The Kosmorama Award is the festival’s main award, for the best film of the Main Competition. The award is a price of NOK 100 000, to a Norwegian distributor who aquires the winning film for theatrical release. If the winning film already has a Norwegian distributor, the award is NOK 50 000.

Kosmorama is the film festival for new talents, and one of our most prestigious awards is The Debutant Award. The award is 50 000 NOK, awarded to the producer and the director of the winning film. This year’s 17 nominees for The Debutant Award are chosen from the entire Kosmorama program, and feature both fiction and documentary films.

Many visitors from both the domestic and international film industries will attend Kosmorama Trondheim international film festival which opened March 5th.

The ticket sales for this year’s Kosmorama film festival have already been available for a while.

The Swedish director Lukas Moodysson will attend the opening of Kosmorama Trondheim international film festival. Moodysson's newest film, Mammut, will open the festival, and is also part of the main competition at this year's festival.

The festival, which celebrates it 5-year anniversary this year, starts Thursday the 5th of March and ends on the 10th of March.

For this year’s Kosmorama film pitch competition on the 9th of March ten competitors have been selected. It was at this competition that the successful film “Max Manus” first was noticed.

”The Milk of Sorrow” (La Teta Asustada), which won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, will compete for the Maincompetition at this year’s Kosmorama festival.

"Mammoth" by the Swedish success director Lukas Moodysson will be the
opening film of Kosmorama 2009.

Voting on the Kanon Award 2008 is concluded. The industry has spoken and the votes are being counted. Winners will be awarded at the Kanon Award Show on the 9th of March at Rica Nidelven.

 

Perhaps one of history’s best war films, and without a doubt the definitive submarine film, Das Boot (The Boat), will be screened at the former submarine base Dora 1 on Saturday the 7th and Sunday the 8th of March.

Cult artist Patrik Fitzgerald will be honoured with a record, a concert and a documentary film premiere during Kosmorama this March. Trondheim based record label Crispin Glover Records is responsible for organising the tribute to the man known as ‘The other Bard of Stratford.

The historic epic about the freedom fighting war-hero Max Manus will fill many seats this Christmas, and it all started at Kosmorama.

Kosmorama International Filmfestival will gather the Norwegian and International film industry at Bårdshaug Mansion in Orkdal, march 8-9, 2009.