Hearts
Asia Pacific Premiere
Kabal i Hjerter / Norway 2006 / 60min. Norwegian with English subtitles.
Director Øyvind Sandberg / Producer Øy-Film
Hearts is a touchingly honest and simple story about the lives of Kare Morten, his best friend and flatmate Per Erling and Kare’s girlfriend May Britt. The most basic events for most people like breakfast and a game of football, phone calls and conversations, common misunderstandings, a marriage proposal, all take on a whole new perspective if you live with Downs Syndrome.
Norwegian Director Sandberg offers viewers a rare opportunity to see the world through the eyes of others with different capabilities. He is praised ‘for having the courage to follow his subjects bravely wherever they led him, for having faith in ordinary heroes and for breaking common stereotypes.’
(Jury: Kontakt Documentary Film Festival 2007)
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Awards
- Honourable Mention, Pärnu International Documentary & Anthropology FF (Estonia) 07
- Honourable Mention, Krakow International Short FF 07
- Best Documentary for TV, Gullruten 07
- Grand Prix, Kontakt Documentary FF (Ukraine) 07
- Best Documentary, Grimstad Norwegian Short FF 06
- Best Documentary and Audience Award, Norwegian Documentary FF 06
Film Reviews
Hearts (Kontakt Docs FF awards announcement)
8-Aug-2007 "We praise the courage of the director in following his subjects bravely wherever they led him, in having faith in ordinary heroes and breaking common stereotypes by…
“…a beautiful, warm and compassionate film. Its form is fulfilled completely by its visual expressions, its use of music and its rhythmic editing, and presents itself as a progress of an experienced director’s visual language.” -Jury Norwegian Short Film Festival 2007