Films A-Z

Sweden, 2022
Regi: Lars Vega

A simple man returns home from his work where he just got fired after 34 years of employment. He comes home to his wife and their fixed patterns. She seems totally incomprehensive and unsympathetic to the situation. He starts reflecting on his life and talks about his deceased brother when the story takes a turn for the unexpected.

Iceland, Estonia, Netherlands, 2022
Regi: Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir

In a remote fjord in 1940s Iceland, young farmer Bjarni begins a passionate, forbidden affair with his neighbor, the aspiring poet Helga.

Georgia, 2022
Regi: Ioseb 'Soso' Bliadze

With a title clearly inspired by Virginia Woolf’s essay on female authorships, A Room of My Own is about the conditions for female freedom, identity, and community. What are the requirements for living a free and independent life?

Norway, Palestine, 2022
Regi: Ali Jabaly

This is a mixed media animation film about people, human resistance, and the will to exist. It's about a city that keeps maintaining itself, like the phoenix that cyclically regenerates and obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. A city that keeps growing despite the fact of war, searching for hope to exist and for a better future.

Peru, Netherlands, 2021
Regi: Richard Claus, Jose Zelada

Welcome to an outdoor family screening of the adventurous animation Ainbo in the Northern Sámi language!

France, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Qatar, 2022
Regi: Firas Khoury

In Khoury’s captivating feature film debut, we meet a group of Palestinian high-school friends in Israel who are imposed “forced forgetting”. As Israel’s independence day draws nearer, they must weigh the risks involved in remembering their own story.

Italy, 2022
Regi: Carolina Cavalli

Amanda is a quirky and rebellious twentysomething struggling to make new friends, returning to her home country Italy after studying in Paris. In this stylish and funny Gen Z portrait we follow the main character dealing with her existential crisis.

West Germany, France, 1977
Regi: Wim Wenders

Tom Ripley lures framer Jonathan Zimmerman into an underworld of shady gangsters, where he is manipulated into committing murder for a sum of money that will secure his family's future.

Norway, 2022
Regi: Minetta Westerlund

On the outskirts of Tromsø, reindeer and sheep herders are preparing for the busiest time of the year. In late spring calves and lambs are born, which keep the herders alert day and night. This documentary shows the love and care the herders have for their animals, the need to protect their animals from predators in nature, and the struggles they are facing living and herding in the periphery of a growing city.

DJs and dancing at the DRIV Café is the best way to celebrate this day’s queer program with two feature film screenings and a short film program. We can guarantee you good vibes and a busy dance floor!

Canada, 2021
Regi: Germaine Arnattaujuq, Neil Christopher , Louise Flaherty

In Arctic Song, Inuit artist, storyteller and co-director Germaine Arnattaujuq (Arnaktauyok) depicts Inuit creation stories in all their glory. In beautifully rendered animation, we see how the land, sea, and sky came to be. Telling traditional Inuit tales from the Iglulik region of Nunavut through song, the film revitalizes ancient knowledge and shares it with future generations.

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The Fifth Wheel is a project by the Simorgh Theater from Herat, Afghanistan, and the transnational KULA Company from Berlin, where artists living in hiding get the opportunity to express themselves.

Sweden, 2022
Regi: André Vaara

Rosanna's life as a teenage mother in the Northern Swedish countryside can be draining and lonely. When her friends show up one summer evening, the boundaries between her own longings as a teenager and the obligations that follow motherhood become blurred. A film about wanting to stay young while needing to grow up.

Iceland, 2022
Regi: Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir

Three bandmates, Álfrún, Saga, and Hrefna, of The Post Performance Blues Band, are tired of playing to audiences of five and getting paid in beer. Each of them is staring down 40 and exhausting themselves juggling motherhood and artistic pursuits. They decide to give themselves one year to either become pop stars or quit the band for good. Band member and filmmaker Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir puts herself, along with age and gender bias, on stage in this docu-parable about talented but not teenaged women trying to be successful in a youth-obsessed, overnight-success industry. Funny and quirky as it is, this film toys with the boundaries between fiction and reality. But most of all, Band allows gifted artists to perform the resilience and sisterhood that truly exists between life's messes, rejections, and triumphs.

Ireland, United Kingdom, 2022
Regi: Martin McDonagh

Tragedy and comedy are perfectly paired in this latest jet-black offering from Martin McDonagh. It’s an end-of-friendship breakup movie that swings between the hilarious, the horrifying, and the heartbreaking in magnificent fashion.

We organize "Beer + Film" in collaboration with our partner Mack. This is so much more than a film screening: First, an hour of beer tasting at the microbrewery before we enter the old brewery cellars, one of the festival's most distinctive screening locations. Here we’ll see the eccentric Icelandic film Band, which fits this concept perfectly!

Indonesia, 2022
Regi: Kamila Andini

Before, Now & Then is a strikingly beautiful film set in Indonesia in the mid-60s. Nana lives a good life with three children and an elderly, rich husband in Java. Indonesia's turbulent history forms an unpleasant background in the film - and in Nana's life.

Australia, 2021
Regi: Philip Watts

A tiny dinosaur can't wait to be big and scary. But it's not always a good idea to pretend to be something you're not! This little dinosaur will soon discover that it's more important who we are on the inside, than how we appear on the outside.

Finland, 2022
Regi: Teppo Airaksinen

10-year old Marja is sent to fetch milk for her baby brother. On the way, there are things even more dangerous than the thin ice covering the large lake. The Blanket is a touching story of survival in wartime.

France, Morocco, Belgium, Denmark, 2022
Regi: Maryam Touzani

A gay tailor, his wife, and his handsome young apprentice confront each other and themselves in this warm and touching chamber piece. At the story’s center is a striking caftan, sewn from blue silk and tenderness.

Denmark, 2021
Regi: Viktor Gelbek

The daily routine has been repeated far too many times. Get up, eat, watch movies, eat, go to bed, repeat. Boredom takes over and imagination runs wild. This calls for action.

Sweden, France, Finland, Denmark, 2022
Regi: Tarik Saleh

The naïve Adam becomes a pawn in a complex power game between the Egyptian dictatorship's authorities and Sunni Islamic authorities. In this spy thriller, everyone is a means to someone else's end.

