Last ned program for 2006 her - Oslo Internasjonale Filmfestival

16. oSlo inteRnaSjonale filMfeStival 16.-26. noveMbeR 2006 MADE IN NORWAY 16. oSlo inteRnaSjonale filMfeStival 16.-26. noveMbeR 2006 MADE IN NORWAY
Made In Norway visninger
i Filmmuseet: Gratis adgang.
Made In Norway screenings
in the Film Museum: Free access.
MADE
IN NORWAY
A summary
of the films
made in
Norway
the last year
English
subtitles
Screening:
Filmens Hus,
Filmmuseet
See website
for screening schedule:
www.oslofilmfestival.com
ThE BOThERSOME MAN
(DEN BRYSOMME MANNEN)
Norway, 2006, 90 min.
Norwegian
Director: Jens Lien
cast: Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Petronella
Barker, Birgitte Larsen
Førti år gamle Andreas ankommer
en merkelig by uten å helt vite hvordan
han har kommet dit. Han får seg
jobb og leilighet - til og med en kone.
Etterhvert som han utforsker sine
nye omgivelser oppdager han at han
befinner seg i det hinsidige, og at
han må finne veien ut derfra. Filmen
er en svart komedie om et personlig
helvete hvor det ikke er rom for
fritenkning. Førti år gamle Andreas
ankommer en merkelig by uten å helt
vite hvordan han har kommet dit.
Han får seg jobb og leilighet - til og
med en kone. Etterhvert som han
utforsker sine nye omgivelser oppdager
han at han befinner seg i det
hinsidige, og at han må finne veien
ut derfra. Filmen er en svart komedie
om et personlig helvete hvor det ikke
er rom for fritenkning.
Forty year old Andreas arrives in a strange
city with no memory of how he got there.
He is presented with a job, an apartment
- even a wife. As he explores his new surroundings,
Andreas realizes he has arrived
in the after-life and that he has to make
an escape from there. The film is a dark
comedy from a personal vision of hell,
where there’s no room for a non-conformist.
Director: Jens Lien has previously
directed the prize-winning feature Jonny
Vang, and his short film collaborations
Natural Glasses, Sunday Dinner at Mom’s
and Shut the Door, with screenwriter Per
Schreiner, have competed at the Cannes
and Venice film festivals.
LOOK AT ThE FJORDS
(SMAKEN AV hUND)
Norway, 2006, 65 min.
Norwegian
Director: Are Syvertsen, Jon Martin
Førland
cast: Are Syvertsen, Jon Martin
Førland
I sin søken etter sannheten brukes
det her skitne triks for å komme til
bunns i hvordan de norske matvareprodusentene
egentlig opererer.
Bilder av Dronningen i idylliske hardangerfjorden
klippes inn med bilder
av regnskog som brennes for å mate
norske griser. En underholdende,
men samtidig veldig viktig film.
In search for the truth about Norwegian
food production, it breaks all the rules
of decent journalism. The film compiles
images of the Norwegian queen in picturesque
fjords with Brazilian rainforests
being burned to feed Norwegian pigs.
Both entertaining and important at the
same time.
Director: Are Syvertsen and Jon Martin
Førland have previously made the TV
documentaries Life is Somewhere Else
(2001) and Radio Favela (2003). Together
they run the production company Incakola
Productions.
hIGh SChOOL TEAChER
PEDERSEN
(GYMNASLÆRER PEDERSEN)
Norway, 2006, 115 min.
Norwegian
Director: Hans Petter Moland
cast: Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl
Torp, Anne Ryg, Jan Gunnar Røise
Året er 1968, og den unge, borgerlige
idealisten Knut Pedersen
ankommer gymnaset i Larvik. Han
blir snart forført av Marxist-leninistenes
parti AKP, og det lille han
måtte ha av tvil rettet mot deres
utopiske ideer og forestående
revolusjon blir feid av banen når den
nye legen, Nina Skåtøy ankommer
byen. Men er det plass til kjærlighet
når arbeiderklassens seier er
hovedmålet?
