Norway
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Spotlight: Documentary
Visions du Réel 2025: Flophouse America (dir. Monica Strømdahl) | Review
By turning her lens on Mikal’s family, a young American boy, and his parents, Monica Strømdahl documents the phenomenon of…
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Berlinale 2025
Berlinale 2025: Dreams (Sex Love) (dir. Dag Johan Haugerud) | Review
The unexpected 2025 Golden Bear winner delivers a thought-provoking meditation on consent, power, and perception through a distinctly female-centered narrative.
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Venice Film Festival 2024
Venice 2024 (Orizzonti): Pooja, Sir (dir. Deepak Rauniyar) | Review
A bold women's ensemble elevates Deepak Rauniyar’s socio-political film to greater heights, like a shooting star sparkling with amazement in…
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Venice Film Festival 2024
Venice 2024 (Competition): Love (by Dag Johan Haugerud) | Review
Dag Johan Haugerud's thought-provoking "Love" encourages us to expand our perceptions, and to realize that love and intimacy can manifest…
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Nordisk Panorama 2024
Nordisk Panorama 2024: Ping Pong Family (by Åsmund Hasli) | Review
In "Ping Pong Family," Åsmund Hasli paints a heartfelt portrait of a close-knit community of table tennis enthusiasts who have…
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Melbourne International Film Festival 2024
Melbourne IFF 2024: Armand (by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel) | Review
Anxiety peaks, confrontation speaks. A battle for truth arises in a psychologically motivated drama in Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel's sophisticated yet…
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Spotlight: Documentary
Visions du Réel 2024: Fragments of Ice | Review
Maria Stoianova revisits her family home video archives, producing a self-reflexive meditation of a family traveling across the world whilst…
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CPH:DOX 2024
CPH:DOX 2024: The Recovery Channel | Interview of Ellen Ugelstad
We had a conversation with Norwegian filmmaker Ellen Ugelstad about her latest feature "The Recovery Channel," which blends documentary and…
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Spotlight: Documentary
Sundance Film Festival 2024: A New Kind of Wilderness (World Cinema Documentary Competition) | Review
A Norwegian family living off the grid faces a heartbreaking and unprecedented dilemma in Silje Evensmo Jacobsen's moving documentary A…
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Interview
TIFF 2023: Songs of Earth | Interview of Margreth Olin
Margreth Olin shares her profound connection to nature, the personal journey that inspired Songs of Earth, and the artistic choices…
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