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Pitched by: Sara Moland & Tarjei Sandvik Moe

School: The Norwegian Film School, Norway

I Felt I had to Be Here © Sara Selmer Moland

I Felt I Had to Be Here

Vera (24) has committed suicide. When her art clique, family and lovers gather to celebrate her, they are confronted with who she was, who themselves are, and what they were for her. And they realize they see this vastly differently.

Fiction

I Felt I Had to Be Here

Graduation Film, Fiction, 28 min.

Vera (24) has committed suicide. When her art clique, family and lovers gather to celebrate her, they are confronted with who she was, who themselves are, and what they were for her. And they realize they see this vastly differently.

Director: Sara Selmer Moland
Producer: Gry Hege Østerhagen
Scriptwriter: Tarjei Sandvik Moe
Cinematographer
: Signe Edelboe Rasmussen
Editor: Andreas Stilloff Hovde
Sounddesigner: Kevin Kleiven
Production Designer: Svend Rossing Madsen

Pitched by: Balder Ljunggren

School: HDK-Valand, Sweden

Balder Ljunggren Thats Amore

Worldbuilding

With a Murakami-esque plot, Worldbuilding invites us to the quiet and beautiful mysteries of the everyday. Infusing magic, music, singing, and dancing into our often mute world in new and unexpected ways, making the real more real.

Fiction

That's Amore

Graduation Film, Fiction, 12 min.

In intense and fleeting scenes, Olga aimlessly navigates a city of arbitrary rules, dopamine fountains and anonymous meetings. A digital beer glass at McDonalds, a lover in World of Warcraft and a talent contest at the mall. All the while Olga tries catching up with a world that's rushing her by.

Director: Balder Ljunggren
Producer
: Nadja Josephsoon
Scriptwriter
: Balder Ljunggren
Cinematographer
: Sophus Wolf
Editor
: Balder Ljunggren
Sounddesigner
: Olivia Mangs, Holger Göransson
Music
: Gustav Berntsen, Daniel Hilden Honoré

Pitched by: Laura Rantanen

School: ELO, Department of Film, Finland

Laura Rantanen1 Goodbye words

Read a Night Away

Read a night away is a documentary road movie about library-cars. The protagonists of the film are booklovers living in the remote areas of Finland and the library-cars visiting them. The film is a tribute to encounters through art.

Documentary

Goodbye Words

Graduation Film, Documentary, 22 min.

Where do the abandoned books go? Goodbye Words is a documentary short film about books, cyclicality, and acceptance of death. The film ponders what kind of trace we leave behind and offers consolation for the fear of insignificance.

Director: Laura Rantanen
Producer: Jenni Jauri
Scriptwriter: Laura Rantanen
Cinematographer: Iris Kärkkäinen
Editor: Heli Kota
Sounddesigner: Konsta Verta
Composer
: Tuomas Kettunen

Pitched by: Atchy Konesh

School: The Norwegian Film School

Atchy Konesh When the snow has melted

Jordan

17-year-old generational football talent, Jordan JR, is one week from his new life as a pro-player. The week prior, waits a last tournament with his boyhood-club, in Southern-Norway. Here he encounters new, eventful feelings that makes him question his future.

Fiction

When the Snow Has Melted

Graduation Film, Fiction, 17 min.

After Theo's (10) little sister dies in an accident, he feels that the aftermath is a wave of sympathy that never ends. In a valiant attempt to regain his own identity, he realizes that he cannot escape the accident and must face the aftermath. With the help of the new girl in class, Embla (10) - an impossible task seems to become possible.

Director: Rasmus Sandager
Producer: Eline Speilberg
Scriptwriter: Atchy Konesh
Cinematographer
: Julie Mørch Honoré
Editor
: Lea Hilden
Sounddesigner: Paula Franke
Productiondesign
: Laura Tassicker

Pitched by: Petra Koivula

School: ELO, Department of Film, Finland

Petra koivula nesting

Last Before September

Last Before September tells the story of three friends, who spend the final days of August in a large, somewhat mysterious hospital complex, supporting their dying friend. The events of these days bring unexpected solace in dealing with loss.

Fiction

Nesting

Graduation Film, Fiction, 20 min.

Nesting follows Veikka, a twenty-year-old boy about to quit his job at a construction site to start a new life in the big city. Veikka expects the goodbyes to go smoothly, but then something strange happens: they find a baby in the crane. The surprising problem is an annoyance at first, but in the end it opens up communication between the employees in a way that has been difficult in the past.

Director: Siiri Halko
Producer: Aino Niemi
Scriptwriter
: Petra Koivula
Cinematographer
: Ari Virem
Editor: Saara Välimäki
Sounddesigner: Ossi Oikari

Pitched by: Gabriel Bagnaschi

School: The Norwegian Film School, Norway

Gabriel Bagnaschi Token

Token

Token is a TV series set in a world where people can age only if they are in love. Here people must do their best to choose between staying young or finding a partner. But can they really choose?

