Films from the North. Highlights 2022

Norway, 2021
Regi: Egil Pedersen

Three Sámi men travel to the capital of Norway. One of them is wearing a gákti, the Sami traditional costume, to attract Norwegian women. Koftepolitiet is a Sámi short film told with humor and political sting.

Norway, Belgium, 2021
Regi: Hanne Berkaak

A WW2 story focusing on hair, not heroes. Five siblings and their hair parlor offer women of the small Norwegian town of Narvik a sense of normality in the midst of madness and despair. Based on actual events.

Sweden, 2021
Regi: Patrik Eklund

The year is 2121. In a small city in the north of Sweden, there’s a celebration of the local engineer Eugene Lestaner, whose inventions managed to reverse the effects of climate change. In the midst of the celebration, news breaks about a new doomsday threat. Finito is a comedy about how humans always will be humanity’s own worst enemy.