Forum & Work in Progress Projects

See What I Say

In the Deaf world, there is no universal sign language -- every country has its own. But in three bars across Bologna, Vilnius, and Kyiv, people who share no common language keep trying to reach each other. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't.

Arturas Jevdokimovas

Zero Copy Reel

Lithuania

Pitch

King Diamond

The Dane who sparked the Satanic Panic opens his doors at last — but the demons he conjured on stage may be closer to home than anyone knew.

Frederik Brun Madsen

Wingman Media

Denmark

Observer+

El Mijis

A film about an unlikely friendship born out of a search for hope in a hopeless world. We follow congressional superstar Pedro ‘El Mijis’ Carrizales from the upper echelons of Mexican political life to his forewarned murder in 2022 and its aftermath.

Adriano Mérola Marotta

WG Film AB

Sweden

Observer+

Myllylä

The Rise and Fall of a Hero - Unique homevideo footage reveals the human behind the headlines.

Sean Ricks / Jussi Sandhu / Ville Hakonen

Wacky Tie Films

Finland

WIP

Garden of Anna

Following the footsteps of Latvian missionary Anna Irbe a century after her arrival in South India, Garden of Anna explores the contested legacy of European missions through the voices of those who inherited them, confronting the uneasy afterlife of faith, colonialism and responsibility.

Kristine Briede

Vino Films

Latvia

Observer+

Disobedient

Disobedient is a portrait of a generation that refuses to stay silent. Bound by courage and community, young rebels rise against power and convention, risking freedom and future to ignite change, proving that defiance can be an act of love.

Emil Nørgaard Munk

Tambo Film

Denmark

Observer+

Caretaker

5 parents grapple with rising fear for their children’s future in a world shaped by climate change and environmental uncertainty. In group therapy they confront guilt, responsibility and conflict, turning fear into action but the real test unfolds in everyday life, where love and choices collide.

Phie Ambo

Tambo Film

Denmark

Pitch

No Friend but the Mountains

In Iran’s Hyrcanian Forests, two nomadic herders are the last living link to a millennia-old tradition.

Akra Makhabr / Yaser Talebi

Sunrise Film Ltd

Iran

Pitch

True Scott

A filmmaker’s search for the truth behind the myth of a legendary teacher becomes an exploration of identity, belonging, and the stories we choose to believe, even when the truth suggests otherwise.

Ömer Sami

Ström Pictures

Denmark

WIP

Confidential Stray Dogs Project

Confidential project.

Confidential

Stray Dogs Productions Norway AS

Norway

Observer+

Holding On

As school dropout rises across Europe, this documentary follows teenagers and the staff of a Norwegian upper secondary school as they work to stay connected - to school and to hope.

Tone Grøttjord-Glenne

Sant & Usant AS

Norway

WIP

Rimmugýgur — Life of Modern Vikings [Icelandic Wildcard]

It is not only an interest in ancient cultural heritage that unites this group of modern Vikings in Iceland, but also empathy, trust, and a sense of belonging. We all want to find a place in the world where we can be ourselves, without being judged for who we are.

Heimir Freyr Hlöðversson

Rökkur Films

Iceland

Pitch

License to Clean

Working alongside riverside communities, Finnish entrepreneur Anssi Mikola is racing to clean the world's most polluted rivers. But proving his model works requires navigating global finance, local politics and difficult compromises - because earning the license to clean comes at a price.

Kasimir Högnäs

Pystymetsä Oy

Finland

Pitch

Just a Regular Muslim

After leaving behind a rising pop career, a Finnish woman builds a new life in Indonesia as a devoted Muslim and Quran reciter.

Karoliina Lahti

Purple Orange Oy

Finland

Observer+

Family Life

After forty years of marriage defined by quiet routines and unspoken roles, Marguerite is stirred by her daughter’s fear of losing herself, and begins a journey to reclaim the person she once was.

Astrid Ahlbom Andersson

Picky Pictures

Sweden

Observer+

Lost at Sea [Danish Wildcard]

'Lost at Sea' follows abandoned seafarers stranded at sea in European waters. The seafarers are trapped at ships that have become floating prisons, where they are left in the hands of trade unionists and bankrupt owners - with no idea when they’ll return home.

Ejner Benedict Seidelin

Paloma Productions

Denmark

Pitch

The Ark

'The Ark' is the name of a last resort vessel, one to withstand natural disasters, political ideologies run amok, wars, time; but also, one to hold life.

Michael Madsen

Paloma Productions

Denmark

Pitch

Oceancraft

An immersive journey into the closed world of Faroese deep-sea trawling, where a tight-knit community battles the elements, physical exhaustion, and an uncertain future for a way of life on the edge of the horizon.

