1. History

2. Programmes

3. BIFF and education
    BIFF for Schools  The School Film Festival 

4. Awards at Bergen International Film Festival
    Checkpoints  Best International Documentary/Documentaire Extraordinaire  Best Norwegian Documentary  Best Norwegian Short Documentary  The Audience Award  The Golden Owl  Youth Jury's Documentary Award  Best Norwegian Short Film  Young Talent Award  Cinema Extraordinare (discontinued in 2011, re-established in 2016)  Best Scandinavian Music Video (discontinued)  The Critic's Award (discontinued) 

5. The Festival by year

6. External links

The Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF) is a film festival held annually in October in Bergen, Norway since 2000, and is the largest film festival in the nation in number of films. The 17th edition of the festival in 2016 featured 160 films in the program. The festival leader is Tor Fosse, and BIFF is owned by Bergen Cinema.

The festivals main venue is Bergen Cinema's Magnus Barefoot Cinema Centre, with additional screenings taking place at the local art film theatre at Georgernes Verft and at the student cinema at Kvarteret.

History

In 2000, Bergen was a European Capital of Culture. Due to the occasion, Bergen Cinema arranged Bergen International Film Festival, with the most important films from the festival circuit of the year and many sneak previews of movies already picked up for Norwegian distribution. BIFF was one of the most successful events to take place during the celebration of the Cultural City with almost 20,000 visitors, and was arranged again the year after.

Over the years the festival has grown to be one of the biggest in Norway, with more than 160 films and 64,000 admissions in 2016.

Programmes

Bergen International Film Festival is organised in various sections:

• Checkpoints, the main program at BIFF, hosted with the Rafto Foundation for Human Rights, consisting of documentaries focusing on human rights. Since 2010, a jury has selected a winner.
• International Documentary Program, with a special selection competing for the best international documentary award.
• Norwegian Documentary Program, with a special selection competing for awards for best Norwegian documentary and best Norwegian short documentary.
• Norwegian Short Film Competition, a special program of short films, where filmmakers have to apply before being accepted.

BIFF and education

Bergen International Film Festival has an extensive program for high school and junior high school students in Bergen. BIFFs offers schools in the area to participate in two different programs:

BIFF for Schools

The festival offers free showing of documentaries that covers important subjects in history, democracy and human rights. BIFF also tries to bring filmmakers and even the characters the films portray to the screenings, making it possible for the students to converse with the talent afterwards. In 2010, former mayors of Bogotá, Antanas Mockus and Enrique Peñalosa held strong appeals to students of the power of local democracy after the showings of Bogota Change.

The School Film Festival

BIFF also offers a crash course film school for junior high schools, with professional filmmakers holding seminars. The festival then make camera and editing stations available for the students, and award one school each year for best student film.

Awards at Bergen International Film Festival

Checkpoints

Awarded since 2010 and one of the main prizes at BIFF, selected by a jury from a competition program consisting of films focusing on human rights.

• 2010: Budrus, directed by Julia Bacha {{ISR}}
• 2011: The Last Mountain, directed by Bill Haney {{USA}}
• 2012: Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony, directed by Alvaro Longoria {{ESP}}
• 2013: The Act of Killing, directed by J. Oppenheimer {{IDN}}
• 2014: Drone (2014 film), directed by Tonje Hessen Schei {{NOR}}
• 2015: The Hunting Ground, directed by Kirby Dick {{USA}}
• 2016: The War Show, directed by Obaidah Zytoon, Andreas M. Dalsgaard {{USA}}

Best International Documentary/Documentaire Extraordinaire

Awarded since 2004, after BIFF started to shift its focus more over to documentaries. The prize is 50,000 NOK, since 2013 awarded by NRK.

