NFI provides grants for the production and launch of Norwegian films and drama series. Here you will find an overview of productions that NFI has supported.
Love is about a single woman in her prime is looking for sex and intimacy but doesn’t want to establish a new relationship – to the despair and envy of her surroundings. She meets two men who represent two different forms of love, and who in their way challenge her desire to be true to herself and explore her feelings. Sex Dreams Love A film trilogy that consists of three loosely connected stories that in different ways speak about the way we behave to achieve our inner longings. Moral fables and existential comedies about sexuality and queer sensibility set in Oslo today.
Shadow of Victory is a captivating boxing drama based on the incredible real-life story of two Norwegian brothers who made headlines around the world for their extraordinary achievements. One is the most successful Norwegian boxer of all time, though perhaps better known as the younger brother of one of the biggest bank robbers in Norwegian history.
A modern 2D-animated family feature about an adventurous girl who embarks on a quest to rescue her newfound friend, a polar bear who turns out to be a prince. The Polar Bear Prince is a spectacular and modern animated film based on one of Scandinavia’s most beloved folk tales. It is a story of love, greed, courage, and nature’s wonders, packed with suspense, humor, music, and breathtaking scenery.
A whirlwind of a story that flips the Cinderella-tale upside down. To everyone's astonishment, Caterella says no to marrying the Prince. After all shoe size is a wacky reason for marriage. Instead, Caterella wants to find her own ending. This break with tradition sets the whole world in peril. The Princess needs to get the story back on track and decides to confront Caterella. An unexpected spark ignites between the two, and together they set out on a quest for personal freedom and love. A journey that will shake the very foundation of the fairy-tale world, making everyone live happily fur-ever after.
35-year-old teacher Vilma Veierød lives alone. She shuns social media and worries too much - most of all about death.One day in December, the handsome priest Ivar and the pathologist Robert with Tourette's suddenly appear on her doorstep with a letter and the news that her father has died. Vilma didn't even know she had a father, and the letter turned her whole life upside down.Vilma Veierød's life has not been full of people. Not by a long shot. But now she suddenly must deal with two men. Three - if you count her dead father.
In Halden prison in Norway 250 men are incarcerated, many with long sentences at the upper end of the penalty scale: Murder, major drug cases, violence. Once a year, a few of them participate in something unique: Living as monks for three weeks, in a ward of the prison made into a monastery. What happens when the men voluntarily submit themselves to stricter rules than the prison imposes on them?
In 1940, the German war machine invaded Norway, and Gunnar – a young 22-year-old accountant – immediately offered his services to the resistance. He turned out to have a very special and unique talent for leadership and organizing and quickly became the head of all resistance actions in the Oslo area. The story of Gunnar, aka «The Chin» and «No. 24», has never been more relevant. This skinny, modest, unassuming man that with the accuracy and meticulousness of an accountant – and the audacity and bravery of a real hero – gave the Gestapo years of relentless, tough resistance.
Filmmaker Asgeir Helgestad documents the state of nature in his home country, Norway, which he has photographed all his life. From the lives of bees at his farm to wild reindeer on the high mountains and puffins at the ocean's edge, he shows the beauty of threatened nature and tracks down human actions responsible for its decline. This is a personal story about our connection with the non-human world, the relations between the small and the big, and a reminder of nature's strength and vulnerability.