Ajyal Film Festival 2024

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Kon-Tiki (Kon-Tiki)

Contemporary World Cinema

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Joachim Roenning, Espen Sandberg / Feature Narrative / Norway, Denmark, United Kingdom / 2012 / 119 min / Colour / DCP
In English, Norwegian / Arabic, English subtitles
MENA Premiere

Synopsis

In ‘Kon-Tiki’, co-directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg – whose ‘Max Manus’ was a smash hit at the Norwegian box office in 2009 – capture all the danger, excitement and sheer natural beauty of a true Man-versus-Nature adventure. When Norwegian scientist and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl developed the now widely accepted theory that the peoples of Polynesia first migrated from South America and not, as previously believed, from Asia, the international scientific community openly mocked him. Refusing to be deterred in his quest to prove his hypothesis – not even by the notable fact that he could not swim – he embarked on one of history’s most celebrated scientific adventures. In 1947, Heyerdahl built a raft of balsa wood and travelled across the open seas from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands, thereby demonstrating the plausibility of his theory – and changing the history books forever.

About the Directors

Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg were born a year apart – Roenning in 1972, Sandberg in 1971 – in Rønsberg, Norway, and studied film together in Stockholm. They make commercials under the joint professional name of Roenberg and have previously directed two feature films together: ‘Bandidas’ (2006), and the wartime action movie ‘Max Manus’, which was a major hit in 2008 and won seven Amandas, Norway’s Academy Awards.

Credits

Director
Joachim Roenning, Espen Sandberg
Screenwriter
Petter Skavlan
Producer
Jeremy Thomas, Aage Aaberge
Editor
Per-Erik Eriksen
Production Designer
Karl Juliusson
Composer
Johan Söderqvist
Cinematographer
Geir Hartly Andreassen
Sound
Baard H. Ingebretsen and Tormod Ringnes
Cast
Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgård, Odd Magnus Williamson, Tobias Santelmann, Jakob Oftebro

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