• 2004: The Master and His Pupil, directed by Sonia Herman Dolz {{NED}}
• 2005: The Boys of Baraka, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady {{USA}}
• 2006: God Grew Tired of Us, directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn {{USA}}
• 2007: Forever, directed by Heddy Honigmann {{NED}}
• 2008: War Child, directed by Christian Karim Chrobog {{USA}}
• 2009: Afghan Star, directed by Havana Marking {{UK}}
• 2010: The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, directed by Andrei Ujică {{ROM}}
• 2011: Buck, directed by Cindy Meehl {{USA}}
• 2012:
• 2013: The Unknown Known, directed by Errol Morris {{USA}}
• 2014: Waiting for August, directed by Teodora Ana Mihai {{BEL}} {{ROM}}
• 2015: Pervert Park, directed by Frida Barkfors and Lasse Barkfors {{DEN}} {{SWE}} {{USA}}
• 2016: Brothers of the night, directed by Patric Chiha {{AUT}}

Best Norwegian Documentary

Awarded since 2011. The prize is 40,000 NOK, since 2013 awarded by NRK.

• 2011: Folk ved fjorden, directed by Øyvind Sandberg
• 2012: De andre, directed by Margreth Olin
• 2013: Banaz A Love Story, directed by Deeyah Khan
• 2014: Drone, directed by Tonje Hessen Schei
• 2015: Voldtatt, directed by Linda Steinhoff
• 2016: Barneraneren, directed by Jon Haukeland

Best Norwegian Short Documentary

Awarded since 2011. The prize is 10,000 NOK, since 2013 awarded by NRK.

• 2011: Selger 327, directed by Kari Anne Moe
• 2012: Havets sølv, directed by Are Pilskog
• 2013: Du velger selv, directed by Kajsa Næss
• 2014: Dette er Kabul, directed by Sadaf Fetrat, Sahar Fetrat, Nargis Azaryun, Anders Sømme Hammer and Christoffer Næss
• 2015: Asylbarna: Farida, directed by Ragnhild Sørheim og Christer Fasmer
• 2016: Boys, directed by Sunniva Sundby

The Audience Award

• 2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, directed by Ang Lee {{CHN}}
• 2001: Das Experiment, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel {{GER}}
• 2002: Bowling for Columbine, directed by Michael Moore {{USA}}
• 2003: Kill Bill Vol. 1, directed by Quentin Tarantino {{USA}}
• 2004: Oldboy, directed by Park Chan-wook {{KOR}}
• 2005: Sirkel, directed by Aleksander Nordaas {{NOR}}
• 2006: The Queen, directed by Stephen Frears {{UK}}
• 2007: Fashion Victims, directed by Ingo Rasper {{GER}}
• 2008: Young@Heart, directed by Stephen Walker {{UK}}
• 2009: Bring Children from Streets, directed by Espen Faugstad and Eivind Nilsen {{NOR}}
• 2010: World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements, directed by Chris Farina {{USA}}
• 2011: Bully, directed by Lee Hirsch {{USA}}
• 2012: Beasts of the Southern Wild, directed by Benh Zeitlin {{USA}}
• 2013: Siblings are forever, directed by Frode Fimland {{NOR}}
• 2014: Good Girl, directed by Solveig Melkeraaen {{NOR}}
• 2015: Raped, directed by Linda Steinhoff {{NOR}}
• 2016: The Handmaiden, directed by Park Chan-wook {{KOR}}

The Golden Owl

Awarded by the University of Bergen since 2014 to the best science documentary. The prize is 25,000 NOK.

• 2014: How I Came to Hate Math, directed by Olivier Peyon {{FRA}}
• 2015: Ice and the Sky, directed by Luc Jacquet {{FRA}}
• 2016: Monster in the mind, directed by Jean Carper {{USA}}

Youth Jury's Documentary Award

A prize awarded since 2004 by a jury consisting of high school students that choose from the films that is a part of the BIFF for Schools program.

