Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 has had a notable cinema

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 industry for some time. In the early 21st century a few Norwegian film directors have had the opportunity to go to Hollywood to direct various independent films.

1940s

• Tante Pose
  Tante Pose (film)
  Tante Pose is a 1940 Norwegian film, directed by Leif Sinding, based on the book by Norwegian author Gabriel Scott.It stars a memorable Henny Skjønberg in the title role.-Synopsis:The Christmas preparations are under way at the wealthy Bal family farm...
  
   (1940)
• Bastard
  Bastard (film)
  Bastard, also known as , is a Norwegian-Swedish film released in 1940. It stars Georg Løkkeberg and was directed by Helge Lunde and Gösta Stevens; the story is based on the story "Basterd" by F.W. Remmler....
  
   (1940)
• Tørres Snørtevold
  Tørres Snørtevold
  Tørres Snørtevold is a 1940 Norwegian comedy film directed by Tancred Ibsen. It starred Alfred Maurstad, Folkman Schaanning and Anton Jessen and was based on the novel Jacob by Alexander Kielland....
  
   (1940)
• Det grodde fram - Trondheim 1940 - 1945 (1947)

1950s

• Kon-Tiki
  Kon-Tiki (film)
  Kon-Tiki is a Norwegian documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, released in 1950. The movie, which was directed by Thor Heyerdahl and edited by Olle Nordemar, received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 24th Academy...
  
   (1950)
• Aldri annet enn bråk
  Aldri annet enn bråk
  Aldri annet enn bråk is a 1954 Norwegian comedy-drama film, edited by Edith Carlmar. It takes place in a working-class setting in the city of Oslo. The English title is Nothing but trouble....
  
   (1954)
• Ni Liv (1957)
• Fjols til fjells
  Fjols til fjells
  Fjols til fjells is a Norwegian situation comedy film released in 1957. It is often regarded as one of the best Norwegian films of all time.- Plot :...
  
   (1957)
• De dødes Tjern
  Lake of the Dead
  Lake of the Dead is a 1958 Norwegian horror film directed by Kåre Bergstrøm. The film stars Henki Kolstad, Henny Moan and Georg Richter.-Plot:The film takes place 20–23 August 1958...
  
   (1958)

1980s

• Orion's Belt
  Orion's Belt (film)
  Orion's Belt is a Norwegian feature film from 1985, directed by Ola Solum.The film is based on the novel of the same name by Jon Michelet from 1977. The film is a classic thriller from the time of the Cold War, and deals with the events on Svalbard. It is regarded as one of the most powerful...
  
   (1985)
• The Pathfinder (1987)

1990s

• Døden på Oslo S
  Døden på Oslo S
  Døden på Oslo S is a Norwegian film, released in 1990. The title literally meaning Death at Oslo Central Station, it is set in Oslo in the late eighties. It is based on a book by Ingvar Ambjørnsen from the book series Pelle og Proffen.-Plot:...
  
   (1990)
• Kjærlighetens kjøtere
  Kjærlighetens kjøtere
  Kjærlighetens kjøtere is a 1995 Norwegian film starring Stellan Skarsgård, an actor known to English-speaking audiences from his roles in such films as Good Will Hunting.In 1920s Oslo, Henrik Larsen Kjærlighetens kjøtere (Zero Kelvin) is a 1995 Norwegian film starring Stellan Skarsgård, an actor...
  
   (1995)
• Søndagsengler (1996)
• Insomnia
  Insomnia (1997 film)
  Insomnia is a 1997 Norwegian thriller film about a police detective investigating a murder in a town located above the Arctic Circle. The investigation goes horribly wrong when he mistakenly shoots his partner and subsequently attempts to cover up his bungle...
  
   (1997)
• Junk Mail
  Junk Mail (film)
  Junk Mail is a Norwegian film made in 1997. The film won many awards including Best Actress for Eli Anne Linnestad, Best Actor for Robert Skjærstad and Best Film for Pål Sletaune at the Amanda Awards in Norway and the Mercedes-Benz award at the Cannes Film Festival.The film makes evocative use of...
  
