16.08.2007

Norwegian films in Haugesund

Gone with the Woman (Tatt av kvinnen/Petter Næss) is the opening film of the 35th Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund on Saturday, 18 August. Stig Svendsen's The Radio Pirates (Radiopiratene) will open the Children Film Fest.

NEW NORDIC FILMS
New Nordic Films is an annual Nordic film market during the long-established Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund. From its start in 1995 the organizers have expanded and cultivated the event year by year, and New Nordic Films, with three hundred participants and screening about thirty new films each year, is now one of the most important meeting place for everyone with a professional interest in Nordic films.

Norwegian features at New Nordic Films
Gone with the Woman (Tatt av kvinnen/Petter Næss)
The Art of Negative Thinking (Kunsten å tenke negativt/Bård Breien)
Mirush (Blodsbånd/Marius Holst)
5 Lies (5 løgner/Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen)
Elias and the Royal Yacht (Elias og kongeskipet/Espen Fyksen and Lise I. Osvoll)
Winterland (Vinterland/Hisham Zaman)

Norwegian documentaries at New Nordic Films
Man Woman Coffe (Mann Kvinne Kaffe/Carl E. Johannessen)
Natural Born Star (Even G. Benestad)
Porn Star? (Pornostjerne?/John Sullivan)

Work in progress
The Kautokeino Rebellion (Kautokeinoopprøret/Nils Gaup)
Switch (-/Ole Martin Hafsmo)
The Man who loved Yngve (Mannen som elsket Yngve/Stian Kristiansen)

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