Low Expectations

Eivind Landsvik

Norway, Denmark

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2026

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105’

At the height of her music career, Maja falls apart and has to step away from her ambitions. Depressed and broke, she moves back home with her mother and works part-time at a local high school. Far from the spotlight, wrapped in everyday kindness, she slowly finds her way back to life.

Original title

Lave Forventninger

Chromaticity

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FoRM

Fiction

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DIRECTOR

Eivind Landsvik

Eivind Landsvik is a Norwegian writer and director. He began his filmmaking career by directing music videos, developing a sensitive visual style that later translated into fiction. His short film SOFIA, LAST SUMMER (2021) won the Norwegian Film Critics Award, and TITS (2023) premiered in the main competition at the Festival de Cannes, subsequently traveling to more than a hundred festivals worldwide. LOW EXPECTATIONS is his debut feature.

FILMOGRAPHY

TITS (2023); Sofia, Last Summer (2021); My Frail Body (2020)

CREDITS

DIRECTOR

Eivind Landsvik

SCREENPLAY

Eivind Landsvik

CAMERA

Andreas Bjørseth

EDITING

Patrick Larsgaard

PRODUCER

Synnøve Hørsdal, Lotte Sandbu

MUSIC

Frederikke Hoffmeier, Bendik Hovik Kjeldsberg

CAST

Marie Ulven, Anders Danielsen Lie, Tone Mostraum

PRODUCTION

Maipo Film

RIGHTS HOLDER

Salaud Morisset

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