Storspoven Short Films 3: A Place to Belong

The thought of the future can be frightening, but hopefully it also holds hope and reassurance. Whether you find yourself aboard a spaceship, in an old Norwegian sheriff’s residence or at a reindeer herding camp. This short film programme moves between dreamlike recollections, dystopias close to home and the hopes of young people imagining a future on their own terms.

Drømmehus by Mads Toft Hansen and Alma-Oline Weitling (11 min)
An old Norwegian sheriff’s residence is carefully restored while the everyday lives of its former inhabitants are playfully reimagined. Blending observation and staging, the film drifts between past and present, grandeur and decay, in a portrait of a house worth preserving.

2034 by Richard Desiatnik (14 min)
In a near-future Umeå shaped by surveillance, ID checks and deportations, the cautious Adam is forced to make a life-changing decision when he suddenly becomes responsible for a neighbour’s infant. A tense dystopian thriller about courage, fear and resistance in a society where compassion has become dangerous.

Chambre Séparée by Jonas Lawes (14 min)
Astronauts Magnus and Charlotta are on their way back to Earth when a pandemic suddenly makes their return impossible. As their oxygen supply dwindles, strange things begin to happen. Charlotta soon realises that her travelling companion is a madman with a murky past and a bleak view of the future.

Respit by Mads Toft Hansen and Alma-Oline Weitling (17 min)
A young Danish man travels to Norway to clear out his late mother’s house. Surrounded by the belongings and traces she left behind, he is forced to confront both the place and the past. In unfamiliar surroundings, a story unfolds about family tensions, loss and belonging.

Maut by Dmitrii Davydov (16 min)
Twenty-one-year-old Evenk Grisha is determined to leave his reindeer herding camp and head for the city, despite his father’s objections.

Dig äger ingen by Agnes Koskinen (18 min)
Eighteen-year-old Alicia is a competitive swimmer spending a summer day at her family’s cottage. During a swim across the bay, she meets Mira. When Alicia returns home, nothing feels the same. As the summer night draws to a close, she must try to figure out where she belongs.