Loveable

Elskling

TIFF65: Greek Premiere
40-year-old Maria, a wife, mother and career woman, struggles to raise four children and meet the challenges of a demanding career head on, while her second husband, Sigmund, travels constantly. As their marriage gradually buckles under the weight of competing demands, and despite Maria's desperate attempts to save their relationship, Sigmund announces that he wants to divorce her, forcing her to come face to face with her worst fears. A character study and a fascinating self-discovery journey, Loveable gradually shifts from simply being a relationship drama to a story about female empowerment, through a lens that is psychologically realistic, authentically honest, original in its narrative approach and never melodramatic. Deftly and deliberately avoiding any sociological cliché that turns a woman's independence into a consequence of a catastrophe or injustice, the filmmaker Lilja Ingolfsdottir provides us with the - indeed loveable - portrait of a modern woman, able to rely on herself not because she has to, but because she wants to.
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Direction: Lilja Ingolfsdottir
Script: Lilja Ingolfsdottir
Cinematography: Øystein Mamen
Editing: Lilja Ingolfsdottir
Sound: Bror Kristiansen
Actors: Helga Guren, Oddgeir Thune, Heidi Gjermundsen Broch, Marte Solem, Elisabeth Sand
Production: Nordisk Film Production
Producers: Thomas Robsahm
Co-production: Amarcord
Costumes: Alva Brosten
Production Design: Lilja Ingolfsdottir
Make Up: Jamila Zia
Format: DCP
Color: Colour
Production Country: Norway
Production Year: 2024
Duration: 100'
Distribution in Greece: One From The Heart
Contact: Norwegian Film Institute
Awards/Distinctions: Special Prize of the Jury, Best Actress Award (Helga Guren) - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (2024), Emeric Pressburger Prize & International Confederation of Art Cinemas Award & International Ecumenical Award – CineFest – Miskolc IFF 2024

Lilja Ingolfsdottir

Lilja Ingolfsdottir a screenwriter and director graduated from The London Filmschool and FAMU, the Czech film school in Prague. Her debut feature Loveable had its world premiere at Karlovy Vary in 2024, where it won five awards. She has written and directed around 20 short and mid-length films. The films were shown at a large number of A-Festivals and found wide distribution both nationally and internationally.

Filmography

2000 Standing Still (short)
2003 Oblivion (short)
2010 Neglect (short)
2018 Show Me Your Original Face Before Your Mother and Father Were Born (documentary short)
2024 Loveable