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Safe House

  • Norway | 2025 | Norwegian, French, Sango
  • Director : Eirik Svensson
  • Screenplay : Lars Gudmestad, Harald Rosenløw-Eeg
  • DoP : Karl Erik Brøndbo
  • Editor : Elise Solberg
  • Cast : Bent Holm
  • Premiere : World Premiere
  • Tags : Global Politics, Historical

Award :

Audience Dragon Award (Best Nordik Film), Göteborg Film Festival 2025 | Best Production Design, Amanda Awards 2025


Synopsis :

The civil war rages in the Central African Republic. Linn leads a team of aid workers who are working tirelessly to save lives in a makeshift field hospital outside the massive refugee camp. Suddenly, a desperate man runs into the clinic. He is Muslim, and he is persecuted and in mortal danger. The film is based on the true events that unfolded during 15 tense hours at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Bangui on Christmas Eve, 2013.


Directors Bio :

Eirik Svensson was born on 19 October 1983 in Norway. As a writer and filmmaker he belongs to a brand new generation of Norwegian directors. He graduated from the Norwegian Film School in 2010. Eirik is a director and writer, known for Harajuku (2018), One Night in Oslo (2014) and Safe House (2025). His films have screened at numerous film festivals including Göteborg Film Festival, and Cinema Jove - Valencia International Film Festival, and have received Amanda Award nominations.


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