Selected as Norway’s official Oscar® submission, this moving and long-awaited adaptation of Per Petterson’s bestseller, Out Stealing Horses re-teams Stellan Skarsgård with director Hans Petter Moland (In Order of Disappearance, PSIFF 2015; A Somewhat Gentle Man, PSIFF 2011). Set in 1999, just before the dawn of the new millennium, recent widower Trond Sander (Skarsgård) has returned home to Norway after 40 years living in Sweden, only to find himself haunted by memories of a pivotal summer he spent with his father (Tobias Santelmann) as a teenager. Expertly weaving between past and present, Moland and cinematographer Rasmus Videbæk vividly contrast the idyllic, lush colors of the wilderness in Trond’s memories against the cold, stark grays of his present, culminating in a sensational and resonant portrait of guilt and reconciliation. Out Stealing Horses swept the Amanda Awards (Norway’s Oscar® equivalent) taking home prizes for Best Film, Director, and Cinematography.

In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize