Tore Vollan

Tore Vollan

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Tore Vollan

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Beneath the Surface
Director of Photography
In 2014, following a tip-off, a group of journalists exposed a troubled history for indigenous Sámi women, men and children. It revealed generations of negligence, abuse and suffering, supported by a mass of evidence and previously unseen archival footage. As the case goes to court, the community remains defiant against a judicial system whose attitudes highlight fissures in the purported equal treatment of all citizens. The community’s battle aims to break a vicious cycle of racism and to achieve meaningful lasting change for future generations.
Kids Cup
Cinematography
Kids Cup is a character driven coming-of-age family film from the world´s largest sports tournament for kids. We dive into a teenage universe and follow 13-14 year olds from different parts of the world, competing at the football tournament, Norway Cup, in Oslo.
The Mole: Undercover in North Korea
Cinematography
A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world's most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea.
Sorry Brothers, I Was the One
Director of Photography
Jan Erik Vold has been best known as poet, activist and an Oslo-patriot in exile for many years, but who is he really?
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Director of Photography
Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18th, 1961. Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General, mysteriously dies in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case looking for a definitive closure.
Opprørsskolen
Director of Photography
In 1967 three students started the Experimental High School of Oslo - FGO. They wanted to make a free and democratic school, where pupils and teachers were equals, and the curriculum focused on freedom, learning and mutual respect.
The Art of the Impossible
Director of Photography
Director/actor Eugenio Barba returns to Oslo, where he started Odin Teatret, to Opole, where Jerzy Grotowsky's " theatre of the poor" developed a new physical play style, to avoid communism's censorship. And to Holstebro, where Odin Teatrets presence has greatly influenced the city's development.
Dancing for You
Director of Photography
Vilde (12) wants to be the first female 'Halling' folk dance champion. A traditional dance for men only. Her greatest challenge isn't the competition - she's convinced that her strength and passion for dance and life are helping her beloved grandfather to win his fight against cancer.
Glade jul
Camera Supervisor
Inside Fur
Director of Photography
A group of highly motivated activists work for years with the goal of exposing the true face of the Nordic fur industry. They sneak into hundreds of fur farms. When their images are publicized it causes media feasts and public outrage, year after year. However, the industry always strikes back. Nothing changes. A new approach is needed. So, psychologist Frank Nervik tells the fur industry that he plans to become a fur farmer. He asks for training. Nervik is accepted as one of them, and starts learning the trade secrets. Without anybody knowing, he films his training with a hidden camera.
Kampen om Hardanger
Cinematography
People living around the beautiful and world famous Hardanger fjords in Norway are critical towards the building of gigantic power lines across the fjords. They feel that their democratic rights are stepped upon.
Shadow of a Midsummer Night
Director of Photography
A gentle and beautifully made story about a boy's grief and acceptance, and finding a way back.
Varg Veum - Buried Dogs
Director of Photography
Racial tension is running high in Bergen after a young black asylum seeker dies at the hands of the Police. Shortly afterwards, a right-wing politician is targeted by a gunman at a public rally and his wife is fatally wounded. Another member of the right-wing party, Marit Holm, approaches private investigator Varg Veum, insisting she is being stalked.
Varg Veum - Woman in the Fridge
Director of Photography
An international oil drilling company hires private investigator Varg Veum to find their missing systems designer, Arne Samuelsen. Varg discovers the headless body of a woman jammed into the fridge in Arne's apartment - and is promptly knocked unconscious. When he wakes up the body is gone and the Police has arrived.
Exoticore
Director of Photography
A story about an immigrant from Burkina Faso and his attempts to integrate in Norwegian society. Exoticore is a touching tale about modern-day people trying to find their place in this world. A film about being a foreigner, about solitude and contemporary insanity. A dark journey into exoticism.
The Man Who Loved Haugesund
Director of Photography
The story about the poor Polish Moritz Rabinowitz who fell in love with the town of Haugesund, Norway, and became a wealthy clothes salesman, and was deported by the Nazi regime when they took control over Norway.
The Man Who Loved Haugesund
Writer
The story about the poor Polish Moritz Rabinowitz who fell in love with the town of Haugesund, Norway, and became a wealthy clothes salesman, and was deported by the Nazi regime when they took control over Norway.
The Man Who Loved Haugesund
Director
The story about the poor Polish Moritz Rabinowitz who fell in love with the town of Haugesund, Norway, and became a wealthy clothes salesman, and was deported by the Nazi regime when they took control over Norway.
Dark Woods
Director of Photography
5 Norwegians head for a cabin in the wilderness for a few days of team building. But strange things start happening - especially down by the water where they find an abandoned tent. Is there someone else?
Bloody Nuisance
Director of Photography