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Norwegian Dream Norge 2023 Regi Leiv Igor Devold Manus Justyna Bilik, Gjermund Gisvold, Radoslav Paczocha Foto Patryk Kin Med Hubert Milowski, Karl Bekele Steinland, Øyvind Brandtzæg 1t 37m DCP Norsk og engelsk tale, engelsk tekst Aldersgrense 9 år

Trondheim Pride presents Norwegian Dream!

Welcome to the screening of “Norwegian Dream”- a film about queer love when the world is against you. After the movie, we invite to a discussion about representation of minorities in Norwegian cinema with the director of the movie, Leiv Igor Devold, joined by Hamza Kader, actor and filmmaker. This is a unique opportunity to understand and get to know more about the topic.

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Hamza Kader is an actor, filmmaker and is studying screenwriting in his master’s studies at the Norwegian Film School in Oslo. As an actor, he is known for his role as Liiban in the NRK series “22.juli” and “Walaac”, which last year won the Golden Throne, the main prize at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad. He has written the script for and played the lead role in the short film “Hvorfor er du svart”, which won the Gnistprisen in Grimstad and a number of awards at international film festivals. He is currently working on developing scripts for two feature films. One, “Hvorfor er du svart”, has received NEO development support from NFI.

Leiv Igor Devold is a Polish-Norwegian film director, born in Warsaw, raised in Oslo. He is a graduate of the Polish National Film School in Lódz. Devold has directed, written and produced over 12 documentaries and short films that have been shown on TV internationally (BBC, NRK, TV2, DR3, SVT, YLE, TVP, Planet+ and others). The films have been nominated for five Amanda awards, including for best direction. They have been shown at Annecy, the San Francisco LGBTIQ film festival, Warsaw, BIFF, Kosmorama, Dubai, Beirut, IDFA etc. The films have won the Amanda for best clip, canon award for best sound, been nominated for best Scandinavian documentary at CPH :DOX, won Filmweb’s audience’s Kanon award for best Norwegian film in 2016 and was nominated for the Prix Europa in 2017. He is currently an associate professor at the department of art and media studies at NTNU in Trondheim. Since 2022 union leader of Norwegian Film Directors. He has just finished his debut feature Norwegian dream, which opened this year’s Kosmorama film festival on 6 March. Igor strives to make films that make the audience laugh, cry and think.