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FILMS FROM THE NORTH: GAMES THEY PLAY.
Harstad Kino
Kr 90,- / Gratis med festivalpass

Kremen av TIFF-kortfilm - med besøk av Harstad- regissør og film fra Harstad!

Film fra Nord (FFN) er et av de mest populære programmene på Tromsø Internasjonale Filmfestival. Alle filmene i FFN-programmet har tilknytning til Barentsregionen eller andre sirkumpolare områder. Nå skal fem utvalgte kortfilmer fra programmet gjeste AMIFF, etter en turne i Norge og Russland. En av filmene, BUNKER, er laget av Vibeke Heide fra Harstad, og filmen er også filmet i Harstad. BUNKER vant Amanda for beste kortfilm i 2015, og regissør Vibeke Heide skal være med og møte publikum på visningen.

Filmene som skal vises er ALL IN (regi: Line Klungseth Johansen/Øystein Moe, Norge), ogBUNKER (regi: Vibeke Heide, Norge), CLUMSY LITTLE ACTS OF TENDERNESS (regi: Miia Tervo, Finland), OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS (regi: Patrik Eklund, Sverige) og BYRÅKRATMONSTERET (regi: Thomas Simonsen Balmbra, Norge).

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Om GAMES THEY PLAY
I det moderne, post-industrielle samfunnet fortoner livet seg ofte som et skuespill. Mennesker spiller om kjærlighet og sorg, makt, status og identitet. Og noen ganger spiller vi bare for gøy. Kortfilmprogrammet FILMS FROM THE NORTH: GAMES PEOPLE PLAY tar for seg dette på både morsomt og dramatisk vis.

De fem filmene i programmet har til felles at de utforsker hvordan vi mennesker interagerer, konkurrerer og kommuniserer med hverandre – gjennom språk, mimikk og retorikk. Av og til ropes alt høyt og tydelig, mens i andre tilfeller ligger all kommunikasjon under overflaten. Karakterene vi møter blir alle konfrontert og utfordret i ulike sammenhenger.

INFORMATION IN ENGLISH

FILMS FROM THE NORTH: GAMES THEY PLAY.
Venue: Harstad Kino
NOK 90, - / Free with festival pass

The cream of TIFF short film!

Films from the North (FFN) is one of the most popular programs at Tromsø International Film Festival. All films in the FFN programme are related to the Barents Region or other circumpolar areas. Now five selected shorts from the programme guest AMIFF, after a tour in Norway and Russia. One of the films, BUNKER, is directed by Vibeke Heide from Harstad. BUNKER won Amanda for Best Short Film in 2015, and director Vibeke Heide will be be at the screening presenting her film.

The films to be shown is ALL IN (directed Line Klungseth Johansen / Øystein Moe, Norway), and BUNKER (directed by Vibeke Heide, Norway), CLUMSY LITTLE ACTS OF TENDER NESS (Director: Miia Tervo, Finland), of Biblical Proportions (directed Patrik Eklund, Sweden) and bureaucrats pattern (directed by Thomas Simonsen Balmbra, Norway).

About GAMES THEY PLAY
In the modern, post-industrial society life often seems like a play. People act in mysterious ways regarding love and sorrow, power, status and identity. And sometimes we just act up for fun. Short film programme FILMS FROM THE NORTH: GAMES PEOPLE PLAY addresses this both with drama and humour.

The five films in the program have in common that they explore how humans interact, compete and communicate with each other - through language, gestures and rhetoric. Occasionally things get shouted loud and clear, while in other cases all communications is under the surface. The characters we meet are all confronted and challenged in different contexts.

FULL FILM PROGRAMME

ALL IN is a homage to the action films and computer games of the 1980s.

Dir: Line Klungseth Johansen & Øystein Moe / Norway, 2015 / 6 min.
Cast: Mats Meistad, Simon Stokke, Kristoffer Toivonen, Andreas Borchgrevink

About the Director:
Line Klungseth Johansen and Øystein Moe have worked together on several project. Their short film FLIMMER has been screened on numerous festivals around the world.
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CLUMSY LITTLE ACTS OF TENDERNESS
Pieniä Kömpelöitä Hellyydenosoituksia
A weekend father wants to show his teenage daughter his love by taking her to a carwash, but instead, they end up on a life-changing adventure in the supermarket, at the endless sanitary towel shelf.

Dir: Miia Tervo / Finland, 2015 / 11 min.
Cast: Kati Vainionpää, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Pirjo Lonka, Pasi Siitonen, Miitta Sorvali

About the Director:
Miia Tervo is an awarded documentary and fiction director and screenwriter. Tervo’s films THE SEAL (2006), LUMIKKO – LITTLE SNOW ANIMAL (2010) and SANTRA AND THE TALKING TREES (2013) were screened at TIFF and at numerous other film festivals. LUMIKKO was also nominated for the European Film Award in 2011.
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OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS
Of Biblical Proportions
A group of scientists from around the world meets in a conference room in an unknown location somewhere in America. They are there to discuss in isolation the origins of the mysterious cranium discovered 300 meters below the ice of Antarctica.

Dir: Patrik Eklund / Sweden, 2015 / 29 min.
Cast: Schiaffino Musarra, Olle Sarri, Anki Larsson, Stephen Rappaport

About the Director:
Born in Arvidsjaur, Sweden. Made his directional debut with ONE CHRISTMAS MORNING, which won several awards, including The Tromsø Palm in 2003. He has since had his short films screened at Cannes and at numerous other prestigious festivals. He made his feature film debut in 2012 with FLIMMER.
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THE BUREAUCRACY MONSTER
Byråkratmonsteret
An intense and humorous montage about the horrors of an ever-expanding bureaucracy.
Dir: Thomas Simonsen Balmbra / Norway, 2016 / 5 min.
Produsent: Jannik Dam Kehlet

About the Director:
Thomas Simonsen Balmbra (b. 1985) is an artist and film director educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. His last film, the stop motion animated ORFEUS, won the Skårungen prize at TIFF 2012.
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BUNKER
Bunker

Monika tries to revive the close rela¬tionship with her childhood friend Irene. A day-trip to an old German bunker reveals that the conflicts from the past have not faded, and that the power struggle between friends is not just something that happened in their younger years.

Dir: Vibeke Heide / Norway, 2015 / 30 min.
Cast: Marie Blokhus, Ester Grenersen

About the Director:
Vibeke Heide is a director educated at the Norwegian Film School. She has written, directed and produced three short films, several music videos and other works through Sentimeter film/Heide.