A little feel-good in the winter (and world) darkness?
Here are films we have on the program that you can just come and enjoy.
Find the light at HUMAN! In addition to our human rights program and focus on current social issues, we also have a soft and pleasant list of feel-good films that show warm and delightful human stories – for when you just want to escape the present for a bit.
The list includes films that are funny, fascinating, moving and have beautiful images. The films are very different, and wonderful in their own way.
NB: This is not a comprehensive list. Check out the entire program, and remember that you can buy festival passes and see as much as your heart desires!
Folktales
Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, co-produced by Fuglene
Teenagers and Norwegian huskies run side by side in this heartwarming feel-good documentary that became a hit at Sundance. Folktales has its Norway premiere at HUMAN, with a director’s visit and the young people and teachers from the film!
Patrice: The Movie
Director: Ted Passon
This is a charm bomb about love and equality, and about the rights of disabled people in the US. With a director’s visit!
The Friendship Bench
Director: Reabetswe Moeti
When therapist Dixon Chibanda was asked to solve Zimbabwe’s mental health crisis without much of a budget, he created a simple but ingenious solution: benches where people could sit down and talk about their problems with grandmothers with conversational training.
During the festival, three such friendship benches will be located at Vega, Cinemateket and Youngstorget, to be a place where you can sit down and have a chat with your neighbor. Maybe part of the solution to the loneliness crisis is that simple?
Gaucho Gaucho
Directors: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
Cinematic masterpiece about modern-day Argentine cowboys, who are committed to living in freedom and in harmony with nature and animals.
Housewife of the Year
Director: Ciaran Cassidy
You won’t believe it until you see it! An insight into the surreal television phenomenon that was supposed to choose Ireland’s best housewife.
The Dating Game
Director: Violet Du Feng, co-produced by Ten Thousand Images
China’s one-child policy has created a massive gender imbalance in the country. The result? Millions of men struggling to find a partner in a ruthless dating landscape. We meet three such men in “The Dating Game,” a recent documentary by Emmy-winning American filmmaker Violet Du Feng. co-produced by Norwegian Ten Thousand Images and Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas.
There will be a talk after the screening Tuesday 11 March with Du Feng, Munthe-Kaas og producer James Costa, and a Q&A after the screening Friday 14 March.
