Films
Agatha's Almanac
Amalie Atkins
Fiercely independent 90-year-old Agatha forges a solitary existence on her ancestral farm, preserving heirloom seeds in her handmade universe.
Get ticketsOct 9
th
21:45
Vega Salongen
Lounge screening
Oct 12
th
13:15
Vega 1
th
Bogancloch
Ben Rivers
Amid the Highland forests of Scotland, Jake shapes a world of his own, where quiet rituals linger, presence endures, and chaos hovers just out of view. Also see Two Years at Sea, made 12 years earlier.
Get ticketsOct 9
th
21:30
Vega 2
Oct 12
th
17:30
Vega 2
th
Collective Monologue
Jessica Sarah Rinland
In Argentina’s zoos, carers and animals form a silent bond where they share fragile intimacy caught through a sensory lens that dissolves boundaries.
Get ticketsOct 10
th
19:00
Vega Salongen
Lounge screening
Oct 12
th
18:30
Vega Salongen
Lounge screening
th
Dawning
Patrik Syversen
Three sisters retreat to their family’s holiday home to process a traumatic incident. Arguments, family secrets and the turbulent family dynamics become secondary when a visitor arrives.
Get ticketsOct 9
th
18:45
Vega 2
Q&A with director Patrik Syversen
th
th
Endless Cookie
Peter Scriver & Seth Scriver
Two half-brothers map their split identities, one Indigenous, one white, through offbeat stories, animated chaos, and family myth.
Get ticketsOct 10
th
21:15
Vega 2
th
th
Enough
Odd Einar Ingebretsen
A last conversation between mother and daughter. Enough captures the fragile space between love, estrangement and the words that never arrive.
Get ticketsOct 9
th
18:00
Vega 1
Q&A with director Odd Einar Ingebretsen + actors Ine Marie Wilmann & Anneke von der Lippe
Oct 11
th
17:45
Vega 3
Q&A with director Odd Einar Ingebretsen and DOP Cecilie Semec
th
Fairytale
Alexander Sokurov
Legendary director Alexander Sokurov stages Stalin, Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, Napoleon and Jesus in a surreal, hypnotic odyssey beyond time
Get ticketsOct 9
th
17:00
Vega 2
Video intro by director Alexander Sokurov
Oct 10
th
19:30
Vega 2
Video Intro by director Alexander Sokurov
th
Fiume o morte!
Igor Bezinović
A darkly comic tale of poet Gabriele D’Annunzio and his absurd occupation of Fiume, a flamboyant clash of art, war and showmanship.
Get ticketsOct 12
th
13:00
Vega 2
th
th
Flophouse America
Monica Strømdahl
A boy raised in a rundown motel navigates addiction, poverty and love, trying to carve out hope in chaos.
Get ticketsOct 9
th
18:15
Vega 3
Q&A with director Monica Strømdahl
th
th
Huaquero
Juan Carlos Donoso Gómez
In Ecuador and Peru, Huaquero blends fact and fiction to expose ex-looters’ memories and the lasting wounds of heritage and colonial theft.
Get ticketsOct 10
th
19:15
Vega 3
Oct 12
th
16:30
Vega Salongen
Lounge screening
th
Ice Grave
Robin Hunzinger
A vanished Arctic expedition resurfaces through letters, voices and frozen landscapes that echo the secrets they left behind.
Get ticketsOct 11
th
21:45
Vega 3
th
th
Inside Amir
Amir Azizi
Winner of the 2025 Giornate degli Autori Director’s Award at Venice, with the jury headed by Norwegian writer and director Dag Johan Haugerud.
Get ticketsOct 12
th
15:15
Vega 1
Q&A with director Amir Azizi, moderated by Dag Johan Haugerud
th
th
Island of the Hungry Ghosts
Gabrielle Brady
On a remote island where spirits are honored, trauma lingers in detention camps hidden deep in the jungle.
Get ticketsOct 11
th
13:00
Vega 2
Q&A with director Gabrielle Brady
th
th
Mare's Nest
Ben Rivers
Moon travels through a mysterious world free of adults. She meets a sage, a translator, and others who show her the possibilities for living.
