The Committee (14min.)

Noordse Focus

Information

Director: Jenni Toivoniemi,
Gunhild Enger

Subtitle: English

Language: Swedish,
Norwegian,
English,
Finnish

Original title: Kommittén

Production countries: Sweden,
Finland,
Norway

Year: 2016

Omschrijving

This comedy deals with the absurdity of democratic decision-making processes. It makes a humorous portrait of an international collaboration. The film investigates the nature of compromises, and mirrors political processes that often have great ambitions, but end up little to show.

Film stills

War, What If (6min.)

Noordse Focus

Information

Director: Puk Grasten

Subtitle: English

Language: Danish

Original title: Hvis der var krig i Norden

Production countries: Denmark

Year: 2019

Omschrijving

Following the Trump era, Brexit and border control: Europe is in dissolve. Denmark, ruled by an extreme right wing government, declares war against the rest of Scandinavia. As the war advances a family of five dissolves grounded in their different believes. As refugees, they struggle to unite as a family whilst creating a new home in an alienate country. Based on the award-winning book by Janne Teller.

Film stills

Get Ready With Me (28min.)

Noordse Focus

Information

Director: Jonatan Etzler

Subtitle: English

Language: Swedish

Original title: Get Ready With Me

Production countries: Sweden

Year: 2018

Omschrijving

Aspiring YouTuber Vendela decides to get up in front of her high school class and show a disturbing video that disrupts the lesson and causes her teacher Lukas to fear for her life. This impressive Swedish graduation film is a refreshingly unpredictable thriller about generational power struggles. that combines grim satire with the current urgencies of teen angst, social media and fame.

Film stills

A Target (8min.)

Noordse Focus

Information

Director: Antti Heikki Pesonen

Subtitle: English

Language: Finnish

Original title: Maalitaulu

Production countries: Finland

Year: 2018

Omschrijving

Arto is waiting for his wife and child in his car.  As they return from the store they tell him that an unknown man harassed them. Arto immediately decides to take the law into his own hands and plans to make a video to shame the man on social media.

Film stills

To Plant a Flag (15min.)

Noordse Focus

Information

Director: Bobbie Peers

Original title: To Plant a Flag

Production countries: Norway,
Iceland

Year: 2018

Omschrijving

In preparation for the moon landing in 1969, NASA sent a team of astronauts to the lunar landscape of Iceland. Their hi-tech training mission soon discovers what obstacles one can meet when facing an Icelandic sheep farmer.

Film stills

Train Robbers (20min.)

Noordse Focus

Information

Director: Martin A. Walther

Subtitle: English

Language: Norwegian

Original title: Togrøvere

Production countries: Norway

Year: 2019

Omschrijving

A retrospective coming-of-age documentary about a group of young friends aged 11-15 that stole an enormous amount of beer and soda from freight trains in Trondheim, Norway, in the mid-90s. A nostalgic, funny, serious, warm, sad and poetic documentary about kids that didn’t fit in at school or the football team. A story about children that had the future ahead of themselves, but society let them down.

Film stills

Noordse Focus

Nordic Shorts

Bestel Ticket

Nordic Shorts

Six interesting short Scandinavian films in which the current society in which we live is greatly enlarged. Check below for more info on the films in this compilation.

* A spontaneous birthday gift from the festival: the five Nordic Shorts with the Icelandic bonus film To Plant a Flag will be available for free on Thursday at 17:00 in the Accentzaal! Get a 0-euro ticket at the box office!

Alle voorstellingen

7 November

De Harmonie Bovenzaal

Q&A

Ingvar Sigurdsson

8 November

Slieker Film Groene Zaal

Films in deze mix

The Committee

War, What If

Get Ready With Me

A Target

To Plant a Flag

Train Robbers