NFF2021
by Wordsmith | created - 06 Nov 2021 | updated - 14 Nov 2021 | Publicall films on the Northern Film Fest 2021 listed on IMDb
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1. Silence of the Tides (2020)
102 min | Documentary
SILENCE OF THE TIDES is a cinematic portrait for international cinema about the Unesco World Heritage Site, the Wadden Sea, one of the largest wetlands, tidal and coastal systems in the world.
Director: Pieter-Rim de Kroon | Stars: Birgit Wildeman, Johann Petersen, Jan van Rees, Freek Töpfer
Votes: 295
2. Betrayed (2020)
126 min | Drama, History, War
The Braude family's experiences when Norway was occupied by Nazi Germany and Jews were arrested and deported.
Director: Eirik Svensson | Stars: Jakob Oftebro, Pia Halvorsen, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Carl Martin Eggesbø
Votes: 2,415
3. Ladies of Steel (2020)
92 min | Drama, Comedy
After gravely injuring her husband and realising that she might face consequences for it, Inkeri, an elderly woman, embarks on one last road trip.
Director: Pamela Tola | Stars: Leena Uotila, Saara Pakkasvirta, Seela Sella, Heikki Nousiainen
Votes: 742
4. Wolka (2021)
100 min | Drama
Anna gets released from a Polish prison on parole after fifteen years behind bars. Once free, Anna has but one goal - to find a woman whose name is Dorota.
Director: Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson | Stars: Olga Boladz, Anna Moskal, Eryk Lubos, Jan Cieciara
Votes: 202
5. Yö armahtaa (2020)
90 min | Drama
During the COVID lockdown, three Finnish men get together in an otherwise empty bar, talk, and sample what is in some special bottles.
Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Timo Torikka, Kari Heiskanen, Pertti Sveholm, Anu Sinisalo
Votes: 162
6. Il treno va a Mosca (2013)
70 min | Documentary
The end of an era and the end of a dream through the eyes of Sauro Ravaglia, an Italian amateur film-maker, barber and communist.
Directors: Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini | Star: Sauro Ravaglia
Votes: 81
7. Persona non grata (2021)
91 min | Drama
A vegan, artsy writer in Copenhagen, who left her parents' farm and rural life years ago without looking back, returns for her brother's wedding. She still doesn't fit in but is she partly to blame?
Director: Lisa Jespersen | Stars: Rosalinde Mynster, Bodil Jørgensen, Anne Sofie Wanstrup, Adam Ild Rohweder
Votes: 1,241
8. The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic (2021)
82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jaakko and Sirpa have never met face to face but they talk on the phone every day. When he hears about her declining health, he decides to go meet her in another city; a challenge if you can't see and are paralyzed from the chest down.
Director: Teemu Nikki | Stars: Petri Poikolainen, Marjaana Maijala, Samuli Jaskio, Rami Rusinen
Votes: 1,752
9. Enforcement (2020)
Not Rated | 108 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jens and Mike, two police officers on routine patrol, find themselves trapped in a maze of buildings when unrest spreads.
Directors: Frederik Louis Hviid, Anders Ølholm | Stars: Jacob Lohmann, Simon Sears, Tarek Zayat, Dulfi Al-Jabouri
Votes: 6,935
10. Nimby (2020)
94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mervi and Kata, a lesbian couple living in Helsinki, are considering coming out of closet. They soon realize that they are not the only ones with secrets.
Director: Teemu Nikki | Stars: Susanna Pukkila, Almila Bagriacik, Elias Westerberg, Matti Onnismaa
Votes: 613
11. Erna at War (2020)
100 min | Drama, War
A woman disguises herself as a man to join the army in order to protect her educationally subnormal son who has been called up to fight in WW1.
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz | Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, Anders W. Berthelsen, Sylvester Byder
Votes: 842
12. The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (2021)
93 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Luchino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world's most beautiful boy. 50 years later, that shadow still weighs upon Björn Andresen's life.
