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August 2010
Development Support
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Original title | The Sampo
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | 3D Animation
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Director | Kari Juusonen
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Producer | Kare Hellén, Veera Hellén
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Recipient | NDFC Helsinki Oy
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To save his people immortal Ilmarinen forges the magical amulet Sampo, but this starts a bitter war between Kalevala and Pohjola.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Happy End
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Björn Runge
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Producer | Martin Persson, Madeleine Ekman, Sisse Graum Jørgensen
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Recipient | Trollhättan Film AB
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HAPPY END is a grown up fairy tale about people and their lives crossing paths and changing ways. It´s about the hardship of living and the unexpected changes.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | Där vi en gång gått
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| Support | NOK 750.000
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Director | Peter Lindholm
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Producer | Aleksi Bardy, Annika Sucksdorff
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Recipient | Helsinki -filmi Oy
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A story about a young group of friends, who all have dreams and plans for the future –plans that are interfered by the civil war.
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June 2010
Development Support
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Original title | Det enda rationella
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Recipient | Sunrise Film Distribution Aps
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | Engelen
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Recipient | Sunrise Film Distribution Aps
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | BUFF Financing Forum 2010
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Forum
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Recipient | BUFF Malmö
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Original title | CPH:DOX International Platform
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Film festival
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Recipient | COP:DOX
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | Grandma’s Tattoos
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Suzanne Khardalian
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Producer | PeÅ Holmquist
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Recipient | HB PeÅ Holmquist Film
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Director Suzanne Khardalian makes the first documentary film about the Armenian Genocide from the women p.o.w with her own grandma´s fate as the leading story.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | Hotell Gyllene knorren (e. The Golden Piglet)
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| Support | NOK 1.000.000
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Director | Mikael Syrén
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Producer | Johanna Bergenstråhle
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Recipient | AB Svensk Filmindustri
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The Rantanens want to start a new life and leave the city for the countryside where they will manage a charming hotel.
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Development Support
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Original title | Comrade
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Petter Næss
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Producer | Valerie Edwina Saunders
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Recipient | Zentropa International Norway
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fter simultaneously crash landing in the Norwegian wilderness, British and German soldiers must learn to work together in order to survive the harsh climate.
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Original title | Hollows
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Henrik Hellström
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Producer | Erika Wasserman
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Recipient | Håligheter Fasad 005 AB
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Just because you get old doesn’t mean you get wise. 78 year old Marianne spends a few days in a house with her grandchild and her family. It doesn’t take long before buried tensions surface and Marianne needs to emend her facade.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Domen över död man
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| Support | NOK 1.750.000
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Director | Jan Troell
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Producer | Francy Suntinger, Lars Blomgren
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Recipient | Filmlance International AB
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The story is about how the well known journalist Torgny Segerstedt, after reading Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” saw the upcoming disaster and started dedicating his life to stand up against Hitler and Nazi Germany.
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Original title | Silence
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| Support | NOK 880.000
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Director | Sakari Kirjavainen
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Producer | Petri Rossi, Alf Hemming
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Recipient | Cine Works
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In Second World War Finland was the only nation who brought it’s casualties killed-in-action back to be buried at home. These actions were carried out by men and women working in assembling centers near to enemy lines. "Silence" is their story.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | Ambassadøren
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Mads Brügger
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Producer | Carsten Holst, Peter Engel
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Recipient | Zentropa Entertainments26 ApS
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Original title | Aranda
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| Support | NOK 350.000
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Director | Anu Kuivalainen
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Producer | Markku Tuurna, Anna Byvald
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Recipient | Filmimaa Ltd.
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Aranda is a film about the curious human being´s thirst for knowledge.
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May 2010
Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | Stereo Seminar 2010
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Genre | Seminar
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Recipient | Nordic TD Forum
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | RODRIGUEZ - The Only One Who Didn´t Know
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| Support | NOK 375.000
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Director | Malik Bendjelloul
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Producer | Malla Grapengiesser
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Recipient | Hysteria film AB
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A story about a american muscian who records an album but it doesn’t make it commercially. But the album becomes huge success and widely spread in South Africa. After 25 years a music journalist reveal to him the truth in his ramshackle house in Detroit.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | Moomins and the Comet Chase
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| Support | NOK 675.000
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Recipient | OY Filmkompaniet Alpha ab
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Original title | Snabba Cash
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Recipient | Nordisk Film Distribusjon AS
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April 2010
Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Jeg reiser alene
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| Support | NOK 1.250.000
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Director | Stian Kristiansen
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Producer | Yngve Sæther, Sigve Endresen
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Recipient | Motlys
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Bergen 1997; Jarle Klepp (25) is a talented academic, spending his time on deconstruction, Marcel Proust and sex, who is about to find out he has a 7-year old daughter.
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Original title | Ronal Barbaren
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| Support | NOK 1.250.000
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Director | Thorbjørn Christoffersen, Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen
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Producer | Trine Heidegaard, Philip Einstein Lipski
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Recipient | Einstein Film A/S
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Ronal is a young barbarian with low self-esteem, the polar opposite of all the muscular barbarians in his village. He's a real wuss. However, as fate would have it, responsibility for the tribe's survival falls on Ronal's scrawny shoulders, when the evil Lord Volcazar raids the village and abducts every living barbarian.
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Development Support
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Original title | Maaginen kristalli (e. Magic Crystal)
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| Support | NOK 350.000
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Director | Antii Haikala
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Producer | Mikael Wahlforss
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Recipient | Epidem ZOT
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An animated stereoscopic film for the whole family.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Hodejegerne
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| Support | NOK 1.800.000
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Director | Morten Tyldum
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Producer | Asle Vatn, Marainenne Gray
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Recipient | Friland Produksjon AS
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Everybody wants something. Nobody gets it for free. Not without stepping our corpses. The headhunt has begun.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | SUDD
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Director | Erik Rosenlund
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Producer | Daniel Wirtberg
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Recipient | Daemon Film
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On her way home a woman gets infected by a mysterious disease. While starting to transform she notices that she is not the only victim, but part of a an epidemic affecting the town itself.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Garbage Prince
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| Support | NOK 800.000
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Director | Raimo O Niemi
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Producer | Markku Flink
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Recipient | Periferia Productions Ltd
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An effervescent love story between Jed and Lulu who blaze their own path until the day they meet each other at a train station of a small border town.
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Original title | Lost in Africa
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Vibeke Muasya
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Producer | Vibeke Windeløv, Rebeka Hamberger
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Recipient | SF Film Production (DK)
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Simon (11) a black adopted boy and his mother revisit his land of origin, Kenya. But on the journey´s first day Simon looses his beloved soccerball and gets lost in the biggest slumcity in Africa, the Kibera.
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Original title | Superclasico
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| Support | NOK 1.050.000
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Director | Ole Christian Madsen
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Producer | Signe Leick Jensen, Lars Bredo Rahbek
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Recipient | Nimbus Film ApS
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Christian’s wife has deserted him for another man, an Argentinian football player. Christian and his 14 year old son travel to Buenos Aires to win her back.
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Original title | Teori og praksis
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| Support | NOK 2.000.000
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Director | Jens Lien
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Producer | Asle Vatn, Christian Fredrik Martin
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Recipient | Friland Produksjon AS
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A satire over free upbringing, egoistic adults and punk rock as salvation and destruction.
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Development Support
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Original title | EIK
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Ole Christian Madsen
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Producer | Maja Dyekjaer Giese
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Recipient | Nimbus Film ApS
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EIK is a story of uncompromising love. Set in the sixties, a time that reflects so many emotions and longings of the present time, EIK is a story about being young - about searching for freedom of spirit, feeling the urge to live out the passion in you.
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Original title | Ishavets Kæmpe
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Adam Schmedes
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Producer | Adam Schmedes
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Recipient | Loke Film
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | De Andre (e. The Others)
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Margreth Olin
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Producer | Margreth Olin, Lars Jönsson
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Recipient | Speranza Film AS
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The Others is a full length documentary about lone minor asylum seekers. Their encounters with Europe, who they are, why they come.
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Original title | Facing Genocide
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Director | David Aronowitsch, Staffan Lindberg
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Producer | Jenny Örnborn, Tobias Janson, Charlotte Røhder Tvedt
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Recipient | Story AB
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The film is a search into the personality of one of the top-leaders of the Khmer Rouge. We have a unique opportunity to give an account of an ex-leader the time before his arrest and before he is put on trial for Crimes against Humanity.
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March 2010
Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | Farsan
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Recipient | Sandrew Metronome Distribution Finland Oy
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Original title | Farsan
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| Support | NOK 350.000
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Recipient | Sandrew Metronome Norge AS
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | New Nordic Children Films 2010
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Film festival
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Recipient | Barnefilmfestivalen AS
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Original title | Nordic Film Magazines
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| Support | NOK 225.000
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Recipient | Filmmagasinet Ekko
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Original title | Nordisk Forum 2010
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Filmfestival
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Recipient | Filmkontakt Nord
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Original title | Scandinavian Screening
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Recipient | DR International Sales
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Development Support
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Original title | Den fördömde (e. The Condemned)
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| Support | NOK 1.400.000
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Director | Daniel Espinosa, Michael Hjorth
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Producer | Henrik Widman
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Recipient | Tre Vänner Produktion AB
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Sebastian Bergman, a distinguished psychology and criminology professor. He´s in his early fifties and has made his passion for the criminal mind his life.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | Elleville Elfrid (e. Sunshine Kathy)
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Tom Petter Hansen, Frank Mosvold
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Producer | Frank Mosvold, Søren Fleng
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Recipient | Kool Produktion AS
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"Sunshine Kathy" is a modern day "Pippi Longstocking". Kathy is 5 yrs old, optemistic and full of crazy ideas. Every day is an adventure.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | Freemen
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Joshua Oppenheimer
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Producer | Signe Byrge Sørensen
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Recipient | Final Cut Productions (Denmark)
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Medan, Indonesia, today. Anwar and his friends are respected politicians, notorious gangsters, and death squad leaders. In 1965 they participated in the killings of 2.5 million alleged communists, ethnic Chinese, artists, and intellectuals.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Jägarna 2
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| Support | NOK 1.600.000
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Director | Kjell Sundvall
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Producer | Peter Possne, Björn Carlström
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Recipient | Sonet Film AB
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It,s been fifteen years since Erik was hastily forced to leave the position with the Norrland Police Department in the far north of Sweden. Now fifteen years later Erik lives in Stockholm and is sent on a mission to his home town.
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Development Support
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Original title | Bora Bora
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| Support | NOK 80.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Hans Fabian Wullenweber
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Producer | Stine Spang Hansen
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Recipient | Nimbus Film ApS
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Bora Bora is a cool youth musical set in the streets of Copenhagen, following the 15 year old Mia who is struggeling to find her own way.
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | Digital storytelling
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| Support | NOK 75.000
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Genre | Seminar
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Recipient | Seaside Scripts
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | Freemen
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn
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Producer | Signe Byrge Sørensen
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Recipient | Final Cut Productions
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Medan, Indonesia, today. Anwar and his friends are respected politicians, notorious gangsters, and death squad leaders. In 1965 they participated in the killings of 2.5 million alleged communists, ethnic Chinese, artists, and intellectuals.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Le Havre
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| Support | NOK 2.750.000
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Director | Aki Kaurismäki
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Producer | Aki Kaurismäki, Fabienne Vonier, Reinhard Brundig
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Recipient | Sputnik Oy
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A film about a shoeshiner, who tries to save a refugee child.
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February 2010
Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | Folk ved fjorden (e. The people by the fjord)
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Øyvind Sandberg
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Producer | Jorunn Botne, Øyvind Sandberg
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Recipient | Øy-Film
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Djúpið (e. The Deep)
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Baltasar Kormákur
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Producer | Agnes Johansen, Baltasar Kormákur, Egil Ödegaard
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Recipient | Blueeyes Productions
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The story is about the miraculous rescue of a young seaman who survived 5 hours in the cold Atlantic and how the ordeal affects him.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | Bron / Broen
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| Support | NOK 2.500.000
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Director | Charlotte Sieling
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Producer | Bo Ehrhardt, Anders Landström
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Recipient | Filmlance / Nimbus Film
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A woman severed in half is found in the middle of the Øresund Bridge. The police discovers that the body is put together of two murdered women - One Danish, one Swedish. The two countries police forces are reluctantly forced to work together to solve the case.
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Original title | Den som dræber
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| Support | NOK 2.500.000
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Director | Birger Larsen, Niels Nørløv, Jannik Johansen, Kasper Gaard
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Producer | Jonas Allen, Peter Bose
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Recipient | Miso Film ApS
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Psychiatrist Thomas Schaeffer and officer Katrine Ries Jensen investigates serial crimes. Traditional notions of evidence and motive aren’t sufficient to them. They have to put themselves in the killer’s place to understand his fantasies and longings.
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Original title | Tími nornarinnar (e. The season of the witch)
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| Support | NOK 1.250.000
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Director | Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
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Producer | Gudrun Edda Thorhannesdottir, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
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Recipient | Spellbound Productions
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The Season of the Witch is an imaginative and entertaining crime series which will strike a different tone and ingeniously reflect the corruption and depravity of our times.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | Love Addiction
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Pernille Rose Grønkjær
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Producer | Sigrid Dyekjær
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Recipient | Danish Documentary Production
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Can love take over your life? How does it feel when every decision depends on what another person does? This film will explore what it means to be a Love Addict.
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Original title | Test Site
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| Support | NOK 70.000
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Director | Jesper Wachtmeister
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Producer | Jonas Kellagher
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Recipient | Eight Millimetres AB
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Test is about what goes on in the outskirts of civilization – where freedom is given, and taken, to express and experiment in ways not permissible in the built world.
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January 2010
Development Support
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Original title | Melancholia
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| Support | NOK 350.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Lars von Trier
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Producer | Meta Louise Foldager, Louise Vesth
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Recipient | Zentropa (Denmark)
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No more happy endings!
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Hella W
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| Support | NOK 750.000
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Director | Juha Wuolijoki
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Producer | Juha Wuolijoki, Riina Sildos
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Recipient | Snapper Films Oy
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At last Finnish cinema gives us a heroine - a strong woman, one who takes her place, if no place is offered to her. Every Finn knows the characters of Hella Wuolijoki´s Niskavuori plays, but the eventful life of the author is less known to many.
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Original title | Night is still young
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| Support | NOK 750.000
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Director | Lauri Nurkse
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Producer | Jesse Fryckman
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Recipient | Bronson Club
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SAKU, 29, is devastated, when he loses his best friend and roommate ACE to a girl. He manages to convince Ace to leave the girl, only to find out that their friendship isn’t the same anymore.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | Kjærlighetens galskap / Haarautuvan Rakkauden Talo / The House of Branching Love
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| Support | NOK 75.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Mika Kaurismäki
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Producer | Mika Kaurismäki
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Recipient | SF Norge (Norway)
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Comedy about a house of branching love.
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Original title | Max Manus
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Espen Sandberg, Joachim Rönning
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Producer | Sveinung Golimo
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Recipient | Nordisk Film Distribution AB (Sweden)
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The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II.
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | Film Sales Support 2010
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| Support | NOK 42.000
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Recipient | European Film Promotion
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Original title | Nordic Film Market 2010
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| Support | NOK 400.000
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Recipient | Göteborg Film Festival (S)
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Nordic Film Market (NFM) is an international marketplace during the Göteborg International Film Festival. It is the perfect spot to get a first glimpse at anything new coming out of the Nordic film scene.
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Original title | Nordic Film Market 2010
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| Support | NOK 400.000
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Genre | Film market
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Recipient | Göteborg Film Festival
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Hella W
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| Support | NOK 750.000
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Director | Juha Wuolijoki
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Producer | Juha Wuolijoki
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Recipient | Snapper Films Oy
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HELLA W is a biopic about Hella Wuolijoki, Finland's most complex and widely talented woman of influence. The drama-thriller recounts the true story of the internationally acclaimed businesswoman, playwright and politician, who is determined to leave her mark on the European psyche – in more than one place.
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Original title | The night is still young
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| Support | NOK 750.000
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Director | Lauri Nurkse
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Producer | Jesse Fryckman
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Recipient | Bronson Club Oy
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SAKU, 29, is devastated, when he loses his best friend and roommate ACE to a girl. He manages to convince Ace to leave the girl, only to find out that their friendship isn’t the same anymore.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | Kjærlighetens galskap / Haarautuvan Rakkauden Talo / The House of Branching Love
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| Support | NOK 75.000
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Recipient | SF Norge
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Original title | Max Manus
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Recipient | Nordisk Film Distributon A/S
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Original title | På vei mot stjernene
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| Support | NOK 45.000
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Recipient | SF Norge
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | Armadillo
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Janus Metz
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Producer | Ronnie Fridthjof
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Recipient | FRIDTHJOF FILM
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ARMADILLO is a story about two young men loosing their innocence in the war in Afghanistan.
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December 2009
Development Support
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Original title | The Royal Physicians Visit
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| Support | NOK 350.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Lasse Hallström
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Producer | Thomas Heinesen
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Recipient | Nordisk Film Production A/S (Denmark)
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German physician Struensee arrives in Copenhagen to soothe the mentally disturbed king Christian VII.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | BabyCall
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Pål Sletaune
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Producer | Turid Øversveen
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Recipient | 4 1/2 Fiksjon (Norway)
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”Babycall” is a psychological thriller about a young mother who is overprotecting her child due to a bad relationship with the father. When strange things happens in the building where she lives, she starts wondering if what she sees is for real.
