A Letter To The King

when nobody knows who you are

Director / Hisham Zaman
Writers / Hisham Zaman & Mehmet Aktas
Producers / Alan R. Milligan & Hisham Zaman
Genre / Drama
Languages / Norwegian / Kurdish / English / Pashto / Greek
Running time / 110 minutes

Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Hisham Zaman (Bawke, Winterland) once again captures the unique experiences of outsiders travelling in foreign lands with warmth, drama and humour.

‘A Letter to the King’ follows a group of refugees on a bus bound for Oslo visiting the capital city in a land promising new beginnings. But for five people living on the outskirts of society, it’s a day to rectify the past and justify a new future.

Beritan has a name, face and eight hours to avenge her husbands’ death. Akhbar must collect the money he is owed to buy a passport or face deportation. Zirek goes to great lengths to meet a girl and perhaps for just a moment, feel like a normal teenager. And Mirza, an 82 year old man, hopes to return to Iraq to bury his children found in one of Saddam’s mass graves. The King of Norway is his last hope in granting him his final wish.

Though director Hisham Zaman’s characters may be foreigners in a new land, they are people with desires that live within us all. ‘A Letter to the King’ will show us the streets of Oslo from a side unknown to most, by people unknown to all.

Peace in Our Time

Surveillance is Honesty

Director / Rich Devaney
Writers / Alan R. Milligan & Rich Devaney
Genre / Political Satire
Language / English / Norwegian
Running time / 12 minutes
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Javier, an ordinary young Canadian in New York City, lives in fear that the US government monitors everything people do and say.

One morning, during an internet meeting, his Norwegian colleagues Arnie and Alfred take their jokes too far and Javier learns that Surveillance is Honesty.

Cast: Thomas Milligan, Samrat Chakrabati, Robert Postrozny

Kanada

A world far away

Director / Shahrukh Kavousi
Writers / Shahrukh Kavousi
Genre / Drama
Language / Kurdish / Norwegian
Running time / 22 minutes
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Kanada is a film about the teenager Reza (17), a refugee sitting in church asylum in Norway, who must choose between staying with his older brother, or escaping to his freedom alone.

Cast: Nechirvan Akram, Mohammad Mahmud, Bewar Naman Abdullah