2011 Bergen International Film Festival
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The 2011 Bergen International Film Festival is arranged in Bergen, Norway 19th–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
Germany
- Arriya – The Stone, directed by Alberto Gorritiberea
Spain
- Beduin, directed by Igor Voloshin
Russia
- Confessions, directed by Tetsuya Nakashima
Japan
- Declaration of War, directed by Valérie Donzelli
France
- Even the Rain, directed by Icíar Bollaín
Spain
- Las Acacias, directed by Pablo Giorgelli
Argentina
- Meek's Cutoff, directed by Kelly Reichardt USA
- Natural Selection, directed by Robbie Pickering USA
- Sleeping Beauty, directed by Julia Leigh
Australia
- The Prize, directed by Paula Markovitch
Argentina
- Twilight Portrait, directed by Angelina Nikonova
Russia
- Womb, directed by Benedek Fliegauf
Hungary
International Documentaries – In competition[]
- The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975, directed by Göran Hugo Olsson
Sweden
- 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
Serbia
- A Man's Story, directed by Varon Bonicos
United Kingdom
- 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
Sweden
Checkpoints – In competition[]
- If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, 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
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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
Norway
- Torgny – "I Came Here", directed by Emil Trier
Norway
- Karl X Johan – "Flames", directed by Gustav Johansson
Sweden
External links[]
Categories:
- 2011 in Norway
- Bergen International Film Festival
- 2011 film festivals
- 2011 festivals in Europe