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Original title | Priest of evil
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| Support | NOK 1.150.000
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Director | Olli Saarela
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Producer | Ilkka Matila
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Recipient | MRP Matila Röhr Productions
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Detective Sergeant Timo Harjunpää has seen more than enough of the seamier side of human nature.
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Original title | Sykt lykkelig
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Anne Sewitsky
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Producer | Synnøve Hørsdal
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Recipient | Maipo Film AS (Norway)
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Sykt Lykkelig er en sort komedie om utroskap, om to familier som kommer ut av skapet -sammen. De to parene og barna deres lærer fort at det å vokse opp ikke har noe med alder å gjøre.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | Thors Saga
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Director | Ulla Boje Rasmussen
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Producer | Henrik Veileborg, Hrönn Kristinsdóttir
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Recipient | Upfront Films ApS
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The story of the two visionaries and business entrepreneurs, Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson and Thor Jensen.
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Original title | Å leve uten penger - Living Without Money
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Director | Line Halvorsen
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Producer | Jan Dalchow, Paolo Pallavidino
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Recipient | Dalchows Verden (Norway)
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A documentary film focusing on the relationship between money and self-realization.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | I skyggen av varmen
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Beata Gårdeler
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Producer | Anna Croneman
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Recipient | SF Norge (Norway)
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A romantic drama about a security officer who tries to hide her secrets from her lover, a cop.
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | BUFF Financing Forum 2010
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Recipient | BUFF Malmö (Sweden)
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BUFF:FF Financing Forum for co-production of children’s film is a platform and meeting place created in order to give breathing grounds for new, exquisite and challenging films for children and youth.
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Original title | Buster Børne - og ungdomsfestival 2009
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Recipient | Copenhagen International Filmfestival (Denmark)
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BUSTER is a film festival for children and youth between 3-19 years of age.
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Original title | CPH:DOX International platform 2009
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Recipient | CPH:DOX (Denmark)
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CPH:DOX has become the biggest documentary event in Scandinavia offering the Nordic documentary film community an excellent venue to meet and engage with the international film world.
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November 2009
Development Support
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Original title | Det vilda livet
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Christina Olofson, Clas Lindberg
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Producer | Lennart Dunér, Christina Olofson
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Recipient | CO. Film Ab (S)
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Sandra had everything she could wish and saw her husband as the most skilful of businessman.
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Original title | Garbage prince
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Raimo O Niemi
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Producer | Markku Flink, Lars Löge
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Recipient | Periferia Productions Ltd (FI)
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Garbage Prince is a growing up story of two youngsters who want to live life with passion.
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Original title | KON-TIKI
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
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Producer | Lone Korslund, Jeremy Thomas, Aage Aaberge
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Recipient | Nordisk Film & TV AS (N)
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This is the film about the historic trip of Thor Heyerdahl and his five crew members crossing the Pacific ocean.
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Original title | Silence
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| Support | NOK 120.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Sakari Kirjavainen
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Producer | Petri Rossi
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Recipient | Cine Works Ltd. (Finland)
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"Silence" is a minimalistic war drama situated in Second World War assembling center for killed-in-action.
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Original title | Ángel
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Genre | Documentary
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Director | Kristoffer Kiörboe
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Producer | Agnes Johansen, Baltasar Kormákur
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Recipient | Blueeyes Productions (Iceland)
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Angel is one of 10000 boys that enrol each year in bull-fighting shool.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Bastøy
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Genre | Additional support
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Director | Marius Holst
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Producer | Karin Julsrud
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Recipient | 4 1/2 Fiksjon (Norway)
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Erling, 17, has been placed on a orphanage for young boys - Bastøy. The year is 1915 and Erling is doing whatever he can to escape before he turns 18, because then he will be transferred to a real prison. Based on a true story.
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Original title | Iron Sky
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| Support | NOK 1.700.000
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Director | Timo Vuorensola
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Producer | Tero Kaukomaa, Samuli Torssonen, Oliver Damian
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Recipient | Blind Spot Pictures (FI)
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In 1945 the Nazis went to the moon. In 2018 they are coming back!
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Original title | JA!
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| Support | NOK 1.000.000
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Director | Simon Staho
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Producer | Jonas Frederiksen
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Recipient | Zentropa (Denmark)
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4 friends.
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Original title | Medborgare, Godafton!
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| Support | NOK 1.200.000
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Director | Amir Chamdin
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Producer | Martina Stöhr
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Recipient | Chamdin & Stöhr AB (S)
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CITIZENS, GODEVENING, is a film about an artistic life that is unlike anyone else.
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Original title | Ond tro / Bad Faith
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| Support | NOK 600.000
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Director | Kristian Petri
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Producer | Johannes Åhlund
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Recipient | St Paul Film (S)
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On her way home from work Mona finds the victim of a serial killer.
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Original title | Östra Station - December
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| Support | NOK 1.250.000
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Director | Simon Kaijser Da Silva
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Producer | Erika Stark, Lars Blomgren, Maria Nordenberg
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Recipient | Filmlance INTL. AB (S)
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December is a love story between two ordinary people, unusually struck by fate.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | Drottningoffret / To Sacrifice a Queen
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Kathrine Windfeld
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Producer | Anna Croneman
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Recipient | Bob Film (S)
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Party leader Elizabeth Meyer has never made a big deal out of being Jewish, but she is now confronted.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | Adequate Beings
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Olaf de Fleur Johannesson
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Producer | Olaf de Fleur Johannesson
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Recipient | Poppoli Pictures (IS)
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An interwoven story of four characters in an Icelandic farming community.
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Original title | Colombianos
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Director | Tora Mårtens
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Producer | Antonio Russo Merenda
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Recipient | Hysteria film AB (S)
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This is a love story between two brothers, struggling for a better life and their relationship.
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Original title | Finskt Blod, Svenskt Hjärta
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Mika Ronkainen
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Producer | Ulla Simonen, Antonio Russo-Merenda, Malla Grapengiesser
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Recipient | Klaffi Productions Ltd. (FI)
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Documentary about the second generation Swede-Finns experiences and how music has been important.
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Original title | Frozen Tundra
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Paul-Anders Simma
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Producer | Tore Buvarp
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Recipient | Fenris Film AS (N)
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The film tells the story about survival in the sami village Lovozero.
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Original title | Last Days of the Arctic
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Magnus Vidar Sigurdsson
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Producer | Margret Jonasdottir
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Recipient | Saga Film (IS)
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He is an adventurer. He loves the extreme, where the cold creeps in and people are struggling.
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Original title | The Pirate Hunters
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Øystein Bogen
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Producer | Lars Løge, Johnny Holmvåg, Eivind Tolås
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Recipient | Flimmer Film as (N)
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How much do you think the western world really wants to get rid of Somali piracy? Pirate Hunting is the first film that takes a deeper look at modern piracy and its reasons, showing international big business interests behind the acts of greed and violence.
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | Reykjavík International Film Festival
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Recipient | Reykjavik International Film Festival
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The Reykjavík International Film Festival (RIFF) is Iceland‘s highest attended cultural event. The main purpose of the festival is to provide both Icelandic and international filmgoers with a wide selection of alternative, independent cinema.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | Bröllopsfotografen
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Ulf Malmros
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Producer | Jan Blomgren
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Recipient | Sandrew Metronome Distribution (FI)
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A new film by Ulf Malmros The Director of "Smala Sussie" and "Tjenare Kungen".
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Development Support
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Original title | MOR BYTTES / EXCHANGING MUM
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Genre | TV Fiction / Series
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Director | Mariella Jensen
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Producer | Peter Engel, Stine Lauritz Larsen
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Recipient | Zentropa RamBUk (DK)
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Josefine has an extremely ambitious mum, so Josefine wants a new. But wishes sometimes come true...
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Original title | Miina’s Summer
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Hanna Maylett
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Producer | Outi Rousu, Annakaisa Sukura
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Recipient | Periferia Productions Ltd (FI)
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Miina, 9-years old girl, stays at a camping ground for a summer with her mother and her elder sister.
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October 2009
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Original title | Lost in Africa
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Vibeke Muasya
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Producer | Vibeke Windeløv, Karoline Leth
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Recipient | SF FILM PRODUCTION (Sweden)
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The day before going on a vacation with his Danish mother to his original homeland Kenya, the adopted, charming soccertalent Simon (11) is chosen as ”Player of the month” and gets awarded a soccerball signed by his team in Copenhagen.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Napapiirin Sankarit aka Tikipoksi / Lapland Odyssey
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Thomas Dome Karukoski
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Producer | Aleksi Bardy
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Recipient | Helsinki -filmi Oy (Finland)
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Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about three long-term unemployed young men, living in Lapland, who set out on a quest to find a digital receiver, a digi box, on a wintery Friday night.
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Original title | Orla Frøsnapper
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Peter Dodd, Gert Fredholm
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Producer | Erik Wilstrup, Nina Crone
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Recipient | Crone Film A/S (Denmark)
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Victor lives in a sleepy little town. He and his dog “Pølse” like to spend summer doing pranks on adults. But the town bully Orla, is always in their way.
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Original title | Play
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| Support | NOK 1.400.000
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Director | Ruben Östlund
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Producer | Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober
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Recipient | Plattform Produktion (Sweden)
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PLAY is be a humourous and tragic behavioural study, focusing on the role-play and social aspects of group behaviour.
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Original title | Sumarlandid / Summerland
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| Support | NOK 1.300.000
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Director | Grimur Hakonarson
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Producer | Agnes Johansen, Baltasar Kormakur
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Recipient | Blueeyes Productions (Iceland)
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | Man tænker sit - Man tänker sitt
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| Support | NOK 20.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Henrik Hellström & Fredrik Wenzel
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Recipient | Scandinavian Culture Filmdistribution (Denmark)
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | I WAS WORTH 50 SHEEP
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Nima Sarvestani
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Producer | Nima Sarvestani
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Recipient | Nimafilm (Sweden)
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Sabere was sold 10 years old, to a 55-year-old man, became pregnant several times, then fled from him and now lives in a Women’s shelter. Sabere's mother was also inherited by an in-law. They have the daughter Farzaneh. Her father, too, wanted to sell her as a result of economic misery. The Shelter now tries to help the family.
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September 2009
Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Fyra år til
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| Support | NOK 750.000
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Director | Tova Magnusson
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Producer | Martin Persson
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Recipient | Anagram Produktion (Sweden)
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David, the leader of the Liberal Party is in crisis. His popularity is in free fall and suddenly he falls in love - with a man.
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Original title | Hjem til jul - Home for christmas
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| Support | NOK 2.000.000
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Director | Bent Hamer
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Producer | Bent Hamer
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Recipient | BulBul film
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It’s Christmas Eve, and we find ourselves in a war-torn town in the former Yugoslavia. All is quiet, except for the sound of church bells.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | Käsky - Tears of April
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Aku Louhimies
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Recipient | Action Film AS (Norway)
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | Alla är äldre än jag - Everyone is older than I am
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Martin Widerberg
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Producer | Christina Erman Widerberg
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Recipient | Widerberg Film AB (Sweden)
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An entertaining subjective fun and a bit melancholic documentary about the directors fathers inability to finish his documentary about his father and as a logic conclusion the problems with fatherhood. For them and therefore for me.
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | Nordisk Panorama Reykjavik 2009
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Recipient | Nordisk Panorama 2009
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Nordisk Panorama - 5 Cities Film Festival has for several years been a vital stop on the international film festival circuit - famous for its´ cultural importance and creativity, and recognized as a good place to find new, soulful, cutting-edge work..
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August 2009
Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | Pettersson & Findus: Glömligheter
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Jørgen Lerdam & Anders Sørensen
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Recipient | SF Norge (Norway)
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | AK
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Director | Jonas Odell
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Producer | Linda Hambäck
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Recipient | Filmtecknarna Animation AB (Sweden)
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Recent history with a personal angle. A relationship and a string of events seen through one person's eyes.
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Original title | The Black Power Mixtape
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Göran Hugo Olsson
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Producer | Tobias Janson, Göran Hugo Olsson
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Recipient | STORY AB (Sweden)
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The Black Power Mixtape is an archive compilation feature documentary film that displays the story of the Afro-American community 67-76, the people, the society and the style that fueled a change.
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Development Support
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Original title | Elleville Elfrid - Krazy Kathy
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| Support | NOK 80.000
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Genre | TV Fiction / Series
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Director | Tom Petter Hansen
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Producer | Frank Mosvold
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Recipient | Kool Produktion AS (Norway)
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Krazy Kathy has discovered how much there is in the world to explore and her adventures always end with her discovering something new about life.
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Original title | Teori og praksis
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| Support | NOK 125.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Jens Lien
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Producer | Christian Fredrik Martin, Asle Vatn
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Recipient | Friland (Norway)
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Nikolaj has high hopes for the new community at Rykkin. He's trying to figure out life dominated by his optimistic and energetic father. They are a happy alternative family until the day the mother gets killed in a car accident.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Familien Rheinwald
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Pernille Fischer Christensen
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Producer | Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Vinca Wiedemann
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Recipient | Zentropa (Denmark)
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A modern family story about grown up children, a new wife, new children, an ex-wife - a confusing scenery our culture has resulted in which we are still trying to figure out.
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Original title | Varg Veum - Skriften på veggen
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| Support | NOK 1.250.000
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Director | Stefan Faldbakken
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Producer | Silje Hopland Eik/ Tanya Nanette Badendyck
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Recipient | CineMiso (Norway)
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Varg Veum has retired as a private investigator. At the same time, Kniven, Vargs nemesis, is released. Kniven forces Varg to face earlier cases, and this time isn't Varg on the case, Varg IS the case.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | Spot and Splodge SUMMER
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| Support | NOK 275.000
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Director | Uzi Geffenblad, Lotta Geffenblad
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Producer | Uzi Geffenblad
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Recipient | Zigzag Animation (Sweden)
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Six new stories about "Spot and Splodge". They go on a picnic with too may insects, redecorate at home, print a newspaper, sail as pirates on a raft, visit the dentist and study the stars.
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June 2009
Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | Men Who Swim Together
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Dylan Williams
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Producer | Erik Pauser
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Recipient | Amp Film (Sweden)
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A humorous and poignant look at a group of middle aged underachievers who’ve found unlikely success as members of Sweden’s all male synchronised swimming team.
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Original title | Point of no return
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Helgi Felixson
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Producer | Titti Johnson, Helgi Felixson
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Recipient | Felix Film / Helgi Felixson Filmproduktion AB (Sweden)
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“Dear Icelanders… The banks have collapsed... Our independence is at stake... Our country could go bankrupt....”. The Prime Minister is speaking to the nation. It’s October 6th, a sunny yet crisp autumn day. All of Iceland comes to a stand still.
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Original title | The Hotel / Hotellet
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Kristian Petri
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Producer | Jonas Kellagher
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Recipient | Charon Film AB (Sweden)
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”The hotel” is a very private movie about life and living, loving, parting, making a movie and dying.
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Development Support
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Original title | Rat King
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Petri Kotwica
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Producer | Kai Nordberg, Kaarle Aho
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Recipient | Making Movies Oy
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18 year old Juri is dependent on computer and have virtually lost all human contact. When he contacted by the mysterious Niki, a onlineven that resembles him in a bullet, he involuntarily into a fatal game that turns out to be about life and death and retain its identity.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | Pettson & Findus: Glömligheter - Viirju ja Personen: Muisti pätkii
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Jørgen Lerdam & Anders Sørensen
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Recipient | FS Film Oy (Finland)
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May 2009
Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | Kaldt kappløp / Ice Race
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Lars O. Toverud, Ola Flyum, Kaare Skard, Torstein Molle Haug
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Producer | Kalle Fürst
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Recipient | Nordisk Film & TV AS (Norway)
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“Ice Race” shows that a global lack of oil and gas, food and other resources is turning the Arctic into one of the most important and most explosive areas in the world. A high percentage of the oil and gas reserves are located in the Arctic, and new technology and climate change are now making it possible to exploit them. The battle over borders, the environment, food and resource management has now commenced. How will this affect the world, and what will the consequences be for the Arctic?
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Original title | Sallan Strategia / Selling the Silence
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Markku Tuurna
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Producer | Markku Tuurna
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Recipient | Filmimaa Ltd. (Finland)
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The film witnesses the rise and fall of one family of entrepreneurs, the Kuukkanen family from Salle in Lapland, Finland, side by side with the current changes in the values of our society. The question is; how to avoid causing irreversible changes to the environment while earning your living?
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | Concert in Cannes
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| Support | NOK 25.000
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Recipient | Fundal Music
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High profile concert of music from “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” & “Flame & Citron” with live orchestra.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | Antichrist
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Lars von Trier
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Recipient | Zentropa Entertainments23 Aps (Denmark)
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Original title | De Usynlige - The Unseen
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Erik Poppe
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Recipient | Scanbox Ent. Sweden AB (Sweden)
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Original title | Duggholufólki? - No Network
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| Support | NOK 75.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Ari Kristinsson
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Recipient | Øst for paradis (Denmark)
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Original title | Max Manus
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| Support | NOK 75.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Espen Sandberg, Joachim Rønning
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Recipient | Nordisk Film Distibution AB (Sweden)
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Original title | Original
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| Support | NOK 90.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Alexander Brøndsted, Antonio Tublén
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Recipient | Nordisk Film Distribution AB (Sweden)
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April 2009
Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | Collaborator
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Gabriella Bier
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Producer | Göran Olsson, David Aronowitsch
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Recipient | STORY AB (Sweden)
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A Romeo and Juliet story of our time. Where a young married coupled are refused to live together - only beause their respective countries are in conflict.
