
Mathis Mathisen
Production
Biography
From the Arctic town of Alta, co founder of Rein Film - Berlinale Talents 2019 and Young Nordic Producers Cannes 2018. EAVE Producer 2020. Has co produced two international feature films, a television drama, and has produced a feature film with Norway's Hollywood based director Tommy Wirkola, plus documentaries and shorts. Also a metal musician in the band Attan, signed to Shelsmusic (US) and Fysisk Format (Norway).
Known For

The quiet family life of Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver, is upended after his son's murder. Nels begins a vengeful hunt for Viking, the drug lord he holds responsible for the killing, eliminating Viking's associates one by one. As Nels draws closer to Viking, his actions bring even more unexpected and violent consequences, as he proves that revenge is all in the execution.
Cold Pursuit

Eight medical students on a ski trip to Norway discover that Hitler's horrors live on when they come face to face with a battalion of zombie Nazi soldiers intent on devouring anyone unfortunate enough to wander into the remote mountains where they were once sent to die.
Dead Snow

On the border between Norway and the Soviet Union, a fisherman refuses to give up his catch.
Borderland

Ines, who wants to change who she is and become someone else in order to cover up her insecurities. When she accompanies her boyfriend Lucas on a business trip to Norway, Ines meets a half-Japanese tourist, Maria, who instantly fascinates her. Suddenly Maria disappears, and Ines seizes the opportunity to replace her – she declares herself dead and travels to Japan in order to take over Maria's identity. There, she will get a job at Miss Osaka, the same nightclub where Maria used to work. A game of broken boundaries, lost identities and the dangerous balance between reality and the past has begun, and Ines must abide by the new rules by avoiding the more obscure paths.
Miss Osaka

A perfect housewife, who just happens to be sex-starved, struggles to keep her emotions in check when an attractive family moves in next door.
Happy, Happy

The crazy fisher man Kurt Josef, an early pensioner, and his odd musical friend Rock Fjellstad has landed a job at Hurtigruta, only to discover that someone has killed off a famous artist, the former M2M-member Marion Ravn.
Kurt Josef Wagle and the Murder Mystery on the Hurtigruta

Elvira, a confident Sámi teenager, firmly believes that her lesbian single mother conceived her at a Danish fertility clinic. She often daydreams about her father, envisioning him as a charismatic movie star. However, her world is turned upside down when her real biological father unexpectedly steps into her life.
My Fathers' Daughter

Nikolai and Vegard were childhood friends who spent their free time on the ski slopes. Now, Nikolai has become a professional skier, while Vegard lives in caves and trains obsessively to complete a perilous and physically demanding ski tour. This is a story about friendship and setting ambitious goals.
SKI - The Greatest Ski Tour of All Time

Thor's father drinks, and Thor escapes to the woods and refuses to come home before he quits drinking. Lucky for Thor he has a lot of friends who help him.
For Tor's Sake

Josefin has installed the fattest bass box in her EPA and rolls out to impress her crush, Billy. But when the subculture with the thundering bass passages meets a sound-sensitive adult world with sleep problems, it goes haywire and degenerates into blood whiteness.
Terror Night

A documentary about renowned Norwegian author Ingvar Ambjørnsen. Being one of Norways most-read modern authors, and having written over 30 books of which seven have been made into movies, he visits old places that mean something to him. From his childhood to his older life, many stations in his life are called to and he shares some of his thoughts about them with the audience.
The White Nigger

Gustav (15) is vegan and straight edge in 90s Umeå. One night, he follows his friend Zeke, full of hatred against the meat industry, to the town's slaughterhouse with gasoline-filled bottles. It will be a night that changes Gustav forever.
The Raid
In 2017, Anneli Drecker celebrates 30 years as an artist. Frustrated by today's superficial focus on appearance in the pop industry, she embarks on an educational journey and a doctorate to learn ancient techniques from various mentors in traditional singing, in search of the voices.
The Voice of the North

Mum is dead and has to be buried, and the brothers have to meet. But old conflicts quickly come back to life.
Mum's Dead for Fuck's Sake

A pregnant widow steals silver from a dead body in order to survive and feed her daughter. But the silver is cursed and has consequences for all of them, including the unborn.
Unborn Biru

A film shot entirely during six peak weeks as COVID-19 hits the world - and the small Arctic town of Tromsø. The filmmaker follows a group of individuals, that each in their own way are trying to grasp, interpret and cope with their existence being turned upside down. As apocalypse looms and one snow storm after another hits their town, their paths collide. What awaits on the other side?
Alt blir bra?
Háldi is a unique Sámi short film created at the boundary between film and music. The film evolves around a Sámi underground world where you can get inspiration and power. In this world, Háldi is all living beings' guardian helper. The film focuses on the unity and power of female relations in Sámi tradition and mythology.
Háldi

Based entirely on found footage, the film conveys the story of the Norwegian band Hangface as they move to Los Angeles in the early 2000's to take on the music world with legendary producer Eddie Kramer (Zeppelin, Beatles, Stones). Accompanying them is a mini-DV camera, that 20 years later serves as a portal into the inner lives of five overly ambitious boys who were set on conquering the world.