37th edition
18-26 january 2025

The Rules for Everything

Kim Hiorthøy

Image The Rules for Everything
Norway
2017 Comédie dramatique 1h27
The world is full of many things. People. And animals. And food. And nature. And crazy bananas. With so many things smashed together the world should be total chaos. The reason why the world isn't total chaos, is because it has rules.
With : Ingrid Olava, Petter Width Kristiansen, Kaveh Tehrani, Tindra Hillestad Pack, Natalie Press
scénario : Ilse Gekhiere, Kim Hiorthøy
image : Øystein Mamen
son : Inger Elise Holm
montage : Kim Hiorthøy
musique : Kim Hiorthøy
Production : Yngve Sæther, Motlys
Distribution: Norwegian Film Institute, NFI
Kim Hiorthøy was born in 1973 in Norway. He studied at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. He works as an illustrator, photographer, author, musician and filmmaker. He has also made music videos, and was the cinematographer for a number of Norwegian director Margreth Olin´s films. The Rules For Everything is his first feature film.

“I wanted to make a film about how we navigate apparently impossible facts like the certainty of death and the orbit of the earth around the sun, alongside more daily life problems such as what to cook for dinner and how to behave at work. A film where self-help strategies and office chairs collide with one-armed lovers, Neanderthals and the one thing you fear more than anything else” (Kim Hiorthøy).