NFF 2018
Movies on the Northern Film Fest schedule in Leeuwarden
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- DirectorAli AbbasiStarsEva MelanderEero MilonoffJörgen ThorssonA customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.
- DirectorAleksi PuranenStarsVille JaarantoRisuTouko TumantoFollows a disabled man's dream of travelling across Europe on a power wheelchair.
- DirectorBenedikt ErlingssonStarsHalldóra GeirharðsdóttirJóhann SigurðarsonJuan Camilo Román EstradaHalla becomes a determined environmental activist, but this threatens a long-held hope of hers.
- DirectorHenrik Martin DahlsbakkenStarsAndrea Bræin HovigTarjei Sandvik MoeAnneke von der LippeA newly appointed teacher finds herself being followed, and soon discovers that one of her own students is obsessed with her.
- DirectorGabriela PichlerStarsZahraa AldoujailiYara AliadotterFredrik DahlA sleepy Swedish province hopes to lure a discount store chain by hiring a pompous commercial director to document their town's worthiness, but two bright, brash high school girls from immigrant families use their cellphones and selfie sticks to tell the real story.
- DirectorChristian TafdrupStarsAnders JuulAmanda CollinRasmus HammerichWhen Rasmus meets Marie, he is certain that she is the love of his life. However, it doesn't take long before it turns out she is a possessive and manipulative being, that cunningly dissects Rasmus to pieces.
- DirectorIsold UggadottirStarsKristín Þóra HaraldsdóttirBabetida SadjoPatrik Nökkvi PéturssonTwo women's lives will intersect while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategize to get their lives back on track.
- DirectorTeemu NikkiStarsMatti OnnismaaJari VirmanHannamaija NikanderA man who euthanizes animals as a side job runs afoul of a white supremacist.
- DirectorSimo HalinenStarsSamuli VauramoDavid NzingaLaura BirnThe lives of three troubled people are connected by accident when they are faced with moral questions.
- DirectorHenrik Martin DahlsbakkenStarsTrine WiggenInga Ibsdotter LilleaasIben AkerlieAn unemployed music teacher takes his estranged transgender father on a road trip to the west coast of Norway, in order to honor his late mother's excellent quilting skills.
- DirectorAndreas DalsgaardStarsSøren Haslund-ChristensenMichael Haslund-ChristensenMarianne Haslund-ChristensenMichael looks, with his father, for the truth about his paternal grandfather Henning Haslund, who was a spy, an arms smuggler and explorer at the turn of the last century, in the great international expedition to north-western China.
- DirectorToby MacDonaldStarsAlex LawtherJonah Hauer-KingPauline EtienneIn the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.
- DirectorSakaris StoraStarsJuliett NattestadHelena HeðinsdóttirLevi RagnarssonOn an isolated island, Ester goes about her mundane life, quietly obeying her religious parents. One day the rebellious Ragna moves to town, and together they enjoy the summer nights, dreaming about something different, something better.
- DirectorEgle VertelyteStarsEgle MikulionyteVyto RuginisAndrius BialobzeskisClose to bankruptcy, Irena, the owner of a struggling pig farm in a tiny post-Communist town finds a surprising benefactor in a handsome American man who appears to be the answer to all her prayers.
- DirectorIram HaqStarsMaria MozhdahAdil HussainEkavali KhannaThe story of Nisha, daughter of a Pakistani-Norwegian family, who is kidnapped to Pakistan by her parents when her father finds her in bed with a man.
- DirectorJurate SamulionyteVilma SamulionyteAuthor driven documentary "What we leave behind" (original "Liebe Oma, Guten Tag!") is made from a need to talk in unspoken topics, look for answers and hopefully break taboos. It is a film, where two sisters from Lithuania - a filmmaker and a photographer - take a journey through their German grandmother's past. During the research authors encounter her love story, fleeing, uncomfort of being German in Soviet Lithuania and chain of suicides in their family. It's time to talk. About everything. Long journey, which leads in two directions - towards other person and yourself.
- DirectorBörkur SigþórssonStarsAnna PróchniakIngvar SigurdssonGísli Örn GarðarssonTwo antagonistic brothers decide to smuggle drugs into their native Iceland using a young Polish girl as their mule.
- DirectorAntonio TublenStarsRosalinde MynsterJesper ChristensenAnders HeinrichsenA traumatized woman is found in a forest, claiming to have witnessed a murder. As the police investigates it they can't find anything proving her story. The woman is convinced that she's the next victim and starts her own investigation to figure out what really happened, trying to find the murderer before he finds her. As she comes closer, the truth is finally revealed along with severe consequences that will change everything.
- DirectorBaldvin ZophoníassonStarsSigfus FossdalThe story of Reynir Örn Leósson, who became famous in Iceland in the 70's for being the strongest man in the world. With supernatural strength and his connection to god, Reynir achieved phenomenal things and his world records still stand today. But his harsh childhood shaped him into a man with dark secrets, an abusive alcoholic, desperately trying to get recognition from society all his life.
- DirectorKasper Rune LarsenStarsFrederikke Dahl HansenJonas Lindegaard JacobsenJacob SkyggebjergNorge, a slacker teenager, aimlessly roams with friend Myre, aspiring to start a music career in the city. Their lives take an unexpected turn when 16-year-old Josephine claims to be pregnant with Norge's child.
- DirectorIsabella EklöfStarsVic Carmen SonneLai YdeThijs RömerA love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowBirgitta ValbergGunnel LindblomIn 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.
- DirectorLasse LauStarsAannguaq René J. HansenAngunnguaq LarsenVarna Marianne NielsenThe relationship between Greenland and Denmark is full of fantasy and myths. And these are exactly what Danish artist Lasse Lau reflects upon - and in turn documents - in his first feature-length film.
- DirectorPernille Fischer ChristensenStarsAlba AugustMaria BonnevieTrine DyrholmBiopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children's books and creator of Pippi Longstocking.
- DirectorGiedre BeinoriuteStarsAirida GintautaiteSigitas SidlauskasGuna ZarinaIzabele, is a modern, intellectual woman, living with her husband Liudas in a homestead near a big city. They are raising a son, Gailius, who has a case of epilepsy and is smarter than most children his age. Izabele decides to adopt Ilja - the meanest and most secretive boy in the foster home.