COMPETITION

Diagonales

Programme 5

Norwegian Offspring

Marlene Emilie Lyngstad
2023 - Denmark - 44mn
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Screenings : friday 26 - 2:00 pm - 400 Coups - 5 - presented and followed by a debate with the film directors saturday 27 - 10:00 am - 400 Coups - 1

A mother passes away, and her estranged son – obsessed with theories about the repression of male sexuality in modern society – starts longing for offspring of his own.

Marlene Emilie Lyngstad (born 1997) is a Norwegian director and scriptwriter living in Denmark. She graduated as a director from the National Film School of Denmark with the film Norwegian Offspring, which has won awards at Cannes Film Festival and Nordic Panorama. In her work she tries to evoke a conflicting mixture of empathy, disgust, humor and melancholy. She has acknowledged she's an insignificant part of a larger incomprehensible plot, and is trying to deal with it by laughing and crying with seamless transitions.

CAST AND CREW

Cast : Jan Gunnar Røise, Ibbi El Hani, Jannik Bernhard Tengberg, Mill Betina Jober, Frejdige Freja
Screenplay : Marlene Emilie Lyngstad, Emilie Koefoed Larsen
Cinematography : Thomas Dyrholm
Sound : Emil Salling
Editing : Ania de Sá
Music : Josefine Skov

Production : National Film School of Denmark