Berlin

Berlinale 2017:

FRA BALKONGEN (FROM THE BALCONY)

by and with Ole Giæver
(OUT OF NATURE, Winner Europa Cinemas Label - Berlinale 2015)

 

Norway // 2017 // 85 min. // world premiere

FROM THE BALCONY takes you on a journey through one year in the life of Ole and his family, living in Brochmannsgate 12A, Oslo, Norway, Europe, Earth, Universe. A year of everyday life in Western Europe with all its holidays, memories and fantasies, questions big and small. The moment you see your daughter riding a bike on her own the first time can set a train of thoughts in motion that leads you to a place far far away. An attempt to break with your habit of always drinking boring tea can make you try to drink a raw egg. The home videos from your youth remind you of how you thought you would one day be the new lead singer of A-Ha. And when Christmas comes, we gather the family trying to make new memories using the same old traditions. 

FROM THE BALCONY is a time capsule filled with all these moments and feelings. It invites you to think about your own life and choices. What does it mean to be human today? And why do we rather want to speak to ourselves on a smartphone than socialize with strangers at a job gathering?

Director Ole Giæver: “I want to invite the audience on an odyssey through time and space, starting from own my balcony. A journey filled with all the absurd, existential, trivial and sentimental thoughts and fantasies I came up with in a year, to see if it’s possible to grasp nothing more than the meaning of life."