Mo. 11.02.19 
10.00 – 14.00 CET
Screenings of the Nominated Films

Venue: NORDISCHE BOTSCHAFTEN, Rauchstrasse 1
QEDA 10.00 – 11.40
AUDITORIUM
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2095. The world is ravaged by ecological disaster. Oceans have risen and all natural freshwater is gone. Fang Rung has undergone molecular fission in order to send his other half, code name Gordon Thomas, back in time to the year 2017. A race against time for Fang Rung to save himself and the world. 

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Music by Danish Jonas Struck. Introduced by Nicklas Schmidt. 
THELMA 10.00 – 12.10 
CONFERENCE ROOM 

A confused religious girl tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who's in love with her. This causes her suppressed subconsciously-controlled psychokinetic powers to reemerge with devastating results.






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Music by Norwegian Ola 
LAUGH OR DIE 12.00 – 13.50 AUDITORIUM

In a detention camp in 1918, a group of Finnish actors are sentenced to death. When an important German general arrives, the camp's vicious commandant forges out a cruel plan: the imprisoners have to perform a comedy - and if they can make the visiting general laugh, they will be spared. A story about zest for life and power of laughter. Based on true events.

Music by Finnish Timo Hietala
Introduced by the composer.
WOMAN AT WAR 12.15 – 14.00 CONFERENCE ROOM

Halla, a woman in her fifties, declares war on the local aluminum industry to prevent it from disfiguring her country. She risks all she has to protect the highlands of Iceland-but the situation could change with the unexpected arrival of a small orphan in her life.


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Music by Icelandic Davíð Þór Jónsson. Introduced by the composer.
GOLIAT 12.00 – 14.00 
FOYER 

​When Roland is sentenced to prison, his son, 17-year old Kimmie, is expected to provide for the family by taking over his dad's criminal business. This is a task he's not ready for. The film's depicting a boy's brutal entry into adult life and examines aspects of social heritage and patriarchal structures, at a time when the welfare is declining and Sweden is changing.
Music by Swedish Johan Testad. Introduced by the composer​.
Mon. 11.02.19
14.00 - 15.00 CET

Post-Screenings Conversation with an Agent
Discussion moderated by Thor Joachim Haga

NORDISCHE BOTSCHAFTEN AUDITORIUM 

WHAT DID WE HEAR? and how did it correspond with what we watched? Also, WHAT IS THE REALISTIC NEXT STEP IN A FILM COMPOSER's CAREER TODAY? An agent, and member of the HARPA jury, is lending us his ear and thoughts about the nominated music and interacts with the audience to dive together into the challenging world of film & media composers within the current entertainment industry's norms.

​George Christopoulos has been a film and film music enthusiast for more than a decade, but he decided to become a talent agent after touching base with Shigeru Umebayashi (a.k.a. Ume, composer of "In the Mood for Love") back in 2005, who - as Ume himself stated - "has been the first European who ever contacted me".

In 2010 George Christopoulos founded OTICONS, a talent agency for film composers. It operates globally and representing more than 25 film music composers of more than 15 different nationalities it specializes in facilitating international co-productions.

Music in film should feel inevitable, not just functional. A film composer should go deep, in order to ideally accompany a director's vision and storytelling language.

Note: SCREENINGS AND THE FOLLOWING CONVERSATION ARE OPEN FOR ALL 
Mon. 11.02.19 
16.00 – 19.00 CET

NORDIC COMPOSERS: Speed-Meetings & Meet & Greet Events

Venue: NORWAY HOUSE, right across the street from Marti-Gropius-Bau, Niederhirchnerstrasse
Tue. 12.02.19
11.30 – 16.30 CET

OPEN Workshops & Panel Discussions

Venue: NORDISCHE BOTSCHAFTEN, Rauchstrasse 1
Hosts of the day. Jørgen Lauritsen (Denmark) and Kate Havnevik (Norway) 
11:30 - 12:45
AUDITORIUM Panel
Composer’s Partners in Business
 When do you need an agent? How can a music supervisor help you? What about a manager, publisher and PR company? Meet Annette Gentz (picture), agent (Annette Gentz Music and Film Arts, Germany), Lena Obara, music supervisor (Sector C, Germany), Peer Steinwald, Senior A&R Manager (Budde Music Publishing, Germany) Thomas Mikusz, publicist (White Bear PR, USA) and Ruby Wasmuth, Composer Manager. 
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​Moderated by Katariina Sorsa​​ with introduction by Jesper Hansen: Money Talk 
13:30 - 14:15 
​AUDITORIUM Panel
​Working and not getting stuck. Meet Christine Aufderhaar (Switzerland), Hanne Hukkelberg (Norway) and Timo Hietala (Finland) in a conversation about working and not getting stuck. 

