BACKBONE

BACKBONE is a visual and poetic portrait documentary about inner strength, darkness and hope in humans, set in an exotic and wild landscape in arctic Norway. The film portrays four different women following their dreams and hopes, accepting who they are, taking care of someone they love, and their relationship to nature.

You will meet:
Mariam, a 18-year-old woman from Syria. Mariam is new to Norway and she is blind. She has big dreams and hopes.
Rikke, a 46-year-old woman trying to find her place in the world and accept who she is.
Mary-Ann, a 75-year-old woman who has lost her husband to Alzheimer’s disease. How is she still coping with love and taking care of her husband that is slowly fading away?
Karen Anna, a 80-year-old Sami reindeer herder from Kautokeino. She has been living her whole life on the tundra and in the vast nature working and living with reindeers.

Shot on 16mm & Arri mini

WRITER & DIRECTOR EILIF BREMER LANDSEND

PRODUCER EILIF BREMER LANDSEND

PRODUCTION COMPAN REDHEAD PRODUCTIONS

CINEMATOGRAPHER SNORRE RUHE

EDITOR TANYA FALLENIUS

SOUND EDITING, DESIGN & MIXING NATHANAËL GUSTIN

ADDITIONAL SOUND DESIG & MIX ADRIAN SOUYRIS STRAUMSE

FOLEY ARTIST NICOLAS DUBOIS, SOUND FISHING/PARIS

MUSIC COMPOSERS JAKOP JANSSØNN AND VILLE LANGFELDT, SVISKEMASKIN

MUSICIANS ATLE NYMO, CLARINETS, JAKOP JANSSØNN, DRUMS AND PERCUSSION VILLE LANGFELDT, PIANO

MUSIC MIX MORGAN NICOLAISEN

FOCUS PULLERS GUSTAV MEILING MADSEN LARS NØRLUND

CAMERA ASSISTANT SONDRE SANDBAKKEN

PRODUCTION LEADER TROMSØ ANDREA Flakstad CONRADSEN

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT TROMSØ KRISTINE RØD

VFX STIAN ANDREASSEN, TANYA FALLENIUS

GRAPHIC DESIGN CHRISTOPHER IDE