• 2004: Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, directed by Robert Greenwald {{USA}}
• 2005: Lost Children, directed by Oliver Stoltz {{GER}}
• 2006: The Oil Crash, directed by Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack {{CHE}}
• 2007: Sharkwater, directed by Rob Stewart {{CAN}}
• 2008: Yodok Stories, directed by Andrzej Fidyk {{NOR}}
• 2009: The Cove, directed by Louie Psihoyos {{USA}}
• 2010: Bogota Change, directed by Andreas Møl Dalsgaard {{DEN}}
• 2011: Bully, directed by Lee Hirsch {{USA}}
• 2012: 5 Broken Cameras, directed by Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi {{PSE}}
• 2013: The Human Scale, directed by Andreas Dalsgaard {{DEN}}
• 2014: We Are the Giant, directed by Greg Barker {{USA}}
• 2015: The Mask You Live In, directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom {{USA}}
• 2016: The Crossing, directed by George Kurian {{NOR}}

Best Norwegian Short Film

Awarded since 2004.

• 2003: Fear Less, directed by Therese Jacobsen
• 2004: The Bible, directed by Bjørn Amundlien
• 2005: Drømme kan du gjøre senere, directed by Thomas A. Østbye
• 2006: Drømmehuset, directed by Øystein Mamen
• 2007: Bo jo cie kochom (Fordi jeg elsker deg), directed by Gine Therese Grønner
• 2008: Ekornet, directed by Stian Einar Forgaard
• 2009: Skylappjenta, directed by Iram Haq
• 2010: Jenny, directed by Ingvild Søderlind
• 2011: Asyl, directed by Jørn Utkilen
• 2012: Å vokte fjellet, directed by Izer Aliu
• 2013: Money Back Please, directed by Even Hafnor
• 2014: Ja vi elsker, directed by Hallvar Witzø
• 2015: Small Talk, directed by Even Hafnor
• 2016: The Committee, directed by Gunnhild Enger

Young Talent Award

Awarded since 2005, with a prize of 20,000 NOK.

• 2005: Aleksander Nordaas
• 2006: Morvary Samaré and Astrid Schau-Larsen
• 2007: Tor Kristian Liseth
• 2008: Olav Øyehaug
• 2009: Espen Faugstad and Eivind Nilsen
• 2010: Kedy Hassani
• 2011: Frida Eggum Michaelsen
• 2012: Are Pilskog
• 2013: Mads Andersen
• 2014: Kjell Mathiesen
• 2015: Hildegunn Wærness
• 2016: David Alræk

Cinema Extraordinare (discontinued in 2011, re-established in 2016)

The former main award at Bergen International Film Festival, awarded to the best feature film 2000-2011. The prize has had its present name since 2007. 2000-2005 it was called The Jury's Award, and 2006-2007 it was named The Norwegian Film Institute's Import Award, with the prize being Norwegian distribution.

• 2000: Luna Papa, directed by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov {{TJK}}
• 2001: Lagaan, directed by Ashutosh Gowariker {{IND}}
• 2002: Dog Days, directed by Ulrich Seidl {{AUT}}
• 2003: Blind Shaft, directed by Li Yang {{CHN}}
• 2004: Mysterious Skin, directed by Gregg Araki {{USA}}
• 2005: Frozen Land, directed by Aku Louhimies {{FIN}}
• 2006: The Minder, directed by Rodrigo Moreno {{ARG}}
• 2007: Silent Light, directed by Carlos Reygadas {{MEX}}
• 2008: The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner, directed by Stefan Komandarev {{BUL}}
• 2009: No One's Son, directed by Arsen Anton Ostojić {{CRO}}
• 2010: Le Quattro Volte, directed by Michelangelo Frammatino {{ITA}}
• 2016: House of others, directed by Rusudan Glurjidze {{GEO}} {{CRO}} {{RUS}} {{ESP}}

Best Scandinavian Music Video (discontinued)

Awarded 2010-2013.

• 2010: Torgny - "The Only Game", directed by Emil Trier {{NOR}}
• 2011:
• 2012: Todd Terje - "Inspector Norse", directed by Kristoffer Borgli {{NOR}}
• 2013: The Knife - a Tooth for an Eye, {{SWE}}

The Critic's Award (discontinued)

Only awarded once, by the film journalists attending the festival in 2003.

• 2003: A Good Lawyer's Wife, directed by Im Sang-soo {{KOR}}

The Festival by year

• 2003 Bergen International Film Festival
• 2009 Bergen International Film Festival
• 2010 Bergen International Film Festival

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