NOR 6
The pre-selection juries have chosen 46 films (24 from Norway and 22 from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden). These films make up the NOR program, which consists of 6 blocks of Nordic films in competition.
The directors will be introduced at the start of each program, and later in the evening, they will discuss their films during the Meet the Filmmakers sessions.
The awards ceremony takes place on Saturday evening.
Jury

WIM VANACKER
Consultant, creative advisor, programmer, and curator with extensive experience in international film festivals and development projects. Member of the Selection Committee for the Official Short Film Competition at the Cannes FF, editorial consultant for First Cut Lab, and curator and editing consultant for the Works-in-Progress Showcase at the Red Sea IFF.

CARMEN GRAY
Freelance arts journalist, critic, and film programmer based in Berlin. She has written extensively on cinema and art for publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Sight & Sound, Criterion, and Art Review, and is a contributing critic for The Film Verdict. Programmer for international film festivals and currently serves on the selection committees of the Berlin IFF and the New Zealand IFF.

JESPER BERGOM-LARSSON
Head of Talent and Senior Documentary Adviser at Midtnorsk Filmsenter. Producer and film consultant for Nordic short fiction and documentary, and has held key roles at SVT, SFI, and regional film centres in Sweden and Norway. Bergom-Larsson frequently serves as a jury member and advisor at international festivals and industry events.
Awards
Awards given by the Nor jury
No award will be given in the category that Best Nordic Film belongs to.
Other awards
Programme
Programme

Symbiont
An examination of the ideas found in contemporary science about symbiosis that decolonize the way we look at nature, childhood and what it means to be human, in the natural world.
louiscnorway@gmail.com

EGO
Molecular gastronomy, pretentious self-realization, and the weird choice of having children are all ingredients in this semi-apocalyptic double date from hell.

Seahorse
Truls must tell his boss that he is pregnant. There is just one problem: Truls is a man.

Ovary-Acting
Surrounded by babies at her sister’s baby shower, Eva is forced to fend off questions left, right and centre about when she’ll be starting a family of her own.
kjersti@klippoglim.no

Without Kelly
Forced to leave her baby daughter with the child’s father, young mother Esther is caught in desperation and longing. Through the night she chases touch and comfort, seeking ways to hold on to who she loves the most.

Cake
The cam girl and artist, Lindsay Dye, has fought her whole life against stigma in a patriarchal society - all shot on 8 mm.

Zanana
On the dehumanization and survivors guilt unique to the palestinian experience.

Reckless
Insecurity, boredom, peer pressure, and hierarchy mixed with a ruthless drinking game. It's only a matter of time before things spiral out of control.

