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1273 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2002. Last article published on 20/08/2025.

Free Jimmy: An odyssey in the making

The story of the drug-addicted elephant Jimmy as imagined by Norway’s Christopher Nielsen, based on one of his own comic strips and cult TV series, was an odyssey in the making that took six years...  

26/05/2006 | Production | Norway

Jimmy the Elephant in the footsteps of Fritz the Cat

Adult-oriented animated features have been popular choices this year for opening and closing sidebar sections at Cannes: after Denmark’s Princess, which opened the Director’s Fortnight, Free...  

26/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Critics Week | Norway

To live and die in Oslo

Norway was not represented in official selection at the Cannes Film Festival since 1994, with Unni Straume’s . This time, it’s young Stefan Faldbaken’s turn, with his debut film Uro. Shot in a...  

22/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Un Certain Regard | Norway

Minister of Culture congratulates local industry

During a press lunch yesterday at the Scandinavian stand, Trond Giske, the first Norwegian Minister of Cultural Minister to set foot on the Croisette during the Cannes Film Festival, took...  

21/05/2006 | Cannes 2006 | Norway

Black Kafkaesque humour for The Bothersome Man

There was a hard-hitting and well-received entry today from Norway’s Jens Lien in the Critics’ Week competition. Three years after his first feature, Jonny Vang, the former rock star presented The...  

20/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Critics’ Week | Norway

Cannes films get NOK 1m for promotion

To celebrate the unprecedented presence of four Norwegian films at Cannes and give them the best visibility possible during the world’s biggest film festival, Norway’s Minister of Culture and...  

10/05/2006 | Festivals | Norway

April figures hit 10-year record

Unlike 2005, which saw admissions fall by 5% to 11.3m and local films market share loose 1% (14% in 2005), Norwegian films have been launching a new offensive on the domestic market since the...  

10/05/2006 | Admissions | Norway

Uro and The Bothersome Man get sales agents

Stefan Faldbakken’s directorial debut Uro, selected in Un Certain Regard, has just been picked up by French sales agent Rezo Films International for worldwide distribution (outside Scandinavia),...  

08/05/2006 | Cannes 2006 | Norway

Two strong films selected for Critics Week

Christopher Nielsen’s Free Jimmy, the first CGI film made in Norway and the most expensive Norwegian film ever made, has been selected alongside Jens Lien’s drama The Bothersome Man to take part...  

26/04/2006 | Cannes 2006 | Norway

The long and short of it... at Cannes

Two emerging Norwegian directors have been selected for this year’s Cannes official selection: Stefan Faldbakken and his feature debut Uro, chosen for Un Certain Regard, and Bobbie Peers, whose...  

25/04/2006 | Cannes 2006 | Norway

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