Nordic Film Music Days

19/12/2025

CASE STUDY: «Quisling - The Final Days» 🎞️🎵

🗓️Saturday 14.02.2026
🕗16:45-17:45
📍Nordische Botschaften, Auditorium

🔗Sign up for the event through link in bio

Leading professionals from across the Nordic region joined forces to create a HARPA Award-nominated film. In this session, the makers reveal the project from multiple perspectives, opening up the cross border collaboration and production process 🎶

18/12/2025

🎬✨The program for Nordic Film Music Days is finally LIVE! 🌟
Get ready for an exciting lineup of incredible film scores, immersive seminars & workshops, and the 2026 HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award. 🎶🎥

Stay tuned as we will go deeper into the program over the next couple of weeks. 🧡

🔗 Link in bio for the full program and ticket info!

02/12/2025

Get to know the 2026 HARPA nominees! 🎶
Next up: Jonas Colstrup, Denmark 🇩🇰

24/11/2025

Get to know the 2026 HARPA nominees! 🎶
First up: Anna Berg, Norway 🇳🇴

Anna Berg’s first orchestral work, Nuances of Water, is a piece about water in all
its forms. On Thursday, 13 November, it had its world premiere in Grieghallen with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (BFO).
As an in-house composer, Berg has curated concerts across KODE’s many venues and had several of her own works performed, including this commissioned piece for BFO.
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«A month ago, I had my first portrait concert, where all my works for strings were performed by the Bit20 Ensemble, also presented by KODE» - Anna Berg 🧡

📷: Tarjej Hummelsund, BFO

17/11/2025

🌟 Announcing the nominees for 2026 HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award 🌟

We are thrilled to unveil the talented nominees for the 2026 HARPA award. Their incredible work celebrates the power of music in storytelling across the Nordic region🎶

🇩🇰Denmark: Jonas Colstrup – Quisling: The Final Days
🇫🇮Finland: Panu Aaltio – Little Siberia
🇮🇸Iceland: Victor Orri & Álfheiður Erla – Poems: A journey Through Icelandic Poetry
🇳🇴Norway: Anna Berg – Dreams
🇸🇪Sweden: Rebekka Karijord - Raptures

Congratulations to all the nominees! We look forward to celebrating your achievements and creativity at Nordic Film Music Days 2026🧡
Read more about the nominees on our website: http://www.nordicfilmmusicdays.com/

📷🇩🇰: Daniel Buchwald
📷🇫🇮: Elina Simonen
📷🇮🇸: Ólafur Baldvin
📷🇳🇴: Sara Angelica Spilling
📷🇸🇪: Olof Grind

Nordic Film Music Days is supported by Nordische Botschaften, Nordisk Film og TV fond, Orchestral Tools, Koda Kultur and The Finnland-Institute.


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06/06/2025

Let the Music Play Games, is a Creative Europe-supported consortium aimed at developing “a comprehensive understanding of the value chains and practices in both the music and video game industries” and at “raising awareness and bridging knowledge gaps between professionals in both fields”.
For their project’s quantitative research, they are running a survey with questions on income and remuneration, collective management, and handling the rights (for compositions for video games as well as beyond). Please fill the survey before Monday 9th. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZFTNTRP

The consortium consists of Music Finland (Finland), CNM - Centre national de la musique (France), Music Innovation Hub (Italy), Mica - Music Austria (Austria), and SpielFabrique (Germany).

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19/02/2025

An amazing weekend is behind us and we still can't get over all the different impressions, great conversations, and seminars at the Nordische Botschaften and The European Film Market for the 2025 Nordic Film Music Days. 🧡

And let's not forget the HARPA Award that went to Kåre Christoffer Vestrheim, Kristoffer Lo, Andréa Louise Horstad & Eivind Helgerød for their incredible score in "Makta" 🏆

We would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who worked on making Nordic Film Music Days great and we hope to see you all again next year!