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Original title | Præsidenten / The Presidency
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Christoffer Guldbrandsen
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Producer | Ane Mandrup Pedersen
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Recipient | Guldbrandsen Aps (Denmark)
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About the Treaty of Lisbon - its history from conception to implementation. But more than that, it is a universal insight into what drives European decision-makers, and a deep look into the engine room of European power politics.
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Original title | Restless in Paradise
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| Support | NOK 150.000 (+development 50.000)
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Director | Olavi Linna
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Producer | Jesper Jack
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Recipient | Cosmo Doc ApS (Denmark)
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What does it take for a man who’s 40, still living at home and having cycled the equivalent of 4 times around the Equator on his exercise bike, to move away from home?
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Original title | The Forest
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Helena Nygren, Jacob Andrén
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Producer | Margarete Jangård, Fredrik Gertten
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Recipient | WG Film, Westman & Gertten AB (Sweden)
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Jacob Andren, is wondering about what happened to all the trees that he and his classmates bought after having collected money at a flea market. That was 20 years ago...
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Original title | The Plan
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| Support | NOK 400.000
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Director | Michael Stenberg, David Östeberg
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Producer | Michael Stenberg, David Östeberg
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Recipient | Biospheric Pictures AB (Sweden)
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The Plan is an edgy, fresh and daring film about humans ability to make plans. It will inspire, shake up and show directions to new ways of thinking and living.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Applaus - Applause
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Director | Martin Zandvliet
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Producer | Mikael Chr. Rieks
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Recipient | Koncern tv- og filmproduktion (Denmark)
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Among the wreck of the theatre crowd I stand and smile. They take tragedy so becomingly; Which pleases me.
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Original title | Nytt Norsk Håp - Norwegian Ninja
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Thomas Cappelen Malling
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Producer | Eric Vogel
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Recipient | Tordenfilm (Norway)
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The 'true' story about how Arne Trehold and his Ninjatroops saves Norway from a secret government who wants to 'sell' the country to USA in the eighties.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | Mammut - Mammoth
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| Support | NOK 125.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Lukas Modysson
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Recipient | Sandrew Metronome Filmdistribution (Denmark)
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March 2009
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Original title | Burma VJ
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Genre | Documentary (Distribution)
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Director | Anders Østergaard
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Recipient | Tour de Force (Norway)
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Original title | Disco Ormene
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Thomas Borch Nielsen
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Recipient | SF Norge (Norway)
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Original title | Lille soldat – Little Solider
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| Support | NOK 80.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Anette K. Olesen
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Recipient | Fidalgo Film Distribution (Norway)
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Original title | Mammut - Mammoth
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Lukas Modysson
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Recipient | Sandrew Metronome (Norway)
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Original title | Mammut - Mammoth
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Niels Arden Oplev
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Recipient | Sandrew Metronome Distribution Finland OY (Finland)
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Original title | Män som hatar kvinnor
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Niels Arden Oplev
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Recipient | Oy Nordisk Film Ab (Finland)
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Original title | PATRIK 1,5
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Ella Lemhagen
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Recipient | SF Norge (Norway)
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Original title | Ping pong kingen - Kongen af Ping Pong
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| Support | NOK 70.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Jens Jonsson
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Recipient | Sunrise Film Distribution (Denmark)
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Development Support
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Original title | Doing the Right Thing?
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Documentary
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Director | Tjorvi Gudmundsson
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Producer | Henrik Veileborg
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Recipient | Cosmo Doc ApS (Denmark)
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A cross-platform media project about real-life teen dilemmeas around the world. It’s a place where both local and global values are tested by lived realities. What is Doing the Right thing? We’ll ask the teenagers themselves about making the most important – and difficult – choices of a life time.
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | IMAGO Oslo Digital Cinema Conference 2009
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Recipient | Laterna Magica AS
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By inviting international experts for lecture and debate, to transfer wide and extensive information to the Conferende participants about the development, challenges and the future of digital film production and cinematography and digital distribution.
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Original title | Kristiansand Internasjonale Barnefilmfestival 2009
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Recipient | Barnefilmfestivalen AS
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Norway’s largest festival for films for children and youth. The festival organizes a large number of school screenings, seminars and workshop. The festival each year attracts a considerable number of professionals from Norway, Scandinavia and Europe. The 2009 festival is held from April 28th – May 3rd.
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Original title | Nordisk Forum 2009
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Recipient | Filmkontakt Nord (Nordic)
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Forum for co-financing of Documentaries, taking place at Nordisk Panorama, this year held in Reykjavik, Iceland, September 28th – 29th.
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February 2009
Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | ALTING BLIVER GODT IGEN - Everything Will Be Fine
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| Support | NOK 1.200.000
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Director | Christoffer Boe
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Producer | Tine Grew Pfeiffer
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Recipient | Alphaville Pictures Copenhagen (Denmark)
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Film director Jacob Falk flees from a car accident in which he was at fault — out of fear of the consequences for his coming film and the adoption of his future son...
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Original title | SNABBA CASH - Easy Money
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Daniel Espinosa
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Producer | Fredrik Wikström
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Recipient | Tre Vänner Produktion AB (Sweden)
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Snabba cash shows society's dark side during 2000 where emotional numb psychopaths with no boundaries are running the show.
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Original title | Thór - The Edda Chronicles
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| Support | NOK 2.500.000
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Director | Gunnar Karlsson
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Producer | Hilmar Sigurdsson, Arnar Thorisson
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Recipient | Caoz ltd
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Tells of the young Thor and his coming of age as the super hero god of the human world and protector of the world.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | PAGTEN - The Pact
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| Support | NOK 1.250.000
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Genre | Jesper W. Nielsen
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Director | Katrine Vogelsang
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Producer | Katrine Vogelsang
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Recipient | Danmarks Radio (Denmark)
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The pact between man and santa is threaten. A christmas calander tv-series for kids.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | Cities on Speed - Bogotá
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Andreas Møl Dalsgaard
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Producer | Jesper Jack, Anna-Maria Kantarius
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Recipient | Cosmo Doc ApS (Denmark)
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At the beginning of the 1990’s, Bogotá was a city with many problems; all symtoms of a city with no overall strategy. Kidnappings were the order of the day, the city had the world’s highest murder rate and was in short one of the world’s most dangerous cities. But then, in 1993, mathematician and philosopher Antanas Mockus stepped onto the scene....
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Original title | Cities on Speed - Mumbai
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Camilla Nielsson, Frederik Jacobi
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Producer | Jesper Jack, Anna-Maria Kantarius
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Recipient | Cosmo Doc ApS (Denmark)
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Mumbai is growing like it was on steroids, and is predicted to be the world’s largest city in 2020, with 28 million inhabitants. But alerady now, the megacity is bursting at it’s seams, and a collapsing infrastructure is making life close to unbearable for it’s citizens.
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Original title | INKULAL - Inkulal
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Linda Västrik
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Producer | Linda Västrik, Mila Aung Thwin
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Recipient | Linda Västrik Filmproduktion AB (Sweden)
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The Yaka/Mbendjele tribe in the tropical rainforest of the Congo Basin live in one of the last untouched rainforests of the world. They have litle contact with westernes, but hat is about to change. 500.000 hectares away, the biggest logging company in the Congo is razing the forest, and within a few months this forest wil be destroyed.
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Original title | KATJA - Katja
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Director | Tjorvi Gudmundsson
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Producer | Hlin Johannesdottir
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Recipient | ZikZak Eignarhaldsfelag Ehf. (Iceland)
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In Ukraine are 1 million of homeless children, this is a story of one of them. Katja is a ”street kid” from Kiev. From the age of 10 she´s been on her own. In 2009 when she turns 18 she will be released from youth prison – which marks the beginning of this film.
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Original title | Ravioli - Canned Dreams
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| Support | NOK 350.000
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Director | Katja Gauriloff
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Producer | Joonas Berghäll
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Recipient | Oktober Oy (Finland)
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A lyrical journey across Europe on which we encounter workers and their dreams in a frame of following a polluting route of a food product; Raviloi Can.
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Original title | Rules of Single Life
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Tonislav Hristov
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Producer | Kaarle Aho
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Recipient | Making Movies Oy (Finland)
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Four Bulgarian emigrants looking for love in Helsinki. All their girlfriens have left them, and they make a decision; they give themselves 12 months to find new girlfriends. In order to do that they have to learn the name of the game....
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January 2009
Development Support
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Original title | LABYRINTEN - The Labyrinth
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Genre | Feature Film
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | CARSTEN OG GITTES TV SHOW
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| Support | NOK 400.000
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Director | Anders Morgenthaler
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Producer | Sarita Christensen
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Recipient | Copenhagen Bombay Productions Aps
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A 45-minute long movie for pre-schoolers. The two crazy and charming puppets Carsten and Gitte introduce and comment on six short films.
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Development Support
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Original title | Film Sales Support 2009
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| Support | NOK 45.000
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Recipient | European Film Promotion
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Support for European feature films, animation, docs at international non-European film festivals and markets.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | DET EROTISKE MENNESKET - The Erotic Human
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| Support | NOK 400.000
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Director | Jørgen Leth
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Producer | Marianne Christensen
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Recipient | Zentropa (Denmark)
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Jørgen Leth’s artistic and personal interpretation of the nature of eroticism – based on Jørgen Leth’s poetry and personal experience.
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | New Nordic Films 2009
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| Support | NOK 350.000
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Recipient | Den Norske Filmfestivalen
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New Nordic Films 2009 is a Nordic film market with co-production and film financing forms and master class seminars.
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Original title | Nordisk Barne TV Festival 2009
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Recipient | Stiftelsen Nordisk Barne TV festival
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Festival promoting cooperation between people working with culture and children in the Nordic countries.
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December 2008
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Original title | Cartoon Forum 2009
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Recipient | Qvisten Animasjon
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Cartoon Forum is an international financing forum for animated TV-series. The main purpose is to promote European co-production and increase the investments in European animation.
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Original title | Nordic Film Market 2009
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| Support | NOK 350.000
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Recipient | Göteborg International Film Festival
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Nordic Film Market 2009 is a marketplace for new Nordic films and an important meeting place for everyone with professional interest for this area - especially buyers, distributors and festival representatives.
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Development Support
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Original title | Iron Sky
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Timo Vuorensola
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Producer | Tero Kaukomaa
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Recipient | Blind Spot Pictures (Finland)
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In 1945, the nazis fled to the moon. It is 2018, and they are coming back.
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Original title | OPERASJON ARKTIS - Operation Arctic
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Grethe Bøe
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Producer | Cornelia Boysen
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Recipient | Nordisk Film (Norway)
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When the sieblings Julia(12), Sindre(9) and Ida (9) gets lost on an deserted island in the Artic, they have to learn how to survice alone.
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Original title | Simon och ekarna - Simon and the Oaks
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Björn Runge
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Producer | Christer Nilson
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Recipient | Göta Film (Sweden)
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Simon grows up after the second world war and feels more and more alienated from his loving parents, Karin & Erik. This feeling gets even stronger when he becomes friends with a jewish boy, Isak, and learns that he himself also is jewish, adopted by Karin and Erik. Simon starts looking for his dad.
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Original title | Sisko Tahtoisin jäädä - If I Stay It Will Be Double
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Marja Pyykkö
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Producer | Piia Nokelainen
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Recipient | Solar Films Inc Oy (Finland)
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'If I stay it will be double' is the story of 15 year-old Emilia and her struggle to find her own path between family and passionate friendship.
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Original title | Tiikerisydän - Tigerheart
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Aku Louhimies
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Producer | Kaarle Aho, Kai Nordberg
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Recipient | Making Movies Oy (Finland)
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A story about a boy who wants to stop time.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | DEAR ALICE
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| Support | NOK 1.400.000
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Director | Othman Karim
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Producer | Malin Holmberg-Karim
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Recipient | New Horizons Film & Television HB (Sweden)
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Original title | Kvinden der drømte om en mand - A Woman Who Dreamt of a Man
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| Support | NOK 1.200.000
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Director | Per Fly
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Producer | Ib Tardini
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Recipient | Zentropa (Denmark)
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A married woman has a dream about a man. In Paris she meets the mand she has seen in her dreams. The relationship becomes an obsession.
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Original title | MASKEBLOMSTFAMILIEN
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| Support | NOK 1.750.000
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Director | Petter Næss
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Producer | Dag Alveberg
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Recipient | Maipo Film (Norway)
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We love him for what he is, but hate him for what he does.
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Original title | USYNLIGE VENNER - Invisible Friends
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| Support | NOK 850.000
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Director | Niels Gråbøl
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Producer | Sigrid Helene Dyekjær
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Recipient | Nimbus Film Produktions (Denmark)
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Viktor(8) lives with his mother and his older brother. Viktor misses his father, and he feels like less talented boy on earth. One day arrives Gilbert...
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | Buzz Aldrin, hvor ble det av deg i alt mylderet?
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Geir Henning Hopland
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Producer | Yngve Sæther
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Recipient | Motlys (Norway)
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Mathias(29), born the same day as the Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, chooses to be number two.
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Original title | DET SISTE NORSKE TROLLET - The Last Norwegian Troll
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Pjotr Sapegin
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Producer | Gry Nøstdahl
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Recipient | KinoPravda AS
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The last norwegian troll is living in peace under a bridge until three goats arrives...
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | COMPLAINTS CHOIR
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Ada Bligaard Søby
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Producer | Morten Kjems Juhl
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Recipient | Fine & Mellow (Denmark)
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This film asks what complaining is all about and shows how it’s binding us all together by following the funny yet thought provoking Finnish art project Complains Choir.
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Original title | Cities on Speed - Cairo Garbage
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Mikala Krogh
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Producer | Sigrid Helene Dyekjær
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Recipient | Nimbus Film Produktions (Denmark)
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Once upon a time there was 8 mill people in Cairo. Today there is 22 mill. And their Garbage piles up in the street. It is about 40 degrees in Cairo,and there are no incinerators. Everybody in Cairo is therefore desperate to find solutions to this problem since the publics health is being threatened.
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Original title | Cities on Speed - Shanghai Space
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Nanna Frank Møller
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Producer | Helle Faber
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Recipient | Bastard Film A/S (Denmark)
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Shanghai is not just a city it's an explosion. The government tries to control it, but Shanghai seems to have it's own pace. Mr. Xu, a middle-aged photographer, has tried to capture the "city on speed" for the last three decades, but now it is eating its way into his spot.
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November 2008
Development Support
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Original title | MODELLEN - The Modell
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Per Olav Sørnesen
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Producer | Aage Aaberge
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Recipient | Neo Film (Norway)
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Peter Wihl, a painter, is about loose his sight, and therefore gets persuaded to and illegal eye operation. It leads to fatal consequences and not only because an Estonian orphan girl looses her eyes to Peter...
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Original title | NYTT NORSK HÅP - New Norwegian Hope
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Thomas Cappelen Malling
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Producer | Eric Vogel
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Recipient | Tordenfilm (Norway)
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The 'true' story about how Arne Trehold and his Ninjatroops saves Norway from a secret government who wants to 'sell' the country to USA in the eighties.
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Original title | PIONER - Pioneer
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Erik Skjoldbjærg
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Producer | Christian Fredrik Martin, Asle Vatn
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Recipient | Friland (Norway)
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Peder is a diver working for Subsea which Statoil has employed to investigate if its possible to produce a gas line to England. When several of his colleges becomes ill after test diving, he becomes suspicious to Subsea.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | Johan Falck
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| Support | NOK 2.000.000
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Director | Anders Nilsson / Daniel Lind Lagerlöf
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Producer | Joakim Hansson
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Recipient | Modern Studios (Sweden)
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Johan Falk is back in Sweden, where he starts working in 'GSI' (Gruppen för särskilda insatser). Their modus operandi is to infiltrate organized crime and cooperate with the police.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | DEN GODE KAPITALIST - The Good Capitalist
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Line Hatland
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Producer | Kristine Ann Skaret
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Recipient | Medieoperatørene AS (Norway)
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The Norwegian State has a national plan for how to stay rich and at the same time sleep well at night, for how to force the multinationals to behave better. In the debate about the growing power of the SWF’s in the world, the Norwegian oil fund is often held as an ideal, because of its stress on ethic values. The state has a good cop / bak cop strategy….
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | BUFF Financing Forum 2009
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| Support | NOK 120.000
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Recipient | BUFF Filmfestival, Malmö
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BUFF:FF 2009 is a financing forum arranged during BUFF Film Festival. 15-20 children- and youth film projects are selected and presented to financiers and other observers from the film business.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Max Manus
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| Support | NOK 3.000.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Espen Sandberg & Joachim Rønning
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Producer | John M. Jacobsen & Sveinung Golimo
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Recipient | Filmkameratene (Norway)
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The life of Max Manus – Norway’s most legendary and colorful resistance fighter – was spectacular. A man with no formal education, he first became a globetrotter, then a war hero, subsequently an alcoholic with broken nerves and finally an internationally successful businessman.
