2010 Bergen International Film Festival

The 2010 Bergen International Film Festival was arranged in Bergen, Norway 20th-27 October 2010, and was the 11th edition of the festival. It featured over 150 feature films and documentaries, and had an attendance over 45,000, both numbers a new record for the festival.

Important screenings
For the first time, both the opening and the closing film was a Norwegian production.

Opening film
 * Home for Christmas, directed by Bent Hamer 🇳🇴

Closing film
 * The Troll Hunter, directed by André Øvredal 🇳🇴

Cinema Extraordinare - In competition

 * The Albanian, directed by Johannes Naber 🇩🇪
 * All That I Love, directed by Jacek Borcuch 🇵🇱
 * Au Revoir Taipei, directed by Arvin Chen 🇹🇼
 * Carancho, directed by Pablo Trapero 🇦🇷
 * Dust, directed by Max Jacoby 🇱🇺
 * Eastern Drift, directed by Šarūnas Bartas 🇱🇹 and 🇷🇺
 * Honeymoons, directed by Goran Paskaljević 🇷🇸 and 🇦🇱
 * The Invisible Eye, directed by Diego Lerman 🇦🇷
 * I Saw the Sun, directed by Mahsun Kırmızıgül 🇹🇷
 * Le Quattro Volte, directed by Michelangelo Frammatino 🇮🇹
 * Life, Above All, directed by Oliver Schmitz 🇿🇦
 * Moloch Tropical, directed by Raoul Peck 🇭🇹
 * My Joy, directed by Sergei Loznitsa 🇺🇦
 * Southern District, directed by Juan Carlos Valdivia 🇧🇴
 * Tarda Estate, directed by Antonio Di Trapani an Marco de Angelis 🇮🇹

Documentaries - In competition

 * The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, directed by Andrei Ujică
 * Bogota Change, directed by Andreas Møl Dalsgaard
 * Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, directed by Alex Gibney 🇺🇸
 * Disco and Atomic War, directed by Jaak Kilmi 🇪🇪
 * Dreams in Copenhagen, directed by Max Kestner
 * General Orders no. 9, directed by Robert Persons 🇺🇸
 * Human Terrain, directed by James Der Derian, David Udris and Michael Udris 🇺🇸
 * Inside Job, directed by Charles H. Ferguson 🇺🇸
 * My Perestroika, directed by Robin Hessman 🇺🇸
 * Secrets of the Tribe, directed by José Padilha 🇧🇷 and
 * Transcendent Man, directed by Barry Ptolemy 🇺🇸
 * Waiting for "Superman", directed by Davis Guggenheim 🇺🇸
 * World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements, directed by Chris Farina 🇺🇸

Checkpoints - In competition
The Checkpoints program have existed since 2007, and is a special program focusing on human rights. In 2010, for the first time, there was declared a winner of the program by a jury led by Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi. The prize money, 50,000 NOK, is awarded to the people the documentary portrays and their cause, not the filmmakers.


 * Bhutto, directed by Duane Baughman and Johnny O'Hara 🇺🇸
 * Bogota Change, directed by Andreas Møl Dalsgaard
 * Budrus, directed by Julia Bacha 🇮🇱
 * Enemies of the People, directed by Thet Sambath and Rob Lemkin and
 * Grace, Milly, Lucy, directed by Raymonde Provencher 🇨🇦
 * Hunger, directed by Marcus Vetter and Karin Steinberg 🇩🇪
 * Miss Landmine, directed by Stan Feingold 🇨🇦
 * There Once was an Island, directed by Briar March 🇳🇿
 * War Don Don, directed by Rebecca Richman Cohen 🇺🇸
 * Waste Land, directed by Lucy Walker 🇧🇷 and
 * World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements, directed by Chris Farina 🇺🇸

Norwegian Short Film Competition

 * 1987-1993, directed by Marius Dybwad Brandrud
 * Akvarium, directed by Bård Røssevold
 * Amor, directed by Thomas Wangsmo
 * Fredag, directed by Eirik Svensson
 * Jenny, directed by Ingvild Søderlind
 * Travelling Fields, directed by Inger Lise Hansen
 * Tuba Atlantic, directed by Hallvar Witzø

Scandinavias Best Music Video
This competition program was arranged for the first time in 2010. Music videos from both 2009 and 2010 was eligible, and the videos was nominated by a jury, instead of filmmakers applying for admission, like in the short film program.


 * Adiam Dymott - "Miss You", directed by Senay&Kolacz 🇸🇪
 * Casiokids - "En vill hest", directed by Kristoffer Borgli 🇳🇴
 * Donkeyboy - "Ambitions", directed by Kristoffer Borgli 🇳🇴
 * El Perro del Mar - "Change of Heart", directed by Fredrik Nilsson 🇸🇪
 * Familjen - "Det var jag", directed by Mats Udd 🇸🇪
 * Fever Ray - "If I Had a Heart", directed by Andreas Nilsson 🇸🇪
 * Fever Ray - "When I Grow Up", directed by Martin de Thurah
 * Kent - "Idioter", directed by Gustav Johansson 🇸🇪
 * Kvelertak - "Mjød", directed by Fredrik S. Hana 🇳🇴
 * Lars Vaular - "En eneste", directed by Andrew Amorim 🇳🇴
 * Lulu Rouge ft Mikael Sampson - "Bless You", directed by Jimmy Falinski Kornhauser
 * Mew - "Introducing Palace Players", directed by Martin de Thurah
 * Mew - "Repeaterbeater", directed by Martin de Thurah
 * Torgny - "The Only Game", directed by Emil Trier 🇳🇴
 * Trentemøller - "Sycamore Feeling", directed by Jesper Just

Cinema Extraordinare

 * Le Quattro Volte, directed by Michelangelo Frammatino 🇮🇹

The Audience Award

 * World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements, directed by Chris Farina 🇺🇸

Best Documentary

 * The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, directed by Andrei Ujică

Youth Jury's Documentary Award

 * Bogota Change, directed by Andreas Møl Dalsgaard

Checkpoints

 * Budrus, directed by Julia Bacha 🇮🇱

Best Norwegian Short Film

 * Jenny, directed by Ingvild Søderlind

Best Scandinavian Music Video

 * Torgny - "The Only Game", directed by Emil Trier 🇳🇴

Young Talent Award

 * Kedy Hassani