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DOVRE, July 2026 – The program for this year's Turku Animated Film Festival (TAFF) is out, and we are glad to find both Anita and myself in it. From 26 to 30 August, we will be in Turku, Finland, for what promises to be a rich few days among people who care deeply about handmade animation. There is something fitting about being invited to Turku. It is a festival with a strong feel for the craft – for the physical, made-by-hand side of our art form – which happens to be the gr

Dovre, June 16, 2026 Black Box has been officially selected for the Main Competition at Imaginaria — International Festival of Authorial Animated Films in Conversano, Italy. Imaginaria is an Oscar-qualifying festival and one of Europe's most respected platforms for auteur animation. To have Black Box included in this year's competition programme means a great deal to us. The timing feels right. Next week, we travel to Annecy for the world premiere of Black Box in the Official

DOVRE, March 25, 2026 – There are moments in this work that catch you off guard. You send a film out into the world, you wait – and then, quietly, something extraordinary happens. Black Box has been selected for the Official Short Films Competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival , taking place from 21st to 27th June 2026. I have been part of many festival journeys over the years. But this one feels a bit different. What Annecy Means Annecy is not just a

DOVRE, March 2026 – There is good news to share from the mountains of Dovre. Anita Killi has been awarded a three-year working grant from Statens kunstnerstipend – the Norwegian Government Grants for Artists. It is one of the most prestigious forms of artistic support available in Norway, and for Anita, it means something very concrete: time. Time to write, to develop, and to make the films she has been carrying inside her for years. For those who have followed Trollfilm for

ANTERSELVA / DOVRE, February 18th, 2026 – Today, we at Trollfilm watched the Olympic biathlon relay with our hearts in our mouths – and our chests bursting with pride. Juni Arnekleiv, one of the athletes we have had the honour of sponsoring on her road to the top, was not originally set to compete here in Anterselva, in the Italian Alps. She had travelled to these Winter Olympics as a reserve – ready, prepared, but waiting on the sidelines. That is a role that demands a very

Trollfilm announces new production with Oscar-nominated director Anton Dyakov DOVRE, January 2026 – We are excited to announce that Black Box , a non-verbal, monochrome animated essay film directed by the acclaimed Russian-born animator Anton Dyakov , is almost ready for its official launch. The film marks a significant milestone for us – it is the first film for our new producer Claus Gladyszak at Trollfilm. A Quiet Requiem Black Box follows an elderly photographer as he

DOVRE, January 2026 – The exhibition Loud Silence by artist in residence Idun Isdrake has now come to an end. The works have been taken down, the gallery quiet once more. But the experience lives on – through images, through film, and through those who found their way to us during this brief window. Artists in Residence at Trollfilm: Dennis Inuk Aningaaq Møller and Idun Isdrake in front of one of Idun's glacier installations at the Loud Silence exhibition. Photo: Anita Killi

DOVRE, December. 2025 – Journalist and photographer Ida Kippersund Bringslid from NRK, Norway's national broadcaster, came to visit our studio here at Trollfilm. The result is a beautiful photo feature that I wanted to share with our international readers—though, as the article is in Norwegian, I thought I'd give you a brief summary of what it's about. The feature takes you inside our studio on Dovre, following the work we do here: making animated films about difficult topic

TOKYO, November 3rd – When the invitation arrived to lead a stop-motion workshop at Kineko International Film Festival for young Japanese children, Anita and Claus knew this was a challenge worth every ounce of preparation. And what a preparation it became. The weeks leading up to this day were filled with careful planning, creative problem-solving, and one very ambitious build: three portable multiplane stands, custom-designed and ready to travel across the world. A young a

When we completed " Mother Didn't Know " in 2020, the world had just shut down. The pandemic cast a shadow over film festivals and releases, and our quiet twelve-minute film slipped into the world with barely a whisper. It was a challenging time to share anything new. But sometimes, films have other plans. This autumn, we received a wonderful surprise: our film has been selected for the Norwegian Film Institute 's "Shorts for Children" – a collection of seven Norwegian short

Anita Killi's films get dedicated screening day at prestigious festival DOVRE/TOKYO, 2nd of September 2025 – Trollfilm AS with director...

Trollfilm and director Anton Dyakov receive vital support for "Gunpowder Man" Østnorsk Film Center has granted 400,000 NOK for the...

How can we convey something that almost defies expression? This question has quietly followed me throughout my work in animation —...

We're delighted to participate in MIFA 2025 as part of the Nordic Animation Pavilion at Stand D.05. Trollfilm looks forward to...

Capture from the puppet animation musical "9 Million Colors" directed by Bára Anna ( Czech Republic) On Sunday, July 8th, the film 9...

Now just a couple of days before we are off to this years Le Festival du film d'animation in Annecy we got our hands on the new and...

It was a bit into the Netflix film "Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron," which describes the 7-year-long process of making "The Boy and the...

The local trolls around the mountains of Dovre have been very busy in recent months, spinning and weaving a new web for Trollfilm's 30th...

Recently in Dovre, animators Anita Killi and Natalia Malykhina Bratli met at Killi Studio to prepare for their upcoming educational tours...