1968: The young high school teacher
Knut Pedersen arrives in Larvik with his
bourgeois ideals, but is soon seduced
by the Marxist-Leninist party AKP. Any
doubts he’s got about the revolution and
the party’s revolution is cast aside with the
arrival of Comrade Nina Skåtøy, the new
doctor in town. When the working class’
cause is the main goal, will there be any
room for love?
Director: Hans Petter Moland, a film
graduate from USA’s Emerson College was
a prolific commercials director before he
made his feature debut in 1993 with The
Last Lieutenant. He followed with Zero
Kelvin in 1995, Aberdeen in 1999 and
lastly 2004’s Beautiful Country which was
selected for competition at the Berlin Film
Festival.
COLD FEET
(KALDE FØTTER)
Norway, 2006, 80 min.
Norwegian
Director: Alexander Eik
cast: Marit Andreassen, Christin
Borge, Brit Elisabeth Haagensli
Christer og Trine skal giftes. Men
Christers bestekamerat Kalle er
også hodestups forelsket i Trine,
og er villig til å gjøre nesten hva
som helst for å stanse det forestående
bryllupet og gjøre Trine - den
heiteste dama i byen - til sin...
Christer and Trine are engaged, but
Christer’s best friend Kalle is also head
over heels in love with her, and he is
willing to do almost anything to make her
- the hottest chick in town - his own...
Director: Alexander Eik is an educated
painter, but started making films in 1993.
His feature film debut was the romantic
comedy The Woman of My Life (2003), a
big box office success.
ThE JUNIOR OLSEN GANG
AT ThE CIRCUS
(OLSENBANDEN JR. PÅ CIRKUS)
Norway, 2006, 90 min.
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Director: Arne Lindtner Næss
cast: Thor Michael Aamodt, Marit
Andreassen, Trond Brænne
Oslo ca. 1960: Egon Olsen sitter i
husarrest på barnehjemmet etter et
lite heldig raid. Her oppdager han at
barnehjemmets bestyrer, sammen
med sin kone og bror, planlegger
å sabotere Cirkus Flamingo og
dermed overta styringen. Deres
plan involverer Biffen Gjengen og en
bombe i en rød koffert, så nå er det
opp til Olsenbanden Junior, i samarbeid
med Dynamitt Harry, å komme
opp med en plan for å sabotere
sabotasjen!
Oslo, around 1960: Egon Olsen is back in
confinement at the orphanage after a raid
gone bad, and discovers that the head of
the orphanage, along with his evil accomplices,
is planning a hostile takeover of the
Circus Flamingo. Their plan involves the
Biffen Gang and a bomb in a red suitcase.
Now it’s up the Junior Olsen Gang, in
collaboration with Dynamite Harry, to
come up with a counterplan to sabotage
the sabotage!
Director: Arne Lindtner Næss has
worked as a director, screenwriter, actor
and creative producer since 1985. He has
directed two films about The Junior Olsen
Gang, and his feature Finding Friends won
an Amanda award in 2005.
PLAYING WIDE
(LANGE FLATE BALLER)
Norway, 2006, 97 min.
Norwegian, German, English
Director: Bjørn Fast Nagell
cast: Jan Edgar Fjell, Petter Jørgensen,
Anders Fjell, Eirik Tobiassen
En vill komedie om seks karer som
jobber sammen på Ed Garasjen.
Verkstedet trues av konkurs, og
alle står i fare for å miste jobben. I
ren desperasjon velger de å gjøre
det som faller dem mest naturlig - å
bruke resten av pengene i kassa på
en guttetur til fotball-VM i Tyskland!
A comedy about six guys working in the
Ed Garage. The garage is threatened by
bankrupcy and they are all in danger of
losing their jobs. Out of desperation, they
decide to do what comes natural to guys
like them; spend the rest of the garage’s
money on a company trip to the soccer
World Championship in Germany!
Director: Bjørn Fast Nagell ran his own
video workshop before starting to make
commercial films in 2003, after winning
The Young Director’s Award in Cannes the
same year. This is his first feature film.
IT’S hARD TO BE A ROCK’N
ROLLER
Norway, 2006, 90 min.
Norwegian
Director: Gunhild Asting
cast: Tor Heine Rosdahl, Arild Halse,
Knut Sigve Sollid, Øyvind Lied, Jostein
Bjørndal, Ragne Arnesen
Tor Heine spiller gitar og synger i
bandet Merkesteinane, som holder
til i Volda, og består av ti musikere.
