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1280 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2002. Last article published on 16/09/2025.

Interview: Matthias Glasner • Director

“The film is a journey into light”

After The Free Will in 2006, the German film director returned to the Berlinale competition in 2012 with Mercy. He deciphered his film for the international press.  

11/10/2012

Mercy

The German director has made a brilliant film about family, guilt, and redemption set in the frozen landscapes of Norway. A contender at the 2012 Berlinale.  

11/10/2012 | Films | Reviews

Norwegian government adds €5.1 million to film's budget

Norwegian culture minister Hadia Tajik will spend €1.3 on the 'internationalisation' of Norwegian cinema, and €1.2 million on television drama, especially for children and young audiences  

10/10/2012 | Funding | Norway

Norwegian short in US festival seen by 100,000 worldwide

The Manhatten Short Film Festival screens Norwegian director Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken's The Devil's Ballroom in more than 300 cities across six continents  

08/10/2012 | Festivals | Norway/USA

Norway's Johannessen scripts new Wenders film supported by NFI

The Norwegian Film Institute has allocated €1 million for five international co-productions, including German director Wim Wenders' Everything Will Be Fine with Sarah Polley  

03/10/2012 | Funding | Norway

Poppe signs Binoche as war photographer

French actress Juliette Binoche will play the lead in Norwegian director Erik Poppe's A Thousand Times Good Night, which will shoot for Norway's Paradox from October  

26/09/2012 | Production | Norway

With Doctor Proctor and Occupied in production, Nesbø leaves for LA

With one stage and two film productions rolling in Norway, Norwegian author Jo Nesbø leaves for the US to promote his ninth Harry Hole book and write new material  

18/09/2012 | People | Norway

Skjoldbjærg starts oil-rush thriller Pioneer with international cast

Norwegian director Erik Skjoldbjærg casts Headhunters' Aksel Hennie in the lead of his fifth feature, currently shooting at Swedish regional film centre Film i Väst in Trollhättan  

18/09/2012 | Production | Norway

Grandma returns with her eight children, now in a musical comedy

Norwegian director Lisa Marie Gamlem updates Norwegian author (and actress) Anne Cath Vestly's 1977 children's film, with Marit Opsahl Grefberg in her first lead role  

17/09/2012 | Production | Norway

Heading for an Oscar ticket, Kon-Tiki closes in on 600,000 admissions

Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning's Kon-Tiki will represent Norway in the race for one of the five nominees as Best Foreign-Language Feature  

13/09/2012 | Oscars 2013 | Norway

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