10-02-2017, 03:02 PM
Title:
Seaside
Category:
Best New IDU Film
Synopsis:
Bj?rnar Tegn?r, a retired local councilor and former Mayor of the southern municipality of S?rfold, is setting out on a long train ride from Esaias to Port Kejm. He is to receive a commendation for 50 years of service in a public office. His son-in-law Audun accompanies him. The elderly Bj?rnar is dependent on Audun assisting him, although there is little love between the two men.
During the trip, Bj?rnar is plagued by both nightmares and daydreams, mirroring situations from his own life. The pair are seated in the same cabin as a disaffected and estranged married couple, who are travelling to attend their daughter's graduation from the University of Port Kejm. The couple, who exchanges even the most trivial of remarks with utter bitterness and contempt, reminds both Bj?rnar and Audun of their own unhappy marriages. In a feverish dream, his ex-wife accuses him of not wanting to have the baby she is carrying. Upon waking up, Bj?rnar finds Audun missing. He receives a phone call from his daughter, Ann, who tells him that Audun is leaving her, due to him finding out that she is pregnant.
Bj?rnar roams the train alone. He is struck by sadness and aloofness as he recognizes how his own life is mirrored by that of his child. While reminiscing about his childhood by the sea and getting lost in the notoriously thick fog of southern Gnejs, he gradually begins to accept the consequences of his past actions. Dozing off in the train bistro, he dreams of the Iapetus Sea.
Bj?rnar arrives at his destination and is given his award in a ceremony at the Storting (Parliament of Gnejs). That night, he phones his ex-wife to discuss how they should handle Ann's divorce and how they can support her during and after her pregnancy. She prosaically informs him that they have no daughter and requests that he stop contacting her. Bj?rnar looks around the room, which is seemingly being filled with thick fog. His eyes lands on the commemorative plaque, which reads "For assiduity and righteousness in service of the Union, honour is bestowed upon this Hero of The People, Bj?rnar Audun Tegn?r."
Seaside
Category:
Best New IDU Film
Synopsis:
Bj?rnar Tegn?r, a retired local councilor and former Mayor of the southern municipality of S?rfold, is setting out on a long train ride from Esaias to Port Kejm. He is to receive a commendation for 50 years of service in a public office. His son-in-law Audun accompanies him. The elderly Bj?rnar is dependent on Audun assisting him, although there is little love between the two men.
During the trip, Bj?rnar is plagued by both nightmares and daydreams, mirroring situations from his own life. The pair are seated in the same cabin as a disaffected and estranged married couple, who are travelling to attend their daughter's graduation from the University of Port Kejm. The couple, who exchanges even the most trivial of remarks with utter bitterness and contempt, reminds both Bj?rnar and Audun of their own unhappy marriages. In a feverish dream, his ex-wife accuses him of not wanting to have the baby she is carrying. Upon waking up, Bj?rnar finds Audun missing. He receives a phone call from his daughter, Ann, who tells him that Audun is leaving her, due to him finding out that she is pregnant.
Bj?rnar roams the train alone. He is struck by sadness and aloofness as he recognizes how his own life is mirrored by that of his child. While reminiscing about his childhood by the sea and getting lost in the notoriously thick fog of southern Gnejs, he gradually begins to accept the consequences of his past actions. Dozing off in the train bistro, he dreams of the Iapetus Sea.
Bj?rnar arrives at his destination and is given his award in a ceremony at the Storting (Parliament of Gnejs). That night, he phones his ex-wife to discuss how they should handle Ann's divorce and how they can support her during and after her pregnancy. She prosaically informs him that they have no daughter and requests that he stop contacting her. Bj?rnar looks around the room, which is seemingly being filled with thick fog. His eyes lands on the commemorative plaque, which reads "For assiduity and righteousness in service of the Union, honour is bestowed upon this Hero of The People, Bj?rnar Audun Tegn?r."