Get ticketsOct 11
th
19:30
Vega 3
Oct 12
th
21:15
Vega 1
th
Only On Earth
Robin Petré
The MIRAGE Film of the Year is an immersive gaze into Galicia’s sizzling summer, where wildfire, memory and wild horses shape a fragile balance of survival. (Presented in collaboration with BIFF)
Get ticketsOct 9
th
16:15
Vega 3
Oct 11
th
13:00
Vega 3
th
Paul
Denis Côté
Paul seeks order in his loneliness and anxiety. He has found refuge in serving women who invite him to clean their homes.
Get ticketsOct 10
th
16:45
Vega 3
Q&A with director Denis Côté
Oct 12
th
18:00
Vega 3
Q&A with director Denis Côté
th
Reharmonization
Paul Tunge
Renowned musician Igunn is under house arrest by her wife in the family cabin, after being accused of harming their daughter Hilda. To shield the family's reputation the situation is kept a secret.
Get ticketsOct 11
th
21:00
Vega 1
Q&A with director Paul Tunge
Oct 12
th
15:30
Vega 3
th
Sermon to the Void
Hilal Baydarov
As the apocalypse looms, Shah Ismail tries to find the mythical water of life. Sermon to the Void unfolds as an enigmatic and poetic odyssey at the end of all things.
Get ticketsOct 11
th
18:15
Vega 2
Q&A with director Hilal Baydarov
Oct 12
th
18:15
Vega 1
Q&A with director Hilal Baydarov
th
Shorts | A Stranger in the World + Concert
Sturla Pilskog
A film screening and a piano concert. A son’s autism, a composer’s cave: two love stories unfolding in parallel worlds.
Get ticketsOct 11
th
21:30
Vega Salongen
Lounge screening: Q&A with director Sturla Pilskog
Oct 12
th
12:45
Vega Salongen
Lounge screening
th
Shorts | Slow Motions
Øivind Klungseth Zahlsen
An experimental sonata of three fragile stories, unfolding as if they might never have existed at all.
Get ticketsOct 11
th
14:00
Vega Salongen
Lounge screening
th
th
Shorts | Tøyen Pop-up
Adel Khan Farooq
A sharp, hybrid portrait of Oslo’s Tøyen, where gentrification, prejudice, and belonging collide in everyday encounters.
Get ticketsOct 9
th
17:30
Tøyen Torg
Outdoor viewing with conversation after screening
Oct 10
th
20:00
Vega 1
Introduction and remarks
Oct 11
th
13:00
Vega Salongen
Lounge screening
Sirens Call
Lina Sieckmann, Miri Ian Gossing
A sci-fi tinged docu-fantasy, Sirens Call follows Una, a mermaid adrift between worlds on a quiet and dreamlike quest for belonging.
Get ticketsOct 10
th
21:00
Vega 3
th
th
The Coriolis Effect
Petr Lom
In Cape Verde, where hurricanes are born, this wonderful poetic documentary unveils the fragile beauty of life amid the climate’s unforgiving forces.
Get ticketsOct 11
th
18:00
Vega 1
Q&A with filmmakers Petr Lom & Corinne van Egeraat
Oct 12
th
20:45
Vega Salongen
Lounge screening
th
The Love That Remains
Hlynur Pálmason
A family drifts apart while clinging to shared memories in a poetic portrait of separation and the love that lingers. A magical film from one of our favorite directors, Hlynur Pálmason.
Get ticketsOct 9
th
20:00
Vega 1
Intro by Lisa Hoen, festival director of Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF)
th
th
The Visitor
Vytautas Katkus
A young man revisits his Lithuanian hometown to sell his childhood home. There in slowed time he rediscovers estrangement and unexpected reconnection.
Get ticketsOct 11
th
21:00
Vega 2
Intro by producer Elisa Fernanda Pirir
Oct 12
th
13:00
Vega 3
th
The Wolves Always Come at Night
Gabrielle Brady
In the sands of Mongolia, a herding family must adapt to a new way of life after a devastating storm- memory and myth blur into one haunting story.
Get ticketsOct 10
th
17:00
Vega 2
Q&A with director Gabrielle Brady
Oct 11
th
15:30
Vega 2
Q&A with director Gabrielle Brady
th
To the West, in Zapata
David Bim
In Cuba’s misty swamps, a man hunts crocodiles to feed his family while silence, love and sacrifice echo in his absence.