Fiction

Token

Graduation Film, Fiction, 18 min.

Token is a TV series set in a world where people can age only if they are in love. Here people must do their best to choose between staying young or finding a partner. But can they really choose?te

Director: Gabriel Bagnaschi
Producer: Gabriel Bagnaschi
Scriptwriter: Gabriel Bagnaschi
Cinematographer: Adrian Axel
Editor
: Gabriel Bagnaschi
Sounddesigner: Pedro Zapata Hagen

Pitched by: Cecilie Flyger Hansen

School: HDK-Valand, Sweden

Cecilie Flyger Hansen Sit Play Stay

A World Made by Kisses

We religiously depend on our technology to the extent that it seems to control us. But what if we told you that humans may soon be able to control nature with technology?

Documentary

Sit. Play. Stay

Graduation Film, Documentary, 19 min.

A theatrical troupe is set to stage the play "Snow White". However, this troupe is not like most; in the lead roles are dogs. Snow White is played by a Collie, and the evil queen is portrayed by an Australian Shepherd. The rehearsals are a beautiful and absurd interplay that highlights the power dynamics between human and animal. Through a dog's point of view we are encouraged to look back at ourselves.

Director: Cecilie Flyger Hansen
Producer
: Line Aas Sørensen
Scriptwriter
: Cecilie Flyger Hansen
Cinematographer: Kasper Weng Yadee Andersson, Victor Cornelius
Editor
: Matilda Lind
Sounddesigner: Nora Øland

Pitched by: Pia Louise Edvardsen & Benjamin Mosli

School: The Norwegian Film School, Norway

Pia Edvardsen Changeling Chaotic Neutral

Changelings

A series about modern-day Oslo and the forgotten folklore of the city. A dark fairytale about changelings who have to come to terms with their own inhumanity and decide what to do with it.

Fiction

Changeling/Chaotic Neutral

Graduation Film, Fiction, 19 min.

In Changeling/Chaotic Neutral we meet Solveig, who feels that something is wrong with her, but she can't put her finger on what it is. A kind of restlessness in the body? ADD perhaps? She longs for sympathy, seeks out various healing circles, and is on frequent doctor's visits, but everything indicates that she is completely healthy, completely normal. But then she suddenly loses control.

Director: Pia Louise Edvardsen
Producer: Pia Louise Edvardsen
Scriptwriter
: Pia Louise Edvardsen
Cinematographer
: Benjamin Mosli
Editor
: Gøthe Lasse Ellevsøy
Sounddesigner
: Kristoffer Endresen

Pitched by: Gyöngyi Fazekas

School: ELO, Department of film, Finland

Gyongyi Fazekas My Unborn Son

Heartdrive

Nora recreates her father for her grieving mother in a virtual reality game. However, the father is not willing to play along. Heartdrive is
 a universal human story about grief, love and the art of letting go.

Fiction

My Unborn Son

Graduation Film, Fiction, 19 min.

Nora is facing the life-altering choice of whether or not to become a mother.
 In her uncertainty, she has turned to science: by means of a lifelike simulation, she can meet an AI version of the child she could have.

Director: Gyöngyi Fazekas
Producer: Julius Repo
Scriptwriter: Gyöngyi Fazekas, Helena Sorva
Cinematographer
: Miikka Pakarinen
Editor: Nina Forsman
Sounddesigner
: Tatu Viitanen
Cast: Saga Sarkola, Juho Kuusamo, Jonna Järnefelt, Eeva Putro, Konsta Laakso

Pitched by: Ingvild Dahlgren

School: The Norwegian Film School, Norway

Ingvild Dahlgren Girlfriend Experience

Cold Response

When a young filmmaker starts documenting her brother in the army, she's confronted with how his military degree made him into a rigid soldier. But can she use her handycam to make him start fighting his inner war instead?

Fiction

Girlfriend Experience

Graduation Film, Fiction. 27 min.

When the young sex-worker Kath is abandoned by her partner and friend Andrea, she goes on a mission to escape her grief by playing the different roles the duo has built with their costumers.

Director: Ingvild Dahlgren
Producer: August Kolding
Scriptwriter: Julie Macus
Cinematographer
: Marius Solberg
Editor: Darta Sturite
Sounddesigner
: Ester Lindberg
Production Designer:
Olivia Mai Scheibye

Pitched by: Camilla Pavlikova Sandland & Oline Nordentoft

School: The Norwegian Film School, Norway

Whatever city scriptw camilla p sandland

Strangers Everywhere

14-year old Katka is forced to navigate family conflicts and cultural identity ahead of her confirmation, and must choose between her Norwegian father and Slovakian mother as she seeks to define herself.

Fiction

Whatever City

Graduation Film, Fiction, 28 min.

