(For Norwegian, go here.)
Time: Saturday 31. October – Sunday 1. November, 2026
Place: Cinemateket in Oslo, Dronningens gate 16
Topic: Action film
Buy tickets!
(available with or without lunch).
Weekend pass with warm lunch Saturday and Sunday (warm vegetarian lunch available):
Early Bird offer! (ends 15. August)
Regular: NOK 850 (NOK 950 after 15. August)
Student/film club member or member of the Cinematheque in Oslo: NOK 750 (NOK 850 after 15. August).
Weekend pass without lunch:
Early Bird offer (ends 15. August).
Regular: NOK 650 (NOK 750 after 15. August).
Student/ film club member or member of the Cinematheque in Oslo: NOK 550 (NOK 650 after 15. August).
All weekend passes includes four films (in english and/or with english subtitles) and four talks, all in english, from internationally acclaimed film experts. All weekend passes also includes tea/coffee.
If you can’t make the whole weekend, you can buy tickets for just a film+the talk at Cinematekets website which will be released closer to the seminar. Please note: Even if you buy several of the film+talk tickets, lunch is NOT included.
This year’s film seminar is all about Action films! What makes them so cool?
The Norwegian Federation of Film Societies and Z Film Quarterly are hosting a film seminar where we invite international film experts to give lectures and screen films.
The full program will be announced as soon as it is fully ready.
Lecturers
Professor Yvonne Tasker, Chair in Media & Communication, University of Leeds. Her fields of research includes feminism and gender in popular culture. She has published extensively about female filmmakers and postmodernism in media, and written the books The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film (2015, Wiley) and Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and Action Cinema (1993, Routledge).
Yvonne will give to talks, an introduction to actionfilm, and gender in actionfilm.
Dr Wayne Wong, lecturer in East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield. His fields of research includes global Martial Arts- and Actionfilms. Wong has written the book Martial Arts Ecology: Aesthetics, Philosophy and Cinematic Mediation (2026, Edinburgh University Press), contributed to The Worlds of John Wick (2022, Indiana University Press) and published «Bruce Lee is My Idol»: Embodying Kung Fu in Nonsensical Humour in The Cinema of Stephen Chow (2024, Bloomsbury). He has also directed Project Sifu (2025), a documentary about young people coming together for the interest in Martial Arts and an interest in filmmaking.
Waynes talk will be based on his expertise in Asian Actionfilm.
Dr. Lindsay Steenberg, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University. Lindsay’s research focuses on violence and gender in postmodern and postfeminist media culture. She has published numerous articles and chapters on the subject of the crime and action genres on film and television. She has written the book Are you not Entertained? Mapping the Gladiator Across Visual Media (2020, Bloomsbury).
Lindsay will talk about The Aesthetics of Violence based on John Wick (Chad Stahelski, 2014).