Play Schengen
A gaming company is making a video game for kids about the EU. You play a national bird needing to breed and nest across borders, but you can only fly according to your visa. We follow two game designers as they transform the European Union into pixel graphics in an effort at making Schengen catchy for young people. The question is whether it is possible.
- Norway
- 2020, 15 min
- Director: Gunhild Enger
- Director of photography: Øystein Mamen
- Editor: Geir Ørnholt
- Screenplay: Gunhild Enger
- Music: Julian Skar
- Cast: Falk Falk, Daniel Kanye Vatsvåg, Endre Jensen Haukland, Lisa Charlotte Baudouin Lie, Éva Bandor
- Art Director: Ann Kristin Tallerås
- Producer: Ingvild Evjemo
- Production: 4 1/2
Gunhild Enger
Gunhild Enger graduated from the Edinburgh College of Art and the School of Film Directing at the University of Gothenburg. She was nominated for a BAFTA for her graduation film Bargain (2005) and since then has screened her films at festivals around the world. Her film Premature (2013) won best short film at several festivals. Her short The Committee premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2016. In 2020 she was part of the international script development program LIM, where she wrote her first feature.