Film Catalogue - Nordisk Panorama

featured films

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Mantis

Knæler

Roberta Hilarius Reichhardt

When Helle Pii and her mantis move in with Molly, sharing a small apartment develops into a nightmare. Helle Pii discovers what Molly really thinks about her and everything changes irreversibly. >

Roberta Hilarius Reichhardt

When Helle Pii and her mantis move in with Molly, sharing a small apartment develops into a nightmare. Helle Pii discovers what Molly really thinks about her and everything changes irreversibly. >

Fiction

Denmark

2019

12'

I Love You I Miss You I Hope I See You Before I Die

Eva Marie Rødbro

A story of a young girl and her longing heart. Betty lives below the poverty line in suburban Colorado Springs and belongs to a tight family clan of children born by children born by children where >

Eva Marie Rødbro

A story of a young girl and her longing heart. Betty lives below the poverty line in suburban Colorado Springs and belongs to a tight family clan of children born by children born by children where >

Documentary

Denmark

2019

77'

A Treatise of the Human Animal no.38: HEARTACHE

Studie udi menneskedyret no. 38: HJERTEKVALER

Jacob Møller

A comical and life-affirming depiction of the human being and its eternal tendency to have its heart broken. In eight standalone chapters, we meet the patients of the Heartache Sanatorium. We see >

Jacob Møller

A comical and life-affirming depiction of the human being and its eternal tendency to have its heart broken. In eight standalone chapters, we meet the patients of the Heartache Sanatorium. We see >

Fiction

Denmark

2019

30'

Villa Villekulla

Patricia Bbaale Bandak

The Bbaale siblings mix Danish traditions for food and games with Ugandan prayers, dances and songs. Play alternates with intimate discussion of trauma, pain, and the lack of adult supervision. >

Patricia Bbaale Bandak

The Bbaale siblings mix Danish traditions for food and games with Ugandan prayers, dances and songs. Play alternates with intimate discussion of trauma, pain, and the lack of adult supervision. >

Documentary

Denmark

2019

30'

The Man and the Head

Manden og Hovedet

Nilas Røpke Driessen

A little man builds a house on a giant floating head. The man and the head develop a friendship, chat about their day and try to figure out what to do with their lives. >

Nilas Røpke Driessen

A little man builds a house on a giant floating head. The man and the head develop a friendship, chat about their day and try to figure out what to do with their lives. >

Animation

Denmark

2020

Mount Everest

Rasmus Nyholm Schmidt

Aria is an Iranian piano teacher living in Copenhagen. He’s a dreamer and his biggest passion is his piano school. But with his head in the clouds, his business is threatened by growing debt. Is >

Rasmus Nyholm Schmidt

Aria is an Iranian piano teacher living in Copenhagen. He’s a dreamer and his biggest passion is his piano school. But with his head in the clouds, his business is threatened by growing debt. Is >

Fiction

Denmark

2019

18'

Beautiful Something Left Behind

Bag skyerne

Katrine Philp

When a child loses a parent the world turns upside down. Death may come suddenly or slowly, violently or peacefully, but it leaves a pain that the child has never felt. At Good Grief in New Jersey, >

Katrine Philp

When a child loses a parent the world turns upside down. Death may come suddenly or slowly, violently or peacefully, but it leaves a pain that the child has never felt. At Good Grief in New Jersey, >

Documentary

Denmark

2020

89'

Last Days of Summer

Karl Friis Forchhammer

Tamara is a feminist but also a hopeless romantic in love with a Catholic man with whom she shares few beliefs. Sierzput has just won his girlfriend back but is struggling to hold on to her. And out >

Karl Friis Forchhammer

Documentary

Denmark

2020

56'

The Nannies

Barnepigerne

Signe Barvild Stæhr

When filmmaker Signe B. Stæhr was just five years-old her mother died unexpectedly in the middle of the night. Signe remembers little from that time in the late 1980s and her father doesn't like to >

Signe Barvild Stæhr

Documentary, Children/Youth, Experimental

Denmark

2020

22'

Eighteen

Diciotto

Dafne Lechuga Maroto, Maria Colomer Canyelles, Laura D'Angeli

Ansou Fall is a Senegalese boy who came to Europe as an unaccompanied minor. Now, after turning eighteen, he faces the responsibilities of adulthood. Ansou and his legal tutor Nicla have an ongoing >

Dafne Lechuga Maroto, Maria Colomer Canyelles, Laura D'Angeli

Ansou Fall is a Senegalese boy who came to Europe as an unaccompanied minor. Now, after turning eighteen, he faces the responsibilities of adulthood. Ansou and his legal tutor Nicla have an ongoing >

Documentary

Denmark
Italy

2020

26'

