Baby, it's cold outside!
In this cold January, why not warm yourself on some great Nordic films on, with and/or about ice and snow?
Log in to Nordisk Panorama Market Online (NPM Online) and be touched, surprised, amused and entertained in all shades of white.
Use your VIP login or apply for one by sending an email to film@filmkontakt.com.
Enjoy!
Filmkontakt Nord's online streaming service, Nordisk Panorama Market Online, is aimed at international tv-buyers, sales agents, distributors and festival programmers. Get easy access to the latest and greatest short films and documentaries from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Screen the full-length films at your own convenience around the clock - free of charge.
Anti-Reproductive Mating Ritual
by Vebjørn Guttormsgaard Møllberg, Experimental, Norway, 2010, 6'
Two young boys perform a ritual on skateboards in frostbitten Tromsø in Norway's north.
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Hoofsteps
by Páll Steingrímsson, Fiction, Experimental, Iceland, 2008, 12'
A dance film based on the movements of horses and the sound of their hooves, trotting on ice. The dance is a memory of the dancers' childhoods, horse-riding in the wide-open spaces, enjoying the wilderness, motion and sound.
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Spot and Splodge in Snowstorm
by Lotta Geffenblad & Uzi Geffenblad, Children/Youth, Animation, Sweden, 2008, 8'
It is snowing outside and Spot and Splodge run about building a snowman, having a snowball fight and making snow angels. Suddenly, the wind gets stronger. The snow sticks to their bodies, so there isn't a spot of Spot to be seen, and where's Splodge? Where's the house?
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The Penalty Box - Senior Hockey Players Talk About Women & Love
by Arthur Franck & Oskar Forstén, Documentary, Finland, 2007, 8'
A confessional where senior hockey players spill their guts about first loves, divorces and finding new loves.
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The Skiers
by John Webster, Documentary, Finland, 2007, 11'
A hand opens and turns. Then more hands — old men's hands, with lines resembling ski tracks in snow. Hands that remember wielding scythes, caressing children – and pulling triggers. These men, veterans of Finland's Winter War (1939-40), organise an annual ski competition. A celebration of old age, the joy of life, and the toughness of the Finnish spirit.
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The Snow Caveman
by Fridtjof Kjæreng, Documentary, Norway, 2010, 80'
The Snow Caveman has lived in snow caves high up in the icy Norwegian mountains for 20 years. Like Nietzsche's Zarathustra he has invented his own moral code and harsh humour. His life is distant from the materialism of the Scandinavian welfare states.
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This is Alaska
by Mårten Nilsson & Gunilla Heilborn, Experimental, Sweden, 2009, 11'
A group of people have moved to Alaska to find a higher level of freedom out in the open.
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Up and About Again
by Maarit Suomi-Väänänen, Fiction, Experimental, Finland, 2009, 10'
A film moved by motion, laid-back in the outback. Dreamlike images depict a saloon car, covered in a thick layer of snow and ice, driving through a summer landscape. Something inexplicable has turned an otherwise ordinary day upside down. Pain is hidden.
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