This Year's International Documentaries
From the film Grandma Lo-Fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrídur Níelsdóttir.
The films in this year’s International Documentary Program will have guests and speakers present at the screenings. Orri Jónsson, one of the directors of the Icelandic film Grandma Lo-Fi (2011), is also a member of this year’s music video jury. He will be present during the entire festival, and meet with the audience after the film’s screenings.
H.R.H Crown Prince Haakon and the Minister of Culture Anniken Huitfeldt will attend the opening of this year’s festival
From the music video I spy by Mikhael Paskalev. Photo: Martin Hogsnes Solvang
On Wednesday 13th June, 12:00 midday, H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon and the Minister of Culture Anniken Huitfeldt will attend the opening of The 35th Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad. This year’s festival will take place from 13th - 17th June and, as well as the international selection, there will be 82 Norwegian short films, music videos and documentaries competing. ‘The Norwegian Short Film Festival has received films from around the whole country; the geographical spread is surprisingly large. But it’s important to remember that we are an international festival with films and guests from the whole world,’ says Torunn Nyen, the Creative Director and member of the pre-selection committee.
This Year’s International Short Films
Silent, directed by L. Rezan Yesilbas, is one of the films in competition.
Our pre-selection committee has selected 24 international short films to compete in this year’s festival in Grimstad.
See the full list of films:
Single-Shot Cinema
On Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th June, during the 35th Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad, Leonard Retel Helmrich will teach his famous Single-Shot Cinema method.
Submission of film to international competition 2012
Alexandru Mavrodineau winner of the Golden Chair International film 2011
Submission of film to the international competition at the 35th Norwegian Short Film Festival will be open at Reelport.com between 1st of February and the 15th of April 2012.
To be admitted, the film must not exceed 35 minutes and have premiered after June 2011.
Submit here
Award winners at The Norwegian Short Film Festival 2011
From Music in the Blood by Alexandru Mavrodineanu
The 34th Short Film Festival in Grimstad came to an end Sunday June 20th. The Golden Chair for best international short film, and 50 000 NOK given by Zentropa International Norway, went to the Rumanian film Music in the Blood by Alexandru Mavrodineanu. The Golden Chair for best Norwegian short film, and NOK 50 000 given by The Norwegian Film Institute went to No Sex Just Understand by Mariken Halle. This film also received the Hour Glass award for best script. The Golden Chair for best Norwegian documentary, and NOK 50 000 given by The Norwegian Broadcasting, went to The Doctors' War by Elsa Kvamme. Mavrodineanu. In total 132 films competed for the ten awards that were presented during the ceremony in Grimstad Kulturhus.
See all awards:
Lassaad Jamoussi presents Films from Tunisia
From Pale Red by Mohammed Hammad
The Norwegian Short Film Festival has invited Lassaad Jamoussi, Professor at the faculty for International Art and Culture at the Sfax University, to screen new films from his homeland and talk about the situation in Northern Africa.
Despite the censorship of Tunisia’s old dictator, cinema, theatre and artistic creation have been able to penetrate the heart of social and political issues. This Tunisian programme of short films is a testament to this vigour with a variety of approaches and styles, through irony, dreams, social realism or fantasy. These Tunisian filmmakers offer a full and varied fresco of their country, married life, religion, illegal immigration, fomen’s condition, workers and artists in a changing country.
Tabloid by Errol Morris - National Premiere in Grimstad June 16th
Joyce McKinney in Tabloid
Tabloid (2010) follows the stranger-than-fiction adventures of Joyce McKinney, a former beauty queen whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams leads her across the globe, into jail, and onto the pages of tabloid newspapers. Joyce´s crusade for love takes her through a surreal world of kidnapping, manacled Mormons and celestial sex.
International films in competition 2011
From the shooting of The Wholly Family by Terry Gilliam
Zentropa International Norway and The Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad come together in 2011 with the common goal of promoting the art of short film. Our vision is to encourage artistic and innovative collaboration between International and Norwegian film professionals.
Zentropa International Norway will award The Golden Chair and NOK 50.000.
The films in competition are:
Nominees for European Film Academy Short Film Awards 2010
Short Film Nominees for the European Film Academy Short Film Awards announced in Grimstad and Edingburg. http://hurl.no/InN
