This time Renate Reinsve plays Nora, whose estranged father, Gustav, comes back into her and her sister’s life shortly after their mother’s death. With Nora now an actress, her filmmaker father asks her to play the lead role of his mother in the new autobiographical film he’s convinced will revive his career. With a nuanced performance from Stellan Skarsgård as Gustav, and Elle Fanning as a bemused Hollywood star who finds herself in the middle of a fictional, and real, unfolding family drama.

Touching, funny and cleverly contained within the walls of a well-worn family home, the film received a 19-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival in May where it won the Grand Prix. It will be the Norwegian entry for Best International Film at the 2026 Academy Awards.