Production support Feature films

• The Pact (Pagten)
  Grant: NOK 2,000,000
  Recipient: SF Studios Denmark
  Producer: Jesper Morthorst
  Director: Bille August
  Domestic distribution: SF Studios
  Sales: REinvent Studios
  The film is by produced by SF Studios Production and Motor, in co-production with Belgium’s Scope Pictures, co-financing from TV2 Denmark, Film Fyn, C More, Yle, SF Studios, support from the Danish Film Institute.
  
  The Pact is based on Bjønvig’s own memoirs, adapted for the screen by Christian Torpe who collaborated with Bille August on the acclaimed Silent Heart.
  
  Story: Karen Blixen finds herself as a celebrated but isolated genius, ahead of her time in terms of politics, sex, gender, everything - but when she falls in love with a young poet - Thorkild Bjønvig - she promises to make him the next great artist if he agrees to a pact.
• Diorama
  Grant: NOK 1,500,000
  Recipient: Nordisk Film Production Sweden
  Producer: Matilda Appelin
  Director: Tuva Novotny
  Domestic Distribution: Nordisk Film
  Diorama is co-produced by René Ezra of Nordisk Film Production Denmark and Sveinung Golimo of Nordisk Film Production Norway, with co-financing from SVT, DR, support from the Swedish Film Institute and the Norwegian Film Institute.
  
  In her third feature film, Tuva Novotny examines the intersection between social structure and our biological building blocks.
  
  Story: Frida and Björn have kids, a good apartment and jobs that they are happy for. And yet something is not quite right. Maybe our biology has more to say about our happiness than we assume.
• Christmas at Cattle Hill (Jul på kutoppen)
  Grant: NOK 1,500,000
  Recipient: Qvisten Animation, Norway
  Producer: Heidi Palm Sandberg
  Director: Will Ashurst
  Domestic Distribution: SF Studios
  Premiere: November 6, 2020
  The film is co-produced by the amusement park "Dyreparken i Kristiansand" where kids and their parents can visit Kutoppen (Cattle Hill) in real life.
  
  The Norwegian animated film Christmas at Cattle Hill is the follow-up to Qvisten’s first film in the franchise Cattle Hill, released domestically in October 2018.
  
  Story: Klara has invited everyone for a Christmas party at Cattle Hill, but when her father is called away, she enlists help from the farms barn elf in preparation for the festivities. 
• Yellow Sulfur Sky (Den Svavelgula himlen)
  Grant: NOK 1,100,000
  Recipient: Solar Films, Finland
  Producer: Jukka Helle
  Director: Claes Olsson
  Domestic Distribution: Nordisk Film
  The epic drama is co-produced by Sweden’s Bright Moving Pictures, Germany’s Why Not Films (Germany), Denmark’s Smile Entertainment, with co-financing from Yle, Nordisk Film, support from the Finnish Film Foundation, Konstsamfundet and Svenska Kulturfonden.
  
  The film is based on Kjell Westö’s acclaimed novel, published in Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish French, German, Dutch and Estonian.
  
  Story: Yellow Sulphur Sky is a bittersweet tale about love and friendship, and how we are shaped by gender, class and the time we live in.

TV Series 

• Fury (Furia)
  Format: 8x50’
  Grant: NOK 3,500,000
  Recipient: Monster Scripted, Norway
  Producer: Lasse Greve Alsos
  Creator/ head-writer: Gjermund S Eriksen
  Directors: Magnus Martens, Lars Kraume
  Commissioning broadcasters: NENT Group’s Viaplay, ZDF Germany
  World sales: Keshet International
  The series is co-produced by Germany’s X Filme, with support from the Norwegian Film Institute, Germany’s Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg and Keshet International (KI) Content Fund.
  
  Story: The political crime thriller follows undercover cop Ragna as she infiltrates a nationalistic subculture in order to prevent a major terrorist attack. With Germany in the midst of fiercely fought elections, her quest to discover the target sets her on a journey from the idyllic fjords of Norway to the heart of Europe’s political struggles: Berlin.
• Blackwater (Håndelser vid vatten)
  Format: 6x60’
  Grant: NOK 3,200,000
  Recipient: Apple Tree AB
  Producers: Piv Bernth, Lars Hermann
  Head-writer: Maren Louise Käehn
  Director: Pernilla August
  Commissioning broadcaster: SVT
  World sales: ITV Studios
  The series is co-produced by Germany’s ARD Degeto, Filmpool Nord, with co-financing from DR, NRK, Yle, RÚV and support from the EU Programme’s Creative Europe.
  
  The series is adapted for the screen by Maren Louise Käehn (Queen of Hearts) from Kerstin Ekman’s best-selling eponymous crime novel.
  
  Story: On a Midsummer night in 1970, two tourists are found murdered in a tent, far up in the mountains of North Sweden, near the small town of Blackwater. The incident intersects four random people’s lives, intertwining their destinies, for better and for worse as events are told from multiple viewpoints.

Documentary support

• Children of the Enemy
  Grant: NOK 600,000
  Recipient: Cinenic Film, Sweden
  Producers: Erika Malmgren, Kristofer Henell,
  Director: Gorki Glaser-Müller
  Domestic distribution: TriArt
  The documentary is co-produced by Film i Väst, SVT, Toolbox Film, GGM Film, One Night Picture, with co-financing from the Swedish Film Institute, the Danish Film Institute, The Malik Bendjelloul Memorial Foundation, Göteborgs Stad Kulturnämnd.
  
  Story: In 2014 Patricio Galvez’s daughter Amanda and her husband Michael Skråmo left Sweden to join ISIS in Syria. Five years later they were both killed, leaving behind seven small children. Deep in sorrow over his daughter’s death, Patricio makes a pledge to save his grandchildren. They are found trapped in the monstrous ISIS-camp al-Hol, where conditions are life-threatening. When the Swedish authorities neglect to act on behalf of the children, Patricio is forced to take it upon himself to try to get them out.
• The Lost Leonardo
  Grant: NOK 850,000
  Recipient: Elk Film, Denmark
  Producer: Andreas Dalsgaard
  Director: Andreas Koefoed
  World sales: Dogwoof Sales
  The film is co-produced by Sweden’s Mantaray Film and France’s Pumpernickel Films.
  
  Story: The film follows the battle over the fate of the Salvator Mundi, an ancient painting of Christ that, after its reappearance, soon becomes considered a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece and embroiled in economic and geopolitical dispute.

Distribution support

• NOK 270,000 to Nordisk Film Distribution, Sweden for the release of the Norwegian animated film Captain Sabertooth and the Magic Diamond 
• NOK 160,000 to Euforia Film, Norway for the release of the Danish film Daniel
• NOK 150,000 to SF Studios Norway for the release of the Swedish animated film Pelle No-Tail 
• NOK 130,000 slate support to Bío Paradís, Iceland for the release of the Norwegian film Disco, Swedish film About Endlessness and Danish animated film The Street Party.
• NOK 115,000 to Non Stop Entertainment, Sweden for the release of the Finnish film Helene 
• NOK 100,000 to Studio Entertainment, Sweden for the release of the Norwegian film Hope 
• NOK 75,000 to Myndform, Iceland for the release of the Norwegian animated film Captain Sabertooth and the Magic Diamond
  
  

Dubbing support 

• NOK 130,000 to Nordisk Film Sweden for the Norwegian animated film Captain Sabertooth and the Magic Diamond 
• NOK 120,000 to Myndform, Iceland for the Norwegian animated film Captain Sabertooth and the Magic Diamond 
• NOK 95,000 to Bío Paradís, Iceland for the Danish animated film The Street Party