Get ticketsOct 9
th
20:00
Vega Salongen
Lounge screening
Oct 12
th
19:30
Vega 2
th
Two Years at Sea
Ben Rivers
A solitary man drifts through days and seasons in the forest, his existence captured on grainy 16mm film as a quiet meditation on time and being. See also Bogancloch, and meet Jake 12 years later.
Get ticketsOct 10
th
21:30
Vega Salongen
Lounge Screening
Oct 12
th
15:30
Vega 2
th
Viktor
Olivier Sarbil
Viktor is a haunting portrait of duty, sound and visual resistance. A deaf Ukrainian man, denied soldiering, becomes a frontline photographer. Screening followed by a Q&A with Oscar-winner Nicolas Becker.
Get ticketsOct 11
th
15:30
Vega 1
Q&A with sound designer Nicolas Becker
Oct 12
th
21:30
Vega 2
th
White Snail
Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter
A fragile love story of a model and a morgue painter. Their worlds collide in unsettling milieus: morgues, neon-drenched avenues, and dim karaoke bars
Get ticketsOct 9
th
20:30
Vega 3
Q&A with directors Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter
Oct 10
th
17:00
Vega 1
Q&A with directors Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter
th
Wishing On A Star
Peter Kerekes
Luciana, a Neapolitan astrologer, has a method to make her clients’ wishes come true. All they need to do is take a trip on their birthday to a precise destination to be reborn under a new sky.
Get ticketsOct 10
th
21:15
Vega 1
th
th
With Hasan in Gaza
Kamal Aljafari
A rediscovered footage from Gaza in 2001. An homage to Gaza and its people, to all that was erased of Palestinian existence, or non-existence.
Get ticketsOct 11
th
15:00
Vega 3
Oct 12
th
20:30
Vega 3
th
Art
Eight Steps of Emptiness: Biography of a Dancing Scorpion
Akram Musallam, translated into Norwegian by Vibeke Harper
At
Read more
Get ticketsOct 11
th
13:00
Vega Teatersal
Wake for Gaza III
OCT 6th–9th | Four days to mourn in solidarity with the people of Palestine.
At
Read more
Get ticketsOct 9
th
11:00
Vega Teatersal
When I say dream, I say America
Move fast!! Breaking news! (Io Alexa Sivertsen/Christa Barlinn Korvald)
At
Read more
Get ticketsOct 9
th
16:00
Vega Salongen
Talks
Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter: Cinema for Love
Q&A after the screening of White Snail
Read more
Get ticketsth
Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter: Cinema for Love
+
th
Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter: Cinema for Love
+
th
Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter: Cinema for Love
+
Amir Azizi and Dag Johan Haugerud - Poetry of the Everyday
Q&A After the Screening of Inside Amir
Read more
Get ticketsth
Vega 1
Amir Azizi and Dag Johan Haugerud - Poetry of the Everyday
+
th
Amir Azizi and Dag Johan Haugerud - Poetry of the Everyday
+
th
Amir Azizi and Dag Johan Haugerud - Poetry of the Everyday
+
Denis Côté: Cinema as Medicine for Loneliness
Q&A after the screening of Paul
Read more
Get ticketsth
Denis Côté: Cinema as Medicine for Loneliness
+
th
Denis Côté: Cinema as Medicine for Loneliness
+
th
Denis Côté: Cinema as Medicine for Loneliness
+
Gabrielle Brady: Hungry Ghosts and Wolves
Q&A after the screening of Island of the Hungry Ghosts and The Wolves Always Come at Night
Read more
Get ticketsth
Gabrielle Brady: Hungry Ghosts and Wolves
+
th
Gabrielle Brady: Hungry Ghosts and Wolves
+
th
Gabrielle Brady: Hungry Ghosts and Wolves
+
Hilal Baydarov: Cinema is Art, Poetry and Painting
Q&A after the screening of Sermon to the Void
Read more
Get ticketsth
Hilal Baydarov: Cinema is Art, Poetry and Painting
+
th
Hilal Baydarov: Cinema is Art, Poetry and Painting
