The festival has an abundant program, with over 160 films, seminars and guests, both from Norway and abroad.
The horror film genre will be given much attention in an entire six programs.
Luigi Cozzi, who also worked closely with Dario Argento, will speak about special effects and Italian cult films.

The makers of the recent and successful Norwegian zombie film, Død Snø (Dead Snow), headed by director Tommy Wirkola will come to speak about making the first Norwegian film in this genre.
In addition to this there will be opportunities to see two of the shorts nominated for Oscars this year: The Austrian production “Auf der Strecke” is nominated for Best Live Action Short while the Japanese “House of Small Cubes” is nominated in the Best Animated Short category.
These films are among many high lights in four programs filled with the absolute best of international shorts from last year.
The entire program, including the Norwegian and Nordic competitions can be found online at: www.minimalen.com/p09

More information:

E-mail: festival@minimalen.com

Thor-Eirik Johnsen, Press contact
Mobile: 47 414 31 652

Per Fikse, Festival Director
Mobile: 47 415 29 641