NORWEGIAN BERLIN 2014 FILMS
PLEASE VISIT US at the European Film Market, c/o Scandinavian Films, Martin Gropius Bau, stand 26 STINE HELGELAND Executive Director, Promotion and International Relations Cell: +47 957 44 173 E-mail: stine.helgeland@nfi.no STINE OPPEGAARD Head of International Relations, feature films Cell: +47 908 59 638 E-mail: stine.oppegaard@nfi.no TORIL SIMONSEN Head of International Relations, short and documentaries Cell: +47 900 38 086 E-mail: toril.simonsen@nfi.no FRONT COVER In Order of Disappearance Director: Hans Petter Moland Photo: Paradox AS ASTRI DEHLI BLINDHEIM Head of Cultural Events Cell: +47 930 44 687 E-mail: astri.blindheim@nfi.no KNUT SKINNARMO Senior Advisor, International Relations, feature films E-mail: knut.skinnarmo@nfi.no PÅL HÅBERG Print Manager, International Relations Cell: +47 414 12 983 E-mail: pal.haberg@nfi.no
COMPETITION IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE ACTION COMEDY 115 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 DIRECTOR Hans Petter Moland SCREENPLAY Kim Fupz Aakeson DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Philip Øgaard PRODUCERS Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae for Paradox Rettigheter AS CAST Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Hildegunn Riise, Jakob Oftebro, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gard Eidsvold, Kristoffer Hivju RELEASE DATE February 21, 2014 SALES TrustNordisk ApS COMPETITION In Order of Disappearance is an action comedy. Nils drives a snow blower and lives a carefree life in a remote winter paradise. His son s sudden death puts him in the middle of a drug war between Norwegian mafia and the Serbians. In this world he is a beginner armed with heavy machinery and beginner s luck. MON, FEB 10 12.00 BERLINALE PALAST PRESS SCREENING MON, FEB 10 18.45 BERLINALE PALAST GALA PREMIERE* TUE, FEB 11 09.00 HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE TUE, FEB 11 12.30 FRIEDRICHSTADT PALAST TUE, FEB 11 21.30 HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE WED, FEB 12 18.30 PASSAGE BERLINALE GOES KIEZ SUN, FEB 16 18.00 FRIEDRICHSTADT PALAST *Ceremony for the European Shooting Starts 2014 HANS PETTER MOLAND grew up on a family farm and in Oslo. He has directed 6 feature films; The Last Lieutenant (1993), Zero Kelvin (1995), Aberdeen (2000), The Beautiful Country (2004), Comrade Pedersen (2006) and A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010) and he holds a BFA in Film from Emerson College (1978). Both The Beautiful Country and A Somewhat Gentle Man was in Berlin International Film Festival Competition in 2004 and 2011. Hans Petter was an exchange student in Grosse Pointe, Michigan as a sixteen year old, and returned to the US to study film.