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October 2008
Development Support
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Original title | TEST SITE
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| Support | NOK 62.500
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Genre | Documentary
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Director | Jesper Wachtmeister
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Producer | Jonas Kellagher
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Recipient | Eight Millimetres (Sweden)
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A film about what goes on in the outskirts of civilization – where freedom is given, and taken, to express and experiment in ways not permissible in the built world. The subject is the American desert as at place that permits experiments off all kinds – for better or for worse.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | HIEKKALAATIKOLLA/ The Playground
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Tone Laine
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Producer | Aleksi Bardy
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Recipient | Helsinki Film Oy (Finland)
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Laura is german and moves to Finland with her husband and their little daughter. Her husband travels a lot so she soon starts to feel lonely, and seeks comfort in a group of single women. Here she pretends to be single to fit in.
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Original title | SUBMARINO
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| Support | NOK 1.250.000
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Director | Thomas Vinterberg
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Producer | Morten Kaufmann
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Recipient | Nimbus Film Produktions (Denmark)
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Nick is living at a shelter after being released from prison. Nicks little brother is a drug addict and a single father. The two brother are not in touch but carry the same burden - a terrible secret from the past which threatens to destroy them both.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | DE VILDE SVANER / The Wild Swans
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| Support | NOK 350.000
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Director | Jesper W. Nielsen
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Producer | Jacob Jørgensen
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Recipient | JJ Film ApS (Denmark)
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An exiting story for children and adults. H.C. Andersons stories will be told by a combination of live action, 3D and natureshots.
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Original title | FLØJTELØS/ Whistleless
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Director | Siri Melchior
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Producer | Marie Bro
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Recipient | Dansk Tegnefilm 2 ApS
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A musical and comic story about a birds struggle to learn how to whistle.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | ABUSE
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Linda Thorgen
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Producer | Stina Gardell
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Recipient | Mantaray Film & TV Production (Sweden)
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A story about abuse and its consequences from a very personal angle. We follow Linda – the director – on her journey towards freedom and her unravelling of her family’s histore – one of abuse.
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Original title | FAMILIA
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Mikael Wikström, Alrberto Herskovits
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Producer | Mikael Wikström
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Recipient | Månharen Film & TV (Sweden)
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A feature length documentary about the complicated love story of Naty & Daniel from Peru. It is also a film about family and their difficulties. FAMILIA is the third part of a trilogy that covers a family during more than 30 years.
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Original title | ME & MY NOSE
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| Support | NOK 260.000
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Director | Ziska Szemes
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Producer | Lise Saxtrup
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Recipient | Klassefilm (Denmark)
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Ziska is born and raised in Sweden. However, she is often asked where she comes from. Because she does not look swedish. In ME & MY NOSE Ziska sets out on a journey, to find out how to get a swedish nose, how a swedish nose really looks like, and last, but not least, if she in any way is the Swede, she believes she is.
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Original title | OLAS ARK
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Stafan Berg
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Producer | Malin Fors
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Recipient | Berg Images (Sweden)
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Ola Salo, 31, is at the peak of his career as the lead singer of the pop band The Ark, with national as well as international fame and fortune. But the glamorous image he has created for himself doesn't suit his new state of seriousness. This is a documentary film about a man who finds himself obliged to transform the image that has become an icon.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | EN MAND KOMMER HJEM - A Man Comes Homes
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Thomas Vinterberg
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Recipient | Tour de Force (Norway)
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Original title | MANNEN SOM ELSKET YNGE The Man who Loved Yngve
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| Support | NOK 80.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Stian Kristiansen
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Recipient | Sunrise Film Distribution (Denmark)
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Original title | MARIA LARSSONS EVIGA ÖGONBLICK – Maria Larsson’s everlasting moment
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Jan Troell
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Recipient | Featurefilm
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Original title | NICO & THE WAY TO THE STARS
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| Support | NOK 160.000
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Genre | Feature Film (dubbing)
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Director | Kari Juusonen, Michael Hegner
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Recipient | Nordisk Film (Sweden)
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September 2008
Development Support
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Original title | KVINDEN DER DRØMTE OM EN MAND/ A Woman Who Dreamt of a Man
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| Support | NOK 125.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Per Fly
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Producer | Ib Tardini
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Recipient | Zentropa (Denmark)
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A woman dreams about a man which she desires but doesn't know. What will she do when the dream becomes real or the other way around?
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Mamma Gógó
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| Support | NOK 1.000.000
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Director | Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
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Producer | Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
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Recipient | Leiknar Myndir ehf
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A directors movie 'Children of nature' opens at the same time as he struggles with the alzheimer his mother suffers from. He manages to get her a room at a health care center, and sells her house. The money he invest in a firm which is developing a new cure for Alzheimer.
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Original title | TOINEN JALKA HAUDASTA/ One Foot Under
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Johanna Vuoksenmaa
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Producer | Riina Hyytiä
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Recipient | Dionysos Films Oy
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Visa knows that his life will end within six months but despite of that he fell in love with Hanna. Suddenly he finds out that he's been misdiagonosed. He's not ill.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | JALKILAMPO/ Eftervärme
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Paavo Westerberg
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Producer | Risto Salomaa, Lasse Saarinen
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Recipient | Kinotar Oy (Finland)
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The story take place in real time and it is about love, divorce and children taking places in new relationships. Unfortunately very common lives in modern life.
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | Nordischer Filmklub / Nordic Film Club
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| Support | NOK 30.000
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Recipient | Kulturhus Berlin
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Nordischer Filmklub / Nordic Film Club is a non profit film club screening feature films from Scandinavia twice a month from September to March at Kulturhus Berlin. The initiative is a cooperation between Kulturhus Berlin and the Nordic embassies since autumn 2006/2007.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | ARN – RIKET VID VÄGENS SLUT - ARN – The kingdom at Road’s End
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Peter Flinth
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Recipient | SF-Film (Denmark)
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Original title | DE OFRIVILLIGA - Involuntary
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Ruben Östlund
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Recipient | Plattform Produktion (Sweden)
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Original title | FLAMMEN OG CITRONEN
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Ole Christian Madsen
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Recipient | Sandrew Metronome (Norway)
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Original title | MARIA LARSSONS EVIGA ÖGONBLICK – Maria Larsson’s everlasting moment
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| Support | NOK 75.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Jan Troell
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Recipient | Sandrew Metronome Filmdistribution (Denmark)
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Development Support
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Original title | SKYWATCHERS
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| Support | NOK 75.000
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Genre | Documentary
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Director | Suvi Andrea Helminen
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Producer | Lise Lense-Møller
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Recipient | Magic Hour Films (Denmark)
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What does a scientist from Norway, a Catholic priest from Italy, a housewife from USA, and a miner from Argentina have in common? They are all passionately watching the sky for mysterious light phenomenas.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | KAUTOKEINO-OPPRØRET - The Kautokeino Rebellion
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Nils Gaup
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Recipient | Sandrew Metronome Distribution (Sweden)
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Original title | MAMMA MU OCH KRÅKAN – Mamma Moo and Crow
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Genre | Featurefilm - animiation
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Director | Igor Veyshtagin
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Recipient | SF Norge (Norway)
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August 2008
Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | BLEKINGEGADEBANDEN – The Blekinge Street Gang
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| Support | NOK 400.000
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Director | Anders Riis-Hansen
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Producer | Søren Steen Jespersen
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Recipient | Bastard Film (Danmark)
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A authentic story about the biggest case of political crime in danish history. Base don the bestselling books by Peter Øvig Knudsen.
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Original title | THE BELIEVERS
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Ole Bendtzen
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Producer | Mikael Opstrup
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Recipient | Final Cut Prodctions (Denmark)
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Fans of the Argentinean football club Boca Juniors have founded the first Maradonian Church - also known as the Hand of God church - to worship Diego Maradona. According to the church, we are now in the year 47 AD - After Diego. A documenary that explores the thin boundaries between faith and football.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | ARN - RIKET VID VÄGENS SLUT – Arn: The Kingdom at Roads End
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| Support | NOK 70.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Peter Flinth
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Recipient | FS Film Oy (Finland)
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Original title | ARN - RIKET VID VÄGENS SLUT – Arn: The Kingdom at Roads End
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| Support | NOK 225.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Peter Flinth
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Recipient | SF Norge (Norway)
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Original title | CYKELMYGGEN OG DANSEMYGGEN – A Tale of two Mozzies
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Jannik Hastrup, Flemming Quist Møller
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Recipient | Norsk Filmdistribusjon (Norway)
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Original title | DESMOND OCH TRÄSKPATRASKFÄLLEN - Desmond and The Swamp Barbarian Trap
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| Support | NOK 125.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Magnus Carlsson
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Recipient | CCV AS / Oro Film (Norway)
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Original title | DESMOND OCH TRÄSKPATRASKFÄLLEN – Desmond and The Swamp Barbarian Trap
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| Support | NOK 75.000
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Genre | Featurefilm - animiation
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Director | Magnus Carlsson
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Recipient | CCV AS / Oro Film (Norway)
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Original title | Duggholufólki? - No Network
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Ari Kristinsson
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Recipient | SEG Scandinavian Entertainment Group (Norway)
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Original title | KUNSTEN Å TENKE NEGATIVT - The Art of Negative Thinking
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Bård Breien
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Recipient | Sunrise Film Distribution (Denmark)
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Original title | UNDERBAR OCH ÄLSKAD AV ALLA
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| Support | NOK 70.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Hannes Holm
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Recipient | Sunrise Film Distribution (Denmark)
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | NORDISK BARNEFILMSEMINAR/ The Unlimited Universe
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Recipient | The Norwegian Film Institute (Norway)
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Two day seminar focusing on and inspiring to higher production of children’s films in the Nordic countries.
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Development Support
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Original title | CAROLINE MATHILDES ÅR - A Royal Affair
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Nikolaj Arcel
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Producer | Meta Louise Foldager
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Recipient | Zentropa (Denmark)
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A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with his physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.
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Original title | LOPUN ALKU / The Beginning of the End
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Genre | TV Fiction / Series
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Director | Heikki Kujanpää
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Producer | Kai Nordberg
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Recipient | Making Movies Oy (Finland)
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TV-series on the 'forest war' in Finnish lapland. The Sami reindeer herders and Greenpeace on one side and a Forest Company and its logger on the other. The first thing that suffers in war is the truth - and the old forrest.
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Original title | MOLLY OCH RYMDKADETTERNA
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| Support | NOK 75.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Magnus Holmgren
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Producer | Jan Blomgren
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Recipient | Bob Film Sweden AB (Sweden)
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X and Y from the Z galaxy forces to land on earth to pee. Molly thinks they are Gods messengers, and all of a sudden they are fighting injustice on a planet far away.
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Original title | RARE EXPORTS
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Jalmari Helander
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Producer | Petri Jokiranta
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Recipient | Cinet Ltd (Finland)
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Give your loved ones something RARE this christmas.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | Antichrist
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| Support | NOK 2.200.000
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Director | Lars von Trier
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Producer | Meta Louise Foldager
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Recipient | Zentropa Entertainments23 ApS (Denmark)
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He and she lose their son and she later suffers from horrible anxiety attacks. They try to tackle her fears together at 'Eden' a deserted cabin in the woods. (Foto: Rolf Konow)
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Original title | HEADHUNTER
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| Support | NOK 1.050.000
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Director | Rumle Hammerich
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Producer | Aake Sandgren
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Recipient | Nordisk Film (Denmark)
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A headhunter who's working to find the new CEO of one the biggest companies in the Nordic region, is all of a sudden drawn into a secluded power game. (Foto: Erik Aavatsmark)
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Original title | SOUND OF NOISE
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| Support | NOK 1.000.000
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Director | Ola Simonsen / Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
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Producer | Olivier Guerpillon
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Recipient | DFM Fiktion AB (Sweden)
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A group of eccentric drummers attacks the city, playing on anything but regular instruments. The police officer Warnebrings hunt soon turns out to be a personal vendetta.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | HAMARINN - The Cliff
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| Support | NOK 800.000
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Director | Reynir Lyngdal
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Producer | Snorri Thorisson
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Recipient | Pegasus Pictures (Iceland)
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A dramatic mystery about a Crime Detective who os sent to a small rural community in Iceland to helg a young local policewoman investigate a suspicious accident.
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June 2008
Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | Am I Black Enough for You
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Director | Göran Olsson
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Producer | Jenny Örnborn
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Recipient | Story AB (Sweden)
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Am I Black Enough for You tells the story about the artist Billy Paul, the city of Philadephia and the lifelong companionship between Billy and his wife Blanche.
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Original title | LAITOS – The Plant
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| Support | NOK 350.000
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Director | Mika Taanila
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Producer | Cilla Werning
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Recipient | Kinotar Oy (Finland)
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About the consruction process of the world’s most powerful nuclear power plant i Olkiluoto, a small Finnish village, and its impact on the immediate neighbourhood.
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Original title | OUPA – turning Grandpa in his grave
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Hanli Prinsloo
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Producer | Klara Björk
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Recipient | Filmkreatörerna (Sweden)
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A Story of the search for the man behind the dead racist. A white South African´s journey to belonging.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | MUUMI JA VAARALLINEN JUHANNUS – Moomin and Midsummer Madness
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Genre | Featurefilm - animiation
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Director | Maria Lindberg
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Recipient | Oy Filmkompaniet Alpha ab / Coriander Film (Norge)
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A tranquil summer day in the Moomin Valley is interrupted by a volcanic eruption nd a huge surge. The original Moomin film- series targeting 3-8 year old children.
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | Twelve for the Future 2008 / 2009
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Recipient | EDN (Denmark)
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A two part Nordic co-production workshop for young Nordic talents.
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Development Support
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Original title | BABBOO
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| Support | NOK 75.000
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Genre | TV
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Director | Frank Mosvold
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Producer | Frank Mosvold, Astrid Aakra
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Recipient | Kool Produktion AS (Norway)
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When the monkey Babboo saves the day, it's usually chaos afterwords. An animated tv-serie for children from 3 to 6 years.
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Original title | DEAR ALICE
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature film
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Director | Othman Karim
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Producer | Malin Holmberg-Karim
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Recipient | New Horizons Film & Television HB (Sweden)
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Original title | DEN KÆMPESTORE BJØRN - The great bear
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature film
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Director | Esben Toft Jacobsen
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Producer | Petter Lindblad, Sarita Christensen
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Recipient | Copenhagen Bombay Productions Aps
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Jonathan tries to get rid of his little sister, Sophie. But when he succeeds it is not what he expected. She is kidnapped by a huge bear, and he has to get her back.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | ARN
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| Support | NOK 750 000
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Director | Peter Flinth
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Producer | Johan Mardell, Waldemar Bergendahl
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Recipient | AB Svensk Filmindustri (Sweden)
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Original title | BASTØY - Devil's island
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| Support | NOK 2.580.000
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Director | Marius Holst
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Producer | Karin Julsrud
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Recipient | 4 1/2 (Norway)
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Bastøy - the story about a boy who was obsessed of his own escape, but finally - stood up for others.
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Original title | DE RATIONELLA - A rational solution
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Jörgen Bergmark
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Producer | Helena Danielsson
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Recipient | Hepp Film AB (Sweden)
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Active churchmember and papermillworker Erland falls in love with his best friends wife. His rational solution is to discuss the situation and all move in together.
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Original title | FRI OS FRA DET ONDE - Deliver us from Evil
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Ole Bornedal
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Producer | Michael Obel
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Recipient | Thura Fiction (Denmark)
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Lars kills Anna with his truck by accident, and decides to put the blame on the Bosnian refugee Alain. When Anna’s man, Ingvar, hears this he succeeds to gather half the village to go after Alain. Johannes, Lars brother, hides Alain in his house and is the only one between him and the angry mob when they arrive to kill him.
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Original title | KATKOKSIA - Blackouts
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| Support | NOK 750 000
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Director | Saaraa Saareka
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Producer | Liisa Penttilä
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Recipient | Edith film Oy Ab (Finland)
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Blackouts is a drama about the difficulty of accepting the family legacy.
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Original title | MAAGINEN KRISTALLI - Magic Crystal
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| Support | NOK 1.750.000
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Director | Antii Haikala
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Producer | Mikael Wahlforss
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Recipient | Epidem AB (Finland)
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Thanks to the courage of Yotan, the magic crystal - and Christmas - is saved.
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Original title | OVEN GADEN UNDER VANDET
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| Support | NOK 800.000
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Director | Charlotte Sieling
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Producer | Lars Bredo Rahbek
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Recipient | Nimbus Film Produktions (Denmark)
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This is the 24 hours where 6 persons at Christianshavn has to realize that life and love can be difficult to handle. A modern drama about finding one self.
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Original title | TRUST ME
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| Support | NOK 1.350.000
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Director | Johan Kling
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Producer | Fredrik Heining
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Recipient | St Paul Film (Sweden)
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Trust me is a Swedish comedy about misdeeds and sex among a group of neurotic and ambitious young women running an amateur theatre in Stockholm.
