Norwegian short international film festival

History

The short film festival started in 1978 as a young and radical counterculture to the established Norwegian film industry and the NRK. After almost 40 years, it has become one of the pillars of Norwegian film industry. The first Short Film Festival saw the light of day in a small cinema hall in Røros in 1978. From the very beginning, the festival organisers brought foreign films and film directors to the festival. It was inspiring for many local filmmakers at the time to meet living legends such as Bob Godfrey, Bert Haanstra and Raoul Servais.

After four festival years, the cinema hall in Rørosheimen became too small and in 1982 the Short Film Festival moved to the nearest town. Although film politics and some of the intimacy accompanied the load from Rørosheimen to the World Theater in Trondheim, there was one distinctive principle that fell away; the fact that you should not have jurying and a festival prize. The first year in Trondheim, director Arnljot Berg and Trondheim's cinema manager Willy Svarverud spontaneously handed out a prize for the best Norwegian short film. The prize went to "The Journey" by Jan Toreg. This was a direct reason why a short film jury was established the following year. The Norwegian short film competition – the core of the Short Film Festival – was established. The first film to be awarded by a jury was "The Family Picture" by Oddvar Einarson in 1983.

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