NFF 2019
Movies playing at the Northern Film Festival 2019, held in Leeuwarden
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- DirectorMåns MårlindBjörn SteinStarsAlbin GrenholmFrida GustavssonLennart JähkelA sensational story of forbidden love, a rivalry between two families and a war between two amusement parks. A magic story based on the real history of Gröna Lund, an actual amusement park in Stockholm - the capital of Sweden.
- DirectorMichal HogenauerStarsEliska KrenkováJacob JutteMonic HendrickxA young au pair meets a radical family community while working abroad and gets lost in the new world presented to her.
- DirectorHlynur PálmasonStarsIngvar SigurdssonÍda Mekkín HlynsdóttirHilmir Snær GuðnasonAn off duty police begins to suspect a local man for having had an affair with his recently dead wife. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.
- DirectorSilja HauksdóttirStarsKatla M. ÞorgeirsdóttirÞorsteinn BachmannBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonRannveig is experiencing burnout in all aspects of her mundane suburban life. She's stuck with a job she hates and a marriage that is slowly dying. On top of that, she's constantly fighting with her rebellious daughter, Agnes, and can't face the possibility of Agnes growing up and leaving her behind. When a new neighbor, Hreinn, shows up at their doorstep, Rannveig and family face new challenges that are beyond their control.
- DirectorPella KagermanHugo LiljaStarsEmelie GarbersBianca CruzeiroArvin KananianA spaceship carrying settlers to Mars is knocked off course, causing the consumption-obsessed passengers to consider their place in the universe.
- DirectorMagnus Meyer ArnesenStarsPreben HodnelandMarius Aandal PedersenAlexandra GjerpenFollows the unconventional relationship between a father and son as they cling to one another under the looming threat of addiction and separation.
- DirectorMiia TervoStarsMimosa WillamoAmir EscandariElá YildirimAurora, a commitment-phobic party animal, meets Iranian Darian one night at a hot-dog stand in Lapland. Darian is running from death and Aurora is running from love. They need each other in order to finally stop running.
- DirectorDag Johan HaugerudStarsHenriette SteenstrupJan Gunnar RøiseThorbjørn HarrLykke (13), the daughter of a prominent Labour Party politician, has accidentally beaten her classmate Jamie, the son of a local right wing-politician, to death. Lykke claims Jamie's death was an accident, but nobody believes her. The school's principal, Liv, is an idealist who, against her political beliefs, has been living in a secret relationship with Karl Erik, Jamie's father. When they can't keep their relationship a secret anymore, the surroundings react with disbelief. Liv's brother Anders is Lykke and Jamie's class teacher. He was supposed to be in the school yard when the accident happened, and is overwhelmed with guilt for not having been able to prevent the accident from happening. Like water surrounding an undertow, we'll experience how the community relates to the accident and the aftermath. How could it happen - and how is it possible to continue living afterwards?
- DirectorMarina NyströmSoni JorgensenStarsSimon Settergren HernandezPhilip ZandénHappy JankellA young man struggles to take care of his schizophrenic father while attempting to pursue his own happiness.
- DirectorMarko SkopStarsMilan OndríkFrantisek BelesZuzana KonecnáMilan (40) has three children and does construction work in Germany in order to provide for his family in Slovakia. While visiting his home over Christmas he discovers that his eldest son Adam is a member of a para-military youth group. The boy is involved in bullying and the death of a class-mate. The father has to decide what to do. In this process, along with his wife, he comes to discover the real truth about their son, their family, themselves and the community around them.
- DirectorBrian WelshStarsCristian OrtegaLorn MacdonaldLaura FraserTwo teenage boys in Scotland in 1994, best friends with no control over their lives, risk everything to attend an illegal rave, hoping for the best night of their boring lives.
- DirectorAnne SewitskyStarsIne Marie WilmannValene KaneEldar SkarThe story of Sonja Henie, one of the world's greatest athletes and the inventor of modern figure skating, who decides to go to Hollywood in 1936 to become a movie star.
- DirectorEirik SvenssonStarsInes Høysæter AssersonNicolai Cleve BrochIngrid OlavaThe evening before Christmas eve Vilde is hanging out with her friends at the central station, when she learns that her mother has been in an accident. She is forced to contact her biological father, but wants to run away to Tokyo.
- DirectorMichael NoerStarsJesper ChristensenClara RosagerMagnus KrepperIn 1800s Denmark, a farmer has a bad harvest and thus not enough food for his family. He makes a deal, that includes his farm and his daughter getting married, with a nearby rich farmer.
- DirectorInara KolmaneStarsRuta KronbergaElina VaneArturs SkrastinsA life-provoking, hopeful and solemn story about the growth of one human child and the relationship with the world in Latvia at the end of the 1930s.
