Mirage Film Festival

The MIRAGE Film Festival is a year-round initiative and international film festival dedicated to the art of cinema and the craft of filmmaking in Oslo, Norway. ^[1]

Mirage Film Festival

Most recent	2024
Website	https://www.mirage.no/

Set in October, the festival presents a curated selection of films; including films awarded at major festivals such as Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, Rotterdam, Visions du Réel, and CPH:DOX.

MIRAGE Professionals is the festival's industry branch.

Each year, the festival hands out its acclaimed MIRAGE Sculpture Award for Editing, Cinematography, Sound Design, and Directing.

A one-person jury decides the award as a recognition from one artist to the other.

Filmmakers who have participated to the event include Victor Kossakovsky, Payal Kapadia, Albert Serra, Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd, Tsai Ming-liang, Emilija Škarnulytė, Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor. ^[2]

Awards

2024

Winners

• The Damned (Roberto Minervini, MIRAGE Award for Best Directing)

• The Landscape and the Fury (Stefan Sick, MIRAGE Award for Best Cinematography)
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (Rik Chaubet, MIRAGE Award for Best Editing)
• A Fidai Film (Attila Faravelli, Jochen Jezussek, Simon Fisher Turner, MIRAGE Award for Best Sound)

Jury

• Victor Kossakovsky, Jury for Directing
• Sturla Brandth Grøvlen, Jury for Cinematography
• Ollie Huddleston, Jury for Editing
• Nicolas Becker, Jury for Sound Design

2022

• A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia, MIRAGE Award for Best Directing)
• Rojek (best cinematography)

References

1. Economou, Vassilis (2022-10-20). "The Mirage Film Festival wraps its second edition". Cineuropa . Retrieved 2023-09-09.
2. "Archive". www.mirage.no. Retrieved 2023-09-09.