Songs of Repression

Undertrykkelsens sang

Estephan Wagner, Marianne Hougen-Moraga

At the foot of the Andes Mountains in Chile lies an idyllic German colony called Villa Baviera (Bavarian Village). But the beauty hides a grim past - traumatic years of abuse, religious fanaticism >

Estephan Wagner, Marianne Hougen-Moraga

At the foot of the Andes Mountains in Chile lies an idyllic German colony called Villa Baviera (Bavarian Village). But the beauty hides a grim past - traumatic years of abuse, religious fanaticism >

Documentary

Denmark
Netherlands

2020

89'

The Cave

Feras Fayyad

Director Feras Fayyad (Last Men in Aleppo) returns to his native war-torn Syria to follow a dedicated team of female doctors who tirelessly treat casualties in an underground hospital while battling >

Feras Fayyad

Documentary

Denmark
USA

2019

107'

Eye to Eye

Silmästa Silmään

John Webster

When we experience traumatic loss, we grieve. It is the essential process of healing. For the family members of murder victims this process is often postponed indefinitely. To unlock the trauma and >

John Webster

When we experience traumatic loss, we grieve. It is the essential process of healing. For the family members of murder victims this process is often postponed indefinitely. To unlock the trauma and >

Documentary

Finland

2020

74'

Lady Time

Neiti Aika

Elina Talvensaari

Filmmaker Elina Talvensaari gets to know the previous occupant of her new home, an old woman who died alone with no one to remember her. Everything she owned from books to furniture remained in the >

Elina Talvensaari

Filmmaker Elina Talvensaari gets to know the previous occupant of her new home, an old woman who died alone with no one to remember her. Everything she owned from books to furniture remained in the >

Documentary

Finland

2019

61'

Jail Lullaby

Jorma Kaulanen

On a stormy night, three convicts break out of prison. Things go wrong and their camaraderie is tested. A successful getaway requires finesse, lightning reflexes - and gums of steel. >

Jorma Kaulanen

On a stormy night, three convicts break out of prison. Things go wrong and their camaraderie is tested. A successful getaway requires finesse, lightning reflexes - and gums of steel. >

Fiction, Children/Youth

Finland

2019

Still Into You

Lauluja Rakkaudesta

Anu Kuivalainen

Five different couples create an image of old age and love with all its different facets. An elderly actress's love songs link the stories of 70–85-year-old couples. New lovebirds combine karaoke, >

Anu Kuivalainen

Documentary

Finland

2020

71'

25th Hour

25. tunti

Juho Reinikainen

Paths cross in a sleeping city. The soft-spoken nighttime radio host is company for those who are awake. >

Juho Reinikainen

Paths cross in a sleeping city. The soft-spoken nighttime radio host is company for those who are awake. >

Documentary

Finland

2020

21'

Afterparty

Lauri Pulkkinen, Hertta Lehtovirta, Sanna Liinamaa, Janne Matias Häkkinen, Ulrika Fredriksson

A portrayal of the last moments of old people and the value of microfungi, bacteria and other small entities living alongside us. The human world meets nonhuman in this psychedelic short film mixing >

Lauri Pulkkinen, Hertta Lehtovirta, Sanna Liinamaa, Janne Matias Häkkinen, Ulrika Fredriksson

Animation

Finland

2019

Best Possible Life

Maailman onnellisin kansa

Jussi Sandhu, Ville Hakonen

The United Nations named Finland the happiest country in the world twice in a row. Finns are skeptical about this accolade – we tend to see ourselves as melancholic, pessimistic and dreary. Is this >

Jussi Sandhu, Ville Hakonen

Documentary

Finland

2020

13'

Canary

Kanarialintu

Risto-Pekka Blom

Every morning thousands of children go to school like canaries in a coal mine, measuring toxicity. The film studies the chain of harassment and how we all are broken in different ways. >

Risto-Pekka Blom

Every morning thousands of children go to school like canaries in a coal mine, measuring toxicity. The film studies the chain of harassment and how we all are broken in different ways. >

Fiction, Children/Youth

Finland

2020

Patent No. 314805

Patentti nr. 314805

Mika Taanila

Finnish engineer Eric Tigerstedt solved the dilemma of sound-on-film already before the First World War. All images and sounds in this short film are from surviving test materials originally created >

Mika Taanila

Experimental

Finland

2020

Colombia In My Arms

Colombia fue nuestra

Jenni Kivistö, Jussi Rastas

After decades of conflict in Colombia, the government signs a peace agreement with the leftist FARC guerillas. But the citizens of this deeply unequal society can't seem to agree on what a better >

Jenni Kivistö, Jussi Rastas

After decades of conflict in Colombia, the government signs a peace agreement with the leftist FARC guerillas. But the citizens of this deeply unequal society can't seem to agree on what a better >

Documentary

Finland

2020

91'

If Your Heart Wants It (Remix)