Through a series of human encounters, we get to know the impulsive, socially conscious and confirmation-seeking Ida Vesaas Palme (27), who by testing different but specific passions, tries to find a meaning and a goal in life, but gives up immediately she meets the slightest resistance. In the confrontation about her lack of an obvious talent, Ida finally goes in to eradicate encounters with external resistance, and has to orient herself to reality on her own, and take a stand on the feelings this entails.

Director: Tobias Smith
Producer: Kine Storflor Grøtt
Scriptwriter: Camilla Pavlikova Sandland
Cinematographer: Mikkel Lyng-Jørgensen
Editor
: Mariel Melø Hansen
Sounddesigner: Sebastian Raft

Pitched by: Arnar Gústafsson

School: HDK-Valand, Sweden

Arnar Gustafsson WE NEED TO TALK

The Hidden People

A mystical absurd-realist comedy of three crew members confronting a Viking series director's naivety at a wrap party, leading to a drunken reenactment where their mythical identities are revealed, seducing him into a erotically visceral trance-like state.

Fiction

We Need to Talk

Graduation Film, Fiction, 22 min.

Arnar, an anti-car-use urban planner who secretly love cars, travels to buy his dream car: A '93 Mazda 323F which watches the negotiation dance between desire and emotional attachment. Arnar lives out his idealized fantasy with the Mazda, when it finally breaks down, and initiates an open dialogue about the state of their relationship.

Through autobiographical fiction, filmmaker Arnar Gústafsson explores the complex relationships of the West with the ideals of Modernity, romantic relationships, and cars.

Director: Arnar Gústafsson
Producer: Arnar Gústafsson
Scriptwriter: Arnar Gústafsson
Cinematographer: Alex Hatfield, Birnir Jón Sigurðsson, Arnar Gústafsson
Editor
: Arnar Gústafsson
Sounddesigner
: BlueFox studio (no sound-mix on work in progress)
Actors
: Arnar Gústafsson, Guðjón Birgir Jóhannsson, Urður Bergsdóttir

Pitched by: Juno Sandbæk-Jensen

School: The Norwegian Film School, Norway

Juno Jensen Hvordan sover radyret

The Final Ride

The Final Ride is a poetic road trip documentary following a woman in her mid-thirties driving from Norway to Italy in an old, bright orange Fiat. One final adventure before accepting adulthood, confronting the life-changing question: whether to have children.

Documentary

Doe Dream

Graduation Film, Documentary, 20 min.

Doe Dream is an experimental poetic documentary that explores repressed anger through a kaleidoscopic feminine lens of visual poetry and evocative soundscapes. Reflecting on life’s cyclical nature, the film challenges the concept of human superiority over nature and guides the viewer on the path from trauma to healing.

Director: Juno Jensen
Producer
: Juno Sandbæk-Jensen
Scriptwriter: Juno Sandbæk-Jensen
Cinematographer
: Juno Sandbæk-Jensen
Editor: Juno Sandbæk-Jensen
Sounddesigner: Ylva Gulpinar
Sound Mix
: Gunn Tove Grønsberg

Pitched by: Riikka Koskinen

School: ELO, Department of Film, Finland

Special Kinda Bad Feeling © Reeta Varpama

Haye

Haye is a series about a teenage boys' football team. In the middle of the season, struggling FC East is joined by a mid-level player who turns out to be the team's last hope.

Fiction

Special Kinda Bad Feeling

Graduation Film, Fiction, 20 min.

Rebekka and Aatos, stuck in the past, meet for the first time since their painful breakup at their treasured poetry slam. It’s easier to sing about longing than to talk about it.

Director: Reeta Varpama
Producer: Riikka Koskinen & Johan-Sebastian Rintala
Scriptwriter
: Emmi-Liia Sjöholm
Cinematographer: León Torres
Editor: Hilla Tykkyläinen
Sounddesigner: Patrik Koski
Composer:
Antti Pouta
Set Designer
: Freda Purik
Costume Designer
: Santtu Laitila
Make-up designer
: Anu Reijonen
Choreographer: Leo Terävä

Pitched by: Tobias Klemeyer Smith

School: The Norwegian Film School, Norway

Whatever city scriptw camilla p sandland

Kind, or: Together is a Beautiful Place

An empathetic doctor grapples with guilt after a slip-up leaves his patient in a coma. Seeking redemption, he becomes involved in an art project by the patient's daughter. In gradually more surreal ways, he's made to mimic her father's life.

Fiction

Whatever City

Graduation Film, Fiction, 28 min.

Ida bumps into her old music teacher from elementary school. The unexpected meeting sets off a journey through the city, introducing us to a couple of peculiar characters. The day's curious events inspire Ida to envision a film.

Director: Tobias Klemeyer Smith
Producer: Kine Storflor Grøtt
Scriptwriter: Camilla Pavlikova Sandland
Cinematographer: Mikkel Lyng-Jørgensen
Editor
: Mariel Melø Hansen
Sounddesigner
: Sebastian Raft
Production designer
: Rikke Seim