2024 Norway Film Festival to be launched in cities across China, showcasing cultural history

The 2024 Norway Film Festival will be launched on August 30 across various cities in China and run until September 8. Featuring eight movies and 16 screenings, the festival is expected to showcase Norway's cultural history.

A screenshot from Songs of EarthPhoto: Courtesy of the Norwegian Embassy in China

The films to be screened are Songs of Earth, Titina (2022), Pathfinder, a-ha: The Movie (2021), The King's Choice, Out Stealing Horses (2019), Gunda (2020),and Utøya 22. juli (2018).

In Songs of Earth, the audience can follow the journey of a father to experience four seasons of a year with the mountainous landscapes of Norway providing a captivating backdrop for cinematic nature. A magnificent, existential journey with the filmmaker's parents as its human yardstick, and with the primordial forces of the earth looming in the bedrock. Titina (2022)tells the story of two nobles and a lap dog on a dangerous quest to the North Pole. Pathfinderis the first film in the world to be directed and starred in by the Sámi, an indigenous group from the Arctic. The movie will take the audience back to the folklore of Finnmark 1,000 years ago. a-ha: The Movie (2021)showcases three friends who want to conquer the world with their music, which their mega-hit "Take on Me" actually did. Even today the most successful band in Norway's history, a-ha, still plays worldwide.