Armand

At the end of a school year, a six-year-old is accused of some very bad behavior. Parents are summoned and what transpires in the classroom where they gather is the subject of this intense and haunting film, which won the Camera d’Or for Best First Feature at Cannes in May. Some critics were perplexed, but others recognized that the filmmaker, grandson of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann, learned from his forebears how to ratchet up tension between characters so deftly that the story enters the territory of dreams. Norway’s entry for Oscar’s Best International Film, the film recently won Best Feature Narrative at the Hamptons International Film Festival

directed and written by
Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel

with
Renate Reinsve, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Thea Lambrechts Vaulen

language
Norwegian
with English subtitles

country
Norway/The Netherlands/Sweden/Germany

distributor
IFC

Short: The Rest of Your Life

In a NYC café, three strangers unexpectedly meet and exchange stories on their lives, loneliness, and growing old.

2024
24 min.

directed by
Bob and Max Heller