The Selection Committee has made this selection of 27 films from the 415 considered candidates from the Nordic Countries except Norway. The Nordic Competition is screened in four parts on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The directors are presented
at the beginning of each screening. Afterwards, they get the opportunity to talk about their film in Meet the Filmmakers. The films compete for four awards, along with the films in the section Norwegian Competition. The Award Ceremony is due Sunday.
All the directors are cordially invited with two complementary hotel nights.
Four films are awarded by the Jury, and all winners receive a Nordic Competition trophy. Please note that the films in the Norwegian Competition also participate.
Best Nordic Film:
Incl. EUR 1 000 donated by Minimalen Best Nordic Fiction
Best Nordic Documentary
Best Nordic Animation or Art Film
The Award Jury for Norwegian and Nordic Competition:
JUHANI ALANEN
(b. 1956, Finland), Executive Director at Tampere Film Festival, a festival
where he has served in various positions for more than 30 years,
including the competition selection committee. Furthermore, he
curates short film programmes for Tampere and various other film
festivals. Juhani holds a Master in Marketing from the University of
Tampere.
KARSTEN MEINICH
(b. 1982, Norway), cinephile separating his time between working as
a filmmaker, a film editor and co-chief-editing Montages, a popular
Norwegian web magazine on cinema. As a filmmaker, he won the
Minimalen Festival Award in 2005 for his short documentary Mikkel.
His film editing credits include the feature films One Night in Oslo
and Must Have Been Love, both directed by Eirik Svensson.
CECILIE BJØRNARAA
(b. 1970, Norway), filmmaker and producer. She has produced and
directed documentaries, anthropological films and commissioned
films a.o. for NRK and her own company True Fiction. In addition to
being the producer, she shares the script and camera credits on two
animation films directed by Julie Engaas - Sound Shadows (Special
Jury Award at Minimalen 2009) and Blame It On the Seagull (Best
Norwegian film at Minimalen 2014).
Categories: Ani = Animation, Doc = Documentary, Exp = Experimental, Fic = Fiction, Mus = Music
Countries: DK = Denmark, FI = Finland, IS = Iceland, SE = Sweden
Del 1Onsdag/Wednesday 12:00
SWE 2014 | Ani. | 9 min
Director: Jöns Mellgren
A PAPER WORLD (PAPPERSVÄRLD)
En middelaldrende mann tenker tilbake på tenårene sine.
About a middle aged man revisiting his early teens.
Script, editing: Jöns Mellgren | Camera: Oskar Idin
| Music: Daniel Fagge Fagerström
SWE 2014 | Doc. | 14 min
Directors: Alexander Rynéus, Per Eriksson
AUTONOMOUS
En ny og overveldende æra nærmer seg fra sidelinjen. Den
teknologiske utviklingen fører til at skillet mellom det ekte
og det uvirkelige blir stadig mer uklart.
A new, overwhelming era is approaching from the sidelines.
The boundary between what is real and unreal is becoming
increasingly blurred through technological advances.
Camera: Per Eriksson, Alexander Rynéus
| Sound: Christian Christensen | Music: Karl-Erik Berglund
ISL, USA 2014 | Ani. | 9 min
Director: Einar Baldvin
THE PRIDE OF STRATHMOOR
Utdrag fra dagboken til pastor John Deitman, Strathmoor,
Georgia. Juni og juli 1927.
Extracts from the journal of Pastor John Deitman, Strathmoor,
Georgia. June & July, 1927.
Script, editing: Einar Baldvin | Sound: Einar Baldvin
Music: Atli Arnarson | Voice: Geoffrey Gould
Production, contact: Einar Baldvin,
e: einarbaldvinanimation@gmail.com
SWE 2014 | Doc. Ani. | 14 min
Director: Emma Thorsander
EMBRYO
Basert på intervjuer med kvinner som har én ting felles – de
har alle gjennomgått en abort.
Based on intimate interviews with five women that have one
thing in common – they have all had an abortion.
