Aleksander Olai Korsnes

Writing

Aleksander Olai Korsnes

Place of birth

Kirkenes, Finnmark, Norway

Known for

Writing

Credits

10 titles

From the Arctic town of Kirkenes, co-founder of Rein Film with a passion for the North of Norway where he grew up close to the border with Finland and Russia. Has produced international and domestic feature films, several documentaries and shorts, recently three films with veteran film maker and legend in Norwegian film Knut Erik Jensen. Free time spent in the heart of the arctic wilderness armed with a shotgun, camera or fishing rod trying to catch the big fish.

Known for

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Local citizens are gathered at the dock of a small fishing village. Hitler has decided that they shall all be forcefully evacuated. A girl witnesses and experiences a catastrophe again.

Darkness

2021

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The Ila district in Trondheim keeps a secret, a radio station few people know the existence of. Three students decide to track down the station, and the hunt for Radio Ila is on.

Radio Ila

2008

My Fathers' Daughter poster
5.5

Elvira, a confident Sámi teenager, firmly believes that her lesbian single mother conceived her at a Danish fertility clinic. She often daydreams about her father, envisioning him as a charismatic movie star. However, her world is turned upside down when her real biological father unexpectedly steps into her life.

My Fathers' Daughter

2025

The White Nigger poster
9.0

A documentary about renowned Norwegian author Ingvar Ambjørnsen. Being one of Norways most-read modern authors, and having written over 30 books of which seven have been made into movies, he visits old places that mean something to him. From his childhood to his older life, many stations in his life are called to and he shares some of his thoughts about them with the audience.

The White Nigger

2011

SKI - The Greatest Ski Tour of All Time poster
6.5

Nikolai and Vegard were childhood friends who spent their free time on the ski slopes. Now, Nikolai has become a professional skier, while Vegard lives in caves and trains obsessively to complete a perilous and physically demanding ski tour. This is a story about friendship and setting ambitious goals.

SKI - The Greatest Ski Tour of All Time

2024

Longing for Today poster
7.0

A young girl tries to find her own way through life in the ruins after a war that has left everything desolate.

Longing for Today

2023

Behind the camera

No artwork available
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Local citizens are gathered at the dock of a small fishing village. Hitler has decided that they shall all be forcefully evacuated. A girl witnesses and experiences a catastrophe again.

Darkness

2021

No artwork available
NR

The Ila district in Trondheim keeps a secret, a radio station few people know the existence of. Three students decide to track down the station, and the hunt for Radio Ila is on.

Radio Ila

2008

My Fathers' Daughter poster
5.5

Elvira, a confident Sámi teenager, firmly believes that her lesbian single mother conceived her at a Danish fertility clinic. She often daydreams about her father, envisioning him as a charismatic movie star. However, her world is turned upside down when her real biological father unexpectedly steps into her life.

My Fathers' Daughter

2025

The White Nigger poster
9.0

A documentary about renowned Norwegian author Ingvar Ambjørnsen. Being one of Norways most-read modern authors, and having written over 30 books of which seven have been made into movies, he visits old places that mean something to him. From his childhood to his older life, many stations in his life are called to and he shares some of his thoughts about them with the audience.

The White Nigger

2011

The White Nigger poster
9.0

A documentary about renowned Norwegian author Ingvar Ambjørnsen. Being one of Norways most-read modern authors, and having written over 30 books of which seven have been made into movies, he visits old places that mean something to him. From his childhood to his older life, many stations in his life are called to and he shares some of his thoughts about them with the audience.

The White Nigger

2011

SKI - The Greatest Ski Tour of All Time poster
6.5

Nikolai and Vegard were childhood friends who spent their free time on the ski slopes. Now, Nikolai has become a professional skier, while Vegard lives in caves and trains obsessively to complete a perilous and physically demanding ski tour. This is a story about friendship and setting ambitious goals.

SKI - The Greatest Ski Tour of All Time

2024

Longing for Today poster
7.0

A young girl tries to find her own way through life in the ruins after a war that has left everything desolate.

Longing for Today

2023

Borderland poster
7.0

On the border between Norway and the Soviet Union, a fisherman refuses to give up his catch.

Borderland

2015

Borderland poster
7.0

On the border between Norway and the Soviet Union, a fisherman refuses to give up his catch.

Borderland

2015

Mii Leat Ain Dás - Vi är Fortfarande Här poster
NR

The film follows a group of Sámi artists from an art collective, Mázejoavku, as they rebel against cultural stereotypes and explore themes of Sámi identity. Soon they are dragged into the Alta Conflict, a turning point in Sámi political and cultural life.

Mii Leat Ain Dás - Vi är Fortfarande Här

2024