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After a record breaking amount of submissions, the Amandus – Lillehammer International Student Film competition is finally ready, the nominees and sidebar selections are…
In all there are 24 films nominated for the prestigious main competition, but it doesn’t stop there: In our sidebars A Special Look and Runner-ups we will present interesting, provoking and exciting films from all over the Nordic region.
You can read more about each film here.
The Main Competition
Film |
Director |
Country and School |
| A Day With Dad | Mads Guldborg Bøge | Denmark – The Danish Film School |
| Pariah | Håvard Fandrem | Norway – Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology |
| Bak meg | Tobias Grønvold | Norway – Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology |
| Beauty In Numbers – Pi / 3,14 | Rebecka Taule | Norway – Bergen Art and Design School |
| Ocean Swells | Sverre Matias Glenne | Norway – Nordland Kunst- og filmfagskole |
| Finite | Marius Rolfsvåg | Norway – The Norwegian Filmschool |
| Dilapidated | Ole Sebastian Kåss | Norway – The Norwegian Filmschool |
| Generation Mars | Alexander Turpin | Norway – The Norwegian Filmschool |
| Glasshus | Erik Ivar Sæther, Nicolai Berg Hansson | Norway – NTNU |
| Remember me? | Ragnhild Nøst Bergem | Norway – Lillehammer University College |
| I’m Free | Edvard Karijord og Bendik Mondal | Norway – Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology |
| I’ll try again | Jo Widerberg | Sweden – Akademin Valand Film |
| Jesus woke up like this | Lilly Z. Tembe | Sweden – FAMU international |
| Coffe Time and Space | Ulrik Sæther Rolstad | Norway – KhiO (Kunsthøyskolen i Oslo) |
| Mausoleum | Lauri Randla | Finland – Aalto University |
| The Meaning of Life | Truls Aagedal | Norway – Lillehammer University College |
| My Plastic Menagerie | Touraj Khosravi | Denmark – The Danish Film School |
| Rapsodi i Rødt | Thomas Gunnari Røtting | Norway – Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology |
| The Principle | Touraj Khosravi | Finland – Aalto University |
| To Meet in a Car | Mali Galaaen Røsseth | Norway – Nordland kunst- og filmfagskole |
| Ultra24 | Santtu Koivisto | Finland – Metropolia University of Applied Sciences |
| Upstage | Róbert Orri Petursson | Iceland – The Icelandic Film School |
| Utover Øvre Ål | Anders Hesbøl | Norway – Volda Animation |
| Ztripes | Touraj Khosravi | Denmark – The Danish Film School |
A Special Look
| Bak Lukkede Øyne | Stian Andreassen og Petter Holthe Hanssen | Norway – Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology |
| Attempting Intimacy | Hedda Bremseth | Norway – Nordland Kunst og Filmfagskole |
| Fedrelandet | Olafur Snæbjørnsson Birnir | Norway – Lillehammer University College |
| Fixed Position | Hamid Waheed | Norway – Nordland kunst- og filmfagskole |
| Huset | Sverre Kvamme | Norway – Tromsø University |
| Related | Denmark – The Danish Filmschool | |
| Knaster | Neil Wigardt | Sweden – Academy Valand |
| Lek | Christer Steffensen | Norway – Bergen University |
| Mannen som skjøt seg selv i hodet | Halvard Harboe | Norway – Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology |
| Nerves of time | Taneli Lassila & Anton Lipasti | Finland – Turku University of Applied Sciences |
| Above the Fields and Clouds | Tove Rogstad | Norway – Volda School of Animation |
| Retrace | Andreas Ulrik Vågene | Norway – Noroff |
| Ruction | Sverre Aune | Norway – MET Filmschool Berlin |
| Saudade | Jan Henrik Hansen | Norway – Volda School of Animation |
| Så glad er vi | Birgitte Aarebrodt | Norway – Nordland kunst-og filmfagskole |
| Teleport Monarch | Nick Bruhn-Petersen | Denmark – Funen Art Academy |
Runner-ups
| A boat load of trouble | Aslaug Willumsen | Norway – Volda School of Animation |
| Blessings | Lisa Myllymäki | Finland – Metropolia UAS |
| Fra hofta | Jørgen Egner Granerud | Norway – Lillehammer University College |
| Hello Singer | Marko Elovaara | Finland – Metropolia UAS |
| Indirect | Shahab Mehrabi | Sweden – Fridhems Folkhögskola |
| It’s a Trap | Olav Fangel Jamtveit | Norway – Nordland kunst- og filmfagskole |
| Jytte – A Danish Hero | Morten Zachariassen | Denmark – The Danish Filmschool |
| Mamma | Julia Lindström | Norway – The Norwegian Filmschool |
| Mustang | Jon Carlstedt | Norway – The Norwegian Filmschool |
| Napoo | Christer Steffensen | Norway – Bergen University |
| Oslo Traffic | Johanna Pyykkö | Norway – The Norwegian Filmschool |
| På stedet hvil | Luise Nes | Norway – Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology |
| Born Wrong (Syntymävika) | Kaisa El Ramly | Finland – Aalto University |