Animation: Emi Stahl, Sara Frisk, Johanna Rubin, Helena
Frank, Olle Söderström | Sound: Joel Rayner
| Music: Lea-Marie Sittler | Editing: Emma Thorsander
SWE 2014 | Fic. | 29 min
Director: Henry Moore Selder
A LIVING SOUL (EN LEVANDE SJÄL)
Et ego våkner opp i et labratorium. Snart skjønner vi at
dette er Upsilon, en hjerne som blir holdt i live på kunstig
vis.
An ego wakes up in a laboratory. We soon realise it is Upsilon, a
brain that is kept alive artificially.
Script: Peter Modestij | Camera: Gustav Danielsson |
Sound: Jess Wolfsberg | Music: Daniel Fagerström |
Editing: Henry Moore Selder, Joakim Pietras |
Cast: Tova Magnusson, Louise Peterhoff, Claes
Ljungmark
Production: B-Reel Feature Films
Contact: Theo Tsappos − SFI, t: +46 86651133,
e: theo.tsappos@sfi.se
Martta og moren hennes tømmer bestefarens leilighet.
Hun vil ikke ta med seg mye, men de tingene hun velger
får uforutsette innvirkninger på livet hennes.
Martta is, along with her mother, emptying an apartment
where her grandfather lived. She does not want to take much
with her, but the things she chooses have an unforeseen
impact on her life.
Production: Pia Andell − Of Course My Films, t: +35 8405441213,
e: pia.andell@gmail.com
Contact: Otto Suuronen – FFF
t: +35 896220300, e: otto.suuronen@ses.fi
SWE 2014 | Doc. | 7 min
Director: Knutte Wester
DAWN IN A CITY WITHOUT NAME
Den levende hunden prøver desperat å få kontakt med
menneskene som går forbi, men ingen ser ut til å bry seg.
Hunden blir mer og mer desperat, men menneskene bare
fortsetter å skynde seg.
The living dog tries desperately to make contact with the
people passing by, but no one seems to care. The dog gets
increasingly desperate for help, but people just keep hurrying
past.
Livet er skjønnhet, vold, komfort, fare og leppestift. Selv
for de nyfødte.
Life is beauty, violence, comfort, danger and lipstick. Even for
the newborn.
Production: Sami Sänpäkkilä
Contact: Hanna Joensuu − AV-arkki, t: +35 8504356092,
e: programme@av-arkki.fi
SWE 2014 | Fic. | 9 min
Director: Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
RAIN (REGN)
En kvinne våkner av regnet på puten.
Når hun står opp følger regnet henne.
Hun bærer regnet med seg gjennom dagen.
A woman wakes up from rain on her pillow.
When she gets out of bed the rain follows her.
She carries the rain with her through the day.
Script: Johannes Stjärne Nilsson | Cast: Sally Phillips,
Anders Jansson, Jenny Hagberg, Zerny Thor
Production: Katja Brigge, Johannes Stjärne
Nilsson − Kostr-Film AB
Contact: Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, t: +46 709108700,
e: johannes@kostrfilm.com
FIN 2014 | Fic. | 2 min
Director: Juhana Lumme
MAKE-UP
Sminke fra begynnelse til slutt.
Make-up from the beginning to the end.
Production, contact: Juhana Lumme
t: +35 8505671969,
e: juhanalumme@gmail.com
SWE 2014 | Ani. | 15 min
Director: Niki Lindroth von Bahr
BATH HOUSE (SIMHALL)
Seks personer møtes i bassenget. Den pedantiske bassengsjefen,
et par som kommuniserer på en merkelig
måte og en gjeng med lumske hensikter. Noe går galt.
Six characters meet in a bath house. The pedant bath house
manager, a couple with a strange way of communicating
and a gang with shady intentions. Something goes wrong.
