27/11/2013 - The Norwegian Film Institute supports four projects in the New Ways Norway scheme, including Norwegian award-winning director Margreth Olin’s Good

Norwegian director Margreth Olin, whose latest film Nowhere Home [+see also:
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Good is one of four projects, which the Norwegian Film Institute will support in the New Ways Norway scheme, instigated to give talented filmmakers the opportunity to try out new ideas. The first feature to get funding was Norwegian director Iram Haq’s I Am Yours [+see also:
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Norwegian cinematographer Kim Hiorthøy, who most recently filmed Dag Johan Haugerud’s I Belong (2012), is preparing his directorial debut, The Bishop and the Knight. He has himself written the draft for an everyday fable about a mother and son, trying to adjust to life after the crisis – “we all live in great freedom, yet there is this sneaking feeling that something is missing, something is not deep enough.” Yngve Sæther will produce for Motlys.

Out of Line, a documentary in development for Norwegian director Line Hatland, investigates respectable people with unusual fantasies about how not to behave – such as shop-lifting, kicking an old lady down the stairs, hitting a cyclist, stripping in a public place. Produced by Ida Ven Bruusgaard for Medieoperatørene, it will disclose “corners of the human mind which are rarely talked about – but sometimes see the light of day.”

Norwegian director Joern Utkilen has used the music ofNorwegian composer-guitarist Arvid Slette in several of his films; now he will make a documentary about him, and how they have influenced each other’s works. Ruben Thorkildsen and Isak Eymundsson of Ape&Bjørn will produce “the meeting of two alternative artists, who both have a distinct character and sensitivity in their expressions.”