Jørgen Neshamar-Asmussen

Outlier Projects

Faroe Islands

Pitch

The Genealogy of Love

An intimate documentary about becoming a family in your own way, and about trying to keep the ones you love alive.

Hanna Högstedt

Onoma Productions

Sweden

Pitch

Sauna Finlandia

Male loneliness is already called an epidemic. In Finnish saunas, twelve men dare to ask the question society avoids: what is love for a man—and how do you find your way back to it?

Joonas Berghäll

Oktober Oy

Finland

Pitch

The Box of Memory

As a Swedish-Iranian mother and daughter seek the truth about the 1987 murder of their husband and father in Vienna by agents of the Iranian regime, they confront history, politics and memory, revealing how terror outlives its victims through silence, fear and inherited trauma.

Nima Sarvestani

Nimafilm AB

Sweden

Observer+

Living in the Shadow of the World We Could Have

Can democracy reinvent the economy? A global journey explores bold ideas beyond the free market for a sustainable future.

Max Kestner

Mystery Film ApS

Denmark

Pitch

Monday All Year [Norwegian Wildcard]

Four young telemarketers enter a self-improvement program that promises success and one million kroner, forcing them to ask whether work can really lead them closer to themselves.

Mats Muri

Medieoperatørene AS

Norway

Pitch

Migration Solutions [Swedish Wildcard]

A tragicomic journey across the EU and its borderlands unravels the bureaucratic conundrum at the centre of European migration policy.

Dennis Harvey

MDEMC

Sweden

Pitch

A Cloud in Trousers

A journey into the life of a war photographer whose haunting images shocked the world, until the dark secrets of his own life revealed an even more astonishing truth.

Maryam Ebrahimi

Mantaray Film AB

Sweden

Observer+

Firing Line

Amidst the Ukrainian war, the director Olga gets up close and personal with firefighters, sharing their experience and documenting human resilience. Through this journey, she begins to heal her own childhood trauma and ultimately makes the decision to become a mother.

Olga Gibelinda

Malanka Studios

Ukraine

Observer+

A Dollhouse – This Is Reality

After ten years of marriage Janni leaves her wealthy husband for a younger lover and loses everything. As chaos unfolds she must either confront her lifelong fear of being alone, or repeat the same patterns that have kept her running all her life.

Olivia Maria Rus / Eva Marie Rødbro

Lucky Cat Alliance

Denmark

Observer+

My Sister In Law, the Prime Minister

An American mom, her teenage daughter, and an Icelandic Prime Minister—a tale of power and identity across borders and generations.

Lexi Leban

Krumma Films

Iceland

Pitch

Featherlight [Finnish Wildcard]

Through a child’s dream of flight and a mother’s wish for saving the vanishing birds, Featherlight explores humanity’s fragile bond with the natural world.

Mina Laamo

Koko Production oy

Finland

Pitch

The Deep Front — The Battle Beneath the Arctic Waves

The world’s most cooperative region is turning into a new global frontline—a conflict rising beneath the Arctic waves.

Ari Matikainen

Kinocompany Ltd.

Finland

Pitch

The Road to Hollywood Seems Long in a Wheelchair

Two lifelong friends from a small town on the west coast of Norway chase B-film glory in Hollywood. Neither osteoporosis or money can stop them. But as illness and time close in, their dream might be stronger than The American Dream.

Stian Servoss / Benjamin García Langeland

Indie Film Bergen

Norway

Pitch

Roxana

A warm and humorous portrait of a female immigrant farmer with relentless drive and willpower, set against the backdrop of traditional Norwegian agriculture at a crossroads. How does a small rural community respond when an outsider dares to take root?

Espen Hofsmo / August Baugstø Hanssen

Indie Film AS

Norway

Pitch

Knots

When Maria’s story sparks the end of the Faroe Islands’ strict abortion ban, will the island community retreat into tradition or dare to step into an unwritten future?

Maria Tórgarð

ÍMYND Film

Faroe Islands

Pitch

QIMMEQ - Howl into the Future

In northern Greenland dog sleds are an important means of transportation and vital for traditional hunting culture. Yet with climate change, the role of sled dogs is changing. A mobile animal clinic visits remote villages and hears locals' fears about the future. What if the dogs will be gone?

Kira Jääskeläinen

Illume Ltd.

Finland

Observer+

100 Days

For 22 years, a ragged choir of male misfits has gathered in Trondheim’s alternative district of Svartlamon. For men carrying loneliness, trauma and outsiderhood, the choir is a lifeline—a fiercely masculine space where vulnerability is finally allowed.

