Forum Projects - Nordisk Panorama

The Music Farm

Classical music talents from around the world seek help at a school in Denmark to find a healthy life-work balance.

Katrine Philp

Good Company Pictures

Denmark

Observer+

Faderhuset

"It looks like love but is manipulation". This is how four defectors describe everyday life in Danmark’s most radical sect, “Faderhuset”.

Eva Mulvad / Andreas Koefoed

Danish Documentary

Denmark

Observer+

93

In 1993, Marita Petersen, the first female Lagmand of the Faroe Islands, fights to rescue her nation from economic ruin in 93.

Andrias Høgenni

Tambo Film

Denmark

Observer+

The Iran Deal

Diplomacy is founded on a fragile and slowly built material: trust. This is the story of a historic nuclear deal and the woman behind it.

Karen Stokkendal Poulsen

Bullitt Film

Denmark

Pitch

Investigating Putin

How do you preserve humanity in the midst of the horrors of war?

Camilla Pedersen / Nikolaj Viborg

Impact TV

Denmark

Pitch

Left Behind

The tragic reality of European-Somali youths taken from their homes under the guise of a holiday, only to be abandoned in re-education camps.

Nasib Farah

Emjay Productions ApS

Denmark

Pitch

How to Hygge

Two Danes want to bring "danish hygge" to China, by building a Danish life style center, where Chinese people will be able to live like the Danes.

Rikke Nørgaard

Celma Film

Denmark

Pitch

Am I Losing My Mind? A Journey Into the Menopause Mystery

What happens in the brain during menopause? A few scientists are close to unraveling some of the biggest mysteries of this chapter in women's lives.

Louise Unmack Kjeldsen

Hansen & Pedersen

Denmark

Observer+

Retrograd

Writing his autobiography, 68-year-old Peer is revisiting ghosts from his orphanage childhood. Will finishing this healing project bring him peace?

Anders Mielcke Grønbæk / Esben Persson

Elk Film ApS

Denmark

Observer+

Afghan Circus

In Afghanistan, two children find a space for imagination and hope through the local circus. The film explores childhood under new Taliban rule.

Camille Bildsøe

Elk Development Aps

Denmark

Pitch

Between Borders

The goal of volunteer Erko is the victory of Ukraine, but due to prolonged warfare, he must choose between family and war.

Erik Tikan

Three Brothers

Estonia

Observer+

Fruitcakes - the Dawn of Drag

Beloved drag star Mummo was murdered in 1988. His best friend Jolanda reconstructs his memories with young drag artists to tell the forgotten story.

Vesa Kuosmanen

Polygraf

Finland

Pitch

But I’m No Influencer

By studying at Influencer's Academy Mark himself becomes the lesson.

Jussi Sandhu

Wacky Tie Films

Finland

Pitch

Second Acts

Second Acts is a film about transformation, about breaking free from one's criminal roles and growing new wings with newly expressed emotions.

Anu Kuivalainen

Filmimaa Oy

Finland

Observer+

Soap Fever

To choose joy and pleasure at times of economic crises is always a revolutionary act.

Inka Achté

napafilms Oy

Finland

Pitch

Paradise in Hel

The documentary series Paradise in Hel tells the story of mystic Ior Bock, the mythology he told, and the people who followed him.

Mika Mattila

Parad Media Oy

Finland

Observer+

Cosmobility

Timeless life in a placeless world.

Mika Mattila

Ideasthetic Oy

Finland

Observer+

Matri(x)archy [Wildcard]

Matri(x)archy is a film about rage that arises from caregiving burnout.

Tinja Ruusuvuori

Tekele Productions Oy

Finland

Pitch

Oqaluttuamik

As people face, learn and tell their history during a Kaffillerneq through documentary, dramatizations, animation and archives.

Nivi Pedersen

KaNOq Aps

Greenland

Observer+

Orsoq [Wildcard]

Acclaimed Greenlandic filmmaker Inuk Silis Høegh examines the modern human being’s – and his own – desire to escape hectic city life.

Inuk Silis Høegh

Anorak Film I/S

Greenland

Pitch

Lukas

A 20 year old boy gets accused of animal cruelty and dog killing on the internet. What follows is a wild ride to prove his innocence.

Magnús Leifsson

Republik Film Productions

Iceland

Pitch

Miðgarðakirkja - Portrait of an Island [Wildcard]

Life on a remote island in the Arctic over one year.

Nikolai Galitzine

Northern Wave

Iceland

Pitch

Amongst the Birds

A poetic story about a unique interaction between nature and people.

Mika Kaurismäki / Ragnar Axelsson / Ingvar Thordarson

Neutrinos productions Ice ehf.