Canada, 2022
Regi: Clement Virgo

For brothers Francis and Michael, the road toward adulthood is paved with adversity, grief and violent street justice. The responsibility they feel for their loved ones weighs heavily on their shoulders. Brother is an elegant and haunting drama.

Croatia, Czech Republic, Sweden, Ukraine, 2022
Regi: Maksym Nakonechnyi

Lilia is returning home to her family after being held as a prisoner in Donbas. Wounds connected to the trauma she has been through are growing inside of her. As we follow Lilia, she refuses to identify as a victim but keeps on fighting.

Russia, Estonia, France, 2021
Regi: Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov

An NKVD officer on the run tries to escape his former colleagues in a thrilling moral fable from pre-war Leningrad.

United Kingdom, Australia, 2015
Regi: Todd Haynes

In the film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's "The Price of Salt", we meet Therese, a young woman in New York who lives a directionless life. When Carol shows up at the shop she works in, she for once allows herself to be guided by something that feels right.

Canada, United Kingdom, 2021
Regi: India Barnardo

The only wish Ditto the cat has is to find the most comfortable spot to rest. But suddenly Monty the moth is there to interrupt, and the fight is inevitable. It's not always sure that the biggest participant will be the winner.

Norway, 2022
Regi: Sagtens Film Collective

Inga does not dwell on the past and she does not dread the future. It makes no difference to her whether she is free or trapped, alive or dead. The only things that matter - that drive all of her actions - are sensory impressions.

Argentina, Brazil, 2022
Regi: Carolina Markowicz

An Argentine drug kingpin needs a hideout and where better to get away than the countryside outside São Paulo in Brazil? This means new and unexpected challenges for the poor family that takes in this very special guest.

It is with great pleasure that we invite audience, festival guests and all party lovers to celebrate the 33rd edition of TIFF!

Norway, 2022
Regi: Hans Eirik Voktor

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.

Austria, France, Luxembourg, Germany, 2022
Regi: Marie Kreutzer

A bold and visually stunning costume drama featuring a brilliant Vicky Krieps as the restless Empress Elisabeth of Austria. This is a tour de force and a stylized psychological presentation of a fascinating historical figure.

Russia, USA, Canada, 2022
Regi: Darya Kuznetsova

Miles of arctic, icy desert conceal a wellspring of natural gas. Here, in the Yamal Peninsula in Russia, men start their journey using giant machines to break through ice and waves and harvest the energy below. They are on a mission to deliver the warm glow of that natural gas to the mainland. Get on board an ice-breaking tanker in this unique immersive film experience.

Norway, 2022
Regi: Silja Somby

After a sacred drum is abducted by a priest, we are taken on a journey beyond space and time that reveals more about the drum’s innate power.

France, Belgium, Morocco, 2022
Regi: Fyzal Boulifa

An impoverished woman and her teenage son struggle for survival and footing in Moroccan society. This is an ambitious and thematically ambitious drama with an empathetic portrayal of the troubled mother-son relationship at its center.

Estonia, 2022
Regi: Ivar Erik Yeoman

After a chaotic episode with his wife, Russian-Estonian worker Nikolai is left alone with their one-year-old daughter, Sophia. As time goes by, he begins to doubt his abilities as a father and if he will ever see his wife again. A tasteful, intriguing short drama from Icelandic director Ívar Erik Yeoman.

South Korea, 2022
Regi: Park Chan-wook

A detective’s burning desire leads to fatal consequences in master director Park Chan-wook’s newest film, a playful noir-inspired drama that alternately plays out as a murder mystery and a romantic tragedy.

France, 1981
Regi: Michel Deville

In this intense psychological thriller, we meet an old man who is married to a young woman. She is bored after 8 years of marriage, and flirts with other men right in front of him, both at parties and in their home. How will he handle this?

France, Germany, Lebanon, Qatar, Israel, Palestine, 2021
Regi: Daniel Carsenty, Mohammed Abugeth

Impoverished Palestinians are forced to seek illegal work in Israel, and human traffickers transport them across the border. This suspenseful documentary portrays the smuggler’s dangerous work and the reasons behind their risk-taking.

Norway, 2022
Regi: Iver Innset

Thea is stuck. She has moved cities to start over but is unable to let go of the past. When her ex-boyfriend suddenly visits the area, the opportunity to revive the past arrives with him. Distance is an intimate relational drama about letting go, played out in North-Norwegian scenery.

France, 2022
Regi: Laurent Charbonnier, Michel Seydoux

The main character in this spectacular film is a giant, old oak tree. In other important roles, you’ll find squirrels, mice, woodpeckers, owls, deer, and other creatures.

United Kingdom, 2022
Regi: Sam Mendes

A beautifully told story about the magic of the cinema and an unexpected romance, from the Academy Award-winning director of American Beauty. In a quiet town on the British coast in the 1980s, the Empire cinema creates memorable experiences for both its staff and the town’s inhabitants.

The role of the storyteller examines the power that lies within the film industry to build worlds, shape memories, and change perceptions. We’ll look at who’s telling the stories, who isn’t, and why that matters.

Norway, 2022
Regi: Hallvar Witzø

Everybody Hates Johan is a film about a person, a society and not least a place. In its short running time of only 90 minutes, the film tells a story that spans almost 80 years, where everything takes place on the small island community of Titran in the mouth of the Trondheim Fjord.

Painter Anna-Brith Arntsen is showing some of her most recent paintings of Sami personalities for the very first time.

In Shorts 1, we present short fictions and documentaries in competition. In these five films, something unexpected happens…

In Shorts 2, we present short fictions and documentaries in competition, which in some way or another are about growing up.

In Shorts 3, we present short fictions and documentaries in competition, which show that things won’t necessarily be straight forward.

In Shorts 4, we present short fictions and documentaries in competition. These films go off track!

In Shorts 5, we present short fictions and documentaries in competition. These films will make an impact.

In Shorts 6, we present a short documentary in competition: The Coastal Warrior.

In Shorts 7, we present a short documentary in competition: Sound the Alarm.

In Shorts 8, we present a short documentary in competition: In Between.

Look out for these! In this program, you’ll find the most interesting short features and docs from young directors and film students in our region.