PANORAMA BLIND DRAMA 96 MIN COLOUR DCP 2K STEREO 5.1 DIRECTOR Eskil Vogt SCREENPLAY Eskil Vogt DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Thimios Bakatakis PRODUCERS Hans-Jørgen Osnes and Sigve Endresen for Motlys AS CAST Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Vera Vitali, Marius Kolbenstvedt RELEASE DATE February 28, 2014 SALES Versatile PANORAMA Having recently lost her sight, Ingrid retreats to the safety of her home a place where she can feel in control, alone with her husband and her own thoughts. But Ingrid s real problems lie within, not beyond the walls of her apartment, and her deepest fears and repressed fantasies soon take over. ESKIL VOGT (1974) is a directing graduate from La Fémis in Paris. He has directed several award-winning shorts, including An Embrace nominated for a European Film Award in 2003. Vogt has also had a successful screenwriting career, working with Joachim Trier on many films, including the features Reprise (2006) and Oslo, August 31st (2011, official selection in Cannes). Vogt s most recent work as a director was for the groundbreaking, darkly comic and award-winning Norwegian TV-series Out in Our Garden. OFFICIAL SCREENINGS SUN, FEB 9 20.00 CINEMAXX 7 PREMIERE AND PRESS MON, FEB 10 14.00 POTSDAMMERSTRASSE 5 BERLINALE TALENT SCREENING MON, FEB 10 22.45 CINESTAR 3 TUE, FEB 11 20.15 CUBIX 7 & 8 FRI, FEB 14 22.30 CINESTAR 7 SUN, FEB 16 17.00 CINESTAR 7 EUROPEAN FILM MARKET SAT, FEB 8 13.20 CINEMAXX 4 TUE, FEB 11 12.45 CINEMAXX 10
EUROPEAN FILM MARKET Photo: Jörg Wiesner A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT Rebecca is one of the world s top war photographers. On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, she gets to near, and gets badly hurt. Back home another bomb drops. Her husband and daughters can no longer bear the thought of her dying while at work. She is given an ultimatum: Her work, or her family life. The choice seems obvious. BALLET BOYS It s not easy being a teenager, especially not through the eyes of these three ballet boys a film about friendship, ambitions, identity and passions. Ballet Boys takes you through disappointments, victories, forging of friendship, first loves, doubt, faith, growing apart from each other, finding your own way and own ambitions, all mixed with the beautiful expression of ballet. FRI, FEB 7 18.15 CINESTAR 5 MON, FEB 10 12.45 CINESTAR 4 DRAMA 117 min ORIGINAL TITLE Tusen ganger god natt DIRECTOR Erik Poppe SCREEN- PLAY Harald Roseløw Eeg based on a story by Erik Poppe and Harald Rosenløw Eeg PRODUCERS Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae for Paradox AS RELEASE October 18, 2013 SALES Global Screen FESTIVALS Norwegian Film Institute SUN, FEB 9 10.35 CINEMAXX STUDIO 15 DOCUMENTARY 75 min ORIGINAL TITLE Ballettguttene DIRECTOR Kenneth Elvebakk SCREENPLAY Kenneth Elvebakk PRODUCER Carsten Aanonsen for Indie Film RELEASE 2014 SALES Wide House FESTIVALS Norwegian Film Institute
EUROPEAN FILM MARKET THE CHRISTMAS OF SOLAN AND LUDVIG Solan, Ludvig and Reodor Felgen are back. It s almost Christmas, and what Ludvig wants most of all is snow. But when Reodor builds the world s most powerful snow cannon, it ends up in the hands of Freeman Pløsen, editor of the Flåklypa Gazette. Above all things in this world, Pløsen wants a record snowfall, and Solan and Ludvig must take action. On their own. For Reodor has vanished, and outside a snowstorm is raging, getting steadily worse. Messing around with nature is a dangerous business DEAD SNOW 2 RED VS DEAD In this sequel to the epic splatter zombie saga from 2009, Martin has to prove that there is more devilry in Northern Norway than even Nazi zombies are prepared for. And so far, the zombie war has only just begun in a film in which crushed bones and dead blood