WE ARE HERE NOW
We follow a group of babies and parents during a year in their Scandinavian maternity leave. Some of them have bigger plans, they want to move to the ocean and buy new properties. One father, Jon, is working as a teacher. The principal at his school call parents to keep their children home so they won’t drag down the scores on the National test.
The grown-ups are under pressure. They fill out forms on anxiety symptoms and divorce-papers. Sinking down in therapy-chairs and lying in eachothers couches. The fragile nuclear-family structures are cracking down and other grown-ups step up to help.
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"A highly Scandinavian and slightly surreal satire of life as new parents on parental leave in the Nordic countries. A mischievous hybrid, which dances to its own tune" - CPH:DOX
Read about WE ARE HERE NOW: TO BE PRESENT TODAY, TO BE PRESENT TOMORROW - Per Morten Mjølkeråen
Watch Marikens filmessay HOME TO THE AUDIENCE
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Written and directed by Mariken Halle
Cast: Leif Edlund, Marte Germaine Christensen, Niklas Gundersen, Petter Width Kristiansen, Lisa Charlotte Baudouin Lie, Thomas Holtermann Østgaard, Ingrid Liavaag, Ivo Holtermann Stranger, Bhkie Male, Magnus Mork, Alfred Eielsen Halle, Roozbeh Behtaji, Iselin Shumba, Marianne Stranger
Produced by: ALTERNATIVET / Guro Bruusgaard, Magnus Mork, Mariken Halle & Katja Eyde Jacobsen
Co-producer: MDEMC / Elisabeth Marjanovic Cornwall og Marta Dauliute
Norwegian distribution: Another World Entertainment / Marius Olsen
Supported by Mediefabrikken and The Norwegian Filminstitute
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Screened at:
April 2021 - Filmfest Bremen
December 2020 - Festival Internacional de Cinema em Balneário Camboriú i Brasil!
October 2020 - AMIF - Arctic Moving Images festival
April 2020 - CPH:DOX
January 2020 - Gothenburg International Filmfestival
January 2020 - Tromsø International Filmfestival
Sales: alternativetproduksjon@gmail.com
+47 41330478 (Magnus Mork)