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In Haugesund’s closing film “Enough,” a mother decides to break up with her grown-up daughter.

“We had some test screenings before and someone said: ‘This woman is a psychopath!’ I don’t think so. What she does is extreme, but the film tries to explore this entire relationship. Maybe she does it to actually help her child?” says Norwegian director Odd Einar Ingebretsen ahead of the world premiere at the fest.

“I think it would feel different if it was a father and a son. We always think of motherly love as this ultimate feeling. It’s supposed to triumph over just about everything. But her arguments are quite logical – they just go around in circles.”

In the modest black-and-white drama, lensed by Cecilie Semec and written by Per Schreiner, thirtysomething Pia (Ine Marie Wilmann) visits her mother (Anneke von der Lippe) quite often. A bit too often, it turns out.

Nordisk Film & TV Fond has announced three features, two series and a documentary set to receive $1.4m in financing, as well as distribution, dubbing and cultural initiative support recipients. Doing so, it highlights some of the key titles moving forward in the Nordic region.

Already backed by the Danish Film Institute’s largest ever grant of $2.4m, another $8.6m from Danish broadcaster TV2 and Sf Studios, Ole Bornedal’s WWII drama “Shadows in My Eyes” will receive a further $333,000 from the Nordisk Film & TV Fond, cementing it as one of the country’s most ambitious features to date.

In 1945, the Royal Air Force, intending to take out a Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, mistakenly bombed a French school, killing several children and nuns. “Shadows in My Eyes” will focus on the contrast of innocence versus machines and the children whose lives were irrevocably changed through the tragic error.

Jonas Allen,...