Script: Jerker Virdborg | Animation: Niki Lindroth von
Bahr, Schubert Animation | Sound: Hans Appelqvist | Voices: Inga-Lill Fridberg, Johannes Nyholm, Carl Johan
De Geer, Andreas Nilsson, Linnea Wikblad, Hugo Carlén
Production: Karl Wettre − Malade
Contact: Theo Tsappos − SFI, t: +46 86651133, e: theo.tsappos@sfi.se
FIN 2014 | Ani. | 4 min
Director: Katrina Tapio
ATTACK OF THE TERRIBLE VACUUM CLEANERS
Månebasen til NCSA (National Cats in Space Administration)
blir angrepet av fiendtlige intergalaktiske støvsugere.
The moon base of the NCSA (National Cats in Space
Administration) has come under attack by hostile intergalactic
vacuum cleaners.
DNK 2014 | Fic. | 30 min
Director: Hlynur Pálmason
A PAINTER (EN MALER)
En maler, en suksessrik kunstner som lever alene og isolert.
Han er besatt av arbeidet sitt, og vet ikke hvordan han skal
takle det når sønnen hans og andre fremmede står i veien.
A painter, a successful artist living alone and isolated. Driven
only by his work, he finds himself lost when he's forced to deal
with his son and other outsiders that stand in the way of his
work and get him out of balance.
Script: Hlynur Pálmason | Camera: Maria von Hausswolff
| Sound: Lars Halvorsen | Music: Lars Halvorsen
| Editing: Julius Krebs Damsbo | Cast: Ingvar Eggert
Sigurðsson, Elliott Crosset Hove, Ida Cæcilie Rasmussen
SWE 2014 | Fic. | 23 min
Director: Therese Ahlbeck
LOST IN STÅNGBY
Lars befinner seg fem minutter fra sivilisasjonen, slik han
kjenner den. Hans verden er i ferd med å forandre seg.
Lars is 5 minutes from civilization as he knows it.
But his world is about to change.
Script: Marcus Ahlbeck Olsson, Therese Ahlbeck | Camera:
Erik Molberg Hansen | Sound: Martin Hennel, Josef
Tuulse | Music: Josef Tuulse | Editing: Erik Andersson,
Ulrika Rang | Cast: Loa Falkman, Bengt C.W. Carlsson
I 2010 reiste Abu Eyad og andre unge palestinere fra
flykningeleiren Ain el-Helweh sammen med smuglere
gjennom Syria og Tyrkia inn i Hellas. Som så mange andre
emigranter lette de etter en vei inn i Europa, men endte
opp fanget i et land som var i ferd med å gjennomgå en
økonomisk, politisk og sosial kollaps.
In 2010, Abu Eyad and other young Palestinian men from
the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon travelled with
smugglers through Syria and Turkey into Greece. Like so many
other migrants, they came looking for a way into Europe but
found themselves trapped in a country undergoing economic,
political, and social collapse.
Sound: Gunnar Oskarsson | Editing: Michael Aaglund
Tilda er en åtte år gammel jente som bor sammen med
bestemoren som driver en blomsterbutikk. Hun flakker
fritt omkring og oppdager en verden full av uanstendige
aktiviteter bak veggene i blomsterbutikken, mens hennes
eget selvbilde former seg i en voldsom fart.
Tilda, an eight year old girl, lives with her grandmother who
runs a flower shop. She roams around freely and discovers a
world of indecent activities lurking behind the flower shop
walls while her self-image forms at a tremendous speed.
Et innblikk i hvordan kriminalfiksjon utnytter og sprer
redsel, samtidig som den er underholdning. Dialogen
og voiceoveren i filmen er rekonstruksjoner av en rekke
opptak av publikum som snakker om sin oppfatning av
kriminalitet.
A look at how crime fiction prey and perpetuate anxieties
whilst being a source of entertainment. The dialogue and
voice over segments in the film are reenactments from a
series of transcribed recordings with the general public about
perception of crime.
