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Genre:
No More Leg-Day
Country, Year:
Norway, 2024
Duration:
90 mins
Director:
Viljar Bøe
Writer:
Viljar Bøe, Freddy Singh
Language/Subtitles:
Norwegian/ English
Cast:
Freddy Singh, Julie Abrahamsen, Louise Waage Anda
DoP:
Viljar Bøe
Editor:
Viljar Bøe
Music:
Submitted by:
Blue Finch Film Releasing
screenings
23.4.25 20:30
Odeon

Extreme Body Negativity

Above the Knee

BRUGGGORE “Eye of the Beholder” - 2023 winner Viljar Bøe (Good Boy) is honoring us with a new film in 2025. ABOVE THE KNEE is about a man who wants to amputate his left leg. He just doesn't like it — he doesn't like it, is annoying, feels like a foreign body part. It's called Body Integrity Identity Disorder. Bøe turns it into a gripping, atmospherically dense work with convincing acting, a simple but effective setting and the typical Nordic undercooledness.

Beware! [Substance Abuse] [Self-harm]

I love simple premises that get out of hand and escalate, and in fact I can't imagine much more horror than suddenly seeing your own leg as a foreign body. The leg as a metaphor for the problems that you carry along with yourself and cannot simply leave behind. Great independent cinema!

Michel Frutig | Festival Director