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The Mirage Film Festival is an annual documentary film festival in Norway. [1]

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Set in Oslo, the festival annually presents a curated selection of creative documentary films awarded in the major events in the fields; including, Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, Rotterdam, Visions du Réel, and CPH:DOX.

The festival also presents artistic and experimental films, hybrid works, and retrospectives of classics within the documentary genre. [2]

Filmmakers who have participated to the event include Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd, Payal Kapadia, Tsai Ming-liang, Emilija Škarnulytė, Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor. [3]

Awards

2022

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References

  1. Economou, Vassilis (2022-10-20). "The Mirage Film Festival wraps its second edition". Cineuropa . Retrieved 2023-09-09.
  2. Economou, Vassilis (2022-10-26). "Racha Helen Larsen • Festival and programme director, Mirage Film Festival". Cineuropa . Retrieved 2023-09-09.
  3. "Archive". www.mirage.no. Retrieved 2023-09-09.