New programtitles released at the outdoor screening at UiT

The students gathered to watch Everything Everywhere All At Once, which they voted for ahead of the screening. This marks the four part-collaboration between TIFF, UiT, Samskipnaden and the Student parliament who will create more cultural activities for students.

Well dressed for the weather, with blankets and hot toddy in hand, the audience could grab a bite to eat, listen to some music, and be the first to know the next sneak-peak at this year's TIFF-program.

This year's student screening will be The Sweet East

Festivaldirector Lisa Hoen presented the new new title releases, How To Have Sex by Molly Manning Walker, and The Sweet East by Sean Price Williams, which will be this year's free student screening! This is in collaboration with Samskipnaden, and the movie will be shown during the festival, Tuesday 16. January 2024 at Driv. The free tickets will be available on our website when the ticketsale opens at January 8. 

The Sweet East is an unhinged film about the subcultures of the East Coast in the United States, and it isn’t afraid to step on anyone's toes! High schooler Lillian ends up in a trippy Alice in Wonderland-esque situation and encounters, among other things, neo nazis, anarchists and pedo-rings.

How To Have Sex deals with the pressure of expectations and consent (or lack thereof) in a sexualized party culture among young people, which sadly is probably recognizable to many. Three good friends go on holiday to the Greek island of Crete to party, and for Tara: to make her sexual debut. The hotel is teeming with young people in a party mood, expectations are sky high and so is the alcohol consumption, and it all builds up to an evening she will soon want to forget.

Culture as a social meeting ground

The goal of this four part-collaboration is to use culture as one of the means to contribute to less loneliness through creating more social meeting grounds for the students. 

Something the students are very pleased with, is the opportunity to join more cultural activities for free.

- Vi think it's great that cultural activities is made available for students, says Jonas Toft, leder for the Studentparliament.

– Culture creates a sense of community, even if you were to go alone. The timing for this outdorr screening also gives a necessary break in the exam period, Toft says.