   (1997)

2000s

• Elling
  Elling
  Elling is a Norwegian film directed by Petter Næss. Shot mostly in and around the Norwegian capital Oslo, the film, which was released in 2001, is primarily based on Ingvar Ambjørnsen's novel Brødre i blodet , one of a series of four featuring the Elling character – the others are Utsikt til...
  
   (2001)
• Heftig og begeistret (2001)
• Villmark
  Villmark
  Villmark is a Norwegian thriller/horror film that first premiered in 2003. It was nominated for an Amanda award in the categories of best film and best actor...
  
   (2002)
• Kitchen Stories
  Kitchen Stories
  -Plot:Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjørvik . By the rules of the research institute, Folke has to sit on an umpire's chair in Isak's kitchen and observe him...
  
   (2003)
• Den brysomme mannen (2006)
• Fritt Vilt
  Fritt Vilt
  Cold Prey |Open Season]]") is a 2006 Norwegian horror film, directed by Roar Uthaug. It premiered in Norway on October 13, 2006 and received mostly positive reviews and was hailed as one of the best modern Norwegian horror movies.-Plot:...
  
   (2006)
• Reprise (film)
  Reprise (film)
  Reprise is a Norwegian film directed by Joachim Trier. Co-written over the course of five years with Eskil Vogt, it is Trier's first feature-length film. The film was the Norwegian candidate for the Academy Award as best foreign language film in 2006....
  
   (2006)
• Rovdyr
  Rovdyr
  Manhunt is a 2008 horror Norwegian film. The film is set in 1974.According to reviews it was mediocre, with a dice throw of 3 given in both Verdens Gang and Dagbladet, and 4 given in Nettavisen and Dagsavisen. ABC Nyheter had a different grading system, giving it 5 out of 10....
  
   (2008)
• Fritt Vilt II (2008)
• The Kautokeino Rebellion (2008)
• Max Manus
  Max Manus (film)
  Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus . The story follows Manus from the Winter War against the Soviet Union, through the outbreak of World War II and the German occupation of Norway until peacetime in 1945...
  
   (2008)
• Død Snø
  Dead Snow
  Dead Snow is a 2009 Norwegian horror film directed by Tommy Wirkola, starring Charlotte Frogner, Stig Frode Henriksen, Bjørn Sundquist, Ane Dahl Torp and Jenny Skavlan.- Plot :A woman, Sara, is being chased through the snows of Norway...
  
   (2009)
• Knerten (English title: Twigson)
  Knerten
  Knerten is a Norwegian film from 2009 directed by Åsleik Engmark, based on the children's books by author Anne-Cath. Vestly....
  
   (2009)

Notable short films

• A Year Along the Abandoned Road
  A Year Along the Abandoned Road
  A Year Along the Abandoned Road is a Norwegian short film shot over a period of 105 days in 1988/1989 and released in 1991. Directed by Morten Skallerud, the film was shot in Super Panavision 70 and shows a whole year passing by in Norway's Børfjord at 50,000 times the normal speed in just 12...
  
   (1991)
• De beste går først (2002)
• Sniffer (2006)
• The Danish Poet
  The Danish Poet
  The Danish Poet is a 2006 animated short film written, directed, and animated by Torill Kove and narrated by Liv Ullmann. A co-production of the National Film Board of Canada and Mikrofilm AS of Norway, it has won both the Academy Award and Genie Award for best animated short film.-Synopsis:The...
  
   (2006)

Actors

• Maria Bonnevie
  Maria Bonnevie
  Anna Maria Cecilia Bonnevie is a Norwegian-Swedish actress. She was born in Västerås, Sweden, but she grew up in Oslo, Norway. Her parents, both actors, are the Norwegian actress Jannik Bonnevie and Swedish actor Per Waldvik...
  
  
• Wenche Foss
  Wenche Foss
  Eva Wenche Steenfeldt Stang , better known as Wenche Foss, was a leading Norwegian actress of stage, screen and television.-Biography:...
  
