Film screening: Smile and wave
The MENSA project at UiB and Cinemateket i Bergen invite you to a screening of the film essay Smile and Wave and a moderated discussion about Norwegians’ values of the ocean.
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This event is organized by the project Managing Ethical Norwegian Seascape Activities (MENSA), hosted at the University of Bergen (UiB) SVT, with support from UiB Ocean and in partnership with Cinemateket Bergen.
Smile og Vinke won the prize for best documentary at the Norwegian Documentary Festival Nordic/Docs 2022 and at Festival L'Europe autour de l'Europe 2023. The film's director, Eva Charlotte Nilsen, also received an Honorary Award and was Guest of Honor at Nordic/Docs 2022.
The MENSA project (2020-2025), funded by the Research Council of Norway, is capturing what the sea means to Norwegians. By making Norwegian ocean values explicit, MENSA aims to reconcile value trade-offs toward sustainable development and ethical ocean governance.
Visit the Norwegian Seascapes exhibition before and after the screening.
Film screening: Smile og vinke (Smile and wave)
- Time: 18:00-19:00
- Place: Cinemateket
About the film:
Would you like to join us for a walk on the shore? Smile and Wave is a film essay about a coastal landscape in Vesterålen, Norway.
High-tide water and memories are mixed together in the story of the vulnerability of life and what remains when something is gone.
Can you say something about life by portraying a place? Can you understand more of yourself by examining your passions?
At Nordahlstranda in Bø in Vesterålen, you can wade for hours in overalls and rubber boots and find treasures. The common heart urchin is magical and secret, thinner than an eggshell and just as vulnerable as you and me. A film about how nature activates our memories and our curiosity. Ebb and flow all day, your whole life. A slow breath that never ends. As if death did not exist. In a universe of common heart urchins, waving angels and skeletons, a story of a life emerges. A beautiful, poetic and thought-provoking film.
Smile og vinke won a prize for best documentary during Nordic/Docs in 2022 and at Festival L'Europe autour de l'Europe in Paris in 2023. During Nordic/Docs 2022, the director, Eva Nilsen, was Guest of Honor during the festival and several of her films were shown in a retrospective program. Nilsen also received the Nordic/Docs Honorary Award 2022.
The film has Norwegian audio and English subtitles.
Moderated discussion
- Time: 19.00-19:45
- Place: Cinemateket
After the film screening, UiB Professor emeritus Matthias Kaiser will moderate a conversation between the audience, the film director, Eva Charlotte Nilsen and the MENSA project manager, Dr. Mimi E. Lam.
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