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Haugesund’s Next Nordic Generation Slate Packed with Strong Emotions: ‘There is No Shortage of Nordic Talent’
‘dSkam’ actor-turned-writer Tarjei Sandvik Moe is among the talents vying for the Next Nordic Generation Award in Haugesund.
For Høkaas, the Westerdals-Kristiana University College has “also upped its quality levels in recent years, notably in story structure and acting,” and Haugesund participants will discover two fine samples in the refugee-focused “Mountains” by Iranian-born filmmaker Marzie and life-affirming “It’s Hard to Be Iben” by Jakob Ramberg. Finland’s long-standing Aalto ELO Film School, former film training ground to Juho Kuosmanen, Marja Pyykkö and Zaida Bergroth, will be showcasing three very different works: the animated doc about motherhood “Confessions of Undecided Women” by Milja Härkönen, the current affairs documentary “Once Upon a Recession” by Elias Kahla, and animated short “Tape” by Hui Wing Ki Candace, inspired by the director’s own experience of growing up in a Hong Kong house filled with plastic tape-repaired furniture. Actor Sandvik Moe of “Skam” fame, who just graduated as scriptwriter from the Norwegian Film School, said he was attracted to Moland’s project “because I saw the potential of using her premise as an allegory of today’s individualisation, polarisation, and devaluation of rituals.
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