Forum Projects - *** TEST2025 *** Nordisk Panorama

I Am an Olive Tree

As war in northern Syria uproots a Kurdish community and their thousand-year-old olive trees, a woman becomes a symbol of hope through resistance.

Yasaman Sharifmanesh

Cinenic Film

Sweden

Fruitcakes - The Dawn of Drag

Retired archivist, once a drag queen, Jolanda joins the filmmaker and young drag artists to re-enact cherished memories of his murdered best friend.

Vesa Kuosmanen

Polygraf

Finland

HEX

In the heart of Norway's black metal scene, a new force suddenly emerges. Three young women have entered to the stage, as witches.

Maja Holand

Herstory

Norway

In a Box

As extinctions rise and zoos overflow, Valerio and Sebastian rescue tiny species at home—can their efforts help return the animals to the wild?

Okku Nuutilainen / Liinu Grönlund

Mouka Filmi Oy

Finland

ISLANDER

When their church burns down in a storm, its loss highlights the struggle of a tiny arctic community facing climate and societal change.

Nikolai Galitzine

Northern Wave

Iceland

Architecture as Invention

A journey into the creative process and mind of one of the world’s most brilliant and enigmatic architects, Daniel Libeskind.

Michael Madsen

Paloma Productions

Denmark

In My Head

An honest meeting with your brain.

Veronika Zubek Kocourkova

Super film

Slovakia

Observer+

Colonial Tour

A tragicomic, humanistic documentary exploring how Danish tourism in the US Virgin Islands, formerly Danish West Indies, mirrors past power struggles

Adam Paaske

Tambo Film

Denmark

Observer+

Rehearsing for Justice

How do we, the Arab witnesses of the Palestinian Genocide, deal with the ever so frustrating vacuum of international justice?

Dalia Al-Kury

Integral Film AS

Norway

Observer+

The Pink Ship

Aboard a pink ship gifted by Banksy, two women join a crew rescuing refugees at sea, risking all to fight injustice on the front lines of Europe.

Ylva Rafstedt Lindgren / Linn Björklund

Mantaray Film AB

Sweden

Observer+

The Sound of Success

To help his son overcome speech difficulties, a filmmaker confronts anxiety and childhood shame to break destructive generational patterns.

Stian Vetle Dale

PictuRama

Norway

Observer+

Trapped in Ice

Artist Nara Walker sues Iceland at the European Court of Human Rights after being imprisoned for biting her husband's tongue in self-defence.

Alexia Muiños Ruiz / Lea Ævars.

NyArk Media ehf

Iceland

Observer+

Bialiatsky - Unbroken

Portrait of Ales Bialiatsky - dissident, human rights defender, imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who spent decades defying authoritarianism.

Eimantas Belickas

Ketvirta Versija

Lithuania

Observer+

King Annie

Long live the Drag King.

Benjamin García Langeland

Indie Film Bergen

Norway

Observer+

North of North

North of North is a documentary about the Arctic's profound transformations, seen through the eyes of the crew aboard the small sailboat Barba.

Mark Romanov

Speranza Film AS

Norway

Observer+

The Edge of Endurance

What do encounters with mosquitoes tell us about us humans and our relation to nature?

Kirsikka Paakkinen

Pystymetsä Oy

Finland

Observer+

Graceland

A woman journeys through memory, grief, and her father’s tragic past- torn between the longing to fall and the fear of falling.

Tova Mozard

Mantaray Film AB

Sweden

Observer+

Till Death Do Us Part

Till Death Do Us Part explores the emotional and legal injustices of living in the only country in the world where divorce is impossible.

Samir Arabzadeh

MDEMC

Sweden

Observer+

Jamila's Children

Three sisters, three brothers, two cultures.

Arezo Ariapoor

Guerilla Films

Finland

Observer+

The Iron Women

A personal and politically urgent doc following the extraordinary women leading the resistance against the Taliban’s war on Afghan women’s rights.

Gry Winther

Graham Film AS

Norway

Observer+

The Story of the Wild Rose

A 10-year-old girl experiences the collision of two worlds – stark reality of 1993 in Estonia and the arrival of the Wild Rose, a Mexican telenovela

Liis Nimik / Kristen Aigro

Klara Films

Estonia

Observer+

Frozen Ocean

A young filmmaker and her crew retrace a 19th-c. Arctic expedition, meeting locals and scientists to explore resilience and our bond with nature.

Viktória Dénes

Éclipse Film Ltd.

Hungary

Observer+

All I Ever Wanted

An intimate love story about a young couple who must redefine their future when leukemia strikes just as they welcome their second child.

Christina Martiny Moltke

Final Cut for Real ApS

Denmark

Observer+

Confidential Project

Laurits Nansen / Nikolaj Viborg

Eight Pictures

Denmark

Observer+

Daydream of Darkness

Daydream of darkness is a horror-documentary on the poet and self-proclaimed witch Helen Adam’s eerie legacy of magic, horror and nature’s

Tomas Stark

Picky Pictures

Sweden

Observer+

Finding Kvens

Finding Kvens is a heartfelt documentary that dives into the tangled world of the Kvens, Norwegian minority, who can’t quite agree who they are.

Einari Paakkanen

napafilms Oy

Finland

Observer+

Joy to the World

In a time of conflict and division, five sisters find courage to reconnect.

Jessica Nettelbladt

Lejoni Production

Sweden

Observer+

Kimik

Greenlandic artists confront a changing world and colonial shadows as they prepare a landmark exhibition.

Alexander Lind / Lisbeth Karline Poulsen

GotFat Productions

Denmark

Observer+

Sidekick

Oliver puts his life on hold to help his best friend – until he can’t anymore. A docu-series about care, identity, and growing into yourself.