+
th
Hilal Baydarov: Cinema is Art, Poetry and Painting
+
Jack Presents: Move fast!! Breaking news!! - A screening, talk and installation
Io Sivertsen, Christa Barlinn + Marin Håskjold (Jack)
Read more
Get ticketsOct 10
th
17:00
Vega Salongen
Jack Presents: Move fast!! Breaking news!! - A screening, talk and installation
+
th
Jack Presents: Move fast!! Breaking news!! - A screening, talk and installation
+
th
Jack Presents: Move fast!! Breaking news!! - A screening, talk and installation
+
Monica Strømdahl: Cinema as a Therapeutical Escape
Q&A after the screening of Flophouse America
Read more
Get ticketsth
Monica Strømdahl: Cinema as a Therapeutical Escape
+
th
Monica Strømdahl: Cinema as a Therapeutical Escape
+
th
Monica Strømdahl: Cinema as a Therapeutical Escape
+
Nicolas Becker: Close Your Eyes and Listen
Q&A after the screening of Viktor
Read more
Get ticketsOct 11
th
13:30
Vega 1
Nicolas Becker: Close Your Eyes and Listen
+
th
Nicolas Becker: Close Your Eyes and Listen
+
th
Nicolas Becker: Close Your Eyes and Listen
+
Odd Einar Ingebretsen: A Familiy Dynamics Chamber Play
Q&A after the screening of Enough
Read more
Get ticketsth
Odd Einar Ingebretsen: A Familiy Dynamics Chamber Play
+
th
Odd Einar Ingebretsen: A Familiy Dynamics Chamber Play
+
th
Odd Einar Ingebretsen: A Familiy Dynamics Chamber Play
+
Paul Tunge: Architecture, Landscape, Relational Dynamics
Q&A after the screening of Reharmonization
Read more
Get ticketsth
Paul Tunge: Architecture, Landscape, Relational Dynamics
+
th
Paul Tunge: Architecture, Landscape, Relational Dynamics
+
th
Paul Tunge: Architecture, Landscape, Relational Dynamics
+
Petr Lom & Corinne van Egeraat: Cinema for the Environment
Q&A after the screening of The Coriolis Effect
Read more
Get ticketsth
Petr Lom & Corinne van Egeraat: Cinema for the Environment
+
th
Petr Lom & Corinne van Egeraat: Cinema for the Environment
+
th
Petr Lom & Corinne van Egeraat: Cinema for the Environment
+
Sturla Pilskog & Magnar Åm: The Rhythm of Creativity and Connection to Human Sensitivity
Q&A after the screening of A Stranger in the World & piano concert with Magnar Åm
Read more
Get ticketsth
Sturla Pilskog & Magnar Åm: The Rhythm of Creativity and Connection to Human Sensitivity
+
Oct 12
th
12:45
Vega scene, Salongen
Sturla Pilskog & Magnar Åm: The Rhythm of Creativity and Connection to Human Sensitivity
+
th
Sturla Pilskog & Magnar Åm: The Rhythm of Creativity and Connection to Human Sensitivity
+
The Voice of Women
Mariken Halle, Ingebjørg Torgersen, Marja Bål Nango
Read more
Get ticketsOct 9
th
18:00
Vega Salongen
The Voice of Women
+
th
The Voice of Women
+
th
The Voice of Women
+
Festival Routes
Featured Events
Social
Inside Amir
Q&A with director Amir Azizi, moderated by Dag Johan Haugerud
10/12/2025 15:15
URL142
Vega 1
Film
The Love That Remains
Intro by Lisa Hoen, festival director of Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF)
10/9/2025 20:00
URL109
Vega 1
Film
Shorts | Tøyen Pop-up
Outdoor viewing with conversation after screening
10/9/2025 17:30
URL90
Tøyen Torg
Film
.jpg)
Shorts | A Stranger in the World + Concert
Lounge screening: Q&A with director Sturla Pilskog
10/11/2025 21:30
URL90
Vega Salongen
Film
Enough
Q&A with director Odd Einar Ingebretsen + actors Ine Marie Wilmann & Anneke von der Lippe
10/9/2025 18:00
URL90
Vega 1
Film
The Coriolis Effect
Q&A with filmmakers Petr Lom & Corinne van Egeraat
10/11/2025 18:00
URL140
Vega 1
Film
Sturla Pilskog & Magnar Åm: The Rhythm of Creativity and Connection to Human Sensitivity
10/12/2025 12:45
URLVega scene, Salongen
Talk
%20copy.jpg)
