Disco

Josefine Frida from Skam shines as the young Christian dancer Mirjam, who after a collapse begins questioning both her career and her faith.

Mirjam is a world champion at disco dancing and youth leader of the hip free-church Friheten (Freedom), where her step-father is pastor. She dazzles with her trophies in her family’s beautiful home, but one day she collapses at a competition. Mirjam’s body stops doing what she wants and she enters a life crisis. Her parents encourage her to work even harder on her faith to find balance, but it only increases her doubt. Her desperate search for answers leads her to a congregation with a significantly stricter view of Christianity than what she is used to. Jorunn Myklebust Syversen’s second feature film is a powerful growing-up story about faith, doubt and different kinds of ecstasy.

Short film: Our Land, dir: Jean-Luc Mwepu. (only screening 566, Tue Jan 28).

• Cia Edström