USA, 2022
Regi: Steven Spielberg

In master director Steven Spielberg's autobiographical coming-of-age film, we meet the young and aspiring filmmaker Sammy Fabelman and his family. A riveting story about growing up affected by the magic of film.

Sweden, 2022
Regi: Manna Bergström

A young woman walks through the town after a party, talking to a friend on the phone about her night out. Where will she go from here?

France, Egypt, Netherlands, Greece, 2021
Regi: Omar El Zohairy

What is a woman to do when her husband transforms into a chicken, leaving her to support the family by herself? This kafkaesque, deadpan, and satirical Egyptian comedy gives us the answer to that question.

Soviet union, 1929
Regi: Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Arsenal is a soviet silent film that describes the destructive forces of war through a strong sense of symbolism. We are shown a series of vignettes that sheds light on the January Rebellion in Kyiv in 1918.

Lithuania, Norway, 2022
Regi: Emilija Skarnulyte

In an extraordinary film and live music performance, the profoundly fascinating film Burial, about a deserted nuclear power plant, merges with music by "cosmic rave guru" Timo Kaukolampi.

USA, 1930
Regi: F.W. Murnau

A silent film classic with an inspiring love story that takes place during the great depression after the stock market crash in 1929. Times are tough, but love conquers all.

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Ole Giæver in conversation with Franciska Eliassen.

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Montages and TIFF invite you to film talks with exciting filmmakers.

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Montages and TIFF invite you to film talks with exciting filmmakers.

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Montages and TIFF invite you to film talks with exciting filmmakers.

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Montages and TIFF invite you to film talks with exciting filmmakers.

Meet the filmmakers at the festival!

Highlights from the short films program in 2022.

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.

Canada, 2022
Regi: Sara Dosa

The French volcanologists Katia and Maurice loved each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the intrepid pair hunted for eruptions and documented their findings. This is a beautiful tribute to two daring explorers who ventured into the unknown - for the sake of love.

2022
Regi: Jumana Manna

Foragers mixes fiction and documentary about two food plants that grow in Israel-Palestine. They form a concrete basis that exemplifies legal, ethnic, and class-based differences between Palestinians and Israelis in the occupied areas around Jerusalem, Galilee, and the Golan Heights.

Denmark, 2022
Regi: Frelle Petersen

A small close-knit Danish family suddenly suffers a terrible loss they struggle to cope with. Forever is a warm and intimate family drama about what happens to family relations when everyone is standing in the midst of a tragedy.

Germany, 2021
Regi: Pauline Kortman

Edgar is not getting any attention from his parents. They seem to be very busy with their computer and phone. Edgar strays out into the woods and finds a new friend. A little fox. They play together the whole day, and when his parents finally discover he's missing, it's a wakeup call to understand what's most important in life.

The Swedish production company The Bunch has for a number of years made films based on their own enthusiasm for freeskiing. In recent times, their somewhat unorthodox way of approaching this film genre has been noticed, and they are constantly receiving international awards for their latest film productions. They also have a strong climate focus and make their productions with as low a carbon footprint as possible. Skiing pleasure presented in a slightly alternative way and in a special setting at our outdoor winter cinema!

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.

USA, 2022
Regi: Owen Kline

Funny Pages is an American comedy reminiscent of indie films from the 1990s and early 2000s, but also something you’ve never seen before. A young cartoonist is chasing his dream, but the disillusionment can be both very weird and messy.

Sweden, 2022
Regi: Luiz Felipe Sandre

While trying to go to sleep, wearing her new heart monitor, the 30-year-old Eva receives a phone call from her dad. He tells her that he is about to kill himself. Problem is, this message or threat doesn't quite create the response he was aiming for. This tragicomedy depicts a particular dynamic between a father and his daughter.

Gozuid alde (Woke in Sami) with Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen and Sajje Solbakk.The Sami-speaking podcast that takes the difficult topics of conversation out from around the kitchen table and in the front of the microphone – takes a step further and brings the conversations to a live audience.

USA, 2022
Regi: Gabriela Cowperthwaite

Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s newest documentary The Grab is an investigative thriller that offers a great deal of insight into the truth behind the colonization of our world’s most precious natural resource, water. It follows journalist Nathan Halverson and his team as they investigate leaked documents.

Sweden, 2022
Regi: Vonnie Larsson

A woman’s perspective of the Swedish Torne valley culture from childhood during the 90s to early noughties, adulthood, and into 2050, told through the creation of a traditional Torne valley bread that takes her through space and time.

France, 2022
Regi: Cédric Ido

Both the fragile balance of a Parisian suburb and an unprecedented alignment of planets affect a drug delivery system controlled by two very different groups. The world is changing, and two brothers are feeling the pressure.

Norway, 2022
Regi: Konrad Hjemli, Mia Ludvigsen Henriksen

"The Harbourmaster" tells the story of its titular swan, and of how he went from a beloved small-town icon to a wanted criminal.

United Kingdom, 2022
Regi: Evgenia Arbugaeva, Maxim Arbugaev

On a remote coast of the Siberian Arctic in a wind-battered hut, a lonely man waits to witness an ancient gathering. But warming seas and rising temperatures bring an unexpected change, and he soon finds himself overwhelmed. The relationship between man and nature is at the mesmerizingly photographed core of this short documentary. 

Germany, 2021
Regi: Julia Ocker

An astronaut floats into space where he meets some spooky aliens. But sometimes first impressions can trick you. Maybe it's not at all wise to judge at first sight.

Join us for an extraordinary experience when we show films on board the cutter Hermes II. The spectacular northern Norwegian coastal scenery out on the deck is accompanied by an intimate film screening downstairs in the lounge.

Norway, Croatia, 2022
Regi: Endre Lund Eriksen, Daniel Damm

The schools are in lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and Lilly (10) must stay at home and take care of her drunk mother. When the bad girl from class sees what’s going on at her house, Lilly thinks her secret is in danger. But sometimes help can come from where you least expect it.

Canada, 2022
Regi: David Curtis

During a two-week stay in a nearly vacant hotel, the director of Hotel developed an intimate relationship with his room and the hotel’s architecture and décor. With no other tenants to be seen, he was free to wander and absorb the strange ambiance of its spaces, while searching for signs of life, both past and present.