Iceland

Observer+

Letters to My Creator

A transgender person's journey to find the freedom to be herself in a totalitarian Soviet society.

Alex Shiriaieff

VFS Films

Latvia

Pitch

Hex [Wildcard]

Is the world ready for women who want to scream?

Maja Holand

Herstory

Norway

Pitch

Lights

In Lights we meet an eclectic group of people in a remote Norwegian valley, all shaped or driven by the strange light phenomena in the sky above them.

Gunnar Hall Jensen

UpNorth Film

Norway

Pitch

Peder Angel

A young boy's devastating choice after many years of bullying.

Sverre Kvamme

Indie Film AS

Norway

Pitch

Echoes of Noora

How do you get to love yourself and find back to your music career which is both a curse and a blessing?

Mari Bakke Riise

A5 Film

Norway

Pitch

Just An Ordinary Guy

The happiest day in Theodor's life is when he can shave for the very first time. Born and raised as a girl, that was not a given.

Kenneth Elvebakk

Cylinder Production AS

Norway

Observer+

This is Not an Apple

After surviving a brutal stabbing, Palestinian brothers in Oslo seek redemption through an apple farming project that links them to prison inmates.

Nefise Özkal Lorentzen

Integral Film AS

Norway

Observer+

Goodbye Andy Brown

An intimate portrait of a womans struggle to define herself on her own terms and find true love.

Lars Erlend Tubaas Øymo

Indie Film AS

Norway

Observer+

Norway vs Sápmi

Despite winning in the Supreme Court, the Sámi people must fight to dismantle Europe’s largest wind farm to save their endangered culture.

Håvard Bustnes

UpNorth Film

Norway

Observer+

Project 13

Project 13 explores what happens when the police try to help people in dire need of psychiatric care, but end up fatally shooting them.

Linn Helene Løken

Morild Film AS

Norway

Observer+

Facts About a Distant Valley

Dialogue is tiresome, but the alternative is probably worse.

Håvard Fossum

Medieoperatørene AS

Norway

Pitch

She Sings of Murder and Love

Irish trans musician, Keeley Moss, is obsessed with using her music to pursue justice for the sexually motivated murder of a young female backpacker.

Virginia Heath

Faction North Ltd

Scotland

Observer+

Cyclovia

A cinematic journey through Colombia, freedom, love, and life with daring youngsters, refugee couriers, and elite cyclists.

Finlay Pretsell

Parcel of Rogues

Scotland

Pitch

Fear Fokol

A trip into the world of private security meditating on the illusion of protection in a fragile climate of inequality, fear and masculinity in crisis.

Tuva Björk

Story AB

Sweden

Pitch

On the Edge

On the edge is a deeply personal fly-on-the-wall portrait of a relationship between a father and his son against a backdrop of an eroding island.

Joanna Karlberg

B-Reel Films

Sweden

Observer+

The Art of Not Knowing

A filmmaker and skateboarder revisits the past, in the hopes of understanding events that marked him and his friends' youth.

Jonathan Lomar

WG Film AB

Sweden

Pitch

Wonder Boy

A young man with cerebral palsy, defies odds to become a bodybuilder and fitness influencer, embarking on a journey to find community and friendship.

Gustav Hugo Olsson

We Have a Plan

Sweden

Observer+

Hair

Hair captures Iranian women's fight against gender apartheid through the art and experiences of Iranian-Swedish exiled artist Mandana Moghaddam.

Maryam Ebrahimi

Meritis Film AB

Sweden

Observer+

Violence of the Lonely Heart

A journey down the rabbit hole of involuntary celibates, whose longing for love transforms into hate. Is it ever too late to begin a new life?

Terese Mörnvik / Caroline Troedsson

Auto Images AB

Sweden

Pitch

The Strikers

A coming-of-age documentary in the age of climate breakdown.

Helena Molin

MDEMC

Sweden

Observer+

The Other Gaza

Gaza is a war zone. But it’s also the birthplace and the home of my family. I will show how daily life in Gaza really is, with sorrow and joy.

Wafá Jamil Espvall

Sard Films AB

Sweden

Pitch

Bachman: The Story of Stephen King's Pseudonym

This is the true story of Stephen King’s pseudonym—an exploration into the power of fiction that blurs the lines between imagination and reality.

Max Eriksson

Sisyfos Film Production AB

Sweden

Observer+

A Face to Be Loved [Wildcard]

While emptying her childhood home after her estranged father’s death, Angelica recalls a solitary love she had as a teenager for her teacher Miss S.

Angelica Ruffier

MDEMC

Sweden

Pitch