
Joern Utkilen
Directing
Known For

Modern, bizarre version of Little Red Riding Hood. Precocious girl takes a TV set to her grandmother’s. After a strange meeting on the way and a stop at the DVD store, she decides to let her friend go in. Disquieting, with chillingly fine acting by the two girls.
Little Red Hoodie

A cowboy rides into a rich desert mining town where no-one longer needs to work, and stir things up to what may very well be the town's final days.
Lake over Fire
A stubborn English tourist visits a Norwegian hotel with a vending machine and a sign with the text "No Coke". Based on true events.
No Coke
A man on a mission meets delays from a militant lollipop man, a boy on a scooter and a zimmerframe-toting pensioner before a waterside showdown and a date with destiny, tutus and Tchaikovsky.
Swansong
A meditation on the movement of people around the world. The encounter with a new homeland, a new culture and a new system. Melina, 18, a refugee from the Middle East, is stuck in the system that is meant to help her find work in her new homeland.
Beat Around the Bush
A tale of gossip and exaggeration in a small Scottish town.
The Toon Fair

The status and love affairs in childhood through a skewed lens – revealing the liberating force of not caring about what others think.
Sexy Love

Unknown to the many, loved by the few: a film about Norwegian cult-musician Arvid Sletta.
Statement Too
A story about a young woman who wants to make a baby with her husband.