has no time to coagulate before it s alive again. Old hatred never rusts. SUN, FEB 9 09.30 CINEMAXX 10 ANIMATION 76 min ORIGINAL TITLE Solan og Ludvig Jul I Flåklypa DIRECTOR Rasmus A. Sivertsen SCREENPLAY Karsten Fullu based on the novel Solan og Ludvigs jul by Harald Sommerin Simmonæs based on the characters from Kjell Aukrust s universe PRODUCERS Cornelia Boysen and Synnøve Hørsdal for Maipo Film AS RELEASE Nov 8, 2013 SALES TrustNordisk ApS FESTIVALS Norwegian Film Institute SAT, FEB 8 16.45 CINESTAR 6 TUE, FEB 11 09.30 CINEMAXX STUDIO 12 NAZI ZOMBIE HORROR SPLATTER COMEDY 105 min ORIGINAL TITLE Død Snø 2 DIRECTOR Tommy Wirkola SCREENPLAY Tommy Wirkola, Stig Frode Henriksen, Vegar Hoel PRODUCERS Kjetil Omberg and Terje Stømstad for Tappeluft Pictures RELEASE Feb 12, 2014 SALES Elle Driver/XYZ for USA FESTIVALS Elle Driver
EUROPEAN FILM MARKET DOCTOR PROCTOR S FARTPOWDER The world described in this tale is not at all like our world. The dungeons are gloomier, the rich and their sons meaner, the parents much more self-centered, the crazy inventors inventions crazier. And the beast that lives in the sewer system, brooding on revenge, could easily be a giant anaconda. In this world, the friendship between two lonely children is perhaps even more important than it is in our world. HOCUS POCUS ALFIE ATKINS! When he s not playing at pirates with his friends, 7-year-old Alfie Atkins dreams of having a dog of his own. A playful terrier. Just like the one the old magician has. And since magic is all in the mind, Alfie is convinced he can use it to make his dream come true. But it is not as easy as he thinks... even if, in the end, his dream does come true, in the most unexpected manner. FRI, FEB 7 15.00 CINESTAR 6 SUN, FEB 9 11.15 CINEMAXX STUDIO 18 FAMILY FILM 87 min ORIGINAL TITLE Doktor Proktors prompepulver DIRECTOR Arild Fröhlich SCREENPLAY Johan Bogaeus based on the children s book Doktor Proktors prompepulver by Jo Nesbø PRODUCERS Cornelia Boysen and Synnøve Hørsdal for Maipo Film AS RELEASE March 7, 2014 SALES TrustNordisk FESTIVALS Norwegian Film Institute CHILDREN ANIMATION 72 min ORIGINAL TITLE Hokus, Pokus Albert Åberg DIRECTOR Torill Kove SCREENPLAY Hans Åke Gabrielsson and Tora Berg based on Hokus Pokus, Albert Åberg! by Gunilla Bergström PRODUCERS Kristin Ulseth and Cornelia Boysen for Maipo Film AS RELEASE Sep 13, 2013 SALES TrustNordisk ApS FESTIVALS Norwegian Film Institute
EUROPEAN FILM MARKET LOVE ME Twenty-year old Maria and her longing to be loved and her fear of being rejected about the jealousy, uncertainty and cowardice we usually prefer to keep to ourselves. Maria is a troubled and lonely girl who falls in love with the grounded and patient Adam. He is the first boyfriend to treat her nicely, but Maria struggles with her past and the relationship with her dad, who left her when she was very young. When her dad reappears it makes Maria vulnerable to the fear of being rejected once again. THE SLEEPWALKER Kaia and Andrew s peaceful life is violently disrupted upon the unexpected arrival of Kaia s sister, Christine, and her fiancé, Ira... Prior tensions and jealousies burgeon as new alliances form and childhood patterns resurface. When one of the four characters goes missing, the three left behind are flung into upheaval trying to fill in the blanks. FRI, FEB 7 12.50 CINESTAR IMAX SUN, FEB 9 13.20 MGB-KINO DRAMA 75 min ORIGINAL TITLE Elsk meg DIRECTOR Hanne Myren SCREENPLAY Hanne Myren PRODUCERS Brede Hovland and Sigve Endresen for Motlys AS RELEASE March 28, 2014 SALES Motlys AS FESTIVALS Norwegian Film Institute PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA 92 min ORIGINAL TITLE Søvngjengeren DIRECTOR Mona Fastvold SCREENPLAY Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold PRODUCERS Karin Julsrud and Turid Øversveen for 4 ½ Film AS RELEASE Jan 31, 2014 SALES LevelK FESTIVALS Norwegian Film Institute
