Filther

Simen Nyland | 20 min | Norway

Original title: Filther

Director: Simen Nyland

Year: 2025

Duration: 20 min

Country: Norway

Language: Norwegian

Subtitles: English

In a pre-apocalyptic Norway, a man whose head resembles a gas mask searches for love through a circus performer as the world edges closer to collapse. Blending allegory and fantasy, Filther becomes an existential reflection on human connection, vulnerability, and hope in the face of looming destruction.

Simen Nyland is a Norwegian filmmaker with a background in music videos and experimental cinema. His works often blur the line between surreal fantasy and stark realism, using striking visuals to explore themes of human vulnerability. Filther is his latest Short, produced in Tromsø.

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Sat 29
12:15

Short Films: Films from the North On the edge

Northern Perspectives

Sat 29
12:15

Short Films: Films from the North On the edge

Northern Perspectives + Q&A

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The short film program is curated by the Tromsø International Film Festival, whose representatives will be present to introduce the screening.

The Arctic is a place of thresholds – between land and sea, light and darkness, survival and surrender. In the short film program On the Edge, the Tromsø International Film Festival has gathered six short films from across the circumpolar North that move within these fragile borderlands.

Stories of identity, tradition, language, and belonging take shape through surreal allegory, mythic realism, intimate documentary, and quiet irreverence. Together, the films explore what it means to live on the margins – where resilience is tested and transformation begins.

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Short Films: Films from the North On the edge

Short Films: Films from the North On the edge

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