2024 Screenings

What are plastics?

What are plastics?

While making an online course about reducing plastic waste, Jostein realizes he doesn’t quite know what plastic really is. He embarks on a quest to the university to find out.

Incognito mode

Incognito mode

This animation addresses the need for education to address easily accessible internet pornography, especially as it impacts young people’s lives.

Ocean Portrait – The children by the North Sea

Ocean Portrait – The children by the North Sea

This documentary is about a research and art project carried out in kindergartens in Øygarden municipality in 2022, near Bergen. In a joint project, we staged joint exploration of life in the biotope between land and sea with the aim of an aesthetic look at the sea and a local mindset and value set.

You Arrive

You Arrive

Based on the extensive career of Montreal therapist and professor Bonnie Harnden, YOU ARRIVE is an educational docu-drama that explores how to break free from the cycles of trauma that impact our lives, our children’s lives, and our relationships

Trans-Hate on your phone

Trans-Hate on your phone

The film Trans-Hate on your phone is designed to be watched on a mobile phone. It catapults the viewer into the everyday life of a transperson, continuously experiencing discriminations, verbal attacks and fear.

Perpetual Search

Perpetual Search

This documentary focuses on Mr. Bhim Bahadur Thapa, his enduring legacy, and the mythical aspects of his life. It serves both as a biographical account and as an enduring piece of social commentary.

Speaking Through Me

Speaking Through Me

Speaking Through Me was created to empower teens and young adults with knowledge and awareness about the most precious and amazing supercomputer they will ever own: their developing brain.

Hereafter (3:3)

Hereafter (3:3)

Imagine that you are 11 years old and you learn that your mother is seriously ill and may die. This was the reality for Hani, a young man who experienced the unthinkable: losing his own mother to cancer at a young age. How to live with the grief?

Quest for antibodies

Quest for antibodies

When art meets science – and hyperflexible dancing bodies meet their hyperflexible antibodies!

Brands and storytelling: Tony’s Chocolonely

Brands and storytelling: Tony’s Chocolonely

Storytelling is vital in building a strong brand. In the Netherlands, a a group of committed individuals with strong beliefs built the biggest Dutch chocolate brand through storytelling.

A World of Rhythm

A World of Rhythm

The film focuses on the experience of rhythms in everyday life. The intriguing audiovisual production inspires and motivates learning more about rhythmic phenomena.

Student teachers going abroad

Student teachers going abroad

These films are made for preparing student teachers going abroad for their practicum. Based on students earlier experiences, we developed three different cases.

Nurse Anesthetist

Nurse Anesthetist

This is one of the series of videos showing how Nurse Anesthetist and Student Nurse Anesthetist is coworking together when the student has their praxis in the hospital.

AKMA 2. Ocean Senses Research Expedition

AKMA 2. Ocean Senses Research Expedition

May 2022. Longyearbyen. While the engineers are still working hard to mobilize all the instruments needed for the expedition, the AKMA team is planning and discussing how the samples will be taken.

Classified people

Classified people

Yolande Zauberman’s first documentary is a reminder of the relentless and absurd violence of racial segregation, set against the tender chronicle of the couple formed by Doris and Robert. More than three decades have passed and the incredible strength they draw from their love to overcome obscurantism is still deeply moving.

The Music Factory

The Music Factory

In “The Music Factory” we meet Herbert, who has synesthesia; a cross-sensory condition that makes him see shapes and colours when he hears sound and music and we are presented with the story of how he found his way to the music factory.

Tell me what I see

Tell me what I see

The film is about Simen who studies sociology. As a visually impaired student, it requires a little extra to study on an equal footing with others.

Encounters

Encounters

A conversation with an anonymous fossil, who has a lot to tell.

About my blood

About my blood

This film is a bit of a film essay and a bit of a documentary. It is an exploration of menopause and of the ways to explore it, the gaps of knowledge about it, the shame, the silences surrounding it.

Andrej at the dentist

Andrej at the dentist

This film provides insight into the challenges that some patients may face during seemingly simple dental procedures. It stresses the significance of clear communication, building trust, and paying attention to subtle cues that indicate a patient’s discomfort in the dental chair.

2024 Showroom installations

In addition to the normal film screenings we will have a showroom where you can find some installations showcasing innovative learning projects. All these projects use film and technology together and we are pleased to present them at our festival.

TeraVri – Meet the Hansen family

TeraVri – Meet the Hansen family

In the learning resource about the Hansen family, students get to do a virtual home-visit and discover by themselves the situation of the family. There are several small videos about the family presented throughout the virtual house, which teaches the students about risk- and resilience.

Shifting Consensuses

Shifting Consensuses

The film stages Wolfgang Saus, a German Obertone singer. He represents European values by singing key words of the European anthem: Brüder (brothers) and Freude (Joy). Meanwhile an amplifier, standing nearby, emits sounds that grow into words and finally into comprehensible sentences

Battery Fjell – 1945

Battery Fjell – 1945

«Battery Fjell 1945» takes the players back in time to the year 1945, to the historical fortress, Fjell Battery, located at the Norwegian west coast. Through a VR experience, players get to explore the problems and challenges that followed the end of the Second World War.

Collaboration partners

Vitensenteret Tromsø
Tromsø International Film Festival
Verdensteateret Cinemateket Tromsø
UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet

Hansine Hansens veg 18, 9019 Tromsø