2023 Projects
Áhkuin (With Grandmother)
Finland/Sapmi
Sunna Nousuniemi and Kavita Pillay
A whimsical documentary journey, Áhkuin is the story of a Sámi family
connecting across three generations through a return to land,
language, story and music.
An Unlikely Hero
Denmark
Lars Ostenfeld
The story of an unlikely hero who, despite – or maybe actually because of –
a range of mental diagnoses, plays a crucial role in solving the mystery of
how the climate-induced changes in the oceans will affect our future.
Elsa - a new reactive Earth
Sweden
Lina Persson
A New Reactive Earth, a speculative fiction story-world that drives transformation
of stories and future realities.
Fire, Water, Earth, Air
Denmark
Phie Ambo
A poetic portrait of climate change in the Global North, weaving together
four stories of everyday life in small communities in Denmark, Sweden, Norway,
and the Faroe Islands and scientific findings to show how we live with the
unprecedented environmental changes and prepare for them.
Human Kind Tour - a culture of care
Denmark
Regitze Marker
A Danish theologist travel in search of a renewal of our common existential language
for the current climate crisis by picking up climate authors and activists in her car,
driving in our shared presence towards our shared future, talking expectation,
betrayal, despair, reconciliation and change in relation to the crisis
while creating new communities as she goes along.
Society
Norway
Thomas Østbye
What do you really value in society, what would you fight to preserve? What can you let go of,
even if it hurts? The film takes place in Norway and Indonesia in parallel and looks
at "society" as if it were new, as something that can disappear and something that can be created.
A Nature Documentary on Dying Birds
Finland
Mina Laamo
By exploring the loss of bird species, the focus of the film turns to us, humans,
and the human tendency to resist change: What could be the factor that
will change our way of life?
Woolly
Norway
Rebekka Nystabakk
“Woolly" is about life on a small sheep farm in arctic Norway -
the last one in the village - as it passes on to the
next generation, from father to daughter.
The Seaweed Queen
Faroe Islands
Eir í Ólavsstovu
All production and all businesses must become sustainable if the earth
is to feed future generations. Agnes Mols Mortensen is a role model who
shows others how it can be done.