De har holdt det gående i fjorten år,
til stor glede for lokalmiljøet. Men
Tor Heine har større planer - han vil
gå solo! Drømmen er å lage egen cd
og dra på turné med tungt utstyr og
pyroeffekter. Men drømmen møter
motstand fra de mer jordnære medlemmene
i bandet.
It’s Hard to be a Rock’n Roller ... A
documentary about the music group
Merkesteinane from Volda in the region of
Sunnmøre. The group consists of mentally
challenged individuals. The band has
ten members - all of them with distinct
personalities, abilities and, not least, with
widely differing ambitions. With generosity,
cheerfulness and love of music, the
band has survived for 11 years. They have
become an odd social and cultural institution
in the Volda district.
Director: Gunhild Asting was educated at
Volda University College and The Surrey
Institute of Art and Design. This is her film
debut as a director.
MARIA’S MEN
(MARIAS MENN)
Norway, 2006, 80 min.
Norwegian
Director: Vibeke Ringen
cast: Ingjerd Egeberg, Mads Eldøen,
Eindride Eidsvold, Jens Jørn Spottag
Maria er førti, singel og har tre fine
barn. Når hun treffer den kjekke psykiateren
Fredrik virker livet hennes
perfekt. Så treffer hun Jonas. Han er
tjueto, elsker paragliding og har en
god sans for humor. Maria forsøker
å fortrenge de gryende følelsene for
Jonas, men hun kommer ikke unna
at hun er i ferd med å falle for ham.
To menn, to forskjellige verdener
- hvordan skal hun klare å velge?
Maria is forty, single, with three lovely
children. When she meets the handsome
psychiatrist Fredrik, everything in Maria’s
life seems perfect. Enter Jonas. He is
twenty-two, loves paragliding, and has a
killer sense of humour. Maria tries to deny
her growing feelings for Jonas, but she
cannot escape the fact that she’s falling in
love. Two men, two different worlds - how
will she choose?
Director: Vibeke Ringen is educated
within film and TV in Volda and Los
Angeles, and has worked as a director for
NRK since the mid - 90’s. She’s worked as
assisting director for the feature films The
Greatest Thing and Odd Little Man.
REPRISE
Norway, 2006, 97 min.
Norwegian
Director: Joachim Trier
cast: Espen Klouman Høiner, Anders
Danielsen Lie, Victoria Winge
Erik og Philip har bekymringsløst
dyrket livet og en felles drøm om å
bli store forfattere. Nå er de snart
treogtyve, og hva har de å vise til i
livet? Ingen verdens ting! Reprise
er en humoristisk film om vennskap
og galskap, full av kontraster og
melankoli, om en periode vi alle må
igjennom uavhengig av hva vi vil ha
ut av livet. Filmen er Norges bidrag
til årets Oscar-utdeling.
Reprise is a playful film about friendship,
madness and creativity, about love and
sorrow, great ambitions and the often
unpleasant clash between youthful presumptions
and reality. With its somewhat
un-Norwegian structure, Reprise has a
distinct style and narrative technique
which moves the story forward in a rich
and enthusiastic manner. Norway’s Oscar
contender for 2006.
Director: Joachim Trier is educated at
the National Film and Television School in
England, and have, in collaboration with
co-writer Eskil Vogt, made several awardwinning
short films which have made an
impact nationally as well as internationally,
Procter (2002) being one.
RESTLESS
(URO)
Norway, 2006, 104 min.
Norwegian
Director: Stefan Faldbakken
cast: Nicolai Cleve Broch, Ane Dahl
Torp, Ahmen Zeyan, Bjørn Floberg
HP, en politimann med en voldelig
fortid, har endelig fått drømmejobben
i politiets URO-patrulje som
bekjemper narkotika og organisert
kriminalitet. Under et oppdrag treffer
han Mette, en tidligere skolekamerat,
og hennes venn Marco. Når
HP oppdager at Marco er involvert i
narkokriminalitet bruker han Mette
for å komme nærmere ham - uten å
informere de andre i teamet. Det er
nå fortiden han rømte fra innhenter
ham.
