Forum & Work in Progress Projects

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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