Nordisk Film & TV Fond — Produktionsstøtte

Støtter

We support Nordic feature films, drama series and creative documentaries. Nordisk Film & TV Fond (NFTVF) supports Nordic high-quality feature films, drama series, and creative documentaries. The funding schemes are: Top financing of feature films Top financing of drama series Top financing of documentaries Financing of film distribution Financing of dubbing Financing of industry initiatives. Nordic shows aim to go global, combining local storytelling with clear concepts and universally recognisable themes. 2025 put Nordic animation in the spotlight, and despite challenging markets the year saw many successes for Nordic productions. The report offers a Nordic industry angle into the year, and highlights exciting upcoming productions. Half of the films that received support for distribution to other Nordic countries in Q1 are aimed at children and youth, as well as two of the eleven top financed productions. The frustrating part is that genre is actually performing. The appetite is real – our films travel the world in the Norwegian language, rooted in Norwegian nature and Norwegian stories. That, to me, is proof that local is global. The commercial argument for genre is right there. The support structures just need to catch up. If Kraken – a commercially minded genre film rooted in Norwegian folklore and delivered in Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision and 4DX – performs abroad, it can prove that “Nordic genre can be a commercial proposition, not just a festival curiosity. That’s the argument investors and distributors need to see made in numbers, not just in ambition.” Sisu films by Jalmari Helander “are the best thing to happen in the Finnish film industry for some time”. “It’s a perfect combination of brutal action, captivating storytelling and dark humour. They are born from Finnish mentality, but work for international viewers. That’s a winning formula right there!” It would be great to see the independent approach to filmmaking have its footprint grow in every Nordic country, have people not overlook the importance of short films, and have the funding entities increase the support of genre related content. That’s what the audiences from Asia to North America are looking forward to getting from us. Nordic genre content is a brand in itself, so the international audiences should not be let down. Examples of supported projects and filmmakers include: Denmark’s Winding Refn and Romania’s Mungiu defending the Nordic colours. Ester Bergsmark with A Sweetness From Nowhere. Hanna Bergholm with Hatching and Nightborn. Eskil Vogt with Sentimental Value. Jón Hammer collaborating on Tea Lindeburg’s The Seal Woman. Isabella Eklöf with The Death of Bunny Munro and Mr. Nawashi. Hlynur Pálmason with Joan of Arc and The Love That Remains. Sofie Gråbøl with The Last Viking and The Killing. Rasmus A. Sivertsen, Mikko Pitkänen and Jens Møller with Fleak and Captain Sabertooth. Tarik Saleh, Fares Fares and Sverrir Guðnason with Eagles of the Republic and The Love That Remains. Drama series such as Still Breathing (Norwegian), L/over (Finnish), Burden of Justice (Swedish), The Uniform (Danish). Documentaries such as The Beauty of Errors (Finnish), We Are Stardust (Norwegian), In Cod We Trust (Norwegian). Feature films such as Redoubt (Swedish), Disturbed (Icelandic). Genre films like Nightborn (Yön lapsi), The Squirrel (Orava), Red Snow, Bloodsuckers, The Twin, Hatching (Pahanhautoja), Strive, Kraken, Honey, I’m Home!, Timo – The Lord of Potato, and The Sisu films.