USA, 2022
Regi: Daniel Goldhaber

Years of demonstrations and protests have yielded nothing. A group of environmental activists decides to make a bigger statement and set out on a perilous journey into the Texas desert with a plan to destroy an oil pipeline.

Norway, 2022
Regi: Julie Holst Nielsen-Man

A young woman is losing touch with both herself and her girlfriend, as she is dealing with a melancholic mind.

Canada, 2022
Regi: Chandler Levack

A cheeky film nerd stands on the threshold of adulthood. Join us as we go back to the wonderful world of the local video store in this charming indie comedy.

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YOUNG HOEL is a groundbreaking audiovisual collaboration between rapper Oter and producer/director Carl Christian Lein Størmer/CRTCL. Through a musical and cinematic reconstruction of unique archive material from Tromsø, stories and scenes from a wide range of the city's subcultural environments are conveyed.

ICEBREAKER – your arena to talk about film.

Sweden, 2022
Regi: Johan Tjärnberg

Johan's mother Inga Britt falls ill with Alzheimer's disease at the same time as he himself becomes a parent. These crucial life events force them to deal with their complicated relationship, which essentially has lasted a lifetime. In this personal documentary, Johan decides to unravel and deepen his relations with his mother, before it is too late.

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.

"Russia as a neighbor - what happens when the dialogue is missing?"The war in Ukraine has put Russia's neighboring countries in a difficult situation. In Norway - especially in the north - we have long traditions of political and civil cooperation and collaborations with Russia. However, the war has made us question how one should relate to Russia as a neighbor.

Norway, 2022
Regi: Anders Lidin Hansen

A seemingly happy couple goes on a hike in the mountains. As the fog becomes more and more intense, the dark sides of the relationship are surfacing.

Austria, 0
Regi: Elias Elhardt

A freeride snowboard film about vulnerability.

2021

The filmmakers says: "One easily falls into the same pattern over and over, no matter what one does. No matter if it's getting dressed in the morning or making a ski film. It´s as natural as water flows in a stream, or thoughts flow in our minds. Is There Time For Matching Socks is our quest to escape the default mode."

Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, 2022
Regi: Viesturs Kairiss

With the Baltic liberation struggle from the Soviet Union as a backdrop, Viesturs Kairiss' poetic film is a tribute to all those who dared to go to the barricades for an independent country.

Netherlands, 2022
Regi: Robin Tijdeman

Joep is helping with the dishes, but he gets hungry and tries to get the last bit of soup out of a large pot. He loses his balance, falls into the pan and enters into a whole new universe. 

Norway, 2022
Regi: Trude Ottersen

Johansen Brothers is a film about brotherhood and belongingness. A tender and somewhat alternative coming-of-age story, where country men bloom, both by breaking and maintaining old traditions.

Pakistan, 2021
Regi: Saim Sadiq

In his directorial debut, Saim Sadiq plays with color, music, gender stereotypes, and prejudices in an emotional and beautiful film about a marginalized group in Pakistan.

Russia, 2022
Regi: Svetlana Stasenko

A huge icon of the Holy Mandylion, "The Savior Not Made by Hands", created “at the personal expense of the President of the Russian Federation” travels to all military units of Russia, where soldiers are rounded up to pray and kiss it. Now, it has arrived at the St. Tryphon-Pechenga Monastery in the Arctic. People believe in God, but some rulers try to replace God with themselves, states the director of this true theater of absurdity.

Italy, 2023
Regi: Laurens Pérol

Just a tomato tells the story of a little child shopping with her father in the market streets of Bologna, when the discovery of a tomato that's fallen on the street steals her attention.

SKRÅNINGA queer film programme from Nordland kunst- og filmhøgskole.

Finland, 2022
Regi: Einari Paakkanen

A heartwarming feel-good film about how karaoke culture has taken hold where you least expected it: In our introverted neighboring country in the cold north.

Norway, 2022
Regi: Aleksander Nordaas

A little “dry-wood fish” has to save his friends from a giant pike. This is the world's first animated short film where all the elements in the film are found objects from the seashore, photographed and animated.

The Norwegian Film Critics Association has put together a panel with one critic and people responsible for programming in addition to an academic. At least one of the participants works in Northern Norway - where people-to-people cooperation with Russia has a long tradition.

Switzerland, 2022

In the early 2000s, a handful of snowboarders discovered the Col de Cou, a major crossing point on the French-Swiss border. This area with its hilly terrain became a legendary place for freestyle snowboarding.

Spain, 2022
Regi: Pilar Palomero

La Maternal is not afraid to show an unsentimental portrait of teen pregnancy in the Spanish countryside. We get served an honest and unpolished chronicle of the trials and tribulations of our young heroine.

Russia, 2022
Regi: Ayaal Adamov

TThe coast of the Laptev Sea, nothing but tundra and the small Evenki village of Nayba. What are they doing there? And where do they roam on reindeer?

Denmark, Germany, 2022
Regi: Ivalo Frank

Life on Earth begins and ends with Greenland. Researcher Minik Rosing's landmark discovery of the first life contrasts with the melting ice masses in Ivalo Frank's tribute to her beautiful homeland. Fascinating scientific knowledge about life on Earth, and how it may all come to an end, is juxtaposed with frank, funny, and endearing testimonials from young Greenlanders on what matters most in their lives, making this a thought-provoking yet charming and stunningly shot documentary. 

Norway, 2023
Regi: Ole Giæver

Forty years ago Norway was closely following the drama surrounding the Alta controversy. For Ester the protests become something more than a fight against the construction of a dam.

United Kingdom, Japan, 2022
Regi: Oliver Hermanus

This is a beautiful and mournful remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1952 classic, Ikiru. Bill Nighy plays a British bureaucrat who gets a new perspective on life after being diagnosed with a serious illness.

France, Japan, 2022
Regi: Kôji Fukada

A married couple must navigate guilt and sorrow after a tragic accident. Shadows from the past also show up to further complicate their relationship’s fragile state. A subdued drama about learning to appreciate life.

Switzerland, Germany, 2022
Regi: Eva Vitija

This documentary offers an intimate look at Patricia Highsmith, one of the last century’s great authors. Through her personal notes and the people closest to her, Loving Highsmith reveals fresh insight into her persona and body of work.

