2011 Bergen International Film Festival Explained

The 2011 Bergen International Film Festival is arranged in Bergen, Norway 19–26 October 2011, and was the 12th edition of the festival. It features over 175 feature films and documentaries, a new record for the festival. For the first time the festival arranges a competition program for Norwegian documentaries, as BIFF tries to establish itself as the leading arena for the documentary genre in Norway.

Films in competition

Cinema Extraordinare – In competition

• Above Us Only Sky, directed by Jan Schomburg
• Arriya – The Stone, directed by Alberto Gorritiberea
• Beduin, directed by Igor Voloshin
  • Confessions, directed by Tetsuya Nakashima Declaration of War, directed by Valérie Donzelli
  • Even the Rain, directed by Icíar Bollaín Las Acacias, directed by Pablo Giorgelli
• Meek's Cutoff, directed by Kelly Reichardt USA
• Natural Selection, directed by Robbie Pickering USA
  • Sleeping Beauty, directed by Julia Leigh The Prize, directed by Paula Markovitch
• Twilight Portrait, directed by Angelina Nikonova

International Documentaries – In competition

• The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975, directed by Göran Hugo Olsson
• Bombay Beach, directed by Alma Har'el USA
• Buck, directed by Cindy Meehl USA
• Chasing Madoff, directed by Jeff Prosserman USA
• Cinema Komunisto, directed by Mila Turajlic
• A Man's Story, directed by Varon Bonicos
• Koran by Heart, directed by Greg Barker USA
• Hot Coffee, directed by Susan Saladoff USA
• Something Ventured, directed by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller USA
• The Two Escobars, directed by Michael and Jeff Zimbalist USA
• Vodka Factory, directed by Jerzy Sladkowski

Checkpoints – In competition

• , directed by Marshall Curry USA
• The Last Mountain, directed by Bill Haney USA
• The Interrupters, directed by Steve James USA
• The Oath, directed by Laura Poitras USA

Norwegian Documentaries – In competition

• The Afghan Nightmare, directed by Klaus Erik Okstad
• Death in Camp Delta, directed by Erling Borgen
• Folk ved Fjorden, directed by Øyvind Sandberg
• Ragnhild's Story, directed by Siren Henschien
• Imagining Emmanuel, directed by Thomas Østbye
• In God We Trust, directed by Astrid Schau-Larsen
• Urban Hunters, directed by Sturla Pilskog & Sidse Larsen
• The Doctors' War, directed by Elsa Kvamme
• My Beloved, directed by Hilde Korsæth
• Personal Velocity, directed by Jon Vatne
• Salesman 329, directed by Kari Anne Moe
• Snapshots, directed by Anniken Hoel

Norwegian Short Film Competition

• Alt faller sammen, directed by Andrew Amorim
• Asyl, directed by Jørn Utkilen
• Erkjenning, directed by Jøran Wærdahl
• Everything Will Be OK, directed by Jonas Matzow Guldbrandsen
• Farukhs mynt, directed by Susanne Falkum Løvik
• From This Day to Where, directed by Matias Rygh & Mathias Eriksen
• No Sex Just Understand, directed by Mariken Halle

Scandinavias Best Music Video

This year the five videoes from the respective three countries was nominated by NRK P3 in Norway, SVT in Sweden and the magazine Soundvenue in Denmark.

• • Young Dreams – "Young Dreams", directed by Kristoffer Borgli Torgny – "I Came Here", directed by Emil Trier
• Karl X Johan – "Flames", directed by Gustav Johansson

External links

• Official site