We follow a group of babies and parents during a year in their Scandinavian maternity leave. Some of them have bigger plans, they want to move to the ocean and buy new properties. Some are stressed. What can babies eat? Cucumber? Is it ok with salmon?
One father, Jon, is working as a teacher. The principal at his school call some parents to keep their children home so they won’t drag down the scores on the National test.
The grown-ups are under pressure. They fill out forms on anxiety symptoms and divorce-papers. Sinking down in therapy-chairs and lying in each other’s couches. The fragile nuclear-family structures are cracking down and other grown-ups step up to help. The babies are there, present in every picture, witnessing.
Director Mariken Halle
Sound Helge Bodøgaard, Runne Baggerud, Vegard Soldal, Torjus Hembre
Cinematography Mariken Halle
Productionmanager Magnus Mork
Assistant director Guro Bruusgaard
Productionworker Marin Håskjold, David Krøyer
Sounddesign The Soundfactory
Artwork Ronja Svenning Berge
Producers ALTERNATIVET v / Mariken Halle, Magnus Mork, Guro Bruusgaard, Katja Eyde Jacobsen
Distribution Another World Entertainment v / Marius Olsen (Norway)
International distributiuon Filmbyrået Jack, www.jackfilmbyra.no
Supported by Mediefabrikken and The Norwegian Film Institute v / Ståle Stein Berg
Screened at
CPH:DOX, Tromsø Internasjonale Filmfestival 2020, Gøteborg Internasjonale Filmfestival, AMIFF – Arctic Moving Images Filmfestival (Harstad), Festival Internarnacional de Cinema em Balneário Camboriú (Brasil), Bremen Filmfest, AVIFF Art Film Festival i Cannes, Donna Fugata International Filmfestival (Italia), OFF Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema (Polen)
Cast JON Leif Edlund
NINA Marte Germaine Christensen
KARL Niklas Gundersen
BEN Petter Width Kristiansen
DAVID Bhkie Male
BERNT Thomas Holtermann Østgaard
BIRGITTE Ingrid Liavaag
DAVE Magnus Mork
ROSE Sofia Haraldsson
ASTRID Lisa Lie
KAREN Maja Halle
PERNILLE Anne Grønlund
HERMINE Karen Holien Grønlund
CAMILLA Nora Campbel
MERCY Iselin Schumba
BILL Roozbeh Behtaji
VD Jafar Heydari
SIMON Sebastian Popescu
ERLING Per Gørvell
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HARVEY Alfred Eielsen Halle
LEE Ivo Holtermann Stranger
MAX Lars Avelin Campbell
VERA Hilma Haraldsson-Breirrem
MARIA Lærke Lai Halle
KATARINA Eden Width
KIRK Alf Lie
All the babies are named after tropical storms.