USA, 2021
Regi: Phil Tippett

Welcome to the crazy world of Phil Tippett! This is a nightmarish and completely immersive journey into a dark and repulsive world — and a marvelous display of stop-motion cinema.

Norway, 2017
Regi: Anette Gellein

The film is inspired by Greek mythology and maenads, the female descendants of Dionysus. The film is a modern interpretation of this, showing wild and raging women devoted to pleasure.

Norland Art and Film School invites to conversation with young filmmakers about what diversity really means.

Sweden, 2022

"Every time you set sail you dream of finding a new land, but sometimes you just go in circles. During this voyage we came down with the mad cow disease & won film of the year." This is the starting point of how the producers behind Many Fantasies Later describe their new film. There is certainly some sickness to be found here, both in the imagination and in the very real skiing.

Insomnia, TIFF and Musikkontoret Nord have the pleasure to invite you to a masterclass in film music for silent film with composer Neil Brand.

Finland, Germany, Estonia, Norway, 2022
Regi: Saara Saarela

In a future world stripped of freshwater, Noria becomes the village’s Tea Master after her deceased father. She unexpectedly finds out a secret her father has guarded: There may still be clean water in an irradiated place called the Lost Lands.

Norway, 2023
Regi: Eilif Bremer Landsend

Sisilie is about to become the new captain of the fishing boat she has inherited from her father, whose eyes stare at her from a tattoo on her forearm. As she navigates her relationship with her dad, will Sisilie manage to find her own feet as a fisherwoman? Set in the rugged Lofoten Islands, this is a subtle and strikingly visual story of passing the baton.

Japan, 1988
Regi: Hayao Miyazaki

Two sisters, 10-year-old Satsuki and 4-year-old Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Very soon they discover that the forest near the house is magical, and that wonderful creatures live there.

Estonia, Russia, 2022
Regi: Boris Guts

Shot in a single continuous take, Minsk pulls the viewer straight into the protests that followed the 2020 Belarusian election results. A civilian couple are caught in the midst of the riot police brutal suppression of the peaceful protesters.

Belgium, 2021
Regi: Jen Berger

A little black cat wanders in the deep woods. Nature's spirits are floating around the trees. When a storm is coming, there's no shelter to find and the spirits reappear.

Welcome to the opening of Tromsø Kunstforenings festival exhibition during Tromsø International Film Festival‘Counterimaginaries’Thursday 19th of January from 6 - 9 pm

Sweden, 2022
Regi: Liselott Wajstedt

The Háldi is a forest creature that may lure children into the woods. Is it only a part of sámi mythology or is it as real as you and I?

Sweden, 2022
Regi: Jonas lawes, Mattias Sjöstedt

After years of waiting, a father finally reveals his true self to his son. The reaction was not what he expected.

Norway, 2018
Regi: Anna Ingeborg Näumann

A queer body is drifting surrounded by a dramatic landscape. A hand begins to explore shapes and movements that provoke memories and feelings related to orientation and sexuality.

Norway, 2019
Regi: Andrea White Hveding

A person is driving a moped in northern Norwegian dunes, on their way to becoming a movie star. A gaze at the male body.

Welcome to NUFF@TIFF! Come and watch the 3 winning films and 2 special mentions from the NUFF 2022 film festival!The Nordic Youth Film Festival (NUFF) is composed of a short-film festival and a 6-day film workshop for young filmmakers up to 26 years old.Based in Tromsø, northern Norway, NUFF will have its 21st edition in 2023. It has been an international platform for countless young filmmakers since its beginning in 2003, and is an integral part of Filmveksthuset TVIBIT.

Syria, United Kingdom, France, 2022
Regi: Soudade Kaadan

Most tales of war show the drama on the battlefield, but Nezouh rather focuses on the realities of everyday life. This warm drama is a story of a small family in Damascus and their fears, hopes, and dreams.

Norway, 2022
Regi: Kjersti Helen Rasmussen

In this Norwegian horror film, a woman is plagued by constant nightmares after moving into a large, suspiciously cheap apartment. The apartment's terrible secret soon reveals itself through her dreams.

Iran, 2022
Regi: Jafar Panahi

As with all his films over the past decade, Jafar Panahi, a renowned Iranian director, plays the lead role of himself in No Bears. In this film, the filmmaker's production process unfolds two parallel stories on either side of the Iran-Turkey border.

Japan, 2022
Regi: Ryûichi Hiroki

What do you do when you accidentally murder someone, hide their body, and then realize that the deceased is a serial killer wanted by the police?

NORTH Pitch is a financing forum for documentary films focusing on life in Polar regions. The 14th edition will take place January 18-21, 2023 during Tromsø International Film Festival.

Sweden, 2022
Regi: Polly Blag

It’s not easy being a thirteen-year-old girl. Today's social climate of being constantly online can make you feel seen and invisible at the same time. Trying to be cool and tough is hard and it’s often impossible to live up to your own high standards.

Canada, 2022
Regi: Lou Rigoudy

When a baby girl discovers a box, she finds a new friend inside it, a teddy bear. We follow the girl and the teddy as years goes by, until it's time to put teddy in a box, only to be rediscovered again.

Norway, 2022
Regi: Camilla Figenschou

I see a woman say it’s fantastic when she lets go of control.I see the sea, and the children on the rocks.In the rabbit forest the wolf child howls, they run after her.I see big rough hands in the soil.

Norway, 2023
Regi: Ragnhild Nøst Bergem

Through open and honest observations from Ola, we get to take part in the good life at Vidaråsen. A village where people with and without developmental disabilities live side by side. A place where it means something to feel safe enough to be who you are.

Switzerland, France, Ukraine, 2021
Regi: Elie Grappe

15-year-old gymnast Olga moves to Switzerland and prepares to compete in the European Championship. Meanwhile, the Maidan Revolution is erupting in her home country Ukraine, and the lives of her family and friends are put in serious danger.

Norway, 2022
Regi: Aurora Kollerud Nossen

Even though their parents are breaking up, the two stepsisters, Julie and Luna, will not accept that they can't be sisters anymore. A plan is put to motion to change things before it's too late.

