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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.

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Oct 9

21:30

Vega 2

Oct 12

17:30

Vega 2

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.

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Oct 10

19:00

Vega Salongen

Lounge screening

Oct 12

18:30

Vega Salongen

Lounge screening

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.

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Oct 9

18:45

Vega 2

Q&A with director Patrik Syversen

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.

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Oct 10

21:15

Vega 2

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.

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Oct 9

18:00

Vega 1

Q&A with director Odd Einar Ingebretsen + actors Ine Marie Wilmann & Anneke von der Lippe

Oct 11

17:45

Vega 3

Q&A with director Odd Einar Ingebretsen and DOP Cecilie Semec

Fairytale

Alexander Sokurov

Legendary director Alexander Sokurov stages Stalin, Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, Napoleon and Jesus in a surreal, hypnotic odyssey beyond time

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Oct 9

17:00

Vega 2

Video intro by director Alexander Sokurov

Oct 10

19:30

Vega 2

Video Intro by director Alexander Sokurov

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.

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Oct 12

13:00

Vega 2

Flophouse America

Monica Strømdahl

A boy raised in a rundown motel navigates addiction, poverty and love, trying to carve out hope in chaos.

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Oct 9

18:15

Vega 3

Q&A with director Monica Strømdahl

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.

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Oct 10

19:15

Vega 3

Oct 12

16:30

Vega Salongen

Lounge screening

Ice Grave

Robin Hunzinger

A vanished Arctic expedition resurfaces through letters, voices and frozen landscapes that echo the secrets they left behind.

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Oct 11

21:45

Vega 3

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.

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Oct 12

15:15

Vega 1

Q&A with director Amir Azizi, moderated by Dag Johan Haugerud

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.

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Oct 11

13:00

Vega 2

Q&A with director Gabrielle Brady

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.

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Oct 11

19:30

Vega 3

Oct 12

21:15

Vega 1

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)

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Oct 9

16:15

Vega 3

Oct 11

13:00

Vega 3

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.

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Oct 10

16:45

Vega 3

Q&A with director Denis Côté

Oct 12

18:00

Vega 3

Q&A with director Denis Côté

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.

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Oct 11

21:00

Vega 1

Q&A with director Paul Tunge

Oct 12

15:30

Vega 3

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.

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Oct 11

18:15

Vega 2

Q&A with director Hilal Baydarov

Oct 12

18:15

Vega 1

Q&A with director Hilal Baydarov

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.

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Oct 11

21:30

Vega Salongen

Lounge screening: Q&A with director Sturla Pilskog

Oct 12

12:45

Vega Salongen

Lounge screening

Shorts | Slow Motions

Øivind Klungseth Zahlsen

An experimental sonata of three fragile stories, unfolding as if they might never have existed at all.

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Oct 11

14:00

Vega Salongen

Lounge screening

Shorts | Tøyen Pop-up

Adel Khan Farooq

A sharp, hybrid portrait of Oslo’s Tøyen, where gentrification, prejudice, and belonging collide in everyday encounters.

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Oct 9

17:30

Tøyen Torg

Outdoor viewing with conversation after screening

Oct 10

20:00

Vega 1

Introduction and remarks

Oct 11

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.

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Oct 10

21:00

Vega 3

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.

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Oct 11

18:00

Vega 1

Q&A with filmmakers Petr Lom & Corinne van Egeraat

Oct 12

20:45

Vega Salongen

Lounge screening

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.

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Oct 9

20:00

Vega 1

Intro by Lisa Hoen, festival director of Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF)

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.

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Oct 11

21:00

Vega 2

Intro by producer Elisa Fernanda Pirir

Oct 12

13:00

Vega 3

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.

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Oct 10

17:00

Vega 2

Q&A with director Gabrielle Brady

Oct 11

15:30

Vega 2

Q&A with director Gabrielle Brady

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.

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Oct 9

20:00

Vega Salongen

Lounge screening

Oct 12

19:30

Vega 2

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.

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Oct 10

21:30

Vega Salongen

Lounge Screening

Oct 12

15:30

Vega 2

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.

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Oct 11

15:30

Vega 1

Q&A with sound designer Nicolas Becker

Oct 12

21:30

Vega 2

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

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Oct 9

20:30

Vega 3

Q&A with directors Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter

Oct 10

17:00

Vega 1

Q&A with directors Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter

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.

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Oct 10

21:15

Vega 1

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.

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Oct 11

15:00

Vega 3

Oct 12

20:30

Vega 3

Art

Eight Steps of Emptiness: Biography of a Dancing Scorpion

Akram Musallam, translated into Norwegian by Vibeke Harper

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Oct 11

13:00

Vega Teatersal

Poetry Cinema

Kristian Pedersen

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Oct 11

14:45

Vega Salongen

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