Navigating the Storm
New Nordic Voice Short Programme
– The second programme featuring the very best emerging Nordic filmmaking talent tackles a series of challenges, difficulties and anxieties. In Petter Solberg Heum’s heart-wrenching Roxanne, a mother’s search for her missing daughter intertwines with the turbulent world of paranoid schizophrenia. Alexander Saul’s Lovesick also explores mental health, capturing the emotional turmoil of Elias in a psychiatric ward as he desperately tries to confess his love to his nurse before the year’s end. Meanwhile A Beauty Odyssey by Rosaliina Paavilainen explores the harsh reality behind the facade of being beautiful, as the protagonist grapples with societal expectations and the pressures of youth and appearance.