Germany, Ukraine, 2010
Regi: Jakob Preuss

Football, passion, politics, sportswashing, and corruption are the themes of this Ukrainian documentary from 2010. The football team Shakhtar Donetsk shapes the lives of the city's miners who fight for their existence and its elite who desire secession from Ukraine.

France, 2022
Regi: Rebecca Zlotowski

Rachel starts a complicated relationship with single father Ali. Their emerging family ties awaken in Rachel a desire for motherhood, which she was not aware of before. A warm and bittersweet film about the modern family and being a stepmom.

France, 2022
Regi: Roschdy Zem

In this French drama film, we meet a family that faces unexpected challenges after an accident. The fabric of their relationships is put under pressure.

Sweden, 2022
Regi: Ann Holmgren Aurebekk

A young woman embarks on a journey into a dreamlike otherworld to discover that every tiny action we do in this world, has a direct resonance in a myriad of other realms.

France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, 2022
Regi: Albert Serra

Captivating and intriguing “slow cinema” set in a French Polynesian island confronted with potential nuclear tests, from the uncompromising and controversial Spanish auteur Albert Serra.

Italy, Russia, 2021
Regi: Anya Ru, Masha Rumyantseva

When a father is ready to travel to work, it's sometimes hard for a little daughter to say her goodbyes. Of course, she wants to join him. But small girls cannot always do the same things as big papas.

Austria, 2022
Regi: Mark Fletcher

A fascinating and visually stunning film from below the surface, where marine photographer Patrick Dykstra explores an unknown world and community of whales, still some of the ocean’s most mystical and majestic animals.

USA, Canada, 2022
Regi: Ti West

Mia Goth and director Ti West return to the universe they created with their horror film X. In this Technicolor slasher takes us back to 1918 and a murderous farm girl with Hollywood ambitions.

2022
Regi: Jorn Leeuwerink

A pig is taken advantage of when the other animals discover it can power their electrical equipment. Soon, the whole city is connected, and the poor pig is drained of its energy. A funny animation questioning fossil fuels and environmental issues.

USA, 1981
Regi: John Waters

In collaboration with Tromsø film society, John Waters' crazy comedy about Francine Fishpaw and her family is shown and smelled with accompanying Odorama scratch and sniff-cards, just as in 1981. Be prepared for jaw-dropping, resounding laughter and suspicious smells in three senses from the self-proclaimed Pope of Trash.

Sweden, 2022
Regi: Alva Winbladh

Pandemonium breaks out among the swimmers at a local indoor swimming pool as a woman decides to swim topless.

Denmark, 2022
Regi: Tilde Harkamp

We follow Frida and Selma as they start first year of high school, attending heavy parties with sexualised rituals to place themselves at the top of the status chain. Friendship, love and integrity is challenged and shared on social media.

Finland, 2022

Preview of a new tv-series:"Reindeer Mafia" is a Finnish crime drama set in a dystopian alternative reality in the Lapland wilderness.

South Korea, 2022
Regi: Hongsun Kim

If you want blood, this is the one for you. A brutally violent and bloody action movie that feels like the love child of Con Air and Predator.

Romania, 2022
Regi: Cristian Mungiu

R.M.N is a saturated, intricate, and perfectly orchestrated drama in which Cristian Mungiu serves up detailed cross-sections of life in a Romanian village in the Transylvanian mountains, thus providing an apt analysis of Europe today.

Germany, France, 2022
Regi: Andreas Dresden

This is the true story of Turkish citizen Murat Kurnaz who was held in extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo Bay and tortured by the American military for five years. In this film, we follow his mother’s fight for his release.

USA, 1980
Regi: Martin Scorsese

Can a boxer become too keen on fighting? Robert de Niro goes all in with his Academy award-winning interpretation of real-life boxer Jake LaMotta. This is a man who does not care if his punches are thrown inside the boxing ring or outside of it.

Spain, 2022
Regi: Andrea Bagney

Andrea Bagney makes her feature film debut with a love story that reflects on missed opportunities, commitment, and ultimately our own mortality. It is a tribute to the city of Madrid and to cinema through a portrait of a woman in her thirties.

Netherlands, 2021
Regi: Sanna de Vries

When a girl's poor reflection of herself is threatening to overpower her, it requires a lot of bravery to rediscover her positive self-impression again.

Norway, 2022
Regi: Elle Márjá Eira

Standing at the heart of the girdnu, surrounded by reindeer moving in a circular motion, the viewer will experience a taste of the great forces that exist at the heart of reindeer herding.

Welcome to a Relæxt screening of the lovely animation Titina. This screening is especially for everyone who needs some adjustments and more relaxed conditions to enjoy the cinema experience. Norwegian language and subtitles. Read more about the concept here.

Spain, 2022
Regi: Fernando Franco

Valéria Sorolla and Telmo Irureta excel in this intimate and sober drama about a young woman's relationship with a man with cerebral palsy. Through their meetings, sexuality, disability, and outlook on life are explored.

Australia, 2021
Regi: Jennifer Peedom

A cinematic and musical odyssey that explores the unique relationship between humans and rivers. Featuring music by Jonny Greenwood and Radiohead and narration by Willem Dafoe.

Mexico, Argentina, 2022
Regi: Natalia López Gallardo

Through a wealthy woman, a maid, and a police investigator, we get to take part in a rather indefinable thriller. Their path to liberation is constantly overshadowed by tragedy and violence through links to the local drug trade and social conditions in southern Mexico.

France, 2022
Regi: Alice Diop

French director Alice Diop's fiction film debut is a social realist court drama based on a true story, starring Kayije Kagame and Guslagie Malanda. The court drama is based on a trial in which Diop herself participated.

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"Talks of the North" builds a bridge between the silver screen and the public debate. Tromsø International Film Festival invites, together with iTromsø, UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Samfunnsløftet, to a series of talks based on one or more of this year's festival films.

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"Talks of the North" builds a bridge between the silver screen and the public debate. Tromsø International Film Festival invites, together with iTromsø, UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Samfunnsløftet, to a series of talks based on one or more of this year's festival films.

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"Talks of the North" builds a bridge between the silver screen and the public debate. Tromsø International Film Festival invites, together with iTromsø, UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Samfunnsløftet, to a series of talks based on one or more of this year's festival films.

