PRODUCTION INFO
Title: Safe House
Original title: Føre Mørket
Format: Feature
Duration: 89 min
Language: English, Norwegian, French, Sango
Release: 2025
CREW
Director: Eirik Svensson
Screenwriter: Harald Rosenløw Eeg & Lars Gudmestad
DOP: Karl Erik Brøndbo
Editor: Elise Solberg
Composer: Lisa Nordström
Sound Designer: Bent Holm
Producers: Catrin Gundersen & Hugo Hagemann Føsker / Fantefilm Fiksjon
Co-Producers: Annika Hellström, Rickard Olsson & Erika Malmgren / Cinenic Film, Rasmus Krogh & Christopher Seidelin / Nordisk Film DK, Johanna Enäsuo / ReelMedia.
CAST
Kristine Kujath Thorp
Mattis Herman Nyquist
Alexander Karim
Alma Pöysti
Bibi Tanga
Tracy Gotoas
INTERNATIONAL SALES
Trust Nordisk
NORDIC DISTRIBUTION
Nordisk Film
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
2025 Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden – Nominee Best Nordic Film and opening film of the festival
SYNOPSIS
The civil war rages in the Central African Republic. Linn (35) leads a team of aid workers in a makeshift field hospital outside the massive refugee camp. One day they discover a Muslim man hiding in the clinic. He is persecuted by the Christian militia and in mortal danger. Everyone holds their breath. Outside, the violent mob that want the Muslim man handed over is growing. Linn is responsible for security and with the increasing threats to her and her team she must brutally consider the value of a single human life.
SAFE HOUSE is based on true events that unfolded at Doctors Without Borders’ field hospital in Bangui on Christmas Eve, 2013.