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Original title | UPPERDOG
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Sara Johnsen
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Producer | Christian Fredrik Martin, Asle Vatn
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Recipient | Friland (Norway)
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Upperdog is a film about the people who serve, and the ones who get served.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | KOSELIG MED PEIS - Norwegian cosy
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Thomas Seeberg Torjussen, Daniel Voldheim
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Producer | Kari Moen Kristiansen
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Recipient | Tordenfilm (Norway)
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A characher driven drama series about a broken family trying their best to reunite. The series combines a varm senes of humor with the hardships of daily family life.
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Original title | POSTIA OPPI JAAKOBILLE - Letter to rev. Thomas
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Klaus Härö
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Producer | Risto Salomaa
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Recipient | Kinotar Oy (Finland)
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Life sentence prisoner, Laila, is released because of a letter from the blind rev. Thomas. She gets hired as rev. Thomas' assistant and shall answer all his letters where people ask for forgiveness. Laila doesn't believe in forgiveness and would rather have stayed in prison. She is suspicious to rev. Thomas' intentions but after a while she slowly changes here attitude.
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May 2008
Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | JUNGELDYRET HUGO – FRÆK FLABET OG FRI - Jungo goes Bananas
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| Support | NOK 400.000
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Director | Jørgen Lerdam, Flemming Møller, Anders Sørensen
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Recipient | Nordisk Film Distribusjon (Norway)
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The third part of the successful children’s animated film telling the adventures of the cute little jungle creature.
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | Reykjavik International Film Festival 2008
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Recipient | Reykjavik International Film Festival 2008 (Iceland)
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Reykjavik International Film Festival will be held for the fifth time from September 25th. RIFF is the only current film festival in Iceland and takes special care to highlight Nordic filmmaking.In 2008 they will also focus on female filmmakers from Scandinavia.
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April 2008
Development Support
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Original title | KONGEN AV BASTØY
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| Support | NOK 120.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Marius Holst
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Producer | Karin Julsrud
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Recipient | 4 1/2 (Norway)
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Erling, 17, has been placed on a orphanage for young boys - Bastøy. The year is 1915 and Erling is doing whatever he can to escape before he turns 18, because then he will be transferred to a real prison. Based on a true story.
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Original title | OVER GADEN UNDER VANDET
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| Support | NOK 125.000
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Genre | Feature film
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Director | Charlotte Sieling
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Producer | Lars Bredo Rahbek
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Recipient | Nimbus Film Produktions (Denmark)
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The story circles around 4 persons during 24 hours at Christianshavn. The drama gets more and more intense and peaks during a Hamlet performance. The question is to be or not to be responsible for your own happiness.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | DE OFRIVILLIGA/ Involuntary
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Ruben Östlund
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Producer | Erik Hemmendorff
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Recipient | Plattform Produktion (Sweden)
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Involuntary is a tragic comedy or a comic tragedy by Ruben Östlund. The film is made up of five stories from five different perspectives about the relentless powers of a group of individuals.
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Original title | KIELLETTY HEDELMA/ Forbidden Fruit
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| Support | NOK 850.000
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Director | Dome Karukoski
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Producer | Aleksi Bardy
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Recipient | Helsinki Film Oy (Finland)
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Rachel and Mary are coming from strict religious backgrounds. When the curious Mary decides to spend the summer in the big city, the community asks Rachel to go with her and guard Mary.
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Original title | ORIGINAL
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Director | Alexander Brøndsted/ Antonio Tublén
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Producer | Carsten Holst
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Recipient | Zentropa (Denmark)
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Henry comes from a traumatic childhood. When his father died his mother fell ill and was locked up in a mental institution. He has tried living a normal life, but when he looses his girlfriend and gets fired he collapses.
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Original title | REYKJAVIK WHAL WATCHING MASSACRE
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| Support | NOK 1.000.000
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Director | Julius Kemp
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Producer | Ingvar Thordarson, Julius Kemp
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Recipient | The Icelandic Film Company (Iceland)
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An Icelandic tourist-boat sails out with a lots of tourists, eager to see whales. What they don't know is that they're about to be attacked by a blood thirsty fisherman family, who wants revenge now that whale-catching has been replaced with whale-watching.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | BLACK ANGELS
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| Support | NOK 800.000
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Director | Óskar Jónasson
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Producer | Margrét Jónasdóttir
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Recipient | Saga Film (Iceland)
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Black Angels is a story about four Icelandic detectives, working in the gloomy everyday life in Reykjavik where international crime rings are starting to operate.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | ABOUT ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE KHMER ROUGE
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | David Aronowitsch
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Producer | Jenny Örnborn
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Recipient | Story AB (Sweden)
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A search into the personality of one of the top-leaders of the Khmer Rouge. We have a unique opportunity to give an account of an ex-leader the time before his arrest and before he is put on trial for Crimes against Humanity.
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Original title | BALKANS SVARTE HEMMELIGHET – Sarajevo Ricochet
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| Support | NOK 275.000
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Director | Ola Flyum, David Hebditch
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Producer | Tore Buvarp
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Recipient | Fenris Film AS (Norway)
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About how USA and the former Clinton-administration helped Osama bin Laden into Bosnia-Herzegovina and Europe. About money, illegal arm-drops and terror training. And the callous betrayal of the people of Srebrenica by their own allies.
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Original title | BANANAS - Bananas
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| Support | NOK 350.000
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Director | Fredrik Gertten
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Producer | Margarete Jangård
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Recipient | WG Film AB (Sweden)
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One third of the production price of the average banana is used simply to cover the cost of the pesticides. Juan Dominguez, a million-dollar personal injury lawyer in LA, is on his biggest case ever representing 12 000 Nicaraguan banana workers. Dole Food & Dow Chemicals are on trial. And history is about to be made.
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Original title | BROTHER NO.6
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | David Aronowitsch
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Producer | Jenny Örnborn
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Recipient | Story AB (Sweden)
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Original title | ELÄMÄN LÄMMÖSSÄ - In the steam of life
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| Support | NOK 350.000
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Director | Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen
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Producer | Joonas Berghäll
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Recipient | Oktober Film Oy (Finland)
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A poetic portrayal of the soulscape of a Finnish man, told through it’s most sacred shrine, the sauna. Through different destinies and stories we approach the main theme: the importance of love and friendship in a man’s life.
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Original title | EN FAMILJ INTE SOM ANDRA – A Family Not Like Others
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Director | Claudia Lisboa
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Producer | Malla Grapengiesser
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Recipient | Hysteria Film AB (Sweden)
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A humorous personal portrait of a family who are all into plastic surgery in the quest for happiness that is never achieved where values such as hard work and love contrast sharply the obsession of appearance and longing for eternal youth.
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Original title | VET HUT! – The Governor
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Måns Månsen
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Producer | Martin Persson
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Recipient | Anagram produktioner AB (Sweden)
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A man struggling to uphold the values and traditions of an office defined almost 400 years ago. He is The Governor.
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | CPH:DOX INTERNATIONAL PLATTFORM 2008
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Recipient | CPH:DOX (Denmark)
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Featuring DOX:MARKET and DISTRIBUTION:FORUM, taking place at CPH:DOX November 7th – 16th.
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Original title | CROSSOVER NORDIC
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| Support | NOK 75.000
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Recipient | BlaO Media (Nordic)
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A Nordic development platform, a creative think tank that brings together independent artists, writers, filmmakers, gamedevelopers, animators and new media producers with the aim of developing innovative digital and interactive projects.
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Original title | FILM, ARCHITECTURE AND THE BIG CITY
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Recipient | Den Danske Filmskole (Denmark)
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In winter/spring 2009 the training department at The National Film School of Denmark in collaboration with historian of ideas and professor from Academy of Fine Arts Carsten Thau plan a Nordic seminar Film, Architecture and the Big City. The seminar is aimed for professional cinematographers, directors, producers, sound designers, production designers and architects.
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Original title | HOTDOCS - NORDIC DELEGATION – TORONTO 2008
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Recipient | CPH:DOX (Denmark)
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A Nordic networking event during Hot Docs’ in Toronto, with the core purpose to strengthen and generate future business for the Nordic film and TV community and to attract co-production, financing and international sales of Nordic documentary programming.
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Original title | NORDISK FORUM 2008
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Recipient | Filmkontakt Nord (Nordic)
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Forum for co-financing of Documentaries, taking place at Nordisk Panorama, this year held in Malmö, Sweden, September 29th – 30th.
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March 2008
Development Support
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Original title | KANIBALSOMMER
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Robert Næss
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Producer | Hans Bastian Borg
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Recipient | Graceland Film Company (Norway)
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Ivan is ten year old and is spending his summer with his uncle Allister. Allistar is not an ordinary uncle, his guarding a magic mask which contains uncontrollable, evil forces. One day Ivan decides to wake up the mask...
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | VALHALLA RISING (additional support)
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| Support | NOK 600.000
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Director | Nicolas W. Refn
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Producer | Bo Erhardt/ Johnny Anderson
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Recipient | One Eye Production (Denmark)
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Harald is a mute with one eye, who is the slave of the fanatic, new-christian norwegian, priest and chief; Barde. Barde let's Harald loose in an arena where he efficient kills his opponents to the amusement of Bardes guests. One day Harald escapes and sets his course to Norway, but he ends up in America. (Photo: Jan Buus)
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Original title | VEGAS
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Gunnar Vikene
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Producer | Silje Hopland Eik/ Tanya Nanette Badendyck
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Recipient | Cinenord (Norway)
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13 year old Terje has just lost his mother, 15 year old Bjørn comes from a home of domestic disturbance and 15 year old Marianne has lived most of her life in different foster homes. They all meet at the "Akutt mottakelsen" where they become friends. During the next 6 months they all tries to deal with their sorrow, deceits and dreams together and by themselves with very different results.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | OSKYLDIG DØMT
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| Support | NOK 1.650.000
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Director | Molly Hartleb/ Rikard Holm
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Producer | Börje Hansson/ Johan Zollitsch
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Recipient | Filmlance INTL AB (Sweden)
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arkus Haglund is a clever and charismatic professor who starts a cource called "Innocent convicted" with four selected law students. The group looks into old cases where they suspect that persons are innocent convicted.
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Original title | SÆBESKUM 1-8 - Wish wash
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| Support | NOK 750.000
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Director | Kassandra Wellendorf
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Producer | Peter Engel
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Recipient | Zentropa (Denmark)
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A wash-machine is the kindergarden to all sorts of cloths. From curious socks to clumsy trousers. Both in the machine and outside, life is lived, and even though there are conflicts it usually ends with everybody having fun - together!
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | DA CASTRO INNTOK HILTON – When Castro seized The Hilton
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Bjarte Thoresen
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Producer | Bente Olav
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Recipient | Frameline Film AS (Norway)
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The story of a hotel – on how, it became the head office and the symbol of a revolution. About how a Norwegian-American hotel magnate came to lose his Caribbean headquarters, only to avenge himself a generation later on Norwegian soil, supported by American law.
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Original title | ONDSKANS GRENSER – The Border of Desperation
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Director | Nima Sarvestani
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Producer | Malcolm Dixelius
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Recipient | Nimafilm (Sweden)
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Täla, Shahoo and Rebuar are transporting petrol illegally over the border from Iran to Iraq at great risk of being caught or even shot. - For their everyday survival and fight against poverty and for a better life in Kurdistan.
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Original title | PRESIDENTEN FRA BASTØY FENGSEL – From Prison to Parliament
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Director | Charlotte Rødher Tvedt
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Producer | KriStine Ann Skaret
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Recipient | Medieoperatørene AS (Norway)
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Can an inmate in a Norwegian prison become an MP in the Kenyan parliament? The film is exploring the possibilities and dilemmas of democracy,
following one man’s journey from prison to (possibly) parliament through hard work and boundless optimism.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | BÖRN - Children
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Ragnar Bragason
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Recipient | Action Film as (Norway)
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Synopsis: A mother who desperately tries to keep custody of her three daughters, but doesn´t see how difficult life is for her son. And then her ex-husband turns up. Threatening, gripping and in black & white.
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Original title | DEN MAN ÄLSKAR – To Love Someone
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Åke Sandgren
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Recipient | Arthaus (Norway)
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Alf, a fish dealer with his own shop lives a happy life together with Lena. The only problem is that Alf feels that he is being compared with Lenas previous husband, although he knows that he is making Lena happy and that they live a good life.
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Original title | ELIAS OG KONGESKIPET / Elias and The Royal Yacht
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| Support | NOK 90.000
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Genre | Feature Film (dubbing)
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Director | Espen Fyksen/ Lise I. Osvoll
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Producer | John M. Jacobsen / Sveinung Golimo
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Recipient | FS Film Oy (Finland)
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The little rescue boat Elias is on a secret mission to find The Royal Yacht. A tragedy struck the Royal Fleet when The Princess Boat vanished up north, and the Royal Yacht has not been himself ever since. But now he too has gone missing.
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Original title | ELIAS OG KONGESKIPET – Elias and The Royal Yacht
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| Support | NOK 80.000
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Genre | Feature Film (distribution)
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Director | Espen Fyksen/ Lise I. Osvoll
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Producer | John M. Jacobsen / Sveinung Golimo
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Recipient | FS Film Oy (Finland)
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The little rescue boat Elias is on a secret mission to find The Royal Yacht. A tragedy struck the Royal Fleet when The Princess Boat vanished up north, and the Royal Yacht has not been himself ever since. But now he too has gone missing.
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Original title | FORELDRAR - Parents
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Ragnar Bragason
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Recipient | Action Film as (Norway)
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Synopsis: A painful and gripping story about chance encounters between a dentist, a businessman and a young mother, which bring to light untold secrets.
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February 2008
Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | INTO ETERNITY
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Michael Madsen
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Producer | Lise Lense-Møller
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Recipient | Magic Hour Films (Denmark)
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The world´s first final resting place for nuclear waste is under construction and must be built to outlast climate change, natural disasters, human oblivion – and human curiosity – for at least 100.000 years.
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Development Support
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Original title | KIELLETTY HEDEL MA/ Forbidden fruit
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Dome Karukoski
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Producer | Aleksi Bardy
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Recipient | Helsinki Film Oy (Finland)
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18 years old Rachel and Marie come from strict, religious backgrounds. When Maria decides to spend the summer in the city, Rachel is asked to go along to watch out for Maria.
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Original title | TRUST ME
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| Support | NOK 170.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Johan Kling
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Producer | Fredrik Heining/ Mathilde Dedye
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Recipient | St. Paul Film (Sweden)
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A theater group are going to perform a play written and directed by their leader Katja, but all the members in the group turns out occupied by their own problems. On top of this they are under pressure from the owner of the theater who wants the group out.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | FEM I TOLV
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| Support | NOK 750 000
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Director | Beata Gårdeler
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Producer | Anna Croneman
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Recipient | Bob Film Sweden AB (Sweden)
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Eva has been addicted to drugs for several years, but has lowered her abuse so she can manage to work as a security guard. When she falls in love with Erik, a policeman, her controlled abuse gets out of control. (Photo: Anders Wiklund)
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Original title | SKAVABOLEN POJAT/ Last cowboy standing
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| Support | NOK 750.000
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Director | Zalda Bergroth
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Producer | Jarkko Hentula
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Recipient | Juonifilmi Oy (Finland)
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Finland 1982. Rubert (18) returns from duty and finds his house in ruins and his father missing. Evert, his kid brother, tells him that their father is checked in to rehab. When Rubert goes up to the attic, which is filled with memories from the past, his mind wanders back to 1972, his parent’s divorce, and his mother’s suicide, friendships and family matters.
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Original title | VED VERDENS ENDE/ At worlds end
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| Support | NOK 1.000.000
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Director | Tomas Villum Jensen
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Producer | Tivi Magnusson
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Recipient | M&M Productions (Denmark)
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Adrian a prison psychiatrist is ordered to go to Jakarta to rescue Severin from the death penalty by declaring him insane. Severin claims to be over 100 years old and that he has discovered a flower to gives eternal life. Well in Jakarta Adrian soon discovers that he is not lonely in the pursuit of the truth about the flower, and a chase begins where he has to fight both the military and the mafia on his way in to the jungle.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | DET SOM INGEN VED – What no one knows
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Søren Kragh Jacobsen
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Recipient | Nimbus Film Produktions (Denmark)
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Special distribution support in regard that the film was selected for Panorama Special at the Berlin Film Festival 2008.
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Original title | FIGHTER
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Natasha Arthy
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Recipient | Nimbus Film Produktions (Denmark)
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Special distribution support in regard that the film was selected for the children´s film section Generation Plus at the Berlin Film Festival 2008.
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | KRISTIANSAND INTERNASJONALE BARNEFILMFESTIVAL - KICFF
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Filmfestival
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Recipient | Barnefilmfestivalen AS (Norway)
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Norway’s largest and most important festival for films for children and youth. The festival organizes a large number of school screenings, seminars and workshop. The festival each year attracts a considerable number of professionals from Norway, Scandinavia and Europe. The 2008 festival is held from April 22nd – 27th.
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Original title | NORDIC FILMFESTIVAL
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| Support | NOK 75.000
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Genre | Filmfestival
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Recipient | Nordens Hus Færøerne (Faroe Islands)
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A Nordic film week with emphasis on good quality films & documentaries, and related workshops & seminars.
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January 2008
Development Support
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Original title | OPEN ROAD
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| Support | NOK 75.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Cameron B. Alyasin
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Producer | Magdalena Jangard
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Recipient | Röde Orm Film AB (Sweden)
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A 17-year-old boy from Bosnia, a 44-year-old doctor of international background, a Swedish female police officer and a refugee girl from Chechnya are all victims of an Al Qaeda terrorist action by accident.