DNK, SWE 2013 | Doc. | 30 min
Director: Maria Bäck
MOTHER IS GOD (MAMMA ÄR GUD)
En fragmentert og personlig film om forskjellige opp -
fatn inger av virkeligheten, basert på samtaler mellom
meg (regissøren) og Gud (min psykotiske mor).
A fragmented and personal film on different visions of reality,
built on Skype conversations between me (the director) and
God (my psychotic mother).
Camera: Maria von Hausswolff | Sound: Anne Gry Friis
Kristensen | Music: Jacob Kirkegaard | Editing: Julius
Krebs Damsbo
Production: Julie Rix, Maria Bäck
- The National Film School of Denmark
Contact: Maria Bäck,
t: +45 23417117, e: maria.ingrid.back@gmail.com
SWE 2015 | Fic. | 20 min
Directors: Timmy Sundin, Anders Köhler, Alexander
Moberg
MAKE A WISH (UTI HUNDRADE ÅR)
Alexander går ned hotellkorridoren. Mens han nærmer seg
rommet sitt ser han på klokken. Tjuefem over.
Tjuefem minutter igjen. Så en time. En time med feiring av
den beste bursdagen noensinne.
Alexander walks down the hotel corridors. As he approaches
his room he glances at his wristwatch. Thirty-five past.
Twenty-five minutes left. Then an hour. An hour for the celebration
of the best birthday ever.
Script: Ludwig Thelin | Camera: Joel Sundqvist | Sound:
Anton Forsberg | Music: Anton Forsberg | Editing:
Anders Köhler, Timmy Sundin, Ludwig Thelin, Joel
Sundqvist
SWE 2014 | Doc. Ani. | 10 min
Director: Nils Bergendal
GERMAN SHEPHERD
Som jøde som vokste opp i Baltimore lærte han seg å
frykte tyskere. Gjennom flere reiser til Berlin har han startet
sitt eget forsoningsprosjekt.
As a Jew growing up in Baltimore, he learned to fear the
German people. Through recurring travels to Berlin, he now
initiated his own reconciliation project.
Animation: Nils Bergendal
| Sound, music: Hans Appelqvist
Production, contact: Nils Bergendal,
t: +46 707906870,
e: nils.bergendal@gmail.com
SWE 2013 | Doc. Exp. | 13 min
Director: Ida Lindgren
RINGS OF LIFE (ÅRSRINGAR)
Hanna var syv år gammel da hun så sin lillesøster bli syk og
dø i løpet av noen få timer.
Hanna was seven years old when she watched her little sister
fall ill and die in a few hours.
Camera: Ida Lindgren | Music: Eirik Røland | Editing: Lisa Ekberg
Production, contact: Ida Lindgren − VisionProduktion,
e: ida.lindgren@gmail.com
SWE 2014 | Fic. | 13 min
Director: Carl-Johan Westregård
CAMS
Natten vil snart bre seg over en fredelig strandby. Men
hvor er alle menneskene? Og hva er disse vesenene som
lusker akkurat utenfor synsvinkelen, hvor de finner seg
godt til rette?
Night will soon fall over a peaceful beach town. But where
have all the people gone? And what are these creatures lurking
just out of sight, seemingly making themselves at home?
Iran, 1984. De hjemløse brødrene Majid (15) og Adel (12)
forsøker å overleve i et land preget av krig. De går på
skolen og jobber i fritiden, men livet blir tøffere for hver
dag.
Iran, 1984.
Homeless brothers Majid (15) and Adel (12) try to
survive their daily lives in a war-torn country. They attend
school and work in their spare time, but life gets harder day
by day.
Script: Ilmari Aho, Hamy Ramezan
| Camera: Arsen Sarkisiants | Sound, music: Toni Teivaala
| Editing: Hanna Kuirinlahti
Production: Cilla Werning − For Real Productions, t: +358 405000552,
e: cilla@forreal.fi
Contact: Otto Suuronen – FFF,
t: +35 896220300, e: otto.suuronen@ses.fi