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Director: Karin Franz Körlof

Producer/production company: Hanna Hannerz-Simå, Elin Bennett / Nordantill Film

In a small village where people don’t seem to get enough entertainment, a young man is engaged to balance on his head at the top of the church tower and thereafter falls to the ground and dies. For doing this he will receive a great deal of money. The people gather enthusiastically at the church to watch the young man perform the task. It’s all over in a couple of seconds. And to everyone’s dismay the young man really dies in the end. Now their enthusiasm is switched into disappointment. To put up with such horrors should actually be forbidden, the people say and leave dissatisfied.

Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson
Production Company: Compass Films

O is a humanistic and poetic story of a fragile man trying to achieve a simple task where his main obstacle is within himself.
Sales: The Party Film Sales

Director: Håkon Anton Olavsen

Producer/production company: Tøri Gjendal 

The night is still young as a drunken choir awaits in a hallway, eagerly in need of an answer: will Nina let them into her party or not? And is it even a party?

Directed by Mika Taanila / Finland / 2005 /  6 min

Office technology becomes obsolete very quickly. Old tools are transformed into musical instruments of the future. The film is based on the Symphony # 2 for Dot Matrix Printers, composed by [The User].

Sales: Kinotar Oy

Directed by by Jon Vatne / Norway / 2019 / Documentary / 20’10”      

Can one make music with nature as the instruments? The eccentric sound artist Eirik Havnes is preparing his most ambitious project ever: A symphonic masterpiece with nature as his orchestra.   

Directed by Máté Boegi (Denmark/2023/16’27)

When a sound-recordist brings his girlfriend on a trip to the Danish west coast to record atmospheres, he picks up a disturbing sound that begins to torment his conscience

Directed by: Marianne Ulrichsen / (Norway / 2024 / Fiction / 17’00)

Producer/production company: Mona Johanne Hoel for Freedom From Fear AS Release

Vilja (12) loves wrestling even though she’s terrified of pain and loses every match. When her parents divorce Vilja’s ferlings freeze. Then mum’s new boyfriend’s daughter Thea turns out to be the star of the wrestling club. Can Vilja overcome her fear of physical as well as emotional pain?

Directed by: Heta Jäälinoja / Finland / 2023 / 11 min

A nun digs up a man from the ground and loses her grip on everyday life. Can harmony and secrets coexist?

Sales: Böhle Studios

Red or Black by Heta Okkonen (Finland)
Production company: Indie Films