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Original title | SQUIRE MUSA
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| Support | NOK 75.000
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Director | Othman Karim
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Producer | Malin Holmberg-Karim
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Recipient | New Horizons Film & Television HB (Sweden)
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Musa is 10 years and has fled Africa together with his mother and ended up at Gotland, Sweden. The other children bully him, and he misses his father. He decides to earn a lot of money so he can return to his father in Africa. To earn the money he persuades Arthur, an old medieval and knight expert, that he can help him to win a tournament. Together they travel into a medieval universe where Musa faces a lot of challenges.
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Original title | UPPERDOG
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| Support | NOK 175.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Sara Johnsen
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Producer | Christian Fredrik Martin
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Recipient | Friland (Norway)
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Yanne is adopted from Asia, lonely, single and is working on a Chinese restaurant. Per is a soldier who has just been acquitted for killing two people in Afghanistan, but his life is in ruins. Axel works in advertising and can’t work out how to make a relationship work while he is attracted to Maria from Poland who cleans his parent’s apartment. When these four peoples lives crosses each other changes starts to happen.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | I TAKET LYSER STJARNORNA - Glowing stars
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| Support | NOK 1.300.000
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Director | Lise Siwe
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Producer | Anders Landström
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Recipient | Filmlance INTL AB (Sweden)
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Jenna is 14 years old and is taking care of her mother Liv who is ill with cancer. Jenna is madly in love with Sakke, which she doesn’t dare to tell anyone. When her mother gets worse they are forced to move to Jennas strict grandmother, Ingrid. After a short while Jenna decides to rebel and start living her own life.
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Original title | MAN SOM HATAR KVINNOR
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| Support | NOK 2.985.000
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Director | Niels Arden Oplev
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Producer | Søren Stærmose
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Recipient | Yellow Bird Films AB
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Distributor | Michael Nyqvist og Noomi Rapace.
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When Michael, a 40 year old journalist, has to withdraw from his magazine Millenium after loosing a trial regarding false accusations he's suddenly offered offered a lot of money from the wealthy Henrik Vagner if he agrees to investigate the 40 year old disappearance of Henriks niece. Mikal takes the offer, and after a while he gets unasked help from the mysterious Lisbeth. They discover that the case has to do with men who hates women. (Foto: Johan Bergmark)
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Original title | NORD
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| Support | NOK 1.000.000
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Director | Rune Langlo
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Producer | Sigve Endresen
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Recipient | Motlys (Norway)
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Jomar, 30, is a washed out skier and an alcoholic after a nervous breakdown 5 years ago. He has almost given up when his old friend Lasse arrives to tell him that he has a 5-year-old son who lives 900 miles away in north of Norway. Jomar decides to visit his son, and sets out on his old snowmobile.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | DE HALVT DOLDA
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| Support | NOK 1.000.000
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Director | Simon Kaijser
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Producer | Stefan Barun
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Recipient | SVT (Sverige)
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De halvt dolda shows tells us the story of several family destinies from the 1970 up to present time. One of the main stories is about the missionary couple Erik and Berit and their three sons, and what happens with after Berit drowns. We also meet David who struggles with his own homosexuality, Linus the skinhead who lives with his mother who’s an alcoholic, which makes forces him to act as a father to his younger siblings. Everybody looses someone, which turns his or her lives around.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | BURMA VJ´S
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| Support | NOK 400.000
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Director | Anders Østergard
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Producer | Lise lense-Møller
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Recipient | Magic Hour Films (Denmark)
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In September 2007 footage from the uprising in Burma was screened on every news channel. But who are the reporters behind the cameras? They are not looking for fame nor heroism. Day after day they risk their lives to show the world how life in the sealed off country really is.
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Original title | PORNOPOJAT – All boys
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| Support | NOK 220.000
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Director | Markku Heikkinen
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Producer | Cilla Werning
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Recipient | Kinotar Oy (Finland)
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About the gay porn industry in the east and the porn market in the West.
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Original title | ÅNGRARNA – The Regretters
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| Support | NOK 160.000
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Director | Marcus Lindeen
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Producer | Kristina Åberg
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Recipient | Atmo Media Network (Sweden)
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Mikael and Orlando, two men in their sixties. Both have earlier undergone sex-change operations and become women. Now they both regret their irrevocable decisions and want to go back.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | FORÆLDRE - Parents
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Ragnar Bragason
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Recipient | Øst for Paradis (Denmark)
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A painful and gripping story about chance encounters between a dentist, a businessman and a young mother, which bring to light untold secrets.
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December 2007
Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | ANGEL
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| Support | NOK 1.600.000
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Director | Colin Nutley
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Producer | Colin Nutley
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Recipient | Sweetwater Filmright II (Sweden)
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A story about life after death.
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Original title | A GOOD LIFE
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| Support | NOK 1.000.000
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Director | Anders Engström
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Producer | Jan-Olof Svarvar/ Marcus Wikars
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Recipient | IXL Pictures (Finland)
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When Beth finds out that she suffers from lethal cancer she runs of from her husband Georg to her son Jaime so she can get her daughters address. Her daughter has cut her off for several years ago, and now Beth will make peace before she dies. Her journey gets her to new places and new people.
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Original title | FLYGTNINGEN - Refugee
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Kathrine Windfeld
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Producer | Morten Kaufmann
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Recipient | Nimbus Film Produktions (Denmark)
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Rikke, journalist, is in Afghanistan to cover the situation when she is being kidnapped. After presenting the kidnappers demands before the world press, she is suddenly gets unexpected help from one of the kidnappers, Nazir. who later has to flee to Denmark. When gets in trouble and needs Rikkes help she finds herself in a dilemma: shall she help Nazir or her career? And what will happen when everybody discovers that she didn't manage to get away alone, as she has told the press?
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Original title | FRI OS FRA DET ONDE/ Deliver us from Evil
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| Support | NOK 2.000.000
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Director | Ole Bornedal
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Producer | Michael Obel
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Recipient | Thura Fiction (Denmark)
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Lars kills Anna with his truck by accident, and decides to put the blame on the Bosnian refugee Alain. When Anna’s man, Ingvar, hears this he succeeds to gather half the village to go after Alain. Johannes, Lars brother, hides Alain in his house and is the only one between him and the angry mob when they arrive to kill him.
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Original title | HÅLL MIN HAND – TA MIN FOT/ Take my hand – hold my foot
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| Support | NOK 1.600.000
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Director | Måns Herngren
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Producer | Rebecka Hamberger
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Recipient | S/S Fladen Film (Sweden)
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When unemployed Fredrik’s (40) hockey team looses it’s training facilities he gets the idea to make a male synchronized swimming team. What started like a joke, becomes deadly serious when the they decides to participate in the World Championship.
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Original title | LILLE SOLDAT
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| Support | NOK 900.000
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Director | Anette K. Olesen
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Producer | Ib Tardini
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Recipient | Zentropa (Denmark)
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Lotte (35) has returned from several years working as a soldier, to work as the driver/ bodyguard of one of her father’s hookers, Lily. After a while Lotte starts persuading Lily to return to her daughter in Nigeria.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | FRØKEN MÆRKVERDIG & KARRIEREN - Miss Remarkable & her Career
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Joanna Rubin Dranger
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Producer | Lisbet Gabriesson
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Recipient | Lisbet Gabrielsson Film (Sweden)
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Miss Remarkable struggles with her own demons, crunshing parental expectations and a career meltdown. After failing fatally in becoming " Strong,Best och Happy", she finally realizes something she really wants for herself-she wants life!
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Original title | MAMMA MU & KRÅKAN/ Mamma Mu & Crow
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| Support | NOK 1.000.000
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Director | Igor Veyshtagin
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Producer | Johanna Bergenstråhle
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Recipient | AB Svensk Filmindustri (Sweden)
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Mamma Mu is not a normal cow, because she wants to try out everything she hasn’t done before, cycling for instance. Her friend Crow finds this very strange, and doesn’t want to be a part but one way or the other Mamma Mu manages to persuade him every time.
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Original title | PIPUNGERNE
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Tone Tarding
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Producer | Marie Bro
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Recipient | Pip & Co (Denmark)
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This Tv-serie follows the bird siblings Saxe (4) and Sille (5). They cannot yet fly, and lives and plays in the forest with all the other animal children, among others Snøfte who has got her name because she always has a cold.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | INGEN FORSTOD AT JEG FORSTOD – Listen to me
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Director | Mona Friis Bertheussen
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Producer | Mona Friis Bertheussen
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Recipient | Moment TV (Norway)
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As child, Magne got the diagnosis “deeply mentally retarded”. He grew up, mostly sitting in a corner of a sofa for 27 years. Until one day, when brain-examinations in the USA reveal a new picture.
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Original title | MEMENTO MORI
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Mali Finborud Nøren
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Producer | Hilde Skofteland
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Recipient | Skofteland Film (Norway)
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Hans Petter has chosen Svanholm Funeral Home to arrange his funeral when time comes. Both Hans Petter and the employees at the funeral home deal with living close to death on a daily basis.
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Original title | PÅ GRENSEN – Boundless Genius
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Director | Bosse Lindquist
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Producer | Jonas Kellagher
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Recipient | Eight Millimetres (Sweden)
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BOUNDLESS GENIUS explores one of science's greatest and most provocative minds, who has journeyed more deeply into deadly diseases as well as human behaviour than most. Through some of medicine's and biology's brightest researchers, the film will investigate the limits of exploration.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | BØRN / Children
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Ragnar Bragason
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Recipient | Øst for Paradis (Denmark)
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A mother who desperately tries to keep custody of her three daughters, but doesn´t see how difficult life is for her son. And then her ex-husband turns up. Threatening, gripping and in black & white.
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Original title | ERIK NIETZSCHE - DE UNGE ÅR / The Early Years Erik Nietzsche
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| Support | NOK 70.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Jacob Thuesen
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Recipient | Fidalgo Film Distribution (Norway)
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Danish director Lars von Trier´s film school days in Copenhagen in the late 70´s.
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Original title | VAARALLINEN JUHANNUS / Moominsummer (Dubbing)
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Maria Lindberg / Dariusz Zawilski
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Recipient | OY Filmkompaniet Alpha ab (Finland)
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The original film series targeted to 3 - 8 year old children, and where Tove Jansson has been artistically very much involved.
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | FILM SALES SUPPORT 2008
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| Support | NOK 40.000
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Recipient | European Film Promotion
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Supports promotional campaigns at international film festivals, closely coordinated with the international sales agents and producers.
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November 2007
Development Support
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Original title | ART OF THE FAKE
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Christoffer Boe
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Producer | Tine Grew Pfeiffer
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Recipient | Alphaville Pictures Copenhagen (Denmark)
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Han Van Meegeren cons the art world in the 1930s with a series of forged Vermeer paintings. As Han loses sight of what is fake and real he ends in jail for collaborating with the nazis. His only salvation is convince the world that what is conceived as real is fake.
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Original title | BANKEN – The Bank
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| Support | NOK 40.000
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Genre | Documentary
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Director | Hilde Osen
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Producer | Camilla Andersen
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Recipient | Magic Hour Films (Denmark)
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In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a group of children have developed the idea of creating a bank for minors.
Street kids don't have the opportunity to save up money. Being a minor prevent them from having an account in an ordinary bank.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | APPELSINPIKEN
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| Support | NOK 1.000.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Eva Dahr
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Producer | Axel Helgeland
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Recipient | Helgeland Film
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On his 18th birthday Georg receives a letter from his dad who died when he was 4 years old. The letter unveils the story about how his dad found true love when he met the mysterious “Orange girl”, and his father’s thoughts regarding life & death. Georg reads the letter on a mountain trip where he meets Hilde.
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Original title | LEO
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Josef Fares
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Producer | Anna Anthony
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Recipient | Memfis Film (Sweden)
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After his 30th birthday party experience Leo and his girlfriend something that will change their life forever. With his forth film Josef Fares are looking in to the consequences of unprovoked violence.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | FREETIME MACHOS
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| Support | NOK 275.000
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Director | Mika Ronkainen
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Producer | Kimmo Paananaen
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Recipient | Klaffi Productions (Finland)
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About the northernmost and third worst rugby team in the world. An entertaining and touching tragicomedy about middle-aged men lost somewhere between hobby, home and work.
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Original title | JAKTEN PÅ PARADIS – Hunting Paradise
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Director | Bjørn Engvik
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Producer | Aage Aaberge
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Recipient | Nordisk Film (Norway)
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He questioned academica and stirred up debate, but most of all he opened up a world of possibilities through his extraordinary expeditions. But who was the man behind the well staged images.
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Original title | …OG DET VAR DANMARK – Danish Dynamite
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| Support | NOK 350.000
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Genre | Documentary
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Director | Mads Kamp Thulstrup, Carsten Søstedt
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Producer | Jacob Staberg
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Recipient | Tju-Bang Film (Denmark)
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The ultimate story of Danish National Football Teams legendary transformation from absurd amateurs to mythical heroes, in the period 1979 – 1992.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | SOLSTORM - Sunstorm
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| Support | NOK 175.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Leif Lindblom
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Recipient | Sandrew Metronome Distribution Finland OY (Finland)
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In Kiruna spiritual leader Viktor Strandgård is Found murdered in the isle of a church. The next morning Stockholm lawyer Rebecka Martinsson receives an unexpected phone call. Adapted from Åsa Larsson’s award-winning debut novel.
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Original title | TRIGGER
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| Support | NOK 80.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Gunnar Vikene
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Recipient | Folkets Bio (Sweden)
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A stirring, profound and dramatic film relating the adventures of leven-year-old Alise when she encounters a wild horse fighting for its life.
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Original title | VIKAREN - The Substitute
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| Support | NOK 120.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Ole Bornedal
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Recipient | Folkets Bio AB (Sweden)
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6th grade has a new substitute teacher. Evidently, she is not, what they are used to – apparently she can read the children´s minds, and when she is alone with the pupils she is downright malicious.
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | BUSTER KØBENHAVNS INT. FILMFESTIVAL FOR BØRN OG UNGE 2008 / Copenhagen Int. Film Festival for Children and Youth.
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| Support | NOK 175.000
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Genre | Filmfestival
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Recipient | Buster Københavns Int. Filmfestival for Børn og unge (Denmark)
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Festival for children and youth – held in September in cooperation with Copenhagen Int. Filmfestival.
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Original title | NEW NORDIC FILMS 2008
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Recipient | Den Norske Filmfestivalen (Norway)
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An annual market at the Norwegian International Filmfestival, one of the most important meeting places for Nordic films and the Nordic film industry.
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Original title | NORDIC FILM MARKET 2008
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Recipient | GØTEBORG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Sweden)
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An exclusive marketplace within the Göteborg International Film Festival, with the aim of strengthening the position of Nordic films throughout the world.
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Original title | NORDIC BEACH PARTY CANNES 2008
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Recipient | Nordic Event Göteborg / New Nordic Films Haugesund
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A reception in Cannes with the aim to strengthen the focus on Nordic films towards byers, distributors and festival directors throughout the world.
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Original title | NORDISKA SKOL-FILMDAGAR NORDISKE FILMFESTIVALEN VID SUNDET
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| Support | NOK 75.000
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Recipient | Föreningen Norden (Sweden)
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School-filmfestival held in both Sweden (Helsinborg and Höganäs) and Denmark (Helsingör and Fredensborg/Humlebeak). Aimed at children and youth, taking place March 5th-9th.
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Original title | SAME DAIDAGA DORJJASEARVI - The Friends of Sámi Art
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Recipient | Skábmagovat – ursprungsfolkets filmfestival (Finland)
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The Indigenous Peoples Film Festival in Inari, northernmost Finland, is arranged for the 10th time January 23rd-28th, 2008. Several mediaworkshops are arranged for children and youngsters. Also aim to strengthen the co-operation between filmmakers in the Sámi district.
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October 2007
Development Support
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Original title | DEN LILLE SOLDAT
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Anette K. Olsen
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Producer | Ib Tardini
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Recipient | Zentropa (Denmark)
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Lotte (35) has recently quit her job as soldier, and is now working as the driver and guardian of Nadia, a prostitute and also the girlfriend of her father. Lotte tries to convince Nadia to go back to her daughter in Latvia, and after a while the living conditions of the prostitutes makes Lotte act...
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Original title | HAARAUTUVAN RAKKAUDEN TALO/ The house of branching love
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Mika Kaurismäki
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Producer | Mika Kaurismäki
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Recipient | Marianna Films OY (Finland)
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A couple decides to divorce in a civilized way, but it soon develops into a war of love and hate, both inventing the most fantastic and absurdly comic ways to insult each other and trying to make each other feel guilty of the mistakes and injustice suffered during their marriage.
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Original title | HUNDEN IB/ Joe
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| Support | NOK 40.000
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Genre | TV Fiction / Series
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Director | Kasper Kruse
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Producer | Rasmus Bregnhøy
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Recipient | Vogel film (Denmark)
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Ib is a dog that is very much like a little boy. He experience the world intensively and has a positive outlook.