CO-PRODUCTION SPECIAL SCREENING CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE This 3D film project about the soul of buildings allows six iconic and very different buildings to speak for themselves. Six acclaimed filmmakers bring their own visual style and artistic approach to the project. Buildings, they show us, are material manifestations of human thought and action. FORUM EXPANDED EXHIBITION FICTIONS AND FUTURES #1 HAPPINESS IN THE ABSTRACT The future doesn t belong to us, the futures are negotiated. Bets on future prices of grains and intellectual property rights on patented seeds determine today what we ll have to pay tomorrow. GERMAN CINEMA LOLA@BERLINALE TWO LIVES The portrait of a 45-year-old successful woman photographer living in Norway, born during World War II, allegedly by a Norwegian mother and a German soldier father. When summoned to witness in a court case a dark secret from her past is about to catch up with her. OFFICIAL SCREENINGS WED, FEB 12 15.00 HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE THU, FEB 13 10.00 HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE EUROPEAN FILM MARKET THU, FEB 6 18.30 CINESTAR 7 TUE, FEB 11 14.00 CINESTAR 5 DOCUMENTARY 156 min ORIGINAL TITLE Cathedrals of Culture DIRECTORS Wim Wenders, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Robert Redford, Margreth Olin, Karim Ainouz PRODUCER Neue Road Movies RELEASE Feb 2014 SALES Cinephil FRI, FEB 7 SUN, FEB 16 11.00 FILMHAUS BLACKBOX VIDEO INSTALLATION 30 min ORIGINAL TITLE Fictions And Futures #1 Happiness In The Abstract DIREC- TORS Arne Hector, Minze Tummescheit PRODUCERS Ingvild Hellesøy for Frk Hellesøy Film, Arne Hector and Minze Tummescheit for Cinéma Copains RE- LEASE February 7, 2014 SALES Cinéma Copains SUN, FEB 9 14.00 ZOO PALAST 2 GERMAN/NORWEGIAN DRAMA 100 min ORIGINAL TITLE Zwei Leben/To liv DIRECTOR Georg Maas SCREENPLAY Georg Maas, Ståle Stein Berg, Christoph Tölle, Judith Kaufmann PRODUCERS Dieter Zeppenfield, Rudi Teichmann, Axel Helgeland RELEASE November 2012 SALES Beta Cinema
CO-PRODUCTION MARKET CO-PRODUCTION MARKET 2014 CO-PRODUCTION The Norwegian Film Institute is proud to be a partner of the tenth Berlinale Co-Production Market taking place from Sunday to Tuesday, February 9 11 2014 Berlinale Co-Production Market OFFICIAL PROJECT SELECTION THE SMUGGLER DIRECTOR Pål Sletaune PRODUCTION COMPANY 4 ½ Fiksjon PYROMANIAC DIRECTOR Erik Skjoldbjærg PRODUCTION COMPANY Pravda AS PARTICIPATING AT THE CO-PRODUCTION MARKET Gary Cranner Chezville Jan Erik Langøen Moskusfilm Kristine Knudsen Den siste skilling Øistein Refseth Mer Film Sigurd Mikal Karoliussen Moskusfilm
SHOOTING STAR JURY S COMMENT: Jakob is an exceptionally charismatic young actor. He is delightful as the romantic male lead in Knut Hamsun adaptation Victoria, while demonstrating admirable breadth in the other work we viewed. We are confident that Jakob has an exceptional career ahead of him. Photo: Kon-Tiki JAKOB OFTEBRO is one of Scandinavia s most talented actors. His television work includes the BAFTA nominated Danish/Swedish TV series, The Bridge, as well as a featured role in the highly anticipated 1864 by Ole Bornedal. His film career includes roles in Max Manus Man of War, and the Oscar and Golden Globe nominated Kon-Tiki, as well as leading roles in Victoria and The Hidden Child. In 2014, Jakob can be seen in Christian E. Christiansen s drama, On the Edge and in In order of Disappearance by Hans Petter Moland. Jakob speaks English, German, Danish, Norwegian and Spanish Lindberg Management Tel. +45 33-11 1557 al@lindbergmanagement.com www.lindbergmanagement.com
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