REGISTER FOR SØRFOND FORUM 2026
This year’s pitching forum will take place on Thursday, November 12th, 2026. Read about all the projects now.
Register for the Sørfond Pitching Forum here. The event will take place on Thursday, November 12, from 12:00 to 16:00. Please register by November 10th so we can order the right amount for lunch.
Attendance is free and includes a light lunch.
The full program and project details will be announced on sorfond.no and sent to registered participants about one week before the event.
Register by following this link
The full program for the day and project presentations will be posted one week ahead of the event, and also sent out to registered participants.
This year's projects
A CHRONICLE OF MINOR THINGS
Fiction, India
Director: Tribeny Rai
Producer: Kislay Kislay
A fifteen-year-old girl is found hanging from a tree at dawn. Before her body can even be brought down, two villages argue over whose jurisdiction she died in: the tree’s roots stand in one, and the branch she hangs from reaches into another. Even in death, she has become a boundary dispute.
Director Tribeny Rai will be at the pitching forum
THE BOY WHO SPOKE STATIC
Fiction, Nigeria
Dir./prod.: The Agbajowo Collective
Móke, a 15-year-old refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, arrives at an occupied abandoned building in the heart of Lagos called NITEL, and is soon drawn into the building’s long-held ghost story – a locked room on the top floor where static-laced voices sing in the night. Inside, he finds a voice that he thinks is his late mother, only to discover it’s another woman living in another abandoned building across the city. And when her voice disappears, Móke must find his own.
Samuel Okechukwu and Mat Cerf from Agbajowo Collective will be at the pitching forum.
THE ONES WITH THE TEMPERED FLOWERS
Documentary, Tanzania
Director: Neema Nglime
Producer: Ivy Kiru
When a doctor tells Neema that her having children will be hard, her long tolerated period cramps finally have a new meaning. However they still trigger more complicated confusing questions about the choreography of a life of womanhood as she knows it.
Director Neema Nglime and producer Ivy Kiru will be at the pitching forum.
UFOS IN THE TROPICS
Fiction, Ecuador
Director: Rob Mendoza
Producer: Isabel Carrasco
Ecuador, 1999. Raúl (50), a solitary orchid grower who lives in the tropical mountains of Buenaventura, refuses to sell his house to the mining transnational Progold. Persecuted and alone, his life changes when Hendrick (50), an unusual interstellar visitor, entrusts him with warning that pollution will bring a terrible cancer pandemic.
Director Rob Mendoza will be at the pitching forum.
WHERE DO I BELONG?
Documentary, Sudan
Director: Ibrahim “Snoopy” Ahmed
Producer: Talal Afifi
Born between wars and borders, Ibrahim has never truly belonged anywhere. The son of a Sri Lankan mother and a Sudanese father who met while fleeing civil wars, his life has been shaped by constant displacement. Raised in Lebanon without citizenship and later forced to move to Sudan after his father’s deportation, his sense of home has always been fragile.
Director Ibrahim “Snoopy” Ahmed will be at the pitching forum.