Andrew Haigh’s newest film, All of Us Strangers (2023) is a passionate and powerful hymn to love triumphant – and a visually stunning story about the inescapable loneliness of human life.
Les mer
Returning to Oslo for the third time on October 11-15, 2023, MIRAGE is an international film festival that celebrates “the art of the real.” Racha Helen Larsen, Festival & Program Director, elaborates on what this philosophy entails and how it is reflected on this year’s program.
Les mer
The Oslo Short Film Festival 2023, taking place on August 31-September 1 at Oslo’s Sentralen, explores human vulnerability and multiple ways one can interact with the world. PRESSET. talked to Apostolia Katsiantridou, the Head of Program for the OSFF, about what else to expect from the Festival’s official selection.
Les mer
Co-organized by the “Screen Cultures” MA program at the University of Oslo and the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, this years’ NECS was one of the largest academic events in media and film studies in Europe. Because of COVID-19, the preparation for it took nearly 3 years — but the result was 100% worth it. Here is how the one-week Conference in Oslo hosting more than 400 scholars from all over the globe came to be.
Les mer
Arctic Film Festival is the first and the only northernmost independent international film festival on the planet. Established in 2019 to raise awareness about climate change, it has since then been held in Svalbard’s Longyearbyen – the largest town of the archipelago. On May 13, 2023, the Festival returns there once again, with a carefully curated selection of independent short and feature fiction films and documentaries from all over the world. Apostolia Katsiantridou, the Head of Program for the AFF for the last 3 editions, talked with PRESSET. about the Festival’s history, mission, and nuanced relationship with nature.
Les mer
The 95th Academy Awards ceremony was a blast, with eclectic, extravagant, quite perplexing absurdist comedy/drama Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) scoring 7 wins, including in the “Best Picture” category. Written and directed by the duo of “Daniels” aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, this film is as far from “Oscar bait” as it can be. Michelle Yeoh’s historic — first Asian actress to have won an Oscar in the “Best Actress” nomination — golden statuette is yet another clear signal of the long-awaited cinematographic tectonic shift. The Oscars are — finally! — changing. But are they?
Les mer
After a three-year COVID-induced break, the Oslo Film Festival finally returned to Norway’s capital with an exceptional selection of independent films from all over the world. Held for two weekday evenings in a row in what once was a bank vault (!), the event gathered quite a diverse and international crowd, which chimed nicely with one of its principal themes – an everlasting fascination with multiculturalism and the controversiality of the daily.
Les mer
Inherently Freudian, Anne Rice’s gothic novels about tantalizing and yet excruciatingly isolated creatures have always been loved and cherished by LGBTQ+ community — first and foremost for their powerful allegoric potential. AMC’s Interview with the Vampire picks up on these notions and is followed by Mayfair Witches, forming a solid premise for Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe.
Les mer
Nine venues, international guests, a hand-picked collection of films from all over the world — the 2022 program of the MIRAGE film festival in Oslo is, no doubt, a delight for all cinema lovers. The opening night at SALT Art & Music on October 12, though, offered a truly unique experience, with mesmerizing live music and excitement of jumping into cold water after watching shorts in a sauna (Yes!).
Les mer
Marin Alsop is the first female conductor to run world famous orchestras on three continents: North and South Americas and Europe. The Conductor (2021), brought to Norway by Oslo/Fusion Film Festival, follows Alsop’s professional and personal life, proving that there is nothing a woman can’t do—especially if she is told so.
Les mer