Directors: Kristina Lindström, Kristian Petri | Stars: Kristina Lindström, Luchino Visconti, Mario Tursi, Björn Andrésen
Votes: 1,936
13. Journey to Utopia (2020)
89 min | Documentary
A comfortable family leaves Norway to join a Danish community committed to reducing the contribution of individuals to climate change.
Director: Erlend E. Mo
Votes: 85
14. Another Round (2020)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
Four high-school teachers consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, Lars Ranthe
Votes: 195,140
15. Wild Men (2021)
Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
In a desperate attempt to cure his midlife crisis, Martin has fled his family to live high up in the Norwegian mountains. Hunting and gathering like his ancestors did thousands of years ago.
Director: Thomas Daneskov | Stars: Rasmus Bjerg, Zaki Youssef, Bjørn Sundquist, Sofie Gråbøl
Votes: 2,579
16. Orca (2020)
105 min | Drama, Romance
The movie Orca depicts various middle class people in different phases of life and their situation during the covid-19 pandemic. It captures their frustration and problems coping with the ... See full summary »
Director: Josephine Bornebusch | Stars: Johan Rheborg, Marie Göranzon, Gustav Lindh, Tova Magnusson
Votes: 1,126
17. A Song Called Hate (2020)
90 min | Documentary, Music
The Icelandic band Hatari is used to provoking everyone and everything, but at the Eurovision Song Contest in Israel they have the opportunity to call out the whole world - that is if they want to.
Director: Anna Hildur Hildibrandsdottir | Stars: Ayed Arafaida, Mira Awad, Mustafa Barghouti, Karen Briem
Votes: 249
18. The Spy (2019)
110 min | Biography, Drama, History
Sonja Wigert is a diva and star in Stockholm when World War II breaks out, rapidly getting attention from German officer Josef Terboven. She's then recruited by Swedish intelligence as a spy, but Terboven makes her spy on the Swedes.
Director: Jens Jonsson | Stars: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Rolf Lassgård, Alexander Scheer, Damien Chapelle
Votes: 1,729
19. Ninjababy (2021)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
Astronaut, forest-keeper, cartoonist. Young Rakel has a whole lot of other plans than becoming a mother. She would rather party, get drunk or stoned instead of sitting hours on the toilet. But she can't ignore it. Is it her or the baby?
Director: Yngvild Sve Flikke | Stars: Kristine Kujath Thorp, Arthur Berning, Nader Khademi, Tora Christine Dietrichson
Votes: 3,269
20. Scheme Birds (2019)
90 min | Documentary
As her childhood turns into motherhood, teenage troublemaker Gemma comes of age in her fading Scottish steel town. But in a place where "you either get knocked up or locked up," innocent games can easily turn into serious crime.
Directors: Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin
Votes: 529
21. Norsk hodepine (2021)
58 min | Documentary
Fridays for Future attempt a coup in Norway: for the first time ever, several generations go to court to defend their fundamental right to a clean environment - for Norway and the whole of Europe.
Director: Rune Denstad Langlo
Votes: 10
22. Shade Grown Coffee (2020)
75 min | Documentary
'Shade Grown Coffee' is the inspiring story about how growing coffee in the shade of native trees in the tropics can have a truly positive impact on local communities, halt deforestation and protect critical habitat for wildlife.
Director: Alexander Kinnunen
Votes: 30
23. Meren tuomat (2021)
56 min | Documentary
Beachcombers are people who search for treasures on shorelines. Ocean currents carry all sorts of stuff to the beaches.
Director: Anna Antsalo | Stars: Rob Arnold, Shigeo Hayashi, Lonneke Beukenholdt, Jolanda Bos
Votes: 63
24. Generation Utoya (2021)
90 min | Documentary
Four young women who survived the atrocious right-wing terror attack at Utøya Island have chosen to continue their political engagement. They were all severely wounded, but had to deal with losing so many of their friends.
