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Fia!

Original Title

Fia og klovnene

Director

Elsa Kvamme

Genre

 

Country of origin

Norway

Language spoken

Norwegian

Year of production

2003

Admissions

6,480 (Norway, as at 29 October 2003)

Box Office

 

Production

Dinamo Story A/S, Lysander (N)

Domestic distribution/World Sales

Svensk Filmindustri (SF) AB (S)
NonStop Sales (S)

Domestic release

24 October 2003 (Norway)

Official website

 

Awards

Lübeck Nordic Film Days 2003 (Children’s Film Prize of the Nordic Film Institutes and Prize of the Video Industry)

Suggested by

Mia Lindrup, President of ECFA (European Children’s Films Association)
Selected for Zlín Film Festival – 2004 edition in the section Panorama

SYNOPSIS

Fia thinks everyone is a clown. Except herself, her mother… and Bustric. This is a family film about eight-year-old Fia who for a long time has been a mother for her own mother. She has grown up in an «upside down» world where it is important that mother is never sad. But one day the police show up, Fia becomes the focus, and Fia’s life will never be the same again. Fortunately she finds an ally in the magician and clown Bustric, who shows up whenever she really needs him. Because she had actually made up her mind: School was only supposed to last three months. If it’s difficult to have one mother, having two is like an earthquake.