Norwegian
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews MY FATHER’S DAUGHTER the feature film debut of Norwegian filmmaker Egil Pedersen.
Being fourteen or fifteen years old is never easy, and feisty indigenous Norwegian Sami teen Elvira (Sarah Olaussen Eira) is no exception. Bored in her small village, Unjarga in the far north of Norway, she fantasises that the father she has never known is Game of Thrones film star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The Danish heartthrob (he…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Listen Up! (Hor Her’a’), a brilliant comedy drama debut film from Iranian director Kaveh Tehrani.
It’s the beginning of summer, and fifteen-year-old super-bright Pakistani immigrant Mahmoud (Ahmed Mohammed) is sitting on the grass outside his family’s high-rise apartment in a poor area of Oslo, and considering his options with his best friend, one-eyed Arif (Imram Abdi Kedir). Their choices are limited given their ages, lack of money and…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews NORWEGIAN DREAM a multi-layered, tough yet tender, coming-of-age story
Norwegian Dream is a dark, atmospheric drama that takes a deep dive into how our social and economic living conditions affect our ability to live our truest lives. Robert (the chiseled, super handsome Hubert Milkowski) is a 19-year-old Polish migrant-worker, living in a remote coastal area of Norway and working in a salmon processing…
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Shower : a powerful Norwegian short LGBT film that is decidedly NSFW
This short film by Norwegian writer and director Henry K. Norvalls is not shocking by its sheer nudity, but what it actually leads too. It is the story of a man enters the shower after working out, but is soon side tracked by an unidentified noise. He decides to seek out the source and enters…