Moderator Nicklas Schmidt​
13:30 - 14:30
CONFERENCE ROOM Workshop 
opening up the process. Working on the HARPA nominated movie QEDA is the fifth time, that filmcomposer Jonas Struck has profited from working with the experienced sound designer, Peter Albrechtsen. In this workshop they will invite fellow composers and sounddesigners in to a world of musical questions, decisions and productions.​
14:30 - 15:00
AUDITORIUM WORKSHOP
opening up the process. Danish composer Frans Bak demonstrates the different work methods of five composers who have been asked to make music for the same short movie. 
15:15 - 15:45
AUDITORIUM Panel
Fruitfull artistc cooperations. Peter Albrechtsen & Jonas Struck (Denmark) telling about the cooperation through 5 films and Davíð Þór Jónsson and Benedikt Erlingsson (Iceland) telling about their cooperation in 2 films. How can cooperation enhance the use of music?
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Moderator Petur Jonsson
16:00 - 16:30
AUDITORIUM Panel
​Towards bigger international productions. The composers of Nordic television successes Bridge (Bron) and the Killing (Forbrydelsen) talk about their work with international productions and the professional networks and business structures aside from the art. Frans Bak talks about his experience writing both for the original Danish version of the Killing, Forbryndelsen, as well as the U.S. television remake. Patrik Andrén will talk about the contrasts and similarities between film and game productions through the case of Battlefield I & V, Electronic Arts (EA) video game played by more than 50 million gamers worldwide

​Moderated by Katariina Sorsa ​​
Tue. 12.02.19 
18.00 – 21.00 CET

​AWARD SHOW & AfterParty

​AWARD SHOW, 6 - 7pm - AUDITORIUM, NORDISCHE BOTSCHAFTEN, RAUCHSTRASSE 1
AFTERPARTY, 7-9pm - EXHIBITION AREA, NORDISCHE BOTSCHAFTEN, RAUCHSTRASSE 1

Live performance by two acclaimed soloperformers and DJ'ing inspired by Nordic Film and media-music
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY MATTI BYE  (SWEDEN)
Bye has been best known as one of Sweden’s most sought-after film composers,
working on scores not only for contemporary but also vintage silent movies. In 2014 he received two of the three nominations for Best Original Music Award at Sweden’s prestigious Guldbaggen – his soundtrack for Faro took the honour (as well as a Nordic Film Music Prize) ahead of his work for The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window And Disappeared. He’s also provided new music for, among others, Victor Sjöström’s seminal horror The Phantom Carriage (1921) and The Saga of Gosta Berling (1924), a landmark melodrama starring Greta Garbo. He’s recorded a number of solo works, too, not least, 2013’s Bethanien and 2017´s This Forgotten Land.
Bethanien was inspired by a two-year sojourn in Berlin working in Kreuzberg’s cultural centre of the same name, once a hospital of suitably grim repute. Collaborations with other musicians include Hydra’s Dream, with Anna Von Hausswolff; Maailma, with cult Finnish songwriter Lau Nau; Mambo Noir Trio and his ensemble The Matti Bye Ensemble.  ​
 
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MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY HANNE HUKKELBERG (NORWAY)
Hukkelberg began singing and playing at the age of three – picking up the piano, guitar and drums, alongside countless other noisemaking oddities. Hukkelberg makes intimate, idiosyncratic music, combining a stylistic range of music with a predilection for unusual sounds and a stunning, versatile voice that has garnered comparisons to Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell and Björk.
Since 2003 Hukkelberg has released numerous works: Cast Anchor EP (2003), Little Things (2005), Rykestrasse 68(2006), which won a Spellemannsprisen, Norwegian Grammy. Subsequent albums, Blood From A Stone (2009) and Featherbrain(2012) were released to similar acclaim, resulting in extensive UK/EU/US touring and dates alongside Wilco, Andrew Bird and José González.
Her self-produced album 'Trust' (2017), her most assured and accomplished work to date. It features singles The Whip (feat. Ingrid Håvik from Highasakite ), ‘IRL’ and Embroidery (feat. Emilie Nicolas).
Over the last decade Hanne Hukkelberg has scored the music for several TV Series, shorts and documentaries. Latest Sofia Haugans ‘Røverdatter.’

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DJ PERFORMANCE BY GISLE MARTINS MEYER (NORWAY)
Gisle Martens Meyer is a Norwegian media artist. His work for stage, screen and new media is closely integrated with – and dealing with the challenges of – new technology, social media and digital culture. Questions are raised in a surreal, quirky and playful aesthetic, where apparent naive escapism glides on the surface of serious, contemporary undercurrents.
Since 2007 he has worked on several large projects for Norwegian national broadcaster NRK, composing music for TV-series and programme vignettes, in addition to numerous single productions for clients within film, TV, theatre, art, computer games, installations, dance performances. 

Recent major works include music for SONY’s Little Big Planet series, the awardawardwinning Pushwagner documentary, and music for Norwegian TV-series Expedition Nansen, Kometkameratene and Barnas Supershow.
At the HARPA afterparty Gisle Martins Meyer will DJ with music from Nordic Film and TV

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