HP, a police officer with a violent past, has
been recruited to his dream job in the Elite
unit fighting drugs and organized crime.
While on an undercover assignment he
meets Mette, a former schoolmate, and
her friend Marco. When HP discovers
that Marco is involved in drug dealing, he
uses Mette to get closer to Marco, without
informing his Team. Now his past will
come back to haunt him.
Director: Stefan Faldbakken graduated
from the Dramatic Institute in Stockholm,
where his graduation film, Large and Small
Miracles, received an Oscar nomination
for Best Short in 2000. Since then, he has
produced, among others, the short films
Cosmonaut and Anolit - both festival
favorites.
SVEIN AND ThE RAT
(SVEIN OG ROTTA)
Norway, 2006, 97 min.
Norwegian
cast: Thomas Saraby Vatle, Luis
Engebrigtsen Bye, Celine Louise
Dyran Smith
Hva gjør du når din bestevenn
Halvorsen er en rotte og hele verden
hater rotter? Svein og kompisen Dan
deltar med rottene sine i årets kjæledyr-konkurranse,
men så stikker
Halvorsen av og avisene skriver at at
både skolen og sykehuset må stenge
på grunn av rotteinvasjon. Og hvis
Mamma og Pappa finner ut at det er
Svein og Halvorsen som står bak, er
det ikke bare konkurransen som står
på spill...
What can you do when the world hates
rats and your best friend, Halvorsen, is a
pet rat? Svein and his buddy Dan enter
their rats in the annual pet contest, but
when Halvorsen escapes, the newspapers
say that the school and the hospital has to
close due to a rat infestation. Now, if mom
and dad find out that Svein and Halvorsen
is behind this, more than the contest is at
stake...
FOREVER YOURS
(EVIG DIN)
Norway, 2006, 52 min.
Norwegian
Director: Monica Csango
cast: Magda Csango, Peter Csango,
Monica Csango
Dokumentar om en kvinnes evige
kjærlighet til sin mann som tilsynelatende
ble drept under 2. verdenskrig
viser seg å bli et mysterium.
Hennes barnebarn finner et bilde fra
Bombay, India, og mistenker at han
slettes ikke døde i krigen. Det blir
en forstyrrende og følelsesladet vei
mot sannheten.
A documentary about a woman’s everlasting
love of her husband, who apparently
died during WWII turns into a mystery.
Her granddaughter discovers a picture
from Bombay, India, and suspects he didn’t
die after all. The investigation becomes a
disturbing and emotional journey.
Director: Monica Csango works as a
journalist for TV2. This is her debut as a
film director.
FREE JIMMY
(SLIPP JIMMY FRI)
Norway/United Kingdom, 2006, 80
min.
Norwegian
Director: Christopher Nielsen
cast: an Sælid, Anders T. Andersen,
Egil Birkeland
Fire trøtte typer får seg jobb hos
ringleder Stromowski i et turnerende
russisk sirkus. Hovedattraksjonen
er Jimmy, en elefant med en farlig
hemmelighet og et uhorvelig stort
narkotikaproblem. På åpningskvelden
stikker Jimmy av, og dermed er
en jakt over vidda igang - det gjelder
å finne Jimmy før abstinensene tar
overhånd.
Four low life anti-heroes are uprooted
from their mean city streets to work with
Ringmaster Stromowski in a touring Russian
circus in terminal decline. The star
attraction is Jimmy, an elephant with a
secret, kept ‘happy’ on a cocktail of drugs.
On the opening night, however, Jimmy
escapes, and so begins a mad cap cross
country road-trip to find Jimmy before he
goes cold turkey.
Director: Christopher Nielsen has
published 19 comic books, and directed
and animated Friday Night Fever in 1996,
for which he won the Viewer’s Award at
the Oslo Animation Festival. In 2000, he
wrote and directed the animated series
Wasted Wankers for NRK.
OLE BULL
(OLE BULL
– hIMMELSTORMEREN)
Norway, 2006, 80 min.
