Fritt Ord, Oslo Documentary Cinema, Tour de Force and weekly newspaper Ny Tid invite the public to a pre-screening of the Oscar winning documentary film CITIZENFOUR, Wednesday 15 April at 5.30 p.m. at Victoria Kino, Oslo.
The film is preceded by a conversation between lawyer Jon Wessel-Aas member of the Edward Snowden defence team, Patrick Toomey from The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Eirin Larsen (36) and Hadia Tajik (42) bring valuable experience from journalism, technology, politics and jurisprudence to the Fritt Ord Board.
Geologist Farouk Al-Kasim joined the the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate in 1968, shaping Norwegian petroleum resource management for decades afterwards. Now, documentary film director Halkawt Mustafa and producer Janne Hjeltnes are making a film about Al-Kasim’s life and reflections.
“Farouk tells me something in this film that he has not talked about before, because he has always told the version he feels Norway wanted to hear,” recounts Mustafa, who has Iraqi roots himself.
Read the interview with the director and see the list of grants awarded by Fritt Ord in June 2025.
Bård Vegar Solhjell (53) has taken over as the new chair of the Fritt Ord Foundation Board.
– Cultural journalism is under pressure. Part of the problem is media outlets failing to cover culture in formats and ways that appeal to people under 30, says Ida Madsen Hestman, editor, freelance critic, and founder of TBATBA.no. Last year, she started the kind of publication she herself would want to read.
The magazine TBA is among those awarded funding in June 2025. See the full list of grants in Norsk Journalistikk.