Adam Klixbüll Eisenhardt / Frederik Uhrbrand

Emjay Productions ApS

Denmark

Observer+

Blood Moon

A filmmaker examines the links between everyday sexism and gender-based violence through women’s voices, expert insight, and personal reflection.

Cille Hannibal

Ström Pictures

Denmark

Observer+

This Too Shall Change

A young woman embarks on a journey through the homeland of her ancestors – Norway and Russia, aiming to restore balance and peace to the world.

Natalja G. B. Jacobsen / Dominica Harrison

True Stories Production AS

Norway

Pitch

The Game of Chaos

As truth turns into a weapon, hidden wars are fought at the digital frontlines - using code, courage and clarity to defend democracy.

Kinocompany Ltd.

Finland

Pitch

Crossing the River

One day, everything went to shits. Thousands of endangered freshwater pearl mussels were crushed in an instant. Absurd tale in the middle of nowhere.

Virpi Suutari

Euphoria Film Oy

Finland

Pitch

The Days I Will Forget [Swedish Wildcard]

A filmmaker creates a time loop to force her alcoholic father to change. As he relives the same day, she realizes she might be the one in a loop.

Morgane Dziurla-Petit

GötaFilm AB

Sweden

Pitch

Myllylä

The rise and fall of a hero – Unique home video footage reveals the human behind the headlines.

Sean Ricks / Jussi Sandhu

Wacky Tie Films

Finland

Pitch

Weeds

Weeds is a humorous and poignant feature about outsiders in society and weeds in nature. What is lost when we reject what doesn’t fit in?

Dag Mykland / Bår Tyrmi

Hacienda Film

Norway

Pitch

Life Through a Lens

The power of an image: the untold story behind Lennart Nilsson’s fetus photos. Images that shaped science, morality and how we see life.

Andreas Eidhagen

The Motor Moving Pictures AB

Sweden

Pitch

The Palme Syndrome

Decades after Prime Minister Olof Palme’s murder, ordinary Swedes chase suspects and memories, each drawn to a wound the nation never quite closed.

Maria Fredriksson

Ballad Film AB

Sweden

Pitch

In Flux

In Ghana, Pakistan, and Cape Verde, young people face the same dilemma: leave and try to make it in Europe, or stay and build a life at home?

Julie Lunde Lillesæter / Stéphanie Saxémard

Differ Media

Norway

Pitch

Creaturama – Epic of the Animals

A forest. A camera. Seven years of animals inventing a film of their own.

Juha Suonpää

Swamphead Oy

Finland

Pitch

Mystery Package

Each Christmas a mystery package arrives. Now young detectives Edle and Brage are on the case to uncover the secret sender once and for all.

Silje Evensmo Jacobsen

A5 Film

Norway

Pitch

After the Storm

In the stormy Baltic Sea, a group of amber fishermen combs the Lithuanian coast, chasing traces of time and memory.

Francesco Rufini

Ketvirta Versija

Lithuania

Pitch

Ukulellur

From chaos to joyful acts of rebellion. Thirteen queer women with a 40-year age gap form a ukulele band and find harmony where no one expected it.

Elísabet Thoroddsen

La Chana ehf

Iceland

Pitch

An Unlikely Hero

A brilliant inventor with several diagnoses and anxiety goes on a scientific mission to the Arctic Ocean to find out if the Gulf Stream will collapse.

Lars Henrik Ostenfeld

Hansen & Pedersen

Denmark

Pitch

My Rebel Heart

Amid occupation and war, young Palestinian actress Yara struggles to reconcile her artistic ambitions with the fight for liberation.

Ida Kat Balslev

Siersted Film

Denmark

Pitch

LÝRIKK [Icelandic Wildcard]

Journey into the hidden world of rímur singers and poets, where we explore how this ancient tradition beats through the heart of our country today.

Haukur M. Hrafnsson / Ásta Júlía Guðjónsdóttir

Noumena Films

Iceland

Pitch

Untitled Timbuktu Documentary

In Harlem, Swedish rapper Timbuktu confronts his father’s past in an attempt to heal their shared legacy.

Simon Klose

Anagram Sweden

Sweden

Pitch

Rethink

Christoffer is on a global mission to prevent child abuse. His starting point is helping the paedophiles – a method which might seem controversial.

Johanna Ställberg / Sophie Robinson

WG Film AB

Sweden

Pitch

Always Far Away

Vojta, son of a circus director, seeks his own voice beyond the seven-generation legacy he was born into and expected to inherit.

Roman Ďuriš

Lonely Production

Czechia

Pitch

Somewhere Over the Rainbow [Norwegian Wildcard]

Two Iranian women from different corners of the world meet through the internet and become close friends, together they create a utopian Iran.

Mary Nunpau Hasavari

Matches Films

Norway

Pitch

Two Minutes of Hate

With intimate access to a leading group tracking extremism, Two Minutes of Hate follows global trends in online hate and explores the human cost.

Rachel Boynton

Paloma Productions

Denmark

Pitch

The Runaway Brain [Finnish Wildcard]

Nikke Liinamaa’s brain escapes and leads the viewer through a hand-drawn inner world blending animation and creative documentary.

Sanna Liinamaa

Kajo Productions

Finland

Pitch

The Greatest Illusion

An exploration of memories, loss and trauma in a magician's life.

Benjamin Ree

Medieoperatørene AS

Norway

Pitch

We Are Not Leaving [Danish Wildcard]

How do you continue living and build a new everyday life in the midst of war?

Christina Amundsen

Sonntag Pictures ApS

Denmark

Pitch