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A New Kind Of Wilderness

Directed by Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
2024
Norway
84 minutes
Unclassified 15+
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The beautiful, heart-rending story of a young family living a sustainable life in the Norwegian countryside – until tragedy strikes. Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner 2024.

It’s not easy growing your own food, running an isolated smallholding, and home schooling three kids. But Scandi photographer Maria and Englishman Nik are committed to raising their kids in a sustainable off-the-grid way. It’s a hectic but seemingly idyllic life, full of precious moments like family walks in the forest. Then the unthinkable happens, and Nik is forced to re-evaluate. Director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen filmed the bilingual household over several years. She captures this close-knit family with tenderness and grace, as they find a way through their grief and forge a new kind of life.

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Nature, which Maria adored, has a way of healing itself, so it is apt that this documentary chronicles that same cycle of renewal and growth in the people she loved
Tim Grierson, Screen International
Aching emotional candour and continued visual beauty
Guy Lodge, Variety

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Thu 13 Jun
6:30pm
Palace Norton Street - Cinema 3
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Sun 16 Jun
4pm
Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Program Strand
International Documentaries
Year
2024
Classification
Unclassified 15+
Country
Norway
Language
In English and Norwegian with English subtitles
Director
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
Producer
Mari Bakke Riise
Cinematographer
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen, Karine Fosser, Line K. Lyngstadaas
Editor
Kristian Tveit, Christoffer Heie
Premiere
Australian Premiere
Genre
Documentary, Environmental, Women Directors, Festival Award Winners, Family, Scandinavia
Company Credits
Sales Agent: DR Sales
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