GRILL

Jade Hærem Aksnes

Competencia INTERNACIONAL

2024

Cortometrajes 2024

Tara is denied electricity bill support by Social Services, who tells her to simply get a free grill instead - a task that leads Tara into uncomfortable situations. Inspired by true events, "Grill" offers a satirical look at how a rich country in Scandinavia deals with poverty. The director read an article in a Norwegian newspaper about a person who was denied electricity bill support by Social Services, and Social Services instead suggested the problems could be temporarily fixed by simply getting a free grill at the online marketplace finn.no. The director was outraged by the lack of empathy in the system's response to someone who struggled financially, which to her felt reminiscent of "Let them eat cake". And thus, the idea for the short film GRILL was born. Through the absurd task of retrieving a free grill to solve financial problems, the director wants to offer a satirical look at how the system and society in one of the world's richest countries, can make financial struggles not just a difficult, but a deeply shameful experience. The premise of the film is thus: In a society where you need money to get respect and trust, and you need respect and trust to get money, what do you do if you end up on the outside?

Sede	Día	Horario
Sala Garbo	octubre 19	3:00 p.m.	Entradas

Sobre Jade Hærem

Jade Hærem Aksnes (b.1987) is from Norway, and holds a Master of Fine Arts in Directing from the prestigious American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles. She has written and directed several award winning short films with funding from the Norwegian Film Institute et.al., that have screened at over 90 international film festivals, winning 18 awards. Her short film "Pushing Night Away" qualified for Oscar consideration and received funding from the Norwegian Film Institute for the Oscar campaign. In 2022, Jade was awarded Arts Council Norway's Work Scholarship for Young Artists, and currently she is developing her debut feature film with funding from the Norwegian Film Institute's talent program NEO.

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