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Competition
Ten Nordic film previously unreleased in France competing for five Prizes awarded by a jury of national and regional artists
The Jury will award the Grand Prix du jury and the Prizes for Best Actress and Best Actor.
- Prize of Young Audience awarded by a jury of European students.
- Audience Award allows the audience to vote for their favourite film.
This year the trophies will be made by Marie Pierre Lamy, ceramicist.
News form the North
This section puts together fiction, documentaries and short films most of which never seen in France. It is also an opportunity to see again some Nordic films released in France during the year.
Eva Joly
From Norway
Gunnar Staalesen, crime stories’ writer
Nordic crime stories meet a larger and larger audience in France.
For the first time in France, screenings of films based on Staalesen’s novels which all have Bergen for background. Bergen is Staalesen’s hometown and he has a real passion for it. Besides he also is the author of 1900’s chronicles, 6 volumes translated in French. We will discover this hanseatic city through archives’ films and photo exhibitions. Gunnar Staalesen will be in Rouen from 18 to 22 March.
From the Netherlands
Rembrandt (1606-1669)
Baroque artiste, unmatched master of light, drawer and engraver, Rembrandt had a strong taste for portraits, especially self-portraits. The opportunity to rediscover a major 17th century Dutch painter.
Screenings of films and documentaries.
Greenland (follow-up)
The audience great interest in 2008 for this section prompts us to show again documents confirming the gravity of the situation in this part of the world. Fiction, documentaries and short films with discussion after the screenings.
First French screening of Canadian film “Before Tomorrow” based on Danish writer Jørn Riel’s novel and directed by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeleine Ivalu.
From Finland
A tribute to Teuvo Tulio
One of Finnish Film most fascinating yet controversial character. First an actor, called “the Finnish Valentino”, he directs and produces most of his films between 1936 and 1956.
Teuvo Tulio is the herald of a new generation of expressionist and naturalist filmmakers. According to Aki Kaurismäki, he remains the great “master of melodrama”.
Fantastic Film
Yes, fantastic films do exist in Nordic countries. Creepy !!!
Short films
Cinema in Lower Saxony
For the last four years, as part of the twinnings of the Région Haute-Normandie and the Land of Lower Saxony, and in collaboration with Pôle Image de Haute-Normandie, the festival has been showing a selection of short and long features films from this Land.
Archives from the North
A selection of documentaries based on archives footage in partnership with Mémoire Audiovisuelle de Haute-Normandie (Pôle Image).
The Festival and the young
Since its creation, the festival has been organizing special events for young audiences:
Screenings in March in the departments of Eure and Seine-Maritime.
Three workshops held in primary schools, animated by Nordic directors, with the shooting of animation films screened during the Festival.
An orchestra of high school students creates and performs a soundtrack (music and sounds) of a short film.
Work on the translation and dialogues in films.
The film class of Lycée Corneille shoots the Video News of the Festival screened daily at Cinema Le Melville..
Screenings at
Screenings take place at downtown Cinema Gaumont and Cinema Le Melville in Rouen
Around the Festival
Exhibitions:
Norwegian Design at the Hôtel de Région
Photos of Bergen “then and now”
Reception desk : Place de la Calende
Place de la Calende
Tickets, Nordic bookshop, bar, meetings and discussions, happy hours