- DirectorElín HansdóttirAnna Rún TryggvadóttirHanna Björk ValsdóttirStarsSnorri MagnússonIn Iceland, infants are dunked underwater, encouraged to fall off diving boards, and precariously balanced in the hand of their instructor. Snorri Magnússon teaches this unconventional swim class where no one is too young to learn.
- DirectorRúnar RúnarssonStarsSigurmar AlbertssonBent Kingo AndersenSif ArnarsdóttirEveryday life in Iceland around Christmas time: 56 vignettes full of joy, sorrow and thought-provoking situations.
- DirectorPeter GrönlundStarsSebastian LjungbladJoakim SällquistCornelia AnderssonGoliat is set in a small industrial town somewhere in Sweden. When Roland is sentenced to prison, his son, 17-year old Kimmie, is expected to provide for the family by taking over his dad's criminal business. This is a task he's not ready for. The film's depicting a boy's brutal entry into adult life and examines aspects of social heritage and patriarchal structures, at a time when the welfare is declining and Sweden is changing.
- DirectorMarc SchmidtIt's impossible not to surrender to sleep. The controllable world we are familiar with will sooner or later pass into the intangible and fleeting domain of sleep, in which we are subjected to a fundamentally different way of experiencing things. Things that can't be logically explained. Do we look for the opportunities we allow to slip by during the day, or do we get a glimpse of a greater universe?
- DirectorFrederikke AspöckStarsJacob LohmannAnders MatthesenChristopher LæssøFollows a celebrity financier who ends up in prison. After being assaulted by a gang of bikers in the prison, he ops for voluntary solitary confinement. During this time he joins the choir, aiming for the top of it's hierarchy.
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsOona AirolaKonsta LaaksoHelmi LinnosmaaAnni lives a sheltered life until she falls in love with Veikko, who has been wounded at the end of the Continuation War. Anni leaves her life behind and moves with Veikko to North Karelia.
- DirectorNora FingscheidtStarsHelena ZengelAlbrecht SchuchGabriela Maria Schmeide9-year-old Benni is a toss-up between institutions that cannot tackle her outbursts. She wants to move in with her mother, but she can not handle her wild daughter. After Micha is hired Benni slowly opens up and attaches herself to him.
- DirectorMarija KavtaradzeStarsAdrija Cepaite-PalsauskieneGelmine GlemzaiteVilija GrigaityteAn ambitious young research psychologist, Indre, has reluctantly agreed to transport two patients from one psychiatric unit to another in exchange for research privileges at her clinic.
- DirectorMay el-ToukhyStarsTrine DyrholmGustav LindhMagnus KrepperA successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson.
- DirectorMiranda de PencierStarsJack AnawakFred BaileySeth BurkeIn a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.
- DirectorAnna OdellStarsAnna OdellMikael PersbrandtTrine DyrholmAn artist has chosen a famous male actor for them together to deconstruct themselves and their invading roles. They engage in a boundless play with their surroundings in an exploration of identity, male and female.
- DirectorLeonardo D'AgostiniStarsStefano AccorsiAndrea CarpenzanoMassimo PopolizioChristian is an extremely talented as well as unpredictable football player. After his latest screw-up, the president of his team decides to assign him a personal tutor, to help him in controlling his temper. Valerio is a shy and solitary professor, the exact opposite of the champion. Sparks will fly between the two at first, but soon their relationship will change both for the better.
- DirectorUlaa SalimStarsZaki YoussefMohammed Ismail MohammedRasmus BjergDenmark four years into the future. After a major bomb attack in Copenhagen radicalization and ethnic tensions are running high, and a racist leader is leading the polls.19-year old Zakaria is afraid, wanting to do something.
- DirectorArthur FranckStarsOlliver HawkLaila HakasaloValto KäkeläLife story of Finnish hypnotist Olavi Hakasalo, aka. Olliver Hawk.
- DirectorNadav LapidStarsTom MercierQuentin DolmaireLouise ChevillotteA young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.
- DirectorAnke BlondéStarsKim SnauwaertJelle De BeuleRobrecht Vanden ThorenDorien has everything - two children, a husband, her own veterinary practice. But suddenly everything is different: her mother has been having an affair for years.
- DirectorNikolaus LeytnerStarsSimon MorzéBruno GanzJohannes KrischBased on the international bestseller by Robert Seethaler. A tender, heart-breaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna....
- DirectorNicolas Winding RefnStarsMads MikkelsenMaarten StevensonAlexander MortonForced for some time to be a fighting slave, a pagan warrior escapes his captors with a boy and joins a group of Crusaders on their quest to the Holy Land.
- DirectorPaprika SteenStarsPaprika SteenJacob LohmannMikas Maximus Dalhoff ChristiansenDeep-rooted grievances can rip families apart--and the ties that bind them together.