Directors: Sigve Endresen, Aslaug Holm | Stars: Kamzy Gunaratnam, Line Hoem, Ina Libak, Renate Tårnes
Votes: 102
25. Skál (2021)
76 min | Documentary, Biography
Dania is 21 years old and from a Christian congregation in the Faroe Islands. She has just moved to Tórshavn and has become friends with Trygvi, a hip-hop artist who writes about the ... See full summary »
Directors: Cecilie Debell, Maria Tórgarð | Stars: Trygvi Danielsen, Dania O. Tausen
Votes: 84
26. My Favorite War (2020)
80 min | Documentary, Animation
A personal, animated documentary about the director's life growing up in Latvia during the Soviet era 1970-1990, where Sovjet used WW2 as an ideological weapon to suppress and scare the population.
Director: Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen
Votes: 369
27. Dianas bryllup (2020)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
They never stop loving each other, even if they sometimes can't stand the sight of each other--from her infancy to when she leaves home, Diana observes Liv and Terje: the world's worst parents, not even trying to do their best.
Director: Charlotte Blom | Stars: Marie Blokhus, Pål Sverre Hagen, Jannike Kruse, Olav Waastad
Votes: 452
28. Herself (2020)
R | 97 min | Drama
A young mother escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. She sets out to build her own home and in the process rebuilds her life and re-discovers herself.
Director: Phyllida Lloyd | Stars: Molly McCann, Clare Dunne, Ruby Rose O'Hara, Ian Lloyd Anderson
Votes: 4,719
29. Tigers (2020)
116 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The true story of teenage football talent Martin Bengtsson's life-and-death journey through a modern-day football industry where everything, and everyone, has a price tag.
Director: Ronnie Sandahl | Stars: Erik Enge, Alfred Enoch, Maurizio Lombardi, Lino Musella
Votes: 1,624
30. Lamb (2021)
R | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A childless couple discovers a mysterious newborn on their farm in Iceland.
Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Ingvar Sigurdsson
Votes: 38,426
31. Riders of Justice (2020)
Not Rated | 116 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Markus goes home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a train crash. All appears to be a tragic accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Lars Brygmann
Votes: 63,647
32. Alle utlendinger har lukka gardiner (2020)
83 min | Drama
How wonderful and awful isn't it to be in love when you are young!? A story about friendship, love, and independence, being a minority youngster. Based on Maria Navarro Skarangers debut novel.
Director: Ingvild Søderlind | Stars: Karen Øye, Serhat Yildirim, Cengiz Al, Deniz Nourizadeh-Lillabadi
Votes: 389
33. The Pit (2020)
107 min | Drama
After a neighbor's daughter throws some contemptuous remarks about his dead father, ten years old boy teaches the girl a cruel lesson thereby condemning himself in the eyes of the surrounding folk.
Director: Dace Puce | Stars: Damir Onackis, Dace Eversa, Agata Buzek, Egons Dombrovskis
Votes: 622
34. Alma (IV) (2021)
94 min | Drama
After having witnessed her father's brutal murder, three-year-old Alma and her mother fled their war-torn homeland and settled in Iceland. Now, 25 years later, Alma is serving time in a ... See full summary »
Director: Kristín Jóhannesdóttir | Stars: Snæfríður Ingvarsdóttir, Emmanuelle Riva, Kristbjörg Kjeld, Hilmir Snær Guðnason
Votes: 58
35. Spencer (2021)
R | 117 min | Biography, Drama
Diana Spencer, struggling with mental-health problems during her Christmas holidays with the Royal Family at their Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Sally Hawkins, Jack Nielen
Votes: 76,621
36. Eatnameamet - hiljainen taistelumme (2021)
74 min | Documentary
The indigenous Sámi people are fighting for their existence. Current governmental policies permit their cultural genocide. This is a cry for help for the last indigenous people in the EU.
Director: Suvi West | Stars: Skuvlaalbmá Áslat Niillas Áslat, Mihku Ilmára Mika Petra, Paavvâl Taannâl Tiina, Jovnna Ándde Arvi Tomi
Votes: 87
37.
Erlebnis Erde (2007– )
Episode:
Magisches Island - Leben auf der größten Vulkaninsel der Welt
(2019)
44 min | Documentary, Adventure
Iceland is the largest volcanic island on earth. Nature is characterized by volcanism both above and below water. The tectonic divergence of two continental plates puts the island just ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Haft | Star: Sebastian Winkler
Votes: 40
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