Director: Aslak Aarhus
cast: Henning Kraggerud, Bjørn Wilberg
Andersen, Andrea Bræin Hovig,
Sven Nordin
Ole Bull var Norges første
superstjerne og Bergens største
sønn. Mens han la verden for sine
føtter, overså han kone og barn
her hjemme. Han var genial som
markedsfører av seg selv og fant
på uhørte triks for å bli omtalt og
berømt, samtidig som han var essensiell
i veien mot Norges selvstendighet.
Filmen får godt frem dualismen
mellom den enorme suksessen i karrieren
og den hjelpeløse mangelen
på kommunikasjon mellom ham og
hans franske hustru.
Ole Bull was Norway’s first superstar.
While he conquered the world, he
neglected his wife and children at home.
As a master of self promotion, he would
come up with outrageous tricks to achieve
fame and fortune, whilst being essential in
the struggle towards Norway’s independence.
The film captures the duality
between his enormous success and the
total lack of communication between him
and his french wife.
Director: Aslak Aarhus has worked as a
photo reporter in many international conflict
areas. From 1992, he has made about
20 documentaries from three continents
for NRK and TV2 - some of which has
been sold to more than 50 countries.
SONS
(SØNNER)
Norway, 2006, 100 min.
Norwegian
Director: Erik Richter Strand
cast: Nils Jørgen Kaalstad, Henrik
Mestad, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
25-årige Lars har et temperament
som har landet ham i trøbbel igjennom
hele livet. Når han oppdager at
en eldre mann tukler med småguttene
i nabolaget, utløser dette er
voldsomt raseri i ham. Han setter
seg fore å stanse mannen, men
situasjonen spinner ut av kontroll
og truer til slutt med å sette i fare
de han i utgangspunktet ønsket å
beskytte.
25 year old Lars has a temper which has
gotten him into trouble all his life. When
he discovers that an elderly man is fooling
around with the teenage boys in his
neighborhood, it triggers a terrible rage in
him. He embarks on a crusade to stop the
abuser, but the situation soon spins out of
control, and threaten to endanger those he
sought to protect.
Director: Erik Richter Strand studied
direction at the Norwegian Film School
at Lillehammer. His film Vanished (2001)
won the Director’s Award for Best Short at
the San José International Film Festival in
2002. Sons is his first feature.
COLD PREY
(FRITT VILT)
Norway, 2006, 97 min.
Norwegian
Director: Roar Uthaug
cast: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Victoria
Winge, Alf Larsen
Det er midtvinter og en gruppe
venner kjører snowboard nedover
Jotunheimen. En av dem faller
stygt og brekker benet. I det fjerne
skimter de et høyfjellshotell og
bestemmer seg for å søke ly der.
Hotellet viser seg å være forlatt og
telefonlinjene er døde, så de innser
at de må tilbringe natten der. Men
de er ikke alene. Det som følger er
en kamp på liv og død, hvor antallet
venner minker etterhvert som natten
senker seg...
It’s midwinter. A group of friends are
snowboarding down a mountainside when
one of them falls and breaks a leg. In the
distance they spot a mountain hotel and
decide to find shelter there. The hotel turns
out to be deserted and the phonelines are
dead, so they realize they have to spend
the night there. But they are not alone.
What follows is a battle of life and death,
with the number of friends decreasing as
the night progresses...
Director: Roar Uthaug is educated at the
Norwegian Film School at Lillehammer.
He has directed about 30 commercials, and
his short film The Martin Administration,
was nominated for an Oscar for student
films. This is his first feature film.
TRIGGER
Norway, 2006, 90 min.
Norwegian
Director: Gunnar Vikene
cast: Ann Christin Sømme, Sven
Wollter, Anneke von der Lippe
En varm og dramatisk film om elleve
år gamle Alises møte med en villhest
på rømmen. Hun må redde hesten
fra dens onde eiere, men den eneste
personen som kan hjelpe henne blir
syk og havner på sykehus.
A warm and dramatic adventure story
about eleven-year-old Alise’s encounter
with a wild horse on the run. She has to
save the horse from it’s evil owners, but the
only person who can help her falls ill and
is hospitalized.
Director: Gunnar Vikene has made
documentaries, shorts and over 100 commercials
since 1993. In 2002, he directed
his first feature, Falling Sky, which was a
box office success. His TV series Robbery,
won the Gullruten award for best drama
in 2005.
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