Category: News
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Help us fund the festival Rethinking Mental Health
We have put a great deal of time and effort into applying to relevant foundations and organizations for financial support. Unfortunately, we have been turned down time and time again.We have therefore decided to launch this crowdfunding campaign. www.spleis.no/510454?s=c The festival will go ahead, but we are currently short NOK 150,000 to cover the remaining…
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Contributors presented on the Mad in Norway website
The “Rethinking Mental Health” Film Festival in Lillehammer—a unique opportunity to meet filmmakers and advocates from around the world. We are delighted to welcome you to the Mad in Norway International Film Festival at the end of September. Here you’ll have the opportunity to meet a unique group of people from all over the world,…
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Call for Art – an invitation to submit artwork for a digital art show
Mad in Norway is seeking submissions for a digital Art Exhibit to be displayed between films throughout the film festival. The idea behind this is to illustrate the significance of art and its healing potential in times of mental health challenges, whilst also giving festival participants the opportunity to explore various forms of artistic expression.…
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Confirmed contributors
The contributors will be presented on this page: https://madinnorwayfilmfest.org/contributors/ We have now selected the films to be screened at the festival. Many of them are already listed on the ‘Films’ page; the rest will be added as permissions and image rights are finalized. We are currently working on finalizing the program and inviting both filmmakers…
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We are proud and delighted to start presenting our films
The selected films will be presented on an ongoing basis under the “Films” menu item. As an opening we are happy to present our first selected film Drunk On Too Much Life. Drunk on Too Much Life is an intimate and powerful documentary following the filmmaker’s 21-year-old daughter’s mind-opening journey from locked-down psych wards and…
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Welcome to the filmfestivals website!
After weeks of planning and organizing, we can finally invite you to the website and to the film festival! The page Films is still empty. Here we will post the films that will be shown as they are selected and we have reached agreements with producers or distributors. The same with the page Contributors. Here…
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Welcome to Lillehammer!
Mad in Norway, in collaboration with Mad in America, will organize an international film festival September 24 to 26, 2026.Location: Lillehammer, Norway Save the dates and stay tuned for further announcements on this page!