WE ARE HERE NOW

Feature 97 min. Premiere: 2020

We follow a group of babies and parents during a year in their Scandinavian maternity leave. Some of them have bigger plans, they want to move to the ocean and buy new properties. Some are stressed. What can babies eat? Cucumber? Is it ok with salmon?

One father, Jon, is working as a teacher. The principal at his school call some parents to keep their children home so they won’t drag down the scores on the National test.

The grown-ups are under pressure. They fill out forms on anxiety symptoms and divorce-papers. Sinking down in therapy-chairs and lying in each other’s couches. The fragile nuclear-family structures are cracking down and other grown-ups step up to help. The babies are there, present in every picture, witnessing.

Director                      Mariken Halle

Sound                         Helge Bodøgaard, Runne Baggerud, Vegard Soldal, Torjus Hembre

Cinematography        Mariken Halle

Productionmanager   Magnus Mork

Assistant director       Guro Bruusgaard

Productionworker      Marin Håskjold, David Krøyer

Sounddesign               The Soundfactory

Artwork                      Ronja Svenning Berge

Producers                   ALTERNATIVET v / Mariken Halle, Magnus Mork, Guro Bruusgaard, Katja Eyde Jacobsen

Distribution                Another World Entertainment v / Marius Olsen (Norway)

 International distributiuon Filmbyrået Jack, www.jackfilmbyra.no

 Supported by             Mediefabrikken and The Norwegian Film Institute v / Ståle Stein Berg

Cast                            JON                             Leif Edlund

                                   NINA                           Marte Germaine Christensen

                                   KARL                           Niklas Gundersen

BEN                             Petter Width Kristiansen

                                   DAVID                         Bhkie Male

BERNT                         Thomas Holtermann Østgaard

                                   BIRGITTE                     Ingrid Liavaag

                                   DAVE                           Magnus Mork

                                   ROSE                           Sofia Haraldsson        

                                   ASTRID                        Lisa Lie

KAREN                         Maja Halle

PERNILLE                     Anne Grønlund

HERMINE                    Karen Holien Grønlund

CAMILLA                     Nora Campbel

                          MERCY                        Iselin Schumba

                                   BILL                             Roozbeh Behtaji

VD                               Jafar Heydari

SIMON                        Sebastian Popescu

ERLING                       Per Gørvell

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                                HARVEY                      Alfred Eielsen Halle      

              LEE                              Ivo Holtermann Stranger

MAX                            Lars Avelin Campbell

VERA                           Hilma Haraldsson-Breirrem

MARIA                        Lærke Lai Halle

               KATARINA                   Eden Width

           KIRK                            Alf Lie

All the babies are named after tropical storms.