Kristian Landmark
Kristian Landmark is a Norwegian filmmaker and writer, born and raised in Kristiansand.
Producer/Director/Filmmaker
Landmark is originally a writer and director for the stage. He has directed several short films, documentaries, and dramatized documentaries. In 2017, he became part the alumni of the prestigious NorwegianFilmSchool, with a master ‘s degree in screenwriting. His exam feature film as a writer, AS I FALL, was nominated for...
Nedbemanning (2013)
//: Writer & Director
"Downsizing" takes place in a world that on the surface resemble the world of today, but where the international community has determined to collaborate to reduce the planets human population. In order to get permission to become biological parents, the couple Olav and Maria must go through a lengthy application process. They are both stunned when the response is negative, a rejection that is said not to be based on a flaw with the application, but that is rather a result o...
Svartedauen (2016)
//: Writer
Norway is hit by the biggest epidemic in the country's history. The Black Death is relentless. In less than two years, 60 percent of the population dies. How did ordinary women and men experience the ravages of the plague? Can we still hear the echoes of the 600-year-old disaster today?
- Norwegian documentary.
Tønes (2019)
//: Director
In 2018, Frank "Tønes" Tønnesen celebrated 25 years as an artist.
Since his first concert during a class party at Grubeheimen in Sokndal, the former electrician from Hauge i Dalane has become one of our biggest and most important artists. Tønes has received the Prøysen prize, the Dialect prize, several Spellemann prizes and has been nominated for the Nordic Music Prize.
This film is a portrait of the singer and electrician who stayed in his home village and writes touching songs.
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Med rett til å kapre (2013)
//: Writer & Director
In 1807, the Napoleonic war led to a famine in Norway. Norwegians then became pirates. Desperate men equipped small boats with cannons and set out to hijack - with the king's permission. Until 1814, they hijacked 450 ships.
The documentary "With the right to hijack" is a dramatized account of the privateering business in Southern Norway during the Napoleonic Wars, commented by Norwegian and British historians. 200 years ago, Kristiansand was Norway's privateering capital. ...
Moskus - Fortelling om et bilde (2022)
//: Writer
The artist Sverre Malling is known for his allegories and his way of implementing motif elements from Norwegian culture in a different context. He made himself even more famous outside the art community as the court draftsman in the July 22 trial. In this film, the creators have followed and observed Malling in the creation of the gigantic work of art "Norwegian muskox": a drawing of a musk. We follow each stroke on the canvas in a fascinating study of both the artwork and Malling as ...
Når jeg faller (2018)
//: Writer
"As I fall" is about Joachim who, despite having fallen again after returning from drug rehabilitation, lives a relatively normal life.
He lives cheaply in the old family cabin at Nesodden, he works as a cook, he pisses in a cup every week, he goes to a psychologist.
But of course he cheats on the urine test and lies to the psychologist. When his ex-girlfriend Maria ends up in prison, he suddenly has to take care of a son he hasn't seen in eight years. A son he doesn't know what he l...
"There is a (more than a tad prejudiced) saying about how you should be able to locate two pubs
in an Irish village with 50 inhabitants. In the southernmost part of Norway, you will find a similar kind of density. Not of pubs, but of churches and other places of worship, like the small, wooden, and white painted prayer houses. Idyllic Kristiansand- called ”K-town” by the locals - is not only a part of the Norwegian bible belt. It can be argued that it is the very buckle of that belt."
It is refreshing to see a project that tackles the seriousness of life in such an original way, and we allow ourselves to be extra excited by the story's tough, smart and multidimensional heroine.
The jury of the Children's Film Festival in Kristiansand
May 2021 about the project
"The Fall"
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