  
• Harald Heide-Steen Jr.
  Harald Heide-Steen Jr.
  Harald Heide-Steen Jr. was a Norwegian actor, comedian and singer. He was the son of Harald Heide Steen. During the 1960s, Harald Heide-Steen. Jr made the radio programs Hørerøret, Sugerøret and Pusterøretat at NRK with Gunnar Haugan and Rolv Wesenlund.Harald Heide-Steen Jr...
  
  
• Kristoffer Joner
  Kristoffer Joner
  Kristoffer Joner is a Norwegian actor born in Stavanger, Norway.- Career :Films include Detector, Mongoland, Villmark, Loose Ends, Samaritan, Min Misunnelige Frisør, Kissed by Winter, Naboer, Gymnaslærer Pedersen, The Man Who Loved Yngve and most recently Hidden .He was named one of the "Shooting...
  
  
• Helge Jordal
  Helge Jordal
  Helge Jordal is an actor from Bergen, Norway. In 2006, Jordal was appointed a Knight of the Royal Order of St. Olav for his long career as an actor on both screen and stage, and his position as a "grand old man" among Norwegian actors.In 1985, he received the Amanda award as Best Male Actor for...
  
  
• Alfred Maurstad
  Alfred Maurstad
  Alfred Maurstad was a leading Norwegian actor, and the father of actor Toralv Maurstad. Beside being an actor, Alfred was famous for playing the fiddle...
  
  
• Toralv Maurstad
  Toralv Maurstad
  Toralv Maurstad is a prominent actor of Norwegian stage, screen and television. By many regarded as the leading Norwegian actor of his generation, he is the son of the highly regarded actor Alfred Maurstad and actress Tordis Maurstad, and half-brother of actress Mari Maurstad.Maurstad graduated...
  
  
• Arve Opsahl
  Arve Opsahl
  Arve Opsahl was a Norwegian movie and stage actor, singer and stand-up comedian.Opsahl began his career as a comedian in 1942, and played numerous roles both on stage and in more than forty movies. He was then chosen to be the head of Olsenbanden, Egon Olsen...
  
  
• Sverre Anker Ousdal
  Sverre Anker Ousdal
  Sverre Anker Ousdal is a Norwegian actor born in Flekkefjord, Norway.-Biography:Ousdal made his debut in 1965 at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen...
  
  
• Bjørn Sundquist
  Bjørn Sundquist
  Bjørn Richard Sundquist is a Norwegian actor, famous for TV, theatre, and movie roles.For many years he worked at Det Norske Teatret and Nationaltheateret in Oslo, and he is especially famous for the roles as Merlin and Hamlet....
  
  
• Liv Ullmann
  Liv Ullmann
  Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the "muses" of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman...
  
  
• Rolv Wesenlund
  Rolv Wesenlund
  Rolv Helge Wesenlund is a Norwegian comedian, singer, clarinetist, writer, and actor.Wesenlund is most famous for having portrayed the title character in the movies Bør Børson, Bør Børson II, and the TV series Fleksnes Fataliteter...
  
  
• Pia Tjelta
  Pia Tjelta
  Pia Merete Tjelta is a Norwegian actress.Tjelta graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 2006, but had already appeared in many films. She made her film debut in 2001 in the film Mongoland...
  
  
• Aksel Hennie
  Aksel Hennie
  Aksel Hennie is a Norwegian actor, director and writer. He has acted in a number of successful Norwegian movies, and has received several awards....
  
  
• Ryan Wiik
  Ryan Wiik
  Gunnar Ryan Wiik , better known as Ryan Wiik is an Norwegian actor and founder of the production company, WR Films. In 2007, Wiik made his Hollywood debut with A-Mark Entertainment’s thriller, Timber Falls, directed by Tony Giglio...
  
