport THF

Chef Flynn

Chef Flynn

Cielo

Cielo

Citizen Jane

Citizen Jane

The Cleaners

The Cleaners

Cold War

Cold War

Cornered in Molenbeek

Cornered in Molenbeek

Crystal Swan

Crystal Swan

Dark Money

Dark Money

Daughter of Mine

Daughter of Mine

The Dawn Wall

The Dawn Wall

The Devil We Know

The Devil We Know

Wars Don't End

Wars Don't End

The Distant Barking of Dogs

The Distant Barking of Dogs

Dogman

Dogman

Donbass

Donbass

Dream Away

Dream Away

The Angel

The Angel