The Talks of the North build a bridge between the screen and the public debate. Tromsø International Film Festival, in cooperation with iTromsø, UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Sparebanken Nord-Norge’s “Samfunnsløftet”, invite you to a series of talks with one or more festival films as starting point of the conversation. Note that the talks will be held mainly in Norwegian.

Norway, Sweden, 2022
Regi: Kristoffer Borgli

As satire Sick of Myself might seem as shallow as its characters and the environment it depicts, but it is really just entirely truthful and an exceedingly rare example of a Norwegian film that captures the zeitgeist. 

Norway, 2022
Regi: Sean Fee

Visually informed by the stark, impressive landscape of the Norwegian Lofoten region, this short story looks at two individuals, a young man and a young woman, who both have a powerful relationship with the ocean.

Australia, 2021
Regi: Philip Watts

These colourful monsters cannot help but notice signs everywhere and they really enjoy following them all. Have you ever seen signs like this before?

Norway, 2017
Regi: Thea Hvistendahl

Find your flow and join the sing-along!

USA, 1952
Regi: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

What a glorious feeling...One of Hollywood's finest treasures!

Norway, 2022
Regi: Franciska Eliassen

In a small town in Northern Norway, Eira tries to navigate in the shadows of her brilliant and rebellious older sister Vera.

Norway, 2022
Regi: Eili Bråstad Johannessen

Two women meet in the woods. Could they overcome their trauma? An exploration of nature, spirituality, passion, and movement.

Canada, 2022
Regi: Nyla Innuksuk

A motley gang of girls in the Arctic village of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, must muster courage, horror film knowledge, and proud Inuit hunting traditions to escape bloodthirsty aliens.

Canada, 2022
Regi: Nyla Innuksuk

Some young girls from the arctic village Pangnirtung, have to show great courage, horror-movie knowledge and proud Innuit hunting- tradition skills to escape from bloodthirsty aliens. This is adventure, horror, a splash of sci-fi and loads of charm.

Norway, 2023
Regi: Jon Muotka Pedersen, Gerry Lister

A modern take on old Sámi legends about the battle between man and evil, the film is set in a post-apocalyptic and overgrown Finnmarksvidda, where murder, curses, and revenge are the norm. Smiley (Silje Krohne), a scavenger who survives by searching for artifacts from the lost world, meets the drug-addicted raider Stallo (Mikkel Gaup in great form!), and a psychological cat-and-mouse game begins.

Norway, 0

Preview of a new tv-series:"Saving the Fucking Planet" tells the story of a climate skeptic and an environmental activist who meet and fall in love, but when they find out about each other's political position problems emerge.

Documentaries about the love for and vulnerability of freeriding.

Finland, Norway, 2023
Regi: Hans Pieski, Arttu Nieminen

​The immense power of water and humans’ dependence on it will be contemplated in this surreal video art piece.

Sweden, Norway, 2022
Regi: Christoffer Sandler

Joanna is desperately seeking ways to collect her ADHD medication. Her brain is working ovetime, but she also has to deal with her depressed father. Then, she unexpectedly falls in love.

Belgium, 2020
Regi: Rand Abou Fakher

A family living in a war-torn country spends what seems to be an ordinary evening together. Their conversations shift between simple matters of daily life and survival. This ambiguous situation highlights the aches of how we take time for granted and live life.

Norway, 2019
Regi: Iggy Augunset

In Soft voices from outer space, ASMR-role playing, step printing, and animation collide to describe the random hook-up between a humanlike figure and an alien on a beach in Lofoten.

Norway, 2022
Regi: John Trainor

On January 25th, 1995, a group of Norwegian and American scientists launch a rocket from arctic Norway to study the northern lights. The rocket triggers a false alert in Russia of an incoming nuclear attack. Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the Russian military have just a few minutes to respond.

USA, 1951
Regi: Alfred Hitchcock

In Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller classic two men consider the perfect crime: If they commit each other’s murder, no one will connect them to the killings. And who will suspect two strangers of being in cahoots?

Saturday, January 21st, TIFF Junior invites you to a thrilling Family Day at the Winter Cinema at Tromsø’s main square, and the screening of the magical My Neighbor Totoro.

In collaboration with Tvibit, we are organizing TIFF UNG talk show with the youths that have curated the TIFF UNG program.

USA, 1999
Regi: Anthony Minghella

In this supremely elegant and suspenseful thriller, Tom Ripley is tasked with convincing shipping heir Dickie to leave his extravagant life in Italy and return home. But Ripley acquires a taste for the good life, and a desire to take Dickie’s place.

Germany, 2022
Regi: Annika Pinske

In pursuit of an academic career, 39-year-old Clara is in limbo between her social status and stuck-up norms at the university. A less glamorous upbringing in the periphery does not fit in well with advancements in the alluring course of education.

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"Talks of the North" builds a bridge between the silver screen and the public debate. Tromsø International Film Festival invites, together with iTromsø, UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Samfunnsløftet, to a series of talks based on one or more of this year's festival films.

Taiwan, 2021
Regi: Erich Rettstadt

This is a proper drag-fairy tale about a boy who doesn’t feel like other boys. With a little magical help, he seeks his way into the glamourous and shiny world he wants be a part of. A transformation even his reluctant mother might have to accept.

Israel, 2022
Regi: Alon Schwarz

Did Israeli soldiers conduct a massacre in a Palestinian village in 1948? Tantura sheds light on the many testimonies, the attempts to refute them, and the significance of which side can define the truth about what happened.

Ukraine, Poland, 2021
Regi: Anastasia Falileieva

Katsumi is feeling blue. While walking through a ghost Japanese town, she can see signs that her life has reached the point of no return. When she decides to end this misery, Magic Tiger appears. Can he save her?

Norway, 2022
Regi: Kajsa Næss

The animated film Titina revisits the historic quarrel between polar explorer Roald Amundsen and airship designer Umberto Nobile, and tells the story from the perspective of Titina – Nobile's four-legged friend.

Norway, 2022
Regi: Johanna Carin Nyström

A young couple is sitting at the bus stop, arguing, while a fly is buzzing in the grass next to them. Someone is watching them. This short drama explores shifting perspectives and how the relationship between off and on-camera influences the dynamic between the two lovers.