Pilvi Takala

SLUSH is an annual three-day event that takes place in Helsinki. The aim is to invigorate the tech-startup community by bringing together entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in a party environment. >

Pilvi Takala

Documentary, Experimental

Finland
Germany

2020

16'

The Last Day

Viimeinen päivä

Lauri-Matti Parppei

Two lovers living in separate countries spend their last day together, having sex and eating. A musical melodrama accompanied by Orthodox Christian choir music. >

Lauri-Matti Parppei

Two lovers living in separate countries spend their last day together, having sex and eating. A musical melodrama accompanied by Orthodox Christian choir music. >

Fiction

Finland
Sweden

2019

17'

Talking With the Dead

Parler Avec Les Morts

Taina Tervonen

The road follows the river down the canyon, up a mountain, and through a silent valley covered with snow. Every day, Darija Vujinovic drives hundreds of kilometres in her small blue Ford Fiesta, from >

Taina Tervonen

Documentary

France

2020

67'

latest films

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Fence

Hegn

Hilke Rönnfeldt

Just another morning. She has had a dream and tells her girlfriend about it: It was about pigs and a fence. A fence between two countries and two different kinds of pigs. They’ve both heard about >

Hilke Rönnfeldt

Just another morning. She has had a dream and tells her girlfriend about it: It was about pigs and a fence. A fence between two countries and two different kinds of pigs. They’ve both heard about >

Fiction

Denmark

2020

12'

OsWorld

Philip Hedegaard Povlsen

Oswald earns his living by making videos, for his channel 'OsWorld', on the video sharing platform, 'MeTube'. The constant demand from his growing audience and insatiable ambition drives him forward. >

Philip Hedegaard Povlsen

Fiction

Denmark

2019

30'

Battlemind

David Silset

A close up of the mindset of an ex-soldier shot down by PTSD syndrome. A montage and fragmented portrayal of how crippling and claustrophobic life can be, while coping with the trials of mental >

David Silset

A close up of the mindset of an ex-soldier shot down by PTSD syndrome. A montage and fragmented portrayal of how crippling and claustrophobic life can be, while coping with the trials of mental >

Fiction

Denmark

2020

Dead Fish

Silva Kuusniemi

Internal dynamics strain relations among a group of friends at a vacation cottage. Elias used to date Roosa but is now dating Mariaana. The heartbroken Roosa and protective Ida try to restrain their >

Silva Kuusniemi

Fiction

Finland

2020

25'

The Fantastic

Maija Blåfield

Encountering the unknown and the relationship between imagination and reality. The film is built on interviews with exiled North Koreans, who describe what they imagined the outside world to be like, >

Maija Blåfield

Documentary, Experimental

Finland

2020

31'

Against the Current

Á móti straumnum

Óskar Páll Sveinsson

Veiga is the first person to paddle 2,000 kilometres around Iceland against the sea current, on the edge of the Arctic Circle. This is comparable with climbing K2, the world’s second highest >

Óskar Páll Sveinsson

Veiga is the first person to paddle 2,000 kilometres around Iceland against the sea current, on the edge of the Arctic Circle. This is comparable with climbing K2, the world’s second highest >

Documentary

Iceland

2020

85'

Pappa

Angelika Abramovitch

Rock & roll in the midst of a burning Soviet Union where everything from the West was banned and rock music was considered propaganda. In the late 1960s, Anatoli Abramovitch and his band Star >

Angelika Abramovitch

Rock & roll in the midst of a burning Soviet Union where everything from the West was banned and rock music was considered propaganda. In the late 1960s, Anatoli Abramovitch and his band Star >

Documentary

Sweden

2019

13'

Excess Will Save Us

Morgane Dziurla-Petit

In late October 2017, an attack alarm goes off in Villereau, a tiny village in the north of France. The villagers’ story describes the fear of terrorism that exists even in the most remote parts of >

Morgane Dziurla-Petit

Documentary

Sweden

2019

15'

Grab Them

Morgane Dziurla-Petit

Sixty-year-old Sally longs for love and happiness. Lately her search has been complicated by the fact that she resembles the current American president. One man’s crazy assault on the world is a >

Morgane Dziurla-Petit

Sixty-year-old Sally longs for love and happiness. Lately her search has been complicated by the fact that she resembles the current American president. One man’s crazy assault on the world is a >

Fiction

Sweden

2020

12'

Liquid Crystal Effects

Timo Menke

Liquid Crystals serve as both material, medium and method – the critical lens through which I investigated the former Långban mining and cultural village in Eastern Värmland in Sweden. Liquid >

Timo Menke

Liquid Crystals serve as both material, medium and method – the critical lens through which I investigated the former Långban mining and cultural village in Eastern Värmland in Sweden. Liquid >

Documentary, Experimental

Sweden

2019

40'