KNOTS is a short film about a young girl’s perception of her parents’ marital issues.

Happy families are all alike;
every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
-Leo Tolstoy

Director & writer: Ingrid Liavaag

Producer: AmodeiVisual / Malene Oppheim

Distributors: Peggy Høy, Chakalakafilms & Jack Filmbyrå

Synopsis:

Nora of four is a constant witness of her parents’ marital problems due to stringent gender roles. After yet another argument in their small city apartment, the family goes to find some air at their countryside-house, outside of Paris. Their issues do not subside, and Nora understands that a new baby is on the way. Back in the city she runs away from the suffocating situation. During her walk through the streets of Paris, the four-year-old discovers the city, as well as her own independence.

Awards and prices:

Kamilla prize for best short film of the year at Sørnorsk filmsenter

About the director:

Relationships are recurring themes in Liavaags work, they constitute the framework for her philosophical questions about gender and feminism. Based on sociological aspects of human life, she is plaing with the boundaries between the staged and the real, the private and the public.

Cast & crew

Actors & co-writers: Christine Ryndak Marcland, Julien Marcland, Enora Marcland, Paul Marcland, Romy Bousquet and Ranti Bam.

Cinematographers: Youssef Chebbi, Ingrid Liavaag 

Assistant director: Siri Bråtveit

Editors: Silvia Rossi & Ingrid Liavaag

Sound mixers: Siri Bråtveit & Hector Ulloque

Composed & musician: Natali Abrahamsen Garner

Score mix: Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard 

Score mastering: Isak Nygaard // Esther Recordings

Sound design: Øyvind Planting

Online & colour: Adrian Dark

Graphic designer: Ginevra Dondina 

Produced with financial support by:

Sørnorsk Filmsenter AS by Ingrid Falkenberg Dokka and Kirsten Bonnén Rask

Oslo National Academy of the Arts - KHiO,

Agder county municipality,

Cité internationale des arts Paris,

Kulturradet - Arts Council Norway - The Audio and Visual Fund