NORDIC LINE-UP CLERMONT-FERRAND 2026

Director Ville Gobi

Producer/production company Fanny Reinbring/REIN Productions

The winds of change are blowing through the pines on a remote island in the Swedish archipelago. Deep in a swamp inhabited only by aging musicians and raging mosquitos rumors arise of a new neighbor, the legendary Joey Tempest. The adults smoke and holler while little Alba, only two years old, tries her best to escape the rickety porch. Hot gossip and cold schnapps, summer solstice and drizzling rain. Forget everything you know, this is A Real Swedish Midsommar. Welcome to the table!

Sales KurzFilm Agentur Hamburg

Director Ida Melum
Production Companies Kjersti Greger (Klipp og Lim) och Michelle Brondum (Jante Films) and Johan Edström (Apparat Filmproduktion AB)

A harried thirty-something is forced to decide whether she wants to be a mother after unexpectedly giving birth to her reproductive organs at her sister’s baby shower.

Sales KurzFilm Agentur Hamburg

Directors Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck

Producer/production company Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck/Lion Hill Production, Plattform Produktion

From the camera's invention as a tool of truth to today's AI-generated images,Death of a Fantastic Machine traces how economic incentives shaped what gets filmed and why. Using archival footage, the film explores the choices that transformed cameras from instruments of evidence into engines of engagement.

Sales KurzFilm Agentur Hamburg

Director Veera Lamminpää

Producer/Production Company: Janne J. Vanhanen & Veera Lamminpää / Seiza Films & ELO Film School Finland / Aalto University – School of Arts, Design and Architecture

The supermarket is nearing its closing time, and the last customers are queuing for their turn at the fish counter. The agonizing wait offers a chance for existential reflection and a little song

Director Veera Lamminpää
Producers/Production Company Janne J. Vanhanen & Jenni Pulli / Rata Motion

Taxidermied birds burst into song in this poetic, darkly comic stop-motion musical. From their display case in a Finnish school, they reflect on the pecking order, belonging, and the rule of the strongest. The birds’ song draws strange parallels between the laws of nature and the unwritten rules of school life. The film addresses serious themes, loneliness, bullying and insecurities, with a surreal twist. Finally, the music ends on a hopeful note: we are all enough as we are – even the odd birds.

Director Owen Hindley

Producer/production company Nanna Gunnarsdóttir / Huldufugl

An escaped convict flees into the Icelandic highlands, and is pulled into a mysterious world where time and nature move differently.

Sales Nanna Gunnars (Huldufugl)

Director Yaprak Morali and  Are Austnes

‍Script Are Austnes Screenplay adapted from: Astrid Lindgren

Production Qvisten Animation, Ove Heiborg. Co-produced with The Astrid Lindgren Company (S), Hydralab (DK)

Bertil is a little boy living with his parents. He is lonely and bored at home,  when his parents go to work. One day, all of a sudden, a little thumb size boy appears under his bed! His name is Simon Small. The two boys bond right away, and Simon shows Bertil a fascinating magical world right inside his bedroom walls. Neither of them  will ever be lonely again.

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Director Lovísa Dröfn
Producer/production company Gabriela Uweis, Maria Lundedal/U Got Film

Fifteen-year-old elite gymnast Dagmar dreams of making the national team. However, during a crucial training camp, her confidence is shattered when she suddenly hesitates mid-air during a vault attempt, leading to a harsh fall. But it’s not the physical impact that lingers - it’s the mental block that follows, leaving her questioning everything she once knew about herself. Without her gymnastics identity, who is she?
(Sales) Gabriela Uweis/U Got Film

Director Emma Birkø

Producer/production company Astrid Gott Schmidt/Paloma Productions og Super8

During a vacation in Tunisia, the Danish girl Sara meets Saïd, who works at the resort where she is staying with her mother. They spend a day together in town, where a romance unfolds, but when Saïd is fired, Sara is forced to confront her blindness to her own privileges.

Sales 7 Palms Entertainment 

Directed by Johannes Nyholm

Produced by Johannes Nyholm/ [Joclo]

A middle-aged lady on a holiday in the sun tries to make new friends and have a good time.

Sales: Johannes Nyholm/ [Joclo]