FESTIVALS: * CPH:Dox * Beldocs, International Feature Documentary Film Festival (Serbia) * Krakow Film Festival (Poland) * Beat Film Festival (Moscow, Russia) * OsloPix * Sheffield Doc/Fest * Biografilm * Two Riversides * Galway Film Fleadh * IceDocs * Kitzbühel Filmfestival * SoundTrack_Cologne * Helsinki FF * Nordisk Panorama * Braunschweig IFF * Doc’n Roll Festival * Minsk * Kassel * IDFA * Black Nights Film Festival * Cinéma Vérité GZDoc * FIPADOC *FAME AWARDS: * Grand Prix Musical Documentary - Fipadoc 2020 * Best Editing and Best Cinematography - Norwegian Television awards * Best Nordic Documentary 
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ONCE AURORA
Aurora is a pop music sensation from a small town in Western Norway. She was discovered at the age of 16, dropped out of school, and spent the next years touring the world with her first album. At the age of 20 she is at a breaking point. Is this really what she wants, and if not, does she have any other option but to continue? REVIEWS Once Aurora is a coming-of-age music documentary that’s as uplifting as it is potent. An interview with director Benjamin Langeland and producer Thorvald Nilsen - Reel Steel Cinema Once Aurora is an intimate and vibrant portrait of a popstar struggling to make sense of what’s happening around her and trying to find her place in the world. - by Rob Aldam, Backseat Mafia Aurora has had the type of meteoric rise to fame and success that every aspiring singer dreams of. And she’s not happy.This very intimate portrait makes the viewer question whether she’s chosen this life or whether others have chosen it for her. - by Mark Perkins Young popstar anxieties and the potential of early burnout are starkly captured in this highly cinematic new documentary about 22-year-old Norwegian artist Aurora. - by Musanna Ahmed, Film Inquiry Aurora, the young feminist who is visibly moved by an all-female drum troupe in Brazil, is on a mission to inspire other women with her celebration of ‘queendom’. Unafraid to be as intimate as possible, this documentary gives an emotional and visual insight into the pressure of a young performer. - Steven Ryder, Into Film Aurora, the young feminist who is visibly moved by an all-female drum troupe in Brazil, is on a mission to inspire other women with her celebration of ‘queendom’. by Rhiannon Topham, Reel Steel Cinema Press photos 
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