Photos by: Thomas Kolbein Bjork Olsen

12/02/2025

🎶 The Son and The Moon – Screening & Q&A 🎶

Join us for a special screening of "The Son and The Moon" - A Danish-Iranian filmmaker's brave and honest journey through six years of cancer, love, and a life project of mapping her family's dramatic history.

📅 Sunday, February 16, 2025
⏰ 20:15 - 21:45
📍 DK | English subtitles
🎬 Duration: 90 minutes

After the film, stay for an exclusive Q&A with the nominated composer Christian Balvig as he shares insights into the film’s music! 🎼✨

Sign up for the screening here: https://www.eventbrite.dk/e/screening-the-son-the-moon-tickets-1142491214979?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Nordic Film Music Days is supported by Nordische Botschaften, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Orchestral Tools, Genelec & Koda Kultur.
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11/02/2025

🎶 Sebastian – Screening & Q&A 🎶

Join us for a special screening of "Sebastian" - Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a s*x worker in order to research his debut novel.

📅 Sunday, February 16, 2025�
⏰ 17:45 - 19:30�
📍 EN | English subtitles�
🎬 Duration: 110 minutes

After the film, stay for an exclusive Q&A with the nominated composer Ilari Heinilä as he shares insights into the film’s music! 🎼✨

Sign up for the screening here: This screening is sold out.
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Nordic Film Music Days is supported by Nordische Botschaften, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Orchestral Tools, Genelec & Koda Kultur.
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10/02/2025

🎶 Touch – Screening & Q&A 🎶

Join us for a special screening of "Touch" - A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents; Touch follows one man's emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago, before his time runs out.

📅 Sunday, February 16, 2025�
⏰ 15:20 - 17:20�
📍 IS | English subtitles�
🎬 Duration: 120 minutes

After the film, stay for an exclusive Q&A with the nominated composers Högni Egilsson as he shares insights into the film’s music! 🎼✨

🎟 Sign up here to secure your spot: This film screening is sold out.
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Nordic Film Music Days is supported by Nordische Botschaften, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Orchestral Tools, Genelec & Koda Kultur.
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10/02/2025

🎶 Makta/Power Play – Screening & Q&A 🎶

Join us for a special screening of Makta/Power Play, Norwegian drama series about the power struggle in the Labour Party in the 1970s and 1980s. Based on truth, lies, and bad memory.

📅 Sunday, February 16, 2025�
⏰ 12:45 - 14:45�
📍 NO | English subtitles�
🎬 Duration: 120 minutes

After the film, stay for an exclusive Q&A with one of the nominated composers Andréa Louise Horstad as she shares insights into the film’s music! 🎼✨

🎟 Sign up here to secure your spot: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screening-makta-power-play-series-tickets-1142528055169?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Nordic Film Music Days is supported by Nordische Botschaften, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Orchestral Tools, Genelec & Koda Kultur.
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Join us for a special screening of Makta/Power Play, a Norwegian drama series about the power struggle in the Labour Party in the 1970s and 1980s. Based on truth, lies, and bad memory.

08/02/2025

🎶 Meet the Danish nominee for the HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award! 🇩🇰 🎬

We’re proud to highlight Christian Balvig this year's Danish nominee, for the HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award.

🌟 Nominated Score: The Son and The Moon - by Roja Pakari and Emilie Adelina Monies. A Danish-Iranian filmmaker's brave and honest journey through six years of cancer, love, and a life project of mapping her family's dramatic history.

Don't miss a chance to watch the film on Sunday, February 16th during Nordic Film Music Days 🧡

🔗 Sign up for the screening here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1142491214979?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Nordic Film Music Days is supported by Nordische Botschaften, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Orchestral Tools, Genelec & Koda Kultur.
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HARPA Nominated 2025 for his score for Roja Pakari's "The Son & The Moon".The 33 year old Dane, Christian Balvig, is known for his work as composer and arran...