Home for Christmas (2010 film)

Home for Christmas (Norwegian: Hjem til jul) is a 2010 Norwegian comedy-drama film directed by Bent Hamer.

Home for Christmas
Film poster
Norwegian	Hjem til jul
Directed by	Bent Hamer
Written by	Bent Hamer
Starring	Trond Fausa Aurvåg Fridtjov Såheim Reidar Sørensen Ingunn Beate Øyen Nina Andresen Borud Tomas Norström Joachim Calmeyer Kai Remlov Cecilie Mosli Arianit Berisha Igor Necemer Nina Zanjani Henriette Steenstrup Gard Eidsvold Robert Skjærstad Levi Henriksen Kyrre Haugen Sydness Aina Emilie Bækkevold Marcus Eiel Fagervik
Release date	September 13, 2010 (2010-09-13) (Toronto)
Running time	90 minutes
Countries	Norway Sweden Germany
Language	Norwegian

“Home for Christmas” is based on a selection of short stories from the Norwegian author Levi Henriksen's collection, ”Only Soft Presents Under the Tree”. These stories, which now and then intersect with each other, all take place in Henriksen's fictitious small town of Skogli, over a couple of hours on Christmas Eve.

Storyline

Following a prologue set in war-torn former Yugoslavia, the film follows several different Christmas celebrations in the small Norwegian town of Skogli. Paul is a thirty-three-year-old laborer who marches into his doctor's office demanding a prescription, then proceeds to lay bare all his woes. The doctor is beleaguered by his own marital and financial difficulties (he's left his upset wife to work emergency calls on Christmas Eve). There's also an elderly man preparing an esoteric ritual, a vagrant who runs into an old flame, a middle-aged couple in the throes of passion, a boy hopelessly in love with his Muslim neighbor, and a young émigré couple whose car breaks down as the woman goes into labor.

Cast

• Nina Andresen Borud as Karin
• Arianit Berisha as Goran
• Joachim Calmeyer as Simon
• Trond Fausa as Paul
• Levi Henriksen
• Cecile Mosli as Elise
• Igor Necemer as Serb
• Tomas Norström as Kristen
• Kai Remlov
• Morten Ilseng Risnes as Thomas
• Sarah Bintu Sakor as Bintu
• Isaka Sawadogo as Bintu's father
• Kristine Rui Slettebakken as Tone
• Nadja Soukup as Goran's mother
• Kyrre Haugen Sydness as Hroar
• Fridtjov Såheim as Knut
• Reidar Sørensen as Jordan
• Nina Zanjani as Albanian woman
• Ingunn Beate Øyen as Johanne Jakobsen

Soundtracks

Music

by John Erik Kaada

Silent Night (in thai language)

sung by Songsit Ohm Lertsethtakarn - lyrical tenor

text in thai language by Songsit Ohm Lertsethtakarn

Home for Christmas (in English)

written and sung by Maria Mena

Award

Amanda Awards, Norway 2011

Nominated Amanda	Best Supporting Actor (Årets mannlige birolle) Trond Fausa
	Best Cinematography (Årets foto) John Christian Rosenlund
	Best Sound Design (Årets lyddesign) Petter Fladeby

RiverRun International Film Festival 2011

Won Audience Choice Award

Best Narrative Feature Bent Hamer

FESTIVALS AWARDS

Best Script - San Sebastian 2010 Toronto Int. Film Festival 2010 London IFFF São Paulo Film festival etc. Hamburg Filmfest Lübecker Filmtage

See also

• List of Christmas films

External links

• Home for Christmas at IMDb