Director Vigdis Nielsen from Norway will be at the FIFA March 18 - 28, 2010 to present her film Olav H. Hauge - The Other Man, which is in competition at this year's festival.
For more infromation about the Norwegian films in the FIFA program, please visit the festival site here.
Screenings: Carl Størmer and His Detective Camera | Evald Otterstad Cinema ONF, Saturday March 20 at 4:00 pm
Cinema ONF, Sunday March 28 at 9:00 pm
Norwegian mathematician Carl Størmer (1874-1957) was one of his country's pioneering photographers, best known for being the first to capture the formation of the northern lights. Considered one of the top scientists at the University of Oslo, he was also known as a "character," highly esteemed for his humour and witty observations. In the 1890s, as a young student in Kristiania (later Oslo), he used a hidden camera to capture people on the street, especially celebrities and beautiful young women. Why exactly? This is one of his extracurricular activities, highly irregular at the time, portrayed in this film.
Screenings: Human | Thomas A. Østbye
Concordia University - Cinéma J.A. De Sève
Sunday, March 21 at 9:00 pm
A study involving the great existential questions. How do we evaluate others as human beings? How close can we get to them before it gets inhuman-or perhaps too human? Individuals are filmed outside their normal environments to gauge their labelling instincts, expressions, actions and reactions.
Screenings: Olav H. Hauge - The Other Man
Grande Bibilothéque
Saturday, March 20 at 9:00 pm
Göethe Institute
Monday, March 22 at 6:00 pm
An important figure in Norwegian poetry, which he helped to modernize, the poet and translator Olav H. Hauge (1908-1994) spent most of his life as an apple farmer in the tiny village of Ulvik. From a young age he was a very private person, even reclusive. But he read incessantly, and the classics of world literature gave him a notion of the world outside the Norwegian fjords. From these books, and the stunning scenes around him, he derived his inspiration. He began publishing his poems at the age of 38. Hauge suffered from depression from an early age, and spent long periods in a mental hospital. He was not lobotomized, however, thanks to an understanding doctor who recognized his genius. Gradually, he learned to live with his mental disorder. Hauge was almost 60 by the time he received recognition as one of the major poets of his generation. And against all odds, at the age of 70 he found love and married. Set in the magical landscape of Ulvik, this film portrait of an intense and troubled artist is itself a poem.