Mari Nilsen Neira

Herstory

Norway

Observer+

All of Me

All of Me portrays Torstein Lerhol—a charismatic Norwegian public figure living with a disability—as growing fame and visibility collide with his deepest longing: to be loved.

Christer Sev

Herlig Film og TV

Norway

Observer+

An Unlikely Hero

Claus Melvad is an inventor and called the Miracle Maker by the world’s leading climate scientists. He is also diagnosed with Autism and OCD and with them comes a paralyzing anxiety. So, when he must go to Greenland, to find out how fast the sea level rises, Claus faces his worst nightmare.

Lars Henrik Ostenfeld

Hansen & Pedersen

Denmark

WIP

Benjamin & Angelica

Benjamin became Angelica and got the body, the name and the life he always wanted. Several years later he begins to suspect that the biggest decision of his life was wrong.

Fred Heggland / Morten Haslerud

H2 Produksjoner AS

Norway

Observer+

The Days I Will Forget

Patrick Petit, a recovering alcoholic, finds himself reliving the same day over and over, trapped in a time loop orchestrated by his filmmaker daughter, Morgane. As the daily events repeat, father and daughter stumble upon a chance to make a new start.

Morgane Dziurla-Petit

GötaFilm AB

Sweden

WIP

A Small Piece of Land

In the middle of the forest there is an allotment garden where people from different cultures cultivate more than just food, they grow connections, solidarity, and peace in times of global uncertainty.

Iiris Härmä

Guerilla Films

Finland

Observer+

Mystery Eel

For 2,400 years, no one has found a European eel egg or witnessed its spawning. As Danish scientists make one final attempt to solve nature's oldest mystery, a filmmaker follows—and begins to suspect that what we are really searching for is ourselves.

Peter Hammer

GotFat Productions

Denmark

Observer+

Cartas

What does it take to stay human when you are deprived of all humanity? Love. An animated documentary love story set against the back drop of Argentinian dictatorship.

Juan Pablo Libossart

Garagefilm International AB

Sweden

Observer+

Electing Annbjørg

For over 100 years, deaf people were denied access to their own language. Now, Annbjørg Horgar - a deaf politician, mother, and city council member - runs for the Norwegian parliament, fighting not only for a seat, but for recognition of sign language and equal rights in a society built for others.

Andreas Schille / Lene Bergersen

Følge film AS

Norway

Pitch

I Should Be Happy

After surviving postpartum psychosis, Gro becomes pregnant again, risking a return to the darkest period of her life.

Bente Johanne Moe

Fotspor Film AS

Norway

Observer+

Tunnel Visions

After decades of decline, the Fehmarn belt tunnel promises the Danish island of Lolland a new beginning. Dreams meet reality as four locals each attempt to seize the future without losing sight of life today.

Anders Skovbjerg Jepsen

Final Cut for Real ApS

Denmark

Observer+

Out of Place

After years in exile, Mohammed returns to Gaza in 2021 and finds something has shifted. In the city, in the people, in himself. Back in Europe, he embarks on a road of discovery, searching in scattered friends and half-forgotten memories for something he can't articulate but can't survive without.

Mohammed Fares Al Majdalawi

Filmilia AB

Sweden

WIP

Dr. Hedgehog

Sophie is 41 years old and obsessed with hedgehogs. She is also the only Danish zoologist with a PhD in the small nocturnal animal. With a giggly, disarming appearance and a spiky, hot temper, she's on a life mission to save the endangered animal while also battling her own 23 chronic illnesses.

Peter Alsted

Elk Film ApS

Denmark

Pitch

Birth Mothers

Women from vastly different backgrounds, united by one experience: relinquishing a child for adoption. Their stories reveal an aftermath far beyond a single moment of choice.

Frida Barkfors / Lasse Barkfors

De Andra

Sweden

Pitch

Ville and the Phantom of Liberty

Ville and the Phantom of Liberty is a film about freedom of speech, the global decline of democracy, and a comic book artist in the midst of a rapidly changing world.

Juho-Pekka Tanskanen

Danish Bear Productions Oy

Finland

Pitch

The Animal That Laughs

A group of Icelandic comedians look back at their first year of doing comedy and the cultural vibe shift that changed everything.

Ágúst Bent Sigbertsson

Bentlehem ehf

Iceland

Observer+

Punklings

A flock of odd birds, Punklings, find each other at Punk School. Isolation begins to crack, and together they learn how to fly.

Ellen Fiske / Ellinor Hallin

Ballad Film AB

Sweden

Pitch

The Heath

As residents of a remote Icelandic town look forward to the construction of a long-awaited tunnel, they recall experiences of travelling over the beautiful yet frightening mountain heath.

Jessica Auer

Akkeri Films

Iceland

Observer+