Backwater
Spotlight on Short Films from NFFTY • 6m 35s
A young man proposes to his girlfriend on a magical summer evening but doesn't end up getting the answer he initially expected.
Mone Frogg Christiansen is a director and scriptwriter from Oslo. Her background derives from drama and philosophy studies. She has directed numerous films, including the music video "Glitter", which premiered at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in 2019. She is studying as a fiction director at the National Film School of Denmark in Copenhagen.
DIRECTED BY MONE FROGG CHRISTIANSEN
NORWAY | 2019 | NORWEGIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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