AWARDS & SPECIAL SCREENINGS
 

World Premiere – Toronto International Film Festival, Canada

Audience Award – Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden

Winner of the Human Rights Award – Al Jazeera International Documentary Festival, Qatar

Volda: Audience Award – The Norwegian Documentary Film Festival, Norway

Best Film - Gaza Film Festival

Best Feature Documentary, Children of War Foundation – Monaco Charity Film Festival

Audience Award: Best Documentary, Jury Commendation – Durango Indie Film Festival, Colorado

Best Documentary – Al Ard Palestinian Film Festival

 

FILM FESTIVALS
 

The Film Festival, Poland

DocsBarcelona International Documentary Film Festival, Spain

Biografilm Festival, International Celebration of Lives, Italy

DOCUMED The Association of Documentary Cinema, Tunisia

Shanghai International Film Festival, China

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece

DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Korea

Black Star International Film Festival, Ghana

Job Film Days International Film Festival, Italy

The Zurich Film Festival, Switzerland

DocsMX International Documentary Film Festival, Mexico

One World – International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Check Republic

Festivals des Libertés, Belgium

Palestine Cinema Days

The Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany

Karama Human Rights Festival (HRFF), Jordan

THE FILMMAKER
 

Vibeke Løkkeberg is a Norwegian actress, film director and author. She made her acting debut in 1967 with the feature film Liv.  In the 70s she began to also direct and write films and documentaries becoming one of Norway’s most prominent filmmakers.  Her husband and collaborator Terje Kristiansen produced her films. Vibeke’s movies and documentaries explore subjects that society wants to hide. Her mission as an artist is to look at the issues that affect her. “I want to be on the side of the victims, not the powerful.” Vibeke’s debut feature film, The Revelation caused controversy in Norway.  The film shows a naked middle-aged woman. The film became Vibeke’s international breakthrough film. It was screened theatrically throughout Europe and the US.  Kamila was invited to the 1982 Cannes Un Certain Regard and was released theatrically in the U.S. NY Times’ Vincent Camby wrote about Vibeke, “…a filmmaker of feeling and imagination. The performances are superior…” Hud was Vibeke’s second to be invited to the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Her documentary Tears of Gaza profiles the impact of the brutal consequences of modern wars.  It was invited to the Toronto International Film Festival and the Jerusalem Film Festival. Løkkeberg is also a leading writer.  She has published novels including Leopard, Earth's Shadow, Purple, Letter to the Helmet and Allies.