Nordox is an annually held Nordic documentary festival.
Nordox 2009 has a vast range of films lined up for you this year. A quick flick through the scenes of this year’s films will take you to a dangerous love triangle in the Cité Soleil slum in Haiti, to the ambulance murders in Lodz, Poland, to the Kenya election riots, to magical flea market discoveries in Finland, to the Roskilde naked run in Denmark, to Australian trash can raiders, to Finnish oil diets, to the best food industry in the world and to the last supper for those on death row in American prisons. These scenes and fragments constitute the main highlights of this year’s film selection.
For 2009 the film selection is based on several themes. We will continue with Nordox’ red thread of Socio-Politically engaged films under a Socio-Political theme. New themes this year are “Green” showing films concerning environmental protection and “Art & Music” screening films that are concerned with the arts. Beside screening more and more varied films this year Nordox will also host three special days, a Sweden day, a Norway day and a Finland day to showcase the best of our selection of films from these countries along with director visits and embassy activities.
The director of the Norwegian film “From Prison to Parliament”, Charlotte Røhder Tvedt, is one of the directors coming for Nordox. Nordox will also open up the screening platform to the star of the film “Hunting Down Memory” Øyvind Aamot from Norway and a familiar Beijing Face, Kang Mao of the band Subs, who stars in the film “Rock Heart Beijing”. Through Q & A sessions with the audience Nordox aims at creating a platform for these creators and collaborators to share their first-hand film-making experience and to exchange ideas, insights and reactions.
The Norwegian documentaries beeing screened at Nordox 2009:
Hunting Down Memory by Thomas Lien 28/11 15:00, 4/12 16:30
Pining for the Fjords by Are Syvertsen and Jon Martin Forland 1/12 16:00, 2/12 17:00
Girls by Hanne Myren 21/11 17:00, 28/11 19:00
From Prison to Parliament by Charlotte Røder Tvedt 28/11 17:00, 1/12 19:00
Rock Heart Beijing by Karen Winther 26/11 19:00, 4/12 18:30
Exile - Never Mind Reality by Erlend Eidsem Hanssen 25/11 16:30, 3/12 15:00
To Nordox website, please click here.