Hallvar Witzø

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Hallvar Witzø (born 1984) is a Norwegian film director. Witzø grew up in the small town of Leksvik in central Norway. He studied film directing at Lillehammer's Norwegian Film School, graduating in 2010. In 2012, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Film for the film Tuba Atlantic. However, the nomination was later revoked after the Academy learned that the film was broadcast on television in 2010. His most recent film is Everybody Hates Johan (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Hallvar Witzø, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

01-01-1984

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Capricorn

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Total Films

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Leksvik, Norway

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01-01-1984

Birthday

Capricorn

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Genres

Total Films

Also Known As (male)

Leksvik, Norway

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The Wrong Track

When chaotic single mother Emilie hits a new low, she looks to her brother for help. He has a brilliant plan: to enter a cross-country ski marathon.

6.7

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2025

Everybody Hates Johan

Johan, a loner with horses and explosives, is never accepted by the local community. We follow his struggle for belonging in the village and the lifelong, unrequited love for the girl next door, which he accidentally blew up in his youth.

5.9

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2022

When One Door Closes

After Nader and Janne share a tense moment in a bus doorway, this chance encounter transports them into a shared reality. As one door closes behind them, countless others open. Coincidence (or is it fate?) causes their paths to cross a second time, and they step through yet another doorway, into their future. Together, the couple must fight to face both minor challenges and major surprises.

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2017

Yes We Love

Four generations, each with a crisis, set in four different parts of Norway on the Norwegian Independence Day.

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2014

Yes We Love

Four generations, each with a crisis, set in four different parts of Norway on the Norwegian Independence Day.

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2014

Tuba Atlantic

Everybody is going to die one day. Oskar (70) is going to die in 6 days. He is now ready to forgive his brother for a disagreement years ago. Will he reach his brother, who he believes lives on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, before it is too late?

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2010