The 2011 Bergen International Film Festival is arranged in Bergen, Norway 19–26 October 2011, and was the 12th edition of the festival. It features over 175 feature films and documentaries, a new record for the festival. For the first time the festival arranges a competition program for Norwegian documentaries, as BIFF tries to establish itself as the leading arena for the documentary genre in Norway.
Films in competition
editCinema Extraordinare – In competition
edit- Above Us Only Sky, directed by Jan Schomburg
Germany - Arriya – The Stone, directed by Alberto Gorritiberea
Spain - Beduin, directed by Igor Voloshin
Russia - Confessions, directed by Tetsuya Nakashima
Japan - Declaration of War, directed by Valérie Donzelli
France - Even the Rain, directed by Icíar Bollaín Spain
- Las Acacias, directed by Pablo Giorgelli
Argentina - Meek's Cutoff, directed by Kelly Reichardt USA
- Natural Selection, directed by Robbie Pickering USA
- Sleeping Beauty, directed by Julia Leigh
Australia - The Prize, directed by Paula Markovitch Argentina
- Twilight Portrait, directed by Angelina Nikonova Russia
- Womb, directed by Benedek Fliegauf
Hungary
International Documentaries – In competition
edit- The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975, directed by Göran Hugo Olsson
Sweden - Bombay Beach, directed by Alma Har'el USA
- Buck, directed by Cindy Meehl USA
- Chasing Madoff, directed by Jeff Prosserman USA
- Cinema Komunisto, directed by Mila Turajlic
Serbia - A Man's Story, directed by Varon Bonicos
United Kingdom - Koran by Heart, directed by Greg Barker USA
- Hot Coffee, directed by Susan Saladoff USA
- Something Ventured, directed by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller USA
- The Two Escobars, directed by Michael and Jeff Zimbalist USA
- Vodka Factory, directed by Jerzy Sladkowski Sweden
Checkpoints – In competition
edit- If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, directed by Marshall Curry USA
- The Last Mountain, directed by Bill Haney USA
- The Interrupters, directed by Steve James USA
- The Oath, directed by Laura Poitras USA
Norwegian Documentaries – In competition
edit- The Afghan Nightmare, directed by Klaus Erik Okstad
- Death in Camp Delta, directed by Erling Borgen
- Folk ved Fjorden, directed by Øyvind Sandberg
- Ragnhild's Story, directed by Siren Henschien
- Imagining Emmanuel, directed by Thomas Østbye
- In God We Trust, directed by Astrid Schau-Larsen
- Urban Hunters, directed by Sturla Pilskog & Sidse Larsen
- The Doctors' War, directed by Elsa Kvamme
- My Beloved, directed by Hilde Korsæth
- Personal Velocity, directed by Jon Vatne
- Salesman 329, directed by Kari Anne Moe
- Snapshots, directed by Anniken Hoel
Norwegian Short Film Competition
edit- Alt faller sammen, directed by Andrew Amorim
- Asyl, directed by Jørn Utkilen
- Erkjenning, directed by Jøran Wærdahl
- Everything Will Be OK, directed by Jonas Matzow Guldbrandsen
- Farukhs mynt, directed by Susanne Falkum Løvik
- From This Day to Where, directed by Matias Rygh & Mathias Eriksen
- No Sex Just Understand, directed by Mariken Halle
Scandinavias Best Music Video
editThis year the five videoes from the respective three countries was nominated by NRK P3 in Norway, SVT in Sweden and the magazine Soundvenue in Denmark.
- Young Dreams – "Young Dreams", directed by Kristoffer Borgli
Norway - Torgny – "I Came Here", directed by Emil Trier Norway
- Karl X Johan – "Flames", directed by Gustav Johansson Sweden
