P.O.V. No.15 - Derailment: Data on the film and the director

DERAILMENT/Avsporing


Unni Straume
(Norway/France, 1993), 7 minutes, 35 mm, b/w

Principal production credits

Director and Screenwriter
Cinematography
Editing
Producer
Assistant director
Lighting
Music
Production

Cast
The Woman
The Man
Unni Straume
Harald Paalgård
Unni Straume
Marianne Slot Nielsen
Aamund Johannson
Olivier Guillaume
Rolf Wallin
Unni Straume Filmproduksjon and K-FILMS, Paris


Anne-Lise Berntsen
Tom Remlov


Festivals include:

Official Selection, Cannes, 1993
In competition, New York Film Festival, 1993


Unni Straume

Born in 1955, Unni Straume grew up in Fiksdal, a small closely knit fishing hamlet on the west coast of Norway. She attended the film school at the Regional College in Volda, and graduated in 1978. She spent the next twelve years as a documentary filmmaker before producing her first feature To a Stranger (1990). Her short film, Derailment premiered at Cannes in Un Certain Regard in 1992. Dreamplay, her second feature, was selected for Un Certain Regard in 1994. Her most recent feature, Music for Weddings and Funerals, opened the Haugesund Festival in 2002 and was also selected for the Venice and Toronto Festivals in 2002



Filmography

1990
1993
1994
1995
1998
1999
2002
To a Stranger
Derailment
Dreamplay
T83
Thrane's Method
Daddy's Sunday
Music for Weddings and Funerals

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