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Original title | OND TRO/ Bad faith
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature film
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Director | Kristian Petri
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Producer | Fredrik Heining
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Recipient | St. Paul Film (Sweden)
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A young woman, Mona, witness a murder done by a serial killer. Shortly after she meets a suspicious and brutal man, X, during the investigations of a another murder. She becomes obsessed with finding the murderer who she thinks is X. At the same time she meets Frank who she becomes friendly with. The question is if he’s who he says he is...
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Original title | SIMJON
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Genre | Documentary
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Director | Tone Grøttjord
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Producer | Sigve Endresen
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Recipient | Motlys (Norway)
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Simjon, 5, has to leave Murmansk for a small village in Norway. His mother has just married a new man. Simjon is worried. Grandmother and his dad is still in Murmansk.
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Original title | SIMON / Simon and the Oaks
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Christer Nilson
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Producer | Björn Runge
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Recipient | Göta Film (Sweden)
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Simon grows up after the second world war and feels more and more alienated from his loving parents, Karin & Erik. This feeling gets even stronger when he becomes friends with a jewish boy, Isak, and learns that he himself also is jewish, adopted by Karin and Erik. Simon starts looking for his dad, trying to find (tilhørighet).
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | BRIM/ Undercurrent
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Arni Ólafur Asgeirsson
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Producer | Thor Sigurjonsson/ Skuli Fr. Malmquist
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Recipient | ZikZak Filmworks (Iceland)
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The simple and tidies life of a crew of fishermen gets shaken when one of them commits suicide. After the funeral the replacement turns out to be a woman, and nothing is the same. It becomes more and more difficult, and then the engine breaks down in the middle of nowhere...
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | BEDRAGEREN/ The Deceiver
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Åsa Blanck, Johan Palmgren
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Producer | Åsa Blanck, Claes Leander
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Recipient | Modern TV (Sweden)
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12 years ago a catholic archbishop dressed in cloak and stick came to Malmoe. But he was not the one he posed as. “Father Mac” was wanted by Interpol in 38 countries.
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Original title | ROSKILDE
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| Support | NOK 400.000
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Director | Ulrik Wivel
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Producer | Sara Stockmann, Anne Wivel
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Recipient | Barok Film A/S (Denmark)
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During 8 years a film crew of more than 12 directors have come together to tell the unique story of Northern Europe’s biggest music festival Roskilde.
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Original title | SKRIK OG MADONNA/ Scream and Madonna
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Director | Stig Andersen
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Producer | Per Jørgen Østby
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Recipient | Nordisk Film (Norway)
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A story about two of the worlds most famous paintings. A story with conservation officers, crime journalists, art historians – and Edvard Munch.
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Original title | SOLANGE
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Director | Tine Katinka Jensen
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Producer | Vibeke Vogel
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Recipient | Bullitt Film (Denmark)
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Solange - one woman in three shapes. Love in three different stages of life and experienced from three different social layers in society.
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Original title | SYNDIR FEDRANNA/ At the Edge of The World
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Director | Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon, Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson
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Producer | Hrønn Kristinsdótir, Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson
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Recipient | Koggull (Iceland)
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In the 1950s and 1960s, young boys were sent to reform school on a remote corner of Iceland's arctic coast. Here is the story told by the survivors.
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Original title | THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD
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| Support | NOK 400.000
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Director | Peter Anthony
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Producer | Jacob Staberg
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Recipient | Statement Film (Denmark)
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Former Soviet Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov held the fate of the world in his hands for a few crucial minutes on the night of September 26th 1983.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | DE FORTABTE SJÆLES Ø / The Island of Lost Souls
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| Support | NOK 299.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Nikolaj Arcel
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Recipient | Sonet Film AB (Sweden)
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Lulu´s little brother is possesed by a hundered year old spirit. Together with her friend Oliver and the inventor Richard, she must battle the forces of evil.
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Original title | HOPPET / The Hope
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Petter Næss
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Recipient | CCV AS Oro Film (Norway)
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Azad comes to Sweden by mistake and suddenly he's quite alone in a new country. But with the help of a spaced-out hotdog seller, the coolest guy in school and world champion Kajsa Bergqvist things changes.
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | BUFF Filmfestival and BUFF Financing Forum
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| Support | NOK 218.000
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Recipient | BUFF Malmö (Sweden)
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Support for both the Filmfestival and seminars with about 14 000 young people and 500 adults in the audience, plus the BUFF Financing Forum with about 100 participants.
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Original title | KID STUFF
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Recipient | The Finnish Filmfoundation (Finland)
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A seminar for professionals about the making, producing and financing of Scandinavian children´s films, as well as the distributing and the world sales of them. A continuation to the seminar Time after Terkel helt last year.
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September 2007
Development Support
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Original title | BANANAS
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Genre | Documentary
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Director | Fredrik Gertten
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Producer | Margarete Jangård/ Bart Simpson
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Recipient | WG Film (Sweden)
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One third of the price of the average banana covers the cost of pesticides. A sweet fruit, a bitter story?
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Original title | FAREWELL ASSASINS
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Documentary
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Director | Jeppe Rønde
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Producer | Meta Louise Foldager
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Recipient | Zentropa Entertainments25 ApS (Denmark)
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Jeppe Rønde has previously been testing the limits of documentary and also this time we’re somewhere between fiction and documentary in this deeply provoking film about the anatomy of revenge. The scene is the ravaged former Yugoslavia.
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Original title | MAMMA OG CYKELTUREN
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Genre | Documentary
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Director | Olavi Linna
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Producer | Jesper Jack
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Recipient | Cosmo Film Doc ApS (Denmark)
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What does it take for a man who is 40 years of age – still living with his mother in the small hometown and having biked the equivalent of 6 times around equator on his exercise bike – to move away from home?
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Original title | WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA DENTATA?
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | David Adam
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Producer | Astrid Hytten
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Recipient | Fine & Mellow (Denmark)
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Virginia (16) is a lesbian vampire who gets bullied at school. When she meets the daughter of the new vicar, Eva, she falls in love and they become lovers. But when a series of mysterious murders erupts in the small village, and the new vicar makes everybody believe that it’s Virginia’s family who’s behind, she has to find the murder to get Eva back.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | DEN DU FRYGTER / Fear Me Not
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| Support | NOK 1.600.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Kristian Levring
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Producer | Sisse Graum Jørgensen
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Recipient | Zentropa (Denmark)
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Mikael is happily married with Sigrid and together they have a daughter, Selma. But when he volunteers for a science project regarding new anti depressive medication, he becomes an irrational angry person with fatal consequences even though the tablets turns out to only be placebo.
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Original title | REYKJAVIK - ROTTERDAM
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| Support | NOK 2.000.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Oskar Jónasson
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Producer | Agnes Johansen
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Recipient | Blueeyes Productions (Iceland)
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When Kristoffer is released from prison after serving his sentence for liquor smuggling, he decides to change. But when his brother Arnor is threatened to be killed, Kristoffer has to take on last trip to Rotterdam. What he doesn’t know is that Arnor intends to smuggle drugs this time.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | ØRKENSLOTTET – The 7th Sense
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Genre | Documentary
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Director | Eirin Gjørv
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Producer | Finn McAlinden/ Arne Dahr
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Recipient | Lightsource Film Productions (Norway)
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A brand new capital – in the middle of the desert! The Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta has been invited to compete for this unique and gigantic project, a ground-breaking challenge.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | DE FORTABTE SJÆLES Ø
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Axel Danielson
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Recipient | Action Film as (Norway)
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Lulu´s litle brother is possesed by a hundered year old spirit. Together with her friend Oliver and the inventor Richard, she must battle the force of evil.
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Original title | VIKAREN / The Substitute
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Ole Bornedal
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Recipient | Arthaus (Norway)
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6th grade has a new substitute teacher. Evidently, this substitute is not, what they are used to - apparently she can read the childen´s minds, and when she is alone with the pupils, she is downright malicious...
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | BERGMAN - A LASTING INFLUENCE ABROAD - TRUE OG FALSE
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| Support | NOK 20.000
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Recipient | Stockholms Filmfestival AB
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A special workshop held at this years festival, focusing on Bergman´s filmmaking from an international perspective.
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Original title | REYKJAVIK INTERNATIONAL FILMFESTIVAL 2007
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Recipient | Reykjavik International Film Festival 2007
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Reykjavik International Film Festival will be held for the fourth time from September 27th. RIFF is the only current film festival in Iceland and takes special care to highlight Nordic filmmaking.
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August 2007
Development Support
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Original title | A-KASSE KUNGEN - The Welfare King
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| Support | NOK 70.000
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Genre | Feature Film
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Director | Daniell Fridell
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Producer | Thomas Allercrantz
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Recipient | Röde Orm Film AB (Sweden)
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Steve (30) is called The Welfare King because his cheats and deceives the system for welfare support with good help from Anton who’s employed at the labor exchange. When Anton is replaced with strict Charlotta and he falls in love with Mikaela his life takes a new course.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | PATRIK 1,5
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| Support | NOK 1.000.000
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Director | Ella Lemhagen
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Producer | Tomas Michaelson
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Recipient | Filmlance INTL AB (Sweden)
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Sven and Göran, a gay couple, shall finally become parents to the 1,5 year old adopted kid Patrik. When Patrik turns out to be a 15 years old, convicted orphanage boy life get’s a bit complicated.
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Original title | THE VISITOR
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| Support | NOK 500.000
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Director | Jukka-Pekka Valkepää
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Producer | Aleksi Bardy
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Recipient | Helsinki Film Oy (Finland)
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A mute boy lives alone with his mother on a farm. His father is in prison. One day an escaped prisoner, a friend of his father, arrives to hide from the police. The prisoner has an affair the mother, and becomes a father substitute to the boy.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | HABIB
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| Support | NOK 1.000.000
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Director | Jesper Danielsson/ Håkon Liu
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Producer | Marianne Grey/ Susann Bilberg-Rydholm
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Recipient | Jarowskji Sverige AB (Sweden)
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Habib, eleven years old, is in love with Paris a girl at his school. Wondering about the meaning of life and conquering Paris challenges makes his life somewhat difficult, but luckily he’s got friends and a huge amount of go-ahead spirit.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | DEN BEVÆGEDE JORD - The Moving Earth
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| Support | NOK 350.000
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Director | Lars Becker-Larsen
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Producer | Gitte Randløv
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Recipient | Danish Doc Production (Denmark)
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Does Earth or Sun make the center of the universe? The Danish/Swedish astronomer Tycho Brahe dared to ask the Question more than 400 years ago. This is a story about faith, superstition and science.
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Original title | KAMÆLEONER - The Chameleon
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Adam Schmedes
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Producer | Adam Schmedes
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Recipient | Loke Film (Denmark)
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Many years ago, this beach on a Greek island belonged to chameleons, snakes and turtles. Now, this EU Natura 2000 protected area is invaded by human beings and rats. This film tracks down the last year of a solitary female.
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Original title | PANGPANG BRôDER - Twin brothers
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Axel Danielson
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Producer | Erik Hemmendorff, Camilla Andersen
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Recipient | Plattform Produktion (Sweden)
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A documentary about two very different twin brothers, Oskar and Gustaf, growing up. The director Axel Danielson have filmed his sister’s twin sons since they were eight years old and will continue until they turn eighteen.
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | COPENHAGEN FILMFEST FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Recipient | Grand Theatre AS (Denmark)
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Filmfestival aimed at the younger demographic, taking place in Copenhagen September 9. - 16. Also making the festival a special platform for Nordic films, both geographically as well as thematically.
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June 2007
Development Support
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Original title | SPOT AND SPLODGE
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| Support | NOK 125.000
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Genre | Tv Fiction/Series
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Director | Lotta Geffenblad, Uzi Geffenblad
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Producer | Uzi Geffenblad
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Recipient | ZIG ZAG Animation (Sweden)
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The two little rabbitlike creatures somehow manage to acquire yet more spots and splodges, and at the same time they teach us about things that might be worth trying out.
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Original title | TATANKA
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Genre | Tv Fiction/Series
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Director | Rasmus A. Sivertsen, Olav Asland
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Producer | Alexandra Chauvin, Ove Heiborg
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Recipient | Qvisten Animation AS (Norway)
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Little Tatanka has a big secret. He can change into different animals! One day a bear, next day an eagle or a wolf. So every day after measuring his height, he marches into the woods, like the smallest biggest Indian warrior ever seen.
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Original title | THE SHELTER
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Genre | Documentary
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Director | Lise Birk Pedersen
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Producer | Anna-Maria Kantarius
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Recipient | Pausefilm ApS (Denmark)
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Young girls and boys in Shelter Fedor. a transit home for homeless and abused youngsters in St Petersburg, can easily become victims when they try to fulfill their dreams of a successful life.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | BANG
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| Support | NOK 175.000
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Director | Maj Wechselmann
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Producer | Maj Wechselmann
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Recipient | Produktionsgruppen Wechselmann AB (Sweden)
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Famous war correspondent, Barbro Alving, exposed herself as no Swedish journalist has done, and paid costly for her conviction. She reported from the Civil War in Spain, the Second World War, South East Asia in the forties - up to the Vietnam War.
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Original title | EKELOFS BLICK
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| Support | NOK 220.000
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Director | Claus Bohm
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Producer | Lise lense-Møller, Göran Gunér
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Recipient | Magic Hour Films Aps (Denmark/ Sweden)
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A spiritual, poetic journey of consciousness and a visual reading of the Nordic “poets’ poet”, Gunnar Ekelöf and his vision of the world. An inward and outward journey full of Nordic poets, poetic miracles, enigmatic beauty and the ecstasy of mysticism.
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Original title | GJENOPPTAKELSEN
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| Support | NOK 225.000
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Director | Marianne Kleven
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Producer | Tore Buvarp
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Recipient | Fenris Film (Norway)
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In 1985 Arne Treholt was sentenced to 20 years for espionage in favour of Soviet and Iraq. Now, he is trying to rebuild his relation to his country. His case can be opened again and rewrite the history, or Treholt can be dismissed for the last time.
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Original title | LIFE EXTENDED
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Bigert & Bergström
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Producer | Jonas Kellagher
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Recipient | Eight Millimetres AB (Sweden)
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The average lifespan in the western world has doubled during the last 200 years. Life extended is about living forever. Is it possible and if we were given the opportunity would it be a blessing or a curse? Can we live in a society were death doesn’t exist?
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Original title | LONG DISTANCE LOVE
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| Support | NOK 260.000
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Director | Magnus Gertten, Elin Jönsson
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Producer | Magnus Gertten
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Recipient | Auto Images (Sweden)
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A love story, but also about the gigantic migration wave into Russia. Alisher, 18, has to leave Kyrgyzstan to find a low paid job in Moscow - living under severe pressure. Back home his wife Dildora is waiting with their newborn baby.
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Original title | SUNMAN - Sólskinsdrengurinn
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
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Producer | Margrét Dagmar Ericsdóttir, Kristín Ólafsdóttir
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Recipient | Frontier Filmworks (Iceland)
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A film aimed to cast light on autism in a wide context. Although this disability is very serious there are numerous autistic people who have pursued an impressive carrier and some are considered geniuses because of incredible special talents.
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Original title | SÅ KORT OG MÆRKELIGT LIVET ER – EN FILM AF DAN TURELL
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Anders Østergaard
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Producer | Helle Winther
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Recipient | Everest Aps (Denmark)
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He was an urban buddhist, he was the iconic Copenhagen poet and he is a voice dearly missed. In this film, Dan Turèll returns to Earth to share his memoirs and to deliver a complete philosophy of life in his unmistakable groove.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | SÄG ATT DU ÄLSKAR MIG - Say That You Love Me
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Director | Daniel Fridell
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Recipient | Action Film as (Norway)
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Fatous, a fifteen-year old girl, is brutally raped by two of her classmates.
Wounded and desperate she thinks no one will believe her story, so she claims that nothing happened, that she has just been fucking around.
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | CPH:DOX
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| Support | NOK 220.000
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Recipient | CPH:DOX (Denmark)
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The international filmfestival for documentaries in Copehagen. Further development of the festivals professional platform; seminars, marketplace, catalogue etc.
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Original title | EMMY SEMINFINALE EVENT
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| Support | NOK 35.000
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Recipient | Koncern tv- og filmproduktion (Denmark)
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Koncern tv- og filmproduction is a member of the International Emmy Academy and is invited to host this years semifinal for the European region in the categories Documentary and Children & Young People.
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Original title | TWELVE FOR THE FUTURE
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| Support | 80.000
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Recipient | EDN (Denmark)
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Workshop for young, Nordic documentary-filmworkers. Takes place in Copenhagen in September and Helsinki (Docpoint) in January -08.
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Development Support
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Original title | BALLASTEXISTENSEN - The Ballast Existence
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Director | Måns Morlind, Bjørn Stein
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Producer | Karl Fredrik Ulfung
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Recipient | Breidablick Film AB (Sweden)
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Miriam gets a job with the old and sick children book writer Elise, who wants help writing her biography. Miriam soon discovers that her part in the work is vital when it turns out the Elise is her biological mother.
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Original title | DRAKARNA FRÅN NORR - Dragons from the north
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Åke Sandgren
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Producer | Lars G. Lindström
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Recipient | Nordisk Film Production AB (Sweden)
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Gorm the Viking has to flee the country when his father dies and the new king, Harald, comes to the throne. He ends up as a prisoner in France where a Christian monk makes Gorm teach the villagers how to defend them selves from Vikings. When Harald arrives to attack the village Gorm gets his revenge.
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Original title | PRIEST OF EVIL
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Director | Anders Engström
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Producer | lkka Matila
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Recipient | MRP Matila Röhr Productions (Finland)
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Policeman Timo discovers that a suicide at a subway station turns out to be the works of serial killer who’s a fanatic, self declared priest. The investigation suddenly gets personal when the priest threatens Timo’s wife and daughter.
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Original title | TRICKSTER
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Director | Arto Koskinen
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Producer | Petri Rossi
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Recipient | Cine Works Ltd. (Finland)
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Policeman Erik gets hit by lightning during a rescue operation that turns his life upside down. He suffers from insomnia and develops magnetic skills. This brings him out on a journey in his subconsciousness.
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Original title | USYNLIGE VENNER - Invisible friends
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Niels Gråbøl
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Producer | Sigrid Helene Dyekjær
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Recipient | Tju Bank Film2 Aps (Denmark)
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Viktor, eight years old, misses his father who got divorced his mother 2 years ago. He got no friends and a older brother who teases him about his lacking skills in basket. But old this changes when his new friend Gilbert comes along.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | AICHA
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| Support | NOK 160.000
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Director | Natasha Arty
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Producer | Johnny Andersen
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Recipient | Nimbus Film Produktion (Denmark)
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Aicha, 17 years, daughter of Turk immigrants has one passion; karate. But when she ends up in a team consisting both boys and girls her father say’s stop. Suddenly Aicha has to choose between following her dream or obeying her fathers wish to become a doctor.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | GLENN
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Director | Taipo Piirainen
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Producer | Mats Långbacka
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Recipient | Långfilm Productions Finland (Finland)
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Glenn has lived all his life alone with his father. When his father dies, Glenn discovers several letters from his mother that his father has kept away from him. Glenn decides to look up his mother.
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May 2007
Development Support
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Original title | VED VERDENS ENDE - To The End Of The World
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| Support | NOK 160.000
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Director | Tomas Villum Jensen
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Producer | Tivi Magnusson
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Recipient | M&M Productions AS
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After killing a man in Jakarta Severin says that he is over 100 years old due to a flower which gives eternal life. Adrian (a prison shrink in Denmark) is sent to Jakarta to declare Severin insane to save him from the death penalty.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | FRYGTELIG LYKKELIG - Terribly Happy
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| Support | NOK 1.600.000
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Director | Henrik Ruben Genz
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Producer | Thomas Gammeltoft
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Recipient | Fine & Mellow
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Nothing is ever straight forward, and certainly not when you are way out in the countryside.
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Original title | PAX
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| Support | NOK 1.450.000
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Director | Annette Sjursen
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Producer | Finn Gjerdrum, Stein B. Kvae
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Recipient | Paradox Film AS
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Nobody wants to be in a plane that´s about to crash, but for some people it may turn out to be the best thing that has ever happened.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | IT USED TO BE A GREAT FLAG
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Director | Yoav Shamir
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Producer | Karoline Leth
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Recipient | Tju Bang Film2 Aps
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This film is a current journey into a concept over used, often abused and the source of much pain: anti-Semitism. By following main characters who’ve made fighting, denying and studying anti-Semitism their lives in an almost obsessed way.
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Original title | PARADIS - Paradise
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Jens Loftager, Erlend Moe, Sami Saif
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Producer | Peter Bech, Mikal Olsen
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Recipient | Zentropa
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Original title | TANK CITY
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Director | Boris Bertram
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Producer | Lise Saxtrup
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Recipient | Barok Film
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Chelyabinsk, Russia; scientists have declared this the most polluted place on earth. Masha (29) is solo dancer in the dance company. In the daytime she lives her dream through modern dance. At night she transforms herself into a sexy go-go dancer at the nightclub owned by the local mafia.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | DIREKTØREN FOR DET HELE - The Boss Of It All
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| Support | NOK 60.000
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Director | Lars Von Trier
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Recipient | Fidalgo - Norway
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An IT company hires an actor (Jens Albinus) to serve as the company president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.
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Original title | SLIPP JIMMY FRI - Free Jimmy
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| Support | NOK 130.000
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Director | Christopher Nielsen
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Recipient | Folkets Bio - Sweden
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We follow the story of four low life anti-heroes who are uprooted from their mean city streets to work with a touring Russian circus in terminal decline. The star attraction is Jimmy, an elephant kept ‘happy’ on a cocktail of drugs. But Jimmy escapes and so begins a mad cap cross country road-trip to find Jimmy before he goes cold turkey.
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April 2007
Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | MAMMUT - Mammoth
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| Support | NOK 3.500.000
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Director | Lukas Moodysson
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Producer | Lars Jönsson
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Recipient | Memfis Film
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Mammoth revolves around successful New York couple Tom and Ellen, their 8-year old daughter Jackie and their and their Filipino nanny Gloria. On a business trip to Thailand, Tom realizes that he wants to change his life. His decision sets in motion a highly dramatic chain of events.
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Original title | TO VERDENER - Two Worlds
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| Support | NOK 1.100.000
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Director | Niels Arden Oplev
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Producer | Thomas Heinesen
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Recipient | Nordisk Film
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Sarah lives with her family in a closed religious community, but she is also a 17 year-old girl with her own desires and feelings. One day, she falls in love with 23 year-old Teis who is not part of that community.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | LABYRINT - The Labyrinth
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Molly Hartleb, Erik Lejonberg, Johan Tappert
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Producer | Mattias Johansson/Johan Mardell
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Recipient | AB Svensk Filmindustri
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A series about five middle-aged, big city people who lose control of their lives.
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Original title | ULVENATTEN - Night Of The Wolf
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| Support | NOK 1.000.000
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Director | Tom Egeland
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Producer | Aage Aaberge/ Kaare Storemyr
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Recipient | Nordisk Film & TV AS
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The popular TV host Kristin Bye has asked Tchetchen Asylum seeker Aslan to make a programme about the Tchetchen conflict, but at the beginning of the show, his guests turn out to be terrorists and take everybody in hostage, asking the programme to be broadcast live worldwide.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | DANISH CARTOONS
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| Support | NOK 400.000
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Director | Karsten Kjær
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Producer | Karsten Kjær, Alan Hayling
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Recipient | Freeport Media
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The film follows minute by minute, the events that followed the publication of the 12 cartoons in Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten, in the autumn 2005. Trying to explain why the cartoons had such dramatic consequences, the film is the Nordic contribution to the international series Why Democracy?
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | EFTER BRYLLUPPET - After the Wedding
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Director | Susanne Bier
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Recipient | Bio Rex Distribution - Finland
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | ANIMATION WORKSHOP - Professional Training
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| Support | NOK 50.000
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Recipient | Animations værkstedet/The Animation Workshop
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March 2007
Development Support
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Original title | DØDEN
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| Support | NOK 150.000
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Director | Eivind Tolås
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Producer | Lars Løge
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Recipient | Flimmer Film as
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A documentary about death -a natural part of life- that provides an opportunity to reflect upon taboos and tradition. A difficult question that will be treated in a surprisingly light way across its five episodes.
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Original title | OUPA - Turning Grandpa In His Grave
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| Support | NOK 60.000
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Director | Hanli Prinsloo
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Producer | Klara Björk
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Recipient | Filmkreatörerna
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A young woman who has lived seven years in Sweden goes back to her native South Africa to face her past. Who exactly was her racist grandfather? Can she feel at home there and stop feeling guilty about what her family did in the past? The film is the journey of a white Afrikaner to where she belongs.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | DISCO ORMENE - Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms
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| Support | NOK 1.950.000
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Genre | Animated Film
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Director | Thomas Borch Nielsen
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Producer | Nina Crone
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Recipient | Crone Film
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Young earthworm Barry is fed up with being at the bottom of the food chain. All the other insects in the backyard consider earthworms to be major losers: no arms – no backbone – no brain! Barry’s only future prospect is a boring “career” as middle manager in the composting business. But one day an old disco record turns his life upside down, and suddenly there’s light ahead. Barry wants to start the world’s greatest disco band: Sunshine Barry and the Disco Worms.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | ALBUM - The Album
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Hella Joof
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Producer | Ditte Christiansen, Thomas Gammeltoft
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Recipient | DR TV
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Set between 1970 and 2000, the story follows three boys - then men - from different backgrounds, in different working situations, their struggle with their social background and identity. Some are luckier than others.
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Original title | AUGUST
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| Support | NOK 2.000.000
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Director | Stig Larsson
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Producer | Daniel Alfredson, Margareta Feldt-Arehn
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Recipient | SVT
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A portrait of Sweden’s celebrated writer August Strindberg as a young man.
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Original title | JAGUAREN - The Jaguar
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Anna Höglund, Ulf Stark
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Producer | Lisbet Gabrielsson
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Recipient | Lisbet Gabrielsson Film
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Short animated film.
Elmer is a little boy who is turned into a jaguar while he sleeps.
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Original title | KUNGAMORDET - The Regicide
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Kathrine Windfeld
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Producer | Anna Croneman, Johan Mardell
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Recipient | Bob Film Sweden
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The Social Democratic Party has lost the election and starts a hidden battle for the appointment of the party’s new leadership. The previous leader will not resign so his opponent starts planning a coup.
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Original title | VARG VEUM - Varg Veum Private Investigator
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| Support | NOK 1.000.000
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Director | Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen, Erik Richter Strand, Morten Tyldum
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Producer | Peter Bose, Jonas Allen
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Recipient | SF Norge (Norway), Miso Film (Denmark)
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The series is based on Gunnar Staalesen’s best-selling novels about private eye Varg Veum. Set in Bergen, the stories capitalize on and explore the dark side of this scenic Norwegian West coast city’s picket-fence-and-cobblestone façade.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | YOUNG FREUD IN GAZA
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| Support | NOK 350.000
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Director | PeÅ Holmquist, Suzanne Khardalian
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Producer | PeÅ Holmquist
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Recipient | PeÅ Holmquist Film
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25 years ago, in PeÅ Holmquist and Suzanne Kharda’s documentary Gaza Ghetto, Ayed was the ‘cute’ son in a large Palestinian family. Today, the grown up Ayed is the only field psychologist in northern Gaza. Thanks to the film-makers long-term relationship with Ayed, he allows them to film some therapy sessions in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza.
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February 2007
Development Support
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Original title | THE HIDDEN PEOPLE
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| Support | NOK 75.000
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Director | Jòhann Sigmarsson
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Producer | Hrónn Kristinsdottir, Jòhann Sigmarsson
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Recipient | TV Films
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The middle-aged Jimmy who is responsible for a major road construction project, comes up against serious problems when he has to remove a big rock from where the road is supposed to be built. According to the local farmer John, that rock is bewitched and all those who have tried to remove it have failed for some unknown reason. Jimmy manages to convince his colleagues that the road has to continue around the rock, but he is far from giving up on the bewitched rock.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | DRENGE OG PIGER DANSER - Everybody's Dancing
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| Support | NOK 600.000
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Director | Pernille Fischer Christensen
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Producer | Meta Louise Foldager
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Recipient | Zentropa
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The film is the story of Annika, a bright and lively woman who runs a popular dance school with her mother. The day she meets electrician Lasse, she falls madly in love. However Lasse hasn’t told her something unforgivable he has done. Suddenly Annika is faced with the darker side of life and within herself.
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Original title | I ET SPEIL, I EN GÅTE
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| Support | NOK 1.885.000
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Director | Jesper W. Nielsen
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Producer | Turid Øversveen
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Recipient | Spillefilmkompaniet 4 ½
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12 year-old Cecilie is dying of cancer. Angel Ariel seeks her out because she has the opportunity to discuss some of the big issues that she is now facing because of her illness. The angel helps her reconcile with death and the various feelings brought with it.
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Original title | PING PONG KINGEN - King of Ping-Pong
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Jens Jonsson
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Producer | Jan Blomgren
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Recipient | Bob Film Sweden AB
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An overweight ping-pong champion is forced to rely on his popular younger brother to defend himself from bullies until a surprising revelation threatens their family unity.
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Original title | ÆBLET OG ORMEN - The Apple and the Worm
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Anders Morgenthaler
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Producer | Sarita Christensen
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Recipient | Copenhagen Bombay Productions
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The family animated film is a “fruit road movie” in which Torben, a beautiful apple whose dream to win a fruit competition is crushed by the arrival of a worm, Silvia, in his shiny flesh. Together with his friend Newton, he puts together a risky plan to get rid of Silvia.
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Distribution & Dubbing
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Original title | FARVÄL FALKENBERG - Falkenberg Farewell
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| Support | NOK 200.000
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Director | Jesper Ganslandt
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Recipient | Arthaus film Distribution
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Original title | SUPERVOKSEN - Triple Dare
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| Support | NOK 175.000
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Director | Christina Rosendahl
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Recipient | Arthaus Film Distribution
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Film Cultural Initiatives
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Original title | NORDIC FORUM ON CO-FINANCING
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| Support | NOK 220.000
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Recipient | Filmkontakt Nord
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Original title | NORDISK BARNE-TV FESTIVAL - Nordic Children TV Festival
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Recipient | Jolly Good Company
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Original title | TECHNICAL DIRECTORS' FORUM
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Recipient | A Film AS
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January 2007
Development Support
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Original title | WHISTLEBLOWER
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| Support | NOK 100.000
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Director | Karin Hård
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Producer | Klara Björk
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Recipient | Filmkreatörerna
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Based on a true story, the film, tells the story of Miriam, a young veterinarian working in a man’s environment who decides to expose animal abuse. The task is dangerous and she soon starts to feel threatened.
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Production Support – Feature Film
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Original title | DE USYNLIGE - The Unseen
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Director | Erik Poppe
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Producer | Finn Gjerdum, Stein B. Kvae
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Recipient | Paradox Spillefilm AS
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A woman has lost her child. A young man has become a murderer. Both individuals try to come to terms with what has happened to them.
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Original title | LIEKSA! - The Matriarch
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| Support | NOK 1.300.000
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Director | Markku Pölönen
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Producer | Petri Rossi, Jenni Lähteenmäki, Satu Sadinkangas
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Recipient | Suomen Filmiteollisuus Oy
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It’s the story of Martta, the first woman to lead the Koppelo family. Forced to move out of their own village, the Koppelos settle in Lieksa, the city of dreams. The delicate peace that Martta has achieved is disrupted by the return of Lazlo, the black sheep of the family. Under his influence, the Koppelo boys resume drinking, fighting and robbing.
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Original title | MANNEN SOM ELSKET YNGVE - The Man Who Loved Yngve
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Stian Kristiansen
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Producer | Yngve Sæther
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Recipient | Motlys Film
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Jarle Klepp’s life is turned upside down when he realises he has fallen in love with Yngve, the new boy at school.
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Original title | MYRSKY - Stormheart
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| Support | NOK 1.500.000
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Director | Kaisa Rastimo
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Producer | Kaisa Rastimo, Alf Hemming, Antti-Veikko
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Recipient | Stormheart Oy Ltd
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The father of a Finnish family rescues Stormheart, a cute puppy, in East Berlin in 1989, and takes him back home as a pet for his daughters. Little by little, the mystery of Stormheart, a Caucasian Shepherd, reveals itself to the family. His parents had served as guard dogs at the Berlin Wall. Pearl, the 7-year-old daughter takes the puppy under her wing.
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Production Support – Fiction/Tv Series
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Original title | DANNI - Danni
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| Support | NOK 400.000
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Director | Poul Berg
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Producer | Lene Nordin
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Recipient | DR TV
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The 12 year-old boy Sebbe instantly falls in love with the new girl in town, the pretty Danni who moves in at Lindely. The problem is that his best friend Kevin has also fallen for her, and constant harassment from the older Frank doesn’t help either. Things get even more complicated when Sebbe’s parents start to fight and Danni learns that she will be separated from her little brother. Both kids put together a plan of action.
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Production Support – Documentaries
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Original title | KASVOT - Facing Changes
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| Support | NOK 300.000
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Director | Mika Koskinen
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Producer | Kaarle Aho
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Recipient | Making Movies Oy
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Creative documentary about the concept of face in Chinese culture. Bao Huai, 30, is a marketing man of a successful aesthetics surgery clinic in Beijing and an ex-actor in the Beijing Opera. He leads us to the Chinese obsession with faces and facial masks. Through the concept of face, we approach the changing values of the rising Beijing middle class.
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Original title | MY WIFE AND ME
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Nahid Persson
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Producer | Jonas Kellagher, Nahid Persson
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Recipient | Real Reel Production
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In a small village in Iran with 400 inhabitants, a man is sharing four wives. Heda, the head of the family keeps to old customs even if society around him is going through quick changes.
He says with pride: “I can afford it; this is why I have several wives. “
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Original title | PURITY BEATS EVERYTHING
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| Support | NOK 250.000
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Director | Jon Bang Carlsen
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Producer | Marianne Christensen
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Recipient | C&C Production Aps
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In today’s Cape Town, the old Miriam Lichterman lives in the old Jewish quarter. The white elderly woman who has survived the Nazi’s death camps has found freedom in South Africa under apartheid. But the role of the victim is not played by her anymore but by another woman, a black lady who works for her as a maid. The ‘romantic’ notion of racial purity and selection connects past Nazism with yesterday’s Apartheid.
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