LENE BERG (1965) is a well-established Norwegian filmmaker and artist based in Berlin and Oslo. She has directed twelve films - sold and shown on several platforms both within the film and art world. She often draws her inspiration from documentary material. Her artistic praxis includes film, photography, collage and text-based works. Through the use of different narrative structures and techniques Berg explores relationships between contemporary images and inherited ideas; between facts and clichés; between story-telling and ideology. The relationship between art and propaganda as well as the representation of truth and fiction are essential. 

Lene Berg was educated as a film director at the Dramatiska Institutet (University College of Film, Radio, Television, and Theater), in Stockholm. Her autobiographical film “False Belief” premiered at the Berlinale in 2019 and was nominated for the Amnesty and Teddy Awards. She represented Norway in the 55th Venice Biennale with the film “Dirty Young Loose”. In 2022 she did the Festival Exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall, which is considered the most prestigeous solo presentation for a Norwegian artist in the country. In 2023 her first novel Fra far/From Father was published by Kolon Forlag.

THOMAS A ØSTBYE is a distinctive voice among Norwegian directors. He’s known to combine artistic reflections on the documentary genre with contemporary political dilemmas. He made his mark with formally challenging documentaries like Imagining Emanuel, HUMAN, and In your dreams, which received a dozen art and film awards, bought by the Arts Council Norway, and screened at venues ranging from the National Broadcasting to the Museum of Modern Art NY. Østbye also makes art installations, photography, interactive film through PlymSerafin.

ELLEN UGELSTAD received a BFA from the Academy of Arts University, in San Francisco, California. She founded the collective 21 Pictures, an independent production company focusing on film, art and distribution, upon her return to Norway. Ugelstad’s work often explores the thin line between sanity and insanity; the hierarchy of power, and different forms of reality. Ugelstad’s previous documentary, “Indian Summer”, tells the story of her younger brother living with schizophrenia. “Indian Summer” was nominated for the International Young Talent Award at DOK Leipzig, and the Nordic Dox Award at CPH:DOX. The film also won two nominations at the Norwegian Emmy-Awards. Her short film “The Meetingroom” won best screenplay at the Norwegian Shortfilmfestival in 2017. Both “The Green Valley” and “The Wonders Beneath the Sea”, two more short films by Ugelstad, received the Golden Chair award at the Norwegian Shortfilm festival, qualifying them for Oscars consideration. In her most recent endeavors, Ugelstad successfully wrapped up "The Recovery Channel" and unveiled two short films, "Echo, Bully, and Rhythm" and "Next of Kin. Take a look at her website her: Se mer her.

TOVE UNDHEIM

is a Norwegian filmmaker with extensive experience in directing, screenwriting, and assistant directing across feature films, short films, documentaries, and music videos. She is a graduate of The Norwegian Film School in Lillehammer, with previous studies in Fine Arts at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Nordland School of Art and Film in Lofoten. She made her feature film debut with «Twigson & The Sea Monster» in 2020, she also wrote the screenplay for this film. Her work includes a robust list of short films, such as Quarantined Family Karlsen (2021), Reception (2017), and Not so Easy (2013) as well as the documentary Gunhilds Kamp (2022), a four-episode television series. She has also directed several music videos. Tove has contributed to prominent Norwegian films as a second-unit director and assistant director, collaborating with notable filmmakers like Eskil Vogt on The Innocents (2021) and Blind (2012), and with Eva Sørhaug on 90 Minutes (2011). Her films have been featured at international festivals, including the Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad, the Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF), and the Festival International Signes de Nuit across Paris, Bangkok, and Berlin. She has been awarded several artistic grants, including t the Norwegian Arts Council in 2021 and 2022, a one-year work stipend from the Norwegian Writers’ Guild in 2018, and an artist residency at the Ingmar Bergman Estate on Fårö.

CECILIE SEMEC AND SILAS HENRIKSEN is a Norwegian filmmaker duo based in Oslo. KLARA is their 5th collaboration together.

SILAS HENRIKSEN is a dancer and filmmaker based in Oslo. He graduated from the Norwegian Academy of the Arts in 2007. He has since then been engaged with the Norwegian Natonal Ballet and The Netherland Dance Theater. With the Netherlands Dance Theater he has performed in a numerous pres3ges stages around the world like Bolshoi and Lincoln Center, and was appointed principal dancer with the Norwegian Na3onal Ballet in 2018.

CECILIE SEMEC is a cinematographer based in Scandinavia. She graduated from The Norwegian Film School in 2004. Her work as a cinematographer includes "S3ll Bird" screened in La Biennale de la Venezia in 2009 and "Cold" that competed for a Palm d ´Or in Cannes in 2011. "Time Passes" was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in 2016. Her most recent work is the critcally acclaimed "The Light from the Chocolate Factory".