SELF PORTRAIT

SELVPORTRETTET

By Katja HØGSET, Espen WALLIN, Margreth OLIN

CINEPHIL - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2020

Self Portrait is Lene Marie’s journey and struggle.

Festivals
& Awards

Krakow 2019
Audience and FIPRESC Awards
New Nordic Films (Haugesund) 2020
CPH 2020
OneWorld 2020
Goteborg IFF 2020
Documentary Competition
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (online) 2021
Official Selection
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • NORWAY
    • Languages
    • NORWEGIAN
    • Duration
    • 77 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Katja HØGSET, Espen WALLIN, Margreth OLIN
    • Producer(s)
    • Margreth OLIN (Speranza Film)
    • Synopsis
    • Lene Marie Fossen, a world class photographer, she also suffers from anorexia. She stopped eating at the age of ten. Intent on exposing the shame around anorexia and confronting her disease, her art is naked and honest. Self Portrait is Lene Marie’s journey and struggle. “If only it was about snapping your fingers and beginning to eat again.”

      In October 2019, at only 33, Lene Marie passed away. She watched the film before, together with her parents wishing for it to be released worldwide.