04/11/2005

Milo is the third feature film to be directed by Marius Holst after his 1994 hit Cross My Heart and Hope To Die and Dragonflies (2001). Based on a script by Harald Rosenløw and Lars Gudmestad, the film tells the story of a 15-year-old boy who lives with his mother and elder brother in war-torn Kosovo. When his brother dies –partly because of Milo-, the teenager decides to go and find his father in Norway. But far from the ideal father image he had dreamt of, the father he meets lives in a world where crime and violence is part of daily life.

The NOK 18.5m (€ 2.37m) film which just received NOK 9.5m (€1.2m) financial backing from the Norwegian Film Fund, is produced by Gudny Hummelvoll for 4 ½ production (Naboer). Production will take place both in Kosovo and Norway.