Sweden, 2022
Regi: Viktor Björnström, Kajsa Määttä

Torneträsk, the largest mountain lake in Scandinavia, is frozen for a month shorter now on average each year, compared to when the filmmakers Kajsa Määttä and Viktor Björnström were children. How will it be in 10 or 15 years? Tracks is a film about the effects of global warming above the arctic circle, and it is also a story about the love for snow, nature, and snowboarding.

Sweden, United Kingdom, France, Greece, 2022
Regi: Ruben Östlund

Ruben Östlund's remarkable Cannes d'Or winning satire!

"It smells like a party in here!"Tromsø Film Society invites you to a trashfest in the spirit of John Waters.

Norway, 2022
Regi: Inga Elin Marakatt

A pregnant, poor widow is desperate for help. Shut out by the community, she steals silver from a dead body in order to survive and feed her daughter. But the silver comes with a curse that has consequences for all of them, including the unborn. Set in Sápmi in 1920, this short is inspired by a true story, Sámi tradition and mythology, and Japanese horror films.

Tunisia, Switzerland, France, Qatar, 2022
Regi: Erige Sehiri

Under the Fig Trees takes place over the course of a warm summer day at a Tunisian fig orchard. As a group of workers collect the summer’s harvest, the cover of fig branches creates a space for flirting, drama, and deep connections.

Norway, 2017
Regi: Sverre Kvamme

In the middle of the winter in Northern Norway and surrounded by a wild group of kids, a young boy’s impulses are affected by his attraction to his best friend.

Norway, 2022
Regi: Emil Engesnes Bråthen

One evening, in order to prove his worth to his peers, Henrik (11) is challenged to watch yet another playlist of violent internet videos, each more disturbing and real than the last. A study of experiences not unknown to many young people, and what may unfold when adults aren't paying attention.

Czech Republic, Norway, Slovakia, 2022
Regi: Veronika Lišková

A young anthropologist moves with her husband and three sons to Svalbard, Norway, to study how life in polar regions is changing. After falling in love with her new home, she discovers that more than icebergs and permafrost are vanishing in the Arctic.

Norway, Germany, Malta, 2022
Regi: Gunnar Vikene

In War Sailor, director Gunnar Vikene names the sailors that sacrificed so much for Norway and the Allied powers during World War II.

Spain, 2022
Regi: Elena López Riera

The summer is dry and hot in a village in Spain, but a storm is threatening to overflow the river. It has happened before, and according to superstition, some local women are predestined to disappear with every new flood. Meanwhile, Ana and her friends are trying to make the best of a dreary holiday.

France, 2020
Regi: Arthur Bourbon

Professional surfers Arthur Bourbon and Damien Castera decide to visit the country of Liberia 15 years after the end of the civil war, to shine a light on the country’s relatively recent surf movement – a generation of child soldiers swapping assault rifles for surfboards.

USA, 2022
Regi: Darren Aronofsky

The Whale is a timely, heart-wrenching drama about self-hatred and destructiveness, and director Darren Aronofsky demands us not to look away from the film’s main character. It is a portrait of an obese man isolated in his apartment, trying to reconnect with his daughter before it might be too late.

United Kingdom, 2022
Regi: Shekhar Kapur

How can one find lasting love in today's world? Set in London and Lahore, this charming and colorful romantic comedy challenges preconceived notions and attempts to answer this age-old question.

Welcome to our Winter Cinema for preschools and elementary schools during Tromsø International Film Festival. Experience the outdoor cinema magic through short films from a variety of countries, especially chosen for our youngest audience.This program is suitable for children ages 10+. At these screenings, we serve hot toddy from Kaffebønna and fresh fruit from Coop. Free tickets through our online reservation. Questions? Please contact us at skole@tiff.no.

Welcome to our Winter Cinema for preschools and elementary schools during Tromsø International Film Festival. Experience the outdoor cinema magic through short films from a variety of countries, especially chosen for our youngest audience.This program is suitable for children ages 2+. At these screenings, we serve hot toddy from Kaffebønna and fresh fruit from Coop. Free tickets through our online reservation. Questions? Please contact us at skole@tiff.no.

Welcome to our Winter Cinema for preschools and elementary schools during Tromsø International Film Festival. Experience the outdoor cinema magic through short films from a variety of countries, especially chosen for our youngest audience.This film program is suitable for children ages 6+.At these screenings, we serve hot toddy from Kaffebønna and fresh fruit from Coop. Free tickets through our online reservation. Questions? Please contact us at skole@tiff.no. 

USA, 2022
Regi: Sarah Polley

In a barn far out in the countryside, a group of women meets to discuss the future. Should they accept the situation and stay, should they fight back, or should they run away? This is a gripping drama where everything is at stake.

The Xn conference is a meeting place and an arena for replenishing knowledge and inspiration for everyone who works in creative industries.

EMERGING SCENES IN SMALL CITIESMusic business profile Daryl Bamonte (known for working with Depeche Mode and The Cure) and musician Per Martinsen (aka Mental Overdrive) in conversation.

Ukraine, Norway, 2022
Regi: Olha Tsybulska

You Know It’s Going To Be About War is a collective portrait of Ukrainians in war, focusing on those who managed to escape, who haven't been on the frontline or experienced the atrocities of the aggressor’s army on their own skin, although marked by psychological traumas. In the third month of the war, the need for normality slowly begins to overpower the fear of death. All the characters are connected by their close relationships with the director, who is trying to cope with survivor’s guilt and is searching for ways to regain ownership over her future after it was taken away on the 24th of February. It is a journey to celebrate life despite the war.

United Kingdom, Norway, 2022
Regi: Stian Andersen

A majestic new film and music from one of the world's most iconic bands!

Finland, Norway, 2022
Regi: Marja Helander

The áfruvvá is a Sámi sea-being, the ghost of a drowned person. Yearning for warmth, she emerges from the sea to a world devoid of humans and experiences humanity through an abandoned museum.

ÁRRAN 360° creates a unique space for digital Sámi storytelling and film art.

TIFF's Opening Conference is the Norwegian Film Industry's first get-together each year.

Welcome to the Opening Ceremony of TIFF 2023!