Sundance Features - Documentary Films
A NEW KIND OF WILDERNESS
Norway | 2024 | DCP | Color | 84 min
Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
In a forest in Norway, a family lives an isolated lifestyle in an attempt to be wild and free, but a tragic event changes everything, and they are forced to adjust to modern society. Silje Evensmo Jacobsen’s portrait of the Payne family is an intimate encounter with a family coming to terms with a new reality.
Screening Times:
8/22 THU 17:10 A Two ★
8/24 SAT 20:00 A One ★
8/24 SAT 20:00 A One ★
Meet The Artist
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen has directed award-winning documentary films and series for the past 15 years. A New Kind of Wilderness is her second feature, produced by A5 Film – an Oslo-based production company founded by Jacobsen herself, alongside producer/director Mari Bakke Riise.