Highlights
Selected events, experiences and special features from across HIMF 2026. See each highlight below for the latest information.
Focus on Youth, Education and Career Choices
Thursday 29 October
10:30
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15:00
Kulturhuset
Free attendance for all students
This seminar on Thursday from 10 am to 3 pm will be dedicated to youth and their career path. Free admission, close cooperation with upper secondary schools in the county. Part of our strategy to make educational and career tools available to local and regional students and pupils
10:00
Pernille Elise Jørgensen - Advisor at the Cultural Unit in Halden Municipality
Rebekka Rognøy - film producer originally from Halden, talks about her career and experiences
Per Ole Hagen - How to keep what you create: rights, music, photography, film.
Sverre Brandtzæg - music film producer will show and talk about the documentary film about the band Span, together with members from the band
Francis Whately - British TV producer, director who has worked for the BBC for over 20 years. He has directed four David Bowie films and will introduce his personal favorite for to our student attendees – Finding Fame.
13:30
Movie at the Kulturhuset
FILM SCREENING David Bowie: Finding Fame - the 2019 British documentary written and directed by Francis Whately. The film examines a period of David Bowie’s career starting around the time he dropped his stage name of Davie Jones in favor of Bowie, to 1973, when he dropped his Ziggy Stardust image
A Night of Jazz
Thursday 29 October
19:00
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23:15
Halden Kino
More Jazz Night information coming soon.
Film tickets also available individually
The Bowie Experience
Friday 30 October
13:45
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00:00
Kulturhuset and Halden Kino
Acclaimed British documentary director Francis Whately discusses his latest film Bowie in Berlin to be release by the BBC in 2027. He will be joined by journalist and author Torgrim Eggen for a conversation about Bowie’s years in Berlin and the significance of the period to his artistic development.
Whately has directed three acclaimed films about Bowie: David Bowie: Finding Fame, David Bowie: Five Years and David Bowie: The Last Five Years, all to be screened as part of The Bowie Experience
The day’s Kulturhuset activities will conclude with a screening of Whately’s award winning film «FInding Fame».
The Bowie Experience will then continue with the final two films of the «Bowie Trilogy» at the Halden Kino
Five Years (30.10 at 18.00)
The Last Five Years (31.10 at 19.45)
The Bowie After Party at the Kulturhuset from 21:30 with Tom Skjelkesæter as the DJ, spinning Bowie songs together with Torgrim Eggen and Francis Whately (free admittance for all)
Limited Space available
Make Halden Smile
Saturday 31 October
13:30
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18:00
Kulturhuset
Free admission for all
Free for all. Food, music and film at the Kulturhuset. Bring your friends, old and young. Make Halden Smil!e!
13:30 Opening
14:00 Concert by Frekk. Emma, Oda, Milla, Fiona and Hedda, a popular band with youth in the area
15:30 Food served by the Frivilligsentral
17:00 Film screening at the Kulturhuset - How Tanita Tikaram Became a Liar
18:00 End Make Halden Smile