19-25 January
2026
Six months before the Norwegian parliamentary election in 2021, social scientist Ottar Brox wrote a manifesto in his column in the newspaper Klassekampen. It was a call to arms for the center-left, aiming to enable Northern Norwegian coastal communities to regain control of their basic resource: the ocean commons. Ottar Brox has stood on the barricades and fought for the coast his whole life.
The film follows the now 90-year-old warrior from his childhood on Senja to his early career as a scientist, and then a parliamentarian who fought to extend the coastal fishing zone and defend sustainable, decentralized resource management to secure fisheries and processing along the coast. He wrote the classic book “What happens in Northern Norway” as early as 1966. To this day, Ottar continues the struggle.
Hans Eirik Voktor has had a long professional career within film – both as a filmmaker and educator as well as in programs for innovation. Voktor is now a professor of documentary film production at the University of Stavanger. He made The Coastal Warrior in close collaboration with Eirik Jacobsen.
Kl 16:30
Fokus 1
Kl 11:30
Verdensteatret
Kl 15:30
Other Venues
Kl 18:45
Verdensteatret
Kl 11:30
Verdensteatret
| Programme: | Films from the North |
| Part of: | Hermes II: Films at Sea, FFN - Shorts 6: The Coastal Warrior |
| Director: | Hans Eirik Voktor |
| Country: | Norway |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Run time: | 1h 1m |
| Cast: | Ottar Brox, Paul Jensen, Steinar Eliassen |
| Dialogue: | Norwegian |
| Producer: | Mona Steffensen |