Kristoffer Joner

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Kissed by Winter is a story about one of the efficient and successful people, Victoria, who one day is suddenly thrown out of her regular life for a period of time. The film tells the story of two deaths, one is suspicious, the other one unacceptable. Victoria starts a new life as a physician in a wintery Norwegian village. Here she absorbs herself in her job, in order to avoid her memories. Early one winter morning, a young man is found dead in the snow, and the local sheriff presumes he may have been hit by the plow of a snow truck. As Victoria gets entangled in the fate of the dead boy, she gets close to both his parents and the suspect, Kai. In the encounter with the dead man and the village inhabitants, the main character proves to be a greater mystery than the case under investigation. The truth about the boy in the snow, and Victoria’s own past, is slowly but steadily whirled up to the surface.Read More »

Jarle is 24 when a phone call rouses him from his drunken sleep. It is his mother, telling him that his father is dead. Instead of sadness, Jarle is filled with anger and a sense of relief. It forces his mind back to something he’d rather forgotten – his childhood at the orphanage in Stavanger. When “Orheim” was his surname; – set in 1980s Stavanger, this coming-of-age drama tells of Jarle’s conflicts with his alcoholic father Terje, who sees himself as the family’s “company commander”, a position which he simultaneously sabotages with his bouts of violence; and of the consolation that Jarle seeks in pop music and political commitments – and in the girls that cross his path. The Orheim Company” sensitively and compassionately depicts a conflict in generations in the shape of a boy growing up with an alcoholic father, but also an energetic story about teenage lust, pain and passion – about liberation and redemption; that many members of the cinema audience can relate to.Read More »