1001 Grams

Bent Hamer was born in 1956 in Sandefjord, Norway. His feature film debut, the critically acclaimed Eggs (1995), premiered as part of the Director’s Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI award at the Toronto International Film Festival. His second film, Water Easy Reach (1998), was hailed by critics. In 2002 he premiered his third feature film Kitchen Stories. The film was screened at 40 international film festivals. His feature films also include Factotum (2005), O’ Horten (2007) and Home for Christmas (2010). In 2003 Scanorama organised his retrospective.