25/9
Nordisk Panorama Film Festival

Film screenings, seminars and festivities for Nordic short and documentary films.

Between September 21–26th Malmö will be buzzing from the spirit of the most incredible film festival for Nordic documentaries and short fiction films. The six-day programme contains over 100 films mixed with numerous seminars, talks, exhibitions, pitches, meetings and parties taking place all over Malmö and the festival venues will be filled with screenings and narratives from all over the world. Directors and filmmakers will be present in Malmö during the festival to participate in Q&A-sessions in and after the screening of their films and audience will mix with the 900 registered delegates from the documentary and short film business.

The 2017 festival will have a finnish focus, so make sure to step up your sauna game because this years festival will be steaming! Use www.nordiskpanorama.com and the Nordisk Panorama app, to dive into this year’s programme. You will find trailers and extended texts to help you prepare your festival days and get ready to feel, play, think and engage. Get your  or visit one of all the free and open for all events at the festival!

Program at Inkonst Monday 25th

11:30–20.00
Experience
Exhibition: Bird Requiem – Malmö Premiere
Free

Nordisk Panorama is proud to present Bird Requiem, Syrian artist Alqumit Alhamad’s first solo exhibition in Malmö. Building on personal experiences, Alhamad’s work focuses on the psychological and mental effects of war. First hand experience of war and violence in Syria has profoundly influenced the style of the artist, adding a strong notion of symbolism to his work, while still connecting to the stark reality of the world we live in. Everything seen in the paintings have been seen by the artist before either visually or emotionally, and the work has been a central part of Alhamad’s healing process. Alhamad’s art portraits the victims of war as brave, empowered, gentle and loved. It shows us that those suffering from war should not be diminished or victimized, rather seen as breathing and feeling agents, just like us.

12.30-14.10
Best New Nordic Voice
Dream Empire (2)
75:- or free with festival pass, book here

Yana is a 24-year-old rural migrant who moved to Chongqing to pursue her Chinese Dream. Drawn by the easy riches of China’s historic real estate boom, she opens a rental agency to help Chinese real estate developers market their new properties to foreigners. But the business takes a dubious turn as her foreigners are increasingly used in a surreal effort to turn remote rural ghost towns into “”globalized booming cities”” on the days when outside investors and political leaders visit. As the real estate bubble pops, Yana is forced to sell her company and reassess everything she believed in. Shot over several years, the film is both a personal history and an on-the-ground chronicle of one of the most critical economic issues of our time.

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13.00-18.00
Experience
VR Playground: Co-creation The Virtual Garden
Free

Urban farming goes VR! You’ve experienced VR, but have you co-created in VR? We invite you to paint a 3D garden with other festival participants in a 5-minute session using the creation tool Tilt Brush. You’ll get a short introduction and can then make your own colourful bird – or tiny worm. Let’s make a magical garden together! The final piece will be available for other festival visitors to experience.

13.00-18.00
Experience
VR short: Ego cure
Free

“EGO CURE” is a narrative virtual reality short film following a contemporary dance choreographer’s struggle to create a contemporary masterpiece, while facing a group of disinterested dancers, her unpleasant producer and the otherworldly curator – and simultaneously facing her own inner demons. The film is set in a world where the perception of art as a product has come to its logical technological conclusion: if the artist is unable or unwilling to provide a commissioned art piece, the investor has the right to extract it from their unconscious mind – using the EGO CURE device.”

14.00-14.30
Industry Seminar
QuickFire – Meet the International Short Film Buyers and Sales Agents
Accreditation

An introduction to the international short film decision-makers attending Nordisk Panorama. Meet the buyers and sales agents, find out what they’re looking for and get an update on the state of the international short film market.
Speakers: Stine Wangler, KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg (Germany). Cord Dueppe, Interfilm Berlin (Germany). Inga Diev, Ouat Media (Canada). Sari Volanen, Yle (Finland). Sydney Neter, SND Films (Netherlands)
Moderator: Jing Haase, SFI (Sweden)

14.30-16.00
Industry Seminar
Would You Buy This?
Accreditation

Put your film to the test and find out about its distribution potential from those in the know. In this session we urge you to bring your short film and show it on the spot. The screening will be followed by live feedback from some of the experienced short film distributors and buyers attending this year’s Nordisk Panorama. Come if you dare! This one is not a session for the fainthearted…
Speakers: Stine Wangler, KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg (Germany). Cord Dueppe, Interfilm Berlin (Germany). Inga Diev, Ouat Media (Canada). Sari Volanen, Yle (Finland). Sydney Neter, SND Films (Netherlands)
Moderator: Jing Haase, SFI (Sweden)

15.00-17.05
Best Nordic Documentary
Liberation Day (2)   75:- or free with festival pass, book here

An enigmatic figurehead, a hidden strategist behind the throne, an elegant first lady, loyal foot soldiers, a merciless power struggle backstage, symbols, uniformity, the screaming millions of followers – dictatorship or rock band? Nuremberg rally or Band Aid? Collaborative art performances involving Laibach and the North Korean authorities over a number of years established trust, so it seemed worth the try to bring them together.

16.30-18.00
Industry Seminar
Greening the Film Industry
Accreditation

Environmentally friendly practices can be implemented in the workflow of any film production, from short or low-budget films all the way up to high-end TV drama series. The number of films currently being produced in a green and sustainable way in Europe is very limited – but we can quickly change this! This one-hour seminar will feature producers and film fund managers sharing and discussing green actions and tools. A comprehensive overview of sustainable approaches and practices in film production is presented in the 2017 CineRegio Green Report, which will also be presented at this event.

17.00-18.00
Audience Seminar
How We Did It: Recycling Footage – Found
Free

We explore the use and re-appropriation of found content. Each of the filmmakers in this informal discussion will talk about using existing footage, liberating sound from YouTube or taking content from online forums. We’ll also investigate the implications and legality of using other people’s material.

“How We Did It” presents interesting discussions with artists and filmmakers in an informal bar setting. Come along, have a drink and be inspired.

17.30-19.20
Best Nordic Documentary
Nowhere to Hide (2)
75:- or free with festival pass, book here

We follow a medic and father, Nori Sharif, through five years of dramatic change after the American retreat from Iraq in 2011. Filming stories of survivors, Nori finds himself trapped between ISIS and the different Iraqi militias. He tries to save his own family and is forced to turn the camera on himself

19.45-22.00
Party
Cocktail Cinema: Out of Thin Air
75:- or free with festival pass, book here

8 o’clock is cocktail hour! Every night from Saturday to Monday we invite you to Nordisk Panorama’s own Cocktail Cinema. Here we will present one of our high profile competition films at Inkonst Blackbox. The bar will be open before the screening at 20.00 so make sure to arrive early to have time to buy a drink. And of course you can take your drinks with you into the cinema!

Out of Thin Air (Iceland/ UK, 2017)
Dylan Howitt
In the early 1970s, Iceland was considered an idyllic place. Crime was rare, murder even rarer. Then two men disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Foul play was suspected. The country demanded the crime be solved, and the police launched the biggest criminal investigation Iceland had ever seen. Finally, six people confessed to two violent murders and were sent to prison. It seemed that the nightmare was over. But in many ways the nightmare had just begun.