  
• Ane Dahl Torp
  Ane Dahl Torp
  Ane Dahl Torp is a Norwegian actress. Her first film appearance was in The Woman of My Life . She has received an Amanda award for her roles both as Trude Eriksen in Svarte penger, hvite løgner , and as Nina Skåtøy in the film Gymnaslærer Pedersen .Torp was named a "Shooting Star" at the Berlin...
  
  
• Nicolai Cleve Broch
  Nicolai Cleve Broch
  Nicolai Cleve Broch is a Norwegian actor of theatre and film. He rose to national fame playing one of the leading roles in the 2002 drama series Lekestue, which aired on NRK in 2002. He is also known for playing the protagonist in Buddy, a romantic comedy from 2003. Other major film credits...
  
  

Directors

• Tommy Wirkola
  Tommy Wirkola
  Tommy Wirkola is a Norwegian filmmaker.-Biography:Wirkola's first film was 2007's Kill Buljo that he co-wrote with Stig Frode Henriksen...
  
  
• Martin Asphaug
  Martin Asphaug
  Martin Asphaug is a film director and screenwriter from Trondheim, Norway.With a background from writing and directing short films, industry documentaries and PSAs, Asphaug made his feature film debut with the award-winning 1989 film, A Handful of Time.Since 1992 Asphaug has primarily worked in...
  
  
• Edith Carlmar
  Edith Carlmar
  Edith Carlmar was an actress and Norway's first female film director. She is known for films such as Fjols til fjells , Aldri annet enn bråk , and Ung flukt . Her 1949 film, Døden er et kjærtegn , is considered to be Norway's first Film Noir...
  
  
• Ivo Caprino
  Ivo Caprino
  Ivo Caprino was a Norwegian film director and writer, best known for his puppet films. His most famous film is Flåklypa Grand Prix , made in 1975.- Early career :...
  
  
• Olav Dalgard
  Olav Dalgard
  Olav Dalgard, given name Olaf Hanssen was a Norwegian filmmaker, advocate of Nynorsk, and a literature and art historian....
  
  
• Nils Gaup
  Nils Gaup
  -Career:Gaup was born in Kautokeino, Finnmark County in Northern Norway. He first intended to become an athlete but from 1974 to 1978 he went to drama school and studied at the Beaivváš Sámi Theatre in Kautokeino...
  
  
• Erik Gustavson
  Erik Gustavson
  Erik Gustavson is a Norwegian film director and producer. He started out as a camera assistant in 1974 and eventually moved on to cameraman before starting to work as a director in 1981....
  
  
• Bent Hamer
  Bent Hamer
  Bent Hamer is a film director, writer and producer, born in Sandefjord, Norway in 1956.-Biography:Hamer studied film theory and literature at the University of Stockholm and the Stockholm Film School. In addition to his feature films, he has written and directed a number of short films and...
  
  
• Gill Holland
  Gill Holland
  John Gill Holland, Jr. , better known as Gill Holland, is a Norwegian-American award winning film producer and co-developer of The Green Building in Louisville, Kentucky.-Background:...
  
  
• Tancred Ibsen
• Jens Lien
  Jens Lien
  Jens Lien is a Norwegian film director. He graduated from the London International Film School in 1993. His graduation project was the short film "Montana", that was featured at the short film festival in Grimstad that year. in 1995 he again participated in this festival, with the entry "Mitt...
  
  
• Hans Petter Moland
  Hans Petter Moland
  Hans Petter Moland is a Norwegian film director. Hans Petter was the first born son of Odd Moland and Sigrid Eid Moland, and has a younger brother named Morten Moland. He is a film graduate from Emerson College in the United States. When living in Boston Hans Petter met a college student Elizabeth...
  
  
• Petter Næss
  Petter Næss
  Petter Næss is a Norwegian actor and film director. His first film as a director was the comedy Absolute Hangover in 1999...
  
  
• Erik Poppe
  Erik Poppe
  Erik Poppe is a Norwegian film director, screenwriter and former cinematographer and press photographer. Poppe started his career as a photographer for the newspaper Verdens Gang. He graduated as a cinematographer at the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden in 1989, and had great success as...
  
  
• Øyvind Sandberg
  Øyvind Sandberg
  Øyvind Sandberg is a Norwegian film director, born 24 April, 1953 in Bergen, Norway. His directing career mainly consists of documentaries depicting Norwegian people leading original and often ancient ways of life...
  
  
• Erik Skjoldbjærg
  Erik Skjoldbjærg
  Erik Skjoldbjærg is a Norwegian director and writer best known for co-writing and directing the film Insomnia and directing Prozac Nation-External links:...
  
  
• Arne Skouen
• Ola Solum
  Ola Solum
  Ola Solum was a Norwegian film director. In 1983 he directed the documentary Camera Goes. He was known for directing the film...
  
  
• Liv Ullmann
  Liv Ullmann
  Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the "muses" of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman...
  
  
• Roar Uthaug
  Roar Uthaug
  Roar Uthaug is a Norwegian film director. He graduated from The Norwegian Filmschool in 2002.- Career :...
  
  
• Petter Vennerød
  Petter Vennerød
  Petter Vennerød is a Norwegian film director. He is known for his cooperation with Svend Wam, creating fourteen films under the moniker Wam og Vennerød....
  
  
• Svend Wam
  Svend Wam
  Svend Olaf Wamnes Akstuft, known as Svend Wam is a Norwegian film director. He is known for his cooperation with Petter Vennerød, creating fourteen films under the moniker Wam og Vennerød.-Filmography:...
  
  
• Harald Zwart
  Harald Zwart
  Harald Zwart is a Norwegian film director.Although born in the Netherlands, Zwart was raised in Fredrikstad in Norway. As early as age eight, he started making short films. He attended the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam where he received great acclaim for his student film Gabriel's Surprise...
  
  

Other notable persons in the Norwegian film industry

• John M. Jacobsen
  John M. Jacobsen
  John Martin Jacobsen is a Norwegian film producer.In 2008 he was awarded the Order of St. Olav. In 2003 he won the Amanda Committee's Honorary Award.-Filmography:* Max Manus * Elias og kongeskipet...
  
   (producer)
• Philip Øgaard
  Philip Øgaard
  Philip Remi Øgaard is a Norwegian cinematographer. Since 1983, Philip Øgaard has photographed more than 30 feature films, and has come to be recognized as one of Norway's premier cinematographers...
  
   (cinematographer)
• Svein Krøvel
  Svein Krøvel
  Svein Krøvel is a Norwegian cinematographer, known for his kollaborations with director Knut Erik Jensen and Petter Næss. Krøvel works on both documentaries and feature films. He started his feature film career in 1980...
  
   (cinematographer)

Awards

The Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 equivalent of the Academy Awards

Academy Awards

An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

 is the Amanda award, which is presented during the annual Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund

Haugesund

is a town and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.-Location:Haugesund was separated from Torvastad as a town and municipality of its own in 1855. The rural municipality of Skåre was merged with Haugesund on January 1, 1958. Haugesund is a small municipality, only 73 km²...

. The prize was created in 1985. The Amanda award is presented in following categories: Best Norwegian Film, Best Directing, Best Male Actress, Best Female Actress, Best Film for Children and Youth, Best Screenplay, Best Short Film, Best Documentary (however, a documentary can also win the Best Film award), Best Foreign Film and an honorary award.

The documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 Kon-Tiki (film)

Kon-Tiki (film)

Kon-Tiki is a Norwegian documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, released in 1950. The movie, which was directed by Thor Heyerdahl and edited by Olle Nordemar, received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 24th Academy...

 by Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a background in zoology and geography. He became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed by raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands...

 received the Academy Award for Documentary Feature

Academy Award for Documentary Feature

The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is among the most prestigious awards for documentary films.- Winners and nominees:Following the Academy's practice, films are listed below by the award year...

 at the 24th Academy Awards

24th Academy Awards

The 24th Academy Awards is an event that honored the Greatest Films of 1951.Best Picture was awarded to An American in Paris, which, like A Place in the Sun, received six academy awards...

 in 1951. It is the only feature film in Norwegian history to win an Academy Award. In 2006 the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

/Canadian animated short film The Danish Poet

The Danish Poet

The Danish Poet is a 2006 animated short film written, directed, and animated by Torill Kove and narrated by Liv Ullmann. A co-production of the National Film Board of Canada and Mikrofilm AS of Norway, it has won both the Academy Award and Genie Award for best animated short film.-Synopsis:The...

, directed by Norwegian Torill Kove

Torill Kove

Torill Kove is a Norwegian born Canadian film director and animator. She won the 2007 Academy Award for Animated Short Film for the film The Danish Poet, co-produced by Norway's Mikrofilm AS and the National Film Board of Canada....

 and narrated by Norwegian screen legend Liv Ullman, won an Academy Award for Animated Short Film

Academy Award for Animated Short Film

The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931-32, to the present....

, and became the second Norwegian production to receive an Academy Award.

Film festivals

• Bergen International Film Festival
  Bergen International Film Festival
  The Bergen International Film Festival is a film festival held annually in October in Bergen, Norway since 2000, and is the largest film festival in the nation in number of films. The 11th edition of the festival in 2010 featured 150 films in the program, a new record...
  
  , Bergen
  Bergen
  Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....
  
  
• Kosmorama – Trondheim International Film Festival
  Kosmorama
  Kosmorama is the annual international film festival in the city of Trondheim, Norway first held in 2005.The eight Kosmorama will take place March 19 - 25th 2012.-Name:...
  
  , Trondheim
  Trondheim
  Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...
  
  
• Tromsø International Film Festival
  Tromsø International Film Festival
  The Tromsø International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Tromsø, Norway.The inaugural Tromsø International Film Festival was held in 1991, and today TIFF is the largest film festival in Norway as considered by attendance figures; in 2010 there were 58 267 admissions. In 2006 TIFF...
  
  http://www.tiff.no/, Tromsø
  Tromsø
  Tromsø is a city and municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø.Tromsø city is the ninth largest urban area in Norway by population, and the seventh largest city in Norway by population...
  
  
• ØyaKino
  ØyaKino
  ØyaKino is a film festival held annually in Oslo, Norway. The festival screens music-related films during Øyafestivalen, and takes place at Eldorado Kino.- External links :*...
  
  , Oslo
  Oslo
  Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
  
  

Film schools

Film schools include:

• The Norwegian Filmschool
  The Norwegian Filmschool
  The Norwegian Film School is the first film school in Norway. It was established at Lillehammer in 1997 in the facilities that hosted the media center during the 1994 Winter Olympics. The school is part of Lillehammer University College, which also has several TV courses. The school had new...
  
   in Lillehammer
  Lillehammer
  is a town and municipality in Oppland county, Norway, globally known for hosting the 1994 Winter Olympics. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. As of May 2011, the population of the town of Lillehammer was...
  
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Other alternatives for more theoretical higher education in film include:

• Bachelor degree in Film- and TV-production at University of Bergen
  University of Bergen
  The University of Bergen is located in Bergen, Norway. Although founded as late as 1946, academic activity had taken place at Bergen Museum as far back as 1825. The university today serves more than 14,500 students...
  
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• Bachelor degree in Film Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  The Norwegian University of Science and Technology , commonly known as NTNU, is located in Trondheim. NTNU is the second largest of the eight universities in Norway, and, as its name suggests, has the main national responsibility for higher education in engineering and technology...
  
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There are also several more practical private film collages:

• Studies in Film- and TV-production at Noroff
  Noroff
  The Noroff Institute is a privately owned and operated technical college for design, communication, media, animation, film, music, network and CAD. The Noroff Institute’s main administrative offices are in Kristiansand, Norway...
  
   Institute.
• Studies in Film- and TV-production at NISS - Nordic Institute of Scene and Studio.
• Studies in Film- and TV-production at Westerdals School of Communication.