Nominations for the Fritt Ord Prize 2025

January 2 2025

The Fritt Ord Foundation invites nominations for potential candidates for the Fritt Ord Foundation Prize.

The Fritt Ord Foundation Prize is the Foundation’s premier annual prize for the recognition of outstanding efforts to promote freedom of expression.

Anyone may nominate a candidate. Nominations should be a maximum of 4000 characters long and include a brief description of the nominee’s efforts and a grounded justification for why the person or organisation in question deserves the prize. Please do not send attachments.

Nominations for the prize should be submitted to post@frittord.no. Mark the email: “Fritt Ord Prize 2025". The deadline for submissions is 12.00 noon on Monday, 20 January.

The Fritt Ord Foundation’s Board will review the nominations parallel to considering the Board’s own nominees.

The nominations and the names of those making nominations will not be made public.

News

The film ‘Hopeless Mother’ addresses a taboo – New awards in December 2024

January 9 2025

The film ‘Hopeless Mother’ addresses a taboo – “I just wanted to run away from my family”. New awards in December 2024
Director Bente Johanne Moe and Fotspor Film received funding for the documentary film ‘Hopeless mother’ about the shameful taboo topic of postpartum depression.
“The film will contribute to greater openness,” comments Moe.
Here is the list of new awards made by Fritt Ord in December 2024 in response to applications for NOK 100 000 or less.

No Other Land – special screening at Kunstnernes Hus Kino

November 26 2024

Join us for a special screening of the film No Other Land, announced as one of the most important and influential film of 2024.

Location: Kunstnernes Hus Cinema
Date and Time: Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:35 PM

Khalid Albaih and Tetiana Khodakivska

Witnessing War: A Conversation in the BOMBA Exhibition with Khalid Albaih and Tetiana Khodakivska

November 26 2024

Welcome to a conversation with Sudanese political cartoonist Khalid Albaih and Ukrainian filmmaker Tetiana Khodakivska in Dag Erik Elgin’s exhibition BOMBA at the Skylight Halls of Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo on Thursday, December 12, 2024, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

Frie stemmer Deeyah Khan:

November 24 2024

Dokumentarfilmskaper Deeyah Khan startet sin karriere med å lage en dokumentar om en kvinne som ble utsatt for æresdrap. Filmen ble vendepunktet i hennes anvendelse av ytringsfriheten, sier hun. Khan er basert i London og jobber internasjonalt.

– Det som skiller Norge fra mange andre land, er evnen til å delta i konstruktiv offentlig dialog rundt vanskelige og ofte polariserende temaer. Samtidig kan vi bli flinkere til å inkludere et større mangfold og